Ep 396 Love Across Oceans with Kimberly Crossman & Tom Walsh
Marriage Therapy Radio
MTR
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Zach sits down with Kimberly Crossman, actor, writer, and mental health advocate, and Tom Walsh, cinematographer and creative producer, for a deeply honest and inspiring conversation about love, loss, and partnership across continents.
The couple, who split their time between Los Angeles and New Zealand, share how they’ve learned to stay connected while traveling constantly, navigating pregnancy, sobriety, and creative careers. Kim opens up about her journey through depression, anxiety, and miscarriage, while Tom reflects on his own path to sobriety and emotional growth. Together, they’ve built a relationship grounded in curiosity, compassion, and the shared belief that love, like art, is something you keep creating.
They talk about running a production company together, how they manage conflict as opposites, and why celebrating small rituals, like handwritten notes and monthly anniversaries, keeps them grounded even when life feels uncertain.
Key Takeaways
- Connection through consistency - Daily check-ins, “good morning” and “good night” messages, and humor help them stay close despite long-distance stretches.
- Mental health awareness strengthens love - Kim’s diagnosis of high-functioning depression in 2019 opened the door to deeper empathy and communication between them.
- Sobriety is shared growth - Tom’s decision to get sober after years of travel and industry burnout reshaped their relationship; Kim joined him in solidarity and clarity.
- Creativity is their glue - Their shared passion for storytelling and visual art fuels both their work and their emotional connection.
- Rituals of love matter - Monthly anniversary cards, dinners, and handwritten notes give their relationship structure and playfulness.
- Conflict reveals care - They’re learning to balance different conflict styles: her need for words and connection versus his need for space and calm.
- Loss leads to perspective - Their experience with miscarriage deepened their empathy, patience, and gratitude as they prepare for parenthood.
Guest Info
Kimberly Crossman
Instagram: @kimcrossman
Kimberly is a New Zealand–born actor, writer, and mental health advocate known for her work on screen and her candid conversations about emotional wellness.
Tom Walsh
Instagram: @the__tomwalsh
Tom is a cinematographer, director, and creative producer with over two decades of experience in film and television.
Together, Kim and Tom co-run a production company focused on storytelling for small businesses, social campaigns, and documentaries.
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| 0:00.0 | everybody welcome and thank you for listening to this episode of marriage therapy radio my name is |
| 0:05.8 | Zach brittle and you know today I'm here with Kimberly crossman and tom walsh and i got to tell you it is |
| 0:11.5 | so refreshing and delightful to talk to people who just have joy in their hearts about the world |
| 0:18.0 | and their relationship it is just fun and so I'm going to start by saying, |
| 0:21.8 | Happy anniversary, Kim and Tom. This episode is coming out around the 29th, which is an important |
| 0:26.3 | day in their lives. You'll hear about that in the episode. And I'm delighted to share part of |
| 0:31.4 | their celebration journey. And yeah, it was really fun to hear about their story to learn about |
| 0:35.1 | some of the challenges that they've gone through. It was a little creepy to hear some of the overlap between their lives and relationship |
| 0:41.0 | and my life and my relationship. And again, just a delight to hear people who are weathering |
| 0:47.0 | challenges with as much joy and positive perspective as possible. Their baby is due soon. |
| 1:14.4 | I wish them nothing but the best. I do hope it's a girl because girls are amazing. But even if it's not, they'll be great boy parents, they'll be great girl parents. I'm confident in it. I wanted to give you a heads up about something that's happening in November. Well, like I said, this is late October 2025. In November, I'm going to be rolling out a new format for marriage therapy radio just for the month. |
| 1:23.0 | I had a couple agree to come on and just basically participate in therapy over the course of a few episodes. |
| 1:27.6 | So we'll run those in November and you'll hear them work through some real issues in real time while I play podcast therapist. We are trying to give you a real intimate peek into behind the curtains of a |
| 1:37.2 | real couple. And I just finished recording with them. I'm honored to have been able to do that. |
| 1:42.9 | So again, we'll roll those out each week over the next three to four weeks. I just wanted to have been able to do that. So again, we'll roll those out each |
| 1:45.0 | week over the next three to four weeks. I just wanted to give you heads up. And then we'll get back to |
| 1:49.2 | some of our kind of regular interviews like we've been doing. There are a couple of them coming up in |
| 1:54.8 | December that are very, very cool. And I can't wait to share them with you. But first, I'm going to share |
| 1:59.4 | real life behind the scenes, |
| 2:01.3 | sort of therapeutic endeavor with a real couple who was generous and kind enough to give us |
| 2:06.1 | a peek into their lives. Before that, we get to talk to Kim and Tom. Again, an absolute delight. |
| 2:12.1 | This is a very cool conversation. Stick around. Where are you right now? |
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