What are the important types of communication? The top 3 in order include body language, tone, and your actual spoken words. 

Why is communication important? In short, communication guides ALL RELATIONSHIPS! In this episode, we discuss the importance of communication for any and all relationships, both personal and professional. Maintaining confident body language and varying your tonality can help you deliver your message effectively and get your audience to pay attention to you!  We also talk about cross-cultural relationships, specifically referring to high or low-context cultures and their methods of communicating.  

As a useful reference moving forward, here are the "7 C's" of Communication: Clear, Concise, Concrete, Correct, Coherent, Complete, and Courteous. 

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In the first segment of this episode, we discuss the purpose and importance of finding and developing relationships with mentors.  Mentors can be found in both your personal and professional life and are super helpful for your overall development. In our second segment, we welcome special guest Rain Liewer as he gives his perspective on life balance! We also discuss business partnerships between friends and how to have a healthy friendship while working on a business together. Be sure to give us a listen and show your support on social media! Questions? Email us at [email protected]. We hope you enjoy the show!

In today's episode, we explore four major relationship stages in a person's life: single, dating, engaged, and married. We look at each of these through the lens of balance, which includes your own growth and development as well as your partner's. Check it out to hear our thoughts on the benefits of singlehood, dating and marriage as an evaluation process, and another very important question: when is the right time to engage in sex?

In this episode, we discuss family dynamics and different family structures, as well as various parenting techniques that we've experienced. We also talk about some effective ways to manage conflict within the family - check it out! 

Join us as we discuss how to cultivate strong friendships and also maintain them over a long period of time! We will be going through the dynamics of our 12-year friendship as an example, detailing some of the challenges and dynamics in that relationship. Each creator will also go through their most important "dimensions" of life and how those translate into friendships and spousal relationships. Check it out!

We are Balance Academy - four lifelong friends working toward the goal of overall life balance! Join us in our first episode to hear more about the 6 important "dimensions" of life and to meet the creators of Balance Academy. Thank you so much for your support, we look forward to going on the journey to life balance with you all!