Making It Work

In this episode, we begin the holiday season celebration by sharing how we are shaking up some of our favorite traditions! We highlight different ways we can all serve the greater good by volunteering in our community, share gratitude practices that will boost your gathering this Thanksgiving, walk you through a his and her gift guide that will knock your partner's socks off, and discuss how to keep a lookout for grace in the midst of holiday stress. We hope this pod will give you the tools for a more joyous and peaceful season!

In this episode, we invite you to join us in our kitchen on a culinary adventure with an award winning chili! Complete with all the steps (and mistakes to avoid!), we recreate this recipe for our listeners, giving you the tools to take on anyone in a chili cook-off. Perfect for the holidays and football season, it will definitely inspire you to cook up a dish that serves and satisfies with alllll the layers of flavor and the perfect amount of kick. Remember, it's a winner!!!

In this episode, we share our thoughts on the Nikolas Cruz verdict and invite Michael Riley, Kaitlin’s father and former Assistant State Attorney in South Florida, to weigh in on the jury’s decision to reject the death penalty and what it means for school safety moving forward. On February 14,  2018, Nikolas Cruz killed 17 innocents at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas highschool in Parkland Florida.  As part of the Code Red Foundation, we are on mission to make our children’s lives and schools safer in response to the mass shootings that have unfortunately become the new normal of our society. We encourage you to watch our film, https://codereddoc.com/watchnow/ and join us at the code red foundation, https://coderedyotn.org/ , to take action now in order to preserve the future of the youth of our nation. 

We share our hot take on some of the recent cheating scandals - Jordi's solution is one for the books - and share ways we've worked on building trust over the years, the importance of turning toward each other, and a weekly challenge the husbands will surely not forget!

Feel like you're part of the fam this week as we talk life & love with Blake and Bailee (cameos by Everly & Busby included) and quiz each other on which couple knows their other half best. Will Bailee and Blake or Jordi and Katie come out victorious? Listen to find out.. laughs guaranteed! 

In today's episode, we share about our most recent miscarriage.  It’s definitely not easy to discuss, but we know that many, indeed MILLIONS, are suffering in silence because the subject matter is still so taboo.  We hope you’ll join us as we share our experience with this most recent loss and the hard lessons we learned between our first miscarriage two years ago and today in an effort to build more empathy and understanding around this complicated, all too ‘common’ loss.

As our nation continues to try to process the tragedy at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, we share our concerns and possible solutions to this national crisis. We talk about the documentary we helped produce about the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and compare the safety failures between these two tragic shootings. Searching and imploring our audience to take on this very difficult subject matter, we look for ways to affect a system that unfortunately still allows for these atrocities to exist. We pray for healing for all of the victims families and hope that through discussion and action, not indifference, the lives lost will not be in vain.

When Kati Morton (LMFT, Episodes 6 & 7!) said that sex is one of the three main reasons that people get divorced, Jordi immediately knew it was a topic that had to be broached on Making it Work... convincing Kaitlin of this was not quite as immediate. Ha! In the intro to 'The Sex Series,' Jordi and Katie discuss times that intimacy has been an issue in their marriage, preserving kids' innocence in this day and age, and Katie (reluctantly) participates in a little intimacy Q&A and is shocked to find out that her husband, indeed, likes 'normal man' things.  

Jordi shares details about his Emmy nomination! After a life update, they continue their conversation with Kati Morton,  Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, accomplished author (Are You Ok? , Traumatized), and popular YouTube mental health content creator. They dive into a listener question ("Should you ever go to sleep angry?") and then a special #askingforafriend question (wink wink) about loosing your cool and how to recover from that. Kaitlin shares her biggest mom fears and Kati gives some amazing tools for beating anxiety and improving negative self-talk. 

Kaitlin and Jordi are joined by, Kati Morton, who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist an accomplished author (Are You Ok? , Traumatized), and popular YouTube mental health content creator. They revisit some of the #askingforafriend questions that they took a stab at in last week's episode and discuss everything from postpartum depression to self-talk, the benefits of group therapy, how to keep love alive in your relationship. Kati shares her marriage hack (aka #mack) and is a wealth of information! Join us for part 2 next week...we hope you enjoy!