Award-winning journalist Anna Lekas Miller is transforming how we understand global migration and conflict through an unexpected lens: love stories. In her latest appearance on The Sassy Show, she offers a compelling glimpse into her work as both a storyteller and someone who has lived the complexities of cross-border relationships.

Known as the journalist who 'spices up migration stories with tales of love and romance,' Anna shares intimate insights into her journey from covering war zones to writing her debut book 'Love Across Borders.' She reads the captivating opening chapter, revealing her own cross-border love story and accidental marriage proposal, while discussing how meeting her Syrian husband Salam transformed both her personal life and reporting perspective. With warmth and humor, Anna explores the challenges of international relationships, visa restrictions, and how finding love helped her discover a new way to tell stories of resilience, hope, and human connection in conflict zones.

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This episode of The Sassy Show we’re diving into the world of shibari with Frayed Knots—a rigger, performer, and all-round sass pot with a wealth of experience in the kink community. But this isn’t just about rope. It’s about queerness, masculinity, risk, and the responsibility we all have in creating safer, more inclusive spaces.

Frayed Knots speaks candidly about what it’s like to navigate the kink scene as a cis man, how queer spaces have shaped him, and why being accountable for your actions is far more important than fearing ‘cancel culture.’ Reminding us that "mistakes happen—but it’s how you handle them that matters."

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This week on The Sassy Show, we welcome Giap Tongsayor, a transformative facilitator specializing in conscious embodiment practices and healing rituals. Weaving together breathwork, sound healing, sensory stimulation and kink dynamics, Giap shares with us her mission to create inclusive healing spaces, particularly for women of color. And offers her insights about empowerment through conscious kink.

Having moved from Thailand to the UK as a teenager, Giap is currently in the process of writing a book exploring how cultural experiences such as sex tourism and being a Pro Domme shaped her approach to sex, the body and her healing work. We hear the fundamental reasons behind Giap’s mission to create sacred spaces, and how ritual can be a pathway to releasing shame and trauma.

Get to know Giap Tongsayor and let her knowledge wash you with a mind opening perspective of psychology, sensuality and a touch of BDSM.

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