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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole.

And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together.

I'm very excited to welcome today's guest because she's somebody who I actually met at a speaking online virtual

thing during the pandemic. We were both on panels of discussion and she's just one of those

incredible humans that you will not forget. Jessamine Stanley, she's an American yoga teacher

and body positivity advocate and writer. She gained a lot of her recognition through her

Instagram post, which is actually how I found her prior to speaking alongside her doing yoga as a

plus-sized woman of color. She recently was also featured in Women's Health magazine in their

body issue. She is an incredible author, yoga teacher, entrepreneur, and

advocate. Please welcome Jessamine Stanley. Ah, Jessamine, I'm so happy. We've had this in the books for a while,

but I'm so happy to be here today with you, genuinely. It's a long time coming. Like, I feel like I've been admiring your work for years, and I'm so glad to be in community with you. And literally, like, this month, we have the women's health issue come out that we're both featured in. And it's just, like, so cool to me to be able to, like, collide in this way. I feel like the universe let it happen. Well, it was interesting because with the women's health, we knew it was a nude shoot and we knew it was like closed from each other. So I was like, I don't know how I've never done anything like this before. And I was the last person of the day, which was such a bad idea because the anxiety just like went up as the day went on and I got there and everything was so fast it just

moved so fast but we got to see the call sheet like the day before and yours was the first name

that I was like oh my goodness I know her like that was in my head I was like I know her I was so

excited and how was how was the shoot for you did Did you just feel like what did it just feel like

another day? Because you do nude stuff in general. You're a little nudie. I was going to say yeah,

I'm like kind of naked a lot of the time. So I don't know if that aspect of it was that was probably

the part that I was the most excited about that it's like oh cool because I think that there's a level of vulnerability that you can get to when you're not wearing clothes that it's just like so different and really freeing.

But I think that any situation where there's like a pro photographer and like a team, any time that something like that is happening, I'm definitely thinking about

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