Many couples find themselves in a place where the playfulness, flirtiness and intimacy in their relationship completely shuts down. You know you love each other and want to be together, but you just don’t feel as connected as before.
Reigniting those exciting fun feelings can feel really hard, but what if we could do it by simply opening up little doorways of connection?
How do we reimagine connection and communication in our relationships both inside and outside of the bedroom? In this episode, I’m joined by the creator of the viral How to Keep Monogamy Hot video series, and author of Swing, Ashleigh Renard. She shares how couples who feel shut off from each other can find playfulness again.
We all have these pre-set expectations about marriage. Let’s just imagine the playbook we’re each playing by is the worst habits of our in-laws and our own parents. -Ashleigh Renard
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- How to ‘de-taboo’ talking about intimacy
We don’t have to agree to feeling less than satisfied. What steps can we take to voice our needs?
-How to create doorways to connection
How do we align love languages so that both us and our partners feel valued and desired?
-Be loyal forward, not backward
Instead of asking ourselves if our choices make our parents proud, why do we need to focus on making our kids braver?
Guest Bio
Ashleigh Renard, creator of the viral How to Keep Monogamy Hot video series, is the Carrie Bradshaw for married people. After sharing her own story of rehabbing a shabby marriage in her memoir, Swing, she now answers hundreds of requests from her audience each day on how they can improve their relationships. As a synchronized skating coach and choreographer, she spent over two decades fostering cooperation and teamwork for adolescent girls. Part coach, part storyteller, part cooperation whisperer, Ashleigh has inspired millions of couples to radically reimagine the connection and joy available to them in their marriage. Her memoir, Swing, has been optioned as a streaming series and Keeping it Hot with Ashleigh Renard, an unscripted marriage fixer upper show, is also in development.
For more information, follow @ashleighrenard, go to https://ashleighrenard.com/ and buy her book Swing here.
As women, moms and humans in general, the last few years have really put a microscope on our lives and forced many of us to face the fact that we feel overwhelmed, stuck and unhappy.
Anytime we find ourselves in this space, it’s a sign that we’re not being honest with ourselves, and that our inner wisdom is desperately trying to tell us something.
How do we tap into this inner wisdom, figure out why we feel stuck and then work toward a feeling of alignment?
In this episode, certified life coach and Nurture to Convert Business coach, Stephanie Nichols returns to talk about why so many women feel stagnant but stressed out, and how to change it.
Every time I’ve found myself in a place of complete overwhelm and stress, something wasn’t aligned and the way I truly wanted it to be. It was always because I wasn’t being honest with myself. -Stephanie Nichols
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-The power of taking action, even when we’re a little scared
How does the way we make decisions play into why we feel overwhelmed?
-Slow down, step back and listen to you
We’ve been conditioned to believe that the best decisions for us lie outside of us. How do we start seeking what’s right for us?
-How to curate a life that serves your happiness
If we’re honest with ourselves and what we really want, will it ruin our relationships?
Guest Bio
Stephanie Nichols is a certified life coach with The Life Coach School, and certified Nurture to Convert Business coach with Dana Malstaff. She has worked as a contract coach for 7-figure business owners like Alison J. Prince - creator of 4 multi-million dollar online brands, Russell Brunson - co-founder of ClickFunnels, and Tina Tower - founder of the Australian Mastermind, Her Empire Builder. Stephanie is mom to two boys, and the author of the book, "Create Your Calm: A Guilt-Free Journey to Peaceful Motherhood".
Clients love working with Stephanie because she has a personal approach to coaching. She is invested in her clients' success, and she's not afraid of asking tough questions to help you make effective decisions, be more productive, and gain clarity so you can thrive in your business. She is direct, yet compassionate and teaches you to think for yourself.
When she's not coaching or spending time with her friends and family, you'll find Stephanie outside running, at a local coffee shop drinking a decaf mocha, or singing with her favorite premier community chorus. She believes all people deserve to feel good about how they show up in the world.
For more information, visit https://stephanie-nichols.com/ and find her on Facebook.
For far too long, many of us have struggled with people-pleasing, guilt, walking on eggshells and not prioritizing what gives us joy. Thankfully, we’re now in an era where setting boundaries, voicing our needs, and better communication is becoming the norm.
We hear a whole lot about setting boundaries, but that’s hard to do when we don’t know who we are, or what we want to lean into and step away from.
How do we tap into the little clues pulling us towards what makes our hearts burst? In this episode, master coach, boundary expert and podcaster, Krista Resnick shares fun ways we can build boundaries so we can honor and nurture ourselves.
Follow the energetic breadcrumbs and start paying attention to what makes your heart burst wide open. -Krista Resnick
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
Guest Bio
Krista Resnick is a master coach, boundary expert, podcaster and mother to 3 adultish boys. Her love and passion for boundaries is the byproduct of her own story. Having spent decades pleasing everyone else, Krista felt disempowered, inauthentic, and passionless in every aspect of her life. Through her own personal healing work, she began to find great empowerment through the art of boundaries and expressing her truth.
Now, serving hundreds of women across the globe, Krista has witnessed the transformative power of embodying healthy boundaries. She strongly believes that a well boundaried life empowers women to stop people-pleasing and come back home to themselves so they can create lives and relationships that are purposeful and passion-fueled. For more information, head to https://www.kristaresnick.com/.
As women, we’re born and bred in a world where self-care is seen as selfish, a luxury or something that’s always out of reach. We often put ourselves so low on the priority list, we end up falling apart, lacking energy and miserable, with bodies we don’t feel good in.
We’re taught to be okay with putting ourselves on the backburner, so how do we start paying attention to self-care? How do we advocate for our own wellbeing?
In this episode, self-care specialist, podcast host and best selling author of “WAVES of Self-Care”, Jaime McFaden shares her process for making ourselves a priority and how to internally take responsibility for ourselves.
We’re force fed so much information about what we’re supposed to do and what we’re supposed to look like, and it’s a traumatic experience because we’re taught to put ourselves on the backburner. -Jaime McFaden
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
Guest Bio
Self-care specialist, podcast host and best selling author of “WAVES of Self-Care”, Jaime McFaden is passionate in helping busy moms find balance and put themselves on their priority list! After years of working in the fitness industry, Jaime realized there was much more to health than just the physical element so she linked up with doctors, therapists and other specialists to bring together a comprehensive self-care system: WAVE by J. For more information, head to https://jaimemcfaden.com/, follow @jaimemcfaden and send her DM to get a free self-care guide and buy her book here.