Permission to Be Enchanting

Permission to Be Enchanting

Welcome to the Permission to Be Enchanting podcast for women in mid-life who want to experience more pleasure and a healthy relationship with their sexuality. Each episode is a candid conversation brimming with uninhibited sex talk, practical tools, and expert insights dedicated to your sexual awakening. Female empowerment involves moving past the conditioning of shame regarding sexuality and invites you back to love yourself into wholeness. Clare is a Chicago-based certified sex, love, and intimacy coach, licensed massage therapist, and mindfulness teacher who had her own sexual awakening at 48. She interviews experts in the fields of sex, neuroscience, psychology, and relationships to promote positive sex education and help you reclaim your mid-life power. It’s time to have the pleasure based, health-enhancing sex and love life you've always wanted, whether that is solo or with a partner(s), while learning to embrace your flaws and imperfections with loving self-compassion. Listen and enjoy. And share it with a girlfriend. Follow Clare: IG: https://www.instagram.com/empowered_enchantress/ Website: https://empoweredenchantress.com/ Free Newsletter: https://empoweredenchantress.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Episodes

June 13, 2025 61 mins

Dr. Joli Hamilton, a relationship coach and research psychologist, discusses her sixteen-year personal journey and twenty-year expertise in non-monogamous relationships. She emphasizes the importance of understanding and managing jealousy, which she terms an "elephant in the room." Joli's doctoral research focused on the archetypal nature of jealousy in polyamorous r...

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Anyone should be able to rewrite their sexual script and story if they so desire. Lauren Rogers, a certified holistic sexuality educator, discusses her journey from a strict religious upbringing to becoming an empowered sexuality coach. She emphasizes the importance of rewriting one's sexual sto...

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Sarah Rose Bright and Graeme Waterfield, a couple of over seven years, discuss their approach to "making love" as a transformative practice for deeper intimacy and pleasure. Sarah, a love, sex, and intimacy coach, and Graeme, a tai chi and meditation teacher, emphasize the importance of consciou...

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Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, a licensed sex therapist and author, discusses the impact of sexual shame on intimacy and well-being. She highlights her book Shameless Parenting, which addresses raising shame-free, confident kids and healing parental shame. Dr. Tina explains how sexual shame begins in interpersonal relationships and is exacerbated by societal and cultural norms. She emphasizes the importance of medically accurate sex ed...

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Susan Morgan Taylor, a somatic sex therapist, discusses her approach to helping couples navigate mismatched libidos and sexless marriages. She emphasizes the importance of removing orgasm as the goal and focusing on direct pleasure through noticing, naming, and negotiating sensations.

 

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Intimacy is a dance that requires self-awareness, trust, and vulnerability. In this episode, Somatic Sex Educators Rahi Chun and Ariel Szabo guide us on a journey into deeper intimacy and connection for couples. They explore the importance of self-intimacy, self-trust, and self-attunement as the...

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Faith Laux, a somatic sex and relationship coach from Asheville, North Carolina, discusses her journey into kink as a healing modality. Diagnosed with stage four colon cancer in 2022, she uses pleasure to thrive. Faith explains kink as being turned on by taboo, which can be non-sexual, and emphasizes the importance of communication and consent. She describes creating...

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Amanda Biccum discusses the distinction between intimacy and sexuality, emphasizing that intimacy is rooted in emotional connection and presence, while sexuality is more physical and energetic. She highlights the importance of self-intimacy and the need for couples to have brave conversations to address their deeper longings and challenges...

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Vive la Vulva! Rachel Watson is back joining Clare Sente as a regular guest to kick off Season 5. This episode is dedicated to increasing the pleasure and frequency of oral sex as a main event for creating pleasure and intimacy, rather than obligatory "foreplay" before intercourse. They discuss ...

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Steve Shiva Corbett shares his experiences in personal development and the difficulty of finding role models for healthy masculinity. In this episode, he highlights the challenges men face in expressing vulnerability and the need for rites of passage to foster emotional intelligence. He also discusses the role of the feminine as an Oracle ...

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In this second discussion with bodyworker and host of The Brilliant Body Podcast, Ali Mezey talks with Clare Sente about the intelligence and wisdom of the body, particularly in the context of sexuality and trauma. Ali crea...

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Tantra is an ancient practice that weaves together the physical, spiritual, and emotional to create a life of deep connection and pleasure. In this episode, we explore this fascinating world with Amanda Biccum, an international Tantra and embodiment facilitator. Amanda shares her personal journe...

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Why is sex feeling so... off these days? Dr. Nan Wise, a renowned sex therapist, sheds light on the global sexual recession and explores why couples are struggling to communicate their needs and wants. Discover how to bridge the orgasm gap, cultivate deeper attunement, and reignite the passion i...

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Your body is not broken—it’s a relationship waiting to be discovered. Bonnie Bliss, a somatic sexologist and embodiment teacher, discusses her approach to helping women reconnect with their bodies and enhance their sexual experiences. She emphasizes the importance of embodiment, which involves being consciously aware of one's body through practices like self-touch, movement, and meditation. Bliss shares her personal journey of over...

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Ready to transform your sexual energy into a source of strength and confidence? Join us for a deep dive into male sexuality like you've never heard before with guest Graeme Waterfield, an expert in sexual energy mastery for men. In this eye-opening conversation, Graeme reveals how making s...

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In today's episode, guest Julie Wood explains the importance of visualizing our wombs (or the energy of our wombs, if a woman has had a hysterectomy) as sacred vessels that carry the wisdom of our ancestors, as well as the connection to the Divine Feminine.


Julie is a Medicine Woman...

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Often misunderstood and stigmatized, orgasms are a natural and pleasurable part of human sexuality. In this enlightening episode, Naomi Harris, the Pleasure Naturopath, joins Clare Sente to explore the journey from pain and numbness to profound pleasure. Naomi talks about how we are conditioned from the start that sex is supposed to hurt the first time and how that conditioning keeps women from questioning why they continue to feel...

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Pleasure is not a luxury; it's a necessity for well-being. In part two of our series, Dr. Nan Wise returns to take us deeper into the fascinating world of neuroscience and pleasure. As a psychotherapist, sex therapist, neuroscientist, and author, Dr. Wise explores the crucial role of pleasure in our lives. She breaks down the seven emotional instincts hardwired into humans, the brain's three levels, and the biopsychosocial model th...

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Clare Sente talks with fellow sex coach Nadia Lune about her work as a Queer and Gender Expansive Coach to help women and gender-expansive beings reclaim their power by reclaiming their sexuality. When rewriting our sexual story, we take a look at how our sexual story was given to us and whether the labels we hold are the labe...

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Mastering our emotional instincts is key to unlocking a healthier and happier life. Join this episode as Dr. Nan Wise—a neuroscientist, a sex therapist, and author of the book, Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure, for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life—explains about the Seven Basic Emotional Instincts wired into our human and mammal brains for survival: Care, Play, Lust, Fear, Rage, Panic...

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