Hello everyone. Welcome to the Sex, Love, and Superpowers podcast show. I’m your host, Tatiana Berindei and today I have a very special guest with me, Ms. Keelin Siobhan Clark, and we are going to be discussing the powers of a superhero. It is a fun episode and I’m excited about it. Let me tell you a little bit about Keelin before we dive in.
Keelin is the creator of Lady Liberty Lives, #LL21c, and owner of Liberty Empowerment Coaching as a liberation coach, she works with those seeking a more fulfilling life using her The Liberty Zone technique. By seeing the greatest potential in people, Keelin educates, entertains, and empowers those who are seeking their own liberation.
Welcome to the show, Keelin.
Thank you so much for having me.
But, with that, other superpowers are creativity, humor, and just a radical love for humanity and just seeing the positive in so much of this beautiful world.
Yeah. So all of our guests get to answer this really fun question, and I think especially fun in your case since you have created your own superhero. But will you please tell our listeners what your superpowers are?
My superpowers. Well, I mean, the biggest one is that I’ve created my own superhero, Lady Liberty of the 21st Century. But, with that, other superpowers are creativity, humor, and just a radical love for humanity and just seeing the positive in so much of this beautiful world.
Amen. Just to give a little background to those of you listening, I met Keelin at, actually, Amy Jo Goddard’s event, and she’s been on the show as well and we were both playing sexual archetypes for this retreat. Keelin told me that she had created her own superhero and I was like, “Okay, well, hands down, we’re meeting here. You’ve created your own superhero, and you needed to come on the show and we need to talk about this.” Tell us about Lady Liberty and why you created her.
Yeah, and what’s really interesting is that this part of the story doesn’t talk about very often, but she was created actually kind of out of a sexual archetype. Yeah, I was doing a photoshoot with a good friend of mine, and we were just kind of playing around and I had a fishnet one-piece bodysuit on and she gave me.
Hot.
Yeah, it was super hot. The photographer, Monaco Risky, Monica O., she is in Los Angeles. She’s a beautiful self-portrait photographer and I hired her just to kind of play around. So there’s one piece and she gave me this belt crown and she said, “Here, put this on.” we were just playing around, and when the proofs came back, she said, “You’re like this alien.” and I looked at them and I said, “No. Oh my God, I’m Lady Liberty the 21st-century and she is pissed off.”
When I looked at them, I suddenly realized that there was a huge potential there to have an archetype like the Statue of Liberty, the Goddess of Liberty come alive because the statue’s real name is Liberty Enlightening the World and really she the lighthouse, right? She stands in New York Harbor, and I’ve always been very, very attached to her. I grew up in Vermont as a child. I went and visited her. I lived in Brooklyn and worked in Manhattan in my 20s, and I had always looked for her. So she’s always been with me.
When those proofs came back, I was doing a project for school and it was a social media project and everything just kind of fell into place. I realized how cool would it be if she came to life as a nonviolent superhero who still uses her torch, but we use it as a microphone because our words are just as powerful, and we still use tablets. So in my version of the living Lady Liberty, she’s not in that one-piece bodysuit.
Too bad.
I mean, the photos are there. She had to be kind of stripped down in order to be rebuilt. Right. And now there’s a couple of iterations of her. I have a very childish side of her that I create missions for families, and I’m actually reading a book series right now is Lady Liberty. Then there’s a very serious side of her that is, they’re all pieces of me, and the serious side is just seeing so much pain and so much heartache in the world that for me, from a place where I come from, I don’t see it as needed. I see that there’s a lot of potential to create more connections and more joy. That to me is through enlightenment and that’s our path to liberty.
I love that you’re taking this sort of iconic American figure and bringing her to life. I think there’s a lot of. First of all, it’s incredibly unique and creative. Like you mentioned in the beginning, one of your superpowers is creativity and I can really see that coming through in this. It’s unexpected too, which I love. When one thinks of superheroes, one doesn’t necessarily think of Lady Liberty.
I get to thank the universe, but we really need someone that we can trust who is a human.
Right, and I think that it’s important too because today we’ve got a lot of superheroes out there. It’s a very, very commerce-driven piece of our entertainment world and it’s very violent. No matter your stand on gun control. I’m from Vermont, so I understand the owners needing ownership of some guns. But we have a really big problem in this country. There are kids killing each other. And when I made the superhero, it really did it was a divine download. I can’t take 100% responsibility for it. I get to thank the universe, but we really need someone that we can trust who is a human.
We all get to be superheroes, and we all have a superpower but we’re also mortal and really are. So the more I connect with her, the more she grows up with me. I see how much more powerful she can be. One of my little dreams is to follow the campaign trail in 2020 and actually bring unity to both sides because it gets really intense and she was born out of the last election. Half of us were blindsided and that I take responsibility for my own complacency for not caring about an entire middle part of my country and not connecting. I was being an affluent white woman, complacent and just not really paying attention to the problems and to the hurt that is happening right on my doorstep.
So there’s a lot that I want to discuss with you and me, and I don’t want to dive in too deep before we have to go to break. So let’s just do it now.
Okay.
So before we break, will you tell our listeners where they can go to find out more about you, more about Lady Liberty?
Yeah, so I’m the #LL21c, I created that so that no matter what platform you’re on, you can just Google or engine search it and the information will pop up. So I have video content on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, all of them. So you can just Google or engine search the #LL21c.
All right, so we are talking with Keelin Siobhan Clark about the powers of a superhero. More when we get back. Stay tuned.
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