Do This "End of Year Check-in" Now to Get Aligned and Connected Before 2026: Episode 426
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Most couples glide into the new year on autopilot, sometimes with excitement and optimism, hoping things will feel different, more connected, less chaotic… yet they end up repeating the same patterns that make it feel the same as last year . In this episode, we're giving you one of the most powerful "end-of-year check-in" conversations we use with our private coaching clients. It's a guided reset that helps you break out of routine, reconnect with each other's dreams and needs, and get aligned before January even begins. Think of this episode as your personal coaching session; one that can spark more clarity, purpose, and connection between you than you've felt in months.
We'll walk you through four core areas of your life and relationship that absolutely shape how fulfilled, peaceful, and united you feel as a couple. You'll leave with prompts, structure, and a simple framework to help you set the tone for 2026 with intention, not stress or default habits. If you want the upcoming year to feel meaningful, fun, and deeply connected, this is the conversation to have before December 31st!
✨ If you want to feel closer and more connected now—not just in January—join our special edition 30-Day Couples Challenge, The Best of Us. It's designed to reignite emotional and physical intimacy through small, daily actions that bring out more joy, affection, and playfulness in your marriage. It only opens three times per year, so don't miss this round: mycoupleschallenge.com/best.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | 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. |
| 0:12.1 | I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.7 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know what it says the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.6 | And this is going to be a fun episode because this is something that we've even needed to do ourselves, something we do every year. |
| 0:24.8 | So this is about doing an end of the year check-in now so that you and your partner can truly be aligned and connected before 2026. |
| 0:34.3 | And it really is the work that you do now before the end of the year that sets the tone |
| 0:39.8 | for how you start the year. And we're going to give you this really great structure that's not |
| 0:45.1 | overwhelming. It's not going to take you three hours. And it's going to really inspire and |
| 0:50.8 | connect the two of you. The reason we wanted to do this is because one of the things |
| 0:55.7 | that couples appreciate most from our private coaching sessions is that we always give them |
| 1:00.8 | action items to complete between our sessions. So think of this episode as our coaching to you |
| 1:07.7 | and we are asking you if you will do this before December 31st. |
| 1:14.3 | Ideally, that's the goal, right? Because it is the prep work now, like I said, |
| 1:18.7 | before the beginning of the year. Now, this check-in that we're about to describe if you do it, |
| 1:25.0 | which we're counting on you, we're considering you saying yes by listening to this |
| 1:28.7 | episode. It can be incredibly revitalizing and reconnecting because you can either go into this next |
| 1:38.2 | year and just think, you know what, it's going to be more of the same. You know, after the holidays |
| 1:42.8 | pass, you kind of get back into the groove and, I don't know, just life becomes groundhog day, every day passes, |
| 1:49.9 | suddenly it's the next holiday and the next holiday. But I would bet because you listen to this |
| 1:55.6 | episode or to our entire podcast that you have a different way of thinking, |
| 2:04.0 | that you truly want to be similar to how we think, |
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