Conversations exploring Non-Monogamy, Conscious Relationships & Sexuality. Join Abbey and her husband Liam, as they share from their own lived experiences, and chat with special guests.
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Fresh from a huge weekend at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas (https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/), we take you behind the scenes of the talks, performances and conversations that stayed with us long after leaving Carriageworks. We unpack one particularly confronting moment inside Mark Haslam’s (https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/fake/)FAKE (https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/fake/), which opened up a conversation about groupthink, social pressure, integrity, binary thinking and whether we’re really as willing to engage with uncomfortable ideas as we like to believe.
We also reflect on the ideas that challenged us most across the weekend, from Joanna Bourke’s (https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/evil-women/) confronting discussion of crime, forgiveness and rehabilitation, to Tim Minchin’s call to find the humanity in people we disagree with, and we take you inside our own FODI panel, Non-Monogamy Makes Us Better Parents (https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/non-monogamy-makes-us-better-parents/), where alongside psychologist Dr. Jenny Brown, researcher Dr. Rebecca Huntley and moderator Dr. Tim Dean we explored relationships, parenting, attachment and the surprising common ground that can exist between very different perspectives.
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Mark Haslam - Fake (https://kdmindustries.org/fake)
Dr. Jenny Brown - Parent Hope Podcast (https://parenthopeproject.com.au/podcast/)
Dr. Tim Dean (https://timdean.au/)
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18 Aug 2026
Are You Afraid of Your Partner’s Success?
What does it mean to truly want the person you love to shine?
In this episode, we explore compersion beyond sex and the joy that can come from watching your partner create, succeed, receive praise and step fully into who they are.
Following Liam’s recent performances, we reflect on creativity, jealousy, attention and the ways our relationships can either nurture our gifts or quietly ask us to make ourselves smaller. It leaves us wondering: how many of us dim our own light because we’re afraid of what our success might do to our relationship?
We also talk about the reality of being two creative people building a life and family together, protecting each other’s time and energy, navigating periods when one of us is flourishing while the other is struggling, and making choices that preserve rather than diminish who we are.
We also reflect on the film The Invite and its exploration of desire, creativity and losing yourself inside a relationship. Ultimately, we ask what it looks like to build a partnership where neither person has to shrink, and where loving someone means wanting them to feel fully alive.
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16 Jul 2026
Questions To Fall In Love To
In this episode, we share some exciting personal news, including our upcoming appearance at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, where we’ll be exploring the provocative topic Why Non-Monogamy Makes Us Better Parents. We also talk about Liam’s new creative work, Channels: Artists on Ageing Creatively, and reflect on creativity, ageing, and the importance of making space for the things that bring us alive.
We then dive into a conversation about relationships, desire, and connection, sparked by a film that left Abbey completely captivated. Finally, we return to the famous 36 Questions That Lead to Love, exploring big questions about ageing, wisdom, mortality, and what it means to live a rich, intentional, and meaningful life.
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas (https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/non-monogamy-makes-us-better-parents/)
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