Joni Blank

You know, I just, I don't want to do the like good mom, bad mom, sweet mom.

Like my mom was a fucking visionary, dude.

My mom was like, my mom was, that's who my mom was.

My mom was a visionary and a leader.

That's who she was.

Well, what can I say about my guest except Joni Blank is a legend.

I'm told that I'm a pioneer and I guess it's true because Good Vibrations was the first store of its kind in the country.

So the year I was born in 77, my mom founded Good Vibrations, which is a women's run sex shop.

And I remember during the, when that book was coming together, yes, there was pictures of Yonis all over my dining room.

Oh yeah.

Like I've always said that I was raised by a mother that was doing women's work since the day I can remember it.

I was working as a midwife for six or seven years, and I had been on call for 24-7.

I was exhausted.

I stepped away and I moved to a different state and was like super, super isolated.

I didn't have that work that gave me this type of purpose.

I think the reason that I ended up in a position of wanting to use again after almost 13 years of being clean, I was away from my community.

I was in a really bad relationship.

I didn't want to watch my friends dying.