Mollena Williams-Haas, a.k.a. The Kink Doula, is back to serve up a slice of community healing. As a BDSM Leather community veteran and legend, Mollena understands the challenges of living your truth when it falls outside of the alt-sex status quo. In this convo, she shares how her rocky relationship with a community she once loved transformed into an unexpected journey of healing and growth. And, in true Mollena fashion, the insights she gleaned from this transformative, powerful experience are life lessons we can all benefit from, no matter our chosen community or family. This is part one of our two-episode extended conversation.   Mollena Williams-Haas Bio Mollena is an NYC-born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator, Storyteller, sobriety fiend since March 2007, and Award-Winning Executive Pervert. Owned and collared by renowned contemporary composer Georg Friedrich Haas since 2013, she serves as his beloved slave, submissive, wife, servant, and Muse. February 2016 saw a groundbreaking piece about their relationship featured in the New York Times. Active in the Leather community since 1996 and teaching since 1998, Mollena's viewpoints on Kink-related issues are frequently sought after by sources like The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, Essence, Ebony, etc. She is a frequent guest expert on Dan Savage’s “Savage Lovecast,” Tristan Taormino’s “Sex Out Loud”, and Margaret Cho’s “Monsters of Talk” podcast. She’s even spoken about Kink at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Molena is also a leather titleholder– International Ms Leather 2010 and Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009. She’s the co-author of the “Toybag Guide: Taboo Play.” and “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities”.  A professional stage performer since the age of 5, Mollena’s credits include singing on the soundtrack for The Wiz and co-starring with Danny Bonaduce in underground cult-classic America’s Deadliest Home Video. Her short film, IMPACT, won the “Cinekink’s Best Experimental Film" Award. Mollena’s latest performance piece is Hyena, a collaboration with her husband. They are also both the subject of the documentary The Artist and The Pervert. Mollena also appeared on Sex with Sunny Megatron on Showtime. Her latest endeavor is The Kink Doula. Mollena's Full Bio: http://www.mollena.com/about/  Episode 203 Helpful Links & Resources All That and Mo, Podcast hosted by Mollena Lee Williams Haas https://allthatandmo.com/ Kink Doula https://kinkdoula.com/  Mollena Lee Williams Haas Website http://www.mollena.com/ Mollena Lee Williams Haas Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mollena Mollena Lee Williams Haas Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mollena_lee_williams_haas/ Mollena Lee Williams Haas Twitter https://twitter.com/mollena Mollena Lee Williams Haas Patreon https://www.patreon.com/MollenaLeeWilliamsHaas Mollena on RISK! Episode 442 “Slave” https://soundcloud.com/riskshow/slave-by-mollena-williams-from-episode-442-slave Hyena Teaser Trailer https://youtu.be/UrAJji7qdwk The Artist and the Pervert Trailer https://youtu.be/ko_6bGeADGU The Artist and the Pervert Documentary on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Artist-Pervert-Georg-Friedrich-Haas/dp/B08NC5C1PK The Restrict Act Bill S. 686 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text  ResistBot  https://resist.bot/petitions Find & Contact your Legislators https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s686/comment  Chat GPT https://chat.openai.com/chat  Sunny’s Free Kink Negotiation & Scene Planning Mini-Workbook https://sunnymegatron.gumroad.com/l/negotiationwb Sunny Megatron TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@sunnymegatron American Sex Podcast Discord Community http://bit.ly/discordasp American Sex Podcast Patreon http://patreon.com/americansex  Episode 203 Sponsors & Discount Codes *by using our links & codes you can help support our work while saving a few bucks too—wi