Sex, Drugs, & Soul
Sex, Drugs, & Soul is a podcast about intimacy, sexuality, relationships, tantra, psychedelics, spirituality, and what it means to feel fully alive. Hosted by best-selling author and intimacy mentor Kristin Birdwell, the show explores what happens when we stop performing, shed the shame and conditioning, and start connecting more deeply with our partners, our bodies, our desires, and ourselves.
Welcome to a space where the sacred gets spicy, the growth gets real, and self-discovery comes with a side of mischief.
Kristin is a playful professional line-blurrer between the profane and the profound, which means very little is off-limits around here. We talk sex, love, desire, altered states, relationships, healing, embodiment, spirituality, and the weird, wild shit that happens when you start questioning everything you were told you should want.
Expect vulnerable conversations, sensual explorations, unexpected wisdom, inappropriate laughter, aaaand the occasional existential crisis.
Kristin brings raw stories and unfiltered conversations with experts, fellow seekers, sensual enthusiasts, and pleasure revolutionaries who aren’t interested in living numb, disconnected, or politely half-alive.
Because you can look wildly successful on the outside and still be starving for deeper intimacy, better sex, real connection, more pleasure, and a life that actually feels as good as it looks.
So if you’re ready to drop the shoulds, rewrite the scripts you inherited, get a little more honest about what you want, and become wildly turned on by your own life… Come play.
Less performing... more connecting, pleasure, & aliveness.
Episodes
121 episodes
Sex, Drugs, & Soul: Where Taboo Meets Transformation
Sex, Drugs, & Soul is where intimacy, desire, spirituality, sexuality, and the beautifully messy art of being human collide.Hosted by author, intimacy mentor, and professional line-blurrer between the profane a...
Mushrooms, Memes, & Meaning | James McCrae on Creativity, Purpose, & Being Human
What happens when you’ve gotten pretty damn good at achieving but start wondering if success and fulfillment are actually the same thing?I sit down with James McCrae, poet, author, viral creator, creative entrepreneur, an...
Ecstasy for Couples: Can MDMA Transform Trauma, Sex, & Intimacy? | Jonathan Robinson
What happens when fear gets turned down and couples finally say the things they've been afraid to say?Jonathan Robinson, former psychotherapist, bestselling author, and longtime pioneer in MDMA-assisted work, joins to explore the interse...
Vulva Portraits, Womb Wisdom, & Reclaiming Female Pleasure | Khadoma Colomby
What happens when a woman stops viewing her body through everyone else’s eyes and begins seeing herself as art?In this episode, I’m joined by ritual artist and pleasure weaver Khadoma Colomby to talk about pussy portraits...
From Submissive to Dominatrix | Temptress Pixie on BDSM, Pegging, & Power Exchange
This week, I chat with Temptress Pixie, erotic writer, kink educator, dominatrix, and open relationship expert, to explore a world that's often misunderstood. We talked about BDSM, power exchange, pegging, tantra, conscious domination, s...
Why Toxic Relationships Feel Addictive | Love, Lust, & Dopamine with C.R. Herro
This episode is brought to you by... tacos & tequila. 🤪After a couple of anejos, addiction therapist C.R. Herro joins me for a candid conversation about dopamine, addiction, fantasy, and why we so often find ourselves chasing the ve...
Acupuncture, Existential Kink, & Sexual Vitality | Dr. Veda
This week, I'm joined by Dr. Veda, acupuncturist, frequency medicine practitioner, pleasure pioneer, host of Quantumly Kinky, and one of my favorite new friends.We Explore... - Acupuncture, Sexual Vitalit...
The Truth About Ayahuasca: Psychedelic Trauma, Nervous System, & Integration | Francesca Barone
On this pod, I chat with Francesca Barone for one of the most unexpectedly grounding conversations around psychedelics and healing.Francesca runs a retreat center (...
Sober Sex, Psychedelics, & Finding Bliss in the Ordinary | Amy Edwards
Amy Edwards and I start this episode discussing the most Austin way possible to meet someone… at a pussy casting workshop. 😂 But from there, we dive DEEP into sobriety, psychedelics, emotional availability, intimacy, dopamine...
He Was Arrested One Block Away: Surviving Assault & DNA Justice | Ashley Spence
Ashley Spence is the founder of the DNA Justice Project, the author of Silent Witness: How DNA Uncovered the Truth and Empowered my Healing, and a survivor whose story I won't spoil here because it deserves to be heard in...
Low Libido After Motherhood: Hormones, Intimacy, & A Sex Dungeon | Alexa Bowditch
Alexa Bowditch gets into what happens to a relationship when life hits hard... loss, motherhood, hormone imbalances, and identity shifts.We talk about: • navigating grief and miscarriage inside a marriage • what “do...
Shibari as Ritual: Japanese Rope Bondage, Power, & Erotic Healing | Rina Trevi
"It's the difference between fast food and a more refined meal. You can have a kinky fantasy and just scratch the itch. Or you can bring inquiry, intentionality, and start seeing many layers." Rina on tantric vs. conventional bdsm...
Why You Keep Attracting Emotionally Unavailable Partners | Attachment Styles with Genell Gorman
Your childhood doesn’t disappear when you start dating...it gets activated.In this episode of Sex, Drugs, & Soul, I am joined by attachment and relational healing coach Genell Gorman for a candid, unscripted conversat...
What Is a Play Party? Consent, Boundaries, & Asking for What You Want | Dennis Hull
“Real power is speaking your desire without being attached to the outcome.”What if the real power isn’t getting what you want but having the courage to ask for it?In this episode, Dennis Hull joins to talk about sovereignty...
Trauma, Attachment, & The Body: When Survival Is No Longer the Only Goal | Will Rezin
"Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness. The salvation, then, is to be found in the body..."What if trauma isn’t something to heal or release but something that formed...
Are Your Desires How God Speaks to You? Tantra, Surrender & Manifestation with Leola
“The longer you stay on the wrong train, the more expensive it is to get home.”In this episode, I sit down with Leola, tantra teacher, bestselling author, and host of Talk Tantra To Me, for a conversation th...
Feminine Energy, Desire, & Intuition: Presence Is the Portal | Mayra Leen
In this episode of Sex, Drugs, & Soul, I sit down with Mayra Leen, author, hypnotherapist, and priestess, for a conversation on presence, feminine integration, desire, intuition, and living outside societal structures.Mayra ...
Why Healthy Love Can Feel Unfamiliar: Slow-Burn Love, Faith, & Nervous System Safety
“Old keys don’t open new doors, and this year asked me to choose new ones.”In this solo episode of Sex, Drugs, & Soul, I reflect on a year that brought me to my knees and opened my heart.I explore what it means to rec...
Why We Hide Who We Are: Sex, Love, & Fear of Abandonment | C.R. Herro
“The mask that keeps you from being abandoned is the same one that keeps you from being loved.”This episode is not soft.It’s not performative.And it’s definitely not comfortable.Licensed therapist C.R. Herro returns...
Healing PTSD with Psilocybin & Ibogaine | Spencer Coursen on Winning the War Within
In this powerful conversation, Spencer Coursen, veteran, threat management expert, bestselling author, and host of Coursen’s Corner, opens up about the journey from trauma to healing, and what it truly means to “win the war with...
Feminine Energy, Trust Repair, & Emotional Intelligence | Alexis Quiterio
Alexis & I discuss leaving the hard grind of the hypermasculine and slipping into a slower, fuller, more feminine way of being. She opens up about the night ayahuasca called her in, the decision to remove her IUD after twelve years, and how...
Psychedelics, Personal Branding, & The Fear of Being Seen | Courtney Johnson
For the 100th episode, I sit down with Courtney Johnson, a branding expert, author, and former ghostwriter who makes personal branding feel like emotional foreplay, rather than just marketing.We get into the fear of being seen, the cring...
Healing After Infidelity: From Betrayal to Rebirth | Lora Cheadle
In this episode, I sit down with Lora Cheadle, former attorney turned betrayal recovery coach, somatic therapist, intuitive channel, and author of FLAUNT! and It’s Not Burnout, It’s Betrayal.And this conversation goes <...
Confessions of a Tantric Pastor with Anthony Michael
What do you call a pastor who trades Bible verses for breathwork and starts preaching the gospel of pleasure?In this episode, I chat with Anthony Michael, a former pastor turned tantra teacher, community builder, and “minister of ...
Microdosing for Healing: How Mushrooms Can Rewire the Nervous System with Kayse Gehret
In this episode, I am joined by Kayse Gehret to dive into the transformative world of microdosing for healing — from psilocybin’s subtle power to its impact on nervous system regulation and emotional resilience. Kaycee opens up ab...