Stirring The Plot

Two espresso martinis. One manifesto. Five fingers. One truth: you are the author. Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast , your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with Raejean Alcala (@raejeanalcala) to unpack the power of storytelling, not just as art, but as transformation. Together, the duo breaks down The Power of Five , Raejean’s transformative framework that explores how storytelling rewires your...

Twenty-six years. Twenty-six lessons . Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast , your host Dayna J. Francois sits down to unpack 26 lessons she learned so that hopefully, you won't have to. Some came dressed in glitter and lipstick stains, others arrived barefoot with heartbreak, silence, and mascara running down the bathroom sink. This birthday episode is Dayna's love letter to every version of hersel...

We grew up with worship music in our lungs and guilt stitched into our skin. Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast , your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with longtime friend Megan Neumann, someone who’s known Dayna through awkward middle school youth group phases, purity culture, and the quiet pressure to be the “perfect” church girl. Together, the duo unpack the holy ghosts that raised them, the g...

Brains, beauty, and a little bit of spice. Quasia came to stir it up. Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast , your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with the brilliant mind behind @neurospicetea , the one and only Tequasia , for a conversation that’s as raw as it is revolutionary. Episode 16 is a love letter to unmasking, taking up space, and being brave enough to live in your truth. From unmasking as...

A sapphic speedrun. A bonnet. A salmon dinner. What started as a nail date turned into an unsolicited love confession and a 15-hour lesbian hostage situation. Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast , your host Dayna J. Francois sits down to tell the unhinged story of Insta Wife , a misadventure in queer dating that started with nail polish and ended with emotional whiplash. From bonnet sleepovers to s...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down to unpack a topic that doesn't get nearly enough airtime. Friendship breakups . We talk about breakups all the time. The playlist. The post-cry selfie. The haircut that screams “new era.” But friendship breakups? Crickets. No rom-com montage. No recovery kit. Just the quiet grief of losing the one person who once knew your s...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast , your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with none other than her besTEA and fellow emotionally intelligent bad bitch, Alexa Austin , for an episode that’s part confessional, part boundary bootcamp, and fully a love letter to no longer lighting yourself on fire to keep other people warm. In episode 13, the duo unpack codependency: how it starts in childhood, bloss...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast , your host Dayna J. Francois is joined by Winter, transmasc legend, emotionally unavailable icon, and fellow avoidant in recovery, for a conversation that might just hit a little too close to home. What happens when two avoidant besties sit down to unpack gender, religion, intimacy, and the Olympic sport of not texting back? Let’s just say… the mask comes off. T...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast , your host Dayna J. Francois is taking a note out of Evelyn Hugo’s playbook and doing what the girls, gays, and theys have been begging her to do: tell the story. Or rather... tell seven of them. In honor of Pride Month, Dayna's cracking open the vault and giving you a front-row seat as she takes you on a chaotic, unhinged, slightly-too-personal journey through...

Did you miss me? After an unintentional hiatus, she's back on the mic with a life update. Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois is stepping back on the mic with a diploma in one hand and a whole roster of unprocessed situationships in the other. She’s finally back after going ghost (for academic reasons, of course), and baby… she didn’t just graduate, she evolved. In this...

New year, new era, same unapologetic gay chaos. Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down to spill the piping hot tea where she's been hiding (hint: somewhere between the trenches of finals, holiday chaos, and a few too many emotionally unavailable women), serving up her 2024 wrapped (the wins, the cringe, and the women she probably should’ve blocked sooner), and an...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down and unpacks her heavy heart in the wake of the 2024 presidential election results. Whether she's navigating her emotions or creating a love letter to all the marginalized groups impacted by this election, Dayna stands in solidarity with you all. America has failed us, so our work is only just beginning. This episode may be s...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with one of her day ones, her island sister, and nurse in training Emmana Jules ! Started from the Islands now they're here! In episode 7, the duo spill the tea on their bestie origin story and how a friendship can survive over 300 miles and more than twenty years! Emmana unpacks her lore, from ballet slippers to scrubs, fro...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down to spill the piping hot tea. While everyone has been having a Brat Girl Summer, Dayna has been having a Past Girl Summer, and in episode 6 she unpacks exactly why. Does this qualify as a Misadventures in Dating ? Maybe. Dayna takes a deep dive into the “straight girl phenomenon" that exists in our sapphic culture, shares the...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with one of her besTEAs, Genesis Quiroz! In episode 5, the duo crack the eggshell and open up about their friendship, signs that they knew they were queer, and their worst high! Got a wand and a rabbit ? Tune in as the pair unpack the importance of the Chappell Roan phenomenon. There's nothing casual about healing your inner...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with bisexual icon Andrea ! Started from bumble now they're here. In episode 4, the duo unpacks everything from their first date to forgotten strap-ons to wlw situationships! Andrea opens up and shares her real experience on what it was like being queer in an all girls Catholic High School, bisexual erasure, and leaving the...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with certified MASC Winter Rosay ! In episode 3, the duo finally address the burning topic: The MASC Shortage, unpack femme and masc dynamics, and navigating monogamy vs non-monogamy in this nonchalant situationship world. Stick around and have a laugh with us as we debrief relationship "icks", bedroom dynamics, and the shor...

Today on Stirring the Plot Podcast, your host Dayna J. Francois sits down with her GBF Dimas ! Dimas celebrates the release of his newest collection, Never to Bedlam by sharing some juicy stories. In episode 2, the duo spills the tea on relationships, kinks, religious shame, and sex. Dimas gets candid about bedroom dynamics, situationships, and his bisexual awakening. Dimas teases that there might...

Welcome to the Stirring the Plot Podcast, hosted by Dayna J. Francois . Whether you're gay, hot, or doing it for the plot... this is the podcast for you. Join Dayna weekly as she dives into the sapphic world she's found herself in, plots and schemes, and spills the tea with some of her favorite guests! Make sure that you subscribe and tune in weekly. Because she's gay, she's hot, and if there is o...

Welcome to the Stirring the Plot Podcast, hosted by Dayna J. Francois . Whether you're gay, hot, or doing it for the plot... this is the podcast for you. Join Dayna weekly as she dives into the sapphic world she's found herself in, plots and schemes, and spills the tea with some of her favorite guests! Make sure that you subscribe and tune in weekly. Because she's gay, she's hot, and if there is o...