With their energies combined, two best friends of 19+ years, professional actress Fiona Rene (she/they/he), and sex-positive psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani (she/they), explore personal growth, interpersonal relationships, and share their RADICAL BEING.
In this season two teaser of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, turn their mics on after two years and four months (and then wait another two months before releasing what they recorded--oops). Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
6 Mar 2021TRANSCRIPT
If It Is Not Okay, It Is Not the End.
Wrapping up our first season with our tenth episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, get candid about the traumatic and historical events of the time--racial injustice, economic insecurity, the global pandemic, and climate change. After a year of devastation and disruption, it is nowhere near over yet. Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us...
26 Feb 2021TRANSCRIPT
Welcome to the Traumadome.
In the ninth episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, tackle the complexity of trauma — from childhood, to generational, to acute — and how we cope and build resilience. Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
20 Feb 2021
Life Management: Energy and the Evolving Elements.
In the eighth episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, explore elements of life management, the balance and flow of predicting one’s own needs over time, and how it can all parallel to BDSM. Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
13 Feb 2021
Avoiding Self-Abandonment After Rejection.
In the seventh episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, dive in and get uncomfortable with rejection: how easy it is for rejection to lead to insecurity and negative self-talk, and how that can turn into self-abandonment. Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
5 Feb 2021
Dating in Quarantimes.
In the sixth episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, try to navigate dating during Covid. Fiona gets on her first dating app - which leads to some real talk about dating goals, judgments, and "preferences." Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
29 Jan 2021
Our Sexual and Psychological Boundaries.
In the fifth episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, break down confidence and how pushing our sexual boundaries parallels pushing our psychological boundaries. Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
23 Jan 2021
The 3 C’s Before Our Clothes Come Off.
(CW: mentions of personal #MeToo moments) In the fourth episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, get carried away talking about the 3 C’s they seek before getting physical - connection, communication, and consent. Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
15 Jan 2021
Accepting the Fluidity of our Identities.
In the third episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, break down labels, language, and discomfort through fluidity, acceptance, and self-reflection. PSA: In the spirit of radical authenticity, it'll take a moment for us to get our footing (specifically re: the sound in episodes 2 and 3), but we hope it only gets better from here. Thank you for bearing with us! Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @f...
9 Jan 2021
Jumping Right into 2021... and Mental Health.
In the second episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, jump right into 2021 with some real talk about mental health. Let’s get into what privacy, vulnerability, expectations, rest, and more look like in the new year. Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
2 Jan 2021
A Friendly Goodbye to the Grief of 2020...
In the first episode of YOUR.RADICAL.BEING-- Sex+ Psychotherapist, Samar Poorlakani, and Professional Actor, Fiona Rene, get cozy, introduce themselves, and say so long to the detrimentally traumatic yet beautiful 2020. Enjoy dipping into friendship, grief, addiction, and boundaries. Podcast Instagram: @your.radical.being Fiona’s Instagram: @fionarene Samar’s Instagram: @intimatematters Keep up with us: linktr.ee/your.radical.being
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Season 2: Tease(r)
Published 14 Sept 2023 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But Netflix and Amazon Prime shows might be more popular. So it doesn't, you know, it doesn't really reflect the growth of what has happened and then simultaneously AI. One of the talking points for the contract negotiations was that they were trying to the networks in the studios were trying to get background actors to be able to work for one day under a day rate. That could be, you know, 175 to 300 bucks for a day of background acting work. But then be able to get their digital likeness in perpetuity, which means forever. And they can use that digital likeness in perpetuity not only on the show that they had day played on, but on any future production after that. […]
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