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.
Is polyamory a path toward deeper connection, or can it become a clever way to avoid it altogether? This week the table welcomes Michael for his first appearance alongside regulars Dahlia and Noah, and the conversation goes straight at one of the most honest questions the show has asked. Michael shares his journey from a Catholic upbringing steeped in shame to discovering, almost by accident, that he wasn't broken — he just wasn't built for monogamy. Dahlia walks the group through a real-time shift in her own thinking, starting the episode convinced poly can absolutely be used to dodge intimacy, and ending it somewhere completely different. Noah and Alonzo test out a long-standing definition — poly as affairs of the heart, swinging as affairs of the flesh — and the panel doesn't just agree, they push back. What emerges is a layered, honest look at what intimacy actually means, and whether the label you wear has anything to do with whether you're actually capable of it.
Alonzo Banks (Host) · Dahlia · Noah · Michael (first appearance)
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