Listening to Desire: Dark Nights, Relationship Myths, and Pleasure-Based Intimacy

She Films Her Real Sex Life, Loves Life As a Mom, and Holds Nothing Back | Michelena Rose | The Intimacy Inquiry

She films her real sex life, raises her kids, runs a spray tan and massage business, and just moved to Miami to build an empire. This is Michelena Rose, and she holds nothing back. In this episode of The Intimacy Inquiry, Andrew Phipps sits down with Michelena Rose, Playboy cover model and Playmate, international model, adult film star, licensed massage therapist, and sex and relationship coach. Based in Miami after building her brand in Myrtle Beach, Michelena films her actual sex life on her own terms, with zero compromise. She is also a mum, a business owner, and one of the most grounded, honest, and genuinely warm people you will hear on this show. This conversation goes exactly where you hope it does, and somewhere you probably did not expect. IN THIS EPISODE: * Why what you see on camera is exactly who she is off camera * How OnlyFans changed the power dynamic for women in adult content * Why your man is not subscribing to her for the sex (and what he actually needs) * Knives, swords, cacti, Roman candles: the shock and awe content explained * How to ask your partner for what you really want, without shame * Pegging: why more women should try being the one in control * Bisexuality, non-jealousy, and where she draws her personal line * What love means to her, and giving someone permission to break your heart * The conversation she already had with her son at age 10 * Her five to ten year vision: podcast, coaching, and taking the sex and relationship world by storm TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 01:30 What You See on Camera Is Exactly Who She Is 03:00 Filming Real Sex vs Performing: The Key Difference 04:30 Why She Never Considered Mainstream Studios 05:30 OnlyFans, Creator Control, and the Connection Economy 07:00 Why Her Fans Subscribe (and What Partners Miss at Home) 09:00 Social Media, Disconnection, and Making People Feel Alive 13:00 Growing Up Italian, Free-Spirited, and Body Confident 14:30 How Women React When They First Meet Her 17:00 What She Wants People to Feel Watching Her Work 19:30 Knives, Swords, Cacti, Roman Candles: Shock and Awe Explained 22:30 Every Object Is a First Time, Live on Camera 24:00 A Typical Day: 5AM Gym, Massages, Soccer, Dinner at 6 25:30 The Conversation With Her Son at Age 10 29:00 How to Ask Your Partner for What You Really Want 32:00 The Right Way to Bring Up Pegging 33:30 Why Pegging Is Empowering for Women 39:00 Partners on Camera: When Someone Was Not Comfortable 41:00 Bisexuality, Non-Jealousy, and Where She Draws the Line 42:00 What Love Really Means to Her 46:00 Giving Someone Permission to Break Your Heart 48:30 What People Misunderstand About Women in This Industry 51:00 Travelling Alone to Reset Her Mind 53:00 Her Vision: Miami, Podcast, Sex and Relationship Coaching ABOUT MICHELENA ROSE: Playboy cover model and Playmate. International model, adult film star, licensed massage therapist, sex and relationship coach. Owner of Get Naked and Glow. Based in Miami, FL. Website: itsmichelenarose.com [http://itsmichelenarose.com] ABOUT THE INTIMACY INQUIRY: Hosted by Andrew Phipps, exploring energy dynamics, authentic connection, and what intimacy really means. New episodes weekly. Subscribe on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, search "The Intimacy Inquiry." Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts if this episode moved you. #TheIntimacyInquiry #MichelenaRose #OnlyFans #AdultContentCreator #Intimacy #SexPositive #Pegging #BodyConfidence #SexAndRelationshipCoaching #PlayboyModel #WomenInAdultIndustry #KinkPositive #SexEducation #Podcast #MiamiCreator #SexualEmpowerment #OpenRelationships #ConsciousLiving #PodMatch

Obsession, Toxic Chemistry and the Mirror That Healed Him | Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards |

What happens when desire becomes obsession, obsession becomes psychological warfare, and the whole thing turns out to be the mirror you needed all along? In this episode of The Intimacy Inquiry, Andrew Phipps sits down with Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards, PhD in Spiritual Counseling, international speaker, coach, and author of "The Venus Fly Trap: Sex, Lies, and Repercussions." Born in Blackpool, UK and now based in Florida, Stephen has spent decades helping people untangle the relational and sexual patterns that keep them looping through the same chaos. His memoir has been described as equal parts erotic, soul-stirring, and genuinely healing. This conversation goes deep: childhood trauma and gaslighting, running away from home eight times, electroconvulsive therapy at 16, four marriages, working with Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, the relationship that became his mirror, shame, forgiveness, the sexual revolution, and why vulnerability is not a weakness. WHAT WE COVER: * Childhood gaslighting, control, and running away from home eight times * Electroconvulsive therapy at 16 and the shame that followed for years * How working with Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer shaped his path * Why he wrote "The Venus Fly Trap" and what radical honesty cost him * Why you don't have a relationship problem, you have a pattern problem * The letter to his parents he was told not to send (but mailed anyway) * Social media, pornography, and why growing up is harder now * The future of gender, androgyny, masculine and feminine energy * His vision: Netflix, stage shows, and a shame-free sexuality movement ABOUT DR. STEPHEN PAUL EDWARDS: PhD in Spiritual Counseling. International speaker, coach and author. Born in Blackpool, UK, based in Florida. Worked alongside Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer. Author of "The Venus Fly Trap: Sex, Lies, and Repercussions." Leading voice in Quantum Wealth and conscious living. Book and website: vft23.com [http://vft23.com] ABOUT THE INTIMACY INQUIRY: Hosted by Andrew Phipps, exploring energy dynamics, authentic connection, and what intimacy really means, with yourself, with others, and with life. New episodes weekly. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, search "The Intimacy Inquiry." If this episode moved you, please leave a review. It helps more people find the show. Dr. Edwards has created a unique link exclusively for you to access the complimentary first 3 chapters of The Venus Flytrap: Sex, Lies & Repercussion. . In addition, we’re including the link for the coaching and counselling sessions Dr. Edwards offers. Here is the Landing unique link for you: * https://bit.ly/48uidPv [https://bit.ly/48uidPv] Here is the Coaching unique link for you: * https://vft23.com/coaching-and-counselling/?utm_source=Andrew+Phipps&utm_medium=The+Intimacy+Inquiry&utm_campaign=Podcast+Interview+-+Andrew+Phipps [https://vft23.com/coaching-and-counselling/?utm_source=Andrew+Phipps&utm_medium=The+Intimacy+Inquiry&utm_campaign=Podcast+Interview+-+Andrew+Phipps] Discount Code: VFT23! #TheIntimacyInquiry #StephenPaulEdwards #VenusFlyTrap #ToxicRelationships #HealingTrauma #Intimacy #SpiritualHealing #VulnerabilityIsStrength #RelationshipPatterns #TonyRobbins #ShameFree #Forgiveness #MasculineAndFeminine #SexualRevolution #MindBodySpirit #Podcast

Listening to Desire: Dark Nights, Relationship Myths, and Pleasure-Based Intimacy

Listening to Desire: Dark Nights, Relationship Myths, and Pleasure-Based Intimacy with LiYana Silver A transformational coach and author of "Feminine Genius" LiYana Silver discusses how she helps clients—especially women—rebuild self-trust, body connection, and desire after heartbreak or divorce, and explains why many people can’t safely access what they truly want. She outlines three common relationship myths: the “myth of romance” (partner above all else), the “relationship escalator” (preset steps toward longevity), and the belief that love equals merging and self-erasure, particularly for women. The conversation reframes divorce as not inherently a failure and emphasizes validating devastation before moving through phases of transformation. LiYana describes couple work as identifying entrenched patterns rooted in wounds, doing individual healing, and learning communication skills, while also normalizing shifts in sexual spark over time. They explore pleasure practices, de-centering orgasm and penetration, creating safer erotic conversations, reconnecting to bodily yes/no signals, parenting amid social media and pornography through open dialogue, and her own self-care and future goals, including a forthcoming divorce-focused book. 00:00 Meet the Coach 00:43 What Do You Do 02:27 Finding What You Want 04:46 Three Relationship Myths 09:57 When It Falls Apart 15:28 Divorce Is Not Failure 16:24 Dark Night or The End 21:12 Being Yourself in Love 25:25 Raising Kids Online 29:47 Talking About Sex 31:08 Listening to Your Body 32:07 Body Truths and Intuition 34:53 Yes No Body Signals 41:26 Relationship Escalator Talks 46:05 Pleasure Practice and Shame 53:39 Beyond Performance Sex 57:36 Therapist Self Care 01:00:26 Future Vision and Closing http://liyanasilver.com/map [http://liyanasilver.com/map] https://www.facebook.com/liyana.silver [https://www.facebook.com/liyana.silver] https://www.instagram.com/liyana_silver/ [https://www.instagram.com/liyana_silver/] https://liyanasilver.substack.com/ [https://liyanasilver.substack.com/]

Ashmita Arora on Spiritual Awakening, Presence, and Breaking Repeating Patterns

Ashmita Arora on Spiritual Awakening, Presence, and Breaking Repeating Patterns Spiritual teacher and transformation guide Ashmita Arora discusses her intuitive practice supporting people through grief, heartbreak, burnout, disconnection, and awakening by helping clients identify the root of repeating patterns and create lasting inner shifts in safe, confidential spaces. She reflects on early sensitivity, anxiety about death and OCD-like repetitive thoughts, and how later miscarriages, family stress, and physical symptoms led her into meditation and a pivotal “pop” experience that opened intuitive communication and channeling, which she initially feared was postpartum psychosis. Arora critiques Western avoidance of death and a standardized, memorization-based education system, arguing AI will push people toward creativity, intuition, and individuality. She emphasizes presence over multitasking, describes common stuck patterns rooted in fear, guilt, and obligation, and explains relationship growth through communication, evolving “many relationships” within one partnership, and nonjudgment toward monogamy. 00:00 Meet Ashmita Arora 00:50 Formative Years Reflection 01:32 Early Magic and Death Anxiety 04:08 Why We Avoid Death Talk 08:06 School Dread and Body Signals 09:35 Meditation Pop Awakening 13:57 Education AI and Creativity 20:52 Birth of Intuitive Practice 24:15 Patterns Beyond Self Help 27:33 Intimacy Needs and Wholeness 32:14 Media Pressure and Burnout 35:21 Fluid Balance Mindset 36:36 Phones vs Presence 39:47 Slow Down Before Burnout 41:08 Mindful Pleasure Analogies 42:35 Energy Amplification Manifesting 45:21 Tuning Frequency Intuition 48:30 Protecting Your Energy 53:19 Evolving Relationships Communication 59:52 Monogamy Personal Choice 01:01:44 Future Path and Closing https://www.ashmitaarora.com/ [https://www.ashmitaarora.com/] https://www.instagram.com/the_intuitive_practice/ [https://www.instagram.com/the_intuitive_practice/]

Lacey Kelly on Unbecoming and Belonging,

Lacey Kelly on Unbecoming, Belonging, and Reclaiming Wholeness in a Hyper-Stimulated World Trauma therapist and author Lacey Kelly, founder of the Unbecoming Hub, discusses her work at the intersection of psychology, nervous system science, and existential questions of identity, burnout, and belonging. She reflects on being an anxious, ungrounded teen drawn to philosophy and meaning, and says she first felt at home in herself in her late twenties after an autoimmune illness and stepping off the “hamster wheel” of self-fixing. Lacey defines “unbecoming” as releasing constant striving to become someone else and returning to a grounded home base of ease and inherent wholeness. The conversation critiques self-help culture, isolation and loss of “third spaces,” and how technology provides accessible but often unsatisfying connection. They explore AI companions and attention addiction, the decline of religion/spirituality and shared meaning, therapy’s tendency to pathologize normal existential distress, and a practical step: get curious about the fear of stopping self-improvement and question the premise that you are the exception to inherent worth. 00:00 Meet Lacey Kelly 00:43 Teen Years Curiosity 01:51 Finding Home In Self 02:53 What Unbecoming Means 04:24 Why We Feel Broken 07:40 Tech Connection Paradox 11:59 AI Companions And Loneliness 17:56 Attention Economy Starts Young 25:11 Presence Memory And Phones 28:38 Smartphone Regret Ahead 29:11 Self Fixing Hurts Love 30:42 Self Help Relationship Rules 32:16 Spiritual Wholeness Seat 34:56 Losing Religion Meaning 38:08 Nature Reconnection Wisdom 43:08 Unbecoming Hub Future 46:52 Therapy Pathologizing Trap 52:23 Returning Without Shame 54:33 Try Unbecoming Curiosity 56:09 Closing Thanks Farewell https://www.theunbecominghub.com/ [https://www.theunbecominghub.com/] https://theunbecominghub.substack.com/ [https://theunbecominghub.substack.com/]