Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship

advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team

no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman,

but you all just know it says the Freeman's. And this episode is about being an even better team

in this new year. Here we are at the end of the

year. And a lot of this is going to come from you hearing our own reflections on our biggest wins

and challenges. And our hope is that you can take away the underlying principles. Maybe you can

take some of the lessons learned from our own challenges. And maybe you can avoid some of the lessons learned from our own challenges and maybe

you can avoid some of those, right?

I think one of the biggest things that we connect on is the fact that we reflect and we look

for even in the hardship, what was the wisdom gleaned?

How did we become even better as individuals and as partners? And also,

let's celebrate the wins. We don't want to just, you know, turn the calendar and get back into

autopilot and do just more of the same. There may be things that you need to make adjustments on

to either get back on track with how you want to live as a couple,

or there might be new goals that you need to focus on or personal shifts that you need to

make to be an even better partner. So you're going to take away a lot. And I think you're going

to really enjoy the categories that we provide so that you can reflect on them. Now, before we go into them,

and I'm excited to hear Aaron's shares, right, his reflections. Because we selected the

categories, but we didn't necessarily tell each other what the subjects of those were going to be.

Exactly. But this is time sensitive. Okay. So the day that this is coming out is the day before the beginning of the best of us

couples challenge. It's the special edition 30 day couples challenge that we created really because

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