Amazing Relationships Podcast| Inspiring Love and Possibility | Inspiring Stories, Relationship Coaching, Expert Interviews

Do you finally have the baby you’ve been expecting and are aghast to discover you’re just not happy? Is it just the baby blues or something more? Join Jennifer Diepstraten on this episode of the Amazing Relationships Podcast as she interviews Pamela Zimmer, best-selling author of “Reclaim the Joy of Motherhood,” about her two-year struggle with postpartum depression symptoms. Find out why this treatable medical condition is frequently left undiagnosed, why it’s different from just the “baby blues,” and how you can help yourself or your friends to recover. Pamela Zimmer formerly ran a successful architecture business and made the leap to stay-at-home mom, leaving her career behind. She discusses her journey through depression, how she made her way back to health, and the simple steps that moms can take to feel better right away. Enjoy the show! To get today's show notes and grab your free training on how to get a fresh perspective on your relationship, visit us at www.familyco.com/pamela

Jennifer and Peter Diepstraten go on a search for happily married and still in-love couples and interview Brian and Tanya Beaven for this episode. They have been married for 34 years. They were high school sweethearts, got married at ages 15 and 17 and have been together ever since. And when asked how they feel about each other now? They are still in love, just as much as the first day Tanya saw Brian across the hallway at school and they got together. The Diepstratens go in-depth in this interview to find out what makes this couple different from so many who have not been able to keep their marriages together and still be in love. Is it luck? Is it perseverance? Is it better role models? Brian and Tanya share their inspiring relationship story and how they overcame many tough years of raising a son with learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and severe unanticipated financial debt. Jennifer and Peter provide a commentary to make the Beavens’ advice something that is easy to apply and understand, and will give you the insight to create a rock solid relationship.

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Wondering what level of involvement and discipline is appropriate for a fiancé to have with a future stepson? In this episode, Jennifer and Peter have an interactive coaching session with Diana M. She doesn’t know how to keep the peace in her home and preserve the relationship between her son and her fiancé (his future step-father.) About her fiancé, she says, “My fiancé is telling me what he thinks I should do, very harshly, then I feel like I become defensive. It just becomes a fight between my fiancé and I and I don’t like that.” As Peter and Jennifer Diepstraten coach Diana, she sees how attempting peace-keeping in their relationship is likely making things worse and then they guide her to have a conversation with all three of them to create a real partnership and sense of teamwork. In an a-ha moment, Diana sees a new possibility for her family, “We might have a closer relationship, all three of us, because of it (creating team). I’m willing to do it!”

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Ready to create a deep, connected partnership? Want to build something together? In this episode of the Amazing Relationships Podcast, Jennifer and Peter Diepstraten share a recent training they did called, “You’ve Got Each Others’ Backs: 3 Keys to Creating a Deep Connected Partnership Where You Become the Greatest Highest Version of Yourself and Help Your Partner Do the Same.” This episode addresses one of the missing links that many married couples and others in long term relationships need so that they feel like their partner’s got their back and can become a whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts. This training addresses the third key: How to create a real sense of partnership and rock solid foundation. Enjoy the show! Show notes and links are at www.familyco.com/021. To speak privately with Peter, Jennifer, or one of the highly trained members of their team so you can gain clarity about your relationship, go to www.familyco.com/strategycall.

Feel like your partner is more like a roommate than a lover? In this episode of the Amazing Relationships Podcast, Jennifer and Peter Diepstraten share a training called, “You’ve Got Each Others’ Backs: 3 Keys to Creating a Deep Connected Partnership Where You Become the Greatest Highest Version of Yourself and Help Your Partner Do the Same” This episode addresses the common problems that many people in long-term relationships seek advice for: Where did the honeymoon phase go and how do we get the intimacy back? How do we move beyond differences in values or beliefs? You may love each other deeply, but certain topics can be gut-wrenching or are simply avoided. This training addresses the first two keys: The single most important thing you need to feel loved and connected, and how to stop arguing instantly. Enjoy the show! Show notes and links are at www.familyco.com/020. To speak privately with Peter, Jennifer, or one of the highly trained members of their team so you can gain clarity about your relationship, go to www.familyco.com/strategycall.

Did you know that asking a new kind of question can immediately change your life? In this episode of the Amazing Relationships Podcast, Jennifer and Peter Diepstraten interview Noah St. John about his new book, The Book of Afformations and how to easily shift any limiting subconscious beliefs about relationships. Do you ever wonder, “How come I can’t seem to find the right person?” or “Why can’t I find a better way to communicate?” Or perhaps you don’t think these things consciously, but you keep ending up in the same rut, leading you to wonder if there could be some limiting beliefs in your way. Noah’s teachings have helped thousands of people to reprogram negative thought patterns, thereby making success automatic and giving people the ability to create amazing relationships. According to Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principlessays, “Noah’s work represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of success in decades.”

To learn more about this revolutionary method that works when affirmations and positive thinking don’t, and how you can make success automatic, enjoy the show! To grab your free chapters of Noah’s brand new book, visit us at www.familyco.com/noah. TO JOIN THE DIEPSTRATENS FOR THE UPCOMING LIVE EVENT AND FREE INTRO TELECLASS, VISIT relationshipsuccesstraining.com

In this episode of the Amazing Relationships Podcast, Jennifer and Peter Diepstraten have an interactive coaching session with anonymous caller Jane, who’s frustrated by her boyfriend and his 17-year-old son’s lack of communication. The 17-year old son recently graduated from high school, sits in his room and plays video games all day, while his friends have gotten jobs or gone off to college. But Jane’s boyfriend seems powerless to help the son, and Jane is left stymied because she doesn’t know how to act since she’s “just a girlfriend.” Jane says, “I know I’m not supposed to get in the fray, it’s not my kid. You know, who am I? I’m just a girlfriend. But it’s driving me crazy.” Jane wants to know how to help her boyfriend and his son succeed so she can be a supportive girlfriend, rather than alienate them. Tune in to hear what Jane sees through getting her questions answered and her excitement about the new way she sees she can approach her boyfriend and his son.

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Jennifer and Peter Diepstraten interview Laura Doyle, author of New York Times’ Bestseller, The Surrendered Wife, The Surrendered Single and Things Will Get as Good as You Can Stand. Her books have been translated into 16 languages and published in 27 countries. In this episode, Laura shares how she went from nearly divorcing her husband to being cherished and adored, and is now happily married for 25 years. She teaches the Six Intimacy Skills, the first of which is how to have good self-care. While many people have thought The Surrendered Wife was anti-feminist, it was not, it was really verified relationship advice for women. “A surrendered wife just knows that she can’t change anyone else besides herself, so she doesn’t try. Instead she focuses on her own happiness. And that, in turn, improves the intimacy in marriage,” shares Laura. To learn more about what self-care is and what it isn’t, and how it can improve your marriage, enjoy the show! To grab your free training videos from Laura, this episode’s show notes, and our free training on how to get a fresh perspective on your relationship, visit us at www.familyco.com/lauradoyle

In this episode of the Amazing Relationships podcast, Jennifer Diepstraten of FamilyCo interviews entrepreneur, Ashley Ryan, about the four years she spent traveling in Asia with her son, ex-husband, and ex-husband’s girlfriend. Ashley Ryan, founder of Her Smart Marketing, has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, bringing in 6- and 7- figure revenue through simple, un-complicated savvy marketing systems. Ashley shares the three key reasons she was able to put the wounds of her divorce behind her and then “Move beyond that idea of ‘we need to be friends’ into ‘we can be co-parents.’” As a result, she put together a trip of a lifetime that has positively impacted her relationships, her business, and her son.

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Wondering how to get the spark back in your marriage? Michael calls in for this Relationship Q&A session because he is ready for a new girlfriend or wife, but is afraid of running into that “really bad spiral downhill.” As Michael says about his ex-wife, “She kept spending money cause she didn’t feel loved and I was working overtime trying to make bonuses, trying to make up for the time and the money she was spending on credit cards and it just became a really bad spiral downhill.”

In this episode, going beyond relationship advice, Jennifer Diepstraten leads an interactive coaching session with Michael, who’s been divorced twice and doesn’t want to make the same mistakes in his next relationship. Be a part of the twist of events in this Amazing Relationships episode when Michael has a big a-ha moment. He sees how he can be free to love again, keep the spark alive in his next relationship, make amends with his ex, and decides to travel 100 miles to tell his ex-wife thank you.

Enjoy the show! To submit a relationship question and to get our free training on how to see your relationship from a new perspective, visit us at www.familyco.com/015, and to get your free audio training on how to see your relationship from a new perspective, download Renew Your View at www.familyco.com/rvgift