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Episode 66: Existential Thread

IT’S MOSTLY MUSIC!!! HOLY WAR!!! I’M HERE TO RADICALIZE YOU!!! TIME IS FAKE!!! THE ESSENTIAL SELF!!! MORE ABOUT COMPASSES!!! I’M AN ENFJ!!! WHICH BASICALLY MEANS I JUST WANT TO HELP PEOPLE BE HAPPY, GOD DAMN IT!!! CONDITIONING!!! YOU ARE MISSING CONTEXT!!! YOU CAN NOT HAVE LOVE WITHOUT GRIEF!!! HEALTHY COMPARTMENTALIZATION!!! & MY LIFE HAS BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR MOVIE!!! AND THIS IS ALL IN CAPS BECAUSE THE SHOW IS ACTUALLY SUPER MELLOW!!!!!!!! OVERCOMPENSATION FTW!!!

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Episode 65: Nostalgia 🥀

CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT!!! Hard conversations!!! DEAD RELATIONSHIP PURGATORY!!! SHOULD WE TRY THIS AGAIN?! Forgiveness. “JUST SAY THAT” Overthinking everything!!! If it weren’t for second chances we’d all be alone. RELATIONAL TRAUMA!!! YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS TO BE IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP!!! The Help Wanted Cafe. The pottery studio. & The love. All the love. All the people that I loved that I’ll probably never see again. My heart scattered like ash across this whole little universe. & a lot of really great music.

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Episode 64: Spicy & Awkward🌶

DON’T FALL IN LOVE WITH A FANTASY IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE REALITY!!! RECLAIMING PLEASURE!!! It’s not you, it’s me… or is it?!? ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS!!! The Myth of Sisyphus!!! PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING!!! TRASHY DANCE PARTY!!! SOCIAL MEDIA SUCKS BALLS!!! I SWEAR I’M AN ACTUAL PERSON!!! YOU BROKE IT I’M NOT FIXING IT!!! & I am a wealth of knowledge and baggage, but at least I’m honest about it.

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Episode 63: Just me and The Void, having a time…

EASY HONEY!!! WHAT IS TANTRA?!? SPIRITUAL PRACTICE!!!! AND WE’RE BACK to me alone in a room with a vibrator and the Tao Te Ching!!! RITUAL UNION!! TIBETAN BUDDHISM!!! NO BIG DEALS!!! LOVE IS DEAD, and what’s more rock and roll than that!!! THE DEEPER YOU GET THE LESS THERE IS!!! MAGIC!!! I AM SO AWKWARD!!!! CHANCE ENCOUNTERS!!! & Cool. Great. I’m soooo comfortable.

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Episode 62: Chaotic Neutral 📿⚔️

AYYYYYY SEND IT!!! RIP TO HALF MY HAIR & MY LOVE LIFE!!! Sharpened resolve. Sharpened edges. Sharpened senses. KAHLIL GIBRAN!!! FUCK YOU!!! HELL YEAH YOU TELLEM!!! Gone, all of it. THE DHARMA!! ASL!!! I’d pay you NOT to post this!!! DEBILITATING PHYSICAL PAIN!!!! EXTRAORDINARY GRATITUDE & PRESENCE!!! NO RUNNING!!! HABITUAL PRACTICE!!! DAILY ROUTINE!!! MY INTERNAL COMPASS IS SAYING WEIRD THINGS!!! The Feng Shui equivalent of an ‘out of order’ sign to the universe. & THE NEVERENDING PAPER!!!

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Episode 61: The Makings Of A Supervillain ☠️✨

AN IMPENETRABLE IRON WALL!!! METAPHORS ARE BACK!!! No one is coming to save you (again)!!! I ONLY WANT WHAT WANTS ME (again? Really?)!!! MISERY INCARNATE?!? HOPE, a thing with feathers!!! OUR THOUGHTS SHAPE OUR REALITY!!! The rules are crumbling and who’s to say what makes you a decent human anymore!!! NON-DUALISM (again)!!! I'm NOT READY BUT WE'RE DOING IT ANYWAYS (again?)!!! LAUGHING IS A SELF-DEFENSE!!! OUR GUARDIAN ANGEL IS GONE!!! ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!!!

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Episode 60: Dad Vibes, Lost Bags & Orgasms!

BRITISH COLOMBIA!!! Stripper names!!!KELOWNA!!! VANCOUVER!!! GETTING STUCK IN TORONTO!!! OLIVER TWIST!! Partnership?!? BACK AND SOFTER THAN EVER!!! THE BEAUTIFUL HEARTS OF SO MANY STRANGERS!!! Thrift shopping!!! JUCY CLIFFHANGERS!!! The number 44!!! A DIFFERENT KIND OF WOMAN & a whole bunch of my heart but in musical form….

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Episode 59: 100% Olivia Approved 💫

FULL THROTTLE INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN!!! Are rabbits particularly nervous? RISING HORMONES!!! MUSIC HEAVY!!! & Being totes sobes, aka totally sober... Is 100% Olivia approved this summer. As is mediation and spiritual practice. Fighting with your demons only to eventually accept them. Fully Olivia endorsed. GOING TO THERAPY, 100% Olivia approved this summer. Hanging out in hot tubs with your friends, an essential summer Olivia endorsement. Being sexually liberated, 100% Olivia approved this summer and all the time. Let’s get freaky people.

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Episode 58: Losing My Edge

JUICING!!?? GRIEF & PRAISE!!! ONE DIRTY STRIP TEASE!!!THE MUNDANE!!! WILD REVELATIONS!!! JUDGEMENT!!! LET YOUR FREEK FLAG FLY!!! Conversations with friends!!! VIRTUAL SEXY TIME!!! Variety is the spice of life!!! FULL FRONTAL NUDITY!!! Diligent study!!! NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION & vulnerability is power?

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Episode 57: The One Where Olivia Tries To End The Show 3 Times…. ☠️

What is wrong with me?!?!?! DOUBLE SCORPIO ENERGY UP TO 10,000!!! MY FATHER!!! WAYYYY too many Ginger Sodas… OLD LOVERS!!! THE FARMERS MARKET…. DUN DUN DUN… One incredibly strong woman. MY PAST IS CATCHING UP TO ME!!! SEXUAL SAFETY!!! PRESENCE!!! & WEIRD CUTE THINGS. And one very serious sex talk & of course Olivia tries to end the show 3 times… and has to keep talking. Things get AWKWARD!!!

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Episode 56: Back On My Bullshit!☀️

But, what can I say, it’s good to be BACK… And badder than ever! No, I’m just kidding, I’m wearing linen from head to toe, and I smell like orange blossoms, and my giant fluffy Labradoodle (that literally looks like an actual member of The Muppets at the moment) is lying on my feet. I am, in fact, about as far from “badder than ever” than I have ever been in my life…

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Episode 55: I Smell Sex & Candy & TRAUMA

A WITCH, A SUCCUBUS, A HERETIC!!! FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM? SENSUALITY!!! So, what if you were the fullest, most embodied, sensual version of yourself? What are you afraid would happen? Would you lose control? Would you attract unwanted attention? SAFETY!!! Boundaries!!! HUMAN DECENCY!!! QUEER & WEIRD!!! TANGENTS!!! DEFINITIONS OF TRAUMA!!! Cultural conditioning!!! OOO FUNNN!!! SHAME!!! PHEROMONES!!! VIXEN WOMAN!!! & And why, if anything do you suppress that? Who taught you that this essential nature, you as a sensual being, was wrong? Who shamed you?

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Rest: This Week Is Meditation Week

…benign to feel your roots, sinking deep into the earth, searching for stability, for nutrients in the soil to alchemize into energy. Feeling the strength it gives you, the warmth and connection. The rooted steadiness.

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Episode 54: WTF DOES OLIVIA ACTUALLY DO FOR A LIVING?!

YOUR UNIQUE MEDICINE!!! ROCK & ROLL JUXTAPOSED WITH OlIVIA CALMLY EXPLAINING HOW THINGS WORK!!! SO WHAT THE HELL IS REIKI?!?! AND WTF IS HEARTMATH®?!?! Olivia talks about her day job. HOLDING SPACE!!!! I love, I care, and I am kind to people for a living. You might be thinking, “What? That’s not a job. Who appointed you Disney Princess of the year….” Well in my world, it is a job. HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW?!?! NON-JUDGEMENT!!! SEXOLOGY!!! SELF-REGULATION!!! IMPERFECT AND LEARNING!!! I am teaching my medicine. MORE ROCK & ROLL!!! THETA WAVES!!! HYPNOSIS!!! FLOATING ON A CLOUD!!! A DEEPER CONNECTION TO THE RUSHING TIDES OF THE UNIVERSE…. WEIRD BOAT METAPHORS (classic)!!! & I’ll be here, holding down my corner. You know, like I do.

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Episode 53: Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll

Thank you, the universe breathes, for your reverence. WORKING MAGIC!!! IMMEASURABLE POWER COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS!!! Sobriety. LIQUID GOLD!!! Doritos. CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE ARRIVED!!! Me saying I will explain my day job and then not doing it. CLASSIC!!! Tibetan Tantra!!! ANIMISM!!! (EVERYTHING IS ALIVE!!!) Sitting like a crazy person and talking to my plants… CALLING IN THE ONE (the world’s least cool book). ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE?!?!?! SO, let’s talk about SEX. & I thought that I would find god at the bottom of a bottle of single malt scotch, or the last hit of a joint…

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Episode 52: AUTHENTIC Day Old Pizza…

I STILL HAVE NOTHING FIGURED OUT!!! Shocking, I know. BED PIZZA!!! A TOTAL OF 3 RANTS ABOUT AUTHENTICITY VERSUS ARROGANCE!!! Great new alt-jams!!! THINGS THAT REALLY BOTHER ME!!! Wild child. SELF LOATHING!!! SOCIAL MEDIA: The curated moments we want to share. The blossoms in the spring, the quotes on how to access your inner strength *gets a little nauseous*… begging look at me I’m authentic. (And I’m just as guilty of it as anyone) No one’s posting a video of me screaming at my computer while I try to figure out why I have so many TOLL VIOLATIONS and watching me throw my phone (which is loudly playing Mass EZ-pass hold music) across the room… SELF-LOVE VS ARROGANCE (the epic face-off). LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS!!! OLD LOVERS & those hot summer nights…

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Episode 51: The Work Pt 2. (Not to be confused with Big L’s The Work Pt. 2, although it is fucking dope)

MY WEIRD SEX LIFE!!! EMBODIED TANTRIC SEX PRACTICES!!! COMBAT BOOTS!!! A weekend of torment? WHO KNOWS!!! ALLLLL the PARENTS!!! COMMUNICATION GLITCHES!!! 6 months of work in 4 days!!! 50% MORE PHYSICAL SENSATION!!! BEING A GOD?!?! We need to check our priorities here… it’s about loving the person your boning and growing community gardens, AMIRIGHT?!?! APOLO WITH HIS CROWN!!! A Sunday devotional. TAROT CARDS!!! LIGHTNING STRIKING TWICE!!! BUDDHA!!! MIRRORING!!! & eventually, I always make the thing or fix the thing. Well, not that one cheese scale I tried to fix like 8 years ago for like 6 months before I gave up, but really. I think that’s the only thing I didn’t manage to fix with my sheer willpower. (That, and like, all of my failed relationships *laughs hysterically in despair*)

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The 50th Episode

THE BIG FIVE OHHHH… & feels like I’ve been married to this show for 50 years… No, really I have no idea what commuting to something for that long would look like, I mean heck I’ve been doing this show for longer than most of my relationships! 50 WEEKS, 50 harrowing weeks of radical honesty, of sex positivity, of openness, and presence. 50 weeks of TMI, 50 weeks of my love life, my career, my triumphs, and tribulations. 50 weeks of music. 50 hours of this show done. 50 weeks of tears and laughter. 50 weeks of my personal life laid out on display for all to hear. And most importantly 50 weeks of learning, growing, and changing.

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Episode 49: FANTASY ✨⚔️

SEXUAL FANTASIES!!! COMMUNICATION!!! Welcome to oversharing with your host Olivia Wade!!! THE 4 AGREEMENTS!!! You name it, I’ve done it!!! I’m the worrier, the prepare-for-the-worster!!! CONSISTENCY!!! BITCH RUNNNNN!!! SPIRITUAL PRACTICE!! I AM NOW A MASTER OF… SOMETHING?!!! SLOWLY GENTLY!!! The most monotonous horror movie ever… REIKI!!! SPOONS!! FIREFLY!!! & couples must exist in a shared reality.

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Episode 48: Humility ✨

DAYS OF SWEAT AND COFFEE!!! CONQUER ME HOME!!! Ship navigation!!! YOUR CHEST IS GOING TO EXPLODE!!! Love, maybe. LOSS!!! WHISKY & CIGARETTES!!! SALSA DANCING!!! SOLAR FLAIRS!!! OCEANS OF LOVE!!! MUSHROOMS!!! To know love is to know loss. NO COINCIDENCES?! Peter Pan in search of Neverland. WELCOMING CONFLICT!!! “A wise man once said… nothing!!!” THE SPIRITUAL RELEVANCE OF LISTENING (while I, ironically, talk through yet another entire episode)!!! I know absolutely nothing and I’m totally terrified!!!! & are you ready to go on an adventure?

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