Beyond the Labels: Polyamory, Tantra, and Intimacy as Vehicles for Soul Awakening

In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, Joshua sits down with men’s coach Hannah Jo McCartney to explore intimacy, sexuality, emotional alchemy, and relationship as a path to soul evolution.

Hannah Jo specializes in helping men recreate their relationship to their sexuality, emotions, and desires. She is a co-founder of The Studio X in Santa Barbara, California where she supports clients in person and worldwide through virtual coaching and community.

Hannah Jo shares her personal origin story into what she and her community call the PolyTantric Method- a living, embodied framework that weaves together somatics, tantra, transpersonal psychology, shadow work, and relational practice.

Together, Joshua and Hannah unpack how relationships, desire, and sexual energy can become vehicles for awakening, rather than identities, labels, or pleasure-driven pursuits.

This episode goes far beyond surface level conversations about polyamory or tantra. Instead, it explores:

* Relationship as a mirror for soul growth, not a fixed category
* Polyamory reframed as _“the capacity to love many,”_ not promiscuity
* Why emotional triggers are accelerants for healing
* Men’s deconditioning work around emotion, desire, shame, and masculinity
* Sexual energy as a force for purification, coherence, and purpose
* Sovereignty, discernment, and truth-telling in complex relational spaces
* The role of the solar plexus, internal masculine, and self-responsibility
* How embodiment and somatic awareness transform intimacy from the inside out

Hannah Jo also speaks candidly about her work with men-supporting them to reconnect with their feeling bodies, rewrite internalized “man programs,” and come into deeper alignment with their authentic values, relationships, and life purpose.

The conversation closes with Hannah Jo guiding a powerful Trinity of Awareness Meditation- an alchemical and practical practice of deep self-compassion.

This episode is an invitation to question inherited relationship models, reclaim emotional truth, and relate from the deepest layers of the body and soul- beyond labels, beyond scripts, and beyond fear.

For more info on Hannah Jo’s work:
Website: http://thestudiox.com
Instagram: @hannahjomc


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