Secrets of Happily Ever After: Marriage and Intimacy Tips for Couples

In today's episode, I'm chatting with Jessica Stembridge. She is a cancer survivor and mother of three, who feels her calling in life is to help moms make dinner times more manageable. She shares her 6 step framework for making mealtimes less stressful. She talks about preparation, planning, executing and dominating dinner time without all the worry and emotion that goes into it.

You can find out more about Jessica's program by joining her FREE Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dominatedinner/ or follow her on Instagram at: @jess_biscuitsncrazy.

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Today's episode is a conversation with life and health coach, Alisha Carlson about how to heal our relationships with ourselves to get healthy. Alisha started the Mindful Eating Project in order to teach women how to eat in a way that blesses and honors your body. We also discuss exercise and mindset to help you achieve your greatest goals.

You can find out more about Alisha and her coaching and services at: https://alishacarlson.com/ or follow her on Instagram @alishacarlson_.

The next round of our 14 Day Complete Intimacy Challenge starts today. If you want to join us, please register here: https://onthebrightersideofmarriage.com/14daychallenge

Also, I will be sharing tips for strengthening your marriage as well as having fun with your family everyday in my Instagram stories. You can follow along here: https://www.instagram.com/monitanner1.

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In today's episode, I'm chatting with Leah Carey of the Good Girls Talk About Sex Podcast. We discuss some common misconceptions and myths about sex and how to enjoy sexual intimacy in the different stages of our marriages, as newlyweds, after having children and beyond.

I'm grateful for our shared passion for teaching women how to enjoy intimacy. You can find Leah at: https://www.leahcarey.com/ or on Instagram or Facebook at: @goodgirlstalk. If you want some real talk about sex, check out her podcast called Good Girls Talk About Sex.

Don't forget to join Sex Therapist, Cami Hurst and I for "3 Secrets to Unlock Your Desire Without Having to Do Anything you Hate" on Wednesday, March 11th at 2:30 PM MST. You can register here: https://onthebrightersideofmarriage.com/webclass.

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In today's episode, I'm chatting with my friend, Amberly Lambertsen of A Prioritized Marriage about how to rock dating your spouse after you are married. She gives tons of great tips, tricks and ideas about how to keep this important aspect of every marriage a top priority and why it's even important.

You can find Amberly @aprioritizedmarriage on Instagram and Facebook or get a copy of her book at: https://www.aprioritizedmarriage.com/

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 11th at 2:30 MST, when Sex Therapist, Cami Hurst and I will be doing a live workshop highlighting 3 Secrets to Unlocking Your Desire. Email me at: [email protected] to get your exclusive invite.

We will also be starting the next round of our Complete Intimacy Challenge on March 16th. You can get all the details about that at: https://onthebrightersideofmarriage.com/14daychallenge. Trust me, this is a great challenge and you will get amazing results!!!

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In today's episode, I'm sitting down with Dana Malstaff, the original Boss-Mom and discussing all things Boss-Mom! She talks about how you can have great success in family life and business and what that actually looks like. We talk about what it takes to manage both of these important priorities without feeling bad about it and she gives great advice to new entrepreneurs on sticking with it, even when it seems like no one really cares.

I love how she deals with hate mail and negativity and the legacy she hopes to leave for her children. And, it's really fun to hear about how this successful woman starts her day. Her answer might surprise you.

You can find out more about her Boss-Mom community by going to: https://boss-mom.com/ or on Instagram @danamalstaff. She has a thriving Facebook community you can join right here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BossMomGroup/

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Today's episode is with Greg Denning and we are chatting about how to create an extraordinary family life. Greg is a high performance, success coach who works with individuals and families to create successful family lives.

I would listen to this episode with a pen, because Greg mentions tons of great resources for success and higher learning. We talk about the importance of keeping small commitments to ourselves and how to achieve our highest dreams and goals.

You can find Greg on his podcast, The Extraordinary Family Life Podcast or online at: https://www.gregdenning.com/ or https://www.worldschoolacademy.com/ and on Instagram @extraordinaryfamilylife.

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In today's episode, I'm sitting down with Joseph and Lois of the Fearless Marriage Ministry. We talk about all things love and marriage and even intimacy. We discuss ways to protect your relationship and habits of happily married couples.

We talk about the importance of date nights, knowing each other's primary love language and prayer.

You can find more from Joseph and Lois at: https://fearlessmarriage.net/

You can find my love language experiment here: https://onthebrightersideofmarriage.com/love-language-challenge

We mentioned the Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman and Romancing your Husband by Debra White Smith.

I hope you will all join us for the Complete Intimacy 14 Day Challenge, starting next Monday, February 17th. You can join the fun here: https://onthebrightersideofmarriage.com/14daychallenge

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In today's episode, we're learning from Jessica Procini, creator of Escape from Emotional Eating. She talks about her own journey through emotional eating, defines emotional eating and gives us some great tools to combat the tendency to overeat or eat emotionally. If you ever use food to cope, soothe or escape, you should listen to this episode.

Jessica offers an online program as well as retreats to support emotional eaters that can be found at: https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/. If you suspect that you might be an emotional eater, you can take the quiz on her website to find out the next steps you can take. You can also find her on Instagram @jessprocini.

If you would like to hear more from Jessica, check out our interview on the EPIC Health Summit by registering for FREE at: www.onthebrightersideofhealth.com.

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Today I'm republishing my most downloaded and popular episode over the past 2 years. It was also my very first remote interview, so the audio quality is not the best. I tried really hard to clean it up for you, because the content is really great.

I'm interviewing an old friend and super successful public figure in the fitness community, Steve Cook. Steve is a coach on this season of The Biggest Loser on USA Network, so I hope you will all tune in and watch along with me. Steve talks about his biggest failures, picking up the pieces, struggling to find balance and his philosophies about motivation, losing weight and getting healthy. He also talks about insecurities, critics and how he tricks himself into getting a workout in.

You can find Steve Cook on Instagram, YouTube or most other social media channels @stevecook. You can also watch him on The Biggest Loser or find his app, Fitness Culture on your mobile device.

I know you are going to love this episode, which is why I wanted to publish it now to get you excited for the EPIC Health Summit next week. You can register for this FREE, online event by going to https://onthebrightersideofhealth.com/register. I will see you there!

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