LOVERS by Shan

LOVERS by Shan is an education-first space where listeners come to better understand their own intimate lives through the life lessons and expertise of others. Shan Boodram’s mission is to empower everyone to be their own intimacy expert in the bedroom and beyond by treating guests of the podcast as educators in their own right. Past guests include Kelly Rowland who taught us about being a sensualist. Becky G who shared the importance of healthy love in an unhealthy body. Kerry Washington who warned about the dangers of keeping secrets. Kamie Crawford who taught us about the joys of breaking up. Jesse Reyez who reminded us that it's alright to admit you're the one who let a good one get away. When we paused in 2023 we had 5.1 million listeners and 8 million YouTube views. Excited to see how many lives we can impact in 2025 with our fresh look and approach. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/

Episodes

This Situationship Taught Me About What I Want in Bed ft. Sabrina Zohar

October 14, 2026 • 58 mins

Sabrina Zohar has built a career helping people see the patterns they learned before they could name them, and in this conversation she turns that lens on her own twenties. At 24, she met a 36-year-old man three blocks from her apartment who opened her up sexually in ways nobody had before. It was also where she learned what self-abandonment looks like: saying yes to things (including his one condition for a relationship) because ...

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You Abandoned Me, Stop Calling it a Breakup ft. Shaun Ross

October 7, 2026 • 36 mins

Shaun Ross was the first professional male model with albinism, and in this conversation he tells Shan about the breakup he refuses to call a breakup, because he was never in the room for it. Two hours into an 11-hour flight home from Europe, he watched his partner leave on the home camera, and he later learned that plenty of people had known how his partner felt (everyone except him). Shan explains why the person who leaves has of...

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So We're Just Gonna Pretend Like... | Responding to Your Comments Live Via G

October 2, 2026 • 42 mins

I'm answering your comments on Via G's episode. Via G is a New Orleans creator (yes, the baby bangs) who spent her twenties moving from one 18-month relationship to the next, and the last one looked perfect on paper: he cooked, he could match her financially, and he carried the fatherly energy of a man who already knew how everything should be done. Her body figured it out before she did. Her cycle unraveled over the year they ...

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He Felt Like the Dad I Never Had. That Was the Problem ft. Via G

September 30, 2026 • 55 mins

Via G is a New Orleans creator (yes, the baby bangs) who spent her twenties moving from one 18-month relationship to the next, and the last one looked perfect on paper: he cooked, he could match her financially, and he carried the fatherly energy of a man who already knew how everything should be done. Her body figured it out before she did. Her cycle unraveled over the year they were together, and not long after she ended it (20 m...

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If It Don't Apply, Let It Fly | Responding to Your Comments Live: Kendrick Sampson

September 25, 2026 • 66 mins

I'm answering your comments on Kendrick Sampson choosing freedom over romance, and you did not agree. When Kendrick Sampson (the actor you know from Insecure and How to Get Away with Murder, and the activist behind BLD PWR) sat down with me and said he cares about freedom more than romance, I had a feeling some of you would feel seen and some of you would feel personally called out, and the comments landed right down the middle. [...

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Romantic Love Is the Most Narrow Form of Love ft. Kendrick Sampson

September 23, 2026 • 58 mins

Kendrick Sampson (founder of the racial justice nonprofit BLD PWR, actor best known as Nathan in Insecure and Quincy Jones in Michael Jackson's biopic) sits down with Shan to talk about loving widely. Kendrick grew up in a house where nobody said "I love you" after his parents divorced, so love turned into something you did instead of something you said. Love is choosing someone else's needs over your own wants. It's why he has no...

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I'm (Still) Concerned About Our Love, Pt. 3

September 16, 2026 • 48 mins

Every couple of years, after a stretch that tested us, Jared and I climb onto the roof in the same outfit and talk honestly about what it did to our relationship. We did it in 2022 and again in 2024, and the second time a lot of people watched two exhausted parents be imperfect and decided that was the verdict on the whole thing. We're doing it anyway, because the hard years reach your love life whether you film it or not. This su...

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He's Gay. She's a Lesbian. They're In a Co-Parenting Arrangement With Their Son

September 9, 2026 • 45 mins

Brandi and Lawrence aren't a couple. He's a gay man, she's a lesbian, and they were best friends first, until they decided, in their twenties, to build a family together on purpose, with a legal parental agreement in place before they ever tried to conceive. They walk Shan through what that intentionality actually looked like. But underneath the logistics is the part nobody warned either of them about, the isolation Lawrence carri...

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Criticism Has No Place in a Relationship ft. The Gottmans

September 2, 2026 • 68 mins

Drs. John and Julie Schwartz Gottman have followed 3,000 couples, some of them for twenty years, second by second, and in this conversation Shan brings them something that research was never designed to answer: what happens to a generation that has decided love isn't available to them, and has built community around that belief instead? Julie's answer is that those groups are writing each other a prescription for how to stay...

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The Lengths One Catfish Went to Avoid Getting Caught

August 26, 2026 • 49 mins

Kamie Crawford (former co-host of MTV's Catfish: The TV Show, now host of Relationsht*) sits down with Shan to unpack what actually keeps a catfishing scheme alive long after the story stops adding up. The conversation centers on Troi, who spent years believing he was in an email and phone relationship with a woman named Belly. His brother's boo, Tatiana, introduced him to her sister, Belly. Then came the car accident. Belly...

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Listen Again: Singer Mario Opens Up About Emotional Healing After Maternal Trauma

August 19, 2026 • 57 mins

In this deeply personal episode presented by Bumble, singer Mario opens up about the profound impact of unresolved trauma stemming from his relationship with his mother. He shares how this pain shaped his early behavior towards women, leading to manipulation and broken connections. Mario takes us on his journey of self-reflection, healing, and ultimately embracing his inner feminine energy, a process that not only reshaped his rela...

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Listen Again: Don’t Have Sex With Someone If You Both Can’t Do THIS ft. Lena Waithe

August 12, 2026 • 55 mins

We've been on a short break the past two weeks, so we're revisiting one of our favorites: Lena Waithe on why she won't have sex with someone unless she can already picture what happens after, and why some of her deepest connections have never been physical at all. New episodes of LOVERS are back August 19. In this episode of LOVERS, I sit down with Emmy-winning writer, producer, and actress Lena Waithe (Queen & Slim, Master of...

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Listen Again: I Lost My Sex Drive Because He Never Did THIS ft. Cree Summer

August 5, 2026 • 61 mins

We're on a short break the next two weeks, so we're revisiting one of our favorites: Cree Summer on losing (and finding again) her sex drive after 50, and why emotional safety made all the difference. New episodes of LOVERS are back August 19. In this episode, I sit down with the legendary Cree Summer to talk about her journey through love, loss, and rediscovery in her 50s. Cree opens up about losing her sex drive during her marri...

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If There Was a Female Version of “Viagra”, Would You Take It?

July 29, 2026 • 65 mins

#AD This episode is sponsored by Daré Bioscience. DARE to PLAY™ Sildenafil Cream is a compounded drug. It is not FDA-approved. This product has not been reviewed by FDA for safety or efficacy. It is manufactured in a 503B outsourcing facility under pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). Shan sits down with four women to talk about the low libido nobody prepares you for: the 26-year-old who kept saying "I'm supposed to ...

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Naomi Sharon: Learning About OCD Taught Me Why I Can't Let Go

July 22, 2026 • 49 mins

Naomi Sharon is an R&B singer-songwriter, the first woman signed to Drake's OVO Sound label, and the voice behind Obsidian — an album she wrote, she says, while stuck in a loop she didn't yet have a name for. Her new single is "No Sleep in Paradise," and it turns out to be a more accurate self-portrait than she realized when she wrote it. This conversation starts with that song title and follows it somewhere much harder....

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Does Unrequited Love Mean the Love Wasn't Real? ft. Tanerélle

July 15, 2026 • 60 mins

Tanerélle is a singer-songwriter whose voice sits somewhere between neo-soul and quiet revelation, with singles like feels like love and Nothing Without You building a devoted audience around the specific ache of loving someone more than they love you back. In this episode, she and Shan trace the song feels like love from its origin — a late-night phone call with an ex that felt like home until Tanerélle realized she was the ...

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I Embarrassed Him and We Had to Talk About It

July 8, 2026 • 64 mins

There are three forms of intimacy every relationship runs on — and most couples only know two of them. Emotional intimacy, physical intimacy, and the one nobody has named yet: social intimacy, which is the degree to which your partner actively represents, claims, and advocates for you in the rooms and relationships that matter. Not just privately, when it's easy, but publicly, when it costs something. This episode is Shan an...

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Stop Turning Me Into Inspiration Porn — Ericka Hart on Nasty Work

July 1, 2026 • 41 mins

Ericka Hart (she/they) is a sex educator, author, and breast cancer survivor who has spent their career arguing that pleasure isn't a luxury — it's a right that's been systematically withheld from Black, brown, queer, and disabled bodies. In this conversation, Erica and Shan trace the throughline from childhood activism that was never a choice, to being expelled from Peace Corps for loving who they loved, to the night they d...

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Loving Someone Based on How They Present Is the Whole Problem

June 24, 2026 • 40 mins

Thanks to Stasis for sponsoring this video. Hold your stimulant to a higher standard — go to https://yt.link/iD6LFRL and use code LOVERS for 15% off your first order. I'm sharing this in my personal capacity. Always speak with your own healthcare provider about what's right for you. #ad #StasisPartner *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, trea...

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The Most Intimate Thing a Man Can Do for His Family ft. Jared Brady & Jonathan Singletary

June 17, 2026 • 55 mins

Jared Brady and Jonathan Singletary sit down to talk about fatherhood, inheritance, and the difference between intention and what's already in the body. Jonathan Singletary is a Los Angeles-based musician, songwriter, and founder of Piano & Prayer, a musical meditation and community gathering practice featured in the LA Times that has grown into a meaningful spiritual presence for thousands of people. Jared Brady is a creative...

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Episodes

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So We're Just Gonna Pretend Like... | Responding to Your Comments Live Via G

He Felt Like the Dad I Never Had. That Was the Problem ft. Via G

If It Don't Apply, Let It Fly | Responding to Your Comments Live: Kendrick Sampson

Romantic Love Is the Most Narrow Form of Love ft. Kendrick Sampson

I'm (Still) Concerned About Our Love, Pt. 3

He's Gay. She's a Lesbian. They're In a Co-Parenting Arrangement With Their Son

Criticism Has No Place in a Relationship ft. The Gottmans

The Lengths One Catfish Went to Avoid Getting Caught

Listen Again: Singer Mario Opens Up About Emotional Healing After Maternal Trauma

Listen Again: Don’t Have Sex With Someone If You Both Can’t Do THIS ft. Lena Waithe

Listen Again: I Lost My Sex Drive Because He Never Did THIS ft. Cree Summer

If There Was a Female Version of “Viagra”, Would You Take It?

Naomi Sharon: Learning About OCD Taught Me Why I Can't Let Go

Does Unrequited Love Mean the Love Wasn't Real? ft. Tanerélle

I Embarrassed Him and We Had to Talk About It

Stop Turning Me Into Inspiration Porn — Ericka Hart on Nasty Work

Loving Someone Based on How They Present Is the Whole Problem

The Most Intimate Thing a Man Can Do for His Family ft. Jared Brady & Jonathan Singletary

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This Situationship Taught Me About What I Want in Bed ft. Sabrina Zohar

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