Best Kate Loree, Sunny Megtron Podcasts (2024)

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Notes of an Aging Pervert with Janet Hardy - Ep 49 1:06:13

8M ago1:06:13

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Please join us for episode 49 of Open Deeply with the legendary, Janet Hardy. Janet is most known for the Ethical Slut, but she is a prolific writer of over a dozen groundbreaking books. In this episode, she reads from her soon to be published book, Notes of an Aging Pervert. This novel is SO kind, vulnerable and honest regarding the uncomfortable …

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Pleasure Focused BDSM with Midori - Ep 48 58:32

8M ago58:32

58:32

Please join us for episode 48 of Open Deeply with the legendary kink expert, Midori, as we explore pleasure within BDSM. We start off the interview discussing her Women’s Dominance Weekend Intensive called Forte Femme in which her teachings go to the core of BDSM and even takes a step beyond kink to include profound truths about human sexuality and…

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Punk Rocking Menopause with Dr. Kelly Casperson - Ep 47 54:10

9M ago54:10

54:10

In my personal life, my many of my dear friends are sex positive thought leaders. This is a group of incredibly sexy, powerful, sexually embodied humans who identify as women. Despite all of our strength and knowledge, many of us were completely blind-sided by menopause. Here are just a few symptoms: decrease clitoral sensitivity (oh, fuck no), bra…

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Queering Psychedelics with Dr. Alex Belser - Ep 46 50:06

10M ago50:06

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In this episode, Alex Belser, PhD joins us to discuss how psychedelics can help LGBTQIA+ people heal from bigotry and embracing their identity. After seeing him speak on stage at the Denver Psychedelic Science Convention on the topic of Queering Psychedelics, I knew we needed to have him on Open Deeply along with his co-presenter, Justin Natoli, wh…

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Fluid Relationships: An Alternative to the Mono/ENM Binary with Kate & Sunny - Ep 45 53:58

10M ago53:58

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In this episode, we explore a mind expanding alternate to the traditional binary of choosing either a monogamous or non-monogamous relationship. Non-monogamy was created in reaction to the confines on monogamy. However, isn't it time to break free from this binary? If either one of these choices works for you, then great! But for many relationships…

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How Psychedelics May Shift Polyamory with Justin Natoli - Ep 44 54:30

11M ago54:30

54:30

In this eye-opening episode, Jason Natoli, JD, LMFT, and founder of the Queer Medicine Community, tells us about his amazing chapter within the book, Queering Psychedelics entitled, “How Psychedelics Can Guide the Transformative Journey of Polyamory”. He discusses how psychedelics can help with three primary struggles within polyamory: shame, past …

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Tools for Non-Traditional Relationships with Dedeker Winston - Ep 43 57:53

11M ago57:53

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In this episode, relationship coach and co-host of the Multiamory podcast, Dedeker Winston joins us to discuss her new book, “Multiamory: Essential Tools for Modern Relationships” that she wrote along with co-authors Jase Lindgren and Emily Sotelo Matlack. Dedeker unpacks some fascinating key concepts in her book, like RADAR check ins and the Trifo…

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Goddess Amina: The Politics of Sex to San Pedro - Ep 42 45:22

12M ago45:22

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This episode is part two with Goddess Amina (Amina Peterson). In this episode, we talk about everything from the politics of sex to psychedelics. Regarding sexual politics, Amina feels the best was to buck our patriarchal system is by offering and teaching something that is way better than anything patriarchy can ever offer…next level pleasure. Wit…

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Goddess Amina on Tantra & Somatics - Ep 41 55:22

1y ago55:22

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In this episode, the Goddess Amina tells us her story from running away at age fourteen to becoming the tantric powerhouse that she is today. She explains the import of somatic healing and expounds on her belief that your orgasm is expansive energy, a way to experience your higher self. And her goal is to guide you home to your body, where your mag…

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Sex & Psychedelics with Dr. Cat Meyer - Ep 40 52:58

1y ago52:58

52:58

Licensed psychotherapist, Dr. Cat Meyer, joins us to discuss her two areas of expertise, sex and psychedelics, while disclosing much about her own personal sexual journey, such as the time she first discovered her Dominant side while at BDSM party. However, her wild soul was not always so free. Cat’s childhood was mired with an eating disorder and …

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Open Relating in Polyamory with Megan Bhatia - Ep 39 1:10:02

1y ago1:10:02

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In this episode, Megan Bhatia of Amory Podcast joins us to tell us about her two long term loves, husband Marty & partner Kyle. She unpacks the joys and challenges of open relating in polyamory and explains why polyamory is a spiritual journey. Of all the podcasts on non-monogamy, Amory podcast has the strongest heartbeat. It is by far, the most vu…

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When Kink & Non-monogamous Relationships Turn Toxic with Rachel Krantz - Ep 38 42:10

1y ago42:10

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Rachel Krantz, the author of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-monogamy joins us as we continue the discussion from the previous episode about grooming in the kink scene. However, in this episode, we broaden the conversation by including non-monogamy and we deepen it by exploring Rachel’s first- hand experience with it. In the…

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Grooming in BDSM Relationships with Sunny Megatron - Ep 37 1:09:44

1y ago1:09:44

1:09:44

Sometimes this podcast is about what BLOCKS us from opening deeply. When I heard Sunny's episode on American Sex about grooming within the kink scene, I knew that I wanted to be sure that Open Deeply listeners heard it as well. So we are reposting it here!. Adult grooming is often misunderstood — from what it looks like, to who is most vulnerable, …

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Transition: Sexual Authenticity, Plant Medicine, & Beyond - Ep 36 38:20

1+ y ago38:20

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It’s time to transition to season three! In season one, the United States’ climate of suppression, led us to create a podcast designed to amplify voices that are often suppressed. We brought on the most impactful sex positive social justice leaders and icons that we know from many walks of life. Each guest got two episodes. The first is an intimate…

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Porn Star Love with Jetsetting Jasmine & King Noire - Ep 35 1:12:04

1+ y ago1:12:04

1:12:04

Season two is about love that our culture pushes into the shadows and this episode is about love between two porn performers, Jetsetting Jasmine and King Noire. When we asked other porn performers what couple they felt are the best example of a healthy, amazing love, Jetsetting Jasmine and King Noire were always the reply. So often our culture proj…

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Neurodiverse Love & ADHD with Anne Hodder-Shipp - Ep 34 1:05:25

1+ y ago1:05:25

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Season two is about love that gets pushed into the shadows and this episode is about neurodiverse love, specifically, ADHD, with our guest, Anne Hodder-Shipp. In this episode, we cover the whole range of experiences related to love and ADHD. This scope includes how she was loved as a child, how she fought to get love as a young woman, and how she a…

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Kinky Love with Hudsy Brooke of "Sing, Spank, Scrub" - Ep 33 49:05

1+ y ago49:05

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Season two is about love that gets pushed into the shadows and this episode is about kinky love as experienced by ex-Pro Domme turned kink coach, Hudsy Brooke. Hudsy starts out by telling her amusing kink origin story with her first surprise Dom. This initial experience created a sub frenzy within her that catapulted her down a kink rabbit hole whi…

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Consensual Non-monogamy Part 6: Coming Out - Ep 32 58:34

1+ y ago58:34

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This is the last episode in our six part series on consensual non-monogamy (CNM). In this episode, Kate Loree, specialist in CNM and licensed psychotherapist, discusses with Sunny Megatron the topic of coming out as non-monogamous. First, we discuss our own personal stories of coming out. Then, we discuss the benefits of coming out, whether you sho…

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Consensual Non-monogamy Part 5: Maintaining Connection within CNM - Ep 31 49:54

2y ago49:54

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This is episode five in our six part series on consensual non-monogamy (CNM). In this episode, Kate Loree, specialist in CNM and licensed psychotherapist, discusses how to maintain a connection while practicing CNM. Four threats to maintaining a connection are discussed: NRE, typecasting, greater attunement with the new lover and technology. Three …

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Consensual Non-monogamy Part 4: Mental Health Issues within CNM - Ep 30 1:13:03

2y ago1:13:03

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Please join us for part four in our series on non-monogamy. This episode is all about how mood disorders and personality disorders can impact non-monogamous relationships. According to NAMI, one in five American adults experienced mental illness in 2020. When we couple this fact with the knowledge that consensually non-monogamy pokes at our unresol…

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Consensual Non-Monogamy Part 3: Communication & Triggers - Ep. 29 52:04

2y ago52:04

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Please join us for part three in our series on non-monogamy. This episode is all about how to handle difficult emotions, such as jealousy, envy, insecurity or feeling disempowered along with managing what may trigger you within your non-monogamous relationships. We discuss why it’s important to be in your “resilient zone” during difficult non-monog…

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Consensual Non-monogamy, Part 2: Compassion - Ep 28 50:06

2y ago50:06

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Please join us for part two in our series on non-monogamy. This episode is all about self-compassion, but also compassion for our partners within consensual non-monogamous relationships (CNM). So often in Kate’s psychotherapy private practice she sees clients pleading for compassion while concurrently not giving it. And yet, its arguable that compa…

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Consensual Non-monogamy with Kate Loree, Part 1: The Basics - Ep 27 1:03:39

2y ago1:03:39

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Season two of Open Deeply is all about love that gets pushed into the shadows: kinky love, non-monogamous love, neurodiverse love and more. Since co-host, Kate Loree’s book, Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships, is published this month, we thought we would start out this season with a series on non-monogamy. …

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Transition: Kinky, Non-monogamous, Neurodiverse Love & More - Ep 26 1:29:56

2+ y ago1:29:56

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Are you ready to process with us? In episode 26, our season one finale, we process all that we experienced throughout season one, all the great guests and lessons learned. This episode ends with us explaining our vision for season two. Note: If you simply want to hear our vision for season two, fast forward to the last twelve minutes of this episod…

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Mollena Williams: And Her Kink Prime Directive - Ep 25 1:11:59

2+ y ago1:11:59

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Join us with Mollena Williams-Haas, American writer, BDSM educator, actor, story teller and former International Ms. Leather, for an episode of Open Deeply in which Mollena explains how she took her back her agency and came to understand intergenerational pain more fully via BDSM. Mollena doesn’t shy away from even the hardest questions related to …

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Mollena Williams-Haas: Taboo Kink and Storytelling Revelations - Ep 24 1:16:29

2+ y ago1:16:29

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Join us with Mollena Williams-Haas, American writer, BDSM educator, actor, and former International Ms. Leather, for an incredibly thought provoking episode of Open Deeply. It was determined that Mollena was a genius by age three. In that same year, she had her first devastating experience of racism that left her incredibly confused. However, her c…

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Sunny Megatron - BDSM Community Disrupter - Ep 23 1:08:18

2+ y ago1:08:18

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2021’s XBIZ Sexpert of the year and kink superhero, Sunny Megatron, is on a mission to disrupt the BDSM world. It’s high time to shake up norms and bring the kink community next level with up-to-date standards around consent, ethics, and self-awareness while considering how inclusivity, misogyny, education, attitudes, racism and all the isms impact…

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Sunny Megatron, The Brene Brown of Kink - Ep 22 1:01:07

2+ y ago1:01:07

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If there is anyone who embodies a plethora of kinktastic knowledge, it’s my co-host, Sunny Megatron. She’s a fountain of knowledge on everything from clown kink to humiliation play and has shaped many a psychotherapist into being kink-aware through her classes. In this episode, we chat about how Sunny originally got into kink, how she customizes he…

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Lenora Claire - True Crime Media Consultant - Ep 21 57:30

2+ y ago57:30

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Lenora Claire, the Erin Brovovich of stalking, joins us for her second powerful episode. So often our society misunderstands stalking to the extent that it’s often a theme in comedians’ standup. And yet, real life stalkers are frequently terrifying, dangerous and nothing to joke about. And with a justice system that does just short of nothing to he…

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Lenora Claire - The Erin Brockovich of Stalking - Ep.20 56:48

2+ y ago56:48

56:48

Lenora Claire once lead a Felliniesque life, orchestrating amazing art shows like “Golden Girls Gone Wild”, associating with colorful celebrities, and creating some of the best parties Hollywood had to offer. But “P.T. Barnum with Boobs” would soon have a new calling and a new moniker. In 2001 she was named one of L.A. Weekly’s people of the year. …

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Frenchie Davis - Black Divine Mermaid - Ep. 19 55:59

2+ y ago55:59

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Frenchie Davis, Broadway babe and truth slayer, joins us for a second transparent and insightful episode of Open Deeply. In this episode, Frenchie reveals the amazing changes she manifested at Howard University in honor of her dear, deceased friend, Chadwick Boseman. She tells us her self-image shifting journey to Germany which took her from body s…

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Frenchie Davis - God is a Black Woman - Ep. 18 51:30

3y ago51:30

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Frenchie Davis, truth slayer and world-renowned vocalist, joins us for a deeply soulful and spiritual episode of Open Deeply. Frenchie’s “dark night of the soul” began when a doctor informed her that she had a split uterus rendering her unable to have children and in need of surgery fast. Simultaneously, her close friend, Chadwick Boseman, passed s…

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Andrew Gurza - Controls His Joy Stick - Ep 17 44:21

3y ago44:21

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Andrew Gurza, award winning Disability Awareness Consultant joins us for a second episode in which he tells us about his exciting, new sex toy company, Handi along with the company’s first ground-breaking sex toy, the Joystick, that will put pleasure within reach for tens of thousands of disabled people as soon as early 2022. Andrew also drives hom…

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Andrew Gurza: Disabled People are Hot - Ep 16 55:27

3y ago55:27

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Andrew Gurza, an award-winning Disability Awareness Consultant and the Co-founder of Handi, a sex toy company that puts pleasure within reach for disabled people, joins us to tell three moving stories from his life. The first takes us to his early childhood to the moment that he really felt the emotional weight of his disability. This difficult sto…

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15. Dr. Kim Tallbear: From Colonial Chaos to Eco-Sexual Bliss - Ep. 15 55:22

3y ago55:22

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Dr. Kim TallBear, Professor of Native Studies, author, and regular international media commentor on issues related to Indigenous peoples, science, sexualities, and non-monogamy joins us again for her second episode on Open Deeply. In this episode, she gives us a preview of her upcoming book tentatively called, “Disrupting Sex and Nature” that will …

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Dr. Kim TallBear: Critical Polyamorist & Dakota Queen - Ep 14 1:08:53

3y ago1:08:53

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Dr. Kim TallBear, Professor of Native Studies, author, and regular international media commentor on issues related to Indigenous peoples, science, sexualities, and non-monogamy weaves wisdom throughout her amazing life story on this episode of Open Deeply. As a small child, Kim knew she was a queen, but the intergenerational impact of settler colon…

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Babatunde Akinboboye - Lonely in Lagos to California Love Ep 13 56:45

3y ago56:45

56:45

Professional international opera singer, Babatunde Akinboboye, otherwise known as the HipHopera Guy, joins us again for a deeper exploration of his life journey told in the previous episode. We explore the generational shifts between himself and his father regarding masculinity and how these differing embodiments of manhood effect psychological hea…

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Babatunde Akinboboye - Nigerian Childstar to Hiphopera Guy Ep 12 1:12:38

3y ago1:12:38

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Babatunde Akinboboye, the HipHopera Guy, joins us in an eye opening episode of Open Deeply. While Babatunde weaves operatic excellence seamlessly with hiphop and trap beats, you can see that he brims over with next level passion and joy. You would never suspect the intense struggle that he has overcome across his life. While his early childhood was…

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Jimanekia Eborn Blossoms - Ep 11 54:44

3y ago54:44

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Jimanekia Eborn, trauma specialist and founder of Tending the Garden, joins us again to process her life story from the previous episode. After witnessing her mother’s murder at age one, Jimanekia’s inner child has had a lot of healing to do. But she candidly tells us that self-healing has not always been on the forefront of her mind. In her early …

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Jimanekia Eborn Tends Her Garden - Ep 10 59:10

3y ago59:10

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Jimanekia Eborn, who refers to herself as a “child of trauma”, takes us on her powerful life journey from witnessing her mother being brutally murdered at the age of one to becoming an inspiring expert in the areas of sexual trauma support and sex education with a special love for helping those with marginalized identities. Her childhood included m…

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Destin Gerek: Ever Evolving Masculine - Ep 9 50:51

3y ago50:51

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Destin Gerek, founder & CEO of The Evolved Masculine and author of the best-selling book of the same name, joins us again to process his life story from the previous episode. Destin’s struggle to heal his physical pain in adolescence led to a sexual and spiritual journey that spans activism, world travel, tantra, sexological bodywork along with man…

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Destin Gerek: Erotic Rockstar to Evolved Masculine - Ep 8 55:01

3y ago55:01

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Destin Gerek, once the Erotic Rockstar and now founder of the Evolved Masculine, is a globally recognized leading voice in masculinity, sexuality, and personal empowerment, but he didn’t start there. He was profoundly changed after witnessing the pain of his high school girlfriend who is a rape survivor. His deep empathy for her led him to question…

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Over Givers To Change Agents- Ep. 7 49:31

3y ago49:31

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After Sunny’s, Siri’s, and Kate’s bios all had themes of emotional over giving, we decided to devote episode seven solely to unpacking what over giving is, why we do it, and how to heal. A long overdue spotlight is shone on how our patriarchal culture fiercely gas lights over givers, who are predominately women, and why. The over giver/over taker r…

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Siri Dahl: A Porn Activist’s Introspection - Ep 6 48:19

3y ago48:19

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Award winning porn performer, powerlifter, podcaster and activist, Siri Dahl, joins us again to process her life story from the previous episode. Siri explores the positive impact that reclaiming her beloved porn career has had on her, despite the sex shame and pressure that family and loved ones bestowed upon her to quit. As she embraced her sexua…

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Siri Dahl: Powerlifting Porn Activist - Ep 5 1:06:34

3+ y ago1:06:34

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Siri Dahl tells her life story from rebel without a cause to powerlifting porn activist. Siri is a model, podcaster, powerlifter, and award-winning adult film performer who has never shied away from using her platform to advocate for social change. Her badass strength and ability to speak truth didn’t come out of nowhere, but was born from struggle…

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Your Hosts: Little Girls Lost to Revolution Fire Starters - Ep 4 1:04:27

3+ y ago1:04:27

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We believe that before we ask our guest to self-analyze their own stories, we feel it’s only fair that we do the same. Despite coming from wildly different backgrounds, we were surprised to find so many common themes. Join us as we discuss the trial and tribulations of two recovering over givers. Strangely, both of our grandfathers on the mother’s …

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Sunny’s Story: Burning Cross to Sunshine Rising - Ep 3 57:32

3+ y ago57:32

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Internationally known, sex educator, Sunny Megatron’s life story is simply jaw-dropping. Even before her birth, an intergenerational, rapid-fire chain of traumas had already unfolded starting with a cross burning in her grandfather’s lawn. Born into chaos and with few anchors, Sunny made her way despite it all. Her biracial identity was hidden from…

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Kate’s Story: Bama to God Sex - Ep 2 55:20

3+ y ago55:20

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Sex positive psychotherapist, Kate Loree’s childhood journey led from Oregon bliss to Deep South discordance exposing her to sexual shame, sexual abuse, and racism. But life struggles are often the ingredients that define purpose and passion. Once unencumbered from bible belt restriction due to a llama money inheritance, life got better and shifted…

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Intro: Ready for Your Deep Dive? - Ep 1 35:07

3+ y ago35:07

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Can telling vulnerable life stories help create a shame-free world? While unabashedly sporting rose-colored glasses, we say, “Yes!” In this first episode, hosts Kate Loree and Sunny Megatron reveal their intention and method behind Open Deeply Podcast. You’ll also learn about organizations that have a counter agenda in mind and what you can do to h…

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