On this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, I am joined by the wonderful Brig Johnson, one of my favorite humans on the whole planet. She is a master certified life coach who helps high-achieving women become un-fuck-withable. Her philosophy is that the more we can connect with and accept ourselves, the more we can connect with and accept others.

Brig is someone who leads with compassion, wisdom, love, and science and I love her for it.

Our conversation today delves into ambivalence in our marriage or relationship. We all have different seasons of life where we’ll have to deal with ambivalence, and knowing how to approach it effectively is such a skill! How do we really feel about this issue? Our feelings can be so mixed or even contradictory… How do we know which thread to follow?

Brig is here to help us with that today.

She’s sharing her deep wisdom and understanding about how to trust yourself, and the things that get in the way of feeling safe in our relationships. Most importantly, Brig is teaching us how to approach getting out of ambivalence and “going all in” with love and acceptance for ourselves and our partner.

It’s SO good. Give our discussion a listen and check out the resources linked below to get the most out of this episode.

In this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, I’m joined by Tara Simkins, a life coach who helps people get through tough times to create meaningful lives. Our aim is to better understand perimenopause/menopause, especially how it affects our lives and naturally, our relationships.

But before we dive in, I want you to know you do not need to be going through menopause for everything we talk about today to apply to you!

This episode will prepare you to be confident if/when you enter that chapter of your life, or whether you just use one of the takeaways right now to help you with whatever's feeling challenging in your relationship.

Just for clarity, perimenopause is a physiological and psychological shift in a woman's experience as they go towards menopause that can start as early as your late thirties. And on a societal level, almost NO ONE is talking about it and how it affects our lives and relationships.

We’re changing that today!

Join us for this episode to hear more about:

- Why women may feel shame around personal health

- The stress perimenopause can put on relationships

- How to understand what your needs are and communicate them to your partner

- The importance of talking and learning more about perimenopause

Something miraculous happened to me recently and I knew that what I learned from it would help you have a stronger, better, more amazing relationship.

Physical therapy.

Okay, so maybe it wasn’t an actual miracle, and it’s not immediately obvious how my attending physical therapy is going to help your marriage, but stick with me! I promise it makes sense.

In this episode, I’ll share 6 lessons that I believe can help you have a better relationship right now. There are so many parallels I draw between my experience with physical therapy and some of the most common experiences with relationship struggles.

There was pain. There was fear. There was the whole “I’m used to it” when it came to this particular problem (a clicky, painful knee, in my case). There were tons of completely reasonable-sounding excuses for why I didn’t need help, and why I didn’t try reaching out sooner.

Sound familiar?

I told you it would all make sense. Ready to hear how you can take this analogy and apply it to your marriage starting today?

Listen in and hear more about:

- Why it’s so important to stop waiting and take the big step forward

- How progress doesn’t always LOOK like progress

- What it means to believe things can be different

Find full show notes and links to resources at: http://maggiereyes.com/podcast/160

This is a very special bonus episode of the replay of The How to Have a Better Marriage Workshop. Here is a sneak preview of what we are talking about in this webinar:

• 4 Essential Elements every relationship needs in order to thrive.

• How to troubleshoot ANY issue in your relationship with a very specific step-by-step

• Why feeling drifted apart or disconnected happens and what to do about it

• You'll walk away knowing how you REALLY CAN make a massive impact in your experience of your relationship WITHOUT CHANGING YOUR SPOUSE (even if that sounds far away or impossible to you right now)

• The difference between solving a problem and managing a problem and how knowing when you need to solve and when you need to manage will make your relationship stronger

Plus, we also opened enrollment for my 6-month coaching and mentoring program, The Marriage MBA! Inside of the webinar, I tell you all about it, walk you through what happens inside of the program, what’s the program structure, how everything works, plus how to apply to join and get access to weekly marraige coaching.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Enroll in The Marriage MBA

• The Questions for Couples Journal

• The Marriage Mindset Makeover

Did you ever wonder how feminist dating principles could make your marriage stronger? In this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, you’re going to find out.

I was joined by Lily Womble, my favorite dating coach and founder of Date Brazen, a coaching framework that’s helped hundreds of women around the world build a clear path to the best relationships of their lives with unconventional, feminist-led coaching. I got a sneak peek of Lily’s upcoming book, “Thank You, More Please” which will be released in June. We talked all about the concepts she explores inside and how it serves as a feminist guide to breaking dumb dating rules.

You know I could talk about navigating the patriarchy all day, so this was a super fun conversation and you’re going to love Lily’s insights.

Just a few things we talked about included:

- How women are taught to people-please and caregive in order to survive

- What internalized patriarchy is and how it affects your relationships

- Why I believe dating doesn’t end just because you’re married

- How to recast your spouse in a role that you both value

- My take on why it feels like women have to do “all” the emotional labor

You don’t settle in any other area of your life, so let’s not start with your most important relationship. This episode will give you the tools to envision and create a partnership you want to be in.

Find full show notes, transcript, and links to resources at http://maggiereyes.com/podcast/159

Recently I was asked about the curriculum inside The Marriage MBA, and it occurred to me that I had never put together a shareable version of that information! BUT, I knew I had done a whole podcast episode about it.

So that’s what you’ll be hearing today: a re-airing of episode 100 of The Marriage Life Coach podcast, where I was joined by Emily Feairs, a MMBA alum. Emily is one of my favorite humans and in a turning of the tables, she is going to interview me about all things MMBA.

Everything I teach on the podcast and in the Marriage MBA is designed to bring you toward collaboration and rapport, where you can often get so much more of what you want and reignite the love that brought you together in the first place.

If you’re thinking about how to do and think differently and handle the issues in your marriage in a more productive way, it’s my highest intention that this episode will serve as both an eye-opener and an imagination-expander.

Listen in and hear more about:

- How and why I became a marriage coach

- Why the Marriage MBA curriculum is not linear

- How this program differs from couples counseling

- Emily’s and my favorite tools from the program

Find full show notes and links to resources at: https://maggiereyes.com/podcast/158

I’m really super excited for you to hear the FUN we had in this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast!

It’s a candid conversation with 3 of my coaching friends on how coaching has impacted our lives. Just like superheroes, we share our origins stories of how we discovered coaching in the first place, and the impact that being coached has had for us in SO many different areas of our lives.

You’ll hear from Priyanka Venugopal, an OBGYN-turned-coach for high-achieving professional moms who want to lose weight; Dielle Charon, a 7-figure sales coach for women of color who want to achieve financial freedom; and Danielle Savory, a sex and pleasure coach for women.

And of course, yours truly – I help Type A women have better marriages without waiting for their partners to change.

Listen in as we share behind-the-scenes stories and powerful reflections on a variety of topics from how we break glass ceilings, to making new friends, to the time I avoided a huge argument with my boss (back when I worked in HR) by changing how I replied to one simple email.

And of course, it just wouldn’t be my podcast if I didn’t share the impact of Oprah on my coaching life, because as you know if you’ve been here a while: all roads lead to Oprah.

Find full show notes, and links to resources at http://maggiereyes.com/podcast/157

This episode of The Marriage Life Coach podcast is a special edition, it was originally recorded for The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers with Paula Price.

Paula is a life coach for lawyers, and I worked in a law firm for almost ten years before I was a life coach. We had so much fun making legal analogies and talking about how to have relationships that feel good MOST of the time – because that’s really what five-star thriving is all about.

We hit on so many interesting concepts in our conversation that I knew this episode would really help you, too. So I’m releasing it here to make sure you can access the perspectives and teachings I shared for creating your own five-star relationship.

Listen to hear more about:

• How perfectionism impacts your relationships

• The role of self-care in your marriage

• Why appreciation and gratitude are so important

• The foundational theory that ALL my work is based on

If you’re a woman in a relationship with a partner you love, but you feel frustrated more often than you feel delighted (I know you, I see you), then you’re going to get SO much out of our conversation.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers

• The Questions for Couples Journal

• Enroll in The Marriage MBA Today

• The Marriage Mindset Makeover