EPISODE 256: Interview with Ali Press. Trapped in a repeating daily nightmare of their own making, Ali quit drinking for good in April 2017.

Drinking away their needs, desires, and wants to be whatever people around them expected, had been their “go to” for far too long. Quitting meant embracing “not being like the others” and addressing a lifetime’s boundary-less people-pleasing.

7 years on, and through numerous deep dives into their core wounds, Ali has changed how they show up in the world, what they do, and how they date and relate.

Ali now supports others through therapeutic coaching to make changes for themselves, and build lives they no longer want to numb out.

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EPISODE 255: Interview with Nita Marie. Nita Marie is a women's empowerment coach who focuses on helping women release their inner goddesses by tapping into their sexuality and pleasure center. She also loves helping women become financially independent which translates into business coaching in various modalities including adult online modeling. Nita works with women to elevate their adult online modeling careers while also building a "safe for work" social media presence that they can monetize. As an entrepreneur herself with her rags-to-riches story of going from $20 in her bank account to a multi-millionaire in three years, she now owns six successful businesses and a foundation to help raise money for nonprofits.

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EPISODE 254: Interview with Eve Rickert & Andrea Zanin. Eve Rickert is a Gen X, queer, solo polyamorous, relationship anarchist, neurodivergent cis woman living on unceded WSÁNEC and Lekwungen territory on the west coast of the place currently known as Canada. She is the curator of the More Than Two Essentials series and the nonmonogamy resource site morethantwo.ca, the founder and publisher of Thornapple Press, and the founder and mastermind of the science communications firm Talk Science to Me.   Andrea Zanin, MA, is a white, nonbinary, middle-aged queer writer who lives in Tkaronto (Toronto, Ontario), on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Andrea is the author of Post-Nonmonogamy and Beyond, part of the More Than Two Essentials series, and has written for the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Bitch, Ms., Xtra, IN Magazine, Outlooks Magazine and the Montreal Mirror. Andrea blogs at sexgeek.wordpress.com, where they created the 10 Rules for Happy Nonmonogamy and coined the term "polynormativity."

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EPISODE 253: Interview with Holly. Holly is a children's performing artist and educator who is passionate about families of all shapes and sizes. Over the past ten years, she's become a mother through years of fertility treatments and is still coping with the loss of seven miscarriages along the way. Through it all, her husband, bonus hubby and support system has been there. She and her partners are now raising their living children and supporting each other as they work towards furthering their careers and learning to navigate an alternative family structure in the conservative south. While she is currently the Stay-at-Home Parent, in her free time, Holly still performs onstage and in classrooms. She's also a passionate advocate for reproductive rights and education, infertility/pregnancy loss awareness and creating parental rights for non-biological family structures.

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EPISODE 252: Interview with Bree Mills. Bree Mills is an award-winning adult film director, writer and producer. She is head of Gamma Films Group and Chief Creative Officer for Adult Time, a leading streaming platform for adult audiences.

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EPISODE 251: Interview with Ally Iseman. Ally Iseman is the Founder of Passport2Pleasure.com and has been a speaker, community organizer, and non-monogamy educator and practitioner since 2016. As a certified consent and communication specialist, she uses her proprietary framework The Non-Monogamy Blueprint™ to help curious couples and individuals build the most mutually fulfilling, sustainable relationships with the highest probability of longevity.

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EPISODE 250: Interview with Marie Thouin. Marie Thouin, PhD is the author of “What is Compersion? Understanding Positive Empathy in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships,” the first-ever comprehensive scholarly book on compersion. She has been featured in several magazines and podcasts, including ELLE, the Savage Lovecast, Multiamory and our very own Loving Without Boundaries (episodes 165 and 192). Marie has also published seminal research studies, the first encyclopedia entry on compersion, and is the creator of www.WhatIsCompersion.com, a popular website that features her research, blogs, and a list of resources on the topic of compersion. She is also the Founder of Love InSight (www.LoveInSight-Dating.com), a Mindful Dating & Relationship Coaching practice where she supports and guides people of all backgrounds and relational orientations to create intentional and vibrant love lives.

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EPISODE 249: Interview with Christa Lei. Christa Lei (they/she) was born and raised on Native Hawaiian land as the youngest child of Filipine immigrants. They studied Community Psychology and their professional experiences revolve around healthcare: patient advocacy, case work/care facilitation, and clinical research. Their intersectional identities as a fat, neurodivergent, disabled, queer, polyamorous, third-culture person inform their personal and professional work. A multi-modal creative, Christa creates and facilitates spaces for community care. Along with their lived experiences as a crip queer person, they have additional professional training in embodied social justice and death doula work.

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EPISODE 248: Podcast Discussion with Dr. Elisabeth Sheff, Dr. Heath Schechinger, and Dr. Joli Hamilton.Dr. Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff is a researcher, expert witness, coach, speaker, and educational consultant. She is the developer of The Bonding Project, a free quiz to help people understand if they want to bond one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many, or solo. With a PhD in Sociology (University of Colorado, Boulder, 2005) and certification as a Sexuality Educator from the AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, 2012), Dr. Sheff specializes in gender and sexual minority families, consensual non-monogamy, and kink/BDSM. 

Dr. Heath Schechinger is a therapist, researcher, coach, and consultant, known for his groundbreaking work within the realm of family and relationship diversity. In addition to his role as Co-Founder of the Modern Family Institute, he serves as the Founding Co-Chair of the American Psychological Association Division 44 Committee on Consensual Non-monogamy, Co-Founder of the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, and Affiliate Faculty at the Kinsey Institute.

Dr. Joli Hamilton, is a research psychologist, TEDx speaker, and AASECT certified sex educator. She is also the author of the best-selling book Project Relationship: The Entrepreneur's Action Plan for Passionate, Sustainable Love. She has spent the past two decades studying and re-imagining what love can be if we open our imaginations to possibility. Joli helps people create partnerships that are custom-built for their authentic selves, no more shrinking, pretending, or hiding required.

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EPISODE 247: Interview with Mariko Sakai. Mariko is a business woman, coach, thought leader, TEDx speaker, light worker, and sex-positive community builder. Mariko is passionate about helping people that successfully conformed to the society's expectations by suppressing and dissociating their true selves, their needs, and desires; to live a whole life bringing all parts of themselves, light or dark. She is a certified coach in sex, love, relationship, conscious dating, tantric intimacy, women's empowerment, FemDom and ethical BDSM. She is also trained in Human Designs, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Co-Creative Science, and lives an alternative lifestyle. Follow her work on Instagram @mistressmariko.

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EPISODE 246: Interview with Dr Stephen Furlich. Dr. Stephen Furlich is the author of Nonverbal epiphany: Steps to Improve Your nonverbal Communication. He is also the best- selling author of a breakthrough book, Sex Talk: How Biological Sex Influences Gender Communication Differences Throughout Life's Stages. He has taught and researched communication at the university level for over 20 years. He has taught a variety of communication courses with the main focus of better understanding oneself and others. Often, his research projects and the courses that he taught, complemented each other and lead into innovative directions. 

Dr. Furlich has been an associate professor at Texas A & M University since 2018 and served as an assistant professor there for five years prior to that. He has presented at many conferences, including: DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference, E-Learning Conference, National Communication Association Conference, Southern States Communication Association Conference, International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, and International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association.

Dr. Furlich, who was recently interviewed by One America News Network, has been published in numerous journals, including: Texas Speech Communication Journal, Kentucky Journal of Communication, The Florida Communication Journal, Journal of Applied communication Research, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences, and Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. His communication paradigm is from a receiver's perspective. This places the emphasis on the listener to better understand from the speaker's perspectives and as a speaker emphasizing understanding from the listener's perspectives. Both of these become more challenging as differences increase between the speaker and listener. Dr. Furlich has become fascinated with technological advancements in science that have enabled a better understanding of communication. Without these scientific advances, understanding communication is quite limited. This line of research has inspired him to write this book to bring together many different scientific studies to better understand the role of biology with nonverbal communication cues.

He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education, a Master of Arts in Communication Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Texas Tech University. He resides in McKinney Commerce, Texas. Follow his work at his website drstephenfurlich.com

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