Episode 702: Pleasure, Vulnerability, and Intimacy with Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Let’s talk about pleasure. Yep, the thing women are taught to avoid, minimize, hide, or feel guilty about. And yet, as this week’s guest Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton says, “Pleasure has never been more radical, especially for women.” In a world that feels like it’s collapsing in real time (and let’s be honest, it mostly is), pleasure isn’t frivolous. It’s the way back into your body, your intuition, and your aliveness. Together, we get into how pleasure reconnects you to yourself when the world has trained you to disconnect, why so many women feel shame around wanting anything, and how small “what would feel good right now?” choices can quietly lead you home. Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton, intimacy scholar, trauma-informed coach, and founder of UNCOVER, brings her blend of research, real life, and hard-won wisdom to this conversation. In this episode, you’ll hear about: Kimberly shares the unexpected path that led her into intimacy work and how it shapes everything she teaches (5:30) Why knowing what you want starts with the tiniest daily choices (11:34) We talk about how vulnerability has challenged and transformed her relationships and career (20:21) Kimberly breaks down why pleasure feels so off-limits for women and how it can become a healing force (25:20) How grief shows up in intimacy work and why it matters (37:23) Simple ways to rediscover what actually brings you pleasure (42:22) Resources from this episode: Sign up for my free workshop happening on December 18th! Rythmia Ayahuasca Retreat Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton’s website Kimberly’s book Kimberly on Instagram Book recommendations: I love a good personal development book, and you do too, right? I’ve compiled a list of book recommendations, as mentioned in past episodes. Check out these amazing book recommendations here. Happy reading! MSN is supported by: We love the sponsors that make our show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: andreaowen.com/sponsors/ Episode link: http://andreaowen.com/702 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.3	fluent in the language of our own pleasure vibrancy delight turn on. We're just like in that state of being
0:40.4	alive and it makes, yeah, of course, intimacy easier. It's easier to access that part of us when we
0:47.1	are wanting to be with someone else. But it's like less about, okay, now it's time for sex.
0:53.5	Let me turn that on. It's more just like I am in an
0:58.0	experience of ecstasy like in my own vibrant being and it doesn't mean it's all good all the
1:04.7	time but it's like I'm feeling it all all the time you're listening to makes Noise Podcast, episode number 702 with guest, Dr. Kimberly
1:14.9	Rose Pendleton.
1:19.6	Welcome to Make Some Noise Podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:31.5	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach since 2007,
1:36.8	an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries.
1:43.7	Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson
1:45.9	that will help you maximize unshakable confidence, master resilience, and make some noise
1:51.5	in your life. You ready? Let's go. Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the
1:58.9	podcast. I am so glad that you're here. I have two quick announcements. One is a small one. One is a big one. Well, I mean, they're both like kind of big announcements, but one is a small activity. One is a big activity. That's how I should have said it. The first one. Come and join me. I have a free workshop that I'm doing. I'm not going to be spending like the last 20 minutes selling
2:17.8	you something else, by the way. I feel like you should know that. Nope, this is to celebrate the
2:23.7	birth of my fourth book, Live Like You Give a Damn, December 18th. Yes, it's the week before the holidays,
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