Real Love Ready: The Series

Dr. Jessica Zucker – Miscarriage, Grief & the Things We Keep Quiet | Real Love Ready Ep 24

What does love look like when there is nothing you can do to make the pain go away?  Dr. Jessica Zucker spent years working as a clinical psychologist in reproductive an

Mary Bonnet – Beyond Selling Sunset: Learning to Heal and Love | Real Love Ready Ep 23

How do you heal when your hardest moments become entertainment? For six years, Mary Bonnet shared her life with millions on Selling Sunset. Viewers watched—and scrutiniz

Vienna Pharaon – Origin Wounds: Why the Past Keeps Showing Up in Your Relationships | Real Love Ready Ep 22

Have you ever reacted to something in a relationship and wondered, where did that come from? Vienna Pharaon is a licensed marriage and family therapist, founder of Mindf

Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh – What Shapes the Way We Love? | Real Love Ready Ep 21

What if the way you love was shaped long before you ever chose a partner? Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh has spent more than two decades studying how people love across cultures,

Ashanti Branch – Can You Be Loved If You're Not Fully Known? | Real Love Ready Ep 20

"Where are you fully known?" That's the question a mentor once asked Ashanti Branch, and it stopped him cold. Because when he really thought about it, the answer was nowh

Dr. Ingrid Clayton – When Survival Looks Like Love | Real Love Ready Ep 19

What if some of the ways you learned to love were actually ways you learned to survive? Dr. Ingrid Clayton is a licensed clinical psychologist and the author of Fawning,

Cindy Gallop – The Sex Talk Nobody Gave You | Real Love Ready Ep 18

What happens when porn becomes sex education by default? Cindy Gallop is the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, a social sex video-sharing platform built on a simple idea: the

Dr. Alexandra Solomon – Marriage 101: How to Get Better at Love | Real Love Ready Ep 17

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

Marianne Williamson – What Blocks Love? | Real Love Ready Ep 16

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 ex

Janna Meyrowitz Turner – Love Is a Form of Leadership | Real Love Ready Ep 15

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 l

Ashley & Lair Torrent – Can a Relationship Help You Heal? | Real Love Ready Ep 14

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 peopl

Lori Gottlieb – The Stories We Tell About Love | Real Love Ready Ep 13

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 n

Terry Real – Is It Too Late To Break The Cycle? | Real Love Ready Ep 12

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 spe

Dr. Sunita Puri – What Dying Teaches Us About Love | Real Love Ready Ep 11

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 spen

Caroline Myss - Why You Can’t Heal | Real Love Ready Ep 10

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 l

The Angry Therapist | Learning How To Love Well with Robin Ducharme & John Kim

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-fou

Damona Hoffman - The Future of Love | Real Love Ready Ep 09

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 rul

Shaka Senghor - The Practice of Forgiveness | Real Love Ready Ep 08

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 kin

Sabrina Zohar - Opening to Love Again | Real Love Ready Ep 07

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 goe

Bob Dalton - Home: Where Love Lives | Real Love Ready Ep 06

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 R