About Our Hosts

Dan Mulhern is an author, professor and executive coach, who helps his clients lead their organizations and each other, as better halves. Dan’s better half is Jennifer Granholm, former two-term Governor of Michigan and now U.S. Energy Secretary.

Debbie Phillips is a pioneering life and executive coach who founded Women on Fire to support women leaders. She lost her better half, Rob to cancer, and celebrates his memory by helping couples achieve more deeply satisfying relationships.

Markos Kounalakis, an award-winning foreign affairs columnist, author, and scholar. Markos’s better half is Eleni Kounalakis, former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and now California's Lieutenant Governor.

Our upcoming guests include the spouses of two of our hosts, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, along with world-renowned marriage experts Julie and John Gottman, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, New York TImes Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker and his spouse Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, just to name a few. 

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