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Real Love Ready: The Series

Real Love Ready: The Series

Real Love Ready 136 Episodes Aug 25, 2026

After four years and over 100 conversations with relationship experts, Robin Ducharme shares insights on loving well in a disconnected world. The series explores why love feels impossible today and offers a framework to believe in it again. Each episode features therapists, coaches, authors, and everyday people who teach valuable lessons about love. New episodes are released every Tuesday.

Episodes

Dr. Alexandra Solomon – Marriage 101: How to Get Better at Love | Real Love Ready Ep 17
Dr. Alexandra Solomon – Marriage 101: How to Get Better at Love | Real Love Ready Ep 17 Aug 25, 2026 4514 What if loving well is something we can actually learn? Dr. Alexandra Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist, founder of the Institute for Relational Self-Awareness, bestselling author, and longtime professor of Northwestern University’s renowned Marriage 101 course. For more than 25 years, she has been teaching people how to understand themselves more deeply and build healthier, more connec
Marianne Williamson – What Blocks Love? | Real Love Ready Ep 16
Marianne Williamson – What Blocks Love? | Real Love Ready Ep 16 Aug 18, 2026 3364 What would change if love was not just something we believed in, but the principle we used to make our decisions? Marianne Williamson has spent more than four decades exploring that question. A bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and longtime student of A Course in Miracles, her book A Return to Love introduced millions of people, including Robin as a teenager, to a different way of thinking a
Janna Meyrowitz Turner – Love Is a Form of Leadership | Real Love Ready Ep 15
Janna Meyrowitz Turner – Love Is a Form of Leadership | Real Love Ready Ep 15 Aug 11, 2026 4061 What does love have to do with leadership? For Janna Meyrowitz Turner, everything.  After twenty years building power for women, shaping cultural narratives for brands like Estée Lauder and the WNBA, and organizing 150 venture capital firms behind reproductive justice, Janna had a revelation: the powerful women she'd spent her career building up were going home to men who weren't growing alo
Ashley & Lair Torrent – Can a Relationship Help You Heal? | Real Love Ready Ep 14
Ashley & Lair Torrent – Can a Relationship Help You Heal? | Real Love Ready Ep 14 Jul 28, 2026 4080 Sometimes the parts of us that helped us survive are the very parts that make love harder to receive. Ashley and Lair Torrent both learned early to become what the people around them needed. Ashley learned to read every room, care for everyone else, and disconnect from herself when life became unsafe. Lair learned to be the good boy, the caretaker, and the hero, while making his own needs and fee
Lori Gottlieb – The Stories We Tell About Love | Real Love Ready Ep 13
Lori Gottlieb – The Stories We Tell About Love | Real Love Ready Ep 13 Jul 21, 2026 4000 We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives. The story we tell ourselves about why a relationship ended, why we have not met the right person, or why someone else needs to change before things can get better may feel completely true. But it is still only one side of the story. Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, New York Times advice c
Terry Real – Is It Too Late To Break The Cycle? | Real Love Ready Ep 12
Terry Real – Is It Too Late To Break The Cycle? | Real Love Ready Ep 12 Jul 14, 2026 4040 There is a version of love most of us were never shown. Not because it doesn't exist, but because the people who raised us hadn't found it yet either. Terry Real has spent his life showing us what that love looks like. He is a family therapist, the creator of Relational Life Therapy, the founder of the Relational Life Institute, and the bestselling author of four books including Us: Getting Pas
Dr. Sunita Puri – What Dying Teaches Us About Love | Real Love Ready Ep 11
Dr. Sunita Puri – What Dying Teaches Us About Love | Real Love Ready Ep 11 Jul 7, 2026 4949 What does love look like when everything else has been stripped away? When there is no more time to perform it, delay it, or get it right later? Dr. Sunita Puri has spent her career in the rooms where that question gets answered. As a palliative care physician, she sits with people who are dying and what she has witnessed again and again in those rooms is something profound about love. About what
Caroline Myss - Why You Can’t Heal | Real Love Ready Ep 10
Caroline Myss - Why You Can’t Heal | Real Love Ready Ep 10 Jun 30, 2026 5151 Don't meet your idols, they say, unless your idol is Caroline Myss. For the first interview of our Chicago stop on the East Coast tour, Robin sits down with one of her lifelong idols and one of the women whose writing has shaped the very foundation of her spiritual practice. Robin first encountered Caroline's work as a teenager with the book Anatomy of the Spirit, then Sacred Contracts and nothin
The Angry Therapist | Learning How To Love Well with Robin Ducharme & John Kim
The Angry Therapist | Learning How To Love Well with Robin Ducharme & John Kim Jun 23, 2026 2695 Nothing activates us quite like love. This week, we’re sharing a special episode from The Angry Therapist podcast, hosted by John Kim, licensed therapist, author, co-founder of Soulprint Media, and Robin’s dear friend. John sits down with Robin to talk about the story behind Real Love Ready: A Guide to Relational Literacy, and the experiences, losses, lessons, and relationships that shaped her b
Damona Hoffman - The Future of Love | Real Love Ready Ep 09
Damona Hoffman - The Future of Love | Real Love Ready Ep 09 Jun 16, 2026 5087 What does the future of love actually look like? Not the version we inherited, like the relationship escalator, the fairytale, the prince who saves you, the outdated rules about who texts first and who pays. But love as it's really evolving: in a world of dating apps, hot-take profiles, AI technology, and a communication crisis that's reshaping how we connect. In Episode 9 of Real Love Ready, Ro
Shaka Senghor - The Practice of Forgiveness | Real Love Ready Ep 08
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
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

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