The Ready For Polyamory Podcast

Ready for Polyamory? Education, humor, and personal stories on ethical non-monogamy and polyamory.

About the show

Welcome to the Ready for Polyamory Podast! Your charming host, Laura Boyle, will be talking to members of an ever more illustrious group of guests to present the concepts and nuances of Consensual Non-Monogamy, Polyamory and relationship skills in general. Like many polyamorous authorities, she has both mixed educational background (in English Literature, Sexual Diversity Studies, and Law) and personal experience (15 years at the time of this writing) in the field of consensual non-monogamy, and ten in polyamorous relationships more specifically, and this podcast is for the Big General Concepts that don't fit the nerdy detail of the blog (www.readyforpolyamory.com), or the bite-sized format of social media. It's an ongoing examination of polyamorous love, strengths, and challenges, as seen by a 30-something relationship and sex educator and coach.

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.