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Antonia Ann
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the conversations that shape our lives don’t always happen in boardrooms. They happen in relationships.In the quiet moments where we ask ourselves deeper questions.In the parts of our identity we’ve been told to hide.In the sexuality we’re told is too much. I’ve spent years building companies, sitting in boardrooms, and helping entrepreneurs solve problems most people don’t even see yet. Here we talk about business, manifestation, sexuality, magnetism, intuition, money, and the process of becoming someone new. Some episodes are thoughtful.Some are a little dangerous.All of them are honest. Take what resonates. Leave the rest. New episodes weekly.

Episodes

  1. MAR 12

    Boardroom to Bedroom: Owning Every Part Of Who You Are

    In this episode I answer real questions friends and clients have asked me about sex, relationships, and expressing desire without losing self-respect. We talk about: • why women are often told to hide their sexuality • the difference between intimacy and performance • healing the “heart walls” that show up in relationships • how presence changes intimacy completely • confidence, magnetism, and being comfortable in your own skin • why you don’t have to choose between the boardroom, the spiritual, and the sensual parts of yourself This conversation is about owning every part of who you are  even the parts people say are impolite to talk about. For years I’ve worked in boardrooms building companies, helping founders scale businesses, and solving problems most people don’t see yet. But there’s another side of the conversation that rarely gets talked about openly  sexuality, confidence, magnetism, and the parts of women that society often labels as “too much.” So let’s talk about it. Take what resonates. Leave the rest.

    26 min

  2. MAR 12

    Desire, Boundaries & Writing Your Own Rules

    In this episode, I answer real questions people have texted me about sex, relationships, and the expectations society quietly places on us. How much intimacy is too much? What happens when desire becomes routine? Should you tell your partner everything? And how do you keep your self-esteem while dating, exploring, or staying single? This conversation is about agency and the freedom to decide what works for you instead of living by someone else's rules. We talk about: • when intimacy starts feeling out of balance • how to have honest conversations with your partner • why sexual energy and creativity are connected • the difference between desire and validation • navigating dating, rosters, and self-respect • letting go of society’s expectations about relationships Take what resonates. Leave the rest. As I always say, you wouldn’t leave Nordstrom with a shirt you didn’t love. Do the same with advice.

    18 min

  3. MAR 11

    The 30-Day Manifestation Trick That Doesn’t Work

    Save this post. Repeat this mantra. Kiss the mirror. Day 31 millionaire. We've all seen it. And something about it feels off. In this episode, Antonia breaks down why the mirror mantra formula isn't the problem the energy behind it is. If you're saying the words but still grasping, hoping, and checking, you're actually pushing the thing further away.  There's a mismatch between what you're saying and what you're feeling, and that gap is what's causing the delay. This episode covers the shoulder shrug energy, the flower bulb you don't dig up, quantum tunneling, and the plastic frog on a hotel welcome mat that showed up exactly when it was supposed to because she forgot she asked for it. That's the whole point. What do you want? And can you trust it's already on its way?

    10 min

  4. FEB 26

    Too Much for Some. Too Little for Others

    In fourth grade my teacher wrote, has potential on my report card. In third grade I got straight A's and the kids were mean to me. I talked too much. That was written on my report card too.  Too much for some. Too little for others. Always somewhere in the middle trying to be just enough for everyone else. I dated men I could control the outcome with because it kept me safe. Clocked in at Corporate America and let someone else decide how much my time was worth. I once told a guy I could run and that was obvious in the first 5 minutes trying my first uphill run.  This is the episode about the pretzel we twist ourselves into so that other people are comfortable. About where we hide our sexuality, shrink our power, and tone down our intensity because the room punished us for it. You were never too much. You were never too little. You were always perfect.

    17 min

  5. FEB 26

    Let the Room Calibrate to You

    What you desire wants you too. What if you already knew that with certainty? It's already yours, it's already here.  I bought a few Mercedes' over eleven years. Never posted a single picture of any of them. Not because I was hiding. Because they were mine.  presence for myself, not performance for applause. In this episode I am talking about quantum tunneling and why it is proven by science and physics, not woo woo. The $330 in DMV fees that were magically waived because I walked in already knowing. The house I bought 60 days after setting the goal as a single parent. The Restoration Hardware catalog I picked up in the mail room while my neighbor left it there because everything in it was too expensive. And what happens when you stop fighting the mountain and start feeling what is already on the other side of it.

    14 min

  6. FEB 26

    High Maintenance. According to Who?

    At dinner at one of the nicest restaurants in San Diego, a multimillionaire woman across the table asked me - what is high maintenance? And I told her ,High maintenance means other people are uncomfortable with your standards. This episode is for the woman who has been called too much, too intense, and started to believe it. We are talk about the patterns that are begging to be interrupted. The situation ship that keeps you hooked on one more hit of dopamine. A relationship where you make his needs more important than yours. The version of you that has been contorting herself to fit a room that was never meant for her. We are also talking about what happens when you stop. When you walk in so anchored in yourself that the room has no choice but to calibrate to you. That is not high maintenance. This is just you coming home to yourself.

    14 min
  7. My Other Side of Dark Times

    FEB 23

    My Other Side of Dark Times

    The other side of dark times.  ⚠ This episode has a trigger warning. 🎧 Pop in your headphones if others are around. This is the first episode of Pages from My Diary, where I open up the parts of myself I'd rather no one see. Not because it's comfortable, but maybe it helps or inspires one person out there. this is for you- the ONE. For the past year, I had a date on my calendar. Three times I moved it and now that option is off the table.  For-ev-er. 🚫  for the one who is smiling on the outside and crushed on the inside. The one who is still answering texts, still showing up, still laughing, while something inside is quietly hurting. In this episode, we talk about: Identity: What happens when everything you thought defined you gets stripped away at once.The Vinegar: About the wine you saved for a special occasion that turned to vinegar.The Choice: Deciding to stay, not because everything is fixed, but because you choose to trust what's coming.If you've lost someone who "chose out," this episode is for you, too. Compassion and understanding from someone who has lived experience. ❤️ The best is yet to come. ✨ And I want you to believe that, too.  🙏 RESOURCES: If you or someone you love is struggling, please reach out. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7. 📞 Call or text 988 (USA) or your local emergency services.

    25 min
  8. You Can Love Your Life and Still Want More

    FEB 20

    You Can Love Your Life and Still Want More

    What if being content and being ambitious aren't opposites afterall, and we get to hold the duality of both?  In this episode, Antonia sits down with Cami, a new mom navigating one of the biggest identity shifts a woman can experience. What starts as a conversation about motherhood opens into something much deeper, the fear of losing yourself, the guilt of wanting more, and what it actually means to be fulfilled without shrinking your dreams. Cami shares how pregnancy unexpectedly cracked her open, not by making her want less, but by finally letting her want from a place of peace instead of scarcity. She spent years chasing a version of herself she thought she had to become before she could have a life. Then everything shifted. Together, Tonia and Cami talk about: identity shift that happens when you become a mother — and why it doesn't have to mean losing who you are "void" — that uncomfortable in-between space where who you were and who you're becoming don't yet feel connectedWhy the games we play with ourselves to stay "ready" are just other people's stories in disguiseConfrontation as a skill, not a personality flawWhat contentment as a wife actually looks like when you're still building somethingHuman Design and why working in alignment with your wiring means you don't have to hustle yourself into the groundHow your ambition and your peace can exist in the same body, at the same timeThis episode is for the woman who loves her life,  her husband, her baby girl, her home and still honoring that pull toward something more. You are not ungrateful. You are not selfish. You are not too much. You're just made to be too much, but too much...according to who?

    57 min
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the conversations that shape our lives don’t always happen in boardrooms. They happen in relationships.In the quiet moments where we ask ourselves deeper questions.In the parts of our identity we’ve been told to hide.In the sexuality we’re told is too much. I’ve spent years building companies, sitting in boardrooms, and helping entrepreneurs solve problems most people don’t even see yet. Here we talk about business, manifestation, sexuality, magnetism, intuition, money, and the process of becoming someone new. Some episodes are thoughtful.Some are a little dangerous.All of them are honest. Take what resonates. Leave the rest. New episodes weekly.

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    Antonia Ann
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  • Episodes
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