Unapologetically Turned On with Brenda Munson

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01/07/20 • 75 min

#004: This week's guest is Brenda Munson, who lives in Portland, Oregon with her family, which includes her husband and their 3-year-old son. In this episode, Brenda talks about her path to pregnancy, explains her unexpected aversion to being pregnant, and tells the story about her 63-hour labor which led to the arrival of her son via vacuum-assisted birth. Brenda also talks about her commitment to breastfeeding and finding the balance between permissiveness and boundary setting as a parent. Brenda is open about how critical she became of her body during the postpartum period and shares how she eventually found a more loving relationship with her post-baby body. She also discusses her gradual journey back into sexual intimacy with her husband after the baby, explains what she means when she uses the phrase 'turned on' and melts over her experience of a mother’s love. Finally, Brenda reveals a provocative mom confession.

Brenda Munson is a radical self-love mentor, waking women up to their ecstatic, sensual, turned-on life. She teaches women how to liberate their lives through practices that deeply connect and anchor them into their bodies. This work opens gateways to self-healing, unbreakable body love and unapologetic expression. Brenda works with brilliantly courageous women, who are willing to take radical ownership over their lives, and re-educates their sleeping goddess within. Her students and private clients seek out her intuitive guidance and expertise in facilitating potent transformations. As an S Factor® teacher, Brenda has been guiding students through the most soulful and intuitive style of pole dance; unlocking their full, free, erotic expression for over 7 years. In early 2018, she also became a licensed Liquid Motion® movement teacher. In 2019 she launched TURNED-ON; a 5-month intimate sisterhood mastermind that includes 2 retreats and runs twice a year.

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Finding Grace in the Mess with Anjua Maximo

#003: This week's guest is Anjua Maximo, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio with her family, which includes her husband and their two sons ages 8 and 14. Inspired by her early experiences and personal development working for fitness apparel brand lululemon athletica, Anjua took risks by setting out on her own to become a successful entrepreneur and life coach, dedicated to empowering women. It was at lululemon that she fell in love with personal development, which inspired her to join forces with her husband, Zosimo, in launching a business venture in 2015 that became GrooveRyde - Cleveland’s premier boutique micro-gym. While GrooveRyde’s mission is to transform you from the inside out, Anjua’s true passion lies with her Electric Life workshops and Pure Mvmnt coaching. From teaching women to create a powerful vision for their lives to guiding them to a positive and powerful connection to their feminine energy, she has found ways to use movement and personal development to coach the ‘Whole Woman.’
In this episode, Anjua tells both of her pregnancy and birth stories, including one that placed her on hospital bedrest at 25 weeks, and had her visiting her premature son in the NICU. Anjua is very skilled at finding humor in the challenges of early motherhood and breastfeeding, and has learned to find grace in the messiness of motherhood. As a busy entrepreneur, she shares her honest and compassionate perspective on finding balance between work and family. Finally, Anjua offers moms a tip for motivation and talks about her belief that the body is the doorway for moms to find their way back to themselves after the arrival of a baby.
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When Mommy Puts Herself First with Saba Homayoon Hopkins

#005: This week's guest is Saba Homayoon Hopkins, who lives in Los Angeles, California with her family, which includes her husband and their two kids, Lily (9) and Alex (5). In this episode, Saba talks about how pregnancy helped dramatically change her view of her body and tells the story of her hospital birth. She then discusses the loneliness of pumping breastmilk and shares how she prepared her daughter for a sibling. Saba also talks about the experience of learning that her son has Sensory Processing Disorder, explains how she copes with the messiness of having kids, and expresses how much she loves the multi-tasking of motherhood. Because Saba is an actress, we talk about her upcoming show and how she is preparing herself and her family for her extended absence while filming out of town. Finally, Saba shares how she is learning to put herself first and reveals a candid and relatable mom confession about overwhelm.

Saba Homayoon Hopkins is a wife, mom to two spit-fire kids, Lily and Alex, and mom to one fur baby, Reece. When not in the role of “mommy,” she can be seen tutoring, teaching acting classes or on TV! She is an actress and will be seen in the tv show, “Chad” coming soon to TBS, playing, what else, a mom of two! But her greatest role in life will always be being a mom to her own two kids. Saba is most passionate about creating a home that feels safe for her children to be themselves in, to take risks in, to be messy in and to grow in. She believes in raising children who will be constructive members of their communities, who will be aware of injustice and fight it when necessary and who will always give back to those in need. She would describe her family as four divas always competing for the spotlight! It makes for a lot of craziness, sass, imagination, creativity, passion, personality, laughter and love. So much love.

For the links and show notes for this episode, head to: http://beingmompodcast.com/podcast/episode-005