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How to Manifest Everything You Want in Life with Serena Kerrigan
Wed, 07 May 2025
This week, Brynn Whitfield is extra pleased this week to welcome the queen of confidence herself—Serena Kerrigan! Serena opens up about her journey to becoming a dating and sex expert, and reveals how manifestation helped her land a boyfriend, a book deal, and a TV deal. Things really heat up when Brynn and Serena play the X-rated version of Serena’s card game. Spoiler alert: The first question is all about… soup? Host: Brynn Whitfield Guest: Serena Kerrigan Producers: Belle Roman, Chelsea Stark-Jones, and Kat Spillane Editor: Jon Roemer Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Shop for every party at amazon.com/BirthdayCelebrations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the introduction to the podcast episode?
No, I run into a couple of them, and I'm like, you peaked. At school. Sorry, T. Yeah, yeah.
Like, you peaked. And I never peaked. We will never peak. Yeah, we'll never peak. My two straight best friends, they told me that they have their bachelors, and they're awful, but I adore them. And they're like, yeah, no, a chick, when she gets over, like, 34, 35, she's still hot. She's going to be hot for life. Like, kids or no kids regardless.
And then I was sitting there, and I was giving them this face, like, how dare they say that about women. I'm getting all, like, whatever. And then they're like, yeah, you're good. And I was like – Okay. And feminism goes out the door. Do you think I'm pretty? The feminism leaves my body when the lacrosse player says I'm hot. So real. Yeah, seriously. But yeah, we made it. We made the thing.
We're okay. And I think we're like crazy enough that and like obsessed with like self-care and like things.
Botox, yeah.
Yeah, procedures and things that like I'm not going to not let myself. Oh, I'm not worried about us. Yeah, yeah. We're going to be fine. We'll be fine in the 70s in Palm Beach. No, but your personal brand, I read that you kind of... Not didn't have a crisis of self, but what was it? Definitely a crisis of self. It was. You rebranded yourself, though, in college.
Yeah.
So your branding career kind of started in college.
Yeah, I called myself Serena fucking Kerrigan when I walked into Duke. I told everyone I legally changed my name, which, like, I'm surprised people bought it. I thought they were... Like the bursar's office you told? Okay, maybe not that, but I just, like, told everyone. But I really... Today, actually, someone asked me on my Instagram stories.
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Chapter 2: How did Serena Kerrigan become a dating and sex expert?
Like, it's about the dialogue that you're having with your best friend. Yeah. Instead of saying, I am beautiful. No, you. Yeah, yeah. Because there's also this, like, distance that happens. Like, when you look at yourself in the mirror, it's not you. Right. Because I think a lot of the times people – People think when I tell them to do this, they're like, but I don't believe it.
I'm like, okay, you're not saying it to yourself.
You're saying it to the girl in the mirror. You're saying it to the girl in the mirror. And that's very, like, that's, like, the difference between, like, what, the id, the ego, and super ego. So you're speaking to, yeah, because sometimes I think it's hard for people to say, like, I am this, I am that.
And you can say it, but you don't believe it because you're, like, all the voices in your head are like, well, it's not in front of me. It's not how I feel. It's not how I look. But if you're talking to yourself, you're a genius. Like, it's your friend. Then you're using second person language. Yeah, and then it's easier to adapt.
Because you know it's true because you're saying it with the vindiction that you would say it to a friend. There you fucking go.
It is the Serena fucking go. Oh, my God.
How many times do you say fucking a day? Like a lot. Is that okay? We should count. I like it. No, I know. Yeah. But you say it so fucking cute. Just add fuck into everything. So take me to the pandemic then. So you're coaching 150 women. You're dragging people into the bathroom. You're having like starting fight clubs in the bathroom but of confidence. What – take me then to the dating series.
Right. So I went to Duke and then I was a video producer at Refinery29 for three and a half years, which is amazing. And that's how I like – did so much on camera stuff, interviewing, everything. And then I was building my brand in tandem and I was like, you know what? I'm going to go do it. I want to be like the Oprah of confidence. I want to monetize this.
I want to make people, I really feel like I could, global domination vibes. Like I could figure this out. Like I have a strong message and I want to, And literally like two weeks before lockdown, that's when I quit. And then you quit before lockdown, right before lockdown, like right before. So then I was like stuck in my apartment, Lower East Side.
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Chapter 3: Can manifestation help you find love?
It's really, like, rooted in you are the main fucking character. And if you feel so good about yourself and enjoy dating as a fun thing. Yes. Because every person I talk to are like, oh, dating sucks. It's so hard. I'm like, guess what? Then it's going to suck and it's going to be hard. People say that, like, dating sucks in New York.
I'm like, I've been having an awesome time for like a decade. Like, I am having fun.
I'm not committing. It is what you make of it.
But I do have a lot of fun in New York.
It is what you make of it. I know firsthand how shitty it can be. Yes. But if your branding experience is not fun, then it's not going to be fun. And really the book, what it's going to do is it's going to reinvigorate you.
Like when I pitched it to the publishers, one woman was like, I'm literally married and I deadass want to be single after reading your proposal because you're making it seem so fun. I'm like, because it is.
It is fun and I'm sure too of what you're describing. You're making it, again, not like you said, like here's how to flirt. Here's how to craft like the best text ever to get him to reply. It's more just like... have fun and be yourself and know that you're the prize.
And I think that's probably what the married, I hope I'm trying to get her off the hook, but I hope that that's what the married publisher is referring to. Like, as you're explaining it, I didn't hear like, Oh, she's going to teach me how to date. I know how to ducky. I know how to flirt, but like, I, I think I could use even what you're saying, which is like,
Just remember and have more fun and just kind of like – And trust that it's going to work out for you. And trust that it's going to work out. That's the only part I'm not doing. I'm having fun. I'm having too much fun because I'm like, it's not going to work out.
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