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Dr. Laura Berman – Love after Loss | Real Love Ready Ep 25

October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

How do you keep loving someone when they are no longer here? Dr. Laura Berman has spent more than three decades helping people understand love and relationships. But in 2021, when her 16-year-old son Sammy died from fentanyl poisoning…
Dr. Jessica Zucker – Miscarriage, Grief & the Things We Keep Quiet | Real Love Ready Ep 24

October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

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 and maternal mental health before experiencing a miscarriage herself at…
Mary Bonnet – Beyond Selling Sunset: Learning to Heal and Love | Real Love Ready Ep 23

October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

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 scrutinized—as she built a career, fell in love, navigated fertility, and…
Vienna Pharaon – Origin Wounds: Why the Past Keeps Showing Up in Your Relationships | Real Love Ready Ep 22

September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

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 Mindful Marriage and Family Therapy, and bestselling author of The Origins…
Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh – What Shapes the Way We Love? | Real Love Ready Ep 21

September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

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, languages, and continents. A social psychologist, psychosexual…

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

September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

"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 nowhere. Ashanti Branch is the founder of the Ever Forward Club and…
Dr. Ingrid Clayton – When Survival Looks Like Love | Real Love Ready Ep 19

September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

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, Believing Me, and Recovering Spirituality. Through both her clinical…
Cindy Gallop – The Sex Talk Nobody Gave You | Real Love Ready Ep 18

September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

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 problem isn't porn itself — it's what happens when a culture that…
Dr. Alexandra Solomon – Marriage 101: How to Get Better at Love | Real Love Ready Ep 17

August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

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

August 18, 2026 · 56 min

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

August 11, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

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

July 28, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

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…

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About the show

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. Distributed by Realm.