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Finding love can be challenging, but making a relationship work can be even more challenging. That's why Dr. Duana Welch is back on the show with her science-based tips and tools for relationships.

Dr. Duana Welch (pronounced DWAY-nah) is the original Love Factually author and coach, known for using social science to solve real-life relationship issues. She has been a professor at universities in Florida, California, and Texas across 20 years, and has contributed to NPR, PBS, Psychology Today, and numerous other outlets, podcasts and videos.

Her first book, Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do, is now out globally in five languages; its fully revised and updated edition released in 2022. Love Factually for Single Parents is the second book in the series, specifically geared for finding the right partner not only for readers, but their families.

All Duana's books rely on science rather than opinion to help men and women find and keep the right partner. She is an expert for Paired, the couples relationship app. Her client practice is global, via Zoom and other technologies.

For more information and free content, see LoveFactually.co.

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• How science is at the focus of Dr. Duana's work
• The process of forgiveness and releasing anger
• What science says about forgiveness
• What effective communication looks like
• Looking for love and defining dealbreakers
• Dating approaches in the 21st century

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Liz Thompson is an expert on all things related to food!

She previously owned and opened two restaurants and even taught culinary classes. Then she had to pursue a second career change when she lost part of her vision overnight. She had to access her skillset in terms of what angle of the food industry was she most passionate about and she could do mostly at home.

Today she focuses on recipe development and new product development. She also helps individuals launch their own food company and get their products to market.

She is working on her fist book Baking with Herbs. Her mantra is, "Let your passion define you, not your disability."

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Liz was able to deal with overnight news that she had developed a serious vision issue with no health issues whatsoever.
• How she was able to access the skills and passion she had to put together a new plan of work.
• How to understand the importance of help when it is being given and also having the strength to look for it as well.
• How it is up to ourselves to create the story that will play out and never play the victim.

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Divorce touches the lives of people every day. It can often be painful, costly, and life-changing. Finding support during this transition is critical.

Sue Horwitz is an inspirational life transition and divorce coach. She guides women through the chaos and devastation of their divorce into a new, purposeful life the love.

Years ago, as she transitioned her business into a coaching practice, her husband abruptly ended their thirty-year marriage. As a result, she learned firsthand how challenging divorce can be for women and their families emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually.

Today, she uses her experience and training to help women design a better, less costly, and less challenging divorce, and find the gifts of divorce to build a life they love.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Sue's story and how she transitioned into coaching
• New ways to think about divorce
• The importance of being your best at the worst of times
• How you start the process is key to outcomes and recovery
• Finding the gifts of divorce

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Zoilita Grant is a success coach who uses hypnotic coaching to clear subconscious blocks, change the mindset, and help her clients achieve goals and bring out their own brilliance so they can create a purposeful, extraordinary life. In this talk, she discusses the power of past life regression and finding one's soul purpose.

Zoilita has been involved in human development for over 40 years. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1971 with a BA in Psychology and got her MSW from UTEP in 1979. She worked for over 25 years as a psychotherapist specializing in hypnosis. For the last 12 years, she has been a hypnotic coach.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why past life regression is so powerful
• Different ways to work through past life regression
• Finding gifts, talents, and abilities from past lives
• How to complete soul contracts
• Clearing karma from past lives
• Finding your soul purpose today from past life work

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Dana Hentschel is a Professional Organizer. Organizing is her passion and really just what she LOVES to do! "Arranging Joy" has been a dream of using her gifts to help busy families like her, all the while arranging spaces that bring joy! Dana loves serving others by helping them transform their homes through well-designed spaces that bring peace.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why organization brings peace
• What brought Dana to professional organizing
• Most common areas of the house needing organizational help
• Dana's process for getting started and helping peole get organized
• What to do with the clutter you don't want to throw away and how our things bring emotional attachment
• Practical systems that anyone can utilize

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Deanna Bryant is a midlife relationship coach for couples who find themselves at a crossroads in their marriage. Bringing both her teaching and mentoring skills to her coaching, she helps couples cultivate new meaning and a deeper intimacy in their marriages.

Midlife divorce has the highest percentage of any other age group, and Deanna's relationship was at that point five years ago. Like most couples, she and her husband simply didn't have the skills to sustain a long-term marriage. This experience was the impetus for starting both her podcast and business, "Revive Your Midlife Marriage." By breaking patterns that are not serving you, learning new patterns for a healthy marriage, and working on yourself, couples can turn the tide and enjoy a better relationship than ever before.

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• Deanna's personal journey and how she became a relationship coach
• How your family of origin impacts your marriage
• Common conflicts in relationships
• The negative feelings impacting a relationship
• What to do when one spouse wants help, and the other doesn't
• How to set healthy boundaries

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Seema Bonney, MD is the founder and medical director of the Anti-Aging & Longevity Center of Philadelphia. She is dual board-certified in both Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and Emergency Medicine, and has completed a fellowship in Regenerative Medicine.

Dr. Bonney is a holistic doctor who is passionate about changing the way medicine is practiced. Her emphasis at her practice is based on prevention and wellness, and diagnosis/treatment of root causes of common symptoms such as weight gain, low energy, hormonal imbalances, insomnia, and anxiety/depression. She is focused on helping her patients achieve optimum physical and mental wellness by helping them change their habits and form new healthy ones through her work with them.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Dr. Bonney's transition from her career as an ER physician to preventative care with functional medicine
• How she motivates patience to make positive health changes
• How stress causes the body to store weight
• A functional medicine approach to blood pressure
• Dr. Bonney's definition of functional wellness and how she evaluates patients
• Creating a helpful sleep routine for deeper sleep
• Solutions for anxiety

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In 2006, Tracy Cromwell was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. Tracy had to start making better lifestyle choices. A chronic yoyo dieter most of her life, the news of this diagnosis was frustrating and just anothe "failure." But this diagnosis set her on a solid path to wellness.

Today, Tracy is healthy and strong, taking on century bike rides, eating in a way that supports her body and feeling good in her own skin. Tracy's personal health journey inspired her to go back to school, where she trained in more than 100 dietary theories and studied a variety of practical lifestyle coaching methods as well as science-based personal training.

Tracy now helps clients create a completely personalized "roadmap to health" that suits their unique body, lifestyle, preferences, and goals.

Tracy is a published author of Your Personal Journey with Food. It is an interactive book that will take the reader on their own journey where they will uncover their current unique relationship with food which may not be serving them, thus allowing them to create a new, vibrant, unique, and healthy relationship with food.

Tracy received her Health Coaching and Nutrition Training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Precision Nutrition. She received her Personal Training, Senior Fitness Specialist, and Weight Loss Specialist certifications from The National Academy of Sports Medicine.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How Tracy's health crisis transformed her career and put her on a healthier path for herself and others
• Tips to support our bodies as we age
• How to be your body's number one teammate
• The importance of listening to your body and inner voice
• Tracy's book and why she wants to empower others on their personal journey with food

Access Tracy's guide to "Stop the Yo-Yo Diet Chaos." Available at her website here.

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Rachel S. Heslin has been immersed in the study of psychology for over 40 years. Her father, a clinical psychologist, taught his children his craft such that Rachel was first introduced to Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) concepts when she was 9 years old.

Rachel is currently the author of two books: Navigating Life: 8 Different Strategies to Guide Your Way, and Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life.

Through her work through her company, The Fullness of Your Power, she loves helping people who feel like they are their own worst enemy learn how to embrace all parts of themselves so they can live happier, more successful, and more deeply fulfilling lives.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Rachel's view of the world as a kaleidoscopic hologram and her life's transitions
• The differences in being goal-oriented and process-oriented
• The innate tendencies we're born with
• How external clutter is a manifestation of internal clutter
• Celebrating incremental progress
• Incorporating Daily Rituals to Improve Clarity

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Dr. Duana Welch (pronounced DWAY-nah) is back for her second show to talk about the science of love and dating. She is the original Love Factually author and coach known for using social science to solve real-life relationship issues. Her first book, Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do, is now out globally in five languages in audio, e-book, and paperback, with seven Love Factually titles now out in the series. All of Duana's books rely on science rather than opinion to help men and women find and keep the right partner.

She is an expert for Paired, the couples relationship app. Her client practice is global, via Zoom and other technologies.

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• What is a scientific approach to dating?
• The individuals who seek support from Dr. Welch
• Common myths in dating
• Moving away from the past to find a hopeful future
• How childhood attachment styles impact our relationships
• Finding love in mid-life
• Mental roadblocks that prevent you from finding love

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram