The Ready For Polyamory Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.