The Grown Zone

In the Grown Zone we teach what it means to make healthy, Grown decisions (not merely the adult choices you have the right to make, whether or not they are to your advantage). This includes challenging self-destructive beliefs about how to create and sustain healty relationships, including marriages. This edition of Grown Zone Radio explains why such relationship education is key to protecting your business, career and finances. If your wealth, influence, visibility and status are on the rise, you are particularly vulnerable to making poor relationship choices. We discuss three ways smart business people put their success and wealth at risk in relationships:

You attract and choose potential relationship partners based on what you have, not who you are.  

You attract and are attracted to adult dependents who drain, but can't replenish, you and your resources. 

You believe that you are too smart, popular, influential and otherwise successful to be exploited. 

Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Commit to your relationship education NOW by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.

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In the Grown Zone we challenge conventional wisdom, including overvalued and ineffective beliefs about how to create and sustain healty relationships, including marriages. This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals three reasons why church-based premarital counseling, in the absence of ongoing relationship education, does not prevent divorce:

It does not reach those most in need of relationship education, when they need it most. Church-based premarital counseling is no substitute for the education and training that must take place long before the marriage proposal. 

It is biased in favor of the marriage happening, whether the relationship is proven to be healthy or not—and even when there is ample evidence that it is unhealthy. The fact that most premarital counseling takes place at the same time that wedding plans are being made and carried out does not help.

It is usually too little, too late without the solid foundation of a healthy relationship. Five to 10 premarital counseling sessions in the months or weeks before a wedding is no substitute for the ongoing relationship education that should begin before reaching the age of marital consent.

Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Commit to your relationship education NOW by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.

Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.com

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A key benefit of committing to the kind of relationship education we provide in the Grown Zone is learning to challenge conventional wisdom, including popular, yet overvalued and ineffective beliefs about finding love. This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals three pieces of widely promoted and popularly accepted relationship advice, and why they are overrated when it comes to choosing and maintaining healthy relationships:

Communication is the key to healthy relationships. We explain while good communication is a byproduct and common characteristic of healthy relationships, more effective communication alone can't sustain unhealthy ones—nor should it. 

To find true love you need to understand the opposite sex. Far more important is study, understanding and acceptance of self, and then appreciation and acceptance of others as individuals, not just as members of a gender group.

The definition of relationship success is staying together—no matter what. We'll explain why knowing when and how to end relationships, without guilt, shaming or bitterness, is far more important to your ability to find healthy love.

Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Then, bypass conventional wisdom in favor of rear relationship education by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.

Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.com

Official Site: GrownZone.com

You were born with both the need and the capacity to love, but you weren't born knowing (and were likely never taught) how to create and grow healthy relationships. Your success and happiness depends on your willingness to invest time, attention, money and intention to learn. This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals three important reasons to boost your L.Q. (love quotient) by committing to relationship education:

To protect your money, financial assets and earning power.  The financial costs of poor relationship choices are both measurable and considerable. The wedding industry is a $51 billion business; the divorce industry is about equal to that. The cost of one failed marriage cycle can easily exceed $100,000.

To protect your personal security and safety. Many people pay for poor relationship choices with their lives; others live with violence, fear, abuse and intimidation in relationships. Relationship education is a key to your ability to recognize danger signs and make safe choices. 

To protect your confidence, self-worth and peace of mind. Relationship education dramatically increases your ability to secure the healthy love you want, need and deserve.

Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Then, make a valuable investment in boosting your L.Q. by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.

Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.com

Official Site: GrownZone.com

Tired of settling for dissatisfaction, disappointment and drama in relationships? This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals exactly what you need to accept in order to achieve excellence in your relationships:

You don't know how to love.  Being born with the potential to love and need to be loved does not mean you are born with the ability to fulfill either effectively, if at all. 

You've been conditioned to accept relationship mediocrity. Having great relationships requires you to reject what you've been taught all your life: Average is good; excellence is unrealistic and unachievable.

Excellence requires continuous learning, training and coaching. These are required to excel at anything: sports, music, business, and especially relationships—even after you achieve mastery.

Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Then, start by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.

Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.com

Official Site: GrownZone.com

Your relationship is over. Now what? On this edition of Grown Zone Radio, learn why single life is about more than just killing time between relationships and searching for someone new to love you, but taking the following steps to learn, grow and love youself:

Reflect.  You must intentionally answer the question, "What just happened?" with a focus not on blaming or playing victim, but on exploring your choices, the emotions that drove them and your underlying beliefs. How do they compare to the patterns of past relationships?  

Release. Here's where you must intentionally unpack the baggage of the relationship, with a focus on getting the lessons. This will require forgiveness, acceptance and compassion towards others, but especially for self.

Recommit to intentionally cultivating your most important relationship--your relationship with self. It's time to create and execute a plan for self love and personal growth.

Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why the real work of healthy relationships happens between relationships. Then, get started by signing up for our free 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.

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How do you get what you want in life, love and relationships? Well, here's what does not work: merely wishing for, wanting, needing and/or deserving it. On this edition of Grown Zone Radio, learn why you can't succeed without intention, and why it requires investment from you in four key areas:

Your Time.  Are you intentionally investing it in reading books, attending seminars and other activities (many of them free) to enhance your personal growth?  

Your Attention. How much focus are you intentionally giving to challenging your beliefs, considering healthier choices and learning to love self?

Your Energy. How much effort are you putting into new habits and behaviors in order to intentionally achieve better outcomes for your life and relationships?

Your Money. What percentage of your income is invested in information, education and training to intentionally achieve your goals? 

Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why your intention matters, and how to commit to it TODAY by signing up for our free 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.

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We've been taught that suffering in relationships and in life is inevitable; it's the price you must pay for success (or at least a chance at it). The Grown Zone is our rejection of that belief. We say you can have success without the mess. However, you must:

Choose it.  It won't just happen; it must be intentional. It starts with challenging your beliefs: Do they serve you or sabotage you? Get answers by signing up for our free 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com. 

Prepare for it. You need education to exhange unhealthy beliefs for new, healthy ones. It's why we offer our Marriage Aptitude Training, Grown Love and Money Sessions and of course, our book Loving In The Grown Zone.

Practice it. Knowing better is not the same as doing better. New habits are best learned and mastered with guidance and feedback. We offer private personal growth and relationship coaching specifically to fulfill that need.

Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why challenges—even the painful ones—are never meant to hurt us, but to teach and help us grow. Learn how to choose success without the mess!

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January is widely referred to as "Divorce Month" in legal circles. (That's right: smack in the middle of the "Engagement Season" that runs from Thanksgiving through Valentine's Day!) This edition of Grown Zone Radio explains why investing in marriage readiness now can prevent the financial and emotional devastation of bad marriages and divorce in the future. A commitment to marriage readiness requires you to always be mindful of three things:

The high cost of marrying recklessly. More than $100,000 plus your happiness, security—and even your life—is at risk. 

Who are you marrying? Is this person qualified to love you with H.E.R. (Honor, Esteem and Respect)? 

Why are you marrying? There is only one Grown, healthy reason. 

Marriages end in divorce not because the institution itself is flawed, but because too few are prepared and qualified for it. Divorce prevention is not about staying married at any cost, but refusing to marry without real training and preparation. 

You--and likely others you know—really need to tune in to this edition of Grown Zone Radio. Join us to learn why our book Loving In The Grown Zone is not your typical relationship book about finding someone to marry, but about making healthy choices to attract the love you were created for.

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It's a brand new year, and a brand new opportunity to choose Grown for 2016! We've got some amazing things in store to help you to always make your best decision better, as you pursue personal growth, more self love and healthier relationships in 2016. On today's Grown Zone Radio show, we'll help set your mindset for the new year, and give you a heads up on what we are working on that will help you to find and maintain healthier relationships, while protecting your body, money, home and heart--SUCCESS WITHOUT THE MESS!

Tune in if you want to be the first to hear about the exciting new Grown Zone initatives we're working on for 2016, including our new Grown Zone Membership site, live apperances (including a national tour and book signing events), marriage preparation workshops, our Grown Love and Money (GLAM) sessions and more, all designed to help you to achieve relationships of honor, esteem and respect. Be sure to go to GrownAdvice.com to get the latest on everything Grown Zone. 

Be sure to tune in to this edition of Grown Zone Radio. Join us to get your mind right and the life you desire and deserve. Choose Grown for 2016!

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