Hosted by Vanessa Couto · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 17 episodes
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Vanessa Couto hosts Romancing the Threshold, a society show with 17 episodes published.
The smallest things tend to carry the most: a fairy tale, a love story, a cup of tea made with real attention. Vanessa sits down with writer and fairy tale scholar Kelly Jarvis, whose debut novel, Sea and Stars (out July
Karla Sorensen writes contemporary romance set in the world of professional football, and inside her pages she's quietly doing something extraordinary: rendering grief with the care of someone who's apprenticed to it, dr
Content note: This episode touches briefly on a sexual assault scene from a romance novel as the entry point for our somatic conversation. The scene itself isn't described in detail. Please listen with care. What if the
There are five aspects of the self that culture teaches women to hide — and romance novels have been quietly reopening every single one. In this solo episode, I name them: body, rage, pleasure, instinct, and sovereignty.
Almost twenty years ago, a dream about a wedding made me abandon my thesis on Saturn and depression and write instead about the healing power of romantic comedies. That thesis became a spell — I lived everything I wrote,
Sharon Lynn Fisher writes cozy gothic romances set in Victorian England: stories full of tea, herbs, cottage witchcraft, and heroines who can't stop asking questions. In this conversation, we talk about what happens when
When AI arrived, most people chose a side — fear or adoration. Cassie Alexander chose a third way: curiosity. Romance author, nurse, monster-romance pioneer — she's spent her career writing about the thing the world deci
In this episode of Romancing the Threshold, Vanessa sits down with author Layla Fae for a conversation that moves through creativity, desire, monster romance, and the unexpected ways we meet change in a world that feels
While systems grip their dying world, we're midwifing what's being born through every story we love. In this solo episode, I weave together childhood under dictatorship, the ancient myth of Proteus, and how we're already
In this intimate conversation, Vanessa sits with her friend Jessiemarie to explore an unexpected threshold space: the adult retail shop. Drawing from her experience helping customers navigate their most vulnerable desire
Celtic shaman and author Jane Burns illuminates how threshold spaces—those uncomfortable in-between times we rush through—are actually portals of creative power where the ancient Celts knew magic lived. In this rich conv
A solo episode closing out a transformative year. After cataloging 50 monsters across 125 romance novels, seven creatures emerged as threshold guides through grief and reclamation. These aren't just steamy reads but medi
Rune reader and elder Ingrid Kincaid explores how every threshold demands sacrifice and why the stories we tell about change shape our experience of it. We discuss the gift of the liminal space, why resistance to change
When an avalanche buries your world, what gets revealed? Author Ella Larson joins me to explore how her Hidden Folk series teaches us to meet catastrophic change with curiosity rather than with the tension of 'white knuc
In this anniversary‑week episode, my husband Jason steps into my world of romance novels—book boyfriends, monster lovers, and all. Far from his usual orbit of music and design, he shares his grounded take on desire and t
In this episode of Romancing the Threshold, I’m joined by astrologer and storyteller Brian Clark to explore the threshold as both pause and passage — a place of shedding, becoming, and crossing into the unknown. Together
In this first episode of Romancing the Threshold, I invite you into the charged space of the in‑between—the moment before the door opens. I share the inspiration behind the podcast, how it becomes the hearth where On Lim
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Romancing the Threshold is hosted by Vanessa Couto. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 17 episodes.
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