The Ready For Polyamory Podcast

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

72 episodes of The Ready For Polyamory Podcast since the first episode, which aired on June 5th, 2020.

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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.

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    Season 6 Episode 8: Abuse in Polyamory Part 2

    March 23rd, 2023  |  Season 6  |  43 mins 45 secs
    abuse, discourse, polyamorous, polyamory, survivor

    Laura speaks with Claire Travers of Poly Pages regarding Abuse in Polyamory, resources for folks who believe they may be in abusive relationships, and the most well known examples of abuse in polyam relationships.

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    Season 6 Episode 7: Abuse in Polyamory Part 1

    March 16th, 2023  |  Season 6  |  47 mins 50 secs
    abuse, discourse, polyamorous, polyamory, survivor

    Laura sits down with Alicia Bunyan-Sampson, of Polyamorous Black Girl, to discuss abuse in polyamorous relationships and the conversations the polyam community needs to be having around this challenging topic.

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    Season 6 Episode 6: Swinging and Polyamory

    February 16th, 2023  |  Season 6  |  47 mins 30 secs
    hierarchy, nonhierarchical, nonmonogamy, polyamory, swinging

    Emma and Fin of Normalizing Non-Monogamy join Laura to talk about the differences between the world of swinging and polyamory, and what they can learn from each other.

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    Season 6 Episode 5: Non-binary Polyamorous Experience

    October 6th, 2022  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 2 mins
    gender identity, nonbinary, polyamorous, polyamory, relationships

    Laura sits down with Ebony of Marjani Lane to discuss their experiences as a non-binary person in the polyamorous community.

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    Season 6 Episode 4: Hierarchy and Change

    September 22nd, 2022  |  Season 6  |  59 mins 54 secs
    hierarchy, nonhierarchical, nonmonogamy, polyamory

    Laura and Amy Norton sit down to discuss the ways changes in relationships affect agreements around hierarchy, their nonmonogamous lives, and Facebook polyam groups.