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Unabashed
Author: Josefina Bashout
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The unapologetic podcast redefining what it means to be a powerful woman. Since 2020, Unabashed has been shaking up the world of sex, love, and feminine leadership, one taboo topic at a time. Host Josefina Bashout, aka The Pussy Priestess®, shares expertise on the art of being fully expressed from tantric sex & intimacy to healing, empowerment, and unleashing your magnetic confidence. This is where sacred meets sexy, where vulnerability and audacity shine, and where being “too much” is exactly right!💋Want more? Ask Josefina anything at [email protected] + follow her @josefinabashout
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Ready to get wild and feel free to enjoy your sex life?
In today’s society, there’s a lot of fear and misunderstanding around promiscuity. In this episode, Josefina dives into this complex topic and explains how we can evolve into what’s known as the “naughty provocateur.”
She’ll help you move past your fear of appearing promiscuous and drop any shame you hold around your sexuality. By bringing the wildness back into your soul, you can unlock sexual liberation.
Josefina will leave you with an invitation to unlock your deepest pleasure and your most sensual self.
Key Takeaways:
Being wild. [4:13]
Navigating the fear of feeling promiscuous. [8:02]
The impacts of feeling promiscuous. [11:57]
The power of discernment. [20:10]
Why it’s difficult for many women to enjoy sex. [24:10]
What sacred intimacy is all about. [30:18]
Some practices of self-leadership and seduction to feel magnetic. [34:31]
Resources:
Instagram: @josefinabashout
JosefinaBashout.com
XOAfterglow.com
Memorable Quotes:
“Your nature is not to be domesticated, but to be wild.” (5:40, Josefina)
“We need to do what we were put here on the earth to do as women. We're here to feel. We're here to move. We are here to emote and to be erotic in a wholesome, beautiful way and to create and live our life in a beautiful state.” (6:25, Josefina)
“Promiscuity and being promiscuous also brings in an opportunity for liberation for an opportunity for you to shift into a sex-positive mindset. Into light. Into wildness.” (15:33, Josefina)
“You can have beautiful, meaningful sexual engagements with people that you choose to have sex with when you let go of the sexual shame and you allow yourself to be enticed by the freedom to let go of these old paradigms.” (25:42, Josefina)
“There's a lot of spiritual shaming that goes on that if you are sleeping around and having sex with people that this is going to block you from your life partner, this is a shaming narrative, and it's a fear-based narrative. I absolutely don't believe that.” (29:22, Josefina)
“It is actually so erotic, so sexy, so attractive when you know your body when you master your craft of sexuality as a woman because you bring more to your man, you bring more to the world, you bring more to your relationship.” (32:59, Josefina)
I am so excited to dive into this provocative exploration of conscious kink with one of my dearest and nearest, Yossef. Together, we are deconstructing sexual shame and creating a permission field for all beings to feel loved in their fullest expression.✧ Here are the key insights from our conversation:Integrating the Taboo: I used to think the goal was to eradicate shame, but Yseph offered a beautiful shift: kink is actually the overlap where our shame and our turn-on occupy the same space. Instead of "fixing" ourselves, which implies we are broken, we are moving toward radically loving and integrating every part of our being.The Path of Desire: We discussed how to build a healthy relationship with desire through four stagesAcknowledge: Internally recognize the desire as true.Claim: Speak it out loud to remove the heavy charge and judgment.Explore: Discern if the desire is truly aligned with your inner self or just something society told you to want.Ask with Detachment: Request what you want while remaining detached from the outcome, which prevents the spiral of rejection.Conscious Power Dynamics: We are constantly in power dynamics—whether through money, attraction, or status—but they are often unconscious and transactional. Conscious kink allows us to play with these roles intentionally.✧ Redefining Dominance and Submission:True Dominance: This isn't about control or repression; it is about creating a safe container that allows a partner to be fully expressed, including their emotions and triggers.Active Submission: Submission is not passive. It requires an active choice to let go of tension and trust the partner to catch you.Intimacy as Witnessing: The real fruit of this work is radical self-acceptance. By being witnessed in our "wildest" or "edgiest" parts by someone who continues to love us, we strengthen our emotional and spiritual intimacy.Community and Safe Containers: Exploring these edges requires clean, curated spaces. Yseph facilitates this through his "Mystery Temple" workshops and "Kinky Classroom," which focuses on the energetics and somatic experience of power dynamics.Ultimately, our sexual evolution is a spiritual maturation process. As Yseph beautifully shared, we need more men willing to actively surrender to feminine wisdom to move the world forward.✧ Connect with Josefina:Follow on Instagram: @Josefinabashout Apply for your free Pleasure blueprint session with Josefina https://lp.josefinabashout.com/booking
Whether you call it "daddy issues" or father wounds, the relationship you had or didn't have with your father is often the blueprint for your romantic future. In this episode, we explore why your partner is actually a mirror of your internal healing and how you can stop "tap dancing" for love to finally claim the devotion you deserve.✧ What’s Inside:The Marriage Predictor: Discover why the fastest way to predict how a man will treat you in marriage is to look at your current dynamic with your father.The "Bar and Tone": Learn how accepting negativity or criticism from your dad sets a subconscious standard that your partner will eventually mirror.Chemistry vs. Familiarity: Understand why your nervous system might be "addicted" to inconsistent or distant men simply because they feel familiar.Breaking Behavioral Patterns: Identify common traps like "overfunctioning," people-pleasing, or wearing "masculine armor" as a protective shield.A Real-Life Transformation: Hear the story of a bride-to-be who had to choose her own standards over her father’s guilt trips and how it immediately shifted her engagement.✧ Action Plan for Healing:Grieve the Gap: Acknowledge and mourn the love or relationship you never received from your father as a child.Set Boundaries: Build courageous communication boundaries with your father; if the interaction isn't loving or supportive, stop accepting it.Reclaim Sovereignty: Decouple your sense of worthiness from your father's perceptions, limitations, or expectations.Shift from "Hunter" to "Receiver": Stop overfunctioning to create certainty or leading the dynamic through masculine energy; instead, let safe love find you.Face the Fear of Displeasure: Get comfortable with others being upset with you as you let go of people-pleasing patterns.✧ The Benefits of This Work:Natural Standard Raising: When you heal the root pattern, your standards for how you should be treated raise automatically.Effortless Relationship Shifts: Your partner will neurosense the change in your energy, causing old, unhealthy dynamics to dissolve without a fight.Safety in Devotion: You move from "fireworks" chemistry often rooted in trauma to a love that feels like a warm, safe fireplace.Emotional Freedom: You stop looking for your husband to fill an old wound, allowing the relationship to exist in wholeness rather than lack.Ready to stop fighting for love and start receiving it? Tune in now! ✧ Connect with Josefina:Follow on Instagram: @Josefinabashout Apply for your free Pleasure blueprint session with Josefina https://lp.josefinabashout.com/booking
In this episode, Josefina explores with you the distinctions between the masculine & feminine spiritual paths as a way for you to find which path feels more true to you. She's supporting you in focusing on reclaiming authenticity and aliveness rather than over-optimizing the body through traditional masculine-based practices, giving permission to your feminine light to shine bright through the feminine spiritual path, which is divinely designed differently for a female body and spirit.✧The Feminine vs. Masculine PathThe masculine path, often rooted in traditions like Vipassana, is a more rigid and strictly disciplined practice of stillness, non-reactivity, and observing reality to move beyond attachments and cravings.The feminine path, which is rooted more in both Tantric traditions and somatic-based practices. This path is directed towards "full contact" with reality, involving active participation and riding the edge of sensations rather than stepping back to observe them.Masculine practices focus on neutralizing energy and transcending desire, while the feminine path uses movement, breath-work, sound, and pleasure to activate energy and radiance.Many women feel exhausted because they try to follow masculine operating systems, schedules, and practices that may deplete their natural feminine vitality.✧Spiritual Polarity in RelationshipsJosefina addresses a common fear in relationships, that partners will grow apart if they follow different spiritual paths.Merging completely by adopting a partner's habits and abandoning personal interests is a "spiritual trap" that can lead to a flat, dull, and chargeless polarity in a romantic relationship.Relationship polarity requires two distinct energy fields; attraction is fueled by the meeting of different energies, such as masculine stillness and feminine fire.Intimacy is built through genuine curiosity about who the other person is becoming rather than achieving absolute sameness.✧Integration and PracticeMaintaining separate individual morning practices allows each partner to tend to their own inner life first, bringing more authenticity to the union.Vipassana can be integrated as a complementary tool for sharpening focus and mental faculties without replacing the movement-based feminine path.Shared language and discussing what is "alive" within each person create a deeper connection than simply matching practices.Abandoning one's path to mirror a partner is not true love and can lead to self-abandonment and an erosion of the connection.A woman rooted in her own feminine path is more present, magnetic, and alive within her relationship.The ultimate goal is for each partner to be fully on their own path while staying curious and supportive of the other's journey toward their highest potential.✧ Connect with Josefina:Follow on Instagram: @Josefinabashout Apply for your free Pleasure blueprint session with Josefina https://lp.josefinabashout.com/booking
This episode explores Josefina’s experience at a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat, an intensive silent meditation practice rooted in the original teachings of Gautama Buddha.✧ Retreat Overview and PreparationWhat is Vipassana meditation? Josefina immersed herself in 10 days of “Noble Silence”, no talking, eye contact, or gestures, to fully turn inward and observe sensations, cravings, and aversions. Her retreat took place in Joshua Tree at 29 Palms, booked through Dhamma.org. She attended with her fiancé and learned that proactive communication (even when waitlisted) can help secure a spot. Once committed, she fully immersed herself, letting go of other practices like yoga, breathwork, journaling and reading to discover a deeper connection to her inner nature.✧ Her Experience and InsightsThe beginning wasn’t all peaceful and blissful; it was irritating. Small things, like her assigned seat or interactions with others, triggered her. Instead of reacting, she used these moments as opportunities to observe her internal patterns of judgment and aversion. Managing the Process: Josefina emphasized the importance of staying light with diet and choosing self-care, such as prioritizing sleep, over strict, perfect adherence to the schedule.Reflecting on Relationship: The retreat experience allowed Josefina and her fiancé to deepen their connection through a shared, quiet awareness, leading to a profound reunion at the end of the retreat.She also embraced flexibility, prioritizing rest and self-care rather than rigidly following every aspect of the schedule. Listen to her personal story, insights, challenges, and revelations in this episode. ✧ BreakthroughsAs the days progressed, deeper patterns surfaced.She noticed a tendency to cling, especially to pleasant sensations and her fiancé’s attention. When that attention wasn’t present, it triggered deeper feelings of rejection. By day seven, this intensified into what she described as a “psychosomatic storm” of rage, linked not just to the present, but to unresolved childhood experiences. Instead of resisting, she stayed present with the physical sensations. Through observation, she reached a state of stillness and realized that the agitation itself, not external situations, was the root of her anger. .✧ 10-day Silent Vipassana retreat:Go to the website - https://www.dhamma.org/en-US✧ Connect with Josefina:Follow on Instagram: @Josefinabashout Apply for your free Pleasure blueprint session with Josefina https://lp.josefinabashout.com/booking





