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.
Real Love Ready: The Series
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The Sex Talk Nobody Gave You — Cindy Gallop
What happens when porn becomes sex education by default?
In this episode, Robin and Cindy explore the space between what we see on screen and what sex actually looks and feels like in real life. They talk about why there's no formula for great sex, how mainstream male-lens porn shapes expectations without us realizing it, and why communication, curiosity, and shared sexual values matter more than knowing the "right" move.
Marriage 101: How to Get Better at Love — Dr. Alexandra Solomon –
What if loving well is something we can actually learn?
In this episode, Robin and Dr. Solomon explore what Relational Self-Awareness looks like in practice: noticing the stories, wounds, and nervous-system responses we bring into our relationships, and learning to stay curious about what difficult moments might be trying to teach us. They talk about why healthy relationships are not conflict-free, how to know when to pause, and why real growth requires both acceptance and change.
What Blocks Love? — Marianne Williamson
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 about love, fear, forgiveness, and inner peace.
Love as a Form of Leadership — Janna Meyrowitz Turner
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 alongside them.
Can a Relationship Help You Heal? — Ashley & Lair Torrent
In this episode, Robin, Ashley, and Lair explore how childhood wounds become adult relationship patterns, why conflict is rarely about what it appears to be, and what it takes to stop fighting to win and start listening for what is underneath the reaction. They talk about protective parts, the “not enough” wound carried by so many men, and why some of our deepest healing can only happen in relationship.
The Stories We Tell About Love — Lori Gottlieb
In this special episode of Real Love Ready, recorded live at the Global Love Conference in New York City, Robin and Lori explore what changes when we become willing to question our own version of events.
Is It Too Late To Break The Cycle? — Terry Real
In this episode, recorded in Boston, they explore what it actually takes to break the cycle of generational trauma and love better than we were taught.
What Dying Teaches Us About Love — Dr. Sunita Puri
In this episode, Robin sits down with Dr. Sunita Puri, a palliative care physician, literary memoirist, Rhodes Scholar, and Associate Professor of Medicine at UC Irvine. Together they explore why we are so afraid of death, what a terminal diagnosis can give you that nothing else can, and why the conversations we keep avoiding are actually the most loving ones we can have.
Why You Can’t Heal — Caroline Myss
In this episode, they explore what sacred contracts actually are and why the people we love were never accidents. They talk about woundology — the way we use our pain as currency — and why liars don't heal.
The Future of Love — Damona Hoffman
In Episode 9 of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with Damona Hoffman, a relationship futurist, dating coach, and love expert on The Drew Barrymore Show.
The Practice of Forgiveness — Shaka Senghor
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 healing.
Opening to Love Again — Sabrina Zohar
In Episode 7 of Real Love Ready, Robin sits down with Sabrina Zohar, dating coach, author, entrepreneur, and host of The Sabrina Zohar Show. Sabrina is known for her no-BS approach to anxious attachment and for giving people the exact tools to stop letting it run their love life.
Home: Where Love Lives — Bob Dalton
This conversation explores why safety is so foundational, not just in the buildings we live in but in our relationships and our ability to love well. Robin and Bob talk about the power of building community locally, why every single one of us has the ability to be a community builder, and how the most powerful displays of love are often the ones we receive in the seasons where we least expect them.
Where Does Love Go When It Ends? — John Kim
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?
Why We Hurt the Ones We Love — Vanessa Bennett
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).
The Gift of Friendship — Matt Ritter & Aaron Karo
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.
The Blueprints We Inherit — Chelsey Goodan
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 Is Love, Really? — Silvy Khoucasian & Bryan Reeves
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 Silvy grounds it in the body, the nervous system, and the choices we make when the hormone cocktail fades.