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The Extraordinary Family Life Podcast Episodes
Dec. 1, 2022
COACHING SESSION: Boys Adrift: Why Boys & Men Turn to Video Games and What to Do About It
In this episode we talk about video games and why they are so addictive. 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.…
Nov. 22, 2022
#201 Toxic Masculinity & the Epidemic of Gaming Addictions & Unmotivated, Underachieving Boys & Young Men
Toxic Masculinity - How is it effecting our boys? 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…
Nov. 8, 2022
#200 Disagreements in Parenting Approaches Around LGBTQ Issues
"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 re…
Oct. 25, 2022
#198 Masturbation & Cheap Sexual Acts Are a Poor Substitute for Real Connection — A Message for Teens AND Spouses
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 marr…
Oct. 11, 2022
#196 How & WHY to do Morning Family Devotionals (Discussions)
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 family …
Sept. 13, 2022
#192 EVERYTHING In Life Gets Easier & Smoother When You Can COMMUNICATE Better. Here's How to Do It
Can we start with a ‘slap’ in the face? In all sincerity, most of our communication skills with other people, especially in our family relationships. Plus, ‘communication’ seems like such a vague or broad topic. What exactly…
Aug. 30, 2022
#190 Unconditional Love is NOT the Highest Form of Love; Deep, Meaningful Love is CONDITIONAL
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…
April 12, 2022
#174 Marriage Q&A: Intellectual Conversations, Over-Helping, & Why This Sexpert is WRONG
Recently we received some questions about marriage — specifically how to have more engaging conversations and intellectual connections with your spouse as opposed to discussing the mundane life logistics all the time? We reg…
Jan. 18, 2022
#167 How to Get Your Spouse on Board -- Plus Why You Need a 'Breaking Point'
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…
July 16, 2021
#152 Your Money & Your Marriage
What are good beliefs and practices around money and 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 on h…
July 9, 2021
#151 What husbands NEED to know about their wives
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 the…
June 16, 2021
#150 The Sex-quel. Follow up sex episode with Rachel Denning
Is sex ever a source of frustration, confusion, or contention in your marriage? It definitely was for us early in our marriage. Most of it came because we didn’t understand each other, or ourselves for that matter, and we di…
June 3, 2021
#148 What Wives Need to Know about Husbands' (Sex Drive) and What Men Need to Understand about Themselves
"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 the…
June 11, 2020
#116 Why Good Marriages Fail and What to Do to Protect Yours!
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 goi…
March 5, 2020
#95 What it means to be a REAL man
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 …