Cheers Sexy People!
Hello, my lovelies! I’m happy to share my latest podcast interview that I recently released with Phoenix Mandel. I was introduced to Phoenix via a mutual friend and colleague or ours. It took Phoenix and I a bit of time to arrange creating this show together, and then me some time to release it! Thank you all for your collective patience. Phoenix’s message is so bright, positive, and inclusive. I love that! We share a mutual desire for purple and unusual hair colors. Yay! So fun! Phoenix! You are such a bright light, and a rising star! It is an honor to get to know you on your journey as you shoot towards the stars! Yes! The world needs you and your work!
Here is Phoenix’s Bio:
Phoenix Mandel has been a sexuality educator and consultant since 2006, workshopping on sex positivity, kink, ethical non-monogamy, LGBTQ+, and other issues of sexual health. Phoenix has taught classes internationally, and currently resides in Los Angeles. Phoenix has an intersectional approach, with a mission to make sex education more queer.
Some topics we discuss in this fun, informative, and entertaining interview:
— Phoenix shares that they discovered polyamory as a freshman in college, and also didn’t come out as bisexual until they were 19, or gender queer until 2018. They are enjoying a wonderful period of discovery and evolution. Love!
— We discuss Phoenix’s unusual upbringing as well, living on a boat and sailing all around the islands. So cool!
— Some challenges that Phoenix has had to overcome are polyamorously dating a range of genders, and having certain community expectations around that. They explain this further in the interview. Some examples are feeling excluded while working through a painful learning process.
— Some workshops Phoenix has offered are “Polyamory and You”, which covers polyamorous relationship tricks for monogamous folks. Wow, I love that! Disclaimer: Myself and Phoenix think there is nothing wrong with monogamy! It is more about realizing that we all have choices about how to structure our relationships and our lives. Monogamy works for some, but not all folks.
— Phoenix expertly talks about the paradigm shift that they share with clients and students —> How we normally operate from a scarcity model when it comes to relationships. Instead of rigid boxes, we can have soft grey fuzzy areas, all while focusing on the concept that Love Is Unlimited!
— Jealousy is a sweet spot that Phoenix discusses challenging the idea that someone is a “jealous person” versus someone who is simply experiencing some jealous feelings.
— Tune in to listen to this illuminating podcast episode!
Thank you Phoenix, for being so awesomely generous with your time, for tireless sex education work for the LGBTQ+ community and beyond, and for sharing your wisdom and insights with us via the podcast interview! It was enlightening, entertaining, and such a cool conversation! Follow their work and adventures on Twitter @MandelPhoenix, on Instagram @PhoenixMandel, or by sending an email to phoenix.mandel@gmail.com.
To hear the podcast, go to the Podcast link here and subscribe to the Loving Without Boundaries podcast, then check out Episode 127 with Phoenix. 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!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
GUEST PODCAST APPEARANCES
I recently have had the honor of being featured on three other podcasts:
Sisters of Sexuality Podcast with Taylor Sparks and Parish Michelle Blair – Episode November 21, 2019
Curious Fox Podcast – Episode 4 on Metamours (Your Lover’s Lover) – which was recorded live in Brooklyn, NY
Seek, Discover, Create with Lexi Sylver
Core Confidence Life with Dennis Sumlin
With PolyAnna, Episode 7 – which was recorded live at Southwest Love Fest 2019, which was attended by Marla!
Check them out! We talk about all things jealousy, consensual non-monogamy, and living an alternative lifestyle while maintaining healthy relationships. Tune in to find out more!
EXCLUSIVE CONTENT OFFER – We continue to have some exciting goings on here at Loving Without Boundaries (LWB). We now have exclusive content for you via the LWB podcast and my Patreon page for those who choose to become a patron. Please visit the link to check out how you can come join the party over at Patreon! Want to hear more from our amazing interviewees? You got it! Want to dig deeper into the community and your fellow poly folk? Right on, let’s do it! Want monthly “Hangouts” with yours truly and other patrons? Cool! Let’s do it! It’s all there! Come join us, and enjoy exclusive content made just for you, our patrons of this work!
NOTE: Monthly group “hangout” and coaching calls for all of our podcast patrons at any level are under way. If you are supporting the podcast, I am supporting you on your journey. Come join us and meet like-minded folks on the same journey you are!
UPCOMING POLYAMOROUS-FRIENDLY EVENTS
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!
Poly Living Philadelphia, February 7-9, 2020 — Loving More’s Poly Living Conferences are focused on polyamory and open relationships; a place to learn skills, explore, and connect with polyamorous open minded singles, couples, triads & networks. I will be presenting my workshop “The Effects of “The Poly Closet” and Breakups on Metamours, Ex-metamours, and Pivot Partners” at the conference I recently found out. I look forward to seeing many of you at this wonderful conference in my hometown.
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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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