You don’t need to be ready to be loved

The Love Drive with Shaun Galanos · May 14, 2026 · 16m · transcript

Someone recently told me I wasn't too complicated to love and it inspired me to explore the ways in which we keep ourselves small rather than dare to show up for love.

This one's a pep talk about the lie we tell ourselves: that we have to lose the weight, get the job, finalize the divorce, heal more, become our "best self" before we deserve to be loved. The goalpost always moves. The waiting isn’t about the conditions, it’s about the fear of being seen as unfinished and unloveable.

I get into the honest exception of when waiting actually is the wise call, why "ready" is usually code for…