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Habits and Hustle

Episode 563: Sadia Khan: The Modern Relationship Advice Your Therapist Got Wrong

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.5820 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Modern relationship advice is everywhere, and most of it is making your relationships harder, not better. These are the buzzwords that we see spread all over the internet like the misused attachment labels, the "be more vulnerable" coaching, the body count debate, and the love bombing warnings. Sadia has spent years working with couples one-on-one, and almost none of it holds up in real practice. Sadia Khan is a psychotherapist and the author of The Red Flags:The Truth About Love, Trauma, and the Lies Your Therapist Didn't Warn You About, a book built around the 10 questions every therapist should be asking their clients and every partner should be asking each other. She has worked with hundreds of men and women to fix what conventional therapy keeps missing, and her approach has built her one of the largest relationship audiences online. In this episode of Habits and Hustle, Sadia breaks down why your therapist's advice may be quietly hurting your relationship, the real reason high body count damages men more than women, why people pleasers suffer more in relationships than narcissists do, and the four green flags that actually predict whether a couple makes it. This is one of those conversations that will make you rethink every "diagnosis" you have ever given an ex or a friend who’s “avoidant”. What's Discussed: (5:36) Why love languages and attachment theory keep failing real couples. (6:51) The therapy advice that is quietly making men less attractive to their partners. (8:38) Why people pleasers suffer more in relationships than narcissists do. (12:43) How honesty, not niceness, is what builds real intimacy. (21:14) The narcissist label and what insisting on it actually says about you. (31:16) The four green flags every healthy relationship is built on. (1:21:14) Why high body count damages men more than women. (1:45:50) The pattern most men fall into when they cannot be alone. Thank You to Our Sponsors! AirDoctor: Head to AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code HUSTLE to get up to $300 OFF today! AirDoctor comes with a 30-day money back guarantee, plus a 3-year warranty (an $84 value) FREE! Kion: Visit getkion.com/habits for 20% OFF Momentous: Ready to try supplements that actually do what they claim? Head to livemomentous.com and use code JEN for 35% OFF your first subscription. Therasage: Visit Therasage.com and use code JEN to get 15% OFF your order. Your skin deserves this level of care. Magic Mind: Head over to magicmind.com/jen and use code JEN at checkout. Prolon: Prolon is offering listeners 30% OFF sitewide plus a $40 bonus gift when you subscribe to their 5-Day Program! Just visit prolonlife.com/JENNIFERCOHEN and use the code JENNIFERCOHEN to claim your discount and your bonus gift. Rho Nutrition: Go to RhoNutrition.com and try Rho's Liposomal Glutathione. Use code JEN20 for 20% OFF sitewide. Manna Vitality: Try it now by using the code Jennifer20 at mannavitality.com. Find more from Jen Cohen:  Website: jennifercohen.com Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagements Find more from Sadia Khan:  Website: sadiapsychology.com  Instagram: @thesadiapsychology  YouTube: @sadiapsychology  TikTok: @sadiapsychology  The Red Flags Book: permutedpress.com/book/the-red-flags

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0:00.0

Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.

0:06.5

You guys, we have a very special guest. I know I say this a lot, but I'm a big fan of hers. Her name is Sadia Khan.

0:13.0

You probably have seen her all over social media because she is a viral psychotherapist who gives really, I think, great advice on relationships, men, women,

0:25.3

and it's kind of sometimes somewhat polarizing, which is why so much of it goes viral.

0:30.8

But almost always so spot on and accurate, which is why I think also people have taken to you the way they have. And she has a new book called Red Flags. And we're going to talk all about Red Flags. And we're going to talk about so many other things. So, Sadia, all the way in from Dubai, thank you so much for being here. No, thank you so much for having me. It's such a pleasure. Oh, such a pleasure. I've been watching your stuff for years. Like, I mean, probably what, three, four, how long have you been doing this stuff? Since 2023. So about three years now. Yeah, three years. Wow. It feels like it's been longer. It does feel like that, but I actually, the moment I came on social media, it kind of went viral that day. So there was no build-up, so on foot. So it feels like people have known me forever,

1:12.9

but they literally knew me from the day I started. media, it kind of went viral that day. So it was no buildup. So it feels like people have known me

1:12.5

forever, but they literally knew me from the day I started. And it just kind of went from there.

1:16.3

It's so true. It really weird. There was no buildup. There was no slow trajectory. It was just kind of

1:21.1

on and off. You know it's funny because you did explode right off the bat. Yeah. I remember seeing a

1:26.5

couple of your videos and they were so,

1:29.3

they, they were so good in terms of the content and you don't hear a lot of people talking about

1:34.8

what you talk about because you're not trying to be counterintuitive, but you are counterintuitive.

1:41.8

And it's, and it's, and it's, but it's actually so accurate, I think. Thank you. And I think people were sharing it so, like, so, like, so, like, so, like, so, like, so, like, right away. People were sharing it. So you went viral so quickly. Yeah. And it was, I was also lucky with the timing. Um, as much as I would love to say, I just went viral. It was very good timing because it was a time where Andrew Tate was, you know, the red pill stuff was really heavy. And then there was the feminism that was really heavy. And there was a whole cohort of women like me who were like, I don't like the red pill stuff, but I'm also not this staunch feminist. And they just didn't have a voice. And I came in as kind of like the middle ground. every bit so many people will say, you just worship men and you're on men's side. But then there's men that say, you're always on the women's side. And I think when there's an equal backlash, then you're probably neutral. And I like to say that I'm always on children's side. I'm on the side of what will make a happy home and a good, like, set of parents and co-parents.

2:35.0

I'm always kind of, the Northern Star has always been like, what's best for children? If I teach men to hate women, it's going to be terrible for parenting. And if I teach women to hate men, that's going to be terrible for parenting. So it's always kind of finding the balance between the two to get to a healthier home. I mean, that's really well said. I find that so much of your content, well, you can talk about it now, is about number one,

2:56.3

masculinity, which I found to be really, like, on point.

3:00.0

There's so many trends that you kind of were speaking on.

3:03.1

Like the first trend I was on this masculinity, how men, for example, we're losing, like, men are not as

3:11.1

alpha or masculine as they used to be, and how women need an alpha or masculine man. Yes. And so I saw

3:18.4

that clip and I was like, share, share, share everybody. Can we talk about that? Like,

3:22.7

how did you kind of come to this? Tell me about a little bit about that? Like, how did you kind of come to this?

3:30.8

Tell me about a little bit about that and the evolution of how you kind of got your research and data and where you speak from.

3:30.8

Thank you for that question. Great question. What happened is, and this is probably why it was so different, is, and I talk about this in my book, I was following, when I first became a therapist, there's amazing resources. So they'll teach you about attachment styles. They'll teach you about Gottman theory. They'll teach you about love languages. And you feel so intelligent when you learn all of this. So when I first started having clients, I was like, okay, as a man, you just need to show her her love language. If she likes gifts, give her a bunch of gifts. If she wants quality time, just do that.

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