

The Love Drive with Shaun Galanos
Shaun Galanos
No-nonsense advice on sex, love, relationships, and dating for hopeful romantics, love cynics, and everyone navigating modern connection.
Love coach Shaun Galanos creates space for raw, radically honest conversations about desire, sexuality, intimacy, and what it takes to build lasting relationships—bringing vulnerability, humor, and curiosity to even the most taboo topics. The Love Drive is for women tired of toxic love advice and men who want to do better.
The antidote to red pill culture, Shaun brings a voice that models emotional intelligence, healthy masculinity, and playful banter.
Love coach Shaun Galanos creates space for raw, radically honest conversations about desire, sexuality, intimacy, and what it takes to build lasting relationships—bringing vulnerability, humor, and curiosity to even the most taboo topics. The Love Drive is for women tired of toxic love advice and men who want to do better.
The antidote to red pill culture, Shaun brings a voice that models emotional intelligence, healthy masculinity, and playful banter.
Episodes
Mentioned books

May 7, 2024 • 20min
Sorry for ghosting you, and goodbye
This is a final apology episode for ghosting you all, where you can find me, and a sneak peek of the first episode of my new project, Voicemails to Dad, where, you guessed it, I leave voicemails to my recently deceased father.
You can find my writing on substack here: https://shaungalanos.substack.com/
You can find the Voicemail to Dad podcast here: https://shaungalanos.substack.com/podcast
Again, thank you all for being here.
Love, Shaun

Feb 28, 2023 • 22min
Life Update 2023: Are you still here?
Hey friend. Thanks for being here.
Here are the links I promised:
Getting Your Needs Met Course: http://www.gettingyourneedsmet.com
Trusting Love 2023 Retreat: http://www.trustinglove2023.com
In Bloom Love And Relationship Summit
In-person tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-bloom-a-love-and-relationships-summit-presented-by-real-love-ready-tickets-434006423897?aff=ShaunGalanos
Virtual tickets:https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-bloom-a-love-and-relationships-summit-presented-by-real-love-ready-tickets-434035199967?aff=ShaunGalanos
And, that's it for now. Have a lovely week.

Nov 22, 2022 • 58min
Bad Vibes Only with Nora McInerny
Nora McInerny is an award-winning podcast host of ‘Terrible, Thanks For Asking,’ speaker, and author of several books, including her new book “Bad Vibes Only.”
Shaun and Nora discuss vulnerability porn, their relationship with social media, and how they feel about posting everything online.
What you'll learn (or why you should care):
Toxic positivity and “good vibes only” mentality
How to love people we deeply disagree with
How to accept that people’s lives are not as perfect as we think
Where to find Nora
Buy her new book “Bad Vibes Only”
Listen to her podcast
Nora on Instagram
Nora's website
Join The Lovebird Club
A private community for those who value love, trust, and intimacy. Group support and weekly calls.
For contributing lovebirds only: https://thelovedrive.com/thelovebirdclub
Learn more about The Love Drive
Website https://www.shaungalanos.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive

Nov 15, 2022 • 23min
Life Update 2022: Feels, Business, and Love Camp 2023
Hey gang, here's a little update for you. ❤️
Application to be my social and course assistant: https://forms.gle/9DWxnXLJYBgazyFE7
Love Camp 2023: www.lovecamp2023.com

Aug 30, 2022 • 1h 12min
You Are Codependent with Vanessa Bennett
This episode guest is Vanessa Bennett, Codependency Expert and Holistic Psycho-Therapist and author of “It’s Not Me, It’s You”. Vanessa talks about what codependency is, if it’s always bad and how we can balance being dependent with another person without being “needy”.
Shaun and Vanessa discuss how people have lost connection with their feelings, and offer examples for how to express feelings with someone who might not be comfortable with having such conversations.
What you'll learn (or why you should care):
What to do if your partner is following hotties on IG
What it’s like dating a therapist as a therapist
Chemistry and attraction and their role in relationship building
Where to find Vanessa
Preorder her new book “It’s Not Me, It’s You”
Vanessa on Instagram
Join The Lovebird Club
A private community for those who value love, trust, and intimacy. Group support and weekly calls.
For contributing lovebirds only: https://thelovedrive.com/thelovebirdclub
Learn more about The Love Drive
Website https://thelovedrive.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive

Aug 16, 2022 • 22min
Spark, chemistry, and attraction in dating
Oh boy. Here's a stream of consciousness about the importance of spark, chemistry, and attraction when meeting a potential partner.

Aug 9, 2022 • 1h 38min
All You Need To Know About Dating with Damona Hoffman
Our guest is dating and love coach Damona Hoffman, who's been coaching people for over 15 years on online and offline dating.
In this episode, Shaun and Damona share their best online dating practices, what to ask on a first date, and how to best screen for people who are a good match.
Shaun and Damona answer some rapid-fire questions, including What are guys looking for during the first date? Who pays for the first date? What to do if he's a nine but follows 1000s of Instagram models?
What you'll learn (or why you should care):
Does sex on the first date change things?
Why guys who have dogs in their dating profiles get more matches
How to make long-distance relationships work
Where to find Damona
Damona on Instagram
Listen to Damona's podcast
Join The Lovebird Club
A private community for those who value love, trust, and intimacy. Group support and weekly calls.
For contributing lovebirds only: https://thelovedrive.com/thelovebirdclub
Learn more about The Love Drive
Website https://thelovedrive.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
Newsletter https://thelovedrive.com/newsletter

Aug 2, 2022 • 15min
Are all the ”good ones” taken?
A little pep talk on finding great people to love and that no, all the good ones aren't taken (and you should be careful about that belief - confirmation bias is a doozy!)

Jul 29, 2022 • 17min
All About Emotional Availability: A New Course
I'm excited to re-launch (and teach) one of my most popular courses: The Emotional Availability Course - Open up to Love
www.feelyouremotions.com
This course is for you if you want to:
Become more emotionally available to those that matter
Recognize emotional availability in others
Experience more intimacy in your current relationship
Learn to sit with and process emotional discomfort
Turn towards intimacy with an open heart
Learn to open up slowly to people who are safe and loving
You'll walk away with:
Seven Ways to Identify Emotionally Available People
How to Avoid Shutting Down When It Gets Too Intense
Three Techniques to Release Emotional Anxiety and Fear
How to Talk About Your Feelings With Courage (even if you're not sure what you're feeling)
The Importance of Holding Space for Your Loved Ones
The Four Types of Unavailability Preventing You From Finding Love
You'll get:
5 hours of live training with me
All sessions recorded with English captions
All your questions answered (through live recorded Q&A and written questions)
Lifetime access to the session videos (download them after the course is over)
Lifetime access to my private Facebook group
Downloadable PDF of all techniques and scripts
A 100% money-back guarantee if you're not happy with the course
www.feelyouremotions.com
We'll meet over four weeks starting August 11. All sessions are 90 minutes in length and recorded if you can't attend live.
Thursdays, August 11, 18, 25, and September 1 at noon PST / 3 PM EST / 7 PM GMT
Sign up before August 5 and get $50 USD off the course price and free access to the Simple Relationship Communication webinar ($77 value).
This month-long course starts on August 11. $247 before August 5, $297 after.
If this course resonates with you, I hope you join us.
www.feelyouremotions.com

Jul 19, 2022 • 1h 17min
Having Hotter Sex with Yana Tallon-Hicks
Today's guest is Yana Tallon-Hicks, a past podcast guest on how to be an ethical hookup, ethical slut, sex writer, therapist, and author of ‘Hot and Unbothered: how to think about, talk about, talk about, and have the sex you really want.’
In this episode, Shaun and Yana talk about sex, shame in receiving feedback from our partner(s), and trying new things more than once.
Shaun and Yana take listeners' questions all about sex, answering doubts such as, Will vibrators desensitize my clitoris? How to be more comfortable with my body? How to squirt, deal with premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction, and more!
What you'll learn (or why you should care):
How to find new sex activities to try with yourself and your partner
Porn and its role in sex education
Why blowjobs are hard to give
The Yes/No/Maybe List
Where to find Yana
Yana on Instagram
Yana’s website
Order Yana's new book - Hot and Unbothered.
Join The Lovebird Club
A private community for those who value love, trust, and intimacy.
For contributing lovebirds only: https://thelovedrive.com/thelovebirdclub
Learn more about Shaun Galanos
Website https://www.shaungalanos.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
Newsletter https://thelovedrive.com/newsletter


