Neuroinclusion: Across the Pond and Beyond

Tracey O'Connell, M.D. is an educator and a coach who primarily works with LGBTQ+ teens and families. She has been collaborating with Brene Brown's organization, Daring Way, and works as a Daring Way facilitator. The key components of these teachings are leading with courage, shame, vulnerability, authenticity, self-compassion, and resilience. These universal human themes provide a conta...

Nancy Shadlock is a coming out coach and the host of The Coming Out Chronicles podcast. Interestingly, her work life began as a youth pastor and spiritual director.  From her conservative Christian upbringing with missionary parents to coming out at 33, Nancy shares her unique path to finding her truth in the LGBTQ+ community. She has been an important part of my own coming out story, so I can spe...

This is an empowering, entertaining, and hilarious episode! Christine is an empty nest coach and the host of the Your Empty Nest Coach podcast. Her focus in on coaching parents before they empty nest, with the goal of the parent feeling whole on their own.  Christine is such a pleasure. She is brilliant, compassionate, and funny. Plus, she laughs at all of my jokes, so I talk WAY too much during t...

Felicia Burnett is a midlife dating and relationship coach. She helps people improve their dating skills by identifying what (and who!) they are looking for and demystify the dating process so they can get off to the right start in their next relationship—without repeating the same mistakes and patterns that have frustrated them in the past.  Felicia has been single, married, and divorced, so she...

 Bri McCorkell is a mama, a woman in recovery, a warrior freed from addiction, and a sensual soul reclaiming her pleasure and light. She is also an intuitive healer, embodiment mentor and spiritual teacher who helps women and mamas all around the globe discover their Divine Blueprint, activate their full power and recreate a life that is truly theirs. Pleasure and pain abound in this raw and empow...

Lucia  Pavone  is  a pleasure instigator, permission grantor, rule breaker,  international speaker, somatic sex educator and sensuality mentor. As a modern day temple priestess, she is passionate about supporting  people to embody their sexuality, love their juicy bodies, free themselves from shame, heal sexual traumas and have a sex life worth bragging about. This was an eye-opening conversation...

I am going unscripted, unfiltered, and raw for my 50th podcast episode! Pasha, in a rare SOLO episode, goes EVERYWHERE and leaves little unsaid.  She talks about how she is working to embrace her paradoxical, anxious, and quirky self. Introducing the art of Kintsugi, Pasha explains how our scars and imperfections are where the light comes in and how you can reframe traumas into gifts. She vulnerab...

Tracie Jae is the Quiet Rebel. She believes the world can be a better place if we focus on human to human interaction. As the Lead Rebel for the Quiet Rebel, she curates authentic, grace-filled conversations centered on difficult subjects. Her current offering is a national, growing and ongoing conversation on race and culture known as the 100 Voices Project.  In this powerful episode, we talked a...

This hilarious episode, "Hakuna My Tatas", is a chance for you to feel deeply seen and, at the same time, feel like an inconspicuous fly on the wall as two bosom buddies gab about boobs, marriage, and men...but mostly boobs.  They cause all the worries! Meet my friend Sarah Zimmerman! She is a freelance writer, author, blogger, humorist, and co-moderator of the wildly popular Untamed FB...

Dr. Emily Wilson is a pelvic floor physical therapist and the founder of Pelvic Wisdom in Portland, Maine. She specializes in prenatal and postnatal psychology, spiritual trauma, and birth healing. Her passion is in helping women heal from the "taboo" conditions associated with the pelvic floor that our culture doesn't like to talk about.  This episode is packed with pelvic wisdom!...

Nina Garcia is a DRAMA THERAPIST! That's a thing and I am so glad Nina is doing this powerful work.  Drama therapy offers a framework, a safe container to explore and express all of our emotions and traumas.  We had a fascinating conversation about being powered vs empowered. These ideas will challenge you (hooray for learning and unlearning!) Hint: We want more empowered responses:)  Nina an...

Dr. Rachel Allyn is a holistic psychologist, relationship and sex therapist, yoga teacher, and author of the new book The Pleasure Is All Yours.   In this podcast episode, Dr. Allyn and I discuss pleasure activism, pleasure practices, and how reclaiming our pleasure is an act of rebellion. We talk about the limiting beliefs, societal constructs, and judgements that block our path to pleasure and b...

Welcome, Nicole Fevrier Davis, the psychic trainer!  Nicole and I bonded quickly. Both of us are personal trainers and mind-body fitness experts. I identify as a holistic personal trainer and Nicole as a psychic trainer. We both believe that fitness and wellness go far beyond the body, mind, and spirit as we know it. Fascinatingly, just as I seamlessly incorporate therapeutic comedy and pleasure p...

Sarah MacLaughlin is a phenomenal friend, social worker, parent educator, and author.  Her latest book, "Raising Humans With Heart", is about raising whole-hearted children from our personal heart space as adults with our unique history and lens.  In this episode, we dive into universal parenting topics, such as how to navigate boundaries, conflict resolution, self care, sexuality, inclu...

I had the pleasure of speaking with Sandee Sgarlata, Author of "Happiness Solved", host of the "Happiness Solved" Podcast, and America's Happiness Coach. We talked about happiness, obviously, but also grief, because that's how life is.  Sandee's happiness work was inspired by trauma, which I could relate to. I find it so beautiful when we can transform pain into...

Ali Hendry is a holistic relationship coach, corporate trainer, and performer based in the UK. She currently works with womxn, especially those that identify with the LGBTQ+ community. Ali believes that when we approach life with compassion and curiosity, we cultivate happiness and holistic wellness.  We had a thoughtful conversation about inclusion, holistic philosophy, therapy, passion, jealousy...

Jillian Bolanz is an intuitive life coach who helps women achieve a deep connection to their inner truth by living in alignment with the seasons and sabbats, the moon cycle, and divine feminine embodiment, so they can live their life in flow, not force.  This was a fascinating and empowering conversation about cyclicality, motherhood, witches, and archetypes. Turns out that I am a wise wild woman...

Judy is the author of "Bridge of Hope", an international speaker, and a dancing mindfulness facilitator. With her Masters in Business Administration, she also teaches Economics and Finance....but don't let that fool you, as it did me (math and I don't get along). Judy can talk money, trauma, duality, and sports in the same breath. She lights up with pleasure when we talk about...

The pleasure revolution is alive and well!  Where are you on the "aliveness" scale?  Even if you are moving through grief, trauma, or homeschooling, you are very much alive and present to your human experience. But can we create room for PLEASURE, even on difficult days?  You bet!  We need to move from victimhood to pleasurehood (yes, I made up that word as a combination of pleasure and...

Episode 37: "Soulful Sexual Healing"  Laura Zam, the author of "The Pleasure Plan", is a trauma professional and pleasure warrior. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Laura feels the responsibility to live a full life of purpose and pleasure, in honor of those who's lives were taken from them. She married at 46, after 3 decades of searching for love and healing from past...

Holly Hartman is the best selling author of "I AM: How to Release the Shame of Narcissistic Abuse",  a Life Transformation and Recovery Coach, Domestic Violence Advocate, and Podcaster.  She and I talk about the importance of solo dating, having an affair with yourself, whether you are single or in partnership. Solo dating is an act of self discovery and act of heroic self love.  Like me...

Maureen Darling and I are therapists and coaches, so we see pleasure through the lens of what is therapeutic for our clients. This episode covers a broad range of topics from inherited wisdom and trauma to learning to receive pleasure. We normalize mental health issues and neurodivergence as well as interventions such as medication. Maureen describes how women often have difficulty recognizing ind...

I CRAVE conversations like this to raise my vibrations. I imagine you may need a little pleasure and joy pick me up as well. This episode with Amy Angelilli, CEO of the Adventure Project,  is a whole-hearted conversation about the gifts of laughter yoga, improvisation, and play.  Play is transformational and allows you to become the best version of yourself.  Amy shows you how simple and fun impro...

Regan Figg is a Pleasurepreneur and Feminine Embodiment Coach based in Australia.  Her accent alone makes this an episode a pleasure to listen to!  Regan and I share a beautiful conversation about women in their ultimate power,  motherhood, and how to create space for pleasure and connection.  She shares the moment when she let go of outside guidance, dropped into her body, and surrendered to the...

Samantha Ramsdell is a friend and a brilliant comedian/performer, recently seen on the Ellen show and followed by over 1 million Tik Tok fans. She was named "One of the top 5 internet comedians to follow" and, get this, her hometown is MAINE! But what I admire most about Sam is NOT the enormous mouth that made her rich and famous, but her enormous heart. The woman behind the mouth, who w...