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Habits for Your Happily Ever After: Relationship Communication Advice

Each episode offers a date-night-discussion to foster conversation, as well as a tiny habit to keep you and the one you love connected: Because happily ever after isn’t a destination, it’s a journey. Habits for Your Happily Ever After is a place to get clear about your marriage communication. Because when your relationships are strong, you’re able to concentrate at work, reduce conflict at home, and receive support for your dreams so you have courage to live your best life. Relationship Coach,

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27:28

What Happens to Your Relationship When Your Partner...

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2026/04/02

What happens to your relationship when you or your partner attempt a moonshot?A moonshot—by definition—is a reach. It will ask more of you than feel like you can give. Your moonshot will stretch you, and, just when you think you’re completely laid out flat, your moonshot will...you guessed it...ask for more. This MORE can be stressful. And we know what stress does to your relationship.Today, Laverne McKinnon is returning to the podcast to help you discern between all the stressors a moonshot can

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23:22

Could a Practical Joke Save Your Marriage?

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2026/03/26

Are you a practical joker? I know you want to laugh with your partner. But there are so many details in life, right? And when life gets that busy, sometimes the laughter falls out.I mean you’re sick, or you’re working until midnight because FINALLY the house is quiet. These living conditions don’t really lend themselves to a good gafaw.How do you FIND laughter when you’re overwhelmed with living?Today, I want to offer you 3 ways to plant laughter in your life.“Plant” something wacky in your front

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44:56

How Does the Loss of a Job Impact Your Relationship?...

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2026/03/19

How is your career impacting your relationship?Think about it this way: when you have a bad day at work, what happens when you get home? It’s easy for your partner to get the worst version of you when you’re unhappy at work, right?What if you lose your job? How might that impact your relationship? What if your partner got such an amazing promotion that it invited you to move to a new city and afford a house of your dreams? Are you beginning to see the ocean of emotion that careers can bring to the

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18:55

Make the Invisible Visible: The Compounding Power in...

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2026/03/12

Does one kiss matter?My short answer is: yes.Because the things we do every day–the mundane things that we hardly notice if at all—these tiny moments make more difference in your relationship than anything else. That is because of the power of compounding.Today we’re talking about my favorite thing: making the invisible visible.I’ll tell you a kissing story that happens in my mud roomWe’ll talk about Alpha Centauri and the compounding power of invisibilityAnd I’ll offer you encouragement if you need

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49:01

What does forgiveness have to do with setting...

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2026/03/05

What are you hesitant to forgive?Are there “unforgivable” things in your past? Are you feeling STUCK because you can’t bring yourself to forgive?Today I have a conversation with the author of The Forgive Process, by Dr. Lee Baucom. I love the way Dr. Baucom writes about forgiveness. Do you know why? Because he gives YOU all the agency.He explains why forgiveness is for YOU, not the person who wronged you. He doesn’t say you “have to” forgive. He says you “get to” forgive.We’ll talk through his

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17:34

The Seductive (and Toxic) Power of Drama in...

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2026/02/26

Do you like the drama in your relationship?Hollywood trains us to believe that intimacy lives in the heart of conflict. All those Hollywood stories are about some huge obstacle and the music swells when they…finally…come together.But there is no swelling soundtrack that underscores your relationship. And navigating obstacles is hard! And most of us don’t have great skills to navigate those challenges, so we just make a mess.Today, we talk about how drama impacts your relationship.You'll hear about

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40:52

A Habit That Could Save Your Marriage with Divorce...

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2026/02/19

What do blueberry pancakes and butterflies have to do with your happily ever after?They’re part of divorce mediator Joe Dillon’s advice for staying married.I’m a relationship coach. It's odd that I would want to introduce you to a divorce mediator, but he has so much great information to share with us about what he sees when it comes to divorces:I found Joe Dillon online and his body of work was so extensive that I wanted to share it with you.Joe is going to help you understand what typical patterns

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41:44

Dating the Friend: The Date Night That Helps You Feel...

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2026/02/12

What kind of Friendship date is good for your relationship?Has life been noisy and busy and you just need some time of shared silence to both reset? What style of date would help you hush the ever-present noise filling your life? Maybe you need a date where you have some dedicated time to understand what your sweetheart is feeling.Remember my framework of Partner, Lover, Friend? I’ve identified 3 roles inside your singular relationship: Partners want to achieve together. Friends assure each other we

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34:43

Dating the Lover: The Date Night That Wakes Up Your...

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2026/02/05

What type of date does the Lover inside your relationship need?Remember my framework of Partner, Lover, Friend? I’ve identified 3 roles inside your singular relationship: Partners want to achieve together. Friends assure each other we belong together. Lovers want to explore together.Valentine’s Day is coming up and there is a lot of pressure to have THE PERFECT date, but I want to challenge this notion of THE PERFECT date.Instead, I’d like to talk about great dates for the three roles inside your

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27:22

Dating the Partner: The Date Night Most Couples Skip

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2026/01/29

The Partner role in your relationship asks, “Can I rely on you?”The Lover asks, “Do you make my life exciting?”And the Friend asks, “Do you really know me?”Remember my framework of Partner, Lover, Friend? I’ve identified 3 roles inside your singular relationship: Partners want to achieve together. Friends assure each other we belong together. Lovers want to explore together.Valentine’s Day is coming up and there is a lot of pressure to have THE PERFECT date, but I want to challenge this notion of

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01:08:58

The Three Roles in Your Relationship with Dayna...

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2026/01/22

“What if relationship conflict isn’t about communication SKILLS–but about misunderstood needs?”This is the foundational question Fernie resident and Counselor, Dayna Haig-Conway asked me when I got to be a guest on her podcast–CAMP Conversations: Keys to Resilience–recently.I’m eager to share her conversation with you. Dayna’s approach is to search for “the needs behind the needs,” and I am thrilled I get to introduce you to this gem of a human being:You’ll hear how The Partner, The Lover, and The

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29:38

The Most Important Habit to Form: Joy as Jet Fuel

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2026/01/15

What’s the best thing you can do to create momentum with a habit?If you want to form a new habit, psychologists tell us the biggest momentum builder is a positive emotional rush. Joy. Today we talk about the most important part of the habit-building cycle: celebration.You’ll learn why celebrating those tiny changes in the directional vector toward your destination matters so muchYou’ll hear about the biology of celebrating and how it contributes to habit formationAnd you’ll get a host of questions

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40:00

What’s Wrong? Why Your Brain Obsessively Notices the...

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2026/01/08

How is your negativity bias impacting your relationship, and taking you off course?Today, we’re talking about that little voice we all have that tends to focus on what’s wrong in our relationship instead of what’s right.Last week I shared a favorite quote from Jim Rohn, “Direction determines destination.” We talked about planes that are off course 90% of the time they’re in the air, but still manage to land in the appointed destination.The critical element for a pilot is to keep refining that vector

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17:21

How to Get Where You Want to Go: A Quote from Jim Rohn

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2026/01/01

Do you ever feel frustrated because you’re experiencing the same stumbling blocks you faced last year?And you thought you’d dealt with those…but here you are again. Yuck.I am a life coach. I hear this complaint over and over. We work on something, my client and I. There’s a shift. Life is good. My client feels motivation and freedom, and then, a year later: Bam. They’re back where they started.Today, we discuss one of my favorite quotes from Jim Rohn, “Direction determines destination.”We’ll talk

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36:40

Are You Alone on Christmas Day?

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2025/12/25

What is it like to spend Christmas Day alone?We all hate to be left out. Today, on Christmas Day, I want to talk with you about loneliness. If you are alone today, and lonely, I want you to know I wrote this episode for you.I’ve experienced deep, dark, terrifying loneliness AND I found a bridge to turn that loneliness into an abiding joy.I’m going to tell you about how one of my clients found their way out of a similar lonelinessAnd I’m going to tell you how I understand my parents’ divorce—the

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01:00:46

Choose Sober, Stay Connected: How to Fit In Without...

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2025/12/18

We want to belong. We want to belong with all our friends and our community.Our friends are having a drink, and we wanna belong so we take the drink, even though we know that we’re gonna struggle to wake up in the morning. Or we eat the sugary treat because someone made it for us, but it’s gonna give us a headache an hour later.How can you participate in treats and feel the group celebration without diminishing your connection to yourself?This is the discussion we have on the podcast today as I

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29:23

Redefine Sobriety: A Compassionate Look at Your Limits

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2025/12/11

How does your sobriety–or lack thereof–impact your relationship? Emotions are a huge part of relationship. When you’re able to be sober with your emotions, your honesty and vulnerability cultivate trust and connection grows. We turn to addictions when we’re uncomfortable with our emotions. We want to hide from them or numb out. So you eat a quart of ice cream or you down a 6-pack of beer. Your addiction confuses your emotional state. You’re unable to be honest and alienation is fostered, trust is

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18:16

52 Ways to Ask "What's Your Favorite?"

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2025/12/04

What’s your favorite meal? What was your favorite way to play outside as a kid? What does your favorite memory smell like? These are questions that are part of the culture in my house. When my kids were growing up, I asked about their favorite moment of the day, their favorite interaction with a friend, or their favorite moment to be away from me (this question was born during the teenage years). I ask about favorites because it’s so easy to complain, to focus on the negative, or to harbor

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19:09

Pause More, Fight Less: Your Holiday Survival Skill

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2025/11/27

The holidays can be a time of high stress. What if a tiny pause could help you respond thoughtfully instead of reacting to the stress, so you can cultivate connection instead of pushing your partner away?Today, we talk about the power of the pause and why it's so important at this particular time of year. I’ve brought back clips from previous guests to offer you three perspectives on why pausing can be so powerful for your relationship:You'll hear from Chantel Landeros, who talks about the 90-second

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03:28

Bonus: How to Find What's Funny

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2025/11/21

This bonus episode of Habits for Your Happily Ever After is a reminder to find what's funny as you're heading home for the holidays. When you can be the one who brings laughter to the room, you can put the "fun" in dysfunction. You'll hear a segment from my interview with my son, Logan, and how his superpower is being able to laugh no matter how a conflict goes.Listen to this week's episode for more ideas on how to put the "fun" in dysfunction this holiday season. Connect to Improve Your

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