I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more.

Today's guest is an expert in a topic that we sometimes avoid talking about openly.

Michaela Baum is an expert in intimacy, relationship, and sexuality.

I first heard about her when I was watching a Netflix documentary called Unwell.

And in the documentary, it was talking about intimacy between couples among many many other challenges that face our health and mental health in in the modern world.

Honestly not a documentary that I recall. mental health in the modern world.

Honestly, not a documentary that I recommend by the way.

But she was the only one that really made sense,

I think, in that episode.

And so I tried to reach out to her and I realized that her body of work

centers around the intersection between intimacy and embodiment, and that she has more than 30,000 hours of in-person

counseling.

So she would work with an individual or a couple one to one to try and uncover the challenges they have with intimacy.

She has a clinical experience in trauma and addiction and she worked with celebrity couples and

her work has been featured in print publications, TV programs, talk shows and so on.

She published a book, she put all of that together and published a book that was called The Wild Woman's Way in 2018.

And so as I said, the topic of intimacy and sexuality is a topic that we normally avoid addressing head on.

But my intention today with Michaela is to dive deep and hopefully ask some of the questions that you truly want to ask and maybe

open up to a few discoveries that might make the life of couples a lot happier.

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