The Ready For Polyamory Podcast
Ready for Polyamory? Education, humor, and personal stories on ethical non-monogamy and polyamory.
Episodes
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Season 8 Episode 5: Post Non-monogamy and Beyond
August 15th, 2024 | Season 7 | 50 mins 27 secs
nonmonogamy, polyamory, postnonmonogamy, relationships
Laura sits down with Andrea Zanin, co-author of More Than Two, Second Edition, and author of Post Non-Monogamy and Beyond, to discuss both books.
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Season 8 Episode 4: More Than Two, Second Edition
August 8th, 2024 | Season 7 | 38 mins 48 secs
books, hierarchy, more than two, polyamorous, polyamory
Laura sits down with Eve Rickert to discuss the forthcoming second edition of More Than Two.
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Season 8 Episode 3: Change is the only Constant
May 16th, 2024 | Season 7 | 50 mins 15 secs
breakups, escalation, move-in, parenting, polyamorous, polyamory, transitions
Laura sits down with Libby Sinback of Making Polyamory Work to talk about transitions and how changes in relationships affect us, especially as polyamorous parents.
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Season 8 Episode 2: Asexuality in Polyamory
April 1st, 2024 | Season 7 | 1 hr 6 mins
asexuality, content creation, kink, polyamory, social media
Laura sits down with Evie Lupine to discuss kink, asexuality, and non-monogamy and polyamory and how these intersect for Evie as well as the larger community.
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Season 8 Episode 1: Entwined
March 23rd, 2024 | Season 7 | 42 mins 59 secs
memoir, metamours, polyamorous, polyamory, trans readathon
Laura sits down with Alex Alberto, author of Entwined to discuss the new memoir, polyamorous media representation, storytelling, and more
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Season 7 Episode 8: A Polyamory Devotional
October 19th, 2023 | Season 7 | 48 mins 19 secs
growth, metamours, polyamory, self-reflection
Laura sits down with Evita Sawyers to discuss her new book A Polyamory Devotional, as well as the growth potential in discomfort and conflict.
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Season 7 Episode 7: Living in Small Spaces
October 12th, 2023 | Season 7 | 1 hr 38 secs
cohabitation, polyamorous, polyamory, relationships
Laura talks with Gabrielle Alexa Noel about cohabiting in smaller spaces when you're polyamorous and what the practical and emotional ramifications of that can be.
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Season 7 Episode 6: Polysaturation
September 28th, 2023 | Season 7 | 1 hr 3 mins
hierarchy, nonhierarchical, nonmonogamous, polyamory, polysaturation
Laura sits down with Violet Fawkes to discuss polysaturation and how to handle being in more relationships than you have bandwidth for.
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Season 7 Episode 5: Mom Rage
September 21st, 2023 | Season 7 | 38 mins 59 secs
author, book, motherhood, parenthood, polyamory, rage
On today's episode, Laura sits down with Minna Dubin, author of Mom Rage, to discuss motherhood, the force of social expectations and stepping outside of them, the ways non-monogamy can be a positive force of support for family life, and more.
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Season 7 Episode 4: Polyamory and D/s
September 14th, 2023 | Season 7 | 1 hr 12 mins
d/s, kink, polyamorous, polyamory, relationship network
Laura and Sinclair Sexsmith sit down to discuss polyamory and power exchange
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Season 7 Episode 3: Polyamory in Media 2023
September 7th, 2023 | Season 7 | 45 mins 28 secs
Laura and Abbie of PolyAnarchy discuss polyam representation on various books & tv shows from the past year.
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Season 7 Episode 2: Microscripts with Multiamory
September 1st, 2023 | Season 7 | 41 mins 5 secs
Laura sits down with Jase, Emily, and Dedeker of Multiamory to discuss conflict resolution, microscripts, their pet peeves in relationship advice, and more.
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Season 7 Episode 1: PolyWise
August 24th, 2023 | Season 7 | 46 mins 8 secs
attachment, internal family systems, nonmonogamy, paradigm, polyamory
Laura speaks with Jessica Fern and David Cooley about their new book, PolyWise, paradigm shifts for folks making changes in non monogamous relationships, and restorative rather than punitive views of conflict.
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Season 6 Episode 11: Breakups vs De-escalations
April 13th, 2023 | Season 6 | 54 mins 5 secs
breakups, deescalation, nonhierarchical, nonmonogamy, polyamory
Laura and Leanne Yau sit down to discuss when a breakup is more necessary than a de-escalation or a de-escalation doesn't work in polyam relationships.
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Season 6 Episode 10: The Relationship Anarchy Book
April 6th, 2023 | Season 6 | 1 hr 2 mins
community care, nonmonogamy, relationship anarchy, self care
Laura sits down with Juan-Carlos Perez-Cortes, author of the book Relationship Anarchy, and Elisabeth Sheff, who wrote the forward to the English-language edition, to discuss some of the principles of relationship anarchy and ways in which it applies to everyday life.
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Season 6 Episode 9: Abuse in Polyamory Part 3 Survivorship in Community
March 30th, 2023 | Season 6 | 47 mins 26 secs
abuse, discourse, polyamorous, polyamory, survivor
Laura sits down with Sydney Rae Chin of Sexy Soup Dumplings to discuss abuse and survivorship in polyamorous community and how that looks in real life, as it were.