Do You Become a Smaller or Bigger Person in the Face of a Challenging Season: Episode 246
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Are we the only ones facing some "challenges" in life right now? Let's talk about the real stuff going on. When you face challenges – whether in your marriage or life circumstances you're facing – do you become smaller or bigger? "Smaller" meaning: you shrink down, become paralyzed, maybe even a victim mentality. "Bigger" meaning: you rise to the occasion, you get resourceful, you call on support/help, you shift your perspective and get into action.
Today's episode will cover some personal challenges and how we operate when being big or small people, and how we shift our perspectives day to day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:04.6 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the |
| 0:09.7 | same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.4 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.5 | And this episode is about do you become smaller or a bigger person in the face of challenging seasons? |
| 0:23.6 | And just to, you know, be real here, we're all about being human, to give you an idea of our life right now, |
| 0:29.6 | because we're going to share about our life throughout today's episode, I have spit up on my shirt from our baby a little bit, which doesn't do it often, but I literally |
| 0:39.3 | don't look great right now. Aaron is about to head out to this real estate property flip that |
| 0:46.3 | we told you guys. Like I have every day for going on four weeks, sometimes 12 hours a day. I am |
| 0:51.9 | starving. I haven't eaten. It's like I have a job. And he wasn't |
| 0:55.5 | supposed to do that. That was, again, a project and investment that went off track with the person |
| 1:01.5 | that was supposed to be managing it. But anyway, our life is not looking perfect right now. I mean, |
| 1:06.7 | it never does. But this is relevant. Let's be more straight. It has been, as you've you've heard us say the most challenging season at least for me personally I think where |
| 1:14.9 | you've been at is slightly different very supportive and as the title of this |
| 1:19.5 | episode you've really helped me slash us step into being bigger rather than smaller |
| 1:24.7 | I'm not gonna sugarcoat this We're not saying it hasn't been |
| 1:27.5 | perfect. It's been freaking challenging. Yeah, that's true. And the main thing about this is |
| 1:32.6 | did it have us become smaller or bigger? Yeah, and this morning we had cacao, drink cacao, |
| 1:40.1 | which is a whole other conversation, but we absolutely love it. We meditated before she woke up, |
| 1:44.1 | so we got up at 5 a.m. because that's how devoted we are to the internal work. And after we both |
| 1:49.3 | had some quiet time, we ended up having a great long, like hour long conversation together |
| 1:53.4 | talking about just the things we're going to discuss today about how are we each handling |
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