How to Break Toxic Relationship Cycles (with expert Jillian Turecki)

Leaving It All Behind (A Goodbye to Boysober)

Hope has been stuck in a very familiar pattern — go boysober, boylapse, repeat. In Boysober's final episode, she’s desperate to break the cycle. So desperate that she travels to a monastery to seek guidance from women who might be considered the original boysober evangelists: nuns. This may not be a perfect ending. But it might be a real beginning. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

What Gen Z Women Think about Sex Right Now (with writer Peggy Orenstein)

Peggy Orenstein [https://www.peggyorenstein.com/] is an author and journalist who has interviewed countless young women about their sex lives, including Hope. In the midst of writing the follow-up to her popular book Girls & Sex [https://amzn.to/3Qnldqx], Peggy stops by the podcast to share her newest findings. As it turns out, you can’t have a conversation about young women and their intimate lives today without talking about celibacy.   Do you have a boysober story to share? We'd love to hear from you! Email us a voice note at boysoberpodcast@gmail.com [boysoberpodcast@gmail.com], or leave a voicemail at (518) 83-SOBER. Please say your name before leaving your message, and don’t forget to include your phone number in case we want to follow up. By leaving a voicemail, you are giving Boysober permission and license to use some or all of your message in our show. But if you want to be anonymous, please state that in your call.  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Can Celibacy Fix Your Sex Life?

What happens when you try to give up men… and keep failing? After years of starting (and restarting) her celibacy journey, Hope talks to two Gen Z women who are actually doing it and thriving. From breaking patterns around male validation to redefining intimacy, Jasmine Gonzalez [https://www.tiktok.com/@jazzyg1711] and Ameya Okamoto [https://www.tiktok.com/@ameyamarieokamoto] share their own personal experiences with what happened when they stopped centering men.    Do you have a boysober story to share? We'd love to hear from you! Email us a voice note at boysoberpodcast@gmail.com [boysoberpodcast@gmail.com], or leave a voicemail at (518) 83-SOBER. Please say your name before leaving your message, and don’t forget to include your phone number in case we want to follow up. By leaving a voicemail, you are giving Boysober permission and license to use some or all of your message in our show. But if you want to be anonymous, please state that in your call.  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Crushing on Your Coworkers

You learn so much about people when you work in a service job: How they interact, what ticks them off, and how they lay on the charm for tips. It's also fun to interact with customers, do some innocent flirting, and maybe... some not so innocent flirting. Today, we have a bartenders to lovers story that will make you believe in love again.   Do you have a boysober story to share? We'd love to hear from you! Email us a voice note at boysoberpodcast@gmail.com [boysoberpodcast@gmail.com], or leave a voicemail at (518) 83-SOBER. Please say your name before leaving your message, and don’t forget to include your phone number in case we want to follow up. By leaving a voicemail, you are giving Boysober permission and license to use some or all of your message in our show. But if you want to be anonymous, please state that in your call.  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

How to Break Toxic Relationship Cycles (with expert Jillian Turecki)

Many people have had a certain someone they just can’t quit. Hope is in the thick of it right now and calls on relationship expert Jillian Turecki [https://www.jillianturecki.com/] to talk it through. Their conversation about limerence and romantic obsession goes deep, takes some unexpectedly personal turns, and will leave you with a deeper understanding of how to pursue healthier relationships. Jillian’s best-selling book,  It Begins With You [https://amzn.to/4tmo9C1], is available now. You can pre-order her companion workbook, It Begins With You Now [https://amzn.to/487sReB], which comes out May 5. And you can always hear more from Jillian on her podcast, Jillian On Love [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jillian-on-love/id1640172049].   Do you have a boysober story to share? We'd love to hear from you! Email us a voice note at boysoberpodcast@gmail.com [boysoberpodcast@gmail.com], or leave a voicemail at (518) 83-SOBER. Please say your name before leaving your message, and don’t forget to include your phone number in case we want to follow up. By leaving a voicemail, you are giving Boysober permission and license to use some or all of your message in our show. But if you want to be anonymous, please state that in your call.  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.