Shannon Curtis has been making music for 25 years—first, as the front-woman for a Christian-lite rock band in her twenties while a pastor’s wife, then as a chanteuse divorcée composing broken-hearted love songs after leaving both her marriage and her religion.

In the last decade—as a result of constant house concert touring—Shannon developed both a passionate underground following and also an album-based songwriting style, centered around taking her audiences on intentional journeys of personal growth, connection, and healing.

This remains true on her new 80s-inspired synthpop album, Good to Me, the animating questions behind which are: how will empathetic people survive the troubles of this time? And how we can rescue our overburdened spirits from overlapping disasters such as rising fascism and climate collapse?

Shannon offers Good to Me as both a soundtrack and rallying cry for every person who knows that healing ourselves is the first step in healing the world.

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• Shannon's Love Letter List
• Stream Good to Me
• Shannon's website
• Misfit Stars
• Instagram
• Mastodon

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Music by Shannon Curtis from her album, "Good to Me". Hosted by Sarah Monares. Produced by Chris Lanphear for Loudspeaker Studios.

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Warning: This episode contains discussion of sexuality, intimacy products, and alcohol use disorder. Listener discretion is advised.

Cindi Roberts is passionate about helping women recover from alcohol use disorder and encouraging women to find their joy and confidence in navigating their intimate relationships. She has over 25 years of experience as a Sexual Health and Wellness Educator and is also a Certified Professional Recovery Coach. Cindi loves to support women who are struggling to find their inner passion for life and who want to focus on finding and recovering sexual sparks.

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Megan Febuary is an Author and Trauma-Informed Book Coach. Her expertise in the body as a storyteller has been a healing support for hundreds at story workshops and embodied healing retreats. As the Founder of the global storytelling brand, For Women Who Roar, a 100k+ community from around the world, a publisher of the online magazine which has featured over 1000k+ stories of women, and as the Creator of the growing Book Year platform– Megan has guided hundreds of women through the process of writing their books and healing their stories. Over the years, she has been called a master guide for all things writing and creativity. Praised even by the queen of creativity herself, Julia Cameron, Author of The Artist's Way, who called her work "powerful and far seeing.” She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest and is writing her next book.

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• Heal Your Story
• Megan's Book: For Women Who Roar

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Warning: This episode contains discussion of religious trauma. Listener discretion is advised.

Black Sheep Bios is a deconstruction-related Instagram account that strives to challenge harmful religious constructs while encouraging and empowering people to find healing and enjoy spirituality without the confines of abusive indoctrination.

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Andrea Stallsworth is a wife, mama, daughter, sister, friend, and entrepreneur. But most importantly, she's a woman who's healing and growing. Rising from the ashes of a difficult childhood, bullying, low self-esteem, an abusive marriage, and single parenthood, she’s on a mission to share her story.

Andrea was diagnosed with a hair-pulling disorder called Trichotillomania when she was twelve. This condition was ammunition for bullies during her growing-up years and became her full-time secret.

After 30 years of keeping this secret, Andrea decided to share her story and free herself from the chains binding her. Since then, she’s been living her truth out loud! She’s been through a transformative journey, leaving her happier and freer than she has ever been.

Andrea hopes to use her story to help people of all ages overcome the trauma that comes with bullying and self-hatred.

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Warning: This episode contains frank discussion of sex, sexuality, religious trauma, and childhood sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.

Rachel Overvoll is a Somatic Sex and Intimacy Coach and author, living in Colorado. She works with clients to move beyond shame, step into safety in their bodies, and live a life embodied in pleasure. Using her credentials from the Somatica Institute and Kinsey Institute, she works through the mediums of embodiment and self attunement to help clients step outside of shame and into their power.

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• TikTok: @rachelovervoll
• Sunroom: https://sunroom.so/rachelovervoll

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Mary Brown, also known as The Boundaries Coach, specializes in helping women overcome people-pleasing and learn healthy boundaries. With a professional background in social work, she helped thousands of families through challenges such as mental illness, addiction, abuse, and neglect. In doing so, she noticed the impact these issues have on women, especially when someone they love is struggling. Having grown up in a big family without boundaries, Mary could relate to these women because of her own journey of overcoming people-pleasing. She became a coach so that she could help women build confidence, set healthy boundaries, and practice meaningful self-care. Mary teaches boundaries centered on compassion, and her superpower is coaching others on how to have hard conversations from a place of love. I can’t wait for you to hear all the insights in this episode!

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https://www.boundariescoach.com/

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Tasha Smith is an old soul and lover of life who believes in chasing dreams. She believes our biggest gift in life is time, so she tries to cherish every moment. Tasha had a previous career where she oversaw 400 companies and personally consulted over 150 businesses. She has since built several of her own successful companies from the ground up. She later decided to follow my family’s tradition and became a 4th Generation Chiropractor.  After 7 years of running her own chiropractic practice and trying to raise my family, she realized life had suddenly taken another turn.  Even though she had a waiting list practice, she began to personally struggle.  She could not figure out what was happening because she was achieving everything that she had ever dreamed of, yet she felt she was starting to lose grip on life and who she was. Her health started to seriously decline, and her stress was literally killing her. In this episode we talk about burnout, We really focus on burnout and how society really pushes us to chase only success and happiness without truly listening to ourselves. Tasha now has a consulting business helping those who are serving others and are heavily burdened by all the stress that they experience being successful and a high achiever. I can’t wait for you to hear all the insights in this episode!

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