Open Deeply Podcast

Licensed psychotherapist, Dr. Cat Meyer, joins us to discuss her two areas of expertise, sex and psychedelics, while disclosing much about her own personal sexual journey, such as the time she first discovered her Dominant side while at BDSM party. However, her wild soul was not always so free. Cat’s childhood was mired with an eating disorder and sexual abuse. But quickly, she began to take her b...

In this episode, Megan Bhatia of Amory Podcast joins us to tell us about her two long term loves, husband Marty & partner Kyle. She unpacks the joys and challenges of open relating in polyamory and explains why polyamory is a spiritual journey. Of all the podcasts on non-monogamy, Amory podcast has the strongest heartbeat. It is by far, the most vulnerable. Over the years, Megan and her partners h...

Rachel Krantz, the author of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-monogamy joins us as we continue the discussion from the previous episode about grooming in the kink scene. However, in this episode, we broaden the conversation by including non-monogamy and we deepen it by exploring Rachel’s first- hand experience with it. In the past, all three of us, Rachel, Sunny and myself,...

Sometimes this podcast is about what BLOCKS us from opening deeply. When I heard Sunny's episode on American Sex about grooming within the kink scene, I knew that I wanted to be sure that Open Deeply listeners heard it as well. So we are reposting it here!. Adult grooming is often misunderstood — from what it looks like, to who is most vulnerable, what types of people groom, and why — most assume...

It’s time to transition to season three! In season one, the United States’ climate of suppression, led us to create a podcast designed to amplify voices that are often suppressed. We brought on the most impactful sex positive social justice leaders and icons that we know from many walks of life. Each guest got two episodes. The first is an intimate deep dive in which each guest tells their life st...

Season two is about love that our culture pushes into the shadows and this episode is about love between two porn performers, Jetsetting Jasmine and King Noire. When we asked other porn performers what couple they felt are the best example of a healthy, amazing love, Jetsetting Jasmine and King Noire were always the reply. So often our culture projects bigoted, two-dimensional stereotypes onto por...

Season two is about love that gets pushed into the shadows and this episode is about neurodiverse love, specifically, ADHD, with our guest, Anne Hodder-Shipp. In this episode, we cover the whole range of experiences related to love and ADHD. This scope includes how she was loved as a child, how she fought to get love as a young woman, and how she and her partner, who is also neurodivergent, have l...

Season two is about love that gets pushed into the shadows and this episode is about kinky love as experienced by ex-Pro Domme turned kink coach, Hudsy Brooke. Hudsy starts out by telling her amusing kink origin story with her first surprise Dom. This initial experience created a sub frenzy within her that catapulted her down a kink rabbit hole which led to many discoveries including her first kin...

This is the last episode in our six part series on consensual non-monogamy (CNM). In this episode, Kate Loree, specialist in CNM and licensed psychotherapist, discusses with Sunny Megatron the topic of coming out as non-monogamous. First, we discuss our own personal stories of coming out. Then, we discuss the benefits of coming out, whether you should come out, emotional care before, during and af...

This is episode five in our six part series on consensual non-monogamy (CNM). In this episode, Kate Loree, specialist in CNM and licensed psychotherapist, discusses how to maintain a connection while practicing CNM. Four threats to maintaining a connection are discussed: NRE, typecasting, greater attunement with the new lover and technology. Three pillars to maintain in order keep any CNM relation...

Please join us for part four in our series on non-monogamy. This episode is all about how mood disorders and personality disorders can impact non-monogamous relationships. According to NAMI, one in five American adults experienced mental illness in 2020. When we couple this fact with the knowledge that consensually non-monogamy pokes at our unresolved attachment injuries more than monogamy, it mak...

Please join us for part three in our series on non-monogamy. This episode is all about how to handle difficult emotions, such as jealousy, envy, insecurity or feeling disempowered along with managing what may trigger you within your non-monogamous relationships. We discuss why it’s important to be in your “resilient zone” during difficult non-monogamous conversations and how to stay there. Finally...

Please join us for part two in our series on non-monogamy. This episode is all about self-compassion, but also compassion for our partners within consensual non-monogamous relationships (CNM). So often in Kate’s psychotherapy private practice she sees clients pleading for compassion while concurrently not giving it. And yet, its arguable that compassion is even more important than communication sk...

Season two of Open Deeply is all about love that gets pushed into the shadows: kinky love, non-monogamous love, neurodiverse love and more. Since co-host, Kate Loree’s book, Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships, is published this month, we thought we would start out this season with a series on non-monogamy. This episode starts out the series. We talk a bit...

Are you ready to process with us? In episode 26, our season one finale, we process all that we experienced throughout season one, all the great guests and lessons learned. This episode ends with us explaining our vision for season two. Note: If you simply want to hear our vision for season two, fast forward to the last twelve minutes of this episode. Our intention for season one was to be your vul...

Join us with Mollena Williams-Haas, American writer, BDSM educator, actor, story teller and former International Ms. Leather, for an episode of Open Deeply in which Mollena explains how she took her back her agency and came to understand intergenerational pain more fully via BDSM. Mollena doesn’t shy away from even the hardest questions related to being a Black woman who identifies as submissive....

Join us with Mollena Williams-Haas, American writer, BDSM educator, actor, and former International Ms. Leather, for an incredibly thought provoking episode of Open Deeply. It was determined that Mollena was a genius by age three. In that same year, she had her first devastating experience of racism that left her incredibly confused. However, her creative excellence continued to reveal itself acro...

2021’s XBIZ Sexpert of the year and kink superhero, Sunny Megatron, is on a mission to disrupt the BDSM world. It’s high time to shake up norms and bring the kink community next level with up-to-date standards around consent, ethics, and self-awareness while considering how inclusivity, misogyny, education, attitudes, racism and all the isms impact the whole kit and kaboodle. In this episode, we c...

If there is anyone who embodies a plethora of kinktastic knowledge, it’s my co-host, Sunny Megatron. She’s a fountain of knowledge on everything from clown kink to humiliation play and has shaped many a psychotherapist into being kink-aware through her classes. In this episode, we chat about how Sunny originally got into kink, how she customizes her kink for her own needs, and how she has taught o...

Lenora Claire, the Erin Brovovich of stalking, joins us for her second powerful episode. So often our society misunderstands stalking to the extent that it’s often a theme in comedians’ standup. And yet, real life stalkers are frequently terrifying, dangerous and nothing to joke about. And with a justice system that does just short of nothing to help survivors, we need a bright light of hope. And...

Lenora Claire once lead a Felliniesque life, orchestrating amazing art shows like “Golden Girls Gone Wild”, associating with colorful celebrities, and creating some of the best parties Hollywood had to offer. But “P.T. Barnum with Boobs” would soon have a new calling and a new moniker. In 2001 she was named one of L.A. Weekly’s people of the year. However, the bliss that came with this recognition...

Frenchie Davis, Broadway babe and truth slayer, joins us for a second transparent and insightful episode of Open Deeply. In this episode, Frenchie reveals the amazing changes she manifested at Howard University in honor of her dear, deceased friend, Chadwick Boseman. She tells us her self-image shifting journey to Germany which took her from body shame to loving her fupa, wearing booty shorts, and...

Frenchie Davis, truth slayer and world-renowned vocalist, joins us for a deeply soulful and spiritual episode of Open Deeply. Frenchie’s “dark night of the soul” began when a doctor informed her that she had a split uterus rendering her unable to have children and in need of surgery fast. Simultaneously, her close friend, Chadwick Boseman, passed suddenly sending her into an intense grief spiral....

Andrew Gurza, award winning Disability Awareness Consultant joins us for a second episode in which he tells us about his exciting, new sex toy company, Handi along with the company’s first ground-breaking sex toy, the Joystick, that will put pleasure within reach for tens of thousands of disabled people as soon as early 2022. Andrew also drives home the power of using humor to reach people who wou...

Andrew Gurza, an award-winning Disability Awareness Consultant and the Co-founder of Handi, a sex toy company that puts pleasure within reach for disabled people, joins us to tell three moving stories from his life. The first takes us to his early childhood to the moment that he really felt the emotional weight of his disability. This difficult story is interwoven with the wonderful humor Andrew i...