Founder and Editor of Hello Postpartum: Carley Schweet
Carley Schweet is the founder and editor of Hello Postpartum, a website that provides free, postpartum expert-created content for life after birth. After the birth of her first child, she realized what a lack of resources there was for postpartum parents, so she created it herself. Today, Hello Postpartum reaches thousands of new parents monthly.
Sex Therapist & Couples’ Counselor: Jessa Zimmerman
Jessa Zimmerman is a certified sex therapist and couples’ counselor. She specializes in helping couples who have a good relationship but who are avoiding sex because it’s become stressful, negative, disappointing, or pressured. She educates, coaches, and supports people as they go through her 4 pillar experiential process that allows them real world practice in changing their relationship and their sex life, guiding them to become easily intimate.
Psychotherapist and Co-Owner of Royal Fetish Films: Jasmine Johnson MSW, MA, LCSW
Jasmine Johnson is a Psychotherapist with a strong emphasis on Intimacy Post Injury/Illness. She is the owner and lead therapist of Blue Pearl Therapy.
Jasmine co-owns, with partner King Noire, award winning Royal Fetish Films and together have over 20 years of experience as adult entertainers, directors and producers.
Founder of HolyMama + Author + Speaker: Claudia Spahr
Claudia Spahr is an international best-selling author, inspirational speaker, business leadership mentor and global pioneer in the retreat and wellness industry. She is the award-winning founder and CEO of HolyMama.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, Obstetrics & Gynaecology : Dr. Natalie Rosen
Dr. Natalie Rosen is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience and Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on understanding how couples cope with sexual problems or changes to their sexual relationship and translating that knowledge into evidence-based interventions.
Women's Health Advocate + Founder of &Breathe: Clio Wood
Clio Wood is a women's health advocate and Founder of &Breathe, a specialist fitness retreat company. She speaks and writes openly about sexual wellbeing in motherhood and is currently writing a book on painful postnatal sex and embracing sensuality as a mum.
Poet : Hollie McNish
Hollie McNish is a poet based between Glasgow and Cambridge, UK. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me - of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published three further collections of poetry and her latest poetic memoir – Slug...and other things I’ve been Told To Hate – is a Sunday Times Bestseller.
Perinatal Psychologist +Founder of Parenthood in Mind: Julianne Boutaleb
Julianne Boutaleb is a Perinatal Psychologist (CPsychol AFBPsS), a psychologist who specialises in offering psychological support to parents and parents to be from trying to conceive through to 1 year post birth, with a specialty in offering therapy to individuals and couples struggling to conceive or who need fertility treatment to become parents. She is the Founder and Clinical Director of Parenthood in Mind, a specialist psychology practice for parents and parents-to-be, their bumps and babies.
Sex and Gender Feminist Psycho - therapist: Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers
Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers is a licensed sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, best-selling author, researcher, emeriti professor, and media personality. Known for exposing the impact of sexual shame on our ability to securely attach to our partners, and instruct our children to attach to theirs. She speaks throughout the world on how to heal, and how to raise shame-free relationally confident children.
Author of NOISE: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood: Danusia Malina-Derben
Danusia Malina-Derben is a mother of ten children, and still her own woman. From teen mother to tenured Organisational Behavior and Development academic, and onto award-winning, internationally published leadership expert. She also hosts two critically acclaimed companion podcasts; School for Mothers and School for Fathers. NOISE: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood
Co-Curators + Authors of “Designing Motherhood”: Michelle Millar Fisher + Amber Winick
Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick are the co-curators of the exhibition Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births, as well as co-authors of a book by the same title.
Sex Educator & Founder of The Pleasure Anarchist: Katy DeJong
Katy DeJong (she/her) is a sex educator, philosopher and founder of The Pleasure Anarchist. She explores how the physical, and psycho-social experiences of infertility impact how we express ourselves, sexually. Through her workshops, writing, and advocacy work, she facilitates the deep introspection necessary for sexual healing and body liberation. Pleasure Anarchy is a term she uses to communicate her commitment to challenging any system or culture that creates or upholds moralistic views about bodies, the value they possess, and the pleasure they’re allowed to feel. Beliefs that prioritize certain bodies and experiences over others, based on sexuality, body size, health & ability, race, gender, or parental status are critiqued.
Obstetrician Gynecologist: Dr. Jill Krapf
Dr. Jill Krapf (MD MEd FACOG IF) is a board-certified Obstetrician Gynecologist specializing in female sexual pain disorders at The Center for Vulvovaginal Disorders in Washington, D.C. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Founder of Pachamama: Arianna Radji Lee
Arianna Radji Lee is the founder of Pachamama, a digital platform that informs, inspires and connects women in their fourth trimester and beyond. Through Pachamama, she aims to provide a centralised place for women to gain access to expert care, content and community throughout one of the most significant transitions of their lives.
Author of The Sweetness of Venus. A History of the Clitoris: Sarah Chadwick
Sarah Chadwick’s book The Sweetness of Venus. A History of the Clitoris was published in February 2021. She is a full time writer and speaker, splits her life between Chicago and London, and is mother to four grown children. She runs the feminist instagram page @its.personalgirls and her DM’s are always open.
The Empowered Mother: Kimmy Smith
Kimmy is the co-founder of the Empowered Motherhood Program. She is a pregnancy and postnatal exercise specialist, yoga teacher and a proud Mum to three little girls. Kimmy was a former professional athlete and corporate lawyer. Drawing from her experience as a professional athlete, Kimmy is passionate about supporting women to feel strong during their pregnancy and to return to exercise in a safe and positive way after birth.
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist + Whole Body Connection Guide: Taryn Gaudin
Taryn Gaudin is a women’s pelvic floor physiotherapist and whole body connection guide. Taryn helps women connect to their wholeness through simple embodied practices so that they may experience and express their fullness in all aspects of their lives. Her approach has been pivotal in uncovering the core issues of the physical pelvic symptoms that her patients experience.
Psychodynamic Coach: Lavinia Brown
Lavinia Brown is a one-to-one coach, company gender-equality and inclusion consultant, author and speaker. Lavinia is an online psychodynamic coach that supports mothers to stop feeling anxious, guilty and angry by helping them to understand and heal their past.
Sex and Relationship Coach: Azaria Menezes
Azaria Menezes aka The Pussy Fairy is a Sex and Relationship coach that works with women, moms and couples to bust through sexual or emotional blocks, so that they can feel turned on, ecstatic and orgasmic in and out of the bedroom. She also hosts the podcast : Getting Intimate where she brings practical ways to invite more pleasure into your body relationships and sex life.
Founder of Ember: Dr. Abby Girard
Dr. Abby is the founder of Ember, a sex therapist/researcher/educator, a licensed couple and family therapist, and a wife and mother. With 10 years of experience, Dr. Abby has spent a lot of time with women and couples focused on understanding and restoring their sex lives and LOVES helping people learn and grow.