Today's women of impact spent the majority of her school years feeling misunderstood for her enthusiasm, quirks and expressions. So at 19, she found the courage to leave her small town in Canada, finding herself in the only place her visa would allow her to work. Japan lost in translation with just $40 in her pocket. Her first home was a shack, housing 14 other foreigners and a handful of absolutely welcoming cockroaches. But this foreign place gave way to an awakening. For the first time she was truly discovering the beauty and radiance of a woman's erotic nature. And within four years she was earning more money than her parents combined as a showgirl, model, dancer and spokesperson on TV, magazine covers, runways, billboards, movies and music videos. That wasn't till she fell head over heels in love with a dark handsome multi-million it. But he wasn't Richard Gear, she wasn't Julia Roberts and the movie doesn't end with it must have been love playing as he pulls up in a limousine and saves her. Now, living in New York, she found herself lost and overwhelmed with self-doubt, believing that his net worth made him more worthy than her. And just like when the big bad wolf huffed and puffed, her walls came tumbling down, finding herself a motherless single mother in a custody battle over her son leaving her $250,000 in debt. She lost her house, her car, and in the end her custody battle. She even candidly admits that she came close to losing her faith altogether. Until finally, one day, one day she chose to take full responsibility for her choices. She took ownership. She took back the reins of her life. Now an intimacy expert, author, celebrity coach with over four million views on YouTube and host of the Edgey Podcast intimate conversations. Today's women of impact is inspiring vulnerability and courage in all of us. From love to sex to relationships to self love, she is called upon as a guest expert for the Jenny McCarthy show, Huffington Post, People magazine and forms just her name a few. Yes, it's safe to say this woman is showing us that it all begins with honoring yourself, embracing yourself and nourishing yourself. So please help me in welcoming the woman who teaches us to celebrate the feminine, our bodies, minds and sexual choices, the woman who pole dances for pleasure and like the Vatican to the Pope, she describes it as her church. The Michael Phelps of intimacy, the wonderfully intimate Elena Pratt. Wow, I just want to jump in your lap her house. Thank you for that beautiful introduction. done your homework. Say your life is incredible. And your story and what you've had to overcome and learn has been so inspiring. Thank you. And so what I want to start is you're in Japan. Yeah. You're very broke. You said that you went from basically feeling like a victim to just embracing life. Tell me about that specific transition. Well, arriving with $40, I remember getting to the club and we get on the stage and it's the first time I ever wore fishnets and a jeez string. And I thought I'm in charge of my life. It's not because dad got me the job. It's not my status or anything. It's like my courage got me this. My willingness to risk got me this. My willingness to not give up on myself and go back home and say I failed. And it was the beginning of such an empowering time where beauty wasn't just skin deep. Beauty was this radiance from within, this belief in ourself from within. There was this in me, as me through me, co-creation with the divine, that I'd never experienced when I was just trying to do it right in my head when I was just seeking approval. Something was happening literally in me like this embodiment and it was juicy and it felt like I was enough no matter what the outcome was. We'll go to that very specific thought then. It wasn't even of a thought. It was almost like I thought everything in the world happened from the chin up. I thought you had to figure it out, do it right, look good. I thought it was all mind-based. I had no idea that there was this world beneath my chin, my heart, my gut, my pussy. There was this whole world inside my body that I didn't know existed. And it was way bigger than just a few brain synapses in my mind. And it connected, I make this joke sometimes with my clients, speak with your other set of lips. I guess if you speak with this set of lips, it's so close to the brain, which so easily can go into fear, doubt, you know, questioning ourselves. But the other set of lips, it's, that's near the womb of creation. That's in the dark. That's where you're literally creating out of nothing. That's where you're creating with, with limitless possibility. And then it moves up through your first second chakra to your power center, not power over out of fear. The capacity to choose, the capacity to, like how do I choose to impact the world? And then you bring it up into an open heart, not a closed heart in shame, but through an open heart. And these chakras and this energy would build. And by the time it came out of my mouth in something to say, there was like a resonance, like a velvety resonance, because it started someplace beyond my identity. It started someplace beyond this alana prat. It was this timeless place. And as I began to speak from there and move from there and choose from there, I didn't feel as scared. I didn't feel so concerned with the outcome. I felt full before I already began. And it almost was a place of contribution, not in trying to control the outcome. And so it was actually through movement and through dance and through taking action from this deeper place, not action from a got to get it done to look good, do it right place. It was an embodiment that allowed this to change. I remember once even being in Thailand, I think I was like 22. And I remember walking along the beach. And I think I'm an attractive woman. But back when I was 21, I had like no cellulite. No babies, no stretch marks, no cellulite. Like really a perfect little body, but I was so insecure. So insecure, so comparing myself to everyone else. I couldn't still, even though I was more empowered than ever, I still would compare. I would, she was better. She was prettier. She was going to get the guy before me, she was going to get the contract before me.

I was still coming from, I need to control the outcome in order to be enough. So there I was, Copenhagen. And there was a beach, it was about three miles long. And I just had this little floss g-string on. And I was committed, I was going to walk up and down that goddamn beach until I stopped Comparing myself to others,

stopped worrying about what others thought.

And could I have a complete moment of oneness with the earth, with the beach, with the waves, with the sun, and just come home? And I walked the beach a lot. It was many a day that I walked back and forth and back and forth. Topless in a little G-string walking. Until one day as I was turning back, I can still remember it like it was yesterday

because it was about sunset.

And I turned around, I said, this is it, this is the time I'm done. And as I walked and the sun was setting and all the like the mist from the water and the sand and my toes. And I just decided I'm just gonna fall in love with myself now. I'm just gonna have communion with the divine now. I'm just going to come home to the beauty of our bodies.

Every woman is equally beautiful.

We're just different flowers in a garden. And I'm like, okay, embodiment and loving self, seeing self as beauty and you as beauty and all women as beauty. Is this what you're repeating in your head as you're walking? Yep, in our brain to really make something sink in. It's not just the thought. It's four elements. The thought, the image, the emotion, and the body sensation. When you have four elements locked in, then it's really in there. It's also how you get rid of a trauma or an emotional trigger. You can't just talk about it all day. It's not enough, right? You can't just have a good cry. It's not enough. You've got to get all four elements to dissolve it or to create it. So there was something about walking so I was moving. It was feeling the emotions. I was feeling the body sensations. I was seeing the earth. I was seeing all these other people. I was thinking I am beauty herself. Like it was all these elements like back and forth and back and forth until I had that lock in on all four elements and

Different reality different realities I am beauty herself. Like it was all these elements, like back and forth and back and forth until I had that lock in on all four elements

and different reality, different realities. So you don't need to go to Thailand and walk up and down the beach topless because that's the way the brain works. You can do it in your imagination and it'll happen for you. But I wanna go to like, it's hard. If you've already got self-esteem issues, to go topless, where are G string?

And not only are you walking the beach,

you walk up and down right,

because there's one thing going, all right, I'm gonna take... You've already got self-esteem issues. To go topless, where are G-string? And not only are you walking the beach,

you walk up and down right,

because there's one thing going, all right, I'm gonna take off my robe, I'm gonna quickly throw it off, walk quickly to the other end, throw it back on the move and just say that I did it. But you're going back and forth, back and forth, days. How do you start it? Like, imagine someone right now is listening and watching.

And they're just petrified to take that first step.

What advice would you give people right now

that are watching and desperate to take that first step? But they're so petrified. Yeah. I'll tell you, my answer will be a story. Love story. So I'm 16 in Canada and this guy moves in around the corner and his mother has just died and he's new to my high school.

So we start to walk to school back and forth. So I've known him for about 10 months or so. And he was gonna come out to the lake that summer and my girlfriend arrives and she's like, James is dead. And I'm like, oh, stop it, you guys, you guys always play tricks on me. And her parents walked in behind her. No, James is dead. Lisa, my cat hadn't died.

My grandma hadn't died.

Nobody died.

I didn't know people died. and her parents walked in behind her. No, James is dead.

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