I am so excited to share this week's conversation with you.

I had the joy and honor of being a guest on the Money, Manifestation, and Business podcast with my friend, former life coaching client, and brilliant coach Jamie Berman.

We had a deep conversation about navigating money and manifestation in your relationships. And when I say manifestation, it's really just about managing different values and approaches, no matter what you're talking about with your partner.

In this episode, Jamie and I dive into my Soul-Centered Communication framework — Solution-focused, Open-hearted, Uncomplicated, and Loving.

We talk about stress cycles and how to recognize when you're in fight, flight, freeze, or appease mode. And we explore the concept of psychological safety and how to create it in your money conversations.

This conversation is practical, strategic, and will shift how you approach not just money conversations, but all the harder conversations in your marriage.

Here is the scoop on what's included —

✨ Episode at a Glance

• The Soul-Centered Communication framework: Solution-focused, Open-hearted, Uncomplicated, Loving

• Why our entire life happens inside of a conversation

• The three elements of connected conversations

• How to recognize stress cycles: fight, flight, freeze, appease

• Why someone saying "yes" but never following through is actually a stress response (not lying)

• What psychological safety is and why it matters in money conversations

• How the words we use create and inspire feelings and results

• The difference between "we have a problem" vs. "we have an opportunity"

• Why loving yourself equally matters in conversations about money

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Questions for Couples Journal

• Private Coaching with Maggie

• Free Workshop: The Growth Gap

• Marriage Mindset Makeover

• The Money, Manifestation & Business Podcast with Jamie Berman

Today we're talking about something that might sound really simple, but is actually one of the most revolutionary acts you can practice in your marriage and your life—receiving.

Not just accepting or tolerating, but actually receiving love, help, pleasure, appreciation, and support. How do we actually receive the things we long for?

This is something I've noticed in my work with smart, strategic women who are deeply committed to their marriages—the ones who've mastered achievement in every other area but find themselves craving connection they don't quite know how to let in.

We've been culturally trained to give, to over-give, to anticipate everyone else's needs before our own.

And then we find ourselves craving connection, but not feeling fully equipped to let it in.

As I was preparing for this episode, I thought about: What if the marriage you want is actually the marriage you're allowing yourself to receive? That is a question I have never asked myself before and I think it is worth pondering.

In this episode, I'm joined by the brilliant Dr. Shideh Shafie. She is a board-certified emergency physician and a high-performance coach who helps leaders live and lead without breaking.

Today, she's here to talk about why receiving is actually a nervous system skill. It's not a personality trait. It's a skill we can build.

We're exploring why receiving is a practice you can build and how this practice can transform not just your marriage, but your entire life.

Here is the scoop on what's included -

✨ Episode at a Glance

• Why receiving is a nervous system skill you can build (not a personality trait)

• What happens in your body when you try to receive and why it feels uncomfortable

• The "deflect and diminish" pattern women do automatically

• How to practice "toning the muscle" of receiving

• The simple phrase that changes everything: "Thank you, I receive that"

• Why you need to receive from yourself first before you can receive from others

• How to become conscious of what you actually want to receive (not what you're told to want)

• Why your partner can't play every role in the movie of your life

• The difference between disappointment and something being wrong

• How grief is actually the natural progression of love
  
  

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Questions for Couples Journal

• Private Coaching with Maggie

• Free Workshop: The Growth Gap

• Marriage Mindset Makeover

• Follow Dr. Shideh on Instagram: @shideh.shafie

• Visit Dr. Shideh's website: www.shidehshafie.com

This is part two of our two-part series on understanding divorce. We're getting really strategic in this episode with Lauren Fair—a divorce attorney with 16 years of experience AND a master certified life and divorce coach.

I recorded this interview because I think as a society, we are woefully under-educated on how divorce actually works. The actual nuts and bolts of the process.

Here's the thing: whether you're actually going through a divorce OR you're happily married and never want one, understanding how the process works is incredibly empowering.

Because we are socialized as women to not pay attention to the law part of things, the fine print that governs our lives and our marriages.

Understanding all the different structures for divorce, whether for your own education or to support a friend or family member will help you in ways we may not know today, but I am trusting that having this resource will be so important and I am so proud to share it with you.

In this episode I'm joined by the brilliant Lauren Fair as she puts her lawyer hat on and teaches us some simple law things about the different structures we can use and why to use them and why not to use them.

What makes her approach so aligned with my values is that she sees divorce not as a failure but sometimes being one of the most self-honoring choices a woman can make.

From my philosophy, even if you've decided to stay in your marriage, it's still super useful to understand what the heck is divorce and how it works.

Because everything you need in your marriage you will also need in your divorce—conflict resolution skills, emotional management, strategic communication.

It may be that understanding divorce will motivate you to try really hard one last time or it may open a door in your mind that tells you, it's okay to make this choice from an informed and grounded place.

So we're getting practical in this episode.

We talk about exit plans, the strategic advantage of working with a divorce coach (a relatively new discipline that is growing and helping everyone have better outcomes), and we also talk about safety—financial safety and emotional safety.

This conversation is your permission to get educated, get empowered, and make whatever choice serves your highest good.

If you haven't heard episode one in this series, we will link to that episode in the show notes so you can hear both of them together.

Here is the scoop on what's included -

✨ Episode at a Glance

• What an exit plan is and why knowing your options frees you from feeling trapped

• How everything you need in your marriage you will also need in your divorce

• Why your first call should be to a divorce coach (not an attorney)

• The different divorce options: mediation, collaborative divorce, litigation, and "kitchen table" divorce

• Why mediation gives you the most control over your outcome

• When mediation isn't appropriate and what to consider instead

• How grief shows up in divorce (even when you're the one who wanted it)

• Why the way your partner showed up in the marriage is likely how they'll show up in the divorce

• The importance of building your village: divorce coach, attorney, financial planner, therapist

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Questions for Couples Journal

• Private Coaching with Maggie

• Free Workshop: The Growth Gap

• Marriage Mindset Makeover

• Episode 179: Navigating Stress Cycles

• Episode 76: Trauma, Resourcing & Windows of Tolerance with Shelby Leigh

• Follow Lauren @sensiblesplitdivorce

• Visit Lauren's website: https://faircadora.com/sensiblesplit/

• Listen to her podcast: The Sensible Split