Episode 194: Communication for Better Relationships and Love with Shaun Galanos
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week I welcome love coach Shaun Galanos to the show. Together we discuss communication tools for better relationships, modern dating, and love. Shaun is also the host of The Love Drive podcast and an online course creator.
If you are divorced and thinking about dating - this episode is an invitation to strive for more open communication in new relationships. Every conversation is an opportunity to learn more about yourself and those around you.
Show Highlights:
- Why communication in relationships feels hard or scary (3:42)
- Modern dating and getting back out there (8:04)
- We all need external validation, but it does not have to come from a new romantic partner (16:28)
- Red flags and triggers: how to evaluate red flags and what to do about relationship triggers (20:12)
- What does fear of intimacy actually mean? (29:31)
- Sex and dating: the best guideline is "Do I want to and do they want to?" (41:44)
Learn more about Shaun:
Shaun Galanos is a love coach, host of The Love Drive podcast, and an online course creator. He teaches intimacy and communication tools for better relationships and more love.
He holds certifications in Personal and Professional Coaching from Concordia University, Rape Crisis Counseling from BAWAR in Oakland, CA, and a Bachelor's Degree in Interpersonal Communication from UC Santa Barbara.
When he's not teaching courses on intimacy and communication or recording his podcast, he's continuing to learn about love, working on this relationship with his partner, and building community in Montreal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:44.4 | Hey, everyone, happy Thanksgiving. I am still super sick. I'm actually feeling a lot better, |
| 0:52.7 | but I sound like hell. But here we are. The show must go on. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm going to try not to cough while I talk to you today. So a couple things. I'm going to bring |
| 1:03.8 | back the Q&A episodes. You guys liked those. So if you go to the show notes, you will find a link to drop your questions. And if you don't |
| 1:16.9 | want to go to those show notes, it's just kateanthony.com slash questions. And you can, |
| 1:22.5 | you'll find a form there. You can drop them in. And then I'll bring you some Q&A episodes in the coming weeks and months. |
| 1:29.3 | The other thing that I want to let you know is that grit and grace is rock and rolling. |
| 1:32.5 | It's going so well and the community is so strong and beautiful. |
| 1:37.9 | And if you would like to join it, I would love to have you. |
| 1:40.8 | The women would love to have you join us as well. And so head on over to my website, |
| 1:47.5 | katianthony.com slash coaching and you can read a lot more about grit and grace. And now for today's |
| 1:52.9 | episode, I have with me, Sean Gallanos, who you know on Instagram as the Love Drive. He is a love coach. He's the host of the Love |
| 2:07.3 | Drive podcast and an online course creator. He teaches intimacy and communications tools for better |
| 2:13.4 | relationships and more love. I adore Sean. I've been following on Instagram forever. |
| 2:18.8 | We really had a ball recording this episode. I think we did more flirting, really, than anything |
| 2:25.4 | else. Hey, man, when you're talking about communication tools for better relationships and more |
| 2:33.4 | love, flirting is number one. Good God. |
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