Adam Riehl
Healing
Helping Humans Heal
Deep Funny Dirty
Hosted by Aiua Wild and Adam Riehl, Deep, Funny, Dirty explores the beautiful chaos of being human, where depth, humor, and raw honesty all meet. Each conversation dances between the soulful and the silly, the wise and the wildly imperfect. It’s the stuff we think, feel, laugh about and sometimes rarely say out loud. Unfiltered, heartfelt, and a little mischievous, this podcast reminds us that growth and laughter often come from the same messy, marvelous place.
What happens when the healer needs healing? This week we sit down with Megan Hoeffner, founder of an international yoga and sound healing school, for a conversation that gets real fast. Megan opens up about riding the waves of postpartum depression, sleep deprivation, and brand new motherhood, all while running a global wellness brand that never stops asking for more. We dig into the pressure that healers and wellness professionals feel to show up polished and put together even when they are quietly unraveling inside, and what it actually takes to admit you are not okay. It's a raw, funny, and deeply human look at building a dream, keeping a tiny human alive, and learning to actually take a breath, maybe for the first time. If you have ever felt like you had to have it all together for everyone else, this episode is for you. Hit play. Then breathe.
Connect with Megan Hoeffner
Website | TheEmbodiedWarrior.com
In this episode of Deep Funny Dirty, we sit down with comedian Barbie Applegate, a woman whose name barely scratches the surface of who she actually is.
Barbie's story moves through an unconventional childhood, unexpected loss, and a winding career path that brought her full circle back to the one thing that always kept her going: laughter. Along the way, she discovered that humor isn't just a coping mechanism, it's a healing tool backed by real science, and one she now brings to audiences as a working comedian in her 50s.
Together we explore what it means to be misread by the world, how tragedy can quietly shape a person's greatest strengths, and why the people who make us laugh the hardest often carry the deepest stories. We also get into the role comedy plays in mental health, the courage it takes to stand in front of a room full of strangers, and what it looks like to finally stop running from your own life and start living it out loud.
What happens when a romance novelist refuses to believe that desire and faith have to live on opposite sides of the room?
In this episode, we sit down with Christina, a local author whose work explores pleasure, shame, spirituality, and the deeply human stories that live underneath them all. As both a Christian and a writer of sex-positive romance, Christina brings a perspective that challenges the easy assumptions many of us were handed about bodies, purity, love, and what it means to be “good.”
Together, we talk about growing up inside religious messages that often made sexuality feel dangerous, dirty, or something to be controlled, especially for women. Christina shares how her own faith, curiosity, and writing helped her begin untangling shame from belief, and how romance novels can become more than entertainment. They can offer representation, permission, healing, and a more honest language for desire.
This conversation moves through church, scripture, sexuality, interpretation, womanhood, marriage, pleasure, and the complicated process of reclaiming parts of ourselves we may have been taught to hide. It is thoughtful, vulnerable, funny, and deeply human.
At the heart of it all is a bigger question: What if faith and sexuality are not enemies? What if love, embodiment, and pleasure have always belonged in the same conversation?
Some conversations don’t fit neatly into one side or the other.
In this episode of, we sit down with Officer Maurice Anthony for a grounded, honest, and deeply human conversation about perspective, responsibility, race, community, and what it means to serve from inside a system that many people have complicated feelings about.
Maurice brings a rare and thoughtful lens to the conversation. From working in corrections to becoming a police officer, he shares how his experiences shaped the way he sees people, conflict, accountability, and the power of simply treating someone like a human being first. He talks about the tension of showing up as both a Black man and an officer, the assumptions people project onto the badge, and the importance of building trust before there is ever a crisis.
This episode moves through hard topics without trying to flatten them into easy answers. It is about the space between identity and uniform, frustration and compassion, authority and service, being misunderstood and still choosing to show up with intention.
Maurice doesn’t offer a perfect solution. He offers something better: honesty, humility, and a reminder that change often starts in the smallest moments of connection.
In this episode of Deep Funny Dirty, we sit down with David for a conversation about identity, faith, embodiment, and the strange, sacred work of becoming yourself. Born without one hand and raised inside a Christianity that promised miracles, David shares how years of praying to be “healed” eventually led him into a much deeper question: what if wholeness was never about being fixed?
Together, we explore moving beyond religious fear, reclaiming spirituality, learning to trust intuition, and finding the kind of self-love that turns old wounds into creative power. It is tender, funny, honest, and a little mystical, exactly the kind of human mess we love.
A conversation about overcoming, unbecoming, and discovering the magic that was already there.
This episode was originally recorded for Journey of the Modern Soul and has been brought into the Deep Funny Dirty world as part of the evolution of this work.
A few years ago, I found myself circling an idea that both pulled me in and freaked me out a little: darkness therapy. Not the metaphorical kind… the real, sit-in-complete-darkness-for-days kind. It took time, a lot of questioning, and some honest self-inquiry to figure out whether this was something true for me or just something that sounded intense and interesting.
Eventually, I said yes to a 5-day darkness sit.
In this episode, Aiua Wild joins me to unpack that experience through a Deep Funny Dirty lens. We get into what actually happens when the lights go out, what comes up when there is nothing to distract you, and how confronting, strange, and unexpectedly humorous it can be to sit with yourself in that kind of space.
We talk about the challenges, the mental loops, the moments of clarity, and the kind of growth that does not come from trying to fix yourself, but from actually being with what is there.
It is deep. It is a little weird. There are moments that are funny in that “well, here we are” kind of way.
And like most things worth exploring, it is not about the darkness itself. It is about what you find when you stop running from it.
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This episode explores Shalise’s transformation from a life shaped by disconnection and survival into one rooted in embodiment, self-trust, and sovereignty.
After a difficult marriage and years of seeking validation through relationships and sex, she found herself deeply disconnected from her body and identity. Patterns of numbing and external validation led to a breaking point that sparked a profound spiritual awakening and a new direction forward.
Through her journey, Shalise reflects on the difference between using intimacy to fill a void and learning to reconnect with the body in a conscious, grounded way. Her introduction to tantra became a turning point, not as a surface-level idea of sexuality, but as a path of awareness, healing, and integration.
Themes of shame, power, identity, and self-worth run throughout this conversation, along with the courage it takes to step away from old patterns. Shalise shares what it has meant to embrace celibacy, reconnect with her body, and cultivate a sense of wholeness from within.
This is a story of reclamation. From disconnection to embodiment. From survival to sovereignty.
Connect with Shalise Poulton
Website | SacredScarlettRose.com
IG | @Shali.Maaa
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In this episode, we sit down with Wendy for a real and honest conversation about loss, grief, and what it means to keep living when something changes everything.
This is not about having the perfect answer. It is about being willing to stay present with what is hard, to feel what is real, and to recognize that no one is meant to go through it alone.
With Wendy, we explore the quiet signs people miss, the weight people carry behind the scenes, and the importance of connection before things reach a breaking point. There is honesty here about addiction, mental health, and the limits of trying to fix someone you love. There is also a deeper look at responsibility, compassion, and what support can actually look like in real life.
This episode is a reminder that awareness is not just information. It is attention. It is checking in. It is being willing to listen without trying to solve everything.
If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. You do not have to navigate it by yourself.
This is a conversation about staying, about choosing to keep going, and about how small moments of connection can matter more than we realize.
Connect with Wendy Townsend
Website | ChooseAgainSedona.com
IG | @ChooseAgainSedona
In this episode of Deep Funny Dirty, Adam and Aiua sit down with Lauren Fay to talk about her book Blurred Lines and the story behind it.
Through Blurred Lines, Lauren shares her journey from the edge of not wanting to be alive to choosing sobriety and everything that came after. What starts as a conversation about the book opens into something much bigger. The reality of rebuilding your life, learning how to trust yourself again, and facing the parts of you that alcohol once helped hide.
Together, they explore the messy middle that does not get talked about enough. The part where sobriety does not feel like relief, where it can feel like loss, confusion, and starting over. They unpack identity shifts, emotional regulation, and the challenge of creating a life that actually feels aligned.
The conversation also touches on language and labels, the role of community, and why you do not have to hit rock bottom to make a change. Lauren shares the perspective that drives her work today. Recovery rooted in choice, self attunement, and the belief that you can build something better for yourself.
This episode is honest, grounded, and at times unexpectedly funny. A real conversation about what it means to face yourself, rewrite your story, and come back to life on your own terms.
Connect with Lauren Fay
Website | LaurenFay.Co
Book | Blurred Lines
IG | @LaurenFayCoaching
Linkedin | Lauren Fay Coaching
In this episode of Deep Funny Dirty, Adam and Aiua sit down with Zoë and Andrew to explore what happens when spirituality meets real-life relationship.
Their story begins with an unexpected connection. After more than a decade single, Zoë met Andrew online and was intrigued by his background in Zen training and the grounded way he approached communication, boundaries, and partnership. What followed was a relationship shaped not by fantasy, but by practice.
Together they discuss how Buddhist principles, mindfulness, and personal responsibility influence the way they navigate intimacy, conflict, and growth as a couple. The conversation moves through topics like emotional regulation, compassion, and the ways spiritual practice can show up in everyday life rather than just on a meditation cushion.
They also explore how anger, dopamine, and human psychology influence our behavior, and how awareness can transform reactive patterns into opportunities for understanding. From road rage to relationship conflict, the discussion looks at how mindfulness can interrupt the cycle of suffering and open space for compassion.
Along the way, Zoë and Andrew reflect on balancing personal goals, health challenges, aging, and the ongoing work of supporting each other while still maintaining individual paths.
Connect with Zoë Kors
Website | ZoeKors.com
Retreat | Emergence
Podcast | Radical Intimacy
Book | Radical Intimacy
In this episode of Deep Funny Dirty, Adam and Aiua sit down with tech policy insider Steve Wimmer to explore one of the biggest conversations of our time. What is AI really, and how is it shaping the world around us?
Steve breaks down what Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models actually are in clear, accessible language. No sci-fi hype. No mystical sentience. Just powerful statistical systems trained on large amounts of data. From there, the conversation expands into how these systems are used, how they are funded, and how they may continue to evolve.
Together, they explore the practical benefits of AI alongside the broader questions it raises. Why are these platforms designed to encourage engagement? How are companies thinking about monetization? What happens when innovation moves faster than regulation? And how do lawmakers attempt to balance technological progress with individual rights?
Adam and Aiua also touch on copyright, digital identity, biometric data, and the growing legal discussions around who owns your likeness, your voice, and your creative work. Rather than leaning into fear or blind optimism, this episode stays grounded in curiosity and honest inquiry.
At its core, this conversation is about understanding the systems being built around us and considering how we want to participate in them. AI is already part of daily life for many of us. The real question is how we engage with it thoughtfully.
Insightful, balanced, and accessible, this Deep Funny Dirty episode invites you to step back, ask better questions, and think more clearly about the technology shaping our future.
Connect with Steve Wimmer
Email | Steve@TransparencyCoalition.ai
Website | TranspaencyCoalition.ai
In this episode of Deep, Funny, Dirty, co-hosts Adam and Aiua sit down with Ean for an honest, embodied conversation about pleasure. What it is, why it matters, and why so many of us struggle to fully receive it.
Together, they explore pleasure beyond performance and chasing peak moments, focusing instead on presence, attention, and nervous system regulation. The discussion weaves through self-pleasure, sexuality, and brain chemistry, including how different internal states can influence creativity, emotional openness, confidence, and connection.
Ean shares his personal journey through sobriety, men’s work, and redefining pleasure as something sacred, slow, and integrated into everyday life. They unpack how shame forms around sexuality, how it quietly shapes behavior, and how conscious pleasure practices can help unwind it—without pressure, performance, or outcomes.
This episode is an invitation to reclaim pleasure as a skill rather than a chase. To stay present with sensation, emotion, and desire. And to explore how expanding our relationship with pleasure can ripple into intimacy, creativity, and how we show up in the world.
Connect with Ean Wood
Instagram I @SeedingMasculinity
Website I EanWood.com
What if your relationship wasn’t meant to complete you—but to awaken you?
In this episode of Deep, Funny, Dirty, we sit down with Jared and Laurie Archbold for a raw, spacious conversation about what they call soul partnership—a way of relating that prioritizes the soul’s unfolding over comfort, convention, or certainty.
Beginning with the question “What is a soul relationship, really?”, the conversation moves into lived experience: tending one’s own soul inside partnership, honoring individual paths, and allowing relationship itself to become a third living entity with its own purpose and call to service.
Jared and Laurie share vulnerably about the moments that tested everything—separation, near-divorce, opening their marriage, and standing in love even when the future was completely unclear. Rather than centering romance as rescue, they explore devotion as integrity: keeping one’s word, choosing presence, and supporting a partner’s becoming—even when it hurts.
Have you ever felt the tension between love and freedom, certainty and mystery, devotion and self-trust. It’s an invitation to rethink “normal,” to listen for the deeper tether beneath relationship roles, and to ask a braver question: How do we love in a way that serves the soul—ours, theirs, and the world’s?
Connect with Laurie Archbold
Website | ConfluenceMentoring.com
Website | LaurieArchbold.com
IG | @Laurie.Arch
Connect with Jared Archbold
Website | ConfluenceMentoring.com
Website | JaredArchbold.com
Website | RedwoodSacredMuse.com
IG | @JaredArchbold
In this episode of Deep, Funny, Dirty, we explore the emergence of the Spiritual Madam—a bold, embodied archetype that refuses spiritual bypassing, guru worship, and “good girl” healing narratives.
Jen Cabot joins us for a raw, intimate conversation about what happens when years of therapy, self-help, and spiritual practice stop working—and you’re forced to meet the parts of yourself that can’t be affirmed away. We talk sacred rage, nervous system regulation, grief, sensual power, and the death of identities that once kept us safe but no longer serve.
The Spiritual Madam isn’t about manipulation, performance, or seduction for approval. She’s about seduction for truth—guiding people into depth, intimacy, and self-mastery by staying present with discomfort instead of avoiding it. Jen shares how this archetype was born through betrayal, trauma, and years of burning old scripts, including the spiritual ones.
This episode challenges the idea that healers should be polished, peaceful, or “love and light.” We explore embodiment as gritty, costly, and profoundly alive—and why real healing often feels taboo before it feels freeing.
Connect with Jen Bailey
Website | JenniferCabot.com
IG | @SpiritualMadameJen
In this episode of Deep, Funny, Dirty, we sit down with Jesse Rose West for an honest, grounded conversation about trauma, healing, and what it actually looks like to move through life when everything you’ve built starts to fall apart.
Jesse shares how a major rupture in midlife forced her to slow down, listen, and confront patterns of self-abandonment, control, and survival. We talk about nervous system regulation, grief, anger, movement as medicine, and the long process of learning to sit with discomfort instead of outrunning it. Through embodiment, breath, and deep self-inquiry, Jesse found a new way forward—one rooted in presence rather than performance.
Along the way, animals—especially horses—appear as mirrors, reflecting the beliefs, fears, and truths we often avoid seeing in ourselves. Not as something to control or fix, but as teachers that respond when we get honest and grounded.
This episode explores what happens when healing becomes less about achievement and more about listening—letting life meet you where you actually are.
It’s deep. It’s funny. It gets a little dirty. And it’s a conversation about learning how to stay.
Connect with Jesse Rose West
Website | JesseRoseWest.com
IG | @JesseRoseWest
If you’ve ever wondered why your life feels like it’s in a weird in-between season—or why your creativity disappears exactly when you need it—this episode is going to hit home. Poet and author James Pearson joins us to break down the emotional “seasons” we all move through: the falls where everything you relied on stops working, the winters that strip you down to the essentials, and the infamous “mud season” where you’re not stuck… you’re just slogging your way toward the next version of yourself.
We talk burnout, identity shifts, creative rebirth, and why some of the most important transformations happen quietly, slowly, and usually at the worst possible time. James shares the breakdowns, breakthroughs, and the moments that forced him to stop performing who he thought he should be—and start listening to who he actually is.
Welcome to Deep, Funny, Dirty— where the conversation gets real, the humor sneaks in, and you might just learn something about yourself along the way.
Connect with James Pearson
Website | JamesPearson.com
IG | @JamesAPearson
Dirty Lola joins us to share how an anonymous Twitter account, a craving for authenticity, and a whole lot of curiosity led her into an unexpected career as a sex educator. What began as playful online exploration grew into Sex Ed A Go-Go, teaching gigs, and becoming a trusted voice for people hungry to talk about sex without shame.
We dive into the awkward, beautiful reality of sex—why it’s so hard to discuss, how porn shaped a generation, what gets in the way of pleasure, and why honesty is one of the most powerful healing tools we have. Lola opens up about trauma, desire, aging bodies, and giving people permission to explore who they really are.
This episode embodies everything Deep, Funny, Dirty is about: real stories, real laughter, and real conversations about the things we were never taught to talk about.
Connect with Dirty Lola
Website | SexEdAGoGo.com
Website | DirtyLola.co
IG | @DirtyLola
Threads | @DirtyLola
Welcome to DFD! In our first episode, we explore what the show will be, the kinds of topics we’ll unpack, and the guests we’re excited to bring into the mix. Our goal is to blend depth, humor, and unfiltered honesty in a way that feels real, refreshing, and human. If you’re new here, welcome—pull up a chair and join us for the ride.