Hello, I’m Portia!

I am a Sensual Liberation & Erotic Embodiment Guide and the founder of The Bougie Bruja Co.—the boardroom and bedroom’s best-kept secret.

My mission is simple yet powerful: to guide visionary, heart-led women and couples to heal their trauma, reconnect with their body’s wisdom, reclaim their power, and lead and love from their most authentic sensual selves.

Born to Filipino immigrant parents and raised amidst the duality of tradition and rebellion, my journey has been one of transformation and reclamation. For decades, I thrived in masculine-driven corporate spaces yet felt deeply disconnected from my body and emotions. It wasn’t until I embraced the liberating practices of sensuality, somatic healing, and tantric philosophies that I began to lead a life rooted in radical self-love and embodied leadership.

I combine over 15 years of personal growth with certifications in Tantra-based intimacy, somatic integrative therapy, and holistic coaching to help women and gender-expansive leaders transform shame into radical self-trust. My approach blends ancient wisdom with modern techniques, creating a safe and brave container for deep healing, expansion, and erotic expression.

Outside of my work, I am a proud mother to two non-binary teenagers, a devoted partner, and a lover of intentional living. Whether nurturing my garden or exploring the Bay Area, I bring pleasure, presence, and authenticity into every corner of my life.

This is your invitation to turn desire into a life of abundance and embodied power. Let’s co-create a reality where you feel fully at home in yourself—unapologetically, authentically, and aligned with your deepest truth.

Are you ready to become the leader in your life?

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“I believe life is a ceremony

—and everything is a ritual.”

Who I serve: heart-led leaders who don’t want more, they want better.

CREATE A BETTER LIFE

My clients are high-achieving, heart-centered women who have it all on paper—the career, the success, the milestones—but still feel something is missing. They’ve climbed the ladder, checked off the boxes, yet deep inside, they feel disconnected from the core of who they truly are. Despite “having it all” they long for deeper intimacy, self-trust, pleasure, and a leadership style that nourishes them both personally and professionally.

Through our journey of self-reclamation, they shed limiting patterns, embrace their erotic power, and lead with confidence and ease. They emerge with profound self-awareness, deeper relationships, fulfilling intimacy, a renewed sense of self-worth, and the ability to navigate life embodied with authentic power.

I believe that transformation occurs not from trying to be something different than we are, but by practicing intimacy as a practice of radical self- acceptance.

I am committed to helping others tap into their own inner wisdom and power through sacred sensuality and authentic erotic expression.

I am creating a movement that redefines leadership as an art form rooted in pleasure, intuition, and radical self-romance. My path is one of expansion, liberation, and connection—and I’m inviting you to join me in this journey of transformation, where we redefine what it means to be a woman who leads, loves, and lives fully.

TRAINED IN THE FOLLOWING

VITA™ Tantric Sex & Relationship Coaching

The VITA™ Method is a transformational process to heal and awaken sexuality. Backed by modern science and empowered by ancient wisdom. Jo uses holistic tools like breathwork, pleasure practices, trauma healing, meditation, energy work, sounding, and movement to resolve even the deepest issues.
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy

Somatic trauma therapy offers techniques for clients to sense and regulate their own physiology and states of being. Jo blends integrative somatic trauma therapy techniques to help clients build internal trust and safety while being invited deeper in the body to unwind trauma and restore well-being.
Lumia Life Coaching

Foundational science-backed, evidence-based life coach training that is deeply rooted in Positive Psychology & Appreciative Inquiry skills. Since 2018 Jo has been using these skills to help empower and transform the lives of change makers and thought leaders.
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. Since 2017 Jo’s coaching has always been about healing the whole person.

I am here to help you feel more alive, more connected, and more empowered than ever before.

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.

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Let me guide you back home to your body and your inner wisdom.

My work is rooted in the belief that pain, trauma, and emotional wounds reside in our bodies and nervous system AND when we are able to transform those things through pleasure, unconditional radical AF self-love, compassion, and self-acceptance, we become whole, integrated beings which turns them into conscious leaders.