Hi guys, I'm Rachel Hollis and I'm Dave Hollis and we're married for like 14 years and together for 16.

We have kids for kids which is like a thousand kids. We've also been foster parents to four kids as well.

We're running a business together. Do a lot of things. That is a lot of things.

But we feel like it's possible. We know it's possible to have an exceptional relationship regardless of the stresses you have in your life.

So we decided to do a podcast together. It's called Rise Together.

So if you want some tips and tricks on how we kind of get through all the things.

This is it. Come on down. Here we go.

Welcome to what is actually the first episode of Rise Together.

It's the second episode technically because we had an intro episode.

Yes. It's the first one that we're really digging in.

But this is the first time we have a topic.

Yeah. It's a really good topic and it's one that feels foundational in the relationship that we have today.

That we didn't have when we got married or even a decade ago.

Which is really the idea of a question that we feel like everybody in a romantic relationship needs to ask themselves.

And needs to ask themselves pretty regularly.

Which is, are we growing? Are we growing together? Are we growing more in love? Are we better off now than we were a year ago?

Or are we dying? Because any living thing is one of those two things.

You can't be in the middle.

You can't. You're either growing or you're dying. An animal, grass, humans are either growing or they're dying.

So what does your relationship look like right now?

And the way that I think you can answer this question, are we growing? Are we dying? Are we stagnant? Do we feel stuck?

Do we feel like we can't get past this place? Do we feel like we sort of are repeating ourselves?

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