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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,

Trine Hermosta, 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.

All right, Irene, we're going to get spicy. I are most downloaded podcasts are about sex and

every time I do like a Q&A with my audience and with my husband, all they want to know is like

how much sex we're having and how sex and like how do we deal with, you know, body changes

after sex, your whole life and your career, not your whole life. I hope you have a life outside

of sex, but your career has been built around sex and intimacy. Talk to me a little bit how

you found yourself in that line of work. I'm jealous to be honest. I'm like, that sounds amazing.

I don't know if the story is as sexy as it could be. But if you had told me 10 years ago,

or well more than that, 15 years ago, or 20 years ago, that I would be doing this, I would have

not believed you. I thought this would be absolutely preposterous and I worked in the corporate world

and was this very intellectual person. The thing that led me to do this work is that about 15

years ago, I was married. I got married at a relatively young age that mid 20s and I ended up

in a sexless marriage and I ended up losing my libido and devastating. It was devastating because

it was an end of a dream of having a passionate romantic relationship with the love of my life

at the time. It was devastating in terms of losing my own libido and ending up like this kind of

shell of who I was, who I thought I was as a woman. And of course, there was a loss of connection

between me and my husband that it was devastating and that it led to a divorce.

That left me in shatters in the years after the divorce until I, there was several events that

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