Elizabeth M. Johnson is a writer, researcher, podcaster and rape survivor.

Elizabeth comes to podcasting with a trauma informed and intersectional feminist background. She has worked with sexual trauma survivors for 15+ years, first as a volunteer on an overnight hotline and most recently in peer support groups. She’s a white, cis-het female in a partnered relationship with a cis-het male. Elizabeth is also a parent of an elementary age daughter and a rescue dog fan. 

Elizabeth lives in Durham, North Carolina on land that was formerly the territory of the Lumbee and Shakori tribes. 

Larissa Parson is a joy coach, podcaster, writer and movement teacher.

Larissa helps her clients move toward radical self-love, body liberation, and joy, so they can thrive. She does this through group coaching, 1-1 support, and embodiment/movement classes. Larissa’s intersectional identities include Black, biracial, queer, chronically ill, and mom to twins. As someone with chronic illness (Crohn’s disease), Larissa understands how complex it is to just live in a body. But her body (and yours) is also a home for joy and justice.

Larissa lives just outside Durham, NC, on the traditional lands of the Eno, Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi, Shakori, and the Tuscarora people, in a country built on stolen bodies’ lives and labor.