Let's Talk Love with Robin Ducharme

Let’s Talk Love brings you advice and insights from trusted experts to help you expand the ways you love, relate, and communicate. Real Love Ready founder and host Robin Ducharme invites guests into conversations that get to the heart of what makes relationships joyful, challenging, and fulfilling.

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Jillian Turrecki: How to Raise, Reclaim and Rebuild Self Worth

In this episode, we are joined by Jillian Turecki, a certified relationship coach, writer and teacher. For 20 years, Jillian has taught others how to transform their relationships with themselves. Today we dive into what Jillian coaches: training ourselves to become more self aware, to become more conscious, and to become more emotionally fit. Jillian shares ways to raise, reclaim, and rebuild our self worth, because ultimately, by improving the relationships we have with ourselves we can transform our relationship with others. We hope this conversation inspires you to do just that!

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Guy Winch: Healing From Heartbreak

Today on Let’s Talk Love we are joined by Dr. Guy Winch. Guy is a licensed psychologist and best-selling author of three books. He has given two TED Talks: Why We All Need To Practice Emotional First Aid and How To Fix A Broken Heart. Both have been viewed over 15 million times. Today we're going to be talking about Guy's latest book, How To Fix A Broken Heart. Heartbreak is a topic that is often misunderstood and trivialized. This conversation offers new tools and guidance for healing from heartbreak. We hope you get as much out of this conversation as we did!

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Allison Raskin: Getting Real About Mental Health & Relationships

In this episode of Let’s Talk Love, we had the utmost pleasure of speaking with Allison Raskin. Allison is an American writer, director, comedian and mental health advocate. We talk about Allison's book Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression. Allison is open about her struggles with mental health. She shares tips on how people can be supportive of their friends and partners who struggle with mental illness without being overly involved or overbearing in their relationships. We also discuss what it means to date when you have anxiety or depression—and how romantic relationships can either help or hurt your mental health depending on how you manage them together. Allison brings so much levity, and deep wisdom to a topic many of us are not truly educated on. We hope you enjoy this conversation!

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Jayson Gaddis: Working Through Conflict In Your Relationships

Today on Let’s Talk Love, we're diving deep into the topic of conflict with Jayson Gaddis. Jayson teaches us the importance of conflict in our high-stakes relationships. He has created a dynamic, practical conflict resolution method aimed at helping us work through conflict with those we care about, as quickly as possible. This is very important work. We highly recommend you read or listen to his book, Getting To Zero, and apply these conflict resolution tools in your own life. “When you know how to work through conflict in your high stakes relationships, every other area of your life improves.” We hope you enjoy our conversation!

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Logan Ury: How to Make Online Dating Work for You

For our listeners who are on a journey to find a loving partnership, this episode is for you. Today on Let’s Talk Love, we’re interviewing Logan Ury, Behavioral Scientist, Dating Coach, and Author of the best selling book, How To Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love. As the Director of Relationship Science at the dating app Hinge, Logan conducts research to help people find love. We are going to dive into the behavioral science of love and learn from Logan how dating apps really work and how to date online in the most effective way.

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Rachel Greenwald: Pick Your Poison

Join us as we speak with renowned matchmaker and dating coach, Rachel Greenwald. Rachel really is one of the best of the best when it comes to helping people find longterm, lasting, loving partnerships. She is the founder and CEO of Elevated Connections and the New York Times Bestselling Author of two books, Find a Husband After 35: Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School and Have Him At Hello: Confessions From 1,000 Guys About What Makes Them Fall in Love… or Never Call Back. Rachel is deeply passionate about helping people find their match. She is responsible for over 850 marriages, which includes both her private matchmaking clients, as well as readers of her books and that number just keeps on growing! Today, we discuss some actionable tools and strategies for bringing in that partner that you want to meet through an exercise Rachel created called, “Pick Your Poison”.

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John Gray: Beyond Mars and Venus

Today we're sharing a very insightful conversation with world-renowned Author, Speaker, and Relationship Expert, Dr. John Gray. John is the author of over 20 books on relationships and sexuality including Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. His newest book, Beyond Mars And Venus, delves into the science of male and female hormones, how biologically we relate differently, and how stress affects us in different ways. John gives us practical tools for communicating more effectively. He also shares openly about loving again after loss and heartbreak. We were so excited to talk with him!

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Danielle LaPorte: How to Live a Heart Centered Life

We’re so happy to share this conversation with world-renowned Author, Speaker, Teacher, and all-around incredible human being, Danielle LaPorte. Danielle is a master creator and someone whose teachings have impacted the world in such a positive way. We talk about religion and spirituality, understanding discernment, and about getting rid of the term, “red flags.” Danielle shares her personal story of online dating, and how after years, she did meet the love of her life. I hope you soak up all the love that this conversation is full of!

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Dr. Helen Fisher: The Science of Love

Join us as we speak to Dr. Helen Fisher. Dr. Fisher is a Biological Anthropologist, the Chief Science Advisor for Match.com, and the author of Anatomy of Love, Why Him? Why Her? She has dedicated her career to studying the human brain, and how our brains influence not only who we are, but who we love. We talk about love at first sight, and how we each have love maps for picking partners. Helen shares ways to stay deeply connected and in love long-term. We discuss how determining our own personality style and the styles of those around us can help us connect on a deeper level.

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Dr. Ish Major: Rules of Engagement in Love

Today on Let’s Talk Love we have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Ish Major. Dr. Ish is a board-certified psychiatrist with nearly two decades of experience and his own practice. He's best known for his role on the show, Marriage Boot Camp, where he works with some of the biggest names in reality TV to help them solve their relationship issues. He's also the owner of many detox clinics in the US, which is hugely impactful in the world. He's dedicated to the mental and relationship health of those he touches. Dr. Ish shares solid advice for relating in a more truthful and loving way.

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Terry Real: Relational Life Therapy for Lasting Partnerships

Today on Let’s Talk Love, we had the immense pleasure of interviewing Couples Therapist, world-renowned Speaker, and Author, Terry Real. We talk about his newest book, Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build A More Loving Relationship, and learn some transformative skills for bettering our intimate partnerships. This is a conversation we’re so grateful to have had. Enjoy!

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