PolySoCal
PolySoCal
Podcast Description
PolySoCal — your invitation to look behind closed doors and into the real worlds, bedrooms, and living rooms of ethical non-monogamy. Whether you're just beginning to explore or already living this lifestyle, you'll find something here: real voices, honest stories, and grounded insights from couples and polycules navigating love, growth, and connection beyond the traditional mold.We talk about what it actually means to practice ENM—with care, clarity, and consent. From communication tools and emotional challenges to joy, jealousy, conflict, breakthroughs, and deep relational wins, this podcast is your companion in learning, evolving, and staying connected through it all.Come curious. Leave connected.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes surrounding communication, relationship dynamics, and personal growth, with episodes covering topics like emotional challenges in ENM, building trust and boundaries, and redefining commitment, exemplified in episodes such as 'Agreements in Action' and 'Unlearning Love'.
PolySoCal — your invitation to look behind closed doors and into the real worlds, bedrooms, and living rooms of ethical non-monogamy. Whether you’re just beginning to explore or already living this lifestyle, you’ll find something here: real voices, honest stories, and grounded insights from couples and polycules navigating love, growth, and connection beyond the traditional mold.
We talk about what it actually means to practice ENM—with care, clarity, and consent. From communication tools and emotional challenges to joy, jealousy, conflict, breakthroughs, and deep relational wins, this podcast is your companion in learning, evolving, and staying connected through it all.
Come curious. Leave connected.
In this episode, the PolySoCal panel takes a focused look at three emotions central to polyamorous relationships: compersion, envy, and jealousy. The conversation explores how these feelings differ, how they often overlap, and how timing, communication, and emotional awareness shape the way they impact relationships.
Through personal experiences, the group examines how jealousy can signal unmet needs, how envy can arise from exclusion rather than fear of loss, and how compersion can develop over time through trust and security. The discussion also highlights the importance of processing emotions internally before communicating them, and how thoughtful delivery can strengthen connection rather than create unintended harm.
This episode offers grounded insight into the emotional complexity of polyamory and reinforces that these experiences are not signs of failure, but opportunities for deeper understanding and growth.
Alonzo Banx, Max, Patty, Heather, Jon, Cookie, Lana, Blake
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