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Do you know what the 3 fruits of a healthy relationship are? Have you ever heard that your relationships can only be as healthy as you are as an individual? Hear renowned psychologists and authors Drs Les and Leslie Parrott speak about what people hunger for when seeking healthy relationships and where to start to engage in a healthy, long-term relationship.  

According to Dr. Parrott, “If you try to build intimacy with another person before you’ve done the difficult work of getting whole or healthy on your own, all your relationships become an attempt to complete yourself and they will fall flat”.  Moreover, when you’re searching for a person to be in relationship with, “it’s not about finding the right person, it’s about becoming the right person”. 

Learn how to begin a new relationship with awareness of positive and negative self talk, as well as the 3 major areas of any relationship to consider on today’s episode! 

Today’s Speakers - Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott

Les and Leslie are a husband-and-wife team who not only share the same name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships. Les is a professor of psychology at Northwest University and they are founders of the Center for Healthy Relationships on the campus of Olivet University. Their professional training – Leslie as a marriage and family therapist, and Les as a clinical psychologist – ensures a presentation that is grounded, insightful and cutting-edge. 

The Parrotts have been featured in USA Today and the New York Times. Their television appearances include CNN, The View, The O’Reilly Factor, The Today Show and Oprah.  As #1 New York Times best-selling authors, their books have sold over two million copies in more than two dozen languages.

Please check out their latest work and take the free assessment for the health of your self-talk (and relationships) by visiting HealthyMeHealthyUs.com.

Website: LesandLeslie.com; HealthyMeHealthyUs.com

Book: Healthy Me, Healthy Us

You’ll Learn

• Why it is important to identify toxic self-talk
• Where toxic self-talk stems from
• The 3 fruits of a healthy relationship
• Where positive self talk should stem from
• Whether technology is harming your relationships

It Starts With Attraction Ep. 014: 3 Fruits of a Healthy Relationship with Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott 

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Do you know how to think about what you're thinking about? Do you struggle with controlling the direction of your thoughts? So many people want to have a positive attitude and form great habits, but we often ignore the most important part of developing any good habit: planning to maintain a positive mindset first.  

Today’s speaker, Jim Pourteau, talks through ways to treat ourselves as we would a friend. He suggests we look for opportunities to release negative and overwhelming thoughts bouncing around in our heads, and break these patterns into a manageable process.  “The way we think sets up our reality. Be intentional. Give it time.” Listen to today’s episode to learn how to create positive thought patterns to direct your life!

Today’s Speaker - Jim Pourteau 

Jim Pourteau has been developing leaders for almost 30 years.  He has served as the leader and culture creator in a number of major companies, a mentor in the world's largest coaching organization and as a member of the President's Advisory Council of the John Maxwell Team.  As a speaker and culture development expert, Jim's clients include both local and national brands such as the NCAA, Chick-Fil-A, Columbia University and many more.  As an executive coach, Jim is called upon to walk alongside organizations and individuals in developing strong vision and culture creation.  Jim and his wife Shannon have been married for 32 years and live just outside of Nashville, TN.

Website: www.marriagehelper.com
Social: @jwpourteau  

You’ll Learn 

• How to develop a conscious competence
• What steps YOUR brain needs you to take to properly breakdown thoughts
• Where to get started on a more positive mental status
• How to create opportunities to control your thoughts
• How to create the habit of PAUSE 
  
  

 It Starts With Attraction Ep. 009: How to Think About What You’re Thinking About with Jim Pourteau

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Doing a Whole30 is about so much more than food...it's about creating boundaries and finding food freedom. 

But most of the time, we turn to food to help us overcome or hide uncomfortable feelings. So many of us use food as a coping mechanism that food-related illnesses hit at an all time high. Recognizing this weakness, Melissa Urban created a Whole30 program that is designed to give its participants freedom from the bad habits and poor choices our diets have created, “I was looking for something and I was never going to find it in these foods”. 

The program is about much more than food! “It’s uncomfortable to deal with feelings.  Realizing that that discomfort is not going to kill you is really profoundly impactful”. Hear Melissa share in depth about the program, what it can teach you about yourself, and how you can learn to accept your feelings in today’s episode!

Today’s Speaker: Melissa Urban

Melissa Urban is the co-founder and CEO of the Whole30 program, and a six-time New York Times bestselling author. She has been featured by Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, People, and Forbes; and ranks #19 on Greatists Top 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness. Melissa is the host of the Do the Thing podcast, and is a prominent keynote speaker on social media and branding, health trends, and entrepreneurship. She lives in Salt Lake City, UT.

Website: ​ Whole30.com
Social:  Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest: @whole30
Facebook: facebook.com/whole30

Melissa's personal social:

​Instagram: @melissau
Podcast: Do The Thing

You’ll Learn

• What led to the creation of the Whole30
• What the Whole30 program is truly about
• How the Whole30 changes lives 
• How the Whole30 can continue to change your life after you’ve completed the first one
• What to do if you feel progress gets slowed to a stop with your health
• Tips to successfully completing a Whole30
• How the mission of the Whole30 has changed over the years

It Starts With Attraction Ep. 007 Whole30, Boundaries & Finding Food Freedom with Melissa Urban

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Kimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 500,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.

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Here is the best exercise for you to do to see the biggest results in the least amount of time. When you know you need to get in shape but you’re not sure where to begin, the task can seem overwhelming. Fitness expert Jerred Moon breaks things down on an individual level based on a mental “sticking power” assessment he provides to all of his clients. Moon suggests only one new habit at a time is necessary to begin an effective fitness routine, and often this habit revolves around improving nutrition. 

Often, we strive to change too many aspects in our lives at once and end up injured or burned out, so we don’t continue to improve our fitness. Moon’s garage gym programs, developed inside his company, EO3, meet individuals who want to get in shape where they are currently and develop a program around their individual goals, equipment they have at home, and their exercise interests.  Pick an exercise routine that you enjoy, and work your training goals around that. Learn more about how to begin an individualized, manageable, sustainable exercise routine in today’s podcast!

Today’s Speaker: Jerred Moon

Jerred Moon is the visionary behind End of Three Fitness as he aims to build better humans and redefine fitness and help put it in the terms of his athlete’s life.  Jerred completed his undergraduate degree at Texas Tech University; with two years of study in Food & Nutrition Science. He's a Certified Strength & Conditioning Coach and also obtained a Certificate of Achievement with Harvard Medical School in the Fundamentals of Physiology. 

Jerred specializes in simple, effective fitness for the other guy, or fitness athlete. With his team, Jerred and EO3 have now helped over 10,000 athletes see results. Jerred spends most of his time coaching and programming for athletes and working with other coaches to help develop their skills to be the most well-rounded coaches possible. 

Website: GarageGymAthlete.com

Podcast: Garage Gym Athlete

Book: Killing Comfort 

You’ll Learn

• Which workout is best for me?
• What are the worst ways to workout? 
• What is the best method to follow when working out? What should people look for in a program? 
• Should women workout differently than men? 
• Why did you create GGA? What do your users experience? 
• What all do you need for a garage gym? 

It Starts With Attraction Ep. 006: Best Exercise To Do To Get the BIGGEST Results in the LEAST Amount of Time with Jerred Moon

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Kimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 500,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.

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Do you want to know the real myths and truths about fat loss? This episode will reveal the secrets of healthy and sustainable fat loss...in a way that honors your body.

Are you absolutely positive that you’re getting enough nutrition to sustain your body? If your recent attempts at fat loss have resulted in negative physical results, you may not understand exactly what your body truly needs. Over the past several decades, so much information about health has been short-sided and generalized to the point that our current common knowledge base on nutrition may actually be harming our bodies’ systems and prohibiting weight loss or healthy lifestyles. 

According to today’s guest, Laura Schoenfeld, “one of the biggest challenges women face in any area of their life that they’re struggling [with] is mindset blocks that are preventing them from taking action in a way that would allow them to see results”.  Schoenfeld further explains that we have false beliefs about behavior, which can be objective mindsets, but we also have subjective beliefs about who we are. To get healthier, BOTH areas of our lives must be addressed.  

Today’s episode goes into so much detail on how to get healthier from an entire mindset perspective first and then the specific details of your individual health needs second.
 

Today’s Speaker: Laura Schoenfeld, RD

​Laura Schoenfeld (SHOW-IN-FELD) is a Registered Dietitian, coach, and women’s health expert trained in Functional Medical nutrition therapy. Her passion is empowering women to nourish their bodies, develop true strength, and ultimately pursue their purpose. Laura guides her clients in identifying and implementing diet and lifestyle changes that allow them to live a healthy, fit, symptom-free life without being consumed by thoughts of food and exercise. She draws from a variety of sources to form her philosophy on nutrition, including ancestral diets, principles of biochemistry, current research, and clinical experience. 

Recognizing that health goes way beyond diet and exercise, she teaches her clients how to focus on and implement life-changing mental and spiritual health habits as well. Her greatest mission is to help women realize they are more than a body, so they can move past health obsession, and focus on pursuing the purpose they were created for. When she’s not educating and serving her coaching clients and community, Laura loves traveling with her husband, Sundays with her church family, hikes with her dog, beach trips, live music, and heavy weight training.

Website:  LauraSchoenfeldRD.com

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Want to know the most important part of attraction for a long-lasting relationship? It's simple...but it's not necessarily easy. In this episode, Dr. Joe Beam breaks down what he has seen work in thousands of couples to build emotional attraction and create strong, healthy relationships.

When we examine emotional attraction in any established relationship, we think of this attraction in two types of actions: through things we stop doing, and by things we start doing.  Since we can’t build a relationship on what we’re not doing, it becomes more urgent to look at what we’re doing; how we’re providing for another person’s emotional needs. 

The golden rule, “Do to others as you’d like them to do to you” doesn’t always hold true in emotional attraction. We’re not made to need or want the same things. We are made to build others up according to their needs.

It Starts With Attraction Ep. 003: Keys to Emotional Attraction with Dr. Joe Beam

Today’s Speaker: Dr. Joe Beam 

Dr. Beam is an internationally known and respected sexologist and authority on love, marriage and sex. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney. He is the founder and chair of Marriage Helper based in Tennessee, just south of Nashville.

He has designed and developed courses, workshops, and seminars to help troubled marriages for over two decades. He has been seen on nationwide media and spoken to countless couples through live seminars, dedicated radio programs and books. 

Website: www.MarriageHelper.com
YouTube: Marriage Helper
Podcast: Marriage Helper Live
Books: The Art of Falling in Love

You’ll Learn

• Am I getting what I need emotionally
• How can I identify what my emotional needs are
• How can I change my feelings of resentment 
• When to put up a stop or C.O.R.E.
• Is my significant other demanding too much of me
• Are my emotional demands too much

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Kimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 500,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.

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Who doesn't want to feel sexier and have a better sex life?! I'm sure everyone does...but it can be difficult to actually know how to go about doing that. We uncover how in today's episode with special guest and certified sex therapist Dr. Laurie Watson.

Can you say you’re always honest with your sexual partner about the connection you share? According to Dr. Watson, something like “95% of couples having sex aren’t talking about their experiences in ways that add to their experiences in a meaningful way.” 

In this podcast episode, understand what you may be missing out in connecting with your spouse on a physical and emotional level.  Explore what physical and emotional intervention looks like. Couples can learn how to talk about what they like and don’t like both from an emotional and physical standpoint. 

Are you a pursuer or do you withdraw either sexually or emotionally? Understanding your needs and your reactions in situations is the first key to feeling sexier in a healthy, loving relationship.

Today’s Speaker

Dr. Laurie Watson

Laurie Watson, LMFT, LPC, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, is the author of Wanting Sex Again – How to Rediscover Your Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage. She blogs for Psychology Today Online in Married and Still Doing It. A warm and witty media favorite, she is frequently sought after for television and radio interviews about a variety of sexual topics. Laurie guest lectures at the medical schools for Duke and UNC Chapel Hill on sexual function/dysfunction. Director of Awakenings – Center for Intimacy and Sexuality in Raleigh, she maintains a full-time clinical practice.

Website: www.awakeningscenter.org

Podcast: Foreplay Radio: Sex Therapy

You’ll Learn 

• How to Feel Sexy in Your Own Body and Have a Great Sex Life
• What are the biggest issues for women when it comes to feeling sexy in their own bodies?
• Do men have the same issues as women? 
• Does great sex happen from the start of a relationship or can it be built?
• What should women and men do in order feel sexier?

Ep. 003: How to Feel Sexier & Have a Better Love Life, with Dr. Laurie Watson

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Kimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 500,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.

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Want to know what causes inflammation and how you can fix it? 

77% of inflammatory reactions are things that we have control over.  So why aren’t we able to easily control what causes our bodies to be unhealthy?

Explore how Dr. Will Cole, functional medicine doctor, suggests how our bodies need to be healed using evidence-based alternative medicine techniques. His approach examines 7 systems of our bodies and holistically heals our bodies.

As Dr. Cole says, “we can’t heal a body that we don’t love.”

Our minds and emotions are so connected to our physical healing that we must first examine the ways that we treat ourselves, including the thoughts that we tell ourselves as our truth. Learn so many ways to heal in today’s episode!

Dr. Will Cole

Dr. Will Cole, leading functional-medicine expert, consults people around the world via webcam at www.drwillcole.com and locally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

He specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing health programs for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal dysfunctions, digestive disorders, and brain problems. Dr. Cole was named one of the top fifty functional-medicine and integrative doctors in the nation and is a health expert for mindbodygreen and goop. 

Dr. Cole is the author of the book, The Inflammation Spectrum in which he explores how inflammation exists on a spectrum within the body, the various systems it can affect, and how you can discover your individual food triggers to overcome chronic inflammation. He is also the author of Ketotarian in which he melds the powerful benefits of a ketogenic diet with a plant-based one.   

Website: www.drwillcole.com

Podcast: The GoopFellas

You’ll Learn

• Why do we need to be mindful about inflammation? What symptoms does inflammation cause in our bodies?
• What are the key things that lead to inflammation?
• How do we decrease the inflammation?
• What foods do you believe lead to the most inflammation? 
• Where can people start without it feeling so overwhelming?

Ep. 002: The Truth About Inflammation & How to Heal It
(It's More Than You Think!) ​with Dr. Will Cole

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Kimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 500,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.

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Want to know the secret to becoming your most attractive self? It's called the PIES.

What is true attraction? You may be surprised by the true definition of attraction. You’ll learn the basic definition of attraction through the four key pillars of attraction – Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Spiritual. 

Gain an understanding of what healthy, strong, stable relationships all have in common: learning how to be the best version of yourself. All relationships in your life benefit from this understanding and practice, not just the romantic ones.

Kimberly Beam Holmes

Kimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master’s degree in psychology for over 10 years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching the ways that attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reaches over 200,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best that they can be.  

Website: www.PIESUniversity.com

You’ll Learn

• Why people fall in love
• How falling in love begins with attraction
• Attraction is not what you think it is
• Why Physical attraction is not enough
• Why Intellectual attraction doesn't mean you need to go to Havard 
• The secret about Emotional attraction
• How Spiritual attraction has less to do with "religion" and more to do with beliefs, drive, and purpose

Ep 001: Become Your Most Attractive Self: The PIES, with Kimberly Beam Holmes. 

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Kimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 500,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.

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