The Challenger Podcast

Sarah Ezrin is a EYRT-500 yoga instructor and freelance writer for the Yoga Journal and LA Yoga Magazine. She believes that self-doubt is what holds us back in relationships and on today's episode, we discuss her passion for helping people look at their limiting beliefs and old stories. Sarah loves guiding people toward the truth- and that is that they are worth it! Please subscribe, rate, and review this episode as well as share with someone you know that will benefit from her powerful message! Tune in Friday to wrap up this series of mini episodes on giving your date the benefit of the doubt, how to tell if they're into you or not, and finally, what it feels like to experience "Cuffing Season"! If her message resonated with you today, please don't hesitate to reach out to Sarah on one of these platforms! Www.sarahezrinyoga.com, on Instagram: @sarahezrinyoga, or on Facebook: Sarah Ezrin Yoga

Our guest on today's podcast, Dr. Kristen Hick, PsyD, is the author of an ebook called "Dr. Hick's Guide to Fearless Living and Loving".  At the Center for Shared Insight, she facilitates a weekly divorce recovery group for women at any stage of the process.  Dr. Hick believes that people not intimately knowing themselves is what holds them back in relationships.   She works with anxious attached individuals to SHOW UP in a relationship and her example in our episode is when making dinner plans.  Dr. Hick recommends that an anxious attached person suggest two to three things they would like to eat without fear of rocking the boat or upsetting their partner.

Her mission at The Center for Shared Insight in Denver, Co is to heal unresolved relational traumas and experiences that prevent secure connection with loved ones. Their therapists support the desire to restore and strengthen healthy attachment through a warm and responsive therapeutic alliance and empower you to develop healthy attachment behaviors to help you transform your relationship with yourself and others. As a result, they strengthen relationships, families, communities, and generations through nurturing self-aware, empowered, secure and healthy adolescents and adults.

If her message resonated with you today, please connect with them at  www.centerforsharedinsight.com, or on Facebook CenterforSharedInsight , even on LinkedIn centerforsharedinsight/ and finally on Instagram centerforsharedinsightpc/

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Dr. Jenni Skylar of the Intimacy Institute is back for another episode with Dave and she has a mission to give all people permission for pleasure by promoting sexual health and healing. We offer comprehensive counseling, experiential education, and culturally competent training services to help each client deepen their connections with themselves, their partners, and their communities. She believes that socio-cultural messages that perpetuate the performance of sex and relationships…and, attachments wounds from childhood that “run the show” in adult dating.

Dr. Skylar and I dig deep into modern relationships by discussing when and how to have the hard conversations about sex with our partners. Going further than that, we chat about “Cuffing Season” and managing boiling pots by dating multiple people at the same time. She is the expert that I turn to for advice and a new perspective on love, relationships, and sex.

Recently, Dr. Skylar gave me a suggestion that a date I went on my be more old fashioned than me and I would benefit greatly from calling her on the phone. You know what? It worked out great and I can’t thank her enough for giving me direction and advice that proved hugely valuable!

Please connect with her on Instagram @intimacy_institute

Dave Glaser is the owner of Fit Life Champions and an Enneagram Coach for singles that wish to find lasting love in an authentic relationship. Your first session is absolutely free, please book your 30 minute consultation with Dave at calendly.com/believeberealbebold now!

Don’t forget to join our free 3 Day Social Media Detox at www.believeberealbebold.com with people around the country just like you wishing to show up more authentically and be more present with family and friends when it matters most!

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Gretchen Vartek and her partner Brooke run Adelska.com, a premier service for couples and daters to plan date nights out when they are short on time, energy, and effort. At Adelska, they believe that people are held back in their relationships because they believe that they have little time, they focus on their children, without the ideas for making date time together fun! Their company started out as Gretchen’s hobby of planning date night experiences for couples. They love exploring this city, and consider themselves to be foodies, and love a good cocktail. Their mission is to curate unique and personalized experiences for couples in a convenient and fun way throughout Colorado but most often they focus on Denver metro area. On today’s episode, Gretchen and I dive into the keys to dating your partner no matter how long they have been together! Head over to the website to be the first to know when they are hosting pop-up events around town for their members! If their message resonated with you today, please contact them at www.Adleska.com  Stay tuned to a future episode with Dave takes them up on their offer to try out a date night with Adelska personally!

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Justine Shigley holds an active license as a LVN and has competed in 3 NPC bikini competitions. Her next adventure is transition over to the WBFF and will be making her debut on stage this year. 8 years ago, she lost her husband in a car accident and for the first time ever on the podcast, we have a new perspective on settling into a relationship that doesn’t serve you. 

Justine believes that most people put their feelings second because they are fearful in hurting the other persons feelings and that’s what holds people back in a relationship. Her personal mantra is, “You are not confident because you are beautiful, you are beautiful because you are confident” and that is my big takeaway from our conversation on the podcast today. Her personal mission is for men and women to believe in who they are as an individual. When entering the “dating scene”, 

Justine believes that you need to be confident in YOU and know what you bring to the table. Her best advice is to not settle, be real with yourself and not to let looks be a deciding factor when getting into a relationship. If her message resonates with you today, please don’t hesitate to reach out to her on Instagram: justinejune on her Website: j-spire.com, or on her Facebook page: J-Spire Virtual Fitness Coaching

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Julia Parzyck and I originally met because a listener of the podcast recommended that we connect over all things fitness, nutrition, and dating! I am so glad we did because now we are close friends and building a dream team of power partnerships in Denver, Co!

Julia is a vibrant and energetic eating disorder coach that focuses on bringing out the inner child within her clients! Through her own journey toward more confidence in herself, she has transformed the way that she thinks about her body image. Her mission in life is strong and clearly it is what drives her forward each and every day!

Our conversation covers so many topics but what I loved most about our conversation was her transparency and authentic approach to bringing confidence with her wherever she goes!

Please don’t hesitate to follow Julia at her website fitfatandallthat.com or on instagram @fitfatandallthat and subscribe to her podcast with co-host Devon Not Your Normal Womxn

To find out your Enneagram personality type, take the test at 9types.com and send your results to Dave at [email protected] for more information!

Meredith Shirey, LMFT, from New York City joins us on the podcast this week to discuss how overwhelming online dating can be!  We touch on attachment theory as well which is one of our favorite topics to attribute to the challenges in modern dating.  We both agree that self-awareness and personal discovery is key to finding lasting love when dating in these modern times. 

Meredith Shirey believes that we are all capable and deserving of love and connection, and that we are inextricably connected. If her message resonated with you today, please reach out to her at www.relationshipcounselingnyc.com or email at [email protected]  Feel free to follow her on Instagram @meredithlmft

To find out your Enneagram personality type, take the test at 9types.com and send your results to Dave at [email protected] for more information!