Some of the best sex obviously are anonymous. Sex can be with some of the worst people, and you're literally taking on that juju and it takes a long time to clear. Like in my book of the book I just gave you Sex, Health and Consciousness, I tell people to say stage their genitals.
Right, Oh they're generals. Oh my god, I'll do that.
Just stand up and show you.
Yeah, please please. You know what, this is a safe space to talk about relationships, love and sex. Now let me tell you something messy.
Hi.
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the show. Okay, so if you've been here for a while, you know that the opening used to say, you know what we do here destroytioning around sex by talking about sex. But you know we are about what is it? So we started in September, I Tobe of November December, during your February March. We are about six months, almost seven months into doing this podcast, and it's it's become clear that we do a lot
more than just talk about sex. Now, sex may be our entry point, but as you you know, we talk about relationships, we talk about family, we talk about dating, we talk about identity, we talk about so many things. And so I wanted to update the show description and opening to reflect that that, yes, we do talk about sex because we host here, but there's so much more. So let me read you what the new description of the show. We'll say, here we go, It's time for
a messy key key about relationships, love and sex. Tell Me Something Messy is an educational comedy podcast hosted by writer, actor, and sexual mental wellness advocate Brandon Kyle Goodman, henceforth known as Messy Mom. Come On, Eating, Eating Eating. Each week, Messy patrons are invited to leave perfectionism at the door and wad into the wild, wonderful world of dating, drama, pleasure, pursuits,
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come oponents of this show. So I'm excited to have the update and also I see that y'all have been rating and reviewing, and I'm so so appreciative. Like I said, that really helps us expand the show and grow the show. So if you haven't done so already, please please please rate, review, subscribe. You can just leave a quick review that says I love a show, I love Brandon, the show's the shit whatever it is, Okay, it really helps the show. So we're at like I think, one hundred and sixty or
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follow the show again. It helps so much. Now all that said, I'm gonna give you this whole like we're expanding what the show does here. It's not just about sex, it's relationships, identity, and it's love. But today we won't really talking about sex down we'll talk about other things too, But my guest today is incredible and maybe you know what that means. It's time for a guess now why
they get situated? We'll get our messy. Kikey started with a how manifesto repeat after me aloud or in your head. Grant me the serenity to unpack my shame, the courage to heal, the wisdom to know that sex is not just about penetration, The audacity to advocate for my pleasure and boundaries. The strength to not call my ex that fuck boy, fuck girl, or fuck bay, for it is better to masturbate by myself in peace than to let someone play in my motherfuckerr face that the community say hoolujah.
I am so excited to have Liz Goldwyn on the show. Liz Goldwyn is an author, filmmaker, and the founder of the sex Ed, an educational platform dedicated to sex health and consciousness. Liz is the writer and director of the documentary Pretty Things. She's also the author of the non fiction book Pretty Things, The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens, and the novel Sporting Guide based on original historical research.
Liz is now writing a weekly autobiographical substat called Starfucker, an expose of our cultural obsession with celebrity and a loving tribute to growing up Hollywood Royalty. Y'all please help me. Welcome Liz Goldwyn.
Hi wool Hey, thanks so much for having me.
Thank you for me here. We're like internet friends, and so we're meeting for the first time.
We're Internet and substack friends.
Substack friends. Yes, and we know some of the same people we do. You interviewed my bosses, my former bosses from big Mouth.
That's right, I did. I interviewed them for the Sex Said podcast. Yes, and we're substack friends.
We're subsack friends. Your subsack has my favorite my favorite day, star fucker. Mine is just messy Monday. But I love the title star Fucker. We're going to get into all of it. We'll talk about but before we do that, let's do our messy mandate. So the messy mandates for a messy key key is that things get to be on process. Any thoughts or opinions shared have their right to evolve, shift, or change today, tomorrow or ten years from now. And if during the conversation anything unintentionally of
friends or we need to like, take a moment. We just say that safe word foosball, and it gives us all booze ball, gives us a chance to stop pause, pivot.
Okay, got it?
Yeah, yeah, dope, amazing. Okay, shall we start with alue breaker.
Let's do it, let's loop.
Always use loop. Okay, So we're gonna play. Come on, don't go too fast. You can go fast after after we started, after we.
Get started exactly.
So loop breaker, smash or pass. I'll give you a problem and smash you pass it. So smash your pass.
Hair pulling, hair pulling, I'm not I'm down for a little hair pulling. Yeah, I don't usually so, like unless I have four brothers and so when I was a kid, that's usually how the fight would end. That hair pulling, the bedroom, bedroom hair pulling. I'm more into like a tender yeah, and more into a spank.
Oh yeah, you like a handspank of paddle spank.
I like a handspank. Okay, I like some handspanking more than the hair pulling. But like, I'm not mad at the hair pulling.
I like a little I like a little hair pulling, but has to be with somebody specific because you know, I was showing everybody up in my hair like that, so it has to be like my partner. I don't one. Sometimes my hair is longer and they can do it. Right now it's a little shorter, they can't do it. But I'm always scared to hair pull although I do have. I did have one partner who loves hair pool and like doesn't have a tender head, so he likes And
I'm turned on when my partner's turned on. So like the heart of the poll, he like the moment.
The harder the the harder they come.
It's just brand smash or pass a finger in your mouth or fingers in your mouth.
I'm not mad at a finger in the mouth, I said, smash that.
Yeah.
I also really like biting lips. Oh yeah, I don't know if I have my lip bit it's hot.
It's hot. That does so hot. I feel like I've seen it on TV, Like you know, you buy your own lip. I think that's hot. On somebody bites their own lip, Yeah, that so sexy. But biting your partner's lip, I haven't done that.
Little love bite I love.
I'm gonna try that. I would definitely I smash finger in the mouth. There's something like so fairal and primal when you're like hot and sweaty, and then like you're just like, yeah, it's everything.
Okay, we love some fair We love to.
Me like, that's where I want my sex to be. Ultimately, I want it to be like sweaty and nasty and like we can do whatever we want conventually and respectfully smash the past, public play.
Public play. I mean, I guess like a light like PDA, but I'm not I'm not an exhibitionist.
That's fair.
Yeah, that's fair. Not really, although I have erotic a lot of erotic fantasies involving libraries.
Can you tell me one of them?
Well, you know, I'm an author and I've written a few books, and I just have this fantasy about like a hot professor and like, you know, the rare book room at the at the library.
Rare book room, yes, being like.
Pressed up against these like dusty books.
I feel like my husband, my husband who loves books and like our houses, our apartners like filled with books, would have this fantasy as well. Yeah, I mean his dream is still have like the Beauty and the Beast library.
Essentially a library ladder. Yeah, like an overstuffed leather chair or absolutely fireplace.
Going and then maybe like a little secret passage one of the bookshelves. Absolutely to your sex room. Absolutely, I'm into this. I what do I feel about public play. I'm not opposed to it. I love it when it is in the context of like a sex party or a dark room or like you know, places where we're like this is happening, yeah, as opposed to like we're just driving down the street and you're like, let's pull over and do something that. I always get scared about
getting caught. I like it to be I haven't.
I've done that once, Yeah, in West Hollywood with an author, actually a novelist, with a hot novelist, Yeah, who had in a parked car on the street I lived on, which I won't name, but it's really near the Chateau Marmont, and like just pulled over on the street with like the windows of the car all fogged up, and it was honestly so hot. It was super hot.
One of my only uh a couple of well, one of my only public places was West Hollywood, which was which was in the alleyway. Wasn't as cute as a car, but it was an alleyway, and then I think I also sucked behind another bar on the east side. There's something about these alleyways and these garages and these Yeah, you know, when we've we've had enough drinks, you know, snipped a couple of poppers, You're like, let's let's do it. Do it. Lizzy won the gang. My unconditional congratulations, patrons
and hoes. If you have a loop breaker ideas or messy prompts or messy stories, you can email me at tell Me Something Messy at gmail dot com. Speaking up, Liz, can you tell me something messy?
Okay, I'm gonna tell you something real messy. I love it that when we first met and I did a pece you interviewed me for your sub stack, I told you that I had just had a really bad breakup. Yes you did, Okay. So I discovered in this breakup that this person that I loved and had been involved with for about six years a little bit, some of
it off and on, but mostly on. I stopped counting after I discovered the twenty eighth different, the twenty eighth sugar baby, he and did those calculated calculations in my head while he was sleeping in my bed. By the way, is when I discovered this. Wait wait, hello, okay discover We were at dinner. I was feeling really stuck in the relationship, and I literally like prayed to my guides and my ancestors, please give me a message, Please give me a sign, Please give me some guidance, like what
I do in this relationship. Sure, And I was in La I was flying back to Hawaii in the morning. I hadn't gotten a message, and I was, you know, we're feeling stuck. I was feeling stuck. We're out to dinner, sharing a plate of oysters, and he says to me, do you think your father was a sex addict? He says this. At dinner, we're like talking about my dad. Well,
my dad. You know, my dad was actually arrested for soliciting sex worker when I was like an infant, and he knew this, like he knew all my stuff around like monogamy, Like you know, we're in a monogamous relationship. Like we're talking really openly all the time about sex. I mean, of course that's what you and I do. So you I think establishing that trust in a relationship is so important. So maybe you do want to be
polyamorous or whatever. But you talk about it, you don't communication. Yeah, and he knew I had all these, like, you know, trauma from my dad being this way or women. So he says this to me, and I kind of put it in the back of my head. I said, that's an odd question to ask. Then we get home. We're watching a movie and I want to google something about the actor and he hands me his phone and he's not precious with you know, his past code or anything.
So I type it in looking it up. We're lying there together and a number, a number comes up, this note and then two hearts pop up, and he snatches the phone out of my hand and swipes it up so fast. So I was like. We go to bed, and I'm like, fuck, I'm leaving in the morning. I got to take a look at the phone. And I'm not the type to do this. I don't even want to be the type, like I feel like it's not sexy to be you.
Know, sure, but that moment makes you go.
So he fall, he passes out. I go and I open up the phone and it's like, well, first of all, that first girl, Teresa two hearts. Sure there were photos that she sent him. So since we went to bed, more more text came through from that number, photos of them on a hike that morning with his dogs. No, no, no, Yeah. I keep scrolling back, scrolling back, and I see, like, you know whatever, explicit sexting, et cetera. She's found another
girl for them to party with. I scroll all the way back from the beginning and they've met off seeking arrangements, and it's like it's like a sugar Daddy sugar baby website. Yeah, so I go back to the very beginning and there he's like saying what he pays per you know, what he generally pays per week or per month or whatever. So I'm like, Okay, while I'm looking through this text from another girl comes through. Scroll back to the beginning
of that. That one he hasn't even saved the name in the phone, and they're just like negotiating to me. Keep I was like, a fuck, if there's only two in this last like twenty minutes. I keep going through the phone. It was like I lost count about twenty eight different women. But it was all you know, repeated, like cut, copy and paste the language. Yeah, what he's looking for? Copy and paste the photos that he was using,
which were like fucking outdated selfies. Also, he said, some of these girls photos of the view from my house in Hawaii on my fucking birthday, on my fucking birthday, which is Christmas Day. No, while he was saying with me, and it had gotten like really, you know, it was almost like the last in the last you know, few months, it had gotten out of control, like a mania with it. So I start calculating in my head how much money he's spending, and it's like he doesn't even remember anything
about these women. He left one woman he like arranged a date where she had a she was a single mom, got childcare. He just didn't show up. My god, you know, just like he was messy. He was messy, so I knew. So I then I go back to bed and I just so I didn't sleep. I lay in bed, thinking he's gonna lie to me if I if I, you know, ask him about this. I just laid him. I got the message. I got a lot of that. So I'm laying in bed and I'm thinking, you know, and then
I start convincing myself. I start gaslighting myself, like did I make this up? Did this really? Because I was so shocking, Like I thought this person was one of my best friends. And we had literally just had a conversation two days before where I said, I don't think that we're meant to be together. What do you think about dating other people? No, I don't want to date anyone else. I'm barely even masturbating, I swear to God, I swear to God. I said, what do you think
about me dating other people? No, I wouldn't like that. That would really be hard for me. But I would understand if you're really frustrated with me. Yeah, yeah, because this is the only saving grace. He'd been having ed problems you and I was really patient with it, and I was like, let's find you a doctor, and like all this stuff. I was trying to be really like, you know, comforting and supportive and all these sayings. So
thankfully we weren't really having penetrative sexy thank god. Yeah, it's like time period because.
You don't Yeah, there's no yeah, your health, your health, yeah.
Yeah. He was definitely not using production with these women. And anyways, so I was like lying in bed in the morning, he got up before me. I'm I'm told him. I know, I made it I was like, I need one more look at the phone, just to make sure I'm not crazy. So maybe I made this up. Maybe I was dreaming. I don't know, maybe this was all a bad dream. So he gets in the shower peek at the phone one more time, and I see no, no, I was right. I make an Excu's supposed to take
me to the airport to lax. I make an excuse. I'm like, oh, I forgot I have therapy, Like, can you give me space for an hour? So he leaves. I call one of my best guy friends who lives in the neighborhood. He comes over. We take a walk. I'm sobbing. I'm like, can you take me the airport? Yes? And I attacked this ax and I say, oh, something came up in therapy. I need time to process. I got a ride get to the airport. And by this time, I'm so upset
and I'm so pissed. And also remember I've done the calculations in my head now why he's spending and it's a lot of money. Like I calculated that he's spent at least sixty thousand dollars in like the last four to five months. I know, so and remember the language is repeated over and over again, all these texts on how much what he he says he'll like pay per month for rent or whatever. So this is what I did.
Right before I got on the plane. I sent him a VENMO request for twenty seven hundred dollars with the note I heard this is the going rate for seeking arrangements plus the therapy I'm going to need to process this. I don't know, it just came to me. It came to me. Okay, this motherfucker paid it, and I have not spoken to him since, so I've had no closure. It's about to be like in a couple of weeks, it's about to be like a year of me finding
this out. And my heart is honestly still tender, like I've had to really move like molasses with anyone else because I just feel so so shocked. He paid it. Haven't heard from him since I changed his name to sick fuck in my phone, and I wrote I wrote about this on my substack. But after like six months, and it's called revenge is a dish best serve cold.
We are going to put this in the show notes, and I really go into detail because it's actually funny some of the stuff, and I, you know what, honestly taking his money made me feel bonded to these women, to the sugar baby.
For me, because it made me feel you know, there was one moment, there was a brief moment where I felt empowered by taking his money, and I thought, fuck, I should have charged him more. And I started imagining in my head like, oh, if he wants to talk to me, to like, you know, try to apologize or speak his mind, I'm in charge him a thousand dollars a minute, yeah, you know, for a call. And then you know, I realized, you know, that wouldn't actually make
me feel better. But there was one moment where I felt like, yeah, empowered by taking the money and bonded with these other women. I'm kind of glad that they were taking advantage of him too. My first book and film called Pretty Things, was about the last generation of
American blessed queens and the advent of strip tease. So these were like the big star blessed stars of the nineteen thirties and forties, and when I was making that work, they were in their seventies and eighties, right, And I was when I started that work I was eighteen, I was married really young. I met my ex husband when
I was eighteen turning nineteen. So I had this like sexual coming of age through these strippers in their seventies and eighties when I was in my early twenties, Like they were teaching me about men, yes, and they a lot of them were, you know, did sex work and stuff on the sides, and they really I felt like I never had the chance in my life to be a sugar baby or I don't know, I was just not, I guess not wired like to have those kind of
like financial relationships with men. And I almost felt like I missed out. And so because I have a lot of friends too or did that and like you know, a lot of friends me too, or like sugar babies and it sounds fabulous, I'm like, oh my god, like five thousand dollars in cash, like for a dinner and you don't even have to do anything, like let's go shopping. My second book is about sex, vice and sex work in la in eighteen ninety seven, called Sporting Guide. So
it's a subject that like really interests me. And as I told you, my father, you know, was he was a total playboy, he was arrested for soliciting a sex worker when I was an infant, And so sex work has been a theme in my work and in my personal life, and so to me going through this personal experience, like I have a lot of friends who are sex workers. I've done a lot of research on the history of sex work in all different cultures and time periods, and
especially in Los Angeles. Yeah, and of course Sean Baker, who directed Anora, I've known him for a long time Tangerine. His film Tangerine, Yes I Love is brilliant. If it's young and seen it, it's shot on iPhone, it's it takes place in Los Angeles. Yeah, as is also set
in the world of sex work. Yeah. But yeah, I think having this personal experience where I was, you know, because I had all this like I don't want to say, like intellectual or academic or like observer experience of sex work, but then having the experience of like taking his money and being and I was so hurt. I was so
destroyed by this. I really did feel I could understand why you would feel, like why all these women I loved and even had learned from in burlesque felt, you know, empowered by it, and I was like, Oh, if this wasn't a person that I knew well and that I loved, and I was doing it for revenge, I would so get off on this. I was so good.
There's something so I think that we're taught to be ashamed of it, but so I forget how people have phrased it. But it's like you have sex with some of the crappiest people for no money.
Yeah, so might as well get And also, you know, I've always wondered, like, what is really the difference between being a trophy wife? Talk about it, you know, because you know, at least you have freedom when you're when you're doing it in the way like a sugar baby,
for example, your own business. You're your own business. Well, you don't have to get locked down with some like old dude and they have to like sit there while he entertailing eating a chicken dinner and some like air conditioned ballroom like his boring corporate colleagues, you know, and like while you're cause playing child wife, you know, you don't have to pop out the kids for them. You don't have to like you know, be on the pta
board or whatever. Right, you just get to be the like fun one, you know that like go shop with his money. Yeah, there is.
Something quite far more empowering about that version that situation. Yeah, you set what your price is, you set what the dynamics are, you set what the expectations are, and then you don't have to be attached to it. You don't have to be attached to their whole life because because part of the kink I think for the sugar Daddy.
Is being able to pay for this guy for my ex Yeah, it was like but here's the thing, I knew his business was in trouble, so I'm like, you are fucking messy as bus and speaking of Yeah, it was. It was an addiction. And that's the thing is that I'm one of those people that would have been I loved him and I cared about him as a friend.
So if he had been honest with me and I gave him so many opportunities to I would have maybe not I would have had the choice to like stay with him or not, but I would have still accepted him and I would still have like held space for him in my life, just not as as a partner. Yeah, I mean when you talk about like you know, the
sex work being not attached to it. It's never obviously we know, nothing with sex is ever that simple or black and white, right, because there is I think for a lot of us, especially if we're like a heteronormative woman being penetrated. Yeah, there's a psychic impact of being of having penetrate trade of sex or like you're literally taking on someone else's energy.
I always say that, Like I say that for bulbo owners and for bottoms, right, Like, if somebody is coming in inside you, there's no matter what, there's energy. There's energy exchange, even if you were even if you were the penis owner, Like, there is an energy exchange. And sometimes I feel like, especially in sort of the gay
male community, we dismiss that. Yeah, it's like I'm not saying you can't have your anonymous sex, but I do think there's there is value and importance in having intentional sex because of that exchange, because of that energetic exchange that is absolutely happening.
Yeah, I mean, I fully believe in intentional sex personally, and I think probably maybe more in your community. It's because man are conditioned to think of sex as disposable and like absolutely be cut off from it. From your spirituality. But I really do believe that that is one. Yeah, that is one. And you know there some of the best sex, obviously are anonymous. Sex can be with some of the worst people, and you're literally taking on that
juju and it takes a long time to clear. Like in my book of the book I just gave you, Yeah, Sex, Health and Consciousness, I tell people to say stage their genitals, like.
Oh they're generals. Oh my god, I'll do.
That, stand up and yeah please please like oh yeah, not too close, not too close, or you put it in a metal bowl like smoke. Have the stage in a metal bowl and kind of stand over it naked. Yeah, you know, I think you should shage your stage, your armpits, rand your everywhere. But yeah, you know, I'm with you.
I had I had somebody. I had somebody at my apartment and we were fooling around and they left, and I the energy shift was so apparent, like I couldn't sleep. I had to get out of bed. I told my best friend I'd get out of bed and sage everything because I just could feel that the end, like I was like, oh, I think I just I think that they had a darker energy and I and I felt like I took it on and I was unsettled. Had to like sage the incense, talk to my grandmother.
Yeah. Yeah, and also like bath with salt. Bath is good. We're like just washing your hands all the way up to your elbows, even if you just even it's not sexual,
youre like meet someone. And I think we're in a time right now, like in the world, in this country in twenty twenty five, where there's a lot of shadow and a lot of darkness, and so we need to be even more intentional with our energy because we need to stay looking towards the light in order to be of service and of feeling and to be able to resist with our art and our and our podcasts and our words and everything that we do.
Yeah, I want to, like, I want to ask a couple of things, and we'll do mess email and all that stuff. But I want we're on this trains. I want to like keep going with it, which is one What are the ways for people to raise their awareness about themselves? You know, people who are listening, you know, I said the show is for the most novice hoe and the most experienced, so so people who are trying to begin raising their awareness about their body and the
energetic power their body has. Like, what are the ways to start you get in touch with that?
Okay, So the whole premise of my last book, Sex Health and Consciousness, is very much about looking at your sexuality as your spiritual energy, your sexual energy, and your creative energy. Your mana, your prana, your chi. If you've ever heard those terms, yeah, chi and prana you might hear in yoga or mana is like the Hawaiian word
for it. It's like your energy, your power. Your sexual energy is your power, and it's not just something that you do with another person or when your doesn't necessarily always have to do a sex. Sexual athletes, for example, they won't often masturbate or have sex before a big game because we know, right, you've heard that. Yeah, so because the sexual energy is really powerful, right, and so
you can use it to manifest same thing. Apparently Shakespeare used to refrain from sex when he was like writing us on it. We know that motherfucker.
Sentence exactly sentence something.
And May West he was like a famous fem fatale and also a screenwriter. She also the same, and she was like known to be having multiple lovers in her eighties. So it doesn't preclude you from being like sexually active or sexually liberated. It just you know understand how to harness it and how and how to be intentional with it, and you under so so that then you have the choice, because I think a lot of people, I particularly see
this with straight women. They they are like they feel like they need to be they feel like being liberated sexuality means like being super casual about it and not caring. And then it's yes, it takes a toll. So yeah, So I think understanding first, like it's like kind of like your body is a temple idea. That doesn't mean abstinate, It doesn't mean any of that. It just means and I think we should teaching this to kids.
Absolutely.
It means like self esteem, self love, understand how to pleasure yourself first. I cannot tell you how many relationships I've been in, even including with that one, because I didn't value myself enough, you know, even as an adult asked divorced woman, like, I did not value myself enough, and I allowed my feelings of like insecurity or loneliness or lack mean that like somehow having sex with this hot person make me whole, would make me feel better
about myself. And so I think that like the more that you can kind of get intentional with that energy and move from that place, you'll see your whole life opening up.
I think that that is such a know some people are listening are struggling with that, where you have sex with somebody so that you could or you get in relationship with somebody so that you can point to them and say, there's my worth, there's my value, Like I'm valuable because this person wants me, because this person wants to marry me, this person wants to fuck me. And it distracts us from doing the real work, which is who am I? What? What? What brings me value for myself?
Where does my self worth really come from? Which is supposed to be internal, your own operating system.
But I think it's very hard because we're the culture doesn't give us that message.
It doesn't.
But that's the thing that I think that we're in a major turning point in humanity right now, as as we can see from everything that's going on, like politically and culturally, that like, I think there has to be a shift towards us getting closer to God in ourselves whatever that means, whatever, It doesn't have to be organized religion. We actually have a big I have a company called The Sex Said, also the sex Said dot Com, and
we have a podcast. But on our site we have lots of resources and we have stuff sex positive Muslims, sex positive Christians. So I don't think the sexuality and spiritually are exclusive to each other, right, But I think I think that like getting closer to whatever gives you faith, hope, prayer, and also I think that that just expands the orgasm and expands the sense of sex when you can get into that sacred sex. And again that doesn't mean that
you can't have kinky, anonomous sex. Absolutely, just really understand you know what needs those are fulfilling, so that before you fuck that person whatever, drink that drink, take that pill. You understand. Am I doing this because I want to feel pleasure? Or are you doing this because I really feel shitty about myself and I want to escape this pain?
Yes? Because if you're numbing or engageing, Yeah, because.
Those have different impacts on you, because then it just becomes mindless, like mindless consumption.
Yeah. I always talk about the beginning of my whole journey in my twenties was such a mindless It was always had to be drunk or high, and I was just fucking to feel better about myself. And nine times out of ten the sex was terrible. It didn't accomplish what needed to accomplish, or if it did, it was so fleeting. And now being able to know what brings me pleasure and who brings me pleasure, I get to be so intentional that when I do have sex, even if it's not as much, it's so valuable to me.
It actually restore It's actually restorative as opposed to being something that drains me, like.
A restorative yoga class.
It absolutely is.
So I want to say, because you said this podcast is for everyone from the novice to the hoe, But the thing is, in your sexual journey, in your life, you can vacillate back and forth between both those things all the time. So I want to say to the novices out there that, like, we should always maintain a beginner's mindset, and there is no such thing as like, oh I'm too old to learn this, or I should
have should have what a cuta? Because I hear a lot of that, like I should know better or people beat themselves up over this, Like just you got to accept where you're at at your journey because your sexuality is it as individual to you as your thumbprint.
Here, love that, love that, Yes, we value A core value here is curiosity, and so maintaining curiosity wanting to learn. I always say I'm a I'm a teacher's pet. I'm not a teacher here. I love to learn, And so I think that's so important for us to remember, no matter how how experience, when I experience, you are, to really keep that beginner's mindset is such a brilliant thing. My other question for you is about betrayal, because that
obviously comes up here. How do you feel? And you might be musing you might be working through this, but like, what are the steps to healing your own heart after betrayal, especially if you know that you're not going to get that closure? But you know, I think we all want We talked about this with Coroma on the show, where it's like we want the perfect closure, the like picturesque. We have the conversation, we sit down, we understand why the person did what they did and all that. But
that's usually nine times in ten, not happening. So what is what has been your saving grace in moving forward for yourself?
Yeah, And a lot of times the person doesn't know why because they're not on their own. We're all where we're at on our journey and self discovery, right, So I try not to be like, oh, he's like that a lesser point than me journey. I'm just like he's where he's at, and I'm I still feel hurt, like
I told him, I'm telling the story. It's about to be a year anniversary and there's you know, I just I just met someone very handsome, and I feel I can feel myself like closing up and becoming guarded and being like really afraid, and it's like, a I have to be mindful and I have to tell myself it's okay to move slow. It's ok to move slow, slow, and to like get to know someone and not miss the red flag.
That's a life lesson everything, and it's okay. Everyone wants to be fast, it's okay to be slow, to move slow.
Yeah. I take I do jiu jitsu, yeah, and I okay, so.
I've done it. I have done it since college, but it was my favorite.
So my who I trained jiu jitsu with two people. They're both in the Gracy Brazilian Gracy family. That's like jiu jitsu Brazilian dynasty got it right. And I learned a lot from them about life too. But that was a big lesson on the mat the other day for me is that even in a situation like that, is like slow down, slow down and breathe and like, don't get ahead of myself. Yeah, so and and go through the process. So with this this betrayal that I had
that was so shocking, well, first I fucking cried. Yeah, I cried my ass off. I just wept, like on the floor. Yeah, for a long time. Then I got I was really angry. I was really angry. I had so many revenge Oh yeah, I write about all of it in this revenge called do you know my friend Gila, she goes by Wheezy. Yeah. So we were on the phone and I was like, okay, like I want to like, let's call it. Yeah, like I had lost it. She was like, I think we got to calm down.
A break, let's take it, let's go.
And my mom was like she was the one who said to me, revenge is the dish best ser of cold like hold a beat, So I wrote, I mean I chant. First of all, I took that twenty seven hundred dollars and I paid for a logo for starfucker and yes, and I just poured everything into launching this sub stack incredible and that I knew that like six months down the road, I would write about it. And so when I did, I actually gave him a free subscription for like that month. Yeah, As it was a
three part series that was going back and forth. I was talking about my dad. I was talking about a story involving my grandfather and a movie star like I, and then I wrapped it up with this story about him. So I gave him a free month so he could read it because I knew it was all the things that we would the conversation we never have, and I saw, you know how you can see on the sub suck the back end. I know people don't realize that motherfucker read it eight times in the first twenty four hours.
It came out. Wow, and then I just decided prescriptions, Yeah, his subscription right, yeah yeah. So I think that's how I worked through the betrayal, is like it was a slow process.
As a slow. You let it be slow.
I let it be slow. And then even now, like in dating, it's coming up. It just came up. You know it's coming up for me.
Now do you say to the new person that you're talking to about, like not necessarily all the details, but are you like, listen, I'm going slow right now or.
I think I'm going to have to because they just actually were like what's going on?
Yeah? There we go.
Yeah, And it's honestly, it's like I feel a little embarrassed. I mean I had to get over that because this kind of betrayal is I'm not the only person this kind of thing has happened to, but I felt like ashamed. I felt like, oh I should know better. I'm supposed to be this like sexpert or whatever.
Do that, and a lot of ourselves, of our humanity, it's like we we only know what we know. You know, you don't know to you get there and you get through it, and then you get through it and then you then you do know. But we have to go through it to to understand what the fuck it is.
Yeah, but don't I don't know about you, but like sometimes I beat myself up, Oh all the time. Yeah, like, you know, you God, You're like, you're so stupid. You have all these things in life figured out. Why couldn't you figure this out? Or you know, you compare and despair.
Of course, and then you like, you know, I'm always asking questions what advice would I give if I were my own parent? What advice would I give to myself? Which is what a phrase my mentor gifted me. And so when I find myself beating myself up, then I try to let the parent version of myself come in and be soft and be like, Okay, you can put the you can put the belt down, like we don't have to beat ourselves up, we can chill, like what is actually happening here? And can I let myself off
the hook? Constantly asking yourself that's for everything? Can you let yourself off the hook? Because I think a lot of us will beat ourselves up and that's not really doing anything, of course, to let it happen, that's part of being a human. But then can you get to the place where you let yourself off the hook? Which is constantly a reminder? Right, It's just like it's it's not you're always I'm a perfectionist, and I wish I could like stay perfect all the time and always let
myself off the hook, But I don't. I beat myself up and then I let myself with the hook and the cycle.
That's such good advice. And when you're talking about like be the parents, so a lot of people don't have that kind of situation growing up with their parents. I didn't have parents that were like super nurturing that way at all. And on my book cover it actually says reparent reprogram, you know, because I think we need to do that for ourselves. Absolutely need to treat ourselves the way we would treat a baby, you know, in those moments, and be tender with ourselves, like the way we would
to our best friends. Absolutely, we'd never talk to our best friend the way.
We talk to ourselves. Absolutely, And that's such an important reminder, Like we spend a lot of times in our mind and it's like making a kind place to be, making a soft, compassionate place to be. And you're not going to get it perfect all the time. There are times where you will be rachefel in there. But then can you catch it and go uh huh, not like that? Go slow, You're fine, let yourself off the hook. Yeah, oh my goodness, you want to do some messy mail.
Let's do some messy mail. Yay, getting deep here.
Usually we get deep in the end, but I was like, we're talking, this is great, let's let's let's go for it. Okay, that means it's time for messy mail. We'll read out messy patron stories and submissions. As always, your submissions remain anonymous. This on this first one says sometimes stepping my partner with a dildo is hotter than using my cock. You enjoy toys?
Do I enjoy toys? Sometimes? You know? After the same acts had, like Houston hid so much hang ups, Yeah, so many hang ups about toys. Actually, he shamed me about like masturbating with toys in front of him, which I thought was so weird because I think one of the best ways to get to know yeah one's actually is to ask them to have them show you how they like to masturbate absolutely, because how you get yourself off is going to just teach.
Them absolutely, and you're going to be different than somebody else, right, because sometimes we try to do what we do with an old partner, it's like.
Well that's a different person, Yes, personally.
Who's in front of me wants something else. Yeah, yeah, I well one the first time. I don't really use a lot of toys, and we talked about that on here. I'm going to try and figure out my relationship to toys. But some of the hottest sex that I've ever had
has been when a partner introduced toys. So I remember the first time a partner introduced a dildo and used it on me and then fuck me after, and it was so lovely and wonderful, to the point where we had sex like in the morning, and I had all this stuff to do that day, and I canceled everything
because I was like, I need to recover. Like I was like, I went home, I ordered cookies and I ordered like the tasty things, and I was like, let me just sit because it's my after character, and let me sit here and let my legs stop tremmoring because
it was just so hot. And then I recently also use it again, used a butt plug with a with a partner who needed help opening their hole in general, and so we're like, well, let's get you butt plugs and then let's you know, put it in and use it and make out and it was, it's so intimate in a different way. How can I explain it? Like, obviously it's intimate without the toys, but adding the toys
in requires that much more communication and collaboration. So I think it probably makes that that much more intimate.
Yeah, and I think it can be great, especially like if people, for example, we get that a lot at the sex set, a lot of women, straight women and saying, you know, they're curious about anal sucks or their partner wants to train anal secks, they're not sure. We always suggest that they go slow, use a lot of loop and start with toys. Toys, yeah, and start with like, you know, a smaller size bug, yeah, and move up. So I think they can, Like toys can be a great barrier breaker, Yeah.
A great berrier breaker, a great way to communicate and and build those communication muscles. So yeah, I love I love a toy and and that. So it makes sense to patron why that was hot hotter for you? This one says I got tiny boobs, I saw porn for the first time, and the big book big boob woman grabbed and bit her own nips. Jealous. To be honest, have you ever like bitten any part of yourself or or played like I.
Was just saying about that. I think I could. Yeah, when you're like little, and I don't always be like like who and which of the boys, Because.
I've tried, so.
I feel like I would totally try to buy it a penis.
I would be like the first thing to try. You see the point you're like, I had to try at least once. I tried several times. Break your back like it was crazy. A boom feels it might be a little easier to get up there. The dick is just so far away. I'm always so impressed.
Yeah, but you know what for smaller sized titties, I've always heard that like a lot of people love like the size of a titty that are size of a breast. Can that can fit in a champagne coop was like very s small, you know those like vintage, not the like flutes. Yeah, yeah, so I think about that when I I like, actually, I think all breasts are beautiful as Yeah, but I love the idea.
I love that as a visual A really hot photo shoot. This one asks would you rather never receive again or never give again? Sexually? So would you rather never receive ahead or give head.
That's hard.
That is hard.
I don't want to give it up.
See, I love receiving head. I love having my ass eating, but I love giving head and I love eating ass. So I think my answer is I would rather never receive again. I know, gasp, I'm saying it, and I just love sucking dick and eating ass so much. Like I I listen, I love getting it, but I really love giving it. It's like it does a lot for me. So I'm going to say that you're.
Period.
I love it. I love it. That makes sense. I am a stripper. This one says, I'm a stripper. Customer paid to smell my butthole last night, tried to sniff my soul out of my ass. Have you ever had anyone sniff your ass? They didn't say it, but I hope.
I hope it was like a good you know figure something I mean, or high three.
I mean something, And.
It was like a fast sniff, a fast.
But I mean, they say, to try to sniff my soul out of my ass, which feels like.
A like some Voldemort ship. That's like some serious Voldemort ship.
I want to try, like now, I want to try that I'm going to ask my boyfriend to let me sniff his ass like that, because I wonder, like what, I wonder what you get. I wonder what it does like with a tingle, Like what what what is he experiencing from that sniff? Probably a lot?
Yeah, probably. I mean everyone's got there. Yeah, everyone's got the thing.
I'm so into unlocking new kings because there are things you go, I'll never do that, I'll never and then you try it and you're like, oh, I kind of like this. Like I said on the show, I have a foot fetish now, which I never thought that I would be into.
Yeah, if you're if you don't want to like go you.
Know, full four, I can just like shake feet picks. And then there's a there's a friend of mine who has an account that is just all feet picks, and I like, if you were my friend girl, well, also we're friends, we could still for sometfits. I love sucking feet. I like the more my face, I like the more my chest. So anyways, all that to say, maybe the
holeby a thing that I would enjoy. Is there anything that you any kinks or things that you've discovered that you're like, oh, I never thought I would like that, but I do well.
I always like to think that one I think I'm going to be really wild in my sixties, yes, And I also like to think with sex in general that I want I want to be open, even if I maybe like come across as more like vanilla now or in this phase of my life that I don't want to rule out something that like might not be my kink right now. Very like open too, But I think for me, I need to be in a committed monogaal partnership to like feel safe and trusting. So I would say never say.
Never, never say never.
I love you know what I want to do? What I want to do pie in the face. I want to like pie someone in the face and have them pie me in the.
Face and then like eat it and look it off of each other.
I mean, I might just be satisfied. I want to do a dance a dance off pie fight a dance Okay, but I'm going to give credit to my friend Dita Vontiz, who like came up with this idea like years ago, years ago, she used to do these like a pie fight dance off parties where you would have you would have a partner and like you would pick a song right and you like kind of er like you know, you routine at the end of it, you key line
pie each other in the face. And I just like, I don't know, there's just something like very satisfying about Like I like throwing rotting fruit when I'm frustrated. I just love it, Like rotting fruit.
Do you keep rotting fruit?
Just its like it's going or like you know, like I've I've done it with papayas, I've done pomegranates, like a concrete wall. Just very satisfying because it everywhere.
Reminds you of the TikTok videos of people rolling down bottles down the stairs and they break, Yeah, to see which one's gonna break. There's something satisfying about the destruction.
I have not done any of this for content. Just do it for like to like kind of like get my frustration out. Yeah, I guess, I don't know. It just makes me feel really good. So I might have like a food.
Yeah, there might be like a food little kink or something. I love that. Yeah, you should explore that.
I just heard a really good trick. There's this famous woman named Pamela Harriman. Churchill, who like had all all of these lovers in the twentieth century. She's dead now, but just reading her biography, and she kept a bowl of ice cubes next to her bed for oral sex, which she learned from a legendary another legendary playboy lover
called Olicon. Okay, so you take you put the ice cubes in your mouth, and you know it's either like you keep the ice cube in your mouth when giving a blowjob, or you make your mouth really cold.
Temperature play, yeah.
Temperature play.
Yeah.
I thought that was kind of she because she was like, you know, this fabulous woman with all these she just keeps it buy houses, jewelry and painting. So I'm imagining the bedside table in this like well appointed bedroom of course, you know, with like I don't know, chintz or something like silver ice.
Pocket, and you know it's it's not just an ordinary ice but.
It's like one long man. He puts it in, wishes it around.
I have new goals. I love this. I have new goals. Oh my god, buy a nice budget. Okay. This one says I got five loads in three days with three guys and recounted it to my boyfriend for his request turns him on. I you you're monogamous, Yeah, is there? But is there anything that would turn you on about hearing something about your partner's past at all?
Totally? Yeah, totally and I totally have. I'm like really into homer erotica, like especially like vintage. Yeah, but I love like there's I mean, I love like sixties and seventies gay porn so hot, like way more male than female for some reason. But I just think it's like, yeah, very erotic. And I remember when I was going through my divorce, like one of the first guys I was with, he was you know, I would like make him tell me like all his stories. Yeah, being with men. I just found that so hot.
I love that. I find it hot knowing about My husband does not like he doesn't like seeing it. I think he's fine with hearing it, but I loved I just loved when people talk to me about what they're into and what they've been, what they've done. Like I don't get jealous around that stuff. I do find it sexy and inside of polyamory. With my husband, we don't talk about other stuff, but with my friend and sometimes we'll talk about other things and it's a kink. It's
a vibe for sure. Yeah, it's yeah, I don't know what what is hot about that? I guess it's like.
A it's kind of like erotica.
Yeah, I was gonna say it's like reading or listening to erotica. But then it's like your partner which you care about, and there's I don't know, there's something.
Well, it's like a different way of consuming pornography. Yes, like you know, maybe more. It's like more intimate and also acts on your brain in a different way. Yeah, than like the visual like just scrolling porn does.
Sure, that makes sense. I love that. Now I'm thinking about when I can tell my boyfriend this one says was supposed to sleep with my sixty two year old friend, but I'm back with my fifty two year old friend. I'm twenty eight. I'm curious what is the biggest age gap or like what like what's your Is there like a limit for an age gap between partners? You think?
We asked this on the We have a also and we have a Monday question of the Week on the sex ad Instagram, which is at the sex Said, and one of our most popular ones was what's the biggest age gap, and that was I always love reading all the comments on it. Let's see what was my personal
big age gap. I think we're obviously in a pretty misogynic, misogynistic culture, so there's a lot of I mean, even though you have movies like Baby Girl and everything, now, like people really have trouble with an older woman any younger man in the way that they don't with the reverse. Does I have even friends in public relationships, I mean that wasn't their intention or whatever, and the women just get trash, totally trashed, even if I know that they're
actually like a successful, loving, long term couple. So I've definitely went through I definitely had some younger men. I definitely, I definitely, I've definitely done the younger man. I'm not trying to do that. I was kind of like, you know, I need someone who has like seeing reference points or like music. You know, that's fair references, et cetera. But I think it's hot. I have a problem with.
It, yeah, because I'm always like, what's the quality of the relationship, you know, like and what are we you know, I don't really have a Probably when my biggest age gap, which is the same my boyfriend is ten years younger than me, and then I've also dated ten years older than me. So that's probably the biggest age gap that I've done.
But I've done more than that younger.
Okay, I'm down. Like you know, I also think there's a difference between like, you know, fucking versus dating versus you know, like, which again still boils down to what is that person's history, what are they coming to the table with, because you know, some of us have been through different things and so we show up in a different I want to say this correctly, which is not that you're more mature, but
a more aligned version of maturity. So sometimes somebody might be younger and maybe in their twenties, but they've been through some things that really allows them to connect with somebody who's in their forties or fifties or sixties in a different way. And so like I'm always like, what's who are the people I don't the age is, you know, the age and obviously consensual whatnot, But who are the people that are in the relationship is what always matters.
And sometimes like I like to learn something from relationship, right, I really get off on a person's brain, you know, So if.
There's nothing sexier than somebody's fucking brain.
Yeah, I'm a saor sexual. Yes, yeah. Sometimes you know if someone is like a bit older and learned, and I mean along with my erotic library fantasy. Yeah, definitely like the professor of fantasy.
Of course I love a professor the learning. It's the learning. I always say that I'm turned on by anyone who can tell me about things that I don't know about. So if you're like a tech nerd or you're like giving me all the you could tell me all about my computer, I will. I was like your dick. Will you want to talk about gardening? I don't know how to guarden. I will suck your dick. I just tell me about things that like be passionate about something and
like no all about it it really. Yeah, it's a pussy jingle, as I got from Lily Womble from Date Bras, and I love that term. Actually it gives me a pussy dingle.
Absolutely yes, wet panty, wet panties.
Liz. Thank you for being.
Here, Thank you for having so much fun, so much fun.
All right, I'll see you next time.
Bye.
Well, you know we're hose here, but hose with heart. So before we go, let me speak to yours. I had such an incredible time talking to Liz, as you saw. You know, usually we get into messy mail and then we dump dive into the deeper messy key, key, the messy conversation. But that messy story, honey, that was a messy story, and it just led. I was like, let's just fallow the flow because there was just so much
good juice and so much to talk about. I'm gonna start here, which might feel like a random place to start, but we were talking about sex work, and you know, there's such a stigma around sex work, and so I just want to say boldly, sex work is work. And so if you are engage, if you are a sex worker, I want you to know that you are respected, loved and valued here. And if you are somebody who hires sex workers, you know, I trust that you are respectful
and loving and kind and compassionate. And even if you're not somebody who is hiring sex workers, I you know, I think that it is such a tenet and of value here that we distigmatize these things that we've been raised to think, are you know, beneath us or below us or you know, not polite or whatever the fuck the terms are. But sex work is work, and I'm really grateful that, you know, we're living in a time
where there can be more safety around it. Obviously it's not perfect, but you know, I think that we listen. I got friends who do it, who are on only fans, who you know, dominatrices and you know, all the things, and I love them. They are also the coolest fucking people with the best fucking stories.
Uh.
And so I just want to again boldly say sex work is work. I really love this conversation around energy around sex and we were posing, you know, are you doing this for pleasure or to escape? Are you numbing or are you engaging this concept of mindless consumption and fucking to feel better about yourself as opposed to having
sex that's restorative and not draining. I can't, you know, like we're socialized to think that, you know, sex is just putting a dick in in a volva, you know, putting your dick in some hole, and that's what it is, and it's so much more than that. You cannot deny whether you are really spiritual, or you're an atheist, or you're you know, full on Christian or your Muslim or whatever your religious energetic beliefs are. I think that it is important for us to know that when we are
engaging with sex, that is a transfer of energy. Even if it's you know, a glory hall. Okay, even if you just you know, you're in the dark room, even if you're at a sex party, it's still an exchange of energy. And so you get to be intentional about it.
You get to have anonymous sex, you get to be in dark rooms and have sex, you get to fuck in the alley way, you can do all these things, but it's about doing it with intention, like knowing why you're doing it, what are you going after If it is to escape the name that for yourself, know that for yourself, so you know how you're coming into the interaction, and so that you can also keep yourself emotionally and physically safe and the partner or partners that you're engaging
with the same. So I just think, you know, it's not about what kind of sex is right or we all have our fantasies and our things that we like and our kinks and our fetishes all that stuff. But I think making sure that you have an intention behind it, and you know, when you're engaging versus trying to escape doesn't mean that you can't. You know, listen, an escape is lovely sometimes, but do it intentionally. Oh I love
this thing because a lot of us do it. You know, this idea that a relationship and I've been talking about this on subsec I'm been talking about this on Instagram, But this idea that a relationship makes as whole and kind of underneath that is getting into a relationship with someone so you can point to them and say, there's my worth that, Like, I want to step that out sometimes whenever I hear people very and there is no judgment, noe.
Obviously this is a safe space. But like when I hear people talking about wanting a relationship, wanting a relationship, wanting a relationship, but I'm not hearing them poke at what their desire for that relationship is, right, it could because I don't want to be lonely or whatever, But like, uh, what's happening underneath that vibrating underneath that? Is there a part of you that doesn't feel worthy and you hope
this partner is going to make you feel worthy? Is there a part of you that feels that you are not you are less than if you are not in a relationship, which, by the way, those feelings make sense, not because they're true, but because that's how we've been socialized. That's what we're taught in every fucking movie that you watch, every fucking TV show, every book, there's always, most of the time, nine times out of ten, there is some
sort of romantic relationship. And I talk about this. I think we're gonna talk about this on next week's episode. But just like this, like there are movies that I've watched or rom coms that I've watched where like the protagonists is living their best life and they're you know, the movie is actually perfect without them finding a mate, but they have to find a mate by the end
of it. And that is so frustrating to me because it just signals that we are not enough if we are in romantic partnership, which also completely negates all the other partnerships that we're in, all the other relationships we're in.
Right that romantic Bell hook says it right, romantic relationship is not the number one right community is like, that's the relationship that we should be we should be putting on the pedestal romantic relationship gets to be part of our community, but it doesn't need to be the be all, end all. And so as you pursue relationships, as you pursue wanting to find your person or your person's I think it's the same thing that we're talking about with
and with intentional sex. Be intentional about your relationship pursuit. Understand why you want it. Understand if it's because I would like to experience this thing, because it's a yearning I have, it's a desire that I have, or is it I want this thing because I don't feel like I am enough without it. I feel like I'm broken if I don't have it. I feel like I'm not
worthy or lovable if I don't have it. You know, know that's the difference, because it'll it will color your pursuit differently, and one will feel expansive and the other one will feel burdensome and heavy. And I think when it comes to dating and love, you know, obviously there will be conflict and tension, and that's part of growth. But I hope the base of it, the foundation of it is expansion and love. We're not trying to get somebody to complete us. We want them to expand us.
I also want to point out we should always maintain a beginner's mindset. Your sexuality, as list said, is as individual to you as your thumbprint. But that is a component I'm gonna say again here, which is curiosity. But yeah, it's like, no matter how experienced you are, like, don't feel like once you think that you know everything, then maybe it's a ramp, you know, like life is over. If you feel like you understand and know everything, then
you're done. Like, okay, then what else is there? But if you can maintain oh, there's more for me to learn, more ways in which I can evolve, more ways in which I can grow, more ways in which I can expand, more things. I can try, Things that maybe I wasn't curious about ten years ago. Maybe I'm curious about now. Things that I thought I wouldn't like a year ago,
I might like now. Right, So I think always being intentional about you know, poking and pulling a thread and asking the question again, Okay, I I didn't, And I'm gonna use this about like I don't like piss play. Okay, that's okay, nothing wrong with that. But maybe in five years you were the different partner. Life has happened different whatever You've explored some mother kinks and you might pose
a question, again, do I like piss play? You might come up with the same answer, no, I don't, But you might also come up with the answer yeah, I do, or maybe I'm like curious about it, and that's great, that's okay, you know what I mean. Like, I think it's like, how do we create space to continue exploring
ourselves and continue learning about ourselves? And how do we you know, as I say at the top of the messy mandates, things get to shift, change, evolve, right, so like allow yourself to not just your opinions to shift, change and evolve, but your pleasure to shift change and evolve, and how you approach it and how you approach what sex means to you with betrayal. Uh And when Liz said, we said, it's okay to move slow so you don't miss the red flags. Aw aw okay. I think that's
a lesson in life. And I've been saying that to myself recently. Go slow, you know, slow, and Liza said, slow down and breathe so you don't get ahead of yourself. There's such a We are such a culture of immediacy post that photo, Now, deliver my food, now, give my Amazon package now. Right, We're such a now now now immediacy, immediacy. And I don't think that our nervous systems are built for a now moment. I think that keeps us a
little too activate, a little too in flight or fight mode. Right, It's just like where I think what we could benefit from is more breath, more permission to move slow. As they say, somebody's urgency is not your emergency. Right, So, just because the world feels very urgent, feels very like, oh, immediately, immediately, immediately, doesn't mean that you need to adopt that. You get to very clearly say, okay, thank you so much. I hear your urgency, I feel your urgency. I'm gonna take
a beat. I'm gonna take some time, some intentional time. Maybe I don't need to respond to that today. Maybe I can respond to it tomorrow. I mean that that doesn't need to get done tonight. Maybe you can get done by the end of the week. You know, I don't need to be healed now, you know, maybe I can give myself time and grace and take the next however long it takes for me to move through this, and I can go slow so you don't miss the red legs. Okay, And that's the same thing when you
are starting to date someone. You don't need to meet somebody and marry them tomorrow. You know, Hey, if you know, you know, great. But like that, we don't have to be moved in with each other by the end of the month. We get to go slow. We get to learn each other, we get to experience each other and make really intentional choices. And also if we're going slow, we get to feel our defaults get activated and triggered.
What are old patterns that need to be broken? If we're moving at the light of speed, we can much more easily fall into old patterns that are no longer serving us. But if we intentionally go slow, we can catch those old patterns and choose a different choice, which is invaluable. And the last thing I will say, or maybe the second to leave, there's so much that I got from this conversation. I get from all these conversations. I really yeah, I really love my job. I really
love it here, I love being here with you. I love these conversations. It really just makes me, and I hear it from you. You. You know, when y'all email me and DM me, or you see me in the street or at the gym or whatever it is, I hear it from you as well. But I just feel like I get to live a more liberated life. I get to to live a more free life from having these conversations because I'm learning so much from all these incredible spirits and souls and minds that are sitting across
from me talking about the things we're talking about. Anyways, can you let yourself off the hook? Can you give yourself grace? You know, sometimes a lot of times if you're like me harshest critic, I am my harshest critic. You know, Like people can say whatever they want on the internet online to my face, it will never be as harsh as what I will say about myself. And
that's something that I that I am. I am actively and always working on, Like, how can I give myself grace if I mess that up or I didn't, you know, nail that thing like I wanted to nail it, or I didn't you know, Can I let myself off the hook and say, hey, this is part of the journey. I don't need to be perfect here, right. This whole point of being messy, right is to leave perfection at the fucking door and let yourself show up as you are.
And sometimes that version of yourself is gonna be a motherful ten, honey, you might be e be a fifteen, and sometimes that version of yourself might be a five or a four, And one is not better than the other. It is all part of you, all part of your learning, all part of your growth. So can you let yourself off the hook, and can you give yourself some grace when things are not exactly how you planned it? This is not don't hold yourself accountable, right, It's different, right,
like hold yourself accountable. You know, if you create a rupture, repair it, hold yourself accountable. But you don't have to beat yourself up. Which takes me to this last point, which is talk to yourself like you talk to your bestie. You live in your mind all the time. So make it a kind place to be, make it a compassionate place, make it a sweet place, make it a soft place. Again,
doesn't mean you can't hold yourself accountable. You can't learn, but you beating yourself up or talking to yourself like trash, like the gutter, like your enemy is not going to get you the results that you want. Yeah, and so if you find yourself talking crazy to yourself, do what Liz does and throw rotten fruit. They'll all release that frustration, okay, or find your way to release that. I was actually
the other night in bed like spiraling. I have this really cool opportunity that I can't wait to share with you. It's happening. Actually this comes out on Thursday, and I will be doing it on this Thursday. Just a wonderful opportunity to love on a friend and honor them in front of a very incredible room of people. And so I've been working on what that speech is and what that what my remarks will be, and I'm really happy
with how it's it's shaping out. And then I was going to bed last night and started to just like negative talk myself and I had to go, Okay, I hear you. I hear you. You're trying to protect me, but let's we don't have to catastrophize this. You know, we don't have to make this a hard place to be. You're doing great, you did well. I hear you. Let's release that. So whatever, that's how I released. You know, my version of throwing through the wall is more so
talking to myself. But for you, it might be go on a roller coaster for you. It might be doing a bunch of push ups for you, might be going on a little walk for you. It might be you know, listening to a particular artist or album. But find the ways that you can release your frustration. Okay, that's it. That was a lot, but I was just like taking notes and I was like, oh, I gotta hit this. I gotta hit this, I gotta hit that. So thank y'all for indulging with me. I love you so much.
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