District Attorney Satana Deberry shares her advice for holding positions of power while still being a great boss, mother and human being. Meet Satana Deberry, the lesbian running to be the Attorney General for the State of North Carolina… Are the things you’re working on in life right now serving you on your journey to become the person you want to…

Bárbara Arredondo Ayala shares her history of pushing boundaries and making an impact on the international stage. Meet my dear friend, Bárbara Arredondo Ayala… Who is the first lesbian friend you text when you meet someone new or match on an app or get back from a date? Throughout the years I was single, between breaking up with my ex and meeting m…

Jordana Michelle shares the story about the time she hit rock-bottom in lesbian dating and what she did to bounce back. Hitting rock-bottom in dating… Have you ever hit rock-bottom? The good thing about hitting rock-bottom is that, even though you feel wretched, life always gets better from there. (Because that’s the definition of “rock bottom”). A…

Jenn Lederer teaches how to story-tell your life/career using a comedian’s formula. [Heads up: during this interview with Jenn Lederer there will be mentions of sexual violence.] Meet queer comedian and keynote speakerJenn Lederer… Have you ever wanted to be better at engaging with new people when you meet them for the first time? What if you could…

Lesbian journalist, Brooke Sopelsa, shares personal stories, professional tips and insights from LGBT reporting. A conversation with lesbian journalist, Brooke Sopelsa… Brooke Sopelsa is the editorial director of NBC Out, the LGBT section for nbcnews.com, where they cover the queer community, creating stories about and of interest to the LGBT commu…

Jordana Michelle tells the story of the most socially awkward and embarrassing thing she ever did at a lesbian event. There’s nothing worse than doing something socially embarrassing. In my case, the most embarrassing thing I ever did happened at a lesbian event in around 2012. And in this episode of Women Wanting Women I share the story of what I …

Attorney and entrepreneur, Jean Chou, shares her perspectives on dating women and building professional teams in New York City. Jean Chou and I met when we were both newly out of law school and newly out of the closet. I’ve wanted to interview her for a while, so we finally got together so I could pick her brain about her perspectives on lesbian da…

Jordana Michelle tells the story of the first time she ignored a red flag in a lesbian relationship and explains what happened. Have you ever ignored a red flag? I have, and in this episode of Women Wanting Women, I share the story of how my first lesbian relationship started, and how I first saw a red flag and ignored it. Annie Lalla once shared w…

Meet Rizala Carrington: a behind-the-scenes lesbian social media connector. Rizala Carrington has been working for the community for over 10 years, making it easier for women to connect with each other. Rizala Carrington is the creator of Lesbian Pride a Facebook group with more than 885,000 members along with an Instagram that has 138,000 active f…

Meet my friend Becca Lenox, a brilliant, bisexual former lawyer, now trying to make it as a stand-up comedian in NYC and beyond. I met Becca Lenox when we were both starting to practice law. We first connected through some acquaintances at a queer law school event, we got to know each other from spending time together in court, and we’ve stayed fri…

[Heads up: during in this interview with Ariel Daunay there will be mentions of violence against women.] Meet Ariel Daunay… Ariel Daunay is a friend, and she’s a somatic bodywork healer who works with women on the interconnection between the body and mind in relation to your psychological past and current beliefs that may be limiting you. Have you …

[Heads up: in this episode with Lauren Smith there will be mentions of sexual violence.] Lauren Smith wants you to help you trust yourself to spot red flags early on in dating. Meet Lauren Smith: a queer dating coach who created a system for analyzing how you think and feel after each new date, so you can make the best possible decisions about whom…

Meet my dear friend, Martha Heymans. Martha is a relationship coach who works with individuals and couples, helping them to use their relationships as a tool for self-discovery. What if every conflict in your life was actually just a miscommunication? Martha believes that they are. And she teaches that how we behave with others (and how their behav…

Meet queer coach and content creator, Khanyisa Mnyaka… Khanyisa Mnyaka wants to know: what do you want to do with this life? Knowing what you want is the first step. Because once you define what you want, you can start taking steps that align with that. And it’s not just about money, career ambition, or how you will be remembered after you’re gone.…

Meet Liz Culley, queer female podcaster, producer and entertainment industry badass. Liz Culley is a self-identified bisexual who married a lesbian. So for everyone out there who would instantly reject a woman for being bisexual, keep that in mind. In this episode Liz Culley talks about coming out, making lesbian friends, being bisexual in queer sp…

Ali Hendry wants to teach you how to love more and fear less in the face of jealousy. Ali Hendry is a certified holistic relationship coach for queer women, and on this episode of Women Wanting Women we dive deep into her favorite tools for helping women create the life they want. Have you ever been jealous in a relationship before? Ali Hendry is p…

Meet Joanne Heyman, integrative coach and founder and CEO of Heyman Partners… Before becoming a coach, Joanne Heyman spent the first 23 years of her career in senior management and running pro-social organizations. Joanne Heyman is a self-described anti-authoritarian who believes that deprivation is a terrible motivator and that coaching is a way t…

Meet my friend Jenny Greenstein… Jenny Greeinstein is a lesbian and a personal wardrobe stylist who supports women on their journey of bringing their style into alignment with their most authentic and empowered selves. Even though most of her clients are not lesbians, Jenny herself is. She’s been with her wife, Dina, for over a decade and they are …

Meet Dr. Lauren Costine: a lesbian psychologist, relationship coach, consultant, author, educator, activist, and international speaker. Dr. Lauren gets it, because she herself is a lesbian…. I love talking to lesbian therapists like Dr. Lauren, because they have both the professional experience and the lived experience to deeply understand lesbian …

Meet Carrie Goldberg, a lawyer who protects people from stalkers, psychos, perverts and trolls. Carrie Goldberg is the person you call when you need protection from predators at school, at home, at work or online. She is an attorney based in New York and her law firm specializes in advocating for victims of stalking, harassment, revenge porn, domes…

Meet Bandy Kiki: Entrepreneur and Activist… In Cameroon and lots of other African countries, being queer is illegal (sometimes punishable by death). But what Kiki raises awareness about is that prior to colonization, many parts of Africa had a history of acceptance of queer relationships and gender fluidity. A lot of the anti-LGBT laws in African c…

Meet Dr. Lynda Spann, a lesbian with a PhD in marriage and family counseling… Lynda Spann is the founder of the Lesbian Couples Institute based out of Denver, Colorado. We all know that lesbian dating is hard. So once we finally find love, we want to make sure that we do everything we can to build the best possible relationship with our partner. Bu…

Meet Ana Weisberger, NYC-based life coach (and a dear friend)… I met Ana Weisberger in 2018, through prior podcast guest Dr. Valerie Rein. We met when I was first starting this podcast and when she was transitioning her life and career. During the first year of our friendship I watched as she fearlessly left her marriage and the brokerage firm she …

Meet Candice Czubernat… Candice Czubernat is a lesbian therapist and the founder of The Christian Closet, where they specialize in counseling LGBTQ people who come from conservative faith backgrounds. They coach people as they work out their sexual and gender orientation through the lens of a Christian conservative upbringing. Being a devout Christ…

Want to hear Cassandra Vnook, Founder of LetzB, sharing her best lesbian stories? Cassandra Vnook conceived of LetzB because she wanted more for the queer community. But she wanted more than just “the same dive bar every night.” The idea of LetzB is to offer different experiences with a different crowd. Cassandra conceived of LetzB to offer the que…

Meet Jenny Plasencia: Healing bodies and hearts… Jenny Plasencia is a New York City based healer of both body and spirit. We met this past summer, and I could tell right away, based on her energy and wisdom, that I wanted to have her as a guest on the podcast. “Healing is always possible and there are many, multiple ways” Jenny Plasencia… Jenny Pla…

Meet Samantha Fox… Samantha Fox is a NY-based licensed marriage and family therapist, in practice for 12 years. Samantha Fox specializes in women who come out later in life. And she should know. Samantha Fox also came out later in her own life. Coming out later in life… Married with three kids, she knew in the back of her mind she wanted to be with…

Talking about lesbian love and dating with Dr. Frankie Bashan… Dr. Frankie Bashan is a lesbian matchmaker, relationship expert, tv personality, event planner and doctor of clinical psychology specializing in serving the LGBT community. Dr. Frankie is the founder and CEO of Little Gay Book: the premiere lesbian matchmaking service in the United Stat…

Everything you ever wanted to know about HER App… If you’re a queer female who’s ever done any online dating in the past 5 years, you have undoubtedly heard of HER App. Using dating apps is the easiest way to meet other queer women in any geographic location. Before apps like HER App were released, it used to so much harder to meet other queer wome…

“Let fear be your biggest inspiration” Teresa Boyd… Teresa Boyd is an international producer, based in New York, who started with nothing, and built the career of her dreams, working alongside the very best in the worlds of fashion and entertainment. Women like Teresa Boyd stand out among the best because they show us what’s possible with massive h…

Meet Jennifer Russell: A sorceress of feeling confident, connected, beautiful and good enough… For years Jennifer Russell’s work has been about showing women how to source their power and how to be more powerful in more ways. As lesbians it’s important for us to learn this. Because women are attracted to power. There’s nothing hotter than a powerfu…

Meet Dr. Pamela… Dr. Pamela’s company helps teenagers plan for higher education. Being a teenager is hard enough… but applying to college is a massively overwhelming and confusing process, forced on people during an already difficult time. But Dr. Pamela is no stranger to personally handling overwhelming and confusing life situations… Dr. Pamela wa…

Arielle Ford has a message: You ABSOLUTELY CAN find love. Arielle Ford is here to tell you that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE ALONE FOREVER. It’s true. I first discovered Arielle Ford many years ago, in what feels like another lifetime… I used to listen to her interviews, back when I was trying to find my way around love and dating… I was so lost back then…

Even before Covid19, Sabrina Chaw was focused on healing isolation… Sabrina Chaw knew that connection was hard for women, even before Covid19. As Sabrina Chaw teaches: so much of how we relate with women around us has to do with our cultural norms. When we women meet each other, we so often go right into asking each other about what we do and where…

Sacha Lalla is an ambassador for women and friendships between women. Talking about friendships might sound “elementary”… but, as Sacha Lalla explains, it’s a key that’s missing in almost every woman’s life. Because, as Sacha points out, we humans evolved to live as hunter-gatherers, where all of our time was spent in an inseparable circle of women…

Burlesque: a pathway to connection and authenticity… There is so much burlesque can teach us about seduction and feminine power. Burlesque is a form of performance art, incorporating strip tease with humor and storytelling… In recent years interest in burlesque has increased among women looking to express themselves and improve their body confidenc…

What is tantra? Tantra is one of those things that most people have heard of, but don’t really know much about… We know it has something to do with lovemaking, but what is it ? Have you ever wanted to learn about this, but didn’t know who to ask or where to begin? You’re in the right place… It’s so important for couples to keep growing together on …

Meet Stevie Boebi… If you’re a follower of this podcast, then there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Stevie Boebi. The reason for that is because Stevie Boebi’s content is intended for a much younger audience. But she’s a fascinating human being. Despite starting out life as a homeless teen with a disability, Stevie Boebi pulled herself out of…

Meet Dr. Saida… Dr. Saida Desilets wants you to know that you have a right to be here and that you matter. We each have a major impact on all the beings all around us. That’s why we matter. There is magic and beauty once we understand how big of an impact we have in every choice we make. Magic and beauty… What if knowing how much we matter were a s…

Parental wounds… The parental wounds that we live with cause issues in all our relationships. The relationships we had with our earliest caregivers form the framework of how we learned to relate with others and they’re the foundation of how we think and act in all relationships. The framework and the foundation… Life is complicated. And raising chi…

LiYana Silver helps women transform self-doubt… Intuition is the antidote to self-doubt, and LiYana Silver is passionate about showing women how to access it. LiYana teaches that self-doubt is the internalization of the voices we hear around us (that tell us we can’t feel what we feel, or say what we want to say, or be the way we want to be…) Growi…

Lesbian Advice Q+A… There are lots of times in life when we need lesbian advice, but there’s nobody to ask. Because not all of us have close lesbian friends we can trust (and our straight friends don’t necessarily always “get it”, and are terrible at giving lesbian advice, even if they mean well…) Straight advice versus lesbian advice… When I tell …

How well do you know your own body’s process of arousal? The crazy thing is that we are born with bodies that are capable of experiencing spectacular states of arousal, but since sex and masturbation are kept private in most cultures, most of us never get actual training in how to access the full range of pleasure we’re capable of. Fortunately most…

O.school: where religious conservatives can learn about sex… O.school was created to be a sexual education resource for people who come from religious conservative backgrounds. Sexual shame (and any kind of shame, for that matter) drains us of our personal power, which hinders our ability to show up as our best selves. But unfortunately, for religi…

I want to tell you about my friend Tinia… Tinia Pina is a New York-based “green” entrepreneur. After 6 years working in finance, Tinia heard a whisper of intuition that told her to pursue “sustainability.” Following her curiosity Tinia educated herself and then set out to create a system for turning food waste into fertilizer for the booming hydrop…

What do you know about sex work? Sex work is as ancient as civilization itself. But sex work doesn’t often get spoken about because it’s taboo and illegal… So why are we talking about this here? I never thought much about sex work… But I’ve connected with all kinds of brilliant queer humans doing amazing things in the world, and one of those brilli…

Dorie Clark can help you better attract women. Dorie Clark can help you be more exciting to women. Dorie Clark can help you come off as more interesting and impressive when you meet women. This is important. Women are more attracted to people who are exciting and interesting and impressive. That’s why Dorie Clark can help you make yourself more att…

What makes Jenn T. Grace a “professional lesbian”? Cool story about my friend Jenn… 15+ years ago Jenn’s friend (who was working in a hospital) started asking her for advice about how best to communicate with various LGBTQ+ patients. The more Jenn answered her friend’s questions the more she realized that her answers were really important for organ…

Anyone can achieve self-love, but it takes work… “Self-love” is one of those terms that get thrown around a lot (especially in relationship advice blogs!) But what does self-love actually mean, in practice? How would you treat your soulmate? Without self-love it’s harder for us to be as kind and good to ourselves as we’d be to the woman we love. Lo…

Most queer women have already heard of Curve Magazine… In this episode of Women Wanting Women I interview Merryn Johns, the editor-in-chief of Curve magazine. Lesbian Lifestyle… Curve is a lifestyle brand. But from their perspective, lifestyles are, by nature, political. The goal is to point towards an ideal and help create a vision of what it mean…