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Real Love Ready: The Series

Real Love Ready: The Series

Real Love Ready 136 episodes Latest Jun 2, 2026

Welcome to Real Love Ready: The Series. After four years and 100+ conversations with relationship experts, Robin Ducharme shares what she's learned about loving well in a world longing for connection. Real Love Ready is a series exploring why love can feel impossible today and offering a framework to believe in it again. Robin sits down with therapists, coaches, authors, and people from all walks of life who, because of who they are or what they've been through, have something to teach us about love. New episodes every Tuesday.

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Shaka Senghor - The Practice of Forgiveness | Real Love Ready Ep 08 Jun 9, 2026 4270 What does it actually mean to forgive? Not the version we were taught like turning the other cheek, being the bigger person, letting it go. But real forgiveness. The kind that doesn't require you to go back, nor erases what happened. In Episode 8 of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with Shaka Senghor, bestselling author, speaker, and an incredibly powerful voice on personal transformation and he
Sabrina Zohar - Opening to Love Again | Real Love Ready Ep 07 Jun 2, 2026 3482 Are you ready to love again? After six episodes exploring love from every angle — what it is, where we learned it, why we hurt the people closest to us, and where it goes when it ends — we arrive at the question that follows all of that work: how do you open yourself back up? In Episode 7 of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with Sabrina Zohar, dating coach, author, entrepreneur, and host of The
Bob Dalton - Home: Where Love Lives | Real Love Ready Ep 06 May 26, 2026 3416 What does home really mean? When Bob Dalton asks people that question, the most common answer he hears is safety. Not a place. Not four walls. Safety. In Episode 6 of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with Bob Dalton, social entrepreneur, community builder, and founder of LOCL and Sackcloth and Ashes, a blanket company that supports homeless shelters across the country. Bob has spent his life ask
John Kim - Where Does Love Go When It Ends? | Real Love Ready Ep 05 May 19, 2026 4441 Does love ever really end? One thing about love is that it rarely prepares you for its own ending. It doesn't give you a manual for what to do when the marriage ends, when the house burns down, when the person you built your life around is suddenly gone. And you're left asking: where does love go when it ends? In Episode 5 of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with her dear friend John Kim, known as
Vanessa Bennett - Why We Hurt the Ones We Love | Real Love Ready Ep 04 May 12, 2026 3827 Why do love and hurt travel together? In Episode 4 of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with Vanessa Bennett, author, licensed holistic psychotherapist, codependency coach, and depth psychologist. She is the author of The Motherhood Myth, and co-author of It's Not Me, It's You (with her husband, therapist John Kim). Her work is built on a belief that most of us are not ready to hear: that the peopl
Matt Ritter & Aaron Karo - The Gift of Friendship | Real Love Ready Ep 03 May 5, 2026 3799 Who shows up for you? In Episode 3 of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with authors, comedians, and best friends since second grade Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo. They are the men behind the book The Buddy System and the podcast Man of the Year. Their thesis is simple and radical at the same time: friendship is not a luxury, it is essential to our survival. And yet platonic love rarely gets the same
Chelsey Goodan - The Blueprints We Inherit | Real Love Ready Ep. 02 Apr 28, 2026 4371 Where did you learn to love? In this second episode of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with author and girls' advocate Chelsey Goodan to explore the patterns installed in us long before we had the language to name them. Chelsey has spent 17 years working with teenage girls. She became their microphone, their advocate, and their translator between worlds. What she's found is that the teenage year
Silvy Khoucasian & Bryan Reeves - What Is Love, Really? | Real Love Ready Ep. 01 Apr 21, 2026 4347 What is love, actually? In the opening episode of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with real-life couple and relational intelligence powerhouses Silvy Khoucasian and Bryan Reeves to ask the most fundamental question of all. From the science of falling in love to the spirituality of staying, Bryan brings the poetic dimension — love as the longing to return to the oneness we already are — while Silv
Introducing Real Love Ready: The Series | Hosted by Robin Ducharme Apr 17, 2026 191 Welcome to Real Love Ready: The Series. After four years and 100+ conversations with relationship experts, Robin Ducharme shares what she's learned about loving well in a world longing for connection. Real Love Ready is a series exploring why love can feel impossible today and offering a framework to believe in it again. Robin sits down with therapists, coaches, authors, and people from all walks
Dr. Brendan K. Hartman - Why Boys Are Struggling Apr 14, 2026 2882 In this episode of Let’s Talk Love, Robin sits down with sociologist Dr. Brendan K. Hartman, whose work focuses on the social-emotional development of boys and men, and how this connects to mental health, relationships, and wellbeing across all genders. Together, they explore the growing gender divide, the rise in loneliness and disconnection, and how early emotional socialization shapes the way w
Real Love Ready: A Conversation with Robin Ducharme & Monique Gray Smith Mar 31, 2026 2751 In this intimate conversation, Robin sits down with best-selling author, friend, and teacher Monique Gray Smith to talk about her forthcoming book, Real Love Ready: A Guide to Relational Literacy. Together, they explore the heart behind the book, the stories that shaped it, and what relational literacy really means in our lives and relationships. Robin reflects on the journey of writing her first
A Sneak Peek into In Bloom 2026 Mar 19, 2026 2023 What does it mean to build relational literacy—and why does it matter so much right now?  In this special episode of Let’s Talk Love, Robin is joined by many of the extraordinary teachers joining us for In Bloom 2026, Real Love Ready’s annual love and relationships summit. In Bloom takes place April 10-12, in Vancouver, BC. . This year’s lineup includes Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Dr. Shefali, Dr

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