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New Mindset, Who Dis?

762 - A healthy relationship requires "explanatory optimism"

New Mindset, Who Dis?

Case Kenny

Relationships, Inspiration, Motivation, Selfhelp, Mental Health, Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Personaldevelopment, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mindset

4.96K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about what "explanatory optimism" is and how it is the lifeblood behind a healthy relationship. My new book "The Opposite of Settling" is out now! Instagram: @case.kenny

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on

0:07.2

Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I create short no BS episodes dedicated to helping

0:13.0

you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

0:17.9

fulfilling life. Let's go.

0:53.2

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 762. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who Discs. As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today I want to talk about what I think is a fundamental requirement to make a relationship work. And it's derivative of all the work I do on optimism and the language of optimism. That's the thing I'm passionate about,

1:11.2

is the thing I do all my keynotes on.

1:13.0

It's the work I'm so vocal about,

1:15.7

the way that optimism literally can create outcomes

1:19.0

and better health and more wealth and more happiness

1:22.6

and really the core pillars of life.

1:25.0

But in the context of relationships, relationships that work,

1:29.2

that are long-lasting, that are healthy, that are rewarding, that fill your cup, the foundation

1:34.5

of them is optimistic language and optimistic communication. I'll explain what this means,

1:40.6

but this is call it the law that underpins a healthy relationship. Optimism.

1:46.8

In simple terms, optimism has to be the operating system of your relationship because it

1:52.7

shapes how you interpret stress, conflict, uncertainty through language. The words you use to communicate

1:59.8

decide whether a moment of conflict feels temporary and

2:03.7

workable or it feels permanent and like you're doomed. When optimism underpins a relationship,

2:11.5

it means that the default assumption you have between you and your partner is that difficulty, conflict, uncertainty is

2:21.0

navigable. Emotions are temporary. Patterns are not permanent. It is a shared belief. Optimism is a

2:28.0

shared belief that having a moment of disconnect does not define the relationship. That effort still matters. Optimism then,

2:37.2

when that's the case, becomes the lens through which everything is interpreted. That is conflict,

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