Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram is a sex and relationships podcast. Topics addressed range from achieving orgasm to making it past the honeymoon period. It aims to help people live a happy, pleasurable, and healthy lifestyle. A Los Angeles-based sex educator, Shan Boodram shares her knowledge with gusto. She is a certified sexologist with a psychology and journalism background. Shan has appeared on outlets such as Fox News, CNN, and The View, among many others. She wrote the bestseller The Game of Desire: 5 Surprising Secrets to Dating and Dominance-and Getting What You Want. Shan also serves as a sex and dating expert on the Peacock show Ex-Rated.
Shan believes everyone needs to be their own sex and relationship expert. She champions this course on Lovers and Friends by exploring topics with insight. Shan's guests are familiar with the subject of the episode they feature in. They are either people with a personal connection to the topic or niche experts. Close friends also join Shan for a reflection session at the end of episodes.
Lovers and Friends offers candid views and extensive conversations about intimacy and self-love. Mental illness, identifying soulmates, having a lasting marriage, and living single are also topics on the show. The lessons it teaches are those many avoid out of fear or feelings of powerlessness. The discussions on the podcast identify these issues and provide tips and resources.
In one episode, listeners learn over half of the American populace has at least one type of herpes. The stigma surrounding a herpes diagnosis is a focal point for the podcast. In this revealing installment, media personality Shira Lazar shares her herpes story. Shan also chats with Dr. Ina Park, a CDC medical consultant, in the episode.
Jonathan Singletary and Shan's husband, Jared Brady, appear on another podcast episode. They share the importance of both partners getting "in the mood." Therapist Nina Westbrook discusses the necessary hard work of being in a relationship.
Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram has many informative and engaging discussions. The weekly podcast is intimate and transformative. New episodes arrive Wednesdays.
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