Ep 407 Fighting the Right Enemy with Glenn and Jodie
Marriage Therapy Radio
MTR
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Zach sits down with Glenn and Jodie, a married couple whose relationship has been shaped by cancer, caregiving, entrepreneurship, and a shared commitment to facing life side-by-side.
Their story includes an early breast cancer diagnosis shortly after getting engaged, multiple recurrences over the years, and a present-day reality of living with cancer as a chronic condition. Through it all, Glenn and Jodie describe how the illness became something external to their marriage—an adversary they face together rather than a wedge between them.
They talk openly about caregiving, helplessness, perspective, and how repeated medical crises stripped away the impulse to sweat small things. Glenn reflects on learning how to show up when he couldn’t “fix” anything, while Jodie shares how being cared for reshaped her understanding of partnership and trust.
The conversation also explores the everyday friction of working together—different wiring, different priorities, and Glenn’s self-identified ADD—along with Zach’s reframing of conditions like cancer and ADHD as things couples must externalize rather than personalize.
They close by sharing the work they now do together through their businesses and podcast, Couples, Inc., where they help couples who run businesses navigate boundaries, roles, and relationship health.
This episode is a grounded, hopeful look at what it means to fight the right thing—and to stay on the same team over the long haul.
Key Takeaways
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Externalize the problem – Cancer, ADHD, and other conditions aren’t your partner; they’re what you face together.
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Caregiving is connection – Showing up consistently matters more than having solutions.
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Perspective changes priorities – Repeated health crises reduced conflict around “small stuff.”
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Different wiring isn’t disrespect – Productivity styles and attention differences require collaboration, not blame.
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Mindset precedes tactics – Tools only work when used without resentment or superiority.
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Play the long game – Healthy relationships focus on reducing the same pain points year over year.
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Being on the same team is intentional – Unity doesn’t happen automatically; it’s practiced.
Guest Info
Glenn & Jodie Glenn and Jodie are married partners in life and business. They co-own Living Pink Communications, a marketing firm inspired by Jodie’s ongoing experience with breast cancer, and host the Couples, Inc. podcast, which supports couples who run businesses together.
Website: https://livingpinkcommunications.com/
Podcast: https://couplesincpodcast.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome and thank you for listening to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio. |
| 0:05.7 | My name is Zach Brittle and I'm feeling refreshed. |
| 0:09.6 | Rebecca and I had a date night last night. |
| 0:11.1 | We went to the Olive Garden. |
| 0:12.5 | We watched a Rob Reiner movie and if you know, you know. |
| 0:16.3 | And if you don't know, you're about to find out in this conversation that I have with Glenn Berkline and |
| 0:22.8 | Jody Spears. Before that, though, I wanted to say something about date night. We here at Marriage |
| 0:27.9 | Therapy Radio, we're kind of getting excited about date night. It's something that comes up in my |
| 0:30.7 | practice a lot, like how do couples spend time together in ways that are novel and interesting? |
| 0:36.3 | And so we've been exploring some of that. |
| 0:38.3 | We've found some partners that we think would be cool. |
| 0:41.6 | Rebecca and are trying out different, |
| 0:43.5 | you'd have to call them products, I suppose, |
| 0:45.8 | which we're going to be letting you know about in the coming weeks and months. |
| 0:49.8 | If you'd like to learn more, |
| 0:51.3 | a good way to do that is to follow us on Instagram at Marriage Therapy Radio. We'll have some of those links there. But just a way to kind of feel connected and more |
| 1:00.2 | engaged in ways that aren't boring. One example, which is not quite date night, but is how we're |
| 1:07.9 | trying to figure out how to, you know, add some variety to our life is we bought a video game. |
| 1:14.1 | We started playing it last week after Christmas. |
| 1:16.7 | And it's one of these games we have to play together. |
| 1:19.1 | We are currently in a fight with a vacuum cleaner that I am determined to defeat. |
| 1:25.9 | And I can't wait to tell you more about our video game playing, |
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