

Playing With Fire
Joli Hamilton
Welcome to Playing With Fire, the podcast for people who are ready to custom-build their love.
We’re talking about non-monogamy–however you design it–as an individuation opportunity.
Want to leave the default and make your life spectacularly you? You’re in the right place.
We’re talking about non-monogamy–however you design it–as an individuation opportunity.
Want to leave the default and make your life spectacularly you? You’re in the right place.
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Jun 19, 2022 • 1h 4min
70 Guest Expert Megan Bhatia: Choosing Polyamory While Raising a Family
We talk with Megan Bhatia from the Amory podcast about our different polyamory journeys, our experiences with family as polyamorous people, and parenting outside the monogamous paradigm.
You can view the transcript here
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Get my free top 5 relationship guides at ListenToJoli.com for easy to implement conversations that will help you create the love you really want.
Are you ready to open your relationship happily? Find out at www.JoliQuiz.com
Get the book Project Relationship
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Jun 12, 2022 • 32min
69 The Year Of Opening
Ready to take your relationships to new levels of growth and satisfaction? In a community of like-minded, growth oriented people with similar goals? Led by a highly trained expert and her experienced partner? Listen to Episode 69 where we share some of our thoughts and experiences about opening relationships, and offer an exciting new opportunity to join a group coaching program designed to help you open your relationship the smart way.
Start by taking the quiz to find out how ready you are to open your relationship happily
If you're ready to start opening your relationship the smart way, go directly to the application!
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Jun 5, 2022 • 1h 13min
68 Train Your Nervous System to Transform Your Relationships with Elisabeth Kristof
Join us for the first episode of Season 6! We talk with Elisabeth Kristof of Brain Based Wellness about training your nervous system, and how you can use those skills to improve your relationships. Elisabeth is not only a certified applied neurology coach but also one of Joli's most treasured trauma-informed colleagues.
Click here for a free video series to relieve stress, resolve anxiety and eliminate unwanted behavior!
BONUS: Elisabeth and Joli created a one-of-a-kind workshop called Jealousy Rewired! Get access to this groundbreaking combination of somatic and cognitive tools to transform your jealousy struggles into opportunities.
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Apr 24, 2022 • 33min
67 Exploring **Potential** Kinks
Are you kinky? Nobody but you can answer that question, and nobody but you can decide what it means. There's no board of kink that issues certificates, no licensing board that decides what you can and can't do based on your "kink" status.
In this episode we talk about ways you can explore this question for yourself. And some of the things to think about along the way - practical, psychological, and relational.
Get my free top 5 relationship guides at ListenToJoli.com for easy to implement conversations that will help you create the love you really want.
Get the book Project Relationship
Learn about Joli and how to work with her
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Apr 17, 2022 • 35min
66 Who Started It? The Decision to Open Up
How did we get where we are? What stories do we tell each other (and ourselves) about the decisions that got us here? In this episode we dig into how the way we remember and tell our stories affects the way we view our relationships, and our partners.
Here's the graphic on cognitive bias I mentioned.
Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube
Get my free top 5 relationship guides at ListenToJoli.com for easy to implement conversations that will help you create the love you really want.
Get the book Project Relationship
Learn about Joli and how to work with her
If you want to stay up to date on all of Joli's work be sure to join the Project Relationship mailing list

Apr 10, 2022 • 40min
65 Relationship Agreement Skills - Shared Values & Relationship Purpose
How satisfied are we in our relationships? How satisfied can we be? How do we decide? When we make explicit agreements with our partners, we can start to see clearly how well our relationships serve us. The more we know about our values and our partners' values, the easier it is to make effective explicit agreements, which is what this episode is about. We share experiences with our relationship agreements, and talk about some of the tools we use to help us craft them.
Here is the exercise and list of values Joli mentioned.
Also here is a quick link to available values lists on Google.
Strugging with what your relationship is for? Check out "Getting What You Need", Chapter 7 of the book Project Relationship, which has exercises to help you. It's part of my free top 5 relationship guides at ListenToJoli.com. It also includes easy to implement conversations that will help you create the love you really want.
Get the book Project Relationship
Learn about Joli and how to work with her
If you want to stay up to date on all of Joli's work be sure to join the Project Relationship mailing list
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Apr 3, 2022 • 46min
64 Trust: Building and Rebuilding
How do we navigate those times in our relationships when trust has been violated? How can we respond in ways that increase the chance of reconnection? Are there ways to avoid situations that cause trust troubles? In this episode we talk about some of our experiences building and rebuilding trust, and share some strategies for navigating trust issues.
Get my free top 5 relationship guides at ListenToJoli.com for easy to implement conversations that will help you create the love you really want.
Get the book Project Relationship
Learn about Joli and how to work with her
If you want to stay up to date on all of Joli's work be sure to join the Project Relationship mailing list
Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube

Mar 27, 2022 • 28min
63 Relationship Sabotage
Have you noticed any patterns in your relationship that play out over and over again? Are there things you do, ways you behave, that leave you in the same ouchy situation every time, but you still keep doing them? Well, that happens to us, and in this episode we talk about how those patterns show up and play out for us, and we share some strategies for interrupting those patterns.
Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube
Get my free top 5 relationship guides at ListenToJoli.com for easy to implement conversations that will help you create the love you really want.
Get the book Project Relationship
Learn about Joli and how to work with her
If you want to stay up to date on all of Joli's work be sure to join the Project Relationship mailing list

Mar 20, 2022 • 33min
62 Wounds & Apologies
How do you feel when you get an apology? How about when you offer one? When we hurt each other, how we handle it can strengthen or weaken our relationship, with each other and with ourselves.
Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube
Get my free top 5 relationship guides at ListenToJoli.com for easy to implement conversations that will help you create the love you really want.
Get the book Project Relationship
Learn about Joli and how to work with her
If you want to stay up to date on all of Joli's work be sure to join the Project Relationship mailing list

Mar 13, 2022 • 27min
61 Relational Individuation: On becoming your Self
Have you ever had life throw something spectacular at you that inspired (or required) you to grow and change? That can happen, surprising us out of the blue. It can also be something we plan into our lives. In this episode we talk about how we can do that, choosing to use our relationship as the workshop for becoming more ourselves.
Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube
Get my free top 5 relationship guides at ListenToJoli.com for easy to implement conversations that will help you create the love you really want.
Get the book Project Relationship
Learn about Joli and how to work with her
If you want to stay up to date on all of Joli's work be sure to join the Project Relationship mailing list


