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What if shame wasn’t the enemy but the doorway?
In this episode I sit down with my dear friend, pole dance teacher, and new author Wendy Diaz, who writes under the pen name Selene Ashé. She’s just released her first book Diary of a Bad Bitch, a work that blends memoir and erotic nonfiction.
We get into her journey with pole dance as a path of self-expression, the permission it creates for women to explore their sensuality, and the way her writing opens space for honest, vulnerable conversations about sexuality and creativity.
You’ll Learn:
- Why pole dance can feel like an initiation for women
- What it feels like to face waves of shame and discover safety in sensual expression
- The link between childhood innocence and adult erotic energy
- Why female versus male gaze changes everything in dance and performance
- The quiet damage of women judging each other’s expression, and what happens when that shifts
- Why creativity should be treated as a daily priority rather than a side project
- The raw process of writing erotic nonfiction and why using a pen name mattered to her
- What it takes to set the stage for authentic movement and see where the body leads
- The enduring truth that sexuality and pleasure are always available, even after disconnection
Timestamps:
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07:14] The permission field of pole dance and moving through shame
[
13:27] Creativity expanding into tattooing, drawing, and blood painting
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19:04] Female versus male gaze in performance and dance videos
[
25:11] Navigating invisibility, fame, and the desire for attention
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31:45] Erotic reclamation, archetypes, and sexual exploration through pole
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37:42] Writing her book and choosing a pen name
[
42:51] Building conscious cabaret as a safe performance space
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45:58] Sensuality, sexuality, and the role of slowing down
[
54:12] Why pleasure and sexuality are always available
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Resources Mentioned:
Diary of a Bad Bitch by Selene Ashé |
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It hurts to have unmet needs. And it sucks to scurry after crumbs when you’re starving. Join Kelly Brogan MD, as she teaches us how our pain points are portals. She’ll help you discover a world where every seeming challenge is a new chapter in your most audacious story. Plot twists, body symptoms, and heartbreak each represent an opportunity to own ourselves and learn to better wield the power of choice. Kelly will take you on a reclamation journey from the battlefield of victim consciousness to the sovereignty of self-devoted pleasure and expose every surprising place you’ve given your power away. Explore the tools you’ll need to find out what you want, how to ask for it and how to stand in fierce alignment with yourself.Kelly Brogan is a soul alchemist and threshold guardian devoted to the transformation of collective consciousness. As a young know-it-all atheist, candy-addict, straight-A MIT neuroscience major and Ivy-league trained psychiatrist, she specialized in feeding women, herself included, straight into the mouth of the medicated beast. After a Hashimoto’s healing journey inspired her to sound the alarm on the bait-and-switch of big pharma, she became a renegade activist—authoring the New York Times bestseller, A Mind of Your Own, and its follow-up, Own Your Self; co-editing the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression; and eventually becoming an honorary member of the Disinformation Dozen. She is the creatrix of Vital Mind Reset, the online health reclamation program, and the membership community Vital Life Project. She’s a human, cat, and chicken mom.