She studied psychology at the Free University of Brussels[4] and did her internship in a prison, where she worked with inmates being condemned to lifelong sentences.

[5] The very next day after one of her first television appearances (RUR) as Miss Belgium, Goedele was asked by the Dutch National TV (VARA) to lead her own talkshow.

She was their leading lady for more than 15 years with top rating talkshows on social and emotional topics and the very successful debate program ‘Recht Van Antwoord’ (the right to answer).

From 1992 until 1996, she closely worked at Rutgers, an international centre of expertise on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) at The Hague, as a policy advisor and sexologist.

[8] She made a series of documentaries on those topics Strong Women, 14 episodes broadcast on national commercial TV (VTM).

She for instance presented a couple of more generic talk show and hosted the debate program called Recht van Antwoord (Right to answer) covering numerous societal items.

In 2007 Liekens sold her production company JokFoe to Sanoma and therefor worked for the Belgian SBS media group.

The program showed British students to be severely lacking trustworthy information with regard to responsible and fun sexuality, a deficit which they intended to fill through porn.

Within the framework of her commitments as a UNPFA Ambassador, Liekens earlier on already advocated for an amelioration of sexual knowledge and education as a crucial part of reproductive health.

[12] In March 2019, Liekens announced her candidacy in the federal elections of 2019, holding the third place on the list of liberal party Open VLD.

She also wrote columns for different kinds of magazines (Playboy, Joepie, Goed Gevoel, Wendy, Margriet, and newspapers (Het Laatste Nieuws, Nina).

In 2013 the word 'sukkelseks' (roughly translated as ‘clumsy sex’), coined by Liekens, was officially registered in the Van Dale Dictionary.