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Open Deeply Podcast

Open Deeply Podcast

By: Kate Loree Sunny Megatron
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Welcome to the Open Deeply podcast where guests dive deep into the vulnerable experiences that shaped them. We believe life storytelling has power…the power to heal and inspire others. Join acclaimed dream team, internationally recognized sex educator Sunny Megatron and seasoned sex positive psychotherapist, Kate Loree, LMFT. Through a sex positive, trauma informed lens, we explore the struggles and serendipitious happenings that led to our guest’s truth, life purpose, and wisdom. In doing so, these stories may light the way for your own sexual and personal truth. Choose an episode, and your journey towards finding your sexual and personal truth can start now. Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Nikki Boyer on Dying for Sex

    Nikki Boyer on Dying for Sex
    Aug 31 2026
    In this deeply intimate episode of Open Deeply, Kate Loree and Sunny Megatron sit down with Nikki Boyer, co-creator and executive producer of the award-winning Dying for Sex podcast, which inspired the acclaimed FX/Hulu series starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate.At the heart of Dying for Sex is the extraordinary story of Nikki’s best friend, Molly Kochan, who, after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, embarked on a sexual journey that became something much bigger: a reclamation of her body, her agency, her desires, and ultimately, herself.For Kate, a two-time cancer survivor and sex-positive psychotherapist, Molly’s story hit remarkably close to home. While Molly experienced what Kate calls a “sexual cancer journey,” Kate’s own recurrence of cancer in 2023 launched her into a psychedelic cancer journey. As Kate watched Dying for Sex, uncanny synchronicities between their lives began piling up—and eventually compelled her to write Nikki a deeply personal letter.That letter began the connection that led to this conversation.Together, Nikki, Kate, and Sunny explore what lies beneath the sexcapades: how confronting mortality can crack us open; how survivors can reclaim the body after sexual trauma; the complicated dance between control, surrender, kink, and vulnerability; and Molly’s growing realization that the epic love she was searching for might ultimately be found within herself.But Dying for Sex contains another extraordinary love story—the friendship between Molly and Nikki. Nikki shares what it was like to accompany someone she loved through the final chapter of her life, what Molly taught her about love and death, and what it means to carry a friend’s story into the world after they are gone.This is a conversation about sex, cancer, trauma, psychedelics, kink, friendship, grief, self-love, and the strange beauty that can emerge when mortality strips away the illusion that we have forever.Molly showed us that it is never too late to reclaim your body, your truth, your agency—and your life.Guest: Nikki Boyer, co-creator and executive producer of Dying for Sex.Nikki's Bio:Nikki Boyer is an Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-winning executive producer and Peabody Award winner for the acclaimed FX/Hulu series Dying for Sex, based on the deeply personal Wondery podcast she co-created, starred in, and executive produced about her best friend, Molly Kochan. The original podcast won the Ambies Award for Podcast of the Year and was named one of Apple’s Favorite Podcasts of the Year.A three-time Emmy Award-winning host, Nikki has recorded more than 600 podcast episodes and hosted acclaimed series including Call Me Curious and The Daily Smile. Her television work includes The Drew Barrymore Show, The Talk, The Wendy Williams Show, Gilmore Girls, and The L Word. Across her work, Nikki brings vulnerability, humor, and a deep belief in the healing power of storytelling.How to find Nikki: https://nikkiboyer.com/IG: http://instagram.com/nikkiiboyerYoutube: @nikkiboyerTVHosts: Sex-positive psychotherapist and author Kate Loree and sexologist Sunny MegatronHow to find Sunny Megatron:Website: http://sunnymegatron.comFacebook http://facebook.com/sunnymegatronTwitter http://twitter.com/sunnymegatronInstagram http://instagram.com/sunnymegatron Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@sunnymegatron YouTube https://www.youtube.com/sunnymegatron American Sex Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/2HroMhWJnyZbMSsOBKwBnkHow to find Kate Loree: Website http://kateloree.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/opendeeplywithkateloree Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@opendeeplywithkateloree Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kateloreelmft Twitter http://twitter.com/kateloreelmft YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCSTFAqGYKW3sIUa0tKivbqQOpen Deeply podcast is not therapy or a replacement for therapy.
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    55 mins
  • EMDR, Ketamine & IFS Informed Somatic Therapy with Kate Loree

    EMDR, Ketamine & IFS Informed Somatic Therapy with Kate Loree
    Aug 8 2026
    In this special episode of Open Deeply, Sunny Megatron sits down with co-host Kate Loree to explore the therapeutic approach she has developed over more than two decades as a psychotherapist.Kate shares how she integrates EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic psychotherapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and psychedelic integration to help people heal trauma, deepen intimacy, and create more authentic relationships with themselves and others.Together, they discuss:What makes Kate's approach different from traditional relationship and trauma therapyWhy she specializes in working with consensual non-monogamy, sexuality, and sex workersHow spirituality became an important part of her clinical workWhat led her to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and psychedelic integrationThe launch of Open Deeply Coaching and how coaching differs from psychotherapySupporting couples creating a new chapter in intimacy and people navigating consensual non-monogamyKate's men's process group and her vision for future groups exploring psychedelic integration, spirituality, and alternative relationshipsThe biggest lessons she's learned after working with thousands of clientsWhether you're curious about trauma healing, relationships, sexuality, psychedelic integration, or human potential, this conversation offers an inside look at the philosophy that guides Kate's work and why she believes lasting change happens through curiosity, compassion, and embodied self-awareness.Kate's Bio:Kate Loree, LMFT, is a sex-positive psychotherapist, author, speaker, and podcast host specializing in trauma, relationships, sexuality, and non-traditional relationship structures. She works extensively with LGBTQIA+, kink, and consensually non-monogamous communities and is the author of Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships.In addition to her work as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Kate holds an MBA and is a registered art therapist (ATR). She is certified in EMDR, IFS-Informed Somatic Trauma Therapy, and Psychedelic Harm Reduction & Integration and offers Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.Kate has worked with clients since 2003 and is known for integrating attachment theory, somatic awareness, sexuality, nervous system regulation, and compassionate communication into her work. She co-hosts the Open Deeply podcast with Sunny Megatron, has appeared in BuzzFeed videos and Playboy Radio, and has been featured in media outlets including Vice and Ms. Magazine.Through her writing, teaching, and clinical work, Kate helps people create more authentic relationships,How to find Kate Loree: Website http://kateloree.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/opendeeplywithkateloree Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@opendeeplywithkateloree Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kateloreelmft Twitter http://twitter.com/kateloreelmft YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCSTFAqGYKW3sIUa0tKivbqQHow to find Sunny Megatron: Website: http://sunnymegatron.com Facebook http://facebook.com/sunnymegatron Twitter http://twitter.com/sunnymegatron Instagram http://instagram.com/sunnymegatron Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@sunnymegatron YouTube https://www.youtube.com/sunnymegatron American Sex Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/2HroMhWJnyZbMSsOBKwBnkOpen Deeply podcast is not therapy or a replacement for therapy.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Neurodivergent Rising: A New Vision of Self Energy with Dr. Kristina Kyser - Ep. 65

    Neurodivergent Rising: A New Vision of Self Energy with Dr. Kristina Kyser - Ep. 65
    Mar 16 2026
    In this powerful conversation, Kate Loree and Sunny Megatron sit down with educator and former psychotherapist Dr. Kristina Kyser, a late-diagnosed AuDHD scholar whose work bridges trauma healing, neurodivergence, spirituality, and systems-level critique. Together they explore how our understanding of autism, ADHD, and nervous-system sensitivity cannot be separated from the larger cultural forces that shape them. Dr. Kyser challenges dominant ideas about “normality,” unpacking why the concept of normal may be one of the most harmful assumptions in modern psychology—and what becomes possible when we stop trying to fit ourselves inside it. The conversation moves through wide-ranging territory: the relationship between neurodivergence and colonial systems of power, what animist and Indigenous cosmologies can teach us about human difference, and why meaningful healing must weave together spirituality, social awareness, and nervous-system repair. Dr. Kyser also shares insights from her own journey of unmasking and slowing down, discussing how stepping outside roles of compliance, pleasing, and patriarchal conditioning can reconnect us with our deeper nature. Along the way, Kate and Sunny explore big questions about identity, rage, gaslighting, power structures, and the cultural “spells” that shape how we understand ourselves. This is a conversation about breaking inherited frameworks, reclaiming embodied truth, and imagining forms of healing that are relational, political, and deeply human. Here is Dr. Kristina Kyser's Bio: Somatic-Spiritual Educator & Neurodivergent Guide Kristina (she/her) is a late-diagnosed AuDHD educator, former psychotherapist, and course creator with a PhD in English Literature and over 13 years of clinical experience. Her work bridges trauma healing, Buddhist and animist practice, and systems-level critique. She creates initiatory spaces that blend science, soul, and lived neurodivergence in service of collective remembering and repair. And this is where you can find Dr. Kristina Kyser: https://www.instagram.com/kristina.kyser.phd/ https://www.tiktok.com/@kristina.kyser Book mentioned in this episode: Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack D. Forbes How to find Sunny Megatron: Website: http://sunnymegatron.com Facebook http://facebook.com/sunnymegatron Twitter http://twitter.com/sunnymegatron Instagram http://instagram.com/sunnymegatron Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@sunnymegatron YouTube https://www.youtube.com/sunnymegatron American Sex Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/2HroMhWJnyZbMSsOBKwBnk How to find Kate Loree: Website http://kateloree.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/opendeeplywithkateloree Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@opendeeplywithkateloree Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kateloreelmft Twitter http://twitter.com/kateloreelmft YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCSTFAqGYKW3sIUa0tKivbqQ Open Deeply podcast is not therapy or a replacement for therapy.
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    1 hr and 32 mins
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loved the podcast and how thoroughly explained throughout the episode. Look forward to listening to more.

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