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The Intimacy Series episodes
- FND-05 — Building Trust From the Ground Up
Trust isn't a grand gesture; it's a thousand small moments of showing up as you said you would.
In this episode: reliability, consistency, follow-through; how micro-promises compound.
Your practice: Keep one small promise this week you'd normally let slide.
Hosted by Schuyler. Educational and non-explicit. Get notified of new episodes: theintimacyseries.com
More at theintimacyseries.com — browse every track, and sign up to be emailed when new episodes are released.
13 min - FND-04 — Vulnerability as a Skill, Not a Weakness
Opening up is the doorway to closeness — and it's a muscle you build in small, safe reps.
In this episode: why vulnerability feels risky; the difference between oversharing and true openness; starting small.
Your practice: Share one slightly-braver-than-usual truth with someone you trust.
Hosted by Schuyler. Educational and non-explicit. Get notified of new episodes: theintimacyseries.com
More at theintimacyseries.com — browse every track, and sign up to be emailed when new episodes are released.
12 min - FND-03 — The Myth of "Just Knowing"
Nobody is born good at intimacy. The people who seem effortless just practiced — and you can too.
In this episode: where the "secret handbook" myth comes from; skill vs. talent; permission to be a beginner.
Your practice: Retire one thing you "should already know" and let yourself learn it fresh.
Hosted by Schuyler. Educational and non-explicit. Get notified of new episodes: theintimacyseries.com
More at theintimacyseries.com — browse every track, and sign up to be emailed when new episodes are released.
12 min - FND-02 — The Four Kinds of Intimacy
Emotional, physical, intellectual, and experiential closeness — most struggles come from leaning on one and starving the others.
In this episode: the four types; how couples over-index on one; spotting your own gaps.
Your practice: Rate yourself 1–10 on each of the four this week.
Hosted by Schuyler. Educational and non-explicit. Get notified of new episodes: theintimacyseries.com
More at theintimacyseries.com — browse every track, and sign up to be emailed when new episodes are released.
10 min - FND-01 — What Intimacy Actually Is (and Isn't)
Intimacy isn't sex, and it isn't romance — it's the experience of being known. We draw the line clearly so the rest of the series has a foundation.
In this episode: intimacy vs. sex vs. romance; "into-me-see"; why people confuse closeness with performance.
Your practice: Name one relationship where you feel truly known — and one where you'd like to.
Hosted by Schuyler. Educational and non-explicit. Get notified of new episodes: theintimacyseries.com
More at theintimacyseries.com — browse every track, and sign up to be emailed when new episodes are released.
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About The Intimacy Series
From the publisher's feed
The Intimacy Series is a warm, plain-spoken guide to real closeness, hosted by Schuyler. Short, self-contained 12–15 minute episodes on the actual skills of connection — communication, trust, desire, presence, and more — written for listeners of every orientation and relationship. Educational, sex-positive, and non-explicit. New episodes weekly. Start with Episode 1.
Want to go further? The free Foundations episodes drop here every week — and our adults-only members series (18+) lives at theintimacyseries.com, free to join.
About the host — Schuyler was born in the 1960s, a child of the flower-child generation, raised by liberal parents who taught him that openness beats judgment. He went to art school, found his way into finance, came out as gay in the 1980s, and in 1990 settled into a quiet suburban life in Florida. Then September 11th shook everything loose — life's too short — and he started actually living it: bolder, more curious, more himself. The gatherings he hosted grew into something bigger — sex-positive parties built on consent, warmth, and zero shame. A friendship with a longtime patron of Bob's Adult Books in Salem, Oregon deepened into a business partnership, and when his friend passed, Schuyler stepped into ownership of the shop. He's always been the type to ask — over the years he's built a deep bench of trusted advisors and experts, and he leans on them heavily to make this show, because he's the first to admit he doesn't know it all. As his father, a librarian, taught him: you don't need to know everything, you just need to know the people who do. The Intimacy Series is the sum of that whole journey — generous, grounded, and unafraid to talk about what most people won't.