636: The Relationship Advice Nobody Gives You with Christine Hassler and Stefanos Sifandos
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
If you love your partner but still feel disconnected, misunderstood, or frustrated by recurring issues in your relationship or marriage, you're not alone. Today's episode is about bridging the gap between the relationship you have and the one you want.
Today, I'm joined by my friends Christine Hassler and Stefanos Sifandos, a married couple and master relationship coaches with over 30 years of combined experience helping people heal relationship wounds, break the cycles that keep showing up in their love lives, and build the kind of relationship most people have stopped believing is possible.
Stefanos is the author of a powerful new book, Tuned In and Turned On, which offers a path to self-healing, deeper connection, and true love that lasts. Christine brings the feminine perspective and spiritual psychology, while Stefanos brings deep work around masculinity, trauma, and what he calls Sacred Union.
In our conversation, we discussed why relationships can be so challenging, even when both people are committed to growth. Christine and Stefanos also explain why attempting to change your partner often creates more disconnection, how unmet childhood needs are projected onto your relationship, and why true repair matters more than avoiding conflict in the first place.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Doing The Work But Relationships Are Still Hard?
- What If Your Partner Isn't Growing With You?
- How We Project Unmet Needs Onto Our Partner
- Marriage as the Greatest Opportunity for Self-Mastery
- The Difference Between Ownership and Over-Functioning
- Why Couples Keep Repeating the Same Arguments
- What Healthy Relationship Repair Actually Looks Like
- Never Make Big Decisions When You're Dysregulated
- Why AI Can't Replace Relational Healing
- What "Tuned In and Turned On" Really Means
- How Mental Load Impacts Polarity and Connection
- The 3 Stages of Healing in Stefanos' New Book
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.6 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals |
| 0:21.9 | themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what |
| 0:26.4 | you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go. Most people in a relationship will tell you that they love their partner, but far fewer |
| 0:41.4 | will tell you they feel truly seen, deeply connected, or anywhere close to what they imagined |
| 0:46.8 | love could feel like. And that gap between the relationship you have and the one you actually |
| 0:53.0 | want is exactly what today's |
| 0:55.3 | episode is about. My guests are Christine Hassler and Stefandos, Sifondos, a married couple and |
| 1:02.0 | master relationship coaches with over 30 years of combined experience, helping people heal |
| 1:08.1 | relationship wounds, break the cycles that keep showing up in their love lives, |
| 1:13.0 | and build the kind of relationship that most people have stopped believing as possible. |
| 1:18.0 | Christine brings the feminine perspective and a spiritual psychology, |
| 1:21.6 | while Stefanos brings the deep work around masculinity, trauma, and what he calls sacred union. And the fact that they're doing |
| 1:30.2 | this work inside their own marriage and we're willing to be completely honest about how hard it is |
| 1:35.5 | makes this conversation a lot more useful than your typical relationship advice episode. |
| 1:41.1 | And we also touch on Stefano's groundbreaking new relationship book that he just |
| 1:46.0 | released titled Tuned in and Turned On a Path to True Connection, Deep Healing and Lasting Love, |
| 1:53.8 | in which offers what I think is a very different approach than most relationship books. |
| 1:58.4 | It begins with self-healing because only when you heal yourself can you bring that |
| 2:03.5 | version to your relationship. |
| 2:05.6 | And then the book ends with spiritual awakening. |
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