

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.
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Nov 25, 2020 • 9min
Pep Talk: Here Is Why I Love Rejection
Rejection makes space for something better to enter your life, as long as you can let go.
Join The Confidence Course
A 4-week course with Shaun Galanos and Jillian Richardson on owning your power, loving your body, and speaking up for yourself in love, life, and at work. http://thelovedrive.com/confidence
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Nov 17, 2020 • 10min
Pep Talk: Ghosters Suck, And....
No one likes a ghoster. And there are a few valid reasons why people ghost. Here's how to deal with them...
Join The Confidence Course
A 4-week course with Shaun Galanos and Jillian Richardson on owning your power, loving your body, and speaking up for yourself in love, life, and at work. http://thelovedrive.com/confidence
Learn more about The Love Drive
Website https://thelovedrive.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
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Nov 10, 2020 • 8min
Pep Talk: I Hate Relationship Ambiguity
If you want clarity in your relationships, you'll have to step up and ask for it.
Join The Confidence Course
A 4-week course with Shaun Galanos and Jillian Richardson on owning your power, loving your body, and speaking up for yourself in love, life, and at work. http://thelovedrive.com/confidence
Learn more about The Love Drive
Website https://thelovedrive.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
Newsletter https://thelovedrive.com/newsletter

Nov 3, 2020 • 11min
Pep Talk: Are You Scared of Opening Up?
And do you find yourself in relationships with emotionally unavailable people?
Join The Confidence Course
A 4-week course with Shaun Galanos and Jillian Richardson on owning your power, loving your body, and speaking up for yourself in love, life, and at work. http://thelovedrive.com/confidence
Learn more about The Love Drive
Website https://thelovedrive.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
Newsletter https://thelovedrive.com/newsletter

Oct 27, 2020 • 14min
Pep Talk: Build a Big, Bold, Beautiful Life
I want you to have a big, bold, beautiful life, and that's gonna require some serious courage, and self-esteem to know that you deserve it.
Join The Confidence Course
A 4-week course with Shaun Galanos and Jillian Richardson on owning your power, loving your body, and speaking up for yourself in love, life, and at work. http://thelovedrive.com/confidence
Learn more about The Love Drive
Website https://thelovedrive.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
Newsletter https://thelovedrive.com/newsletter

Oct 20, 2020 • 59min
A Gay Man's Guide to Life with Britt East
Britt East - an inspirational speaker and author - talks about the challenges of finding love as a gay man, and how that applies to all relationships..
He shares the importance of coming out as a tool for everyone to get out of their closet and live a more authentic life.
Shaun and Britt discuss how same-sex attraction doesn’t necessarily define our sexual orientation and they encourage giving in to curiosity, with an emphasis on developing communications skills with our lover(s).
What you'll learn (or why you should care):
How being bad at dating can help you find love
What it means to be a good lover
How not to worry about killing the mood during sex
Where to find Britt:
Britt East on Instagram
Britt East’s website
Britt East on Twitter
Britt East on Youtube
Other podcasts Britt has been on
Resources:
Get a copy of Britt’s ‘A Gay Man’s Guide to Life’
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/
The Love Drive podcast is edited by Camilla Morandi.
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
Newsletter https://thelovedrive.com/newsletter

Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 7min
Exploring Sexual Intimacy with Sade Ferrier
Sade Ferrier - an Associate marriage and family Therapist and Intimacy Coach - discusses sexual intimacy and how to feel safe in a relationship. Sexual intimacy is multidimensional, as she clarifies, it’s more than intercourse and more than sex. Sade shares the importance and challenges of accepting your lover and Shaun shares a practice called Desires, Fears, and Boundaries.
Shaun shares a useful practice for better communication about sex or intimacy practices based on understanding our desires, fears and boundaries.
What you'll learn (or why you should care):
What it means to feel safe in a relationship and how to do the work to reach that feeling
The problems with racial discrimination in the world of therapy & the concept of swirling
How to work with a therapist and how to build a trust-based relationship with the therapist
Where to find Sade :
Sade Ferrier on Instagram
Sade Ferrier’s website
Learn the foundations of intimacy in her course ‘Communication 101: Sexual Intimacy’
Get $25 off Sade’s new course, Radiant Intimacy, by using coupon code: thelovedrive
Resources:
Rachel Cargel Loveland foundation for supporting black women and girls' therapy access
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/
The Love Drive podcast is edited by Camilla Morandi.
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
Newsletter https://thelovedrive.com/newsletter

Oct 6, 2020 • 1h 5min
Setting Healthy and Loving Boundaries with Kelsey Grant pt. 2
Kelsey Grant - a Love Educator and Relationship Coach - discusses how to set consequences to boundaries from a place of self-respect and love for the other person. What happens after we set boundaries for our relationships? How can we hold the other person and ourselves accountable for respecting these boundaries?
Kelsey and Shaun share scripts and real-life situations in which boundaries may be crossed, what to do about it, and how to lovingly address them.
What you'll learn (or why you should care):
The difference between ultimatums and boundary consequences
How to follow up on these consequences
Finding consequences to crossed boundaries that go beyond leaving the relationship
How to deal with the pre-grief of a potential breakup
Where to find Kelsey:
Follow Kelsey on Instagram
Join the year-long ‘Year of Love’ master class, to find what is blocking the capacity to trust ourselves, and the patterns of codependency. Learn how to connect to yourself and how to be held in a community, in a small group of 6 women. New group starting October 15, 2020.
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

Sep 29, 2020 • 57min
Reconnecting to Your Body with Madelanne Rust-d'Eye
Madelanne Rust-d’Eye – a somatic psychotherapist, counselor, and facilitator - shares her knowledge on somatics and body-informed leadership. Her approach is body-focused, practical and experiential, and scientifically-based.
She looks at the body as a phenomenon, as an experience to be understood. Madelanne talks about the interwoven realities of the brain and body, discussing what somatic practices we should be doing if we want to be capable of connection and partnership.
What you'll learn (or why you should care):
The importance of practicing embodiment and noticing the sensory experiences in our bodies
The impact of intergenerational trauma on our body and how we can become more conscious of it
Madelanne and Shaun discuss substance addiction and its linkages to a lack of connection
Where to find Madelanne:
Find the online program on the introduction to body-informed leadership for residents in North America and in Europe
Join the co-mentoring group for facilitators who want to dive deeper into the world of intergenerational trauma, privilege, and oppression
Join the Movement in Relationship sessions
Contact Madelanne for one-on-one sessions
Resources:
Resma Menakem, ‘My grandmothers' hands’ book
David Hawkins, ‘Power versus Force’ book
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

Sep 8, 2020 • 21min
Pep Talk: You Are Needy (And That's OK)
You're needy, and there's nothing wrong with that. If you think you are too needy, this pep talk is for you.
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 The Love Drive
Website https://thelovedrive.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelovedrive
Newsletter https://thelovedrive.com/newsletter


