At work, home, family life, and marriage, it’s easy to blame the circumstances of life or to say ‘That’s just the way things are’ … But the reality is that we’re often participating in, perpetuating, or creating our own chaos...
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#221 Specific Strategies & Tools to Make Your Marriage Good, Better, Great & EXTRAORDINARY
In our work with couples and clients, we often come across marriages that are struggling. One of the MANY reasons this happens (or at least continues as an issue) is because of the husband’s inability or lack of skill in list...
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#215 A Message to Husbands: How to Actually Listen to Your Wife
We received another question from a mom who was interested in joining my Family Charts & Systems course and community . In an email I sent out, it said: As a mother of seven children, my life seriously changed forever once I ...
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#209 How to Get Your Kids (& Husband) on Board with Charts & Systems (+ Why You NEED Systems Even if You Think You Don't)
Greg and Rachel are still in Norway leading two trips. The first took place in Tromsø, 225 miles north of the Arctic Circle where they fed reindeer, went dog sledding, and saw the Northern Lights while cruising the harbor. Th...
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#203 Creating a Real Life 'Happily Ever After' Marriage (It's Not a Pipe Dream)
Hey everybody! Greg and I are in Oslo, Norway with our family, recovering from jet lag. In a few hours, we fly to Tromsø, 220 miles north of the Arctic Circle . Tomorrow begins our first Norway trip where 18 other people will...
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#202 Video Games & Virtual Worlds -- How to Get Our Sons & Husband's Back
This content is taken from a recording of a live coaching session with our Extraordinary Family Life Formula coaching group. It is member-only content. If you would like to access it you can join The Formula or you can subscr...
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COACHING SESSION: Boys Adrift: Why Boys & Men Turn to Video Games and What to Do About It
We like to get our podcast topics from issues that really ‘fire us up’ (it makes for better discussions). This week, I was fired up by some comments left on an Instagram Reel I created about allowing ‘boys to be boys’ with au...
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#201 Toxic Masculinity & the Epidemic of Gaming Addictions & Unmotivated, Underachieving Boys & Young Men
"My husband and I have been struggling a great deal in our marriage, mostly over parenting issues . We have specifically been struggling with our 13 year old daughter who told us she is gay ." Many emails and questions we rec...
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#200 Disagreements in Parenting Approaches Around LGBTQ Issues
We’ve been asked several times over the years by coaching clients and others regarding masturbation . Specifically, they want to know how to approach masturbation in general — with their children or teens , and in their marri...
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#198 Masturbation & Cheap Sexual Acts Are a Poor Substitute for Real Connection — A Message for Teens AND Spouses
We are busy people. And so are you. We have a LOT going on, as I’m sure you do too. Human nature often makes us feel that we’re “too busy” to do things like morning routines or rituals. We’re “too busy” to do morning discussi...
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#196 How & WHY to do Morning Family Devotionals (Discussions)
Can we start with a ‘slap’ in the face? In all sincerity, most of us suck at communicating with other people, especially in our family relationships. Plus, ‘communication’ seems like such a vague or broad topic. What exactly ...
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#192 EVERYTHING In Life Gets Easier & Smoother When You Can COMMUNICATE Better. Here's How to Do It
Many of us have been taught or grown to believe that unconditional love is the highest of virtues. And in many ways it makes sense. Loving others — without conditions — seems to be the highest level of love possible , partly ...
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#190 Unconditional Love is NOT the Highest Form of Love; Deep, Meaningful Love is CONDITIONAL
We regularly receive questions from parents and spouses on all sorts of topics — and we love it! If you have a question please don’t hesitate to ask us. You can leave a voice message for us on our podcast page, or you can ema...
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#174 Marriage Q&A: Intellectual Conversations, Over-Helping, & Why This Famous Sexpert is WRONG
Welcome back to the podcast! In this episode Greg and I are answering some often asked questions about how to get your spouse on board . This could be getting them on board with your big dreams and goals , or simply on board ...
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#167 How to Get Your Spouse on Board -- Plus Why Your Marriage Needs a 'Breaking Point'
What are good beliefs and practices around money in your marriage? What if one spouse brings in the income and the other stays home, who should be in charge of how it’s spent? Does the non-income earning spouse have any say o...
Many marriages are merely okay, or even slowly dying simply because men are inadvertently neglecting their wives.
Gentlemen, you’re living far below your privileges in your marriage. Inadvertent negligence is costing you th...
Creating a great sexual relationship in marriage isn’t about checking a box or meeting expectations—it’s about cultivating a deep emotional connection, understanding your partner’s real needs, and shifting your mindset around intimacy. In this episode, we explore how men and women experience love a…
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#150 The Sex-quel. Follow Up Sex Episode With Rachel Denning
"Just because you've been with yourself for your entire life, doesn't mean you understand yourself." This is true about your spouse too. Just because you've been married to them for ___ years, doesn't mean you understand them...
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#148 What Wives Need to Understand About Their Husbands' Sex Drive, and What Men Need to Understand About Themselves
A very well-known couple with a seemingly good marriage recently announced their divorce publicly. It was a shock to a lot of people including me. But I get to do coaching for a couples every week and I know what’s often goin...
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#116 Why Good Marriages Fail and What to Do to Protect Yours!
With so many misconceptions about what it means to be a man, and so many men living far below the standard, we all need to put forth the greatest effort to help boys and men be real men! "At each moment in man's life, he is e...
Many people sit around hoping their marriage will get better, wishing things will change. But transforming your marriage will happen by choice, not by chance!
You have far more power to improve your marriage than you think y...
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#81 An extraordinary marriage is a matter of choice, not chance
I love giving gifts and doing things for the people I love most of my life! I’m sure you do too.
We spend a lot of time and effort thinking about gifts that we can give and about ways we can serve the people we love. But we ...
We often say that our family is the most important thing in our lives, but we don’t always show it.
The reality is that we prove our priorities with our actions.
I want to invite and challenge all of us to put our families ...
Trust is one of the most important things in all of our relationships and therefore in every part of our lives. We work with people and in order to work well with people whether in family or in business we have to trust.
We...
