Emergency Brags from Mama Gena

Sisters,

I am still riding the tailwind of your exquisite outpouring of gratitude from last week’s Thanksgiving Blog. Good Goddess, I’ve got it good. I am so rich and full from this sisterhood we have created, that I simply must brag right now and let you in on all my recent adventures as The Pleasure Queen.

I have THE most incredible brags…

I brag that in the past month, the Pleasure Revolution has been taking the world by storm.

It all started with my first-ever live, international seminar in Copenhagen. Check out this video footage from my travels to Denmark and Iceland…

I am still flushed with gratitude for the privilege of watching the Pleasure Revolution expand internationally.

I brag that two weeks later, we turned South Beach upside-down with the best ever Worldwide Sister Goddess Reunion in Miami.  I was struck down by the extreme Sisterhood we have cultivated.  We are a community of women who don’t just have one another’s backs, but fling each other forward, towards our dreams, in the grand roller derby of life.

After Miami, I flew to L.A. to attend Sir Richard and Eve Branson’s Rock the Kasbah event, where I got to see the legendary Mary J. Blige perform, and meet the man himself.  This is my year for meeting more of my heroes and heroines.

From L.A., it was back to NYC where I gave two virtual lectures at The Learning Annex–you can watch them here and here. I brag that later that week, I had the most fantastic Thanksgiving holiday, starting with brunch at Per Se, where I had the complete honor and privilege of meeting every woman’s best friend, Gayle King, who just began her new gig at CBS.  Be sure to tune in and support this sister, as she unfurls a new chapter in her life.   And Maggie was home for Thanksgiving weekend!  We took my Mom to see “Anything Goes” on Broadway.  So much fun, so much joy, so much overflowing thanks.

I brag this week I fly to San Francisco to give my Ted talk, as part of TedxFiDiWomen. One week later, I’m heading back to L.A. to serve on the hosting committee for an Evening of Gratitude at Fred Segal. It’s going to be a Sister Goddess-studded event in honor of SG Janine’s Flawless Foundation, featuring artwork by SG Tara Dixon.   And then, I will be attending a board meeting for NextStep Fitness, the foundation created by Janne Kouri. NextStep is a national nonprofit that brings the latest in fitness, health, and wellness to individuals living with paralysis and other physical disabilities.  It is so deeply satisfying to serve.

From Copenhagen to Miami, East Coast to West Coast, this is cruising at the speed of pleasure.

Your turn.  Whatcha got?  Give me YOUR top bullet brags!  It doesn’t have to be extravagant—even the tiniest drop of goodness in your life is worth celebrating.

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

15 Things You WON’T Get If You Go to Miami

Darlings,

Let me be frank.
The Worldwide Sister Goddess Reunion is not for everyone.

There are some women who are content to color inside the lines.

And then…there are Sister Goddesses. Women who are interested in creating their own illustrations. In teasing, cajoling, seducing, and inviting their desires. Women who are ready to have more…and willing to do something about it.

To be perfectly clear, here’s a list of 15 things you will NOT get if you come to Miami.

1.) Muumuus and turtlenecks.
Sister Goddesses have become infamous for treating every sidewalk in South Beach as their runway. Miami is the prime opportunity to rock your hottest Beach Goddess gear. Bikinis, tunics, maxi dresses, whatever is your pleasure! Just wait ’til you see the ensembles I’ve got lined up…

2.) Michael Bolton ballads.
The city of Miami pulses to a Latin beat, with music emanating from nearly every block. And inside the classroom, DJ Song Siren has one main objective: getting you to drop it like it’s hot. Her Miami playlist is always a surprise, but she has been known to crank Pitbull and Lady Gaga.

3.) Frostbite.
Weather reports are predicting abundant sunshine and high 70s, low 80s. Which means one thing: a pink towel invasion on the beach.

4.) Sex-appeal starvation.
While in South Beach, you will have the opportunity to feast yourself on as much or as little eye candy as you desire…

5.) Another night alone, on the couch, with takeout Chinese and Howie Mandel as your date.
No more sitting on the sidelines, sisters! No more spinning your wheels in isolation. This year we are unveiling the first ever Unbound Olympics, designed to help you press your pleasure edge. The more outrageous acts you perform, with your sisters bearing witness, the more unbound you become…

6.) Orderly conduct.
This IS Miami. And this IS the Worldwide Sister Goddess Reunion. And the topic IS “A Life Unbound,” after all! You can expect to spot Sister Goddesses turning ordinary moments into dance breaks, forming desire circles in the ocean, conjuring limo rides…. It’s all pleasure research.

7.) Cream of wheat.
If there’s one thing Miami has plenty of, it’s flavor. The city offers food for all of your senses, including countless opportunities to tantalize your taste buds—everything from Sushi Samba to Mango’s to Le Sandwicherie. Swing out.

8.) Wallflowers.
Consider Worldwide the greatest Pleasure Laboratory for women on the planet, designed to liberate your inner wallflower. Sister Goddesses have reported countless first experiences: first skinny dips, first tabletop dance solos, first desire rituals by moonlight…Last year we had an instance of naked parasailing. In what direction do you want to stretch?

9.) Netflix.
The Reunion is jam-packed with live, live, LIVE entertainment. Mama Gena’s entrances alone have been the talk of the town. Think motorcycles, bellydancers, and an army of women in bathrobes…and we’re not even talking about the Pink Party performers…

10.) Catfights.
While in Miami, you will be fully immersed in the key ingredient to creating everything you desire: Sisterhood. The Reunion is your playground, where every time you turn around, you’ll see a woman reflecting back your brilliance, knowing you are capable of getting everything you want and so much more.

11.) Stagnation.
From the moment women launch their desires into the classroom on Friday night, to their Sunday morning brags, magic happens. At Worldwide, you will witness transformations. And it’s infectious–one woman ignites another like wildfire until the entire city is ablaze.

12.) Wrinkle Cream and Pantyhose.
This isn’t your average box of cracker jacks. We’ve got a juicy giveaway in store for each of you, and special gold, silver, and bronze medal prizes for our three lucky winners of the Unbound Olympics! The more you play, the better your chances…

13.) Waffling.
Indecision kills creation. I will be delivering brand-new, cutting-edge material on how to break the chains that bind you and lunge, with abandon, for what you want. Time to ditch your victimhood and step into the role of creatrix of your own life.

14.) Mother Goose Storytime.
You’ll get a sneak peek at the Pleasure Queen’s upcoming memoir…

15.) Self-acceptance and other stale, self-help jargon.
Self-acceptance is old news, sisters. Self-CELEBRATION is the minimum daily requirement for living A Life Unbound. The School of Womanly Arts does not concern itself with exploring problems. Instead, we conduct experiments in pleasure. The question is: are you willing to do the research?

Of course, I cannot reveal every trick up my sleeve. In order to learn every delicious ingredient of the unbinding cocktail, you’ve got to get yourself to Miami.

This is your last chance to enroll; you have until Friday, November 11^th at 3PM EST to register online!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

Every Mama Needs to Watch This

Darlings,

I am back with ROUND TWO of my Ask Mama Q&A video series!

Last week’s video caused quite a stir–I couldn’t wait to tackle more of your questions on living A Life Unbound…

This week’s Q speaks to the heart of the challenge every modern woman faces: how to prioritize her pleasure despite her laundry list of obligations.

We, as women, are so accustomed to putting the needs and wants of others before our own. It’s particularly challenging for us mamas–we become so involved in taking care of our families that we forget to save even five minutes just for ourselves. But when a woman reverses the order and begins to pay attention to what lights her up, making sure that each choice feels absolutely right and gratifying to her, she’s going to make choices that enhance her life and the lives of everyone around her.

Watch this video for tips on how to stage a pleasure revolution at home…

What tips do YOU have for staging a pleasure revolution with your family? Post them in the comments below! And for even more tips on going unbound in every area of your life, join us at the Worldwide Sister Goddess Reunion!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

89 Seconds of Miami Madness!!

For three days this November, in the heat of South Beach, we’re gonna jump on the raw bones of living a life unbound.
Who’s coming?

There will be Boot Campers, Mastery grads, and Inner Circlets.
There will be a celebration of womanhood such like the world has never seen.
The World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion is a three day immersion in the Womanly Arts. It is like a giant pleasure research sandbox.
If that has your name all over it, come join me at the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion in Miami!!!

With so much love and pleasure,
Mama Gena

Why Go Out When I Can Just Stay In?

Darlings,

Moving.
Women.
Anything but simple.
No matter how much we WANT to expand and explode and unbind, moving a woman to a hot new neighborhood is no easy task.
We cling like a bumper crop of Virginia creepers to the familiar landscape of our old boundaries.
Why go out when I can just stay in?
Why ask for a raise when I might piss off my boss?
Why flirt with that guy when he might reject me?
We cling oh so tight, even when the old neighborhood threatens to choke our growth.
Which brings me to Miami.

Why Miami, Mama Gena?
Why haul a crew of Sister Goddesses out of their homes, out of their apartments, out of their familiar surroundings? And plunge them into the heart of South Beach? Sun? Surf? Nightlife? Sisterhood?
Well, when you change a woman’s location, you can change her point of view.
When you change a woman’s outer landscape, you can expand her inner landscape.
Perspective creates……perspective.
Watch this slideshow.
If your pulse begins to race a bit, your heart begins to pound a little, and you start to salivate…then that is your destiny calling your name.
Time to leap, she is saying.
Time to change your neighborhood.
Time for YOU.

I will see you at the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion…

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

P.S. Eighteen Unbound Olympians are competing for the gold medal prize of a free seat at Mastery…but only one will win! We will be turning up the heat on the competition in Miami…stay tuned!

Video Q&A with Yo’ Mama

Darlings,

I am so excited to share with you the first in my brand-new “Ask Mama” Q&A video series!

Questions on how to live “A Life Unbound” have been pouring into the School of Womanly Arts, in anticipation of the upcoming World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion. And I couldn’t resist getting down and dirty with some of your burning Qs.

I’ve noticed a theme. It seems many of you have a huge interest in getting unbound in the workplace.

Who amongst us has never felt overworked, uninspired, or underpaid at our jobs? And I am here to tell you that the key to landing a job you love, a job that truly reflects your worth, a job that makes you ecstatic, is not to sit at your desk and hate the job you have.  Even though that is so very very tempting…
The key is to party with the job you’ve got.

But how?  Check out this video…

What are your guerilla pleasure warrior tips from going unbound at your job? Post them below! And if you want even more tips on how to get unbound in every facet of your life, join us at the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

Every Woman’s Greatest Fear

Darlings,

What is more frightening than a haunted house on Halloween?
More scary than ending up at a sample sale in your granny panties?
Finding out you fell asleep on the uptown train when you were supposed to be heading downtown?

Pleasure.  That’s what.

Is there anybody out there too scared to get unbound?

Are any of you too nervous to attend something as crazy as the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion in Miami?

Is living “A Life Unbound” too much for you?

If so, do not, under any circumstance, read Sister Goddess Georgette’s account of her very first School of Womanly Arts experience in Miami…

This past April I was in Miami, sitting in a room full of women who were bragging, dancing, and sharing their wildest, most outrageous desires for the upcoming weekend. I wanted to be fully part of the experience, but I felt like an observer. These women were rock stars. They bragged about hotel upgrades, gifts of cash, legendary love affairs. They were free and surfing the pleasure waves, while I was…bound.

I felt trapped by my uncertainty and doubt. I was shrinking back into my chair when Mama Gena spotted me and asked what I desired for the weekend. What was my response? “Seasoned fries.” I was hungry in every sense of the word, but “French fries” was all my adorably bound self could muster. “So you came all the way to Miami for French fries?” Mama asked me. I knew I made the journey from Los Angeles for much more but I didn’t know how to articulate it or how to get there.

Mama Gena encouraged me and said something that changed everything: “The days of not knowing how are over.” She worked with me to pull out some juicy desires and I was off. I conjured limo rides, gifted dinners that cost more than I pay for rent, clubbing, and a hotel upgrade all during that Miami weekend. I even had a cab driver, who dropped me off at a Mama Gena after-party, offer to fly me back to Miami whenever I desired to return. I didn’t take him up on the offer but I was glad to have it.

I got unbound in Miami and took it all back to my life in Los Angeles. I have taken my friendships into outrageous, joyous heights. Just last night to add some fun to my workout my friend Felicia and I snuck into the Rose Bowl to run the stairs. I added pleasure and juice to my acting career and had a director/writer create three pieces just for me. I conjured an amazing boyfriend who since April (my first Miami) has taken me to Santa Barbara, Nebraska, Seattle, Vegas, And Laguna Beach. He’s handsome, smart, funny, and worthy of a Sister Goddess like myself. I brag that I am taking him to this upcoming World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion. So come get unbound and frolic with us on the beach.

XOXO
Georgette

Ask a woman what she desires, and very often the first thing she does, like Sister Goddess Georgette, is panic. As if we could get a wrong mark or want something that could not happen, or—worse still—we have not even permitted ourselves to imagine what we truly long for.

Every woman is most afraid of her desires. We’ve been taught to judge, doubt, and ignore what it is we really want. But inside every desire is an adventure, waiting to transform you. Living a life unbound and leaping in the direction of what you want requires immense courage. A kind of courage that is fostered in the Sister Goddess Community. Thus Miami. The perfect playground.

Are you ready to name and claim what it is you really want? Join us at the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion! And remember, every woman who enrolls in the Reunion will get free access to Sistergoddess.com through Nov. 28, so you can start getting unbound on the online forums before you even hit South Beach…

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

Do You See Yourself in this Photograph?

Darlings,

I want to share with you the first of our brand-new series of Radio Portraits, here at The School of Womanly Arts.
This is a series of audio interviews describing photographic moments that take place inside the Mastery classroom.
There are some moments in life that have so much power, so much depth, so much beauty, they hover in the air for eternity.

This photograph was one of those moments.
The subject?
My beloved student and friend, Sister Goddess Elvira.
I have known Elvira for ten years, since she flounced into the uptown Pleasure Palace, long mane of chestnut hair flying, to join an early Mama 101 class, a week after it had begun.
She and I have been there, and back together, over the years. Divorces, raising daughters, falling in and out of love.

Elvira is in a whole new place now.
It had been some years since she had crossed the threshold of The School of Womanly Arts. And much had changed.
When she arrived in Miami, I could see that my sister was in a crisis.
And needed an emergency pleasure infusion.  She was dressed in what looked like a suit-of-armor version of Miami beachwear.
And I could see that her innate sense of confidence and joy had vanished.
There was one tool that I knew would bring her back to herself, immediately.
A runway….

This portrait illustrates the crossroads every woman faces. We can either choose to be a victim…or a creatrix. The victim is stuck in judging, blaming, and complaining when she doesn’t get what she wants—completely bound. But the creatrix is too busy leaping in the direction of one monumental desire after another. She is living a life unbound.

In one instant, Elvira made the courageous decision to unbind. What gave her that ability? The Sister Goddess Community. Sisterhood is the magical elixir in unbinding yourself and living the life you have longed for.

That is why we created the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion in Miami. To teach women to celebrate their desires, rather than doubt them, like we are so used to doing. Because when a woman lunges for what she wants, with abandon, it is the ultimate act of goodwill. It takes everyone in her world higher.

Elvira is a force of nature. And so are you. This was her masterpiece. What will be yours? What legendary moment awaits you, in Miami?

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

P.S. Did you miss last week’s sneak peek of the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion? Click here to access my tele-class on living A Life Unbound! And remember, every woman who enrolls in the Reunion will get free access to Sistergoddess.com through Nov. 28, so you can start getting unbound on the online forums before you even hit South Beach….

Want a Free Seat at Mastery?

Darlings,

We have a history, here, at The School of Womanly Arts, of Sister Goddess Activism. What is Sister Goddess Activism? When a woman stands for another woman’s pleasure. It began two years ago, with Sister Goddess Melanie. She went completely unbound as a Pleasure Revolutionary, and brought her Mob—a whole row of girlfriends—to the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion. Last year, I took Sister Goddess Shar to lunch at the Raleigh, with seventeen of the girlfriends she brought to World Wide. These women stood for, and changed the lives of their sisters. I deeply honor them.

So, I want you to give you a fun way to do activism in the way that Sister Goddesses have been doing activism with World Wide for the last 3 years. And make it even more fun and fabulous for you to participate.

This Miami is different from any other Miami. This year we are launching the Unbound Olympics. The woman who brings the most sisters to Miami is the one who has the best chance of winning a free seat at Mastery!!

We have a special Sister Goddess rate of $299 for Miami, if you bring a girlfriend.  For every woman you bring to Miami, another entry with your name on it gets put in the pink hat, and at the end of the weekend, I will draw the winner.  And yes, I will also take you and your gang to lunch!

So, to join the Unbound Olympics:

1. You must first enroll in World Wide online and then

2. Declare yourself a contender by Monday at 5PM, by clicking the link below. [Sorry, sisters, the deadline for this has passed.]

3. And you must stand for at least one woman who is new to The School of Womanly Arts to attend the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion in Miami.

The more sisters you bring, the greater your chances to win. You will never be unbound without changing somebody’s life. And the more outrageous you are, the more unbound you become. When we are in Miami, your chances for winning the gold medal will increase with every outrageous act you perform. More details on that to follow at the Reunion.

This is my way of showing my appreciation of Sister Goddess Activism. Thank you for creating the Pleasure Revolution with me.  Nothing turns me on more than women standing for women, sisters standing for one another’s pleasure.

REGISTER NOW!

I cannot wait to get unbound with you in Miami!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

Juice Infusion

Darlings,

There are a bunch of my favorite gals who would never ever EVER miss a
World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion.
One of them is flying back from India a few days early, just to be there on time.
Another one is bringing both her sisters. Again.

So I asked my pal Cyndy, who is a stay-at-home mom from Washington, D.C., exactly why??
What is the Miami magic?
What draws her back, time and time again?
And she answered me better than any answer I have ever gotten…

She made me this video, which I have to share with you!!!

The World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion is only one month away, and I am hosting a free preview call this Thursday, Oct. 13^th! Consider it a one-hour juice infusion that will immediately start to grease your wheels and help you gain momentum in any area of your life where you feel stuck. Click here to join the guest list for our pre-Miami extravaganza. And if you’d like to take a stand for any woman you know to live her fullness, in her lifetime, then share this post. I cannot wait to rock and roll with you this Thursday!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

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