The Ready For Polyamory Podcast

Season 2 Episode 10: Polyamory and Power Exchange

February 27th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  34 mins 40 secs

d/s, polyamory, power exchange, relationship

Laura (sans guest, because the pandemic has disabled her planned guest!) discusses polyamory and power exchange relationships.

Season 2 Episode 9: Love and Apology Languages

February 20th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 10 mins

apology languages, conflict resolution, love languages, metamour, polyamory

This week on the Ready for Polyamory Podcast, Laura talks with Orphne Sicarius for this podcast episode focused broadly on Love Languages and Apology Languages, and how these concepts apply in polyamorous networks. The conversation expands to include conflict with metamours and trauma informed interpersonal interactions.

Season 2 Episode 8: Coming Out Part 2

February 13th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 1 min

Laura and guests Daniel GreenWolf, Corwin, Seva, Jami, and Brian discuss reactions to coming out, controlling the message, and the ongoing role of coming out in one's day-to-day life in Part 2 of their roundtable discussion.

Season 2 Episode 7: Coming Out

February 6th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  49 mins 51 secs

coming out, pansexual, polyamorous, polyamory, queer, relationship

Laura and guests Daniel GreenWolf, Corwin, Seva, Brian, and Jami discuss coming out as polyamorous (and in the case of some guests, as queer) to friends and family, who they came out to first, and what reactions they received.

Season 2 Episode 6: Boundaries

January 30th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 29 mins

boundary, polyamory, polycule, relationships, rules

Laura and a roundtable of guests discuss personal boundaries and how they apply to all interpersonal relationships, but especially romantic and polyamorous relationships.

Season 2 Episode 5: Polyamory: Married and Dating

January 23rd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 21 mins

Laura and Corwin tear apart the tropes and stereotypes in the second half of season 1 of Showtime's Polyamory: Married and Dating, both for humor and to talk about what looks real, what looks fake, and how to avoid the relationship mistakes characters make in the show.

Season 2 Episode 4: Off Escalator Relationships

January 16th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  44 mins 23 secs

Laura and Meadow Perry discuss relationships off the Relationship Escalator, designing your own metrics of whether they're working, and the ways it can be a struggle to get off the escalator in our larger culture.

Season 2 Episode 3: Love in the Time of Covid

January 9th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 4 mins

covid19, polyamory, polycule, relationships, rules

Laura and David Overton discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and precautions against it on polycules and polyamorous relationships.

Season 2 Episode 2: Hierarchy

January 2nd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  56 mins 20 secs

Dr. Liz Powell and Laura discuss Prescriptive, Descriptive, and Sneaky Hierarchies - as well as a bunch of jokes, sight gags, Dr. Liz's New Year's Project, and how fear and trauma intersect with hierarchy and rules.

Season 2 Begins: Polyamory as a Catch-all for Ethical Non-monogamy

December 26th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 6 secs

media, non-monogamy, polyamory, relationships

"One of those is your boyfriend, one of those is your husband, one is your best friend, and one has been your lover for the last 15 years" - Kimota Tigerlily and Laura discuss different forms of ethical non-monogamy, how polyamory has become a catch-all term for all of them, the ways this is good and bad for polyamorous visibility, and how our guest could have four relationships all called best friend that an outsider describes with that tagline.

Episode 11: Polyamory in the Media

August 22nd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 21 secs

media, polyamory, relationships, representation

Laura and Ken Briodagh talk about Polyamory in the Media and whether it's positive representation or not, largely.

Episode 10: Kitchen Table and Parallel Polyamory

August 15th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  44 mins 26 secs

communication, compersion, jealousy, relationship style

Laura talks with her metamours Daniel and Vanessa about the spectrum of Kitchen Table to Parallel polyamorous relationship and they offer their different perspectives on whether any kind of relationship should be "goals"

Episode 9: Community and Finding Your People

August 8th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  45 mins 37 secs

compersion, jealousy, metamour, non-monogamy, polyamory, relationship

Laura and her friend Talya have a wide-ranging discussion centered around polyamorous community and finding one's "people"

Episode 8: Relationships With Metamours

August 1st, 2020  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 45 secs

compersion, jealousy, metamour, non-monogamy, polyamory, relationship

Laura and Seva discuss the good, the bad, and the meh, as regards relationships with metamours.

Episode 7: Ambiamory

July 25th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 48 secs

ambiamory, communication, monogamy, non-monogamy, polyamory, relationship

Laura and her friend Olivia discuss Ambiamory, the ability to go between polyamory and monogamy as a matter of choice rather than orientation.

Episode 6: Polyamory- Married and Dating

July 18th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 15 mins

non-monogamy, polyamory, quad, relationship, triad

Laura and Corwin take apart representation and entertainment in a reality tv show about polyamory from 2012, Polymory: Married and Dating.