Intimate Interactions

Status and shame stick with each of us differently and follow us through life. Today we meet Lisa and Paula, two monogamous, vanilla, heterosexual women of colour in their 40s. They’re both successful entrepreneurs and mothers and wives who met during their MBA programs at UBC. We talk about the issues that suburban housewives face such as wives and mothers putting their own needs last as well as assumptions they’re successful because of their husbands. As with most relationships, long term ones follow seasons of intimacy and connection. While there are many paths to intimacy, Lisa and Paula talk about their use of cannabis edibles to bridge across sexual shame through to a rich intimate exchange with their monogamous life partners. They put their MBA degrees to use started their own company selling microdoses of cannabis edibles called Trufelle, marketing to suburban housewives. For clarity, I wasn’t compensated for any podcasts with them, but they did gift me a box of Trufelle.  Today we’re talking abo