Human connection and communication can be very complex. Leaning into your intuition, embracing magic, and putting yourself first while also supporting community are modalities that can help you make the most of the human experience.

In today’s episode, I’m chatting with writer, facilitator, and creator Yana Fey Dzedze. Yana shares her beautiful journey of embracing openness and exploring curiosity in her marriage, as a parent, and as an individual. The depth of transformation that she explores is an inspiration to go deeper in your own life.

What’s in this episode:

How Yana’s parents’ relationship has helped her stay in touch with who she is

How she embraces curiosity and honors intuition in her relationship with her husband

Why it’s important to weave magic into your everyday life

Balancing sovereignty and community

Understanding the concept of the mirror effect

How to have open conversations about fears and concerns

Exploring roles in relationships and how creativity fits in

Navigating the many layers and facets of being human

Connect with Yana:

Yana’s Instagram
Yana’s new memoir

Connect with me at https://linktr.ee/genevievepleasure, on Instagram @essentialreclamation or join us in my free Facebook community, The Pleasure Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pleasecircle) to get in on the conversation.

Everyone is kinky. But it’s all too common to feel shame about being kinky. If you’ve ever felt this way, you are not alone. Today’s episode is going to help you reframe what it means to be kinky, so that you can ditch the shame and embrace your desires.

Today I’m talking with Kayce Neill and Kimi Inch about exploring your kinky side. From solo exploration to how to communicate with your partner, this conversation is about bringing kinky into the mainstream. Kink is about engaging in your desires in a safe, beautiful, and consensual way. 

It’s time to embrace your kink and stop hiding what turns you on. Welcome to the kink club.

What’s in this episode:

What it really means to be kinky

How Kayce and Kimi discovered their inner kink

Where to start if you want to explore your kinky side

Why solo exploration is important

Why it’s important for Kayce and Kimi to bring kink into the mainstream

How to build trust and understanding with your partner

How to be collaborative when engaging in kink

Connect with Kayce and Kimi:

Kimi’s Instagram
Website (grab the kink checklist here!)

Connect with me on my website at https://linktr.ee/genevievepleasure, on Instagram @essentialreclamation or join us in my free Facebook community, The Pleasure Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pleasecircle) to get in on the conversation. 

Hurting is a part of life and love. We’re going to hurt each other, no matter what we do. How beautiful would it be if we could learn to embrace that side of our relationships? 

In today’s episode, Bas and Priska Waijers Baumann are joining me, and we’re talking about the duality of happiness and sadness in relationships and how to hold space for being hurt and sharing that honest truth with your partner.

Coexisting with another human brings its own unique triggers, and approaching your commitment with honesty, curiosity, and compassion is the key to living in truth.

What’s in this episode:

How Priska and Bas met and fell in love

How to navigate when things get scary and hard in a relationship

How triggers can actually deepen a relationship

How to recognize and hold each other’s pain

The importance of allowing yourself to hurt and be human

How to create a container where you can be honest, even when it’s hurtful

Why it’s important to always come from a place of curiosity

Connect with Bas and Priska:

The Free Emergency Kit for Singles
The Free Emergency Kit for (Soulmate) Couples
Bas + Priska on Instagram

Connect with me on my website at https://linktr.ee/genevievepleasure, on Instagram @essentialreclamation or join us in my free Facebook community, The Pleasure Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pleasecircle) to get in on the conversation. 

Can we create a world with divorce-proof marriages? My own partner and I’s relationship has drastically shifted after I implemented the principles we’re going to discuss today.

In today’s episode, I had on the author of UPLVL Communication: The Ultimate Solution to Save Relationships and Eliminate Hurtful, Damaging, & Meaningless Arguments and creator of the UPLVL Communication™ system, Kenya K Stevens.

We chat about the 3 parts of ourselves and how people can use UPLVL to work through relational challenges and lead to healthier, more satisfying relationships.  

What’s in this episode:

The moment when my partner and I almost separated

How Kenya navigates the understanding that you’re already perfect in relationships

The war of the higher self

The 3 parts of you: the animal, the ego and the god

What UPLVL venting is and how it works in relationships

How this concept helps divorce-proof marriages and communities

Connect with Kenya K Stevens:

UPLVL Communication
UPLVL Communication: The Ultimate Solution to Save Relationships and Eliminate Hurtful, Damaging, & Meaningless Arguments
Kenya on Instagram

Connect with me on my website at https://linktr.ee/genevievepleasure, on Instagram @essentialreclamation or join us in my free Facebook community, The Pleasure Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pleasecircle) to get in on the conversation. 

Are you prioritizing your pleasure? For so many people, they’ve been raised and lived in a world that said, “pleasure is wrong”. This creates an internal narrative for so many that often has them scared of and uninterested in intimacy and pleasure.

In today’s episode, I had on luxury intimacy coach Kimberly Rose Pendleton to have a conversation about the correlation between pleasure and intimacy and how it relates to leadership.

We hear more about her journey of getting kicked out of two bible studies and how she reclaimed her pleasure. You’ll get an idea of what she did to embrace her pleasure and how you can do the same.

What’s in this episode:

The turning point in Kimberly’s life that shifted everything

How she learned to listen to her body

Her journey of embracing pleasure and how that led her to where she is now

Kimberly’s thoughts on pleasure, love and intimacy reigning over right, wrong, shoulds and bodies

Connect with Kenya K Stevens:

Uncover
Kimberly on Instagram

Connect with me on my website at https://linktr.ee/genevievepleasure, on Instagram @essentialreclamation or join us in my free Facebook community, The Pleasure Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pleasecircle) to get in on the conversation.

Have you ever stopped to think about why so many American men get circumcised? A practice that has fallen nearly everywhere in the Western world is still so highly popular in the U.S. Other than for religious or cultural reasons, why are circumcisions still practiced so heavily?

In today’s episode, I am joined by author and founder of the Evolved Masculine, Destin Gerek to talk about circumcision trauma and its effects on our society.

We dive deep into how circumcision affects men. You’ll hear everything from how it correlates to childhood trauma to sexual aggression to the psychological effects it has for years to come. 

What’s in this episode:

What Destin does in the work of sexuality

Trauma and sexuality for men and women 

How sexual aggression can be a reactionary response to pain in the body

The effects of circumcision and childhood trauma

Dissecting how circumcisions affect men psychologically 

Connect with Destin Gerek:

The Evolved Masculine
Destin on Instagram

Connect with me on my website at https://linktr.ee/genevievepleasure, on Instagram @essentialreclamation or join us in my free Facebook community, The Pleasure Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pleasecircle) to get in on the conversation.

Being in a long-term relationship takes work. It’s not always perfect, and it shouldn’t be, if you want to hold space for honoring your truth. To keep a long-term relationship alive, it’s all about making it your number one priority.

In today’s episode, my friends Joe and Jaye share how important it is in a relationship to experiment and be curious. They talk about how an affair led them to be really honest about what they want and don’t want, and how the honesty and openness they’ve found on the other side of the affair has deepened their commitment to each other.

Over their 20+ years together, they have made it a point to grow, individually and as a couple, and be open to all the emotions that come with existing in partnership—the anger, the passion, the hurt, the joy. They are a true inspiration for what it means to put in the work to stay together.

Working at your relationship isn’t a bad thing; it’s your superpower.

What’s in this episode:

The story of Joe and Jaye’s relationship and how it has evolved

How Joe’s affair gave them the opportunity to reinvent their relationship

The many stages of their marriage and how they have grown through them

Why they refer to their relationship as a laboratory

The importance of total honesty in a partnership

Why they value being open over withholding feelings and truths

How getting past self-consciousness and away from expectations about what sex should be has made their sex life better (including the good and the bad and the tricky)

How they’ve created a relationship that supports their authentic selves

Connect with:

John and Jaye’s website (coming soon!)
Follow Jaye on Instagram
Connect with Jaye on Facebook

Connect with me on my website at https://linktr.ee/genevievepleasure, on Instagram @essentialreclamation or join us in my free Facebook community, The Pleasure Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pleasecircle) to get in on the conversation. 

Cultivating a sacred relationship calls for vulnerability, groundedness, and passion. There is a depth of self necessary for such connectedness and intimacy. Just like providing air, sun, and water to keep a plant alive, in a relationship you are tending the growth, both together and as individuals.

Today’s episode features a conversation with me and Sabs, and our friends Lotus Sky and Paola. Lotus Sky and Paola share beautiful stories about the destiny of their relationship, how their individual spirits bring depth and understanding and passion to their relationship, and the importance of staying grounded.

What’s in this episode:

How Lotus Sky and Paola were destined to meet each other and be together

The vulnerability and depth they’ve experienced in their relationship

How their friendship has been an anchor for their relationship

How they stay grounded and mature in tending their relationship

The importance of being secure in who you are and how that helps you stay open

Why you need to nourish passion both in your relationship and as individuals

Connect with Lotus Sky and Paola:

Paola’s Website

Connect with me on my website at linktr.ee/genevievepleasure, on Instagram @essentialreclamation or join us in my free Facebook community, The Pleasure Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pleasecircle) to get in on the conversation.