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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 5: Compersion
July 11th, 2020 | Season 1 | 38 mins 8 secs
compersion, jealousy, non-monogamy, polyamory, relationship
Laura discusses the concept of compersion, happiness at your partner's happiness with their other partners, with two guests.
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Episode 4:Jealousy
July 3rd, 2020 | Season 1 | 30 mins 57 secs
communication, jealousy, polyamory, relationships
Two conversations regarding jealousy in polyamorous relationships. One with Seva, an educator in the non-monogamy and rope communities, and one with Vanessa/Bella GreenWolf, my metamour of 4 years.
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Episode 3: Triads, Why They're Hard, and Why People Want Them Anyway
June 27th, 2020 | Season 1 | 38 mins 59 secs
polyamory, relationship structure, triad
Polyamorous triads are an occasionally contentious topic within the community because they're many people's entry point in but often also challenging - and, as people's entry point, much like high school sweethearts, it often doesn't work out, but for a select few it does. Today's guest is one of those select few.
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Episode 2: Relationship Agreements
June 20th, 2020 | Season 1 | 44 mins 20 secs
A discussion on how to set polyamorous relationship agreements, and general joking around, with writer & storyteller Ken Briodagh.
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Episode 1: Polyamory 101
June 13th, 2020 | Season 1 | 23 mins 39 secs
polyamory 101
In this episode of the Ready for Polyamory podcast, Laura explains the basics of what polyamory and ethical non-monogamy are and aren't, with a little help from her friends in narrowing definitions.
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Episode 0: Episode 0: The Introduction
June 5th, 2020 | Season 1 | 9 mins 6 secs
introduction, polyamory
Introduction of format for Ready for Polyamory podcast, discussing ethical non-monogamy and polyamorous relationships as an extension of the blog at www.readyforpolyamory.com. Episode 0 of a 12 episode first season.