Relationships Episodes

Katie and Chris Bowick on Addiction Recovery and Marriage Healing | 1,597 Katie and Chris Bowick believe healing begins when people stop hiding their struggles and start telling the truth. Co-authors of Coloring Outside the Lines: A Love Story in the Gray of Addiction, Recovery & Redemption, Katie and Chris share a deeply personal journey through addiction, codependency, broken trust, and the long road toward rebuilding a marriage. Their story stands apart because it is told from both perspectives, offering an honest look at the pain, hope, and transformation experienced by each partner. Chris opens up about the hidden reality of addiction behind professional success and outward achievement, while Katie gives voice to the often unseen experience of loving someone through addiction, navigating fear, uncertainty, resilience, and faith. Together, they reveal that recovery is not just about sobriety. It is about restoring relationships, rediscovering identity, and learning to tru…

Roxanna Johnson on Healing Betrayal Trauma After Infidelity | 1,579 Roxanna Johnson is giving a voice to the people whose pain is too often overlooked. An author, speaker, and recovery advocate, Roxanna helps spouses and partners heal from the devastating impact of sexual addiction and betrayal trauma. Drawing from her own lived experience, a background in research, and years of serving in recovery communities, she offers a message rooted in faith, compassion, and hope. Through her book, Forgotten In The Battle with Sexual Addiction: The Journey of a Spouse, Roxanna shines a light on the often unseen struggles of those left navigating heartbreak, confusion, and shattered trust. Her work acknowledges the depth of that pain while pointing toward the possibility of healing, renewed identity, and restored faith. As a recovery group facilitator and sought after speaker, Roxanna continues to encourage individuals and families to move beyond survival and embrace lasting transform…

Keith Spurgin on Leadership and Building Strong Relationships | 1,576 Keith Spurgin believes every lasting success begins with two things: strong leadership and meaningful relationships. An author, international speaker, and President of Growth Resourcing Group, Keith has devoted his career to helping leaders, pastors, and business owners grow with greater purpose, influence, and impact. Through decades of leading organizations and developing people, he has learned that sustainable success is never built on strategy alone. It is built on the quality of the leader and the relationships they cultivate. As the founder of New Hope Church in Wylie, Texas, Keith has spent years equipping leaders to navigate growth, overcome challenges, and build cultures that inspire transformation. His practical wisdom, combined with a genuine passion for people, has made him a trusted mentor to leaders across industries and around the world. Whether speaking from the stage, coaching executives…

Dr Katelyn Lehman on Understanding Emotional Regulation | 1,574 Dr. Katelyn Lehman believes mental health cannot be understood by looking at the mind alone. It must be understood through the nervous system, our relationships, and the world we live in. A clinical psychologist and mental health expert, Dr. Katelyn Lehman integrates neuroscience, psychology, and public health to help people better understand emotional well being from both a personal and systemic perspective. Her work bridges clinical practice, research, and community health, offering a more complete view of how healing happens. Throughout her career, she has supported individuals navigating trauma, chronic stress, immigration, systemic barriers, and complex psychological challenges. Beyond individual care, she has led community based initiatives across Southern California that strengthen resilience through practical, everyday approaches to health, connection, and wellbeing. Dr. Lehman's mission is to move the…

How Mike Wheeler Helps You Break Unhealthy Patterns | 1,560 Mike Wheeler believes your past does not have to determine your future. After more than two decades in the IT industry leading teams, solving complex problems, and mentoring others, Mike discovered that his greatest passion was not technology. It was helping people grow into the person they were capable of becoming. His own life journey gave that mission even greater meaning. Coming from a family shaped by divorce and building a marriage with a partner who had experienced abuse, Mike understands firsthand how difficult it can be to create healthy relationships when you were never shown what they look like. Yet together, he and his wife built a thriving marriage spanning nearly two decades and raised four children, proving that a different story is possible. Today, Mike combines professional coaching principles, Biblical wisdom, and practical life strategies to help individuals, couples, and families break unhealth…

Tanya Taibl on Better Communication in Dementia Care | 1,553 Tanya Taibl believes dementia care begins with seeing the person, not just the diagnosis. With a background in special education, Tanya brings a unique and deeply compassionate perspective to supporting individuals experiencing cognitive decline and the families who care for them. Rather than focusing solely on what has been lost, she focuses on what remains possible through adaptation, communication, and understanding. Her work centers on helping care partners and loved ones navigate the complexities of dementia with greater confidence, empathy, and practical strategies. By exploring how communication styles, environmental design, and relationship dynamics influence quality of life, Tanya helps create experiences that preserve dignity, connection, and meaning. What sets her approach apart is a simple but powerful shift in perspective: instead of asking what a person can no longer do, she asks how we can better s…

Stephanie Wise on What Healthy Relationships Require | 1,520 Stephanie Wise helps people transform relationships from the inside out. Licensed therapist. Relationship coach. Writer. Educator. Speaker. Her work is built on one belief: healthy relationships are not sustained by intention alone. They are built through daily habits, honest communication, emotional awareness, and the willingness to show up differently when it matters most. Through therapy, coaching, teaching, and public speaking, Stephanie turns complex emotional insight into practical tools people can actually use in real life. Whether working with couples, parents, or individuals, her approach is grounded, direct, and deeply human. No empty advice. No relationship performance. Just real connection built through consistent action. Because love is not just something you feel. It is something you practice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enjoying the show? Support the conversation! 👉 Today’s guest: www.offic…

Chris Bingham on Leadership Loyalty and K9 Partnership | 1,518 Chris Bingham stands at the intersection of service, discipline, and loyalty. Law enforcement leader. K9 advocate. Mentor. With more than two decades in policing and leadership, Chris has dedicated his life to protecting others while building elite K9 programs grounded in trust, precision, and purpose. A graduate of Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command, his work extends far beyond the badge. He is widely recognized for the powerful bond he shares with his retired partner, K9 Tambo, whose journey of resilience became a symbol of courage, recovery, and unwavering loyalty. Through public speaking, storytelling, and advocacy, Chris shines a light on the lasting impact of working dogs and the responsibility owed to them long after service ends. Driven by discipline, fatherhood, fitness, and perseverance, Chris uses his platform to remind people that strength is not built through comfort. It …

Chad Coe on Building Wealth Through Trust and Strategy | 1,517 Chad Coe doesn’t build transactions. He builds trust. Wealth strategist. Master auctioneer. Author. Relationship-driven leader. Known as a force of nature in business and on stage, Chad Coe brings intensity, conviction, and human connection into every room he enters. As the founder of Coe Financial Group, his philosophy is simple: people come before profit, and lasting wealth is built through strategy, resilience, and authentic relationships. Through his books, leadership training, and financial guidance, Chad challenges people to think bigger, lead stronger, and build lives with purpose behind the success. Because real abundance is never accidental. It’s built with vision, discipline, and the right people beside you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enjoying the show? Support the conversation! 👉 Today’s guest: www.coefinancial.com 🎬 Need standout video, podcast, or branding content? 🌐 www.positivetalkproduct…

Jonathon Aslay on Finding Love by Finding Yourself | 1,509 Jonathon Aslay, one of America’s leading mid life dating coaches, has evolved his work into something far deeper than dating advice. A conversation about self worth, healing, and what it truly means to love. After the devastating loss of his 19 year old son Connor in 2018, Jonathon was forced into a profound inner journey that reshaped both his life and his mission. Through grief, reflection, and personal transformation, he uncovered a painful truth at the center of modern relationships. Many people are searching for love while disconnected from themselves. That realization became the foundation of his work today. Through his book, *What The Heck Is Self Love Anyway?*, and his Mid Life Love Mastery mentorship program, Jonathon helps men and women rebuild self regard, self trust, and emotional wholeness from the inside out. Blending personal growth, spiritual insight, and practical guidance, he encourages people to …

Marta Swaffer on Finding Yourself in Quiet Moments | 1,502 Marta Swaffer writes for the people quietly carrying questions they cannot explain. Not as a guru, not as someone with all the answers, but as a woman who discovered that the deepest truths are often hidden inside ordinary life. Through motherhood, relationships, mistakes, heartbreak, and moments of unexpected clarity, she learned that transformation rarely arrives loudly. It unfolds in the quiet spaces where we finally begin listening to ourselves. Her work is a reminder that healing, love, and meaning are not somewhere far away. They have been waiting within us all along. Through her book, You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For, Marta offers a deeply human invitation back to what matters most. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.martaswaffer.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pr…

1,436 | Briana Bass Reveals What’s Missing in Modern Love Briana Bass, M.Ed., CMHC, LPC A, is a board certified clinical sexologist and therapist in doctoral studies who helps individuals and couples create meaningful, lasting transformation in their lives and relationships. With a foundation in psychology and clinical mental health, combined with more than a decade of experience in high level corporate environments, Briana brings a unique understanding of the pressures high achieving individuals face. She works with clients navigating self worth, modern dating challenges, emotional disconnection, and the hidden toll of success. Her approach blends evidence based practices with genuine empathy, helping people break free from toxic patterns, rebuild confidence, and form deeper, more fulfilling relationships. Clients often describe their work with her as a clear turning point, a true before and after in how they experience themselves and their lives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ …

1,428 | Simone Ellin on Courage Healing and Confronting the Past Simone Ellin is a journalist, clinical social worker, and self described recovering middle schooler who brings honesty, insight, and depth to her work. She is the associate editor at Jmore magazine and an award winning freelance writer whose work has appeared in outlets including USA Today, Huffington Post, Lilith, Girls’ Life, Pregnancy, and The Baltimore Jewish Times. Her widely read HuffPost article, I Tracked Down the Girls That Bullied Me As A Kid: Here’s What They Had to Say, reached more than 2.3 million views and sparked powerful conversations around bullying, healing, and accountability. Through her writing, Simone explores identity, relationships, and the lasting impact of our formative experiences with both vulnerability and courage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://simoneellin.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping…

1,371 | Brylye Collins on Building Self Trust Before Finding Love Brylye Collins is a Certified Relationship Coach and the founder of Building with Bry, home to Thriving Solo and Intentional Connections. Based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, she works with clients across the United States to help singles reconnect with themselves first: building self-trust, confidence, and emotional readiness before pursuing love. Through her coaching, Brylye guides clients to heal old patterns, strengthen boundaries, and clarify what they truly want in a partner and relationship. For those ready to date with purpose, her Intentional Connections program offers a boutique matchmaking experience rooted in authenticity and alignment. Brylye’s mission is to help people move beyond casual chaos and into intentional connection, cultivating relationships that feel grounded, healthy, and built to last. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://ww…

1,344 | Ralph Brewer on Rebuilding Life, Identity, and Masculinity Ralph Brewer is the author of REBUILD – The Complete Guide to Starting Over as a Man, The Dead Bedroom Fix, Divorce Panic, Red Flags, and Real Talk: No Bullsht Life Advice for Young Men*. His work has reached hundreds of thousands of men around the world through his books, podcast, and global community. After a painful divorce and personal collapse more than a decade ago, Ralph rebuilt his life from the ground up—confronting hard truths about masculinity, relationships, and identity. What began as his own journey of healing and self-discovery evolved into an international movement. Today, through Help For Men, Ralph empowers men to rebuild with integrity, confidence, and clarity—helping them become stronger partners, fathers, and leaders in a changing world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: helpformen.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-…

1,343 | Jacquie Elliott on Silencing the Inner Critic and Embracing Self Love Jacquie Elliott is a Certified Life, Relationship, and Spiritual Coach, author, and retreat leader devoted to helping others silence their inner critic and rediscover their divine worth. After years of battling Abusive Brain Chatter™—the relentless inner voice that whispers “you’re not enough”—Jacquie transformed her pain into purpose. Her book, The Silent Bully: A Journey from Abusive Brain Chatter to Self-Love™, blends memoir, spirituality, and healing practices to guide readers toward self-compassion, inner peace, and freedom. Through her retreats, workshops, and writing, Jacquie helps others reconnect with their Higher Power, awaken to their inherent value, and live from a place of love instead of fear. Her mission is simple yet profound: to remind you that you are already enough—and always have been. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: h…

1,325 | Dave Orton on Embodiment, Presence, & Living Your Highest Potential (feat. Cari Rickabaugh) Dave Orton is a transformational coach and teacher who has spent more than a decade helping people create lives, relationships, and experiences that reflect their highest potential. Through his work, Dave integrates The Art of Coaching—a practice rooted in awareness, authenticity, and compassion. His focus lies in three core principles: The Art of Embodiment – aligning body, mind, and spirit to live as your most authentic self, taking responsibility for the past and consciously shaping the future. The Art of Listening – hearing from the heart, sensing deeper intention, and meeting others with loving-kindness and respect. The Art of Appreciating – finding beauty, value, and meaning in every interaction, cultivating what is good, true, and life-giving. Dave’s mission is to guide others toward presence, purpose, and the quiet power that comes from living in full awareness…

1,301 | Dara Wax Explains the Need for Clean, Mindful Care for Today’s Families Dara Wax (she/her) is the founder and heart behind SAM+LEO, a brand born from both love and necessity. A devoted mom to two teenage boys, Dara’s journey began when she struggled to find clean, supportive products that cared for her son’s physical and emotional well-being. After hearing from countless parents facing the same challenge, Dara combined her background in global health with her passion for mindful living to create SAM+LEO—a line of products families can truly trust. Every SAM+LEO product is made with care, backed by science, and designed to support the health, confidence, and happiness of teens and parents alike. Real care. Real ingredients. Real connection. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: shopsamandleo.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pr…

1,292 | Anil Gupta Teaches The Happiness Formula for Real Love Anil Gupta is internationally known as The Love Doctor, a world respected guide for singles, couples and families who want deeper connection, better communication and real transformation. His methods create rapid and lasting breakthroughs that empower people to live richer, fuller lives filled with love. A triple best selling international author and acclaimed TEDx speaker, Anil has inspired audiences across more than 18 countries. His work has been featured on iHeart Radio, Fox News, Sky TV, Harvard, ABC, NBC and many other major outlets. He has coached celebrities including Mike Tyson, spoken on Necker Island with Richard Branson and been invited to meet global leaders such as the Dalai Lama. After overcoming his own near suicide in 2008, Anil created his signature systems including The Happiness Formula, The Happiness Test, the Relationship Score and the Relationship Ratio. His workshops have reached audiences …

1,286 | The Cooper Culture Explained: Ron & Marty Cooper’s Proven Framework for Growth Ron Cooper is the founder and CEO of The Cooper Culture, a veteran-owned organization dedicated to helping companies build harmony, trust, and performance through effective leadership and human-centered culture. A graduate of Virginia Tech and a retired U.S. Air Force combat pilot with 300 missions and 22 years of active-duty service, Ron brings the discipline of aviation and the heart of a mentor to every organization he serves. As a certified leadership trainer, performance coach, and DISC consultant, Ron equips teams to communicate better, lead stronger, and thrive together. His work has been featured in trade publications, podcasts, and radio programs, earning recognition for both research and real-world results. Alongside his wife and business partner, Marty, Ron helps families and organizations develop connected relationships built on trust, growth, and purpose. Leadership. Cult…

1,239 | The Power of Connection with David Homan David Homan is the founder and CEO of Orchestrated Connecting, a global community of connectors; Orchestrated Opportunities, an impact-focused advisory firm; and SOAR CONNECT, a start-up focused on the strength of authentic relationships. He hosts a podcast called Orchestrated Relationships focused on developing relationship value, is an active classical composer, and is a proud father of two. From middle-class beginnings as the son of a college professor father and nonprofit-focused mother, he has built a network reaching into the most private and incredible circles globally while maintaining a code of purposeful community building called Orchestrated Connecting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://orchestratedconnecting.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality witho…

1,234 | How to Inspire Commitment and Deep Connection with Valerie Greene Valerie Greene is a unique relationship mentor, author, and speaker who helps women to inspire their man to fulfill their deepest needs and desires. A highly successful alternative to relationship therapy, Valerie helps women and couples create a secure emotional CONNECTION--not just problem-solving or communication skills. Valerie holds numerous certifications in coaching, NLP, and emotional healing modalities. She leads workshops, retreats, and online courses for women and couples, and is the creator of the 12-week Man-ifest Lasting Love coaching program and the author of the book “The Commitment Roadmap” which teaches women how to inspire their man to commit to a lifetime of lasting love. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://coachvaleriegreene.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at …

My name is Bernardo, but most people call me Bern, since it’s easier to pronounce. I’ve been on a path dedicated to helping others for over 30 years, since I was just 17. My journey into coaching began at one of the lowest points of my life. I was struggling deeply with depression when a mentor stepped in and guided me out of that darkness. Experiencing such a profound shift, especially after nothing else had worked, ignited something deep and lasting within me. In that moment, I knew I had to devote my life to helping others experience that same freedom. At the time, I had no idea my path would lead me specifically into relationship and intimacy coaching. All I knew for certain was that I wanted to give others the chance to feel truly alive and free, just as someone had once done for me. My approach integrates several powerful, research-backed disciplines I’ve spent years honing, including: strategic intervention, nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, and neurosci…

1,185 | Christina Braver Reveals How She Writes Romance That’s “A Little Nerdy, A Little Dirty” Christina Braver is an author of steamy contemporary romance, often set in the Pacific Northwest. Her stories are character-driven with strong yet tender heroes, determined heroines, and the guaranteed happily-ever-after readers crave. With a master’s degree in clinical psychology, Christina blends her expertise with insights from leading sex therapists to craft novels described as “a little bit nerdy, a little bit dirty.” Her books deliver toe-curling spice, authentic relationship dynamics, and a celebration of sexual health and sex positivity. Based outside Seattle, she enjoys biking with her husband, laughing with friends, sipping wine, and of course, reading. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://christinabraver.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at http…