Get to know me + my perspective as a coach + writer through these podcasts + videos

Loved listening to this, Sasha! Thanks for your continued openness, exploring and vulnerability to help us all.

Susan Vittner 

Portland, ME

Bringing embodiment and self-love to the masses on the Dr. Phil show on self-marriage (!)

With Sonya and Danni, the other two (fabulous) women guests who married themselves, on the Dr. Phil show. Thanks to assistant producer Kalley for the photo. I helped Kalley and her sister Camryn get engaged to themselves after the show!Being on the Dr. Phil show on...

Talking about Getting WET on Virgin.Beauty.Bitch (new podcast!)

Listen to "VBB 215 Sasha Cagen on her Memoir titled Wet — a Story of Healing through Sensuality!" on Spreaker. So excited to share this recently recorded podcast with you... Christopher and Heather of Virgin.Beauty.Bitch are all about unpacking female stereotypes and...

Getting Real on “Spinsterhood Reimagined with Lucy Meggeson” (New Podcast Interview)

Lucy Meggeson who lives across the pond in the UK, who is great and hilarious, and who is definitely my kind of woman (I bet we could be BFFs if we lived in the same city), interviewed me for her new podcast Spinsterhood Reimagined. Here's the description: "Are you...

Quirkyalone? on the Solo Podcast

I so enjoyed talking with Dr. Peter McGraw, a behavioral economist at the University of Colorado who is investigating solitude and how to create a remarkable single life, now or forever. It's kinda crazy. I have done many fantastic podcasts about being quirkyalone...

Talking about Quirkyalone, Writing Memoir, and Dating During COVID

  Happy new year all! Even though clearly the start of 2021 has not turned a new page for us in the US (last week's events in D.C. at the Capital are pretty damn shocking) I still believe we have the right to wish ourselves a happy new year. So happy new year....

Quirkyalone and the Question of Motherhood on the Maybe Someday Podcast

Just in time for the holidays...which in the U.S. are quite the kid-focused months, let's talk about motherhood (or parenthood) ambivalence. Do you want to have children? Are you thinking about having kids? These questions can take on a massive life of...

Let’s talk about loneliness

Though loneliness has become something of a hot topic in the media, I wonder how many of us would feel comfortable to say it out loud to another friend or loved one, "I'm lonely." Many of us are reluctant to admit to others when we feel lonely. I know from my own life...

The Healing Power of Tango

LIke many women in the U.S., when I was in my late thirties I started to get very tired. I worried that I might have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Sometimes when I took a walk for two miles I needed four hours on the couch to recover, and even taking a shower and getting...

I Shared My Thoughts on All Things Tango

    Joe Yang, a tango teacher from Madison, Wisconsin, recently interviewed me for Joe's Tango Podcast. Joe's podcast is for people who are who are starting to fall in love with the dance of tango and want to learn from different experts in the field. I...

Behind the Scenes in My Quirky Business

Sometimes people will send me messages asking, how do you make this work? How do you earn a living, find clients or get published? I never really know what to say because the process of building a life as a writer, life coach, and now a transformative tango guide was...

The Murky Truths of Non-Motherhood: A Podcast Conversation on Unclassified Woman

Unclassified Woman is a wonderful podcast about combatting “limiting female narratives”: “With almost 25% of women over 40 child-free by choice or childless through circumstance, it seems absurd that women still have to justify their decisions or endure pity about why...

This Quirkyalone Day 2017, celebrate your right to speak out with an independent voice

International Quirkyalone Day is an alternative to Valentine's Day that I started way back in 2003. It falls, of course, on February 14. It's just a coincidence. Well, that's our story and we're sticking with it. Since then Quirkyalone Day been celebrated in more than...

Sex and the Single Quirkyalone: How to talk openly and honestly about sex . . . before you have sex

If you are a quirkyalone, and you’re looking for someone to be your life partner, you may find yourself single for an extended period: months or yearssssss. How do you keep touch, sexuality and sensuality present and alive in your life while you are single? How can we...

Why Wet and Not Juicy

You might have landed on my blog thinking you are going to read only about being quirkyalone, and now you're thinking, What? What is this woman talking about . . . WETNESS? I'm currently deeply immersed in writing a book where I'm developing a theory of wetness...

How I Got Over My Single Shame

It can be scary for me to share my own story, but it’s also tremendously liberating to try to live a life without shame. Sharing my single shame story helps me to stand up straight and I know my story can be of service to others. So with that I am happy to share with...

Do what you love, and the partner will follow, a podcast with Nomadtopia

"Do what you love, and the partner will follow." I wish someone had drilled that into my brain six years ago when I was stuck in a swamp of self-doubt, and I thought I needed to stay put in a life I did not enjoy, do the online dating treadmill, and meet a man before...

HuffPost Live Chat on Ma’am vs. Miss

I was really happy to participate in this HuffPost Live interview on how we address women. Being asked whether I am a señora or señorita here in Argentina has me pondering again ma'am vs. miss and why we women are asked these questions and referred to by our age,...

How to Heal Your Single Shame

Our quirky chat about single shame last week was so amazing and deep I needed to let it settle into my body and soul to write up this post for you. I feel so blessed that we were able to have this healing conversation. I chose the topic because I have noticed the...

Video: A conversation between two quirky ladies: Sasha of Quirkyalone and Christina of Living Quirky

I loved chatting with Christina Salerno of Living Quirky! Check out this chat and learn about: --the origins of quirkyalone --how I help people with quirkyalone dating and relationship coaching --my tango trip to Buenos Aires, the Quirky-Sexy Tango Adventure (plus...

Podcast: Why is hedonism a bad word?

Did you ever wonder why hedonism is a bad word? Why on earth would it be a bad thing to pursue pleasure? That's one of the things that my dear friend and fellow coach Michele Lisenbury Christen and I chat about in this inaugural podcast. Michele is the creator of ooo...

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