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The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

198: The Love Gap: My Interview with Author Jenna Birch

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #198
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In today's episode of the podcast, author Jenna Birch stops by to talk about her new book The Love Gap: A Radical Plan to Win in Life and Love (January 2018). Whether you are in your twenties or have decades of experience when it comes to love, successes and stumbles, Birch offers grounding principles that align in many ways with living simply luxuriously. Below are three of the wide variety of topics touched upon in our conversation.

  • investing in yourself
  • choosing to be authentic, especially with a romantic partner
  • striving to reach your full potential, rather than shrinking to fit a limiting definition of a loving relationship
  • letting go of artificial pressures

Already a staff pick at one of my favorite independent bookstores, Powell's (seen in the image above), it was a pleasure having Jenna on today's episode of the podcast, and whether you are in a relationship, looking for a relationship or have ended a relationship, her book is a researched based approach paired with personal anecdotes from men and women sprinkled along the journey of love sharing a powerful message to trust your journey. Get to know Jenna Birch:

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~7 Components to Strong, Healthy Relationships, episode #11

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

0:16.3

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

0:18.8

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

0:25.0

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to a

0:45.0

a 198 episode of the Simple Sophisticate. Today's episode

0:50.0

welcomes a guest who's going to talk with us about love in our modern day and about how to more successfully navigate it.

0:59.0

She believes in investing in your own life first and continually checking in with yourself to ensure that forward

1:06.0

progress is always being made, whether it's small steps or grand strides. Because in all honesty, as she says, the good connections are going to be

1:16.6

organic so long as we are being sincerely authentic ourselves. Now the book is called the Love Gap, a radical plan to win in life and love, and the author

1:27.2

Jenna Birch is young.

1:29.0

I point this out in our conversation and she responds very generously.

1:33.0

Having interviewed men and women from all different situations with regards to relationships,

1:38.0

having ones that have gone through divorce, others who are still single,

1:42.0

those that are now married, and sharing their journeys.

1:45.6

She has fully dedicated her attention to answering the questions that she has had, being the very rational thinker that she is,

1:56.4

and as we talk how this journey through discovering what she has shared in this book has changed

2:01.7

her own approach in her own life moving forward.

2:05.6

I applaud her for her forthrightness, for her dedication, and I am so happy to have her

2:11.6

on this podcast. This young woman has done her research and in everything that I read and in what you will hear in this conversation, she speaks to an understanding of how to navigate this world that we live in that is constantly changing

2:26.2

and to navigate it in such a way to cultivate healthy strong strong, loving, equal partnerships that will enable both people, but she's

2:38.3

speaking from the female perspective and this podcast aspires to inspire listeners to reach their full potential and

2:46.8

discover what they're capable of and not shrink to make others feel more

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