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Goal alignment decides whether your work flows or fights you. In Part 2 of this Reignite Resilience episode, co-hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass continue the conversation on discernment and speed of implementation, then turn to alignment, friction, and flow state.

Natalie shares why she threw out her entire business plan at the end of Q1. The plan had measurables and milestones. The plan made business sense. None of the goals belonged to her. She refused to lose another quarter to regret. She pivoted, fixed the plan, and kept going.

Pam and Natalie then take on a common trap: copying successful people. Pam's coaching client returned to her to-do list after someone told her to drop the habit. Natalie runs her team through Asana, keeps a paper to-do list on the left side of her desk, and tested an AI scheduling tool she ended up hating. The lesson: use the system matching how you work.

Natalie also tells a story from a small-group session with Phil Jones, author of Exactly What to Say. When an attendee asked how to build a website like his, he explained the full-time team and the tens of thousands of dollars behind the site. Most people copy the end result and skip the years of implementation behind the result. Build in stages.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How to tell when a goal belongs to someone else
• Why your why, your five-year vision, and your values work as filters for every action
• How friction signals misalignment and flow state signals alignment
• Why copying another person's system slows your progress
• How to build a to-do list around your unique genius
• What entrepreneurs miss when they compare themselves to bestselling authors

The hosts also talk candidly about adulting, entrepreneurship, and the days when you want someone else to handle the hard parts. They wrap with US Open fashion, Derby season, and a preview of Reignite Live 2027.

Reignite Live 2027 takes place January 22, 2027, in Loveland, Colorado. Eight speakers, all past guests of the show, cover the eight key areas of life, including career, relationships, finances, health and wellness, and fun. Search Reignite Live 2027 on Eventbrite for tickets and the full speaker lineup.

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Speed of implementation decides how fast your goals turn into results. In Part 1 of this Reignite Resilience episode, co-hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass break down discernment and speed of implementation (SOI) as you close out Q3 and plan for Q4.

Pam uses an AI board of advisors built on voices like Oprah Winfrey, Brené Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and Simon Sinek. Her word for September was discernment. For business owners, discernment means choosing what deserves your attention. Without discernment, you spread your energy across every task and stay stuck in the same place.

Speed of implementation measures the gap between learning something and acting on the new knowledge. You attend a conference, fill a notebook with ideas, and weeks pass. The people who act fast build momentum. Pam and Natalie walk through a four-step loop: idea, action, feedback, adjustment. They use their own podcast as proof. The idea came in January 2022. The first episode launched in May 2022. Four years later, the show keeps growing.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What discernment means for business owners heading into Q4
• How speed of implementation (SOI) creates momentum
• The idea, action, feedback, adjustment loop for turning ideas into results
• Why Q4 planning is Q1 planning, and how continuity keeps your goals on track
• Questions to ask when a goal from March still sits untouched in September
• How to spot a goal someone else set for you
• Why quarterly goal reviews beat a once-a-year check-in

Natalie shares her own Q4 wake-up moment. Her wall calendar showed Q4 had arrived, and several commitments from March still waited for a first step. She asks the question every high achiever needs to hear: why is the next step taking six months?

The hosts also point to Transitions by William Bridges, a book on the gap between one season of life and the next.

The episode opens with Virgo birthday season, Pam's surprise New York City trip to the immersive Masquerade show and Hamilton, and a candid talk about protecting your social media feed. Natalie explains how her algorithm pulled her into trauma bonding content and how she reset her feed to puppy videos.

Listen to Part 2 for goal alignment, flow state, and the Phil Jones story every entrepreneur needs to hear.

Reignite Live 2027 takes place January 22, 2027, in Loveland, Colorado. Search Reignite Live 2027 on Eventbrite for tickets.

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Open to the magic is not a tagline for Lisa Dunford Dickman. It is the name she gave to the experience that saved her, and eventually to the retreat she now leads so that other women can have it too. In this second and final segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with transformational coach, writer, speaker, and African safari retreat leader Lisa Dunford Dickman, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass follow Lisa into the deepest and most personal chapter of her story: the four years she lost her mother, her uncle and godfather, her mother-in-law, and her father, one per year, wave after wave, while returning to Africa again and again to be held by something she could not name but could not live without. 

This segment opens with the final miles of the Camino de Santiago, the moment Lisa's foot stopped hurting after communing with a tree that grows from the inside out, and the discovery that another woman on the trip had the exact same experience without knowing Lisa had it first. It moves through Lisa's first ten minutes on an African safari, watching a pride of lions tear a zebra carcass in half from twenty-five feet away, and the moment she knew with absolute clarity the difference between what is real and what is not. It goes deep into grief, into an owl encounter after her mother died that left her feeling more loved than she had ever felt in her life, and into the heart stent she navigated recently while continuing to do her work and live her life. 

From all of that, Lisa built the AWE system: a three-step coaching framework designed to help people gain awareness of their protection patterns, lay down the burden of self-effort and striving, and step into what becomes possible when you stop trying to banish the parts of yourself that have always been trying to keep you safe and instead love and include them. 

The retreat itself is not just a trip. It is eight nights beginning at the Indian Ocean at a beach villa with whales spouting in the distance, followed by six nights on safari with game drives twice a day, sundowners in the bush, hot chocolate with amarula cream, outdoor pools, claw-foot tubs, luxury canvas suites raised above the forest floor, and a guide named Doomy who once walked within five feet of a lion without his gun and came back to the car laughing. 

In This Episode: 

• The Camino miracle: Lisa's foot stopped hurting after communing with a 400-year-old tree, and another woman on the trip had the same experience without knowing it 
• What happened in the first ten minutes on an African safari that showed Lisa the difference between what is real and what is not 
• Four years of grief: losing her mother, her uncle and godfather, her mother-in-law, and her father one per year, and how Africa held her through all of it 
• The owl encounter after her mother died: two owls, a campfire, a song about Mary, and the most loved Lisa has ever felt 
• The AWE system: awareness of protection patterns, willingness to lay them down, and embodying what becomes possible on the other side 
• What the Open to the Magic in Africa retreat actually looks like from the inside, and why it is a transformational experience, not just a trip 
• The More Life List: Lisa's free anti-bucket list PDF for anyone ready to start imagining what they really want 

Lisa is a featured speaker at Reignite Live 2027 on January 22nd in Loveland, Colorado, and her Open to the Magic in Africa retreat takes place in November. Both links are in the show notes. 

Connect with Lisa Dunford Dickman:
🌐 opentothemagicinafrica.com
🌐 themorelifelist.com — Lisa's free anti-bucket list PDF
📚 Live Like a Lioness: Reclaiming Your Bright Birthright as a Powerful Divine Creator — forthcoming 
🗓️ Open to the Magic in Africa Retreat: November 12, 2026

Connect with Reignite Resilience:
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🗓️ Reignite Live 2027: January 22 in Loveland, Colorado 

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Following your inner GPS is not a metaphor for Lisa Dunford Dickman. It is the actual operating system she has used to navigate six countries, four languages, 40 plus guidebooks, and a life that most people would not dare to imagine, let alone build on purpose. In this first segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with transformational coach, writer, speaker, and African safari retreat leader Lisa Dunford Dickman, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with one of the most adventurous and genuinely free-spirited guests this podcast has ever featured. 

Lisa's story begins with a fourth-grade report on Hungary and a great-grandfather she never met, runs through a college study abroad program in Budapest in the aftermath of the Berlin Wall falling, detours through a five-year life in Bratislava where she danced on the square the night Czechoslovakia became its own country, lands in South Texas at an engineering firm where she met her husband and found her writing path in the same building, and eventually delivers her to 15 years as a Lonely Planet guidebook author hiking backcountry trails in Zion, communing with polar bears in Manitoba, and doing the Texas two-step in dance halls for work. 

None of it was planned. All of it was guided. Lisa calls it the game of you're getting warmer, a framework for following what feels hotter, moving away from what feels colder, and trusting the inner nudges that do not always make logical sense but consistently lead somewhere extraordinary. She turned down a job at Georgetown University with a free master's degree because it felt icky in her body, and moved to South Texas instead. That decision led her to her career, her husband, and the life she now helps others imagine for themselves. 

This segment also includes the beginning of the Camino de Santiago story: Lisa walking 100 kilometers across Spain completely unprepared, in hiking boots with no training in pancake-flat Abu Dhabi and Houston, and what happened when she decided to walk her own walk at her own pace instead of powering through like everyone else. 

In This Episode: 

• Why Lisa believes the biggest risk is always not doing the thing, and how that belief has guided every major decision of her life 
• The getting warmer framework for following your inner GPS, moving toward what burns bright, and trusting your desires as your God-given guidance system 
• How Lisa went from embassy work in Slovakia to a newspaper clerk job in South Texas to 15 years as a Lonely Planet guidebook author by following breadcrumbs she could not have predicted 
• Why turning down a free master's degree at Georgetown for a job in the sun was one of the best decisions she ever made 
• What the Camino de Santiago taught Lisa about walking your own walk and giving others permission to do the same 

Lisa is a featured speaker at Reignite Live 2027 on January 22nd in Loveland, Colorado, and her Open to the Magic in Africa transformational retreat takes place in November. Both links are in the show notes. 

Connect with Lisa Dunford Dickman:
🌐 opentothemagicinafrica.com
🌐 themorelifelist.com — Lisa's free anti-bucket list PDF
📚 Live Like a Lioness: Reclaiming Your Bright Birthright as a Powerful Divine Creator — forthcoming 
🗓️ Open to the Magic in Africa Retreat: November 12, 2026

Connect with Reignite Resilience:
🌐 reigniteresilience.com 
📧 [email protected] 
📘 Facebook | 📸 Instagram | 🎥 YouTube: Reignite Resilience Podcast 
🗓️ Reignite Live 2027: January 22 in Loveland, Colorado 

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Intentional living is not a destination. It is a daily practice of noticing, naming, and tending to what matters most. In this second and final segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with life and business coach Tona Restine, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass go deep into the practical, personal, and philosophical framework that has defined Tona's work at Life Imagined for a decade and shaped the lives of every client she has had the privilege to walk alongside. 

This segment picks up with Natalie drawing the throughline between her own coaching journey and Tona's, naming the parallel paths they have run and the shared inflection points that propelled them both into laser focus on what they wanted to create. From there, Tona opens up the full picture of how she works with clients today, who she works with, and what the threshold space, the liminal moment between who you were and who you are becoming, actually looks like from the inside of a coaching relationship. 

Tona and her husband Kevin do an annual September Threshold retreat together, a practice now entering its twentieth year in some form and its second year as a formal Life Imagined offering on September 11th and 18th. She shares what the threshold framework looks like in practice, why September as a season carries a particular kind of readiness for reinvention, and why she believes change that finds you requires just as much intentionality as change you go looking for. 

The conversation then moves into one of the richest threads of the entire episode: Tona's deeply personal morning routine. She shares the four elements she returns to every single morning, the book that changed how she thinks about the first hour of the day, and the coaching client who helped her realize that for some people, midnight is their morning and that is exactly where their sacred space lives. 

In This Episode: 

• Who Tona works with and why she is drawn to clients in liminal spaces, threshold moments, and the messy middle of major transition 
• The annual September Threshold and what Kevin's coaching program "Navigating the Delta" teaches about change that finds you before you find it 
• Why coaching is ultimately about being a friend to someone who needs a friend and asking the questions that lead them to answers they already carry 
• Tona's four-part morning routine and the book that reshaped how she thinks about the first hour of every day 
• The final piece of advice Tona leaves with every listener: get quiet enough to imagine the life you want, then move heaven and earth to create it 

Tona is a featured speaker at Reignite Live 2027 on January 22nd in Loveland, Colorado. Her September Threshold is September 11th and 18th, 11AM Central, virtual and open to all. 

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Life after a cancer diagnosis does not have to be defined by the diagnosis. For Tona Restine, founder of Life Imagined, a lymphoma diagnosis in 2016 arrived at the worst possible moment and unlocked everything she was meant to do next. In this first segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with life and business coach, speaker, and writer Tona Restine, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with one of their dearest friends and most admired colleagues for a conversation that is equal parts origin story, resilience masterclass, and love letter to the seasons of life that break you open. 

Tona spent more than two decades building a successful real estate career, leading a brokerage, and developing the leadership and people skills that would eventually become the backbone of her coaching practice. By the time she and her husband Kevin sold their brokerage and made plans to move to Texas, she was standing at the front door of a full professional reinvention. Three days after the sale closed, she walked into what she thought was a routine consultation with a plastic surgeon about a small bump on her cheek. She walked out with a lymphoma diagnosis. 

Her car was already in Texas. She knew almost no one. Treatment was starting. And in the quiet of a new state, a new season, and a body that required her full attention, Tona found the Thoreau quote that became the name of her company, hired her first coach, and began imagining a life she had not yet pictured for herself. What emerged was Life Imagined, now celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2026, and a body of work that has helped hundreds of clients navigate their own liminal seasons with clarity, courage, and deep intentionality. 

This segment also features the story of how Tona and Natalie first met: speaking at the same event in Denver in fall 2016, with Natalie's talk titled "Balance Is Bullshit" appearing on the agenda directly after Tona's talk titled "Bumps, Bridges, and Balance." The panic was real. The grace that followed was even more so. 

In This Episode: 

• The three simultaneous life events that hit Tona in 2016: selling her brokerage, moving to Texas, and a lymphoma diagnosis 
• How a six or seven-day encounter with a Thoreau quote planted the seed for Life Imagined as a company name and a personal mission 
• What getting quiet in a new state with no community and a body that needed to heal taught Tona about listening for what comes next 
• The ER Coaching program Tona created with her ER nurse daughter, built around emotional resilience through the lens of an emergency room 
• The laugh-out-loud story of how Tona and Natalie first met in Denver in fall 2016 and what connects them to this day 

Tona is a featured speaker at Reignite Live 2027 on January 22nd in Loveland, Colorado. She is also hosting her annual September Threshold on September 11th and 18th, focused on life and business and open to all. 

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Redefining success is not a concept Sean Clarke learned from a book. He learned it from a cardiac psychologist he did not know existed, a fruit basket confrontation from his number two, and a funeral procession in a cemetery where he noticed there was no U-Haul trailer behind the hearse. In this second and final segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with retired military leader and professional speaker Sean Clarke, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass take Sean through the full arc of his transformation from a man whose identity was fused to his corporate title to a man who now stands on stages helping others make the move they have been postponing. 

This segment opens with Sean working through trauma and survivor's guilt alongside a cardiac psychologist, an unapologetically frank and earthy Gen X therapist who helped Sean process watching a young man die in the bed beside him and grappling with the question of why he was still alive when 20 percent of men in his age bracket are not. From there, Natalie draws Sean into the core of his professional mission: redefining success. Sean turns the conversation on its head with a single question he now uses with every corporate professional who claims to define their own success. What happened in your last performance review? And just like that, the argument falls apart. 

The segment closes with Sean's framework for what it actually takes to make the move, his conviction that community is the most underutilized resilience tool available, the Lauren Green stick bundle story that became a philosophy he carries everywhere, and a final word that is among the most honest and clear-eyed calls to action this podcast has ever featured. You cannot steer a parked car. And there are no do-overs. 

In This Episode: 

• What working with a cardiac psychologist actually looked like and how Sean processed trauma and survivor's guilt in a way that fit who he is as a Gen X man 
• The corporate success myth Sean dismantles with one question: what happened in your last performance review? 
• How Sean's fourth career as a professional speaker was born and who he is now showing up to serve 
• The Lauren Green stick bundle philosophy on community and why we are strongest together and most breakable alone 
• Sean's final challenge to every listener: stop, sit in the quiet, ask whether this is really what you are here for, and then make a plan and move 

Whether you are grinding in a job that stopped lighting your fire years ago or you are still waiting for the right moment to make the move, this segment is your permission to stop waiting. 

 

Connect with Sean Clarke: 🌐  wolfvector.ca 🔗 LinkedIn: search Sean Clarke or click the link here📚 Book in progress: Finding Purpose at the Cemetery Gates and a second project on childhood trauma and the power of a name 

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Heart attack survival is not just a medical story. For Sean Clarke, it was the beginning of an entirely new life. In this first segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with retired military and corporate leader, professional speaker, and purpose mentor Sean Clarke, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass take Sean back to January 2024, when a two-in-the-morning wake-up call sent him to a Canadian emergency room with symptoms he had been ignoring for five days. What followed was 33 hours in a hospital, two additional heart attacks in the emergency room, a young man dying of a fentanyl overdose in the bed beside him, and a doctor who told Sean he had a couple of hours left to live. 

Sean Clarke spent 30 years building a career that moved from military data systems to corporate IT leadership, project delivery, and program management. He was on track to become a CIO. He had a great team. He was delivering results. And then, at 2 a.m. on a Monday morning, everything stopped. 

This segment goes deep into the Gen X programming that had Sean back at his desk by Monday morning after leaving the hospital on Thursday, and the moment his own team showed up at his door with a fruit basket and an ultimatum. It explores what happens to identity when your entire sense of worth is wrapped up in a job title, what cardiac rehabilitation actually looks like from the inside, and the three weeks after the heart attack when Sean sat staring at his inbox and asked, for the first time with full weight: is this really what I am here for? 

The answer to that question is what changed everything. 

In This Episode: 

• The five days of symptoms Sean ignored before a 2 a.m. wake-up call sent him to the emergency room 
• What it is actually like to have two heart attacks in a Canadian emergency room while waiting 10 hours to see a doctor 
• The Gen X and military programming that had Sean back at his desk four days after leaving the hospital 
• Why his number two showed up at his door with a fruit basket and told him in no uncertain terms to stay home 
• The moment three weeks later when Sean stared at his inbox and finally asked: is this what I am here for? 

This is a conversation about survival, identity, programming, and what it takes to stop waiting for a crisis to give yourself permission to live differently. 

 

Connect with Sean Clarke: 🌐 wolfvector.ca 🔗 LinkedIn: search Sean Clarke or click the link here📚 Book in progress: Finding Purpose at the Cemetery Gates and a second project on childhood trauma and the power of a name 

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Relationship architecture, the conscious, intentional design of love that lasts, is not a concept most people are taught. It is something Geoff Laughton has spent 33 years helping people build from the ground up. In this third and final segment of Reignite Resilience's conversation with internationally bestselling author, relationship coach, and men's work leader Geoff Laughton, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass follow Geoff through the final chapters of his origin story, into the full picture of the work he does today, and the spiritual backbone that has held all of it together. 

This segment opens with Geoff's first paying coaching client, who found him through her psychic. It moves through 16 years and 350 inner child workshops, a pivotal moment with his mentor Shakti that confirmed it was time to let that chapter end, and the unexpected four-day couples intensive that launched his relationship coaching practice when a husband overpaid him and told him to shut up and take the money. From there, Natalie and Pamela draw out one of the most powerful and rarely discussed threads of the episode, the spiritual awakening Geoff had in the Redwoods, when a charge of electricity moved through his body at a window and he knew, without question, he had found God. And then a trance channel in Los Angeles told him three things about his life that nobody else on earth knew. 

Geoff closes the conversation with the practical tools at the center of his relationship work: how to stop blaming your partner when things get hard, how to take 100 percent responsibility for how you are showing up, and why anything you think your partner is feeling that has not come out of their own lips is something you are making up. These are not soft relationship tips. They are the tools that have kept Geoff and Sarah together for 44 years and that he now brings to every couple and individual he works with. 

In This Episode: 

• How Geoff's first paying client came to him via her psychic and why he took it as a sign 
• The moment his mentor Shakti told Geoff he was not supposed to be running inner child workshops anymore and how his whole body confirmed it 
• The four-day couples intensive that launched Geoff's relationship coaching career and a husband who overpaid him and told him to shut up 
• Geoff's spiritual awakening in the Redwoods: The charge of electricity, the window, and the moment he stopped fighting God 
• The trance channel in Los Angeles who told Geoff three things about his life that nobody knew and what that unlocked in him 
• Who Geoff works with now: couples, individuals, empty nesters, men in transition, and anyone ready to consciously design what love looks like 
• The Jack Canfield-sourced relationship tool Geoff uses with every client: take 100 percent responsibility before you say a single word 

This is the segment for anyone who is ready to stop waiting for love to get easier and start building it with intention. 

 

Connect with Geoff Laughton: 🌐 yourrelationshiparchitect.com 🌐 theundauntedman.com 📚 Instant Insights on Building a Conflict-Proof Relationship. Available now 📚 Built to Last: Designing and Maintaining a Loving, Lasting, and Passionate Relationship. Available now 

Connect with Reignite Resilience: 🌐 reigniteresilience.com 📘 Facebook | 📸 Instagram 🗓️ Reignite Live 2027 — January 22, 2027 | Casa Sagrata, Loveland, Colorado. Geoff Laughton is a featured speaker. Tickets available now. (insert link) 

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Relationship resilience is not built in the easy seasons, it is forged in the moments where everything is falling apart and you choose each other anyway. In this second segment of Reignite Resilience's conversation with internationally bestselling author and relationship coach Geoff Laughton, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass go deep into the chapter of Geoff's life that transformed him from a burned-out corporate executive into the coach, speaker, and men's work leader he is today.

This segment picks up right where the love story with Sarah gets tested. After a brief breakup driven by parental pressure, his mother had a lot to say about Sarah's age and her divorce history. Geoff licks his wounds, sends a card, makes a dinner he had no business cooking, opens the door, and forty-four years begin. But the path from that dinner table to becoming a relationship architect was anything but linear. An early commitment to not having more children gets upended at 39 when Sarah becomes unexpectedly pregnant. A back injury at 34 forces Geoff out of his workaholic patterns. Anxiety attacks, a bedridden month, and finally a three-day transformational workshop called Emptying Into Intimacy crack him open. Beginning with a blindfolded rock climb and culminating in a moment on a 175-foot cliff that would become the story he uses in his coaching to this day.

This segment is about what it really looks like to face your edge, the place where your story about yourself runs out and something truer is waiting on the other side. Geoff spent four and a half hours lying on the ground, trembling, while everyone else in the workshop repelled down the cliff. He never made it down that day. And it became one of the most important experiences of his life.

Natalie and Pamela draw the throughline between Geoff's personal story and the work he now does helping couples, individuals, and men find their own version of that edge and choose to keep going.

In This Episode:

The unexpected pregnancy at 39 that changed the plan and what Geoff and Sarah chose to do with it

What a blindfolded rock climb taught Geoff about getting out of his head and trusting his body

The 175-foot cliff, the fetal position, and the four-and-a-half hours that became a coaching cornerstone

How a week-long leadership retreat in Durango, Colorado finally unlocked Geoff's calling as a coach

Why Sarah told Geoff she was proud of his coaching work and then asked him to start charging for it

The inner child workshop that woke Geoff up the next morning with a crystal-clear sense of purpose

Why asking for help is not a sign of weakness, it is actually a sign of resilience

This is the segment for anyone who has ever been lying on the metaphorical ground, trembling, while it feels like everyone else is moving forward without them. Your edge is not a failure. It is your starting point.

 

Connect with Geoff Laughton: 🌐 https://yourrelationshiparchitect.com/ 🌐 https://theundauntedman.com/ 📚 Instant Insights on Building a Conflict-Proof Relationship. Available now 📚 Built to Last: Designing and Maintaining a Loving, Lasting, and Passionate Relationship. Available now 

Connect with Reignite Resilience: 🌐https://reigniteresilience.com/📘 Facebook | 📸 Instagram 🗓️   

Reignite Live 2027- January 22, 2027 | Casa Sagrata, Loveland, Colorado. Geoff Laughton is a featured speaker. Tickets available now.  

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Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The co-hosts of this podcast are not medical professionals. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on this podcast. Reliance on any information provided by the podcast hosts or guests is solely at your own risk.

Pamela Cass is a licensed broker with Kentwood Real Estate
Natalie Davis is a licensed ...