Hello, I’m Portia!
I’m a cultural disruptor, coach, mentor, mother, and Erotic Leadership Coach.
I’m also the founder of The Bougie Bruja® Method—a trauma-informed, body-led framework for nervous system restoration and the reclamation of power, pleasure, and presence.
For over two decades, I’ve led creative teams, built global brands, and walked through fire: motherhood, heartbreak, burnout, reinvention. My work now lives at the intersection of somatic trauma healing, sacred sexuality, energetic polarity, and archetypal parts work—all in service of one thing:
Helping powerful women lead from the truth of their bodies, not the performance of their roles.
Because here’s the truth: all the mindset hacks, meditations, and productivity tools in the world won’t matter if you’re still disconnected from your body’s wisdom.
I work with women who are brilliant on paper: CEOs, founders, creatives, and culture shapers who’ve “done the work” but still feel something vital is missing.
They don’t need more success.
They need to come home to themselves.
My approach blends ritual, science, and soul to support what I call a sacred return:
Back to your voice.
Back to your pleasure.
Back to your erotic aliveness.
Whether we’re working 1:1 or inside a ritual space, I’ll meet you in your power and your tenderness. With devotion, discernment, and zero performance.
“I believe life is a ceremony
—and everything is a ritual.”
Who I serve: heart-led leaders who don’t want more—they want to feel more.
Women who have built success on paper—but still feel something’s missing.
You’re the woman everyone counts on.
The title, the team, the vision, the calendar, the home.
On paper, your life looks incredible.
But inside? There’s a quiet ache.
A whisper of something missing.
I work with women who are powerhouses in the boardroom—who are ready to feel that same power in their bodies, relationships, and inner lives.
You want pleasure to feel safe.
You want intimacy to feel real.
You want to trust yourself—not just at work, but everywhere.
Through a blend of somatic trauma healing, sacred sexuality, and lived wisdom, I guide women to:
— Build unshakable self-trust and emotional safety
— Experience joy and intimacy without abandoning themselves
— Rewire survival patterns and reclaim embodied presence
— Lead, live, and love from the truth of who they are
You don’t need another mindset shift.
You need nervous system safety.
Sensual wholeness.
A body that finally feels like home.
I believe…
Transformation doesn’t happen by becoming someone new—
It’s about returning to the woman you were, before you learned to perform your worth.
I work with high-achieving women who are brilliant on paper but disconnected in their bodies.
Women who want to lead, live, and love from something deeper.
Through nervous system healing,
sensual reclamation, and therapeutic coaching,
I help you come back to your power.
Not the kind you have to prove—
the kind you already hold in your body.
If you’re ready for leadership that feels honest and embodied, not performative…
Let’s begin.
Book an alignment call and step into the wholeness you’ve been craving.
TRAINED IN THE FOLLOWING
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VITA™ Tantric Sex & Relationship Coaching
The VITA™ Method is a trauma-informed path to awaken sensuality and heal sexuality at the nervous system level. Rooted in ancient wisdom and modern science, it blends breathwork, pleasure practices, embodiment, meditation, energy work, and sound to restore connection, pleasure, and trust in your body.
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Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy
Somatic trauma healing is the foundation of nervous system restoration. Through my studies with The Embody Lab, I’ve learned to support women in regulating their physiology, building internal trust, and safely accessing the parts of themselves that have been hidden, shut down, or exiled.
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Lumia Life Coaching
This evidence-based coaching program (formerly the JRNI Life Coaching) centers around Positive Psychology, systems change, and appreciative inquiry. I use these tools to support high-functioning women through identity shifts, inner clarity, and aligned decision-making.
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The IINtegrative Coaching Method™
A multi-dimensional approach to health exploring how various factors - from physical health and nutrition to mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being - interplay and contribute to overall health.
I’m here to help you feel more alive in your body, more connected to your truth, and more deeply rooted in your power.
My Journey: From Fragmentation to Embodied Leadership
I am the daughter of immigrants, a first-gen Filipino-American raised by a traditional Catholic family who was wildly uncomfortable with discussing anything related to sex, relationships, and/or money.
I thought because of my history of growing up in a home filled domestic violence, childhood sexual trauma, and my anxiety and depression I was unworthy of pleasure.
Like many women, I was under the impression that my body, and sexuality was only for a man’s touch and I was tired of having shitty performative sex and operating under that story. I was under the impression that pleasure, ease, and bliss was something I had to earn.
For decades, I was caught in the cycle of high achievement, overcommitting, and constantly pouring into others while neglecting myself. On the outside, I had built an impressive career in tech, wellness, even competing in bodybuilding, but deep down, I felt disconnected.
It wasn’t until I began embracing my sensuality and reconnecting with my body that I understood true power doesn’t come from overextending—it comes from living in alignment with your whole self.
Through this journey of healing, I discovered that erotic energy isn’t just about pleasure; it’s about cultivating profound self-trust and intuition that can elevate every aspect of life.
Today, I help other heart-led leaders, just like you, reclaim that same sense of power, inner peace, and deep connection.
I’ve walked the path of masculine-driven success, only to discover the transformative power of softening, listening to my body, and reclaiming my erotic essence. This awakening ripples through every area of my life—from motherhood to entrepreneurship.
I combine my expertise in Somatic Integrative Therapy, Tantra, and experience as a tech leader at VSCO, I offer a revolutionary approach to leadership—one that’s grounded in holistic transformation. Through my provocative and fierce coaching style, my clients break free from societal constraints, reconnect with their bodies, and learn to lead with confidence, pleasure, and profound purpose.
My approach is not about surface-level success; it's about creating an authentic life that honors the totality and wholeness of who you are. My clients transform their relationships, leadership style in every area of their life, and sense of self, embodying their fullest power.
Whether you're struggling to balance career and personal life or longing for deeper relationships and authenticity, I’m here to guide you toward a leadership style that integrates your full, unapologetic, powerfully, sensual radiant self.
Let me guide you back to your body—and the truth that’s always lived there.
My work is rooted in the knowing that our pain, trauma, and emotional wounds live in the body—not just the mind.
And when we meet those places with pleasure, compassion, and nervous system safety, something shifts.
We begin to feel again. To trust again.
To remember who we are.
From that place, we don’t just lead—we embody the kind of leadership the world is hungry for: whole, honest, and alive.
Work with Jo
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Awaken Workshop
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“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
— Audre Lorde
Podcast Interviews
Jo Portia has made appearances on several top-ranking podcasts, including The Higher Self Podcast, The Papaya Podcast, and Nothing Confidential.
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Sensuality is the portal to liberation.
It is a gateway to experiencing the textures, tastes, and beauty of existence.
This conscious relationship with our bodies and emotions is not indulgence; it’s power.
It’s a reclamation of our right to experience the fullness of life.