Relationship Development ft. The Couples Institute
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
You don’t have to be in a relationship to benefit from this week’s Brute Podcast. Special guests Pete Pearson and Ellyn Bader of The Couples Institute join Michael Cazayoux to discuss the importance of communication, which, as an acquired skill in human interaction, everyone can benefit from.
In this episode, relationship professionals Pearson and Bader will provide tips on creating a vision for your relationship, creating a team dynamic, rewiring your approach to arguments, and rituals you can implement for a healthy relationship.
Topics:
04:20 – Founding The Couples Institute
09:20 – Collective vision
13:00 – Three questions to focus your relationship
14:00 – Communication technique
16:00 – Fighting in relationships
22:40 – Building emotional muscle
27:20 – How to get out of a fight
29:00 – Accountability in relationships
37:50 – Rituals for a healthy relationship
39:20 – Resolving conflicts around your kids
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey and welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I've got another relationship show for you this week and on the show today are both |
| 0:36.2 | Ellen Bader and Peter Pearson and this is a couple that started a company called |
| 0:42.1 | the Couples Institute years ago and couple that |
| 0:45.0 | the Couples Institute years ago, and they specialize in, you guess it, working with couples. |
| 0:49.0 | They work on relationships and teaching people how to work more as a team. |
| 0:55.0 | And this is one of my favorite ones to date. |
| 0:58.0 | We start to show out talking about how to create a vision for your relationship just like you would your career. |
| 1:04.0 | A lot of us are really adept at creating a big compelling vision for our career |
| 1:11.5 | or for our personal development or for our fitness, but I personally |
| 1:16.4 | have never really done that for my relationship. |
| 1:19.7 | And so that was an eye-opening thing for me to just think about it more as a thing to |
| 1:26.1 | shoot for rather than just trying to fix things that are broken in a relationship. |
| 1:30.9 | We talk about how to communicate more clearly and we spend a lot of time talking about how to fight. |
| 1:37.6 | Personally I've been I've had like a rewiring in my brain of how I think about fighting. |
| 1:44.0 | And so my first question was like, how do we think about it? |
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