All Episodes
The Open Nesters — 248 episodes
Navigating the Empty Nest: How to Downsize and Reimagine Your Future (S6 E247)
Midlife Sexuality & Open Relationships (Season 6, Episode 246)
Community and Polyamory (Season 6 | Episode 245)
Lessons in Trust and Connection (Season 6 | Episode 244)
Pleasure Doesn’t Care About Wrinkles (Season 6 | Episode 243)
The Slow Movement with Carl Honore
Estrangement, Healing, and Repair with Joy Okoye (S6 | R241)
Palle Bo Finds a Home (S6 | E240)
TASMAN SEA REFLECTIONS (S6 | E239)
Solo Travel Outside Your Comfort Zone (Mia Bolden – S6 | E238)
The Plan is… No Plan (S6 | E237)
Turning on the Light of the Inner Child (S6 | E236)
The Team of Your Soul (S6 | E235)
No Shame Tackling Sex Taboos (Season 6 | Episode 234)
Sex and Science with Dr. Laurie Mintz
Midlife Love Out Loud (Season 6 | Episode 232)
A New Path to Dating (Season 6 | Episode 231)
Kim DeYoung Voice of Choice (Season 6 | Episode 230)
ECSTASY and Riding Your Horse with Barbara Carrellas
Suzanne Noble | Sex After 50
THE PATH BACK TO PLEASURE AND TRUST
WILD MONOGAMY
Radical Honesty
Love, Flow and Connection with Laura Silverstein
Radical Compassion (Season 6 | Episode 223)
Embracing the “Open” in Open Nesting (S6 | E222)
Aging | A Practice of Possibility (S6 | E221)
THE RADIO VAGABOND PALLE BO
Courage (Season 6 | Episode 219)
Leaning in to Better Lives
Reflect and Celebrate The Open Nesters 2025 (S5 | E217)
Evolution Intimacy
Thank and Grow Rich (S5 | E215)
Give Thanks with Tessa and Amir (E5 | 214)
The Permission to Desire with Dr. David Freeman (S5 | E213)
What Do Women Want? (S5 | E212)
Erotic Healer (S5 | E211)
Relationship Anarchy (S5 | E210)
The Balance Between Us (S5 | E209)
Becoming Beloved (S5 | E208)
Our Cosmic Curriculum with Eric Meyers (S5 | E207)
THE PLEASURE MECHANICS | EXPANDING EROTIC PLEASURE AS WE AGE (S5 | E206)
Every Day is the Day (S5 | E205)
Sex and Laughter (S5 | E204)
Resilient Hearts, Perfect Match (S5 | E203)
The Strap On: We Discuss (S5 | E202)
Joy Among My Tears (S5 | E201)
Not Your Grandmother’s Monogamy (S5 | E200)
Aging and Dating with Amir (S5 | E199)
Changing Aging (S5 | E198)
Dating, Ghosted and Opening after 60 (S5 | E197)
“Open Nest”: Redefining Love After Children Leave Home (S5 | E196)
Bella Brooks: How Divorce Led to Self-Discovery and Open Relationships (S5 | E195)
How to Celebrate Your Hot Flashes (S5 | E194)
Best Sex Ever After Menopause (S5 | E193)
Pat Whitty on Finding Purpose at Any Age (S5 | E192)
From Empty to Open: Reimagining Family Bonds in the Nesting Transition (S5 | E191)
My Adult Child Won’t Talk to Me: Finding Hope and a Path Forward (S5 | E190)
Radical Living & the Big Ass Calendar: Marni Batista on Open Nesting, Intentional Living, and Midlife Reinvention (S5 | E189)
Awakening the Feminine (S5 | E188)
Reinventing Life After 50: Maria Leonard Olsen on Resilience, Sobriety, and Embracing Change – Open Nesters Podcast Episode (S5 | E187)
The Grace of Growing Older: Embracing Elderhood and Sacred Time
Rediscovering Desire: A Conversation with Sex Educator Pamela Madsen (S5 | E185)
Rediscovering Purpose: How Adventure Travel Helped This Empty Nester Heal, Grow, and Thrive (S5 | E184)
THE RADIO VAGABOND (FULL EPISODE – S5 | E183)
AN END TO ARGUING (S5 | E182)
Love Relationship & Sexuality Sampler
“Embracing Aging: Ashton Applewhite on Fighting Ageism, Wisdom, and the Joys of Act III
Deepen Your Relationships with AI
Loving Without Boundaries with Kitty Chambliss
Revealing Pleasure – The P.A.R.N. Approach to Play and Intimacy with Steve and Shane
Authentic Aging & Sensuality After Empty Nest | Maria DiSalvo Interview (S5 | E177)
Reflections on Transcendence and Growth (S5 | E176)
Tessa and Amir Season 5 (S5 | E175)
Thin Threads Where Creativity Meets Risk with Kevin Frest (S4 | E174)
Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving (S3 | E143)
The Emotional Path with Dr. Dawson Church (S4 | E173)
Aging and Eroticism (S4 | E172)
Playing with the Unexpected with Laura & Izzy
Your Pleasurespan
Mission & Minimalism Finding Freedom & Meaningful Connections
Body Wisdom Aging Sex & Self with Suzanne Noble
Self Expression in Open Love with Tessa & Amir
A 30 Day Boyfriend, A Journey of Sobriety, and Beyond with Wanda and Christopher
Fearless in Bali: A Single Mom’s Journey (S4 | E165)
Dominatrix and Submissive: Exploring Power Dynamics with Heather Hundhausen (S4 | E164)
Living Life Boldly, Your Move with Steve Kantor (S4 | E163)
Mothering Love and Success Part Two (S4 | E162)
Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161)
Come Back to Love (S4 | E160)
Walking for Comfort, Vitality, and Inspiration (S4 | E159)
Catastrophe Soup | Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158)
Viva Monogamy with Mali and Joe (S4 | E157)
Home Everywhere and Nowhere with Jonathan Pillot (S4 | E156)
Relationship Fluidity in the Empty Nest with Dr. Tammy Nelson (S4 | E155)
Infidelity and the Empty Nest | Gordon & Jenn (S4 | E154)
Why Slowing Down Builds Intimacy (S4 | E153)
Spiritual Cross Training with Benjamin Shalva (S4 | E152)
Sobriety and the Empty Nest (S4 | E151)
Season IV | The Open Nesters Podcast
Dry January in the Empty Nest
Trust and the Empty Nest (Part 2)
Trust and the Empty Nest with Tessa and Amir (S3 | E147)
Empty Nest Love (in the Love Lab – S3 | E146)
The Radio Vagabond | Still on the Road with Palle Bo (S3 | E145)
KINK & POLY | Reflections with Amir
Deciding Without Fear (Season 3 | Episode 141)
Flirting with Mortality | Your Legacy (S3 | E140)
Don’t Let Age Get in the Way (Season 3 | Episode 139)
A Male Tradition of Mentorship and Wisdom (Season 3 | Episode 138)
Late Bloomer’s Success (Season 3 | Episode 137)
Choices That Matter with Kim DeYoung (S3 | E136)
Creative Passions in Act III (Season 3 | Episode 135)
Dream Big, Live Courageously! (Season 3 | Episode 134)
Living from the Wisdom of Silence with Edi Pasalis (Season 3 | Episode 133)
Failure is Our Friend (Season 3 | Episode 132)
Act III: Dream Big, Dream Small (Season 3 | Episode 131)
Evolutionary Family, Partnership & Vision for Earth
Women & Community with Lillian Taylor
Monogamish 101 with Dan and Mary
The Precipice of Readiness (Season 3 | Episode 127)
Aligning Our Values in Act III of Life (S3 | E126)
Laughing and Dancing with Life and Death
Open Bi Kinky Over 50
Josh Miller Changemaker (Season 3 | Episode 123)
Paradise on Earth (Season Three | Episode 122)
Love’s Not Color Blind (Season 3 | Episode 121)
Dance Love Heal (Season 3 | Episode 120)
The Open Nest Evolving and Revolving Door with Tessa & Amir
Fun without Dick and Jane (Season 3 | Episode 118)
About Motherhood with Tessa
Wild Monogamy (S3 | E116)
Let’s Talk Money with Joe and Jim (S3 | E115)
Dating and Living in Midlife and Beyond with Junie Moon
Life as Polyamorous Elders
Becoming Beloveds with Kari and Steven Cardinale (S3 | E112)
Transparency & Micro-Bursts of Connections with Laura Silverstein (S3 | E111)
What’s Tik Tok Got to Do With It?
HOW TO SLOW DOWN with Carl Honore
Polysecure with Jessica Fern (Season 3 | Episode 108)
The Friendship Series Conclusion
Magic and Mutuality (with Jonathan Pillot, Season 3 | Episode 106)
Men Take Down Your Armor with Carl Honoré (S3 | E105)
Pride and Community in Black and Brown Spaces (S3 | E104)
Mutual Admiration & Bond with Shari Leid (Season 3 | Episode 103)
We Knew Each Other When (Season 3 | Episode 102)
Spiritual Soulful Connections (S3 | E101)
Don’t Postpone Joy with Joyce Saltman (S3 | E100)
Introducing Our Friendship Series (S3 | E99)
The Open Nesters Season 3
The Open Nesters Season 2 – A Summary (S2 | E97)
Progressive Love and Communication (Part 2)
Progressive Love and Communication (Season 2 | Episode 95)
C.c.elaine & Intuitive Living (Season 2 | Episode 94)
The Future is Female with Vicki Larson (Season 2 | Episode 93)
GODDESS WISDOM with Madeleine Sklar (Season 2 | Episode 92)
Divorce, Adult Kids, and Deep Self-Discovery with Dan Sivils (Season 2 | Episode 91)
The Midlife Whisperer with Dr. Ellen Albertson (Season 2 | Episode 90)
Superheroes & Acts of Kindness with Mark Grashow (S2 | E89)
The Universe is Waiting for Your Order with Esther Jones-Alley (Season 2 | Episode 88)
Wise Women Panel on Sex and Aging (Season 2 | Episode 87)
Wise Women on Sex and Aging Part One (Season 2 | Episode 86)
Disability, Aging and Love Potion Number 9 (Season 2 | Episode 85)
Sensual Energy with Christine Marie Mason (Season 2 | Episode 84)
The Erotic Blueprint and Vulnerable Asks (S2 | E83)
Sexuality, Sensuality & Aging with Tessa and Amir (S2 | E82)
Rituals, Adventure and Relationships (S2 | E81)
Mobile, Unattached and Free with Casaundra & Chris (S2 | E80)
What Are Your Anchors? Sondra & Victor (Season 2 | Episode 79)
Poly Quad with Jahaira, Marvin, Michael & Monique (Season 2 | Episode 77)
The Russell Family Calling In Love (Season 2 | Episode 76)
The 5Elements with Malaika MaVeena Darville (Season 2 | Episode 75)
Intimacy, Attachment, and Relationship Anarchy (Season 2 | Episode 74)
The Parallel of Life and Death with Karen Bellone (Season 2 | Episode 73)
Shift the Course with Brian and Luke (Season 2 | Episode 72)
The Pleasure Mechanics (Season 2 | Episode 71)
Deconstructing Motherhood & Divorce with Joy Rose (Season 2 | Episode 70)
EVOLVING with Podcast Host Palle Bo (Season 2 | Episode 69)
The Radical and Magical Body & Spirit with Moira Cormack (S2 | E68)
Sexual Abuse, Sobriety and Becoming Our Best Selves with Maria Leonard Olsen (S2 | E67)
Evolutionary Spirituality and Awe in Act III with Josh Silver (S2 | E66)
The Tantric Mama | Mothering and Orgasms of Gratitude (Season 2 | Episode 65)
A Mother-Daughter Story with Revi and Michelle (S2 | E64)
Biohacking Age with Michelle St. Jane (Season 2 | Episode 63)
The Impact of Mindfulness with Kayla (Season 2 | Episode 62)
Art in Act III and Beyond with Tom Radca (Season 2 | Episode 61)
The Humor in Aging, Sex and the Husband Equivalent with Joyce Saltman (Season 2 | Episode 60)
Your Erotic Blueprint with Angela Thurston (Season 2 | Episode 59)
Parent-Child Estrangement & How to Heal (Season 2 | Episode 58)
Not Your Grandma’s Monogamy (Season 2 | Episode 57)
Jazz Up Your Aging with Suzanne Noble (Season 2 | Episode 56)
Our Loving Openness with Kitty, Tessa & Amir (Season 2 | Episode 55)
Make Love in the Unknown (Season 2 | Episode 54)
Buckle Up and Strap On (Season 2 | Episode 53)
Love in the Third Third of Act III (Season 2 | Episode 52)
Healing Our Intimacy Wounds (Season 2 | Episode 51)
The Wild Life of an Unentangled Off the Grid Dad (Season 2 | Episode 50)
Reframing Relationships with Sabrina and Seth (Season 2 | Episode 49)
Cultivating Readiness with Dr. Bill Thomas and his Partner Jude (Season 2 | Episode 48)
The Open Nesters Podcast Season Two
Curiosity, Courage, and Compassion Tessa Celebrates 60 (Episode 47)
Rock Your Erotic Boat with Pamela Madsen (Episode 46)
Becoming a Mirror | Labeling and Unlabeling with Jonathan Pillot (Episode 45)
Transforming Grief and Pain Through Art and Spirituality (Episode 44)
Paradoxical Power and Healing with the Dominatrix (Episode 43)
Dreaming of Open Nesting: Love and Plant Medicine in Act III (Episode 42)
The Anxiety Sisters (Episode 41)
Open Nesting 201 with Tessa and Amir (Episode 40)
You Can Come Home, But My Two Boyfriends Are Here (Episode 39)
Thank and Grow Rich (Episode 38)
Change Your Noise and Get Curious with Effy Blue (Episode 37)
Got Trust ??? HomeExchange is for You (Episode 36)
WHO NAD? (Who Needs a Dog? Episode 35)
The Book of Life with Esther Russell (Episode 34)
Hot Flashes and Cool Topics (Episode 33)
Pat Whitty, Modern Elder (Episode 32)
#Open (Episode 31)
Divorce, Dating, and Dreaming with Ava and Dan (Episode 30)
Intersectionality (with Gloria Jackson Nefertiti Episode 29)
Camp Reinvention (Episode 28)
Co-Living and Community with Maggie Byrne (Episode 27)
Is Ethical Non-Monogamy for You? (Episode 26)
It’s Cancer. Now What? (Episode 25)
Are You Securely Attached? (Episode 24)
If It Feels Right, Why Not? (Episode 23)
The Many Kinds of Love that Work (Episode 22)
Intuition, Kids and Heart Intelligence with Julie Reisler (Episode 21)
UNPLUGGED (Episode 20)
The Bed Hoppers (Episode 19)
Queerness, Inclusion, Tantra & an Ecstatic Life (Episode 18)
Bolder and Older with Carl Honoré (Episode 17)
Living Apart Together (LAT) with Vicki Larson (Episode 16)
Open for Business in Tuscany (Episode 15)
Jealousy, Compersion… Loving Without Boundaries with Kitty Chambliss (Episode 14)
Does Your Age Matter? with Ashton Applewhite (Episode 13)
Language of the Soul (Laura Campbell Episode 12)
I Want That and More (with Jahaira and Marvin Episode 11)
Traveling Vagabond with Palle Bo (Episode 10)
Sexuality, Identity, and Capacity with Dr. Rosalyn Dischiavo (Episode 9)
Eroticize Your Jealousy with Thea and Curt (Episode 8)
Following the Yes with Joy Lynn Okoye (Episode 7)
Play with Shane Kulman (Episode 6)
Erika Obando (Episode 5)
Mental Physical Emotional Space (Episode 4)
Three Midlife Couples Exploring Their Passions (Episode 3)
Empty Nest Gypsy Nesting (Episode 2)
Open vs. Empty Nest (Episode 1)
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