Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou.

Mind, Body, brute.

Hey, and welcome back.

My name is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast.

I've got another relationship show for you this week.

And on the show today are both Alan Bader and Peter Pearson. And this is a couple that started

a company called the Couples Institute years ago. And they specialize in, you guess it,

working with couples. They work on relationships and teaching people how to work more as a team.

And this is one of my favorite ones to date.

We start to show out talking about how to create a vision for your relationship, just like you would your career.

A lot of us are really adept at creating a big, compelling vision for our career or for our personal development

or for our fitness.

But I personally have never really done that for my relationship.

And so that was an eye-opening thing for me to just think about it more as a thing to shoot

for rather than just trying to fix things that are

broken in a relationship. We talk about how to communicate more clearly and we spend a lot of

time talking about how to fight. Personally, I've been, I've had like a rewiring in my brain of

how I think about fighting. And so my first question was like,

how do we think about it? Is it something that we should avoid? Is there an end goal where,

you know, years down the line, we shouldn't fight a lot? And these are just questions that I've

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