Podcast host and fitness entrepreneur Steph Claire Smith has revealed she is taking part in a 30-day challenge unlike any other.
On her KICPOD podcast, which she hosts with her co-founder of Keep It Cleaner Laura Henshaw, the fitness entrepreneur revealed she and husband Josh Miller were taking part in a 30-day intimacy challenge.
“AKA 30 days of sex,” she said during the podcast.
“We are on Day 13, and I wanted to bring it up but I am sure I will have more to talk about at the end.”
Laura was shocked, jokingly asking Steph if she was tired before asking to define intimacy for the challenge.
Steph, mother to one-year-old son Harvey, said she and Josh have defined it by “further than kissing but doesn’t necessarily have to be sex”.
“We’re tired and there are dry spells but whenever we are intimate, it makes everything else better,” Steph said.
“As much as I hate to admit that, as there are times I just don’t want to do it, I know when I really think about it, when we are close in that way we are nicer to each other and more cuddly.”
She said the pair were doing the challenge as a bit of a reset and initially had no idea how it was going to go.
Both Josh and Steph had seen it online but Josh was the one who suggested the couple take part.
The 28-year-old said the challenge wasn’t easy and the hardest part was finding the time.
“There are nights where it is a full-on task,” she said, adding that the couple would have to be smarter about scheduling time during the day before it gets too late at night.
“There have been days where we have had an argument and then we have to have sex,” she said.
“But in the back of our minds, we really want to do this for each other so we work through it.”
Laura joked that now her partner will want to take part and she doesn’t want to.
“Maybe you’ll inspire some – but I’m not,” Laura said.
