{"podcast":{"title":"Fun & Bliss Show","slug":"fun-bliss-show-7840070","podcast_index_feed_id":7840070,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/2DgvuIt8.rss","website_url":"www.funandbliss.com","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/f2c4330e-f4b7-4d3b-8562-f8267c7cfd89/logos/008a316c-60f3-4854-b581-9fc987e239e6.jpeg","author":"Monick Halm and Moneeka Sawyer","episode_count":24,"summary":"The Fun & Bliss Show is a weekly invitation for everyone who is ready to stop postponing joy and start living with genuine ease, radiance, and aliveness. Co-hosts Monick Halm and Moneeka Sawyer explore how everyday fun and intentional bliss practices—what they call the Blissciplines—can open the door to clarity, connection, emotional freedom, and a life that feels deeply aligned. Through inspiring conversations, soulful stories, and simple five-minute “Fun & Bliss Sparks,” the show helps listeners reconnect with themselves, soften into presence, and remember that bliss isn’t a far-off dream—it’s a lived, daily experience. This is your space to breathe, to laugh, and to join a global movement where fun is the practice and bliss is the lifestyle.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-02T22:22:54.943459+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fun-bliss-show-7840070"},"episode":{"title":"Why Pleasure Is Revolutionary","slug":"why-pleasure-is-revolutionary","published_at":"2026-07-28T20:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fun-bliss-show-7840070/why-pleasure-is-revolutionary","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fun-bliss-show-7840070","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/1608f39f09b40c8616cfe4dc9950b7f4cee25b1ddb51d7984d0fe668211f15c3/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJhMTIwZTE4MC00ZjBkLTRkMjEtYThjYS00ZDZmZDY0MWY4ZWEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmMmM0MzMwZS1mNGI3LTRkM2ItODU2Mi1mODI2N2M3Y2ZkODkiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTMyMjA1ZWU2MzE4YzVmYWI2YmJiOWQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE2OGYzMTEzZTUyNzZmNDdmYmM0N2YxL21vbmVla2Etc2F3eWVycy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi03LTI4X18yMC0yMS01Lm1wMyJ9.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/1608f39f09b40c8616cfe4dc9950b7f4cee25b1ddb51d7984d0fe668211f15c3/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJhMTIwZTE4MC00ZjBkLTRkMjEtYThjYS00ZDZmZDY0MWY4ZWEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmMmM0MzMwZS1mNGI3LTRkM2ItODU2Mi1mODI2N2M3Y2ZkODkiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTMyMjA1ZWU2MzE4YzVmYWI2YmJiOWQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE2OGYzMTEzZTUyNzZmNDdmYmM0N2YxL21vbmVla2Etc2F3eWVycy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi03LTI4X18yMC0yMS01Lm1wMyJ9.mp3","summary":"What if fun is not a distraction from meaningful work, but part of the medicine? In this episode of The Fun & Bliss Podcast , Monick sits down with singer, songwriter, music and podcast producer, music supervisor, and “overall cosmic troublemaker” Kathleen Smith for a joyful, honest conversation about pleasure, creativity, music, and the deeply subversive power of having fun. Kathleen believes that fun is medicine—and that the revolution will be rooted in pleasure, creativity, and feminine energy. Her music has been featured across MTV, VH1, NBC, KCRW, radio stations around the country, and award-winning independent films. As a music supervisor, she has managed and placed millions of dollars’ worth of music and intellectual property for organizations and clients including The Kennedy Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, Hulu, Netflix, ESPN, Showtime, Amazon, and many more. Her work has been described as emotionally charged, fearlessly vulnerable, and powered by a “voice made of sunshine.” In this conversation, Kathleen shares how pleasure and play shaped the making of her record Medicine , why fun can be a form of resistance, and what becomes possible when we stop treating joy as something we have to earn. Together, Monick and Kathleen explore creativity without performance, the courage to follow what feels alive, and why becoming a disruptive force of nature might simply mean refusing to live disconnected from your own delight.","meta_description":"What if fun is not a distraction from meaningful work, but part of the medicine? In this episode of The Fun & Bliss Podcast , Monick sits down with si…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3508,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fun-bliss-show-7840070/episodes/why-pleasure-is-revolutionary/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fun-bliss-show-7840070/why-pleasure-is-revolutionary.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}