81. Open Relationships and Entrepreneurship - Lessons Learned | with Ben and Dedra Hartman
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.9 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2019
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Ben is back in our new studio and this time he is joined by his awesome wife Dedra. Two apologies for this episode: one as you'll hear, part of the episode is cut out due to technical issues. Second, we apologize if this episode makes you question your own beliefs around relationships and brings new light to conversations most people aren't willing to have. Whether it is religious or "just how we've always done things", it's important to gain new perspectives and that's exactly what Ben and Dedra shared with us. We also cover the birth of Morphogen Nutrition and their early struggles with the company before diving into open relationship topics. Major discussion points include:
- The Moment Ben and Dedra Knew There Was More
- Ben's Struggle with Depression
- Profitability
- Taking Time Off
- Ben's Grad School
- Ben's Talk with His Dad
- Sex at Dawn and Human Sexuality
- Swinging
- Polyamory
- Polygamy
- Ben and Dedra's Personalities in Swinging
- Advice to Other's Interested
- Honesty
- First One to Be Honest
- The Process of Entering the Swinger Lifestyle
- Glossary
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Short Glossary
Swinging - a sexual activity in which both singles and partners in a committed relationship engage in such activities with others as a recreational or social activity. Swinging is a form of non-monogamy and is an open relationship.
Polyamory - is the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships with more than one partner, with the consent of all partners involved.
Polygamy- is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at a time, sociologists call this polygyny. When a woman is married to more than one husband at a time, it is called polyandry. If a marriage includes multiple husbands and wives, it can be called a group marriage.
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Where to find Ben and Dedra
Check Out Morphogen Nutrition!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? Welcome back to the Flos State of Mom podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | And today we have in the studio with us, well, not right this minute, but at the time of the recording, we had in the studio with us our friends Ben and Deidre, man, it was juicy. I think that's the best way to say it. |
| 0:21.9 | So we'll go ahead and kind of spill the beans or give a little bit of like maybe foreshadowing. |
| 0:25.8 | Ben and Deidre in an open relationship. And we just want to start by saying Ben and Deidre are two of the |
| 0:30.6 | most beautiful humans to ever walk this earth. They're the most non-judgmental, most just caring, and most just like, they're great friends, |
| 0:37.8 | great people, great business owners, great humans. |
| 0:40.3 | And we wanted to get them on here to talk about this other side of them to almost challenge |
| 0:44.0 | our listeners to say like, you know, if this bothers you, like why? |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, we really got into their personal life and a central theme that I'm glad Ben kept coming back |
| 0:53.6 | to was truth, just living a life of |
| 0:56.1 | truth and that's what this looked like for him that's what it looks like in his personal life |
| 1:00.0 | that's everything to him in business just totally living truthfully authentically and him and |
| 1:06.7 | didger get into it a little bit about how that's hard sometimes. Yeah. So we talked, we kind of started this episode out. |
| 1:11.9 | Let's just go ahead and share with them the fuck up. |
| 1:13.5 | So basically what happened was guys, we had Ben and Deidre over in our studio and we had an |
| 1:17.8 | issue with the recorder. |
| 1:19.3 | So basically the recorder filled up or the SD card ran out of space. |
| 1:23.3 | So we recorded like 40 minutes in before we realized this. |
| 1:26.8 | And but some of the audio was caught from the camera. |
| 1:28.9 | So the audio on this is going to be a little bit poor quality because it's coming from our |
| 1:32.4 | camera. |
| 1:33.3 | And that's going to be for like the first part of it. |
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