On today’s episode, I am so excited to have Jennelle Gordon here. Jennelle and I have been going back and forth on Facebook for all this time and then she finally got on my calendar for my podcast. Jennelle is an inspiration for women as a leader, speaker, and educator. She studied tantra and yoga extensively with masters in Thailand after leaving her traumatic past behind for a brighter future. We talk about healthy sexuality, the impacts of shame and fear, and even the importance of talking to our children at a young age.
Enjoy the show!
In Today’s Episode:
[02:36] It is such a great time for women to have a voice and for people really to get off their ass and do something. [05:31] We don’t teach our young girls about healthy sex, sexual boundaries, and owning their body and power. [07:25] Jennelle was a product of the foster system and experience physical and sexual abuse growing up. [09:01] She has a book and Ted talks about being trafficked for over a decade. [10:51] As women we have to save ourselves. We can’t wait for someone else to do it. [12:11] She made it her mission to find a way to take her ten years’ experience of hell and merge it with what she had learned and come up with a modality that was healing for women. [13:46] What do I know I am supposed to teach? [15:55] When Rachel built her business she had no idea how she was going to do it, but she knew she was going to figure it out. [17:41] There is so much repression around sexuality. [18:48] Rachel and Jennelle both knew they couldn’t have a side hustle. They needed to make it work as their full-time work. [20:11] People don’t want to talk about sex. [21:51] The fear that we all live in is because we are so scared that somebody may just find that stuff isn’t completely together. [24:28] Life feels hard so for whatever reason we think someone else’s life is easier. We all make judgments. Maybe we will come out of this not judging as much. [26:51] Right now there are a lot of issues and they are all valid. [28:42] We don’t want to acknowledge that human trafficking is happening in our own neighborhood. [33:22] People are addicted to social media likes because they think it is attached to their worth and value as a human. [33:29] The number one fear that humans have is that we won’t be enough and that leads us to the number two fear we have, that we won’t be loved. [39:14] Trafficking is in local communities all around. [41:16] It is so ingrained in our lives that sex is bad and wrong. [42:15] The beauty of each one of us in our own journey is to know that there is somebody that is similar to us and they are our ideal client. [44:14] We have this massive shame around sex and this fear of being judged so we clam up. [47:12] It has become a mental health issue of people comparing themselves to other people and wanting to be them so bad instead of loving the body they are in. [48:28] Nothing is easy in this life. Everything takes a regimen. [51:37] Life is about patterns. We need to interrupt the patterns about how we are training our young men and women. [53:47] We need to talk to our children in an age-appropriate way with proper terminology about sex. [57:53] The solution is to have conversations with your children and start super young. [60:41] We need to stop judging and be more accepting of each other. [61:28] We have to look out for other women and the more we come together the more powerful we will be and we can learn from each other.Grab the Sweet Savings for Your Business below:
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