I Was a Housewife. He Made the Money. Here’s the Truth No One Tells You | Tom & Lisa Bilyeu (Relationship Theory Replay)
Women of Impact
Impact Theory
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Fan Favorite: This episode originally aired on November 11, 2017. Hey, lovely people! It's your girl Lisa Bilyeu, and welcome back to another powerful episode of Relationship Theory on Impact Theory, where we dig into the heart of what makes relationships tick. Today, Tom and I are super thrilled to be jumping into a topic that's all about balance, empowerment, and understanding different perspectives within relationships.
This episode is all about diving into roles like the housewife versus the breadwinner and how these dynamics affect relationships. We’re answering your burning questions and giving you practical tools to navigate these roles with love and respect.
Join Tom and me as we start with a fun "Would You Rather" segment, spark conversation about financial transparency, and explore why truly understanding and valuing each partner’s contribution is pivotal. I really want to emphasize the empowerment that comes from being open and clear in what you bring to the table, whether you're the one working outside the home or managing everything inside.
We'll go into detail about how couples can create a partnership based on equality, regardless of who's bringing in the cash. Plus, let's talk communication! How can we better express what we need from our partners without feeling guilty or sidelined? And how do we manage those heated moments when emotions are high?
Before we wrap up, we'll give you a takeaway challenge to try out in your own relationship. If today’s episode resonates with you, please drop a review, subscribe, and share it with your loved ones. Together, we can keep these essential discussions rolling!
SHOWNOTES:
- 00:00 Welcome to Relationship Theory: Diving into Partner Dynamics
- 00:01:08 Would You Rather: The Privacy Dilemma
- 00:01:38 The Importance of Financial Transparency and Openness
- 00:01:48 Roles and Communication: Finding Balance in the Relationship
- 00:05:18 Key Question: Navigating the Stay-at-Home and Breadwinner Dynamic
- 00:08:31 Defining the Empowerment of Managing Home and Finances
- 00:20:14 A Listener's Dilemma: The Breadwinner and Relationship Dynamics
- 00:33:34 Encouraging Action: Empower Your Partner with Love
- 00:44:05 Managing Heated Moments: Our Go-To Communication Strategies
- 00:49:53 Understanding Materialism and Overcoming Guilt
- 00:56:42 Episode Conclusion and Relationship Takeaway Challenge
Let’s stay connected and keep lifting each other up with love and understanding!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable |
| 0:06.1 | techniques from the world's highest achievers. Join host Tom Billiou, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the Billion Dollar Brand Quest Nutrition on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success. Welcome to Impact Theory. Hey's your favorite song? What's your favorite song? What's your favorite song? What's your favorite song? Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Relationship Theory. We're gonna be trying some fun new amazing stuff for you today and all courtesy of you and that woman hiding off camera, the shady old lady coming to the rescue. So I don't know what it is. Yeah. I'm very excited. |
| 0:45.5 | So we're trying to elevate our game so that it isn't just me and you talking, which hopefully has been enjoyable, but just giving a little more substance to it takeaways. So I'm going to start off today's episode. Yeah, you don't really know much. Michelle's got like all this stuff brewing in the back. So a question to you and a question to you guys out there, |
| 1:04.8 | please put in the comments the following. |
| 1:06.8 | So would you rather have every detail of your love life made public or every detail of your finances made public? So put in the comments below guys, what would you rather if you had to? Details of your love life made public or details of your finances made public. So what about you? Yeah, I mean look, for me that's very, very easy. Obviously the details of our financial life are by my standards quite impressive. So really it'd be that you'd choose finance. Yeah, of course. Like you wouldn't? Our love life is on like relationship theory every week. Well, what do we mean by love life? |
| 1:45.5 | I'm assuming we are talking all aspects of love life here. Oh, I'm fat. All right. Let's make it. So yeah, I was assuming that was like everything from my... Like how much help when you have sex and stuff like that. Yeah, all like everything. Like even I like have a line where it's like there's some things that I talk about. Mine would be love life. So what are you throwing into that? |
| 2:06.0 | What are you going to happen though with finances like that's something that I talk about. Mine would be love life. So what are you throwing into that? |
| 2:06.0 | So this will just be a little bit of... |
| 2:07.1 | What are you worried gonna happen though with finances? |
| 2:08.8 | Like that's so mundane. |
| 2:10.3 | Forbes publishes a list of like, where people's finance are that. But you know I've always been, I was brought up with like you don't discuss your finances, you don't talk to people about how much you have, you don't talk to people about what you know. |
| 2:21.8 | There's no way we literally we would have to define |
| 2:24.4 | then what you mean by love life. |
| 2:25.7 | Cause you're thinking something very like pedestrian. |
| 2:28.8 | And I'm thinking like, |
| 2:29.8 | tell me. don't talk to people about what you're doing. There's no way we literally we would have to define than what you mean by love life. |
| 2:25.7 | Because you're thinking something very like pedestrian. And I'm thinking like tell people like, Racy here. How often we would have sex. I mean, what else? But just free. And see, I mean, what else is there? Are you joking? What kind of question is that? What relationship have you been in for the last 17 years? |
| 2:44.3 | Like there's we could day boys and girls we could warm this room up. |
| 2:48.8 | Let me tell you. What kind of question is that? What relationship have you been in for the last 17 years? Like there's, we could gave boys and girls, |
| 2:46.8 | we could warm this room up. |
| 2:48.9 | Let me tell you. All right, so apparently if you asked us both the questions, we tell you, is this like a male? We would tell you, I love life. Is this like a male female thing? Like this is so crazy to me that you would even think about it. because we've got both male and female fans out there. |
| 3:02.6 | Oh god, I'm so curious now. |
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