Communication, Expectations, & Life in the Trenches | Jeremy Guichet | Episode 410
The Speakeasy
The Girl Named Blake
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sat down with my husband Jeremy to talk about 15 years of marriage, the early struggles, the growth, and how we got to where we are today. Because what you see now? It didn't always exist. And that's kind of the whole point. We laughed, we got vulnerable, and we talked about the stuff a lot of couples deal with but don't always say out loud, especially in those early years. Whether you're newly married, in the thick of parenting, or feeling stuck in communication patterns, I hope this episode reminds you that strong marriages are built, not found.
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| 0:00.0 | Dang. |
| 0:04.4 | That was the biggest lighting I think I've ever seen. |
| 0:08.6 | I was going to be recorded when that happened. |
| 0:10.9 | Okay, we're recording this podcast in the middle of a thunderstorm. |
| 0:15.0 | But it's just setting the vibes, I feel like. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome to Louisiana. |
| 0:17.9 | Exactly. |
| 0:18.9 | And welcome everyone's favorite Louisiana husband to the show. |
| 0:28.0 | So next month we will have been together for 15 years. |
| 0:36.4 | Little less than half my life. Amazing. Crazy. And I was thinking that you being on the show |
| 0:44.3 | more often, which I am loving and so is everybody else, that some backstory may be helpful. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, let's do it. Right? Because I think it can be easy to see our marriage today |
| 0:56.6 | and think it's always looked like that. Oh gosh, training so hard. It's fine. It's okay. Yeah. |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah. Yeah. That's not the case, right? No, yeah. We've done a lot of development over the years individually and together. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.7 | We both changed a lot. |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, a lot of growth, a lot of each of us doing a little therapy. |
| 1:22.2 | That part. |
| 1:23.6 | You know, growing closer to God in our walks. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah. And our life looks very different |
| 1:30.7 | right what's what's happening around us and in our home and all that kind of stuff so |
| 1:36.9 | we are going to keep quite a bit private sure i think that there's a lot of power in that. |
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