325: Michelle Obama's 4 Secrets To A Successful Marriage

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

I think we can all agree that marriage is hard. It is also awesome. But it does not come without intentional work. It’s easy to glorify other people's' marriages and assume they “have it all” when that is never actually the case. I recently read Michelle Obama’s book, Becoming. Then I went as saw her speak here in Seattle. In both instances, I was touched by the way she talks about marriage and essentially the “secrets” of her marriage. She is married to a dreamer, while she is admittedly much more pragmatic. She is married to someone who wants to serve all the people, while she wants to prioritize serving her family and those closest to her. She is married to someone who can’t manage his time to save his life, while she loves structure and schedules and routine (and being on time for it all)! In reading Michelle’s book and hearing her talk, I was able to curate four secrets to a successful marriage that I think will help all the rest of us: Set clear boundaries and expectations Assume your partners have the best intentions Assume your partner can actually do the things they say they can Shamelessly build, own, and grow your own identity Listen in for a deep dive on these concepts around marriage (and to learn how to see your partners' most annoying characteristics as gifts)! AND make sure to stick around for the end when we talk about asking for support rather than permission. This is a game changer in how you can maintain your identity as well as a high level of respect and equity in your marriage. Thank you to our sponsors: Cheers Health: Visit Cheers Health and Enter promo code SHAMELESS at checkout to Get 10% off your first order and a free gift. CareOf: For 50% off your first month of personalized care/of vitamins, visit CareOf and enter the code SHAMELESS50 at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 325.
0:04.0	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found
0:07.1	by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 3,2, 5.
0:16.2	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:18.3	I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:20.1	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group
0:37.9	to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at shamelessmom.com
0:43.6	forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode. Hello, Shameless moms. Happy Monday.
0:52.5	I hope that you're doing great. I hope your April is off to a lovely
0:55.5	start. For some of you, it might be spring break. I think for some people it's that week.
1:01.7	Ours isn't for a while still. We have like the latest spring break. I don't know why we just don't skip
1:06.4	spring break for us and just go to summer because ours is so late this year. So if it is your
1:11.0	spring break week, I hope you're doing something fun or at least that you have some childcare
1:15.4	coverage and it's not too much of a headache. I know that having kids out of school can present
1:20.2	a lot of challenges. And I know for us, like this year for us for spring break, we're not going
1:23.6	anywhere, which presents some challenges. In fact, I brilliantly, let me just tell you what we're
1:28.9	doing for spring break, I brilliantly planned Shameless MomCon during spring break. So,
1:35.4	excellent planning on my part that my kid will be out of school the whole week that I,
1:40.1	leading up to Shameless MomCon, and then Shameless MomCon starts on the Thursday evening of
1:44.5	spring break and then all day Friday. So I mean, just want to pat myself on the back for that,
1:48.8	like the worst planning ever. But oh well, what are you going to do? I will figure it out. That's the thing.
1:55.2	Like we always figured out. This is why when I say to moms who are struggling around something,
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