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This week on Girl Stop Talking, I’m recapping seven unforgettable days in Japan—and apparently, I couldn’t even make it through our first night without creating an international incident. After touching down in a foreign country, my son completely passed out inside our hotel room with the lights and TV still on… while I was locked outside with no phone, no help, and absolutely no idea what to do. I had to navigate my way to the lobby alone, explain the situation, and somehow convince the hotel staff that, yes, we genuinely needed to cut the bolt just to get me back into the room. Welcome to Japan, babe! Then we’re heading to Osaka, where my best friend became convinced she lost her phone at the club—until the video evidence revealed that she had actually dropped it on the sidewalk. After ten hours of stress, retracing our steps, and tracking it through Find My iPhone, we returned to the streets of Japan and found it sitting in the exact same spot. Between getting locked out, losing—and miraculously recovering—a phone, exploring Tokyo and Osaka, navigating trains, eating incredible food, and figuring out an entirely new country as we went, this trip was equal parts magical, stressful, hilarious, and completely unforgettable. Grab your passport, charge your phone, and always take your hotel key, because this Japan recap is beautifully unhinged from beginning to end.

What if the thing standing between you and better intimacy isn’t a lack of chemistry—but the fact that neither of you knows how to say what you actually want?This week on *Girl Stop Talking*, Tatum sits down with intimacy expert Susan Bratton for an honest, playful conversation about communicating your wants, understanding your needs, and sharing your fantasies without making your partner feel inadequate or pressured. They explore why so many couples struggle to talk about intimacy, how to create emotional safety before introducing something new, and the difference between inviting your partner into a fantasy and handing them a sexual assignment.From asking for what you want without criticism to understanding whether you desire another person—or simply crave novelty, attention, freedom, or adventure—this episode is about opening the conversation before you open the relationship.Plus, Susan gets properly lubricated with the show’s signature icebreakers before facing an intimacy-inspired round of **Are We Still Talking?**Because better intimacy doesn’t begin with being more adventurous. It begins with becoming safer people to tell the truth to.Find Susan here:https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/https://betterlover.com/https://personallifemedia.com/arousal-secrets/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=srp&utm_term=drivedesirer&utm_campaign=arousalsecrets

This week on Girl Stop Talking, Tatum is giving you TWO positions that tie into the topic of todays episode! We're getting honest about the difference between what turns us on in our imagination and what we genuinely want in real life. From fantasies about surrender, attention, control, being watched, and adding another person, we’re asking the bigger question: Do you want the actual experience—or the feeling you believe it would give you?Your fantasy is not a relationship emergency—and it definitely isn’t automatically a request, confession, or item on your sexual to-do list.After sharing her Healthy Habits and this week’s POW, Tatum breaks fantasies into three categories: **Fantasy, Flirt, or Full Send** She also explores why hearing a partner’s fantasy can trigger jealousy or insecurity, how to share yours without making it a demand, and how couples can borrow the hottest ingredients from a fantasy without recreating the entire scenario.Because your imagination is allowed to be unhinged—but your communication still needs boundaries. Let’s make fantasy fun instead of turning it into a relationship emergency.Fantasy, Flirt or Full Send PDF is linked here: https://www.tatumzoeee.com/podcast

Happy fucking Monday, bitches! This week, Girl Stop Talking is coming to you live from STIMULATE, the sexual health and wellness conference in Nashville, with a lineup of quickies—and for once, we’re talking about interviews.First, I sit down with Dr. Tara to cover basically everything you’ve ever wanted to ask your most sexually adventurous friend: open relationships, sex cruises, squirting, queefing, and what happens when curiosity leaves the group chat and enters real life.Then Susan Bratton joins me to talk about her Love Dynamics approach to communication—understanding how you want to feel in a relationship, learning how to express those needs, and helping your partner love you in a way you can actually receive. Because apparently “they should just know” is not a communication strategy.I also catch up with sexual health educator and *Pleasure, Please!* author Ashley Cobb about creating more inclusive, shame-free sex education, helping women communicate their desires out loud, and why conversations about pleasure should always include protection, testing, and sexual confidence.Finally, board-certified urologist Dr. Amy Pearlman gives us a peek behind the curtain of men’s sexual and hormonal health. We talk about what a urologist actually does, the conversations men avoid having about their bodies, and why erectile function, testosterone, genital health, and sexual wellness deserve more honest—and far less embarrassing—conversations.Four experts, four quickies, and absolutely no small talk. We’re covering pleasure, communication, sexual health, and all the questions you’re curious enough to Google but not always brave enough to ask out loud.https://www.instagram.com/luvbites.co/https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/https://www.instagram.com/sexwithashley/https://www.instagram.com/amypearlmanmd/

Girl Stop Talking is officially getting back to its roots: equal parts healthy habits and explicit behavior.We’re kicking things off with a weekly win and a little mindset check before diving headfirst into the return of the POS series—and yes, that stands for Position of the Week. I tried a new position, and naturally, we need to discuss what happened, how it went, and whether it deserves a repeat performance.Then we’re throwing it all the way back to my first Labor Day weekend at the lake, when a couple in an open relationship somehow became convinced that my man and I were hiding—and possibly sleeping with—his girlfriend. What should have been a fun lake weekend quickly turned into a full-blown nightmare inside our RV…and trust me, the truth was nowhere near as scandalous as they imagined.That story opens the door to a bigger conversation about open relationships: why people are drawn to them, what makes the idea exciting, why the ones I’ve personally witnessed have gone terribly wrong, and what couples should talk about before opening the floodgates.Healthy habits, explicit behavior, relationship chaos, and one deeply unhinged Labor Day story—Girl, stop talking.