HELLA MARRIED

HELLA MARRIED

By Jo & Jonathan EncarnacionSociety & CultureRelationships
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HELLA MARRIED episodes

  • BONUS: Parents, It's OK to cry in front of your kids.
    In this episode, we are honored to have our first guest, our 16 year old daughter Airis (Iris). Her and Jo have an unscripted conversation about the teenage experience, mental health, cannabis, and Airis offers her advice to parents who are navigating the rough road of cultivating open and honest communication between children and parents.
    Grab a notebook and a pen and get ready to take some notes.  
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    SHOW INFORMATION
    Along with sharing the lessons we’ve learned in our own relationship, we’ll be answering your questions on the show!
    Submit your questions at hellamarried.wtf
    Follow us on social: @hellamarried
    Custom music by Tyler Hafer
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    If you want to support the podcast and keep the show going check us out at https://anchor.fm/hellamarried
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    25 min
  • 5. From Break Ups to Make Ups in the Time of Quarantine
    On this week’s episode, Jonathan and Jo answer some frequently asked IG Live questions about Jonathan's perspective of non-monogamy, his thoughts on dating, and some of the lessons they both have learned so far in their polyamorous relationship. The dynamic duo also dive into the nitty gritty of some listener questions discussing how to bring up hard feedback between partners, the art of negotiating needs in the time of shelter in place, the importance of owning your own emotional experience, and addressing why some words can be triggering in conversation.
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    SHOW INFORMATION
    Along with sharing the lessons we’ve learned in our own relationship, we’ll be answering your questions on the show!
    Submit your questions at hellamarried.wtf
    Follow us on social: @hellamarried
    Custom music by Tyler Hafer
    —
    If you want to support the podcast and keep the show going check us out at https://anchor.fm/hellamarried
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    THANKS WE LOVE YOU!
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    54 min
  • 4. 7 Tips on How to Have a Hard Conversation in a Healthy and Productive Way
    In this episode, Jo and Jonathan share their 7 tips on how to have hard conversations in a healthy and productive way. We talk about how this period of sheltering in place might bring up some old traumas, but also how we might develop new ones as our nervous systems are being activated. We discuss the new challenges we face in being confronted with our partners 24/7 and they give us some helpful tools and guidelines for working through conflict effectively so that our relationships emerge stronger than before. Having hard conversations and navigating through conflict and differences takes a lot of practice. 
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    SHOW INFORMATION
    Along with sharing the lessons we’ve learned in our own relationship, we’ll be answering your questions on the show!
    Submit your questions at hellamarried.wtf
    Follow us on social: @hellamarried
    Custom music by Tyler Hafer
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    If you want to support the podcast and keep the show going check us out at https://anchor.fm/hellamarried
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    THANKS WE LOVE YOU!
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    40 min
  • 3. Transforming Pain into Power

    This episode is part two of a two part telling of Jonathan and Jo's story of struggle and hope.

    Jonathan and Jo have an intimate and honest conversation about a hard truth they’ve never shared publicly before. And in their quest to open up their love for one another, they recount their bumpy journey into ethical non-monogamy,  including Jonathan’s experience meeting the man Jo had an affair with.

    Resources:

    • Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel 
    • Where Should We Begin Podcast
    • More than Two by Franklin Veaux and Even Rickert
    • Designer Relationships by Mark A. Michaels
    • Love 2.0 by Barbara L. Fredrickson Ph.D. (Author)

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      SHOW INFORMATION

      Along with sharing the lessons we’ve learned in our own relationship, we’ll be answering your questions on the show!

      Submit your questions at hellamarried.wtf

      Follow us on social: @hellamarried

      Custom music by Tyler Hafer

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      If you want to support the podcast and keep the show going check us out at https://anchor.fm/hellamarried

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      THANKS WE LOVE YOU!

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      46 min
    • 2. Getting on and off the Relationship Escalator
      This episode is part one of a two part telling of Jonathan and Jo's story of struggle and hope.
      In this episode Jonathan and Jo talk about getting on and off the relationship escalator, how society and cultural romantic expectations of love and marriage set them up to fail, and how the lack of knowing one's self created a communication gap in their 12 year marriage. 
      Along with sharing the lessons we’ve learned in our own relationship, we’ll be answering your questions on the show!
      Submit your questions at hellamarried.wtf 
      Follow us on social: @hellamarried
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      23 min
    • 1. WFH, School from Home, and Staying Sane during COVID-19

      In this episode, we should share with our experience during the 2020 COVID-19 shelter in place, what our struggles have been as parents who own their own businesses while juggling the new role of being teachers, and how we've processed through some of the tough conversations and conflicts we've navigated through during this time. We talk about the importance of emotional baselines and how understanding each person's emotional baseline can help create harmony in the home during this time. 

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      SHOW INFORMATION

      Along with sharing the lessons we’ve learned in our own relationship, we’ll be answering your questions on the show!

      Submit your questions at hellamarried.wtf

      Follow us on social: @hellamarried

      Custom music by Tyler Hafer

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      If you want to support the podcast and keep the show going check us out at https://anchor.fm/hellamarried

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      THANKS WE LOVE YOU!

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      Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hellamarried/message
      38 min
    • HELLA MARRIED Podcast Teaser

      HELLA MARRIED is a new podcast that dives into messy conversations around sex, love, relationships, communication, parenting, and everything in between. Brought to you by us! We are Jonathan and Jo Encarnacion.  Jonathan is one of SF’s most sought out wedding and lifestyle portrait photographers. He’s been documenting people’s greatest adventures while they get to live their fullest human expression for over 10 years now! Joanne (many of you might know her as @GOFITJO) is a relationship + sex coach who empowers women to lean into their vulnerability and truth while teaching them how to women create pleasure and play in their relationships so they can experience healthy sensual bliss in all areas of their life. They’ve owned businesses together, now own separate businesses, AND they know a thing or two that they have learned through their experience. Not only are they just an incredible dynamic duo in their careers, but they are also incredible parents raising two queens (as they both say). They’ve been married for almost 12 years and have spent the past 18 years navigating the waters of loving one another, falling out of love with one another, embracing ethical non-monogamy, and learning how to grow and evolve together. Each week, we’ll empower folks to get a little more comfortable with the uncomfortable. 

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      SHOW INFORMATION

      Along with sharing the lessons we’ve learned in our own relationship, we’ll be answering your questions on the show!

      Submit your questions at hellamarried.wtf

      Follow us on social: @hellamarried

      Custom music by Tyler Hafer

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      If you want to support the podcast and keep the show going check us out at https://anchor.fm/hellamarried

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      THANKS WE LOVE YOU!


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      Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hellamarried/message
      2 min

    About HELLA MARRIED

    From the publisher's feed

    HELLA MARRIED is a podcast that dives into messy conversations around sex, love, relationships, communication, parenting, and everything in between. The creative duo Jo and Jonathan Encarnacion creative was married for almost 12 years, parent two incredible young ladies, and have spent the past 18 years navigating the waters of love, learning how to grow and evolve together.