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Ep. 115! Iris sits down with Sex & Relationships Write, Caroline Hood. Caroline Hood is a certified sex therapist, licensed clinical social worker, writer, and executive leader exploring the intersection of desire, intimacy, motherhood, identity, and long-term love.

With more than 25 years of experience working at the intersection of relationships, trauma, addiction, mental health, and resilience, Caroline brings a rare combination of clinical expertise and lived experience to conversations about sexuality and partnership. She holds a BA in Psychology from Columbia University, an MSW from the University of Southern California, and an executive leadership certificate from Harvard Kennedy School.

Caroline is the author of the forthcoming book Sex Begets Sex: Reclaiming Desire as an Act of Female Empowerment, a candid and deeply personal exploration of why desire does not inevitably disappear in long-term relationships — and how women can reclaim agency, play, pleasure, and connection in real life.

A mother of three and former nonprofit CEO, Caroline writes and speaks openly about the realities many women experience but rarely discuss publicly: cognitive overload, resentment, body image, erotic identity, caregiving, midlife, and sustaining intimacy amid the pressures of adulthood.

Her work blends memoir, cultural criticism, humor, and practical insight to create conversations that are honest, provocative, accessible, and deeply human.

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Ep. 114! Iris sits down with author of the award winning book, Bride-Made: A Memoir, Mia Hanks. Mia Hanks is a survivor of narcissistic abuse. She was married to a covert narcissist for 29 years and is the author of an award winning book titled Bride-Made: A Memoir. Mia is hoping that her story will help raise awareness about narcissism and help other victims find their voices.

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Ep. 113! Iris sits down with Memoirist, novelist and essayist, Carolyn Flynn. She is the author of the memoir Boundless and seven books of nonfiction. Boundless was longlisted for the 2021 Mslexia International Memoir Prize and the 2022 First Pages Prize.

Her novel Searching for Persephone, shortlisted for the Elixir Press First Novel Prize, is excerpted in The Write Launch. Her work has been published in Fourth Genre, Under the Gum Tree, Arts and Letters, The Colorado Sun, The Tampa Review, The Whitefish Review (Montana Prize for Fiction), Albuquerque Journal, Sage Magazine, Albuquerque the Magazine and Wilde Frauen.

She is a single mother of Ukrainian-Irish-American twins and was the longtime editor of a life-giving magazine called Sage. In her TEDx Women talk, “Tell a Better Story, Live a Better Life,” she has inspired countless others to live their sacred yes—even in a world that may split open, as the writer Muriel Rukeyser once famously said, if one woman spoke the truth.

She is a 2012 graduate of the Naslund-Mann Spalding MFA in Writing program and a native of Lexington, Kentucky, where she grew up near Red River Gorge. She now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is a hiker and a pilgrim and a desert dweller who is an appreciator of horizons.

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