Cheers Sexy People!
So stoked! I’m very excited to share my latest podcast interview with spoken word artist, accomplished author, communication coach, and all around hilarious and entertaining lady, Olive Persimmon. I had the absolute pleasure to meet Olive Persimmon at an amazing event last year called “Consider This: A Day of Challenging the Status Quo in Sex and Relationships.” Olive was one of the kickass, awesome speakers and performers that was part of this all-day event. The creator of this event, Effy Blue has a magical gift of connecting cool, forward-thinking, talented folks and then putting them in the same room at the same event. She continues to do so today with all of her wonderful adventures that serve the consensually non-monogamous / polyamorous community. In this interview, Olive is just lovely, inspiring, and a pure delight in every way! Love her! She gives tons of great advice about being a spoken word artist and rocking a speaking engagement. She has two kickass books that are listed below – the most recent The Coitus Chronicles came out Valentine’s Day of this year. What an awesome, hard working, and delightful lady!
Some topics we discuss in this educational, highly interesting, and cool interview:
— How she came to be a speaker and eventually a spoken word artist.
— Why she loves words SO MUCH, and how they delight her.
— Why one of her goals is to make folks laugh or cry to illustrate that her words or storytelling has moved someone in the audience.
— Why she considers herself a word artist who loves cadence and word pauses, and how she obsesses over the delivery of words.
— Two expert storytellers that I mention on this podcast episode are: Nancy Duarte and her book Resonate and Marsha Shandur. And then two professional speaking artists that Olive recommends are: Les Brown and Lisa Nichols.
— She offers her advice about practicing a spoken piece: “Practice until you sound fake. And then keep practicing again until you sound real again.”
— She offers her advice about all things sex and relationships, including how she used to worry about the logistics of sex too much which negatively affected her sex life. She shares her wonderful wisdom in this interview.
— How she broke her sexual “dry spell”, how that came about, and her journey beyond that.
— How she used to feel she had hangups about the reserve cowgirl position. Haha!
— How Olive felt that we as a society treat sex as a separate part of our life, and how she wants to bust that myth.
— How her journey helped her work through vulnerability and shame, and how therapy helped her get unstuck.
Here is Olive’s bio from her website OlivePersimmon.com:
“Hi. My name is Olive B. Persimmon.
Up until three weeks ago, I had one goal in life:
To become a Badass Break Dancer.
Unfortunately, three hours ago, my ego got the best of me. I injured myself while attempting to do a handstand. Why did I think I could to that? I don’t do handstands. After a sloppy dismount, my dreams were shattered.
So it was time to turn to my other love, words.
I love words. I’m 100% infatuated with them. I’m like the creepy stalker fangirl of words.
I use them to write things, like my comedy book, Unintentionally Celibate and my second book, The Coitus Chronicles, which will be out on Valentine’s of 2019.
I use them to motivate people, like when I give speeches.
I make people laugh with them when I tell jokes and perform comedy. I move people with them when I create poems like my spoken word pieces.
I guess you could say words are my art.”
Thank you Olive, for being so awesomely generous with your time; for your inspiring, fun, and beautiful spoken word art; and for sharing your wisdom and insights with us via the podcast interview! It was enlightening, energetic, and so fun! Follow Olive’s work and adventures at OlivePersimmon.com, and on Twitter and Facebook @OlivePersimmon.
To hear the podcast, go to the Podcast link here and subscribe to the Loving Without Boundaries podcast, and check out Episode 92 with Olive. Also, please help spread awareness of alternative lifestyles and create more tolerance for consensual non-monogamy in the world at large by Rating and Reviewing the Loving Without Boundaries podcast in iTunes. It only takes a few minutes.
If you would like to be interviewed either in written form or via audio on the podcast, please feel free to contact me and we will set something up. Thank you!
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UPCOMING EVENTS
1) Free LWB Facebook Group for Healthy, Sex Positive, Open Relationships — Ready to explore healthy, deeply connected (and virtually jealousy-free) open relationships? It’s all possible – especially when surrounded by a community of people already doing it. Many in newly open relationships experience roller coaster emotions of jealousy, insecurity, and feel alone on their journey. That’s why I created this free Facebook group where people are coming together to share actionable tips for succeeding in multiple loving relationships, explore deeper love, and find mutual understanding and support. There’s an abundance of rock star information posted in the group daily by our amazing members. We create a safe place to engage that’s fun and thrilling! Click here and request to join our free group!
2) Beyond The Love (BTL) (Columbus, Ohio), November 9–11, 2018 — Beyond The Love is a 3-day polyamory convention in Columbus, Ohio, held yearly. They are in our sixth year and focus on education, workshops, social activities, meeting other polyamory people, and fun! From their website: “Falling in love is the easy part. But what happens after that? Beyond The Love’s mission is to provide an opportunity for the polyamorous community to come together in an educational and social forum. At Beyond the Love you will find a wealth of classes, workshops and mini events to learn tools, techniques and communication skills to enhance our poly relationships. We provide a safe environment for meeting with other like-minded people in a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome all those living a poly lifestyle or considering doing so. We are passionate about recognizing poly as a relationship choice and sharing common experiences on our many different paths. We hope you’ll join us and share yours!” NOTE: I will not only be presenting two workshops at BTL, I will also be the Keynote Speaker Friday night! Come join us at this fun polyamorous conference!
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See you on the flip side, lovely community! Keep being brave, compassionately vulnerable, and uniquely and authentically you!
Wishing you peace, love and happiness
(and thrilling, fun sex too!)
Kitty
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