Date Forever

Throughout our lives we all have different experiences, some are nourishing, others depleting but they all have the opportunity to teach us something about ourselves. Some experiences can leave us wounded and sensitive to experiences that remind us of past hurts or fears. When we commit to being in a healthy relationship with ourselves and others, we also need to commit to uncovering and healing those wounds. They are ours to explore so that we don't continue to pass them on to our partners or the next generation.

Jessica Velazquez is a no bullshit alchemist who's been empowering people for 24 years to come back to their true self. As a spiritual mentor and trauma coach, her passion and calling is to support those struggling with their self worth because of childhood trauma. Her commitment to her own healing and growth was non-negotiable once she faced the greatest and scariest honour of all; becoming a momma and leaving a different legacy for her daughter.

We chat

• Unpacking childhood trauma
• Why a relationship is a great place to heal emotional wounds
• Identifying behaviours or thoughts that aren't serving you and changing them

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them

Better World

Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Jessica Velazquez

Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/_jessicav._/ Website - https://www.jessicav.net/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/healingwithjessica/

In our mainstream society the images and stories we hear about relationships are mostly the heterosexual and monogamous kind. Boy meets girl, they fall in love and then live happily ever after. But that isn't the only way, there is an entire spectrum of types of romantic relationships that we don't often see in the media. In today's episode we chat with Bradford & Angela who are in a long term open relationship, they see other people while also having additional shared partners. They are hosts of the By the Bi Podcast, where they share about bisexuality, the swinger community, open relationships, BDSM, and everything else your vanilla friends refuse to talk about. We chat

• Open & polyamorous relationships
• Swinging and safe sex
• Having challenging conversations

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them Better World Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Bradford & Angela Resources - https://www.bythebi.com.au/education Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bythebipodcast/ Website - https://www.bythebi.com.au/

It's not what we are arguing about that matters, it's how we are arguing. An argument can be productive and constructive or destructive. There are 4 behaviours that can be damaging in conflict - Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and being able to identify these four Horsemen within your conflict is the first step to stopping them and replacing them with healthier and more productive communication.Dr Marisa T. Cohen is the In-House Relationship Expert for Paired, an app designed to enhance communication between partners and help them learn more about their relationship. She is also a relationship researcher, psychology professor, and the author of From First Kiss to Forever: A Scientific Approach to Love, a book that relates relationship science research to everyday experiences and real relationship issues confronted by couples.

We chat

• What good and bad communication looks like
• How the Paired app can help us tackle some big and small relationship topics
• The difference between affirmation and validation

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them

Better World

Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Marisa Cohen

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/marisatcohen/ Website - Paired App - https://www.getpaired.com/Website - Marisa Cohen - https://www.marisatcohen.com

Throughout our lives it's inevitable that we will grow, evolve and change. Some people more so than others. But what happens when you grow away from something that was a core part of who you were? A part that formed a huge element of your self identity? And how do you evolve in a way that is helpful to your relationship and not harmful. Pete shares his story of evolution that led him away from the church and towards his career as a celebrant.

Pete Hordern is a young Melbourne marriage celebrant and MC who creates relaxed and easy-going wedding ceremonies and funerals. He is the dad to 3 & loving husband to 1. He has been part of hundreds of weddings as a celebrant for over five years.We chat

• Navigating changes in your personal values and its effect on your relationship
• Understanding why people are choosing to get married
• The key factors in creating your ideal wedding

Better Relationships We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve themBetter World Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Pete Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/petethecelebrant/ Website - https://www.petethecelebrant.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/petethecelebrant/?ref=bookmarks

It's been said that when you stop growing you start dying. Yet growth doesn't always happen by accident and when there are two people in a relationship growing at different speeds it can be challenging to navigate. Especially if one is growing and the other is dying.

Today we chat with Daisy Nguyen & Andrew Ramsden, they are both wildly passionate about supporting others to create joyful, thriving and evolving relationships and lives. They share openly about their love story, their commitment to growth, consciously designing their relationship and how they do conflict constructively. We chat

• Consciously creating the relationship you want
• Constructive conflict within your relationship
• Remaining an individual while in a relationship

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them

Better World

Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective

Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective

Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/

Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/

Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/

Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Andrew Ramsden and Daisy Nguyen

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sustainablelifestyle.me/ and https://www.instagram.com/andrewramsden.co/

Website - https://peakstate.me/dateforever

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/yoursustainablelifestyle and https://www.facebook.com/andrewramsden.com.au

Humans have 5 different senses - sight, sound, taste, smell and touch, and we also have 5 different love languages. Did you know that you can use relaxation and massage to hit all of them, all at once!? Connecting to ourselves and our partners can be hard to do when we are experiencing stress but without regular intimate connection, relationships can suffer.

Ingrid Galloway is the Founder, Relationship Coach and Chief Relaxation Officer of Kahyangan, a wellness centre. She has a kind soul, yet fun approach, encouraging people to be authentic and live an inspired life.

We chat

• Managing stress through relaxation and massage
• Setting the scene for sensual connection
• How to communicate all five love languages at once
• The sexiest smells for the bedroom

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them

Better World

Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep, a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Ingrid Galloway

Instagram - www.instagram.com/kahyangan_wellness Website - https://www.kahyangan.com.au/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/kahyanganrelationshipcoaching Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnkcJLPZYalvqH5v7la8zg

Taking responsibility for the part you've played - good or bad is vital to a thriving relationship. But that isn't always easy and sometimes even harder to communicate it to the person you are doing life with. The way we communicate when we make a mistake is just like our regular communication style, we are all a little bit different and sometimes just saying "I'm sorry" won't cut it.

Beck Thompson is a # 1 International Best Selling Author, 2020 AusMumpreneur Award Winner, Dating & Relationship coach and the owner and founder of The Relationship Circle - a no BS relationship coaching service that digs deep, gets to the truth and supports you in creating new behaviours and patterns that re-energise and revitalise your life and relationships.

We chat

- The 5 Apology languages - Make Restitution, Genuinely Repent, Expressing Regret, Accept Responsibility, Request Forgiveness

- How to apologise in a way that your partner will connect with and ultimately strengthen your relationship

- That nobody is perfect and all humans will make mistakes from time to time

- The act of radical forgiveness

Resources Mentioned

The 5 Apology Languages - https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/apology-language

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them

Better World

Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Beck Thompson

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_relationship_circle/ Website - www.therelationshipcircle.com Facebook - www.facebook.com/therelationshipcircle

Our relationship with ourselves sets the tone for every other relationship that we have. But what happens when that relationship isn't in a great state? How do you hit pause or do a hard reset? Does it have to get worse before it gets better? And where do you even start to decipher your own beliefs, values and patterns of behaviour? We've all got these blind spots and it's our responsibility to look for them, heal and develop an incredible relationship with ourselves. And when we do, it also pays dividends in our relationships with others. Jo Schonheim was always ambitious, independent and a total "people person". Someone who measures her wealth by the quality of her relationships. As a little girl, Jo fantasised about being her own boss, not someone's wife. By 25, she was an award-winning entrepreneur and by 32, was mother to a pair of daughters. It took 4 years summoning the courage to end her 20 year co-dependent relationship, to start a healthier one. This time, with herself. We chat

• Leaving her co-dependent marriage and finding her way back to herself
• The journey of going inward to heal parts of herself
• What happened to the relationships around her when her relationship with herself shifted
• Defining what a healthy and happy relationship looks like now

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them

Better World

Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Jo Schonheim

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jschonheim/

When our relationship is in an incredible place, we can shift from serving ourselves to serving others. And when we've found something that truly lights us up, something we care about and want to change or improve, we can then go about pursuing it to help create a Better World. We believe wholeheartedly that Better Relationships = Better World and in today's episode, you'll hear a real life story of what is possible.Duncan & Nicola are the Founders of Classroom of Hope, a for-purpose/NFP organisation providing access to life-changing education to children in developing countries. They share about their incredible love story that's played out from opposite sides of the world and culminated in working, playing and raising daughters together. Together they share the lessons they've learned along the way and what they continue to practice today to keep their relationship thriving. We chat

- The on-again-off-again "what are we doing" relationship story of Duncan & Nicola- What happened when they both let go of their fears, leant in with full vulnerability and backed their relationship- How Duncan & Nicola are making an incredible contribution to the UN Global Goals through their for-purpose NFP Classroom of Hope- The trials and triumphs of working together as a couple

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them

Better World

Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Duncan Ward and Nicola Courtin

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/itsduncanward/ and https://www.instagram.com/nicolacourtin/ Website - https://classroomofhope.org/ Facebook - https://facebook.com/classroomofhope

All those little things - morning kisses, cups of tea, knowing when it's a time for listening or a time for action and advice, can add up to or detract from a truly beautiful relationship. Research shows us that these little things really do matter and without them, we don't have much.Jacqui is Professor of Sociology and Intimacy at The Open University in the UK and Chief Relationships Officer at Paired. Her 'Enduring Love?' study on long-term couple relationships has received widespread critical acclaim, with findings being reported in national and international media, shining light on modern day relationships, what works and what doesn't.

We chat

• What research reveals about enduring love and how couples are managing to sustain long term relationships
• The importance and significance of the 'ordinary' things in a relationship
• How technology is impacting our relationships

Resources

Get the Paired App - https://www.getpaired.com/Enduring Love Study - https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/enduringlove/

Better Relationships

We empower couples to create thriving relationships so that they can play all out in life, set big goals and put plans in place to actually achieve them

Better World

Many research studies have shown that great relationships are associated with better health, greater happiness, and even a longer life. If more of us had thriving, healthy, happy romantic relationships, we know we would have a better world. That's why, every time someone works with us, via our partnership with Buy1Give1 we also help someone else in the world. Yep a stranger, someone you'll never meet.

Connect with Sammi & Nathan Jaeger

Website - https://www.fuelcollective.com.au/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thefuelcollective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingcouples/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/fuel_collective Instagram - Date Forever - https://www.instagram.com/dateforever/ Instagram - Fuel Collective - https://www.instagram.com/fuel.collective/ Instagram - Nath - https://www.instagram.com/nathjaeger/ Instagram - Sammi - https://www.instagram.com/sammisomewhere/

Connect with Jacqui Gabb

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jacqui.gabb

Learn more about Paired

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/get.paired/ Website - https://www.getpaired.com/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/getpaired