Ep 1. (Part 1) Phyllis Rawley's Life Story, Relationships, Sexuality and Monogamy

Welcome to my first episode!

Today you'll be hearing me talk with my mentor, Phyllis Rawley, who after being my writing coach for three months, gave me the news that her health was in decline due to a history of cancers and other factors, and that she didn't have much time left to live.

I'd been wanting to do a podcast for a long time but kept delaying it until now, because I needed to share her story and her voice with the world before she was gone. I could not be more privileged and more lucky to start my podcast with her as my very first guest.

Phyllis shares her life story, advice on how to have a successful relationship, a meaningful life, and how to rethink death.

She's taught me that not everything that society has taught us about how we are supposed to live is true. And that if you want to define your own beliefs and a way of living, you better research and question everything before you make a decision, instead of continuing along with the system's flow.

 

I will be diving the conversation into two parts.

 

Part One:

Phyllis talks about her childhood being raised in a military family, growing up in several military bases in the States, Okinawa Island and Iran. Discovering travel from a young age and dealing with both her parents getting cancer when she was a teenager.

She describes her young adulthood life's transitions from being a sex, drugs and rock and roll party girl to becoming a reborn christian missionary which she quit after 12 years. From her first orgasm at five years old to becoming a dominatrix in the world of bondage and later experiencing a kundalini awakening at Burning Man, Phyllis shares how this contributed to her teachings on relationships and sexuality.