Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by

and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,

motivate and inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal

and professional goals.

Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today, I am joined by Julie Manano, couples therapist and author of Secure Love. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you. It's so wonderful to be here. I am so excited

to have this conversation with you. I know that a lot of people will have a lot of questions when it comes to relationship

advice and, of course, being an expert couples therapist, I'm sure that I think the thing

about podcasting is that you can listen to it and the questions that you maybe have that other

people have as well, hopefully are some of the questions that I'm going to ask. And so you can just listen to it. Nobody else needs to necessarily

know. And I think, yeah, I think everybody, whatever stage their relationship is in will benefit

from hearing from you say. Everybody will benefit from relationship help. Absolutely, especially

this type of work. So as an expert relationship therapist,

for years you've helped couples to improve their relationships. And today, you also have over

a million people following you online. Your book, Secure Love, teaches us how to create a relationship

that lasts a lifetime. So my first question for you is, who did you have in mind

when you sat down to write this book? I had in mind all the couples in the world that I cannot

treat in my private practice. Yeah, because I'm doing this work with couples. It's beautiful work.

I'm seeing all of the success. I'm seeing my colleagues that

are also doing this work have all this beautiful success. But if you really look at the numbers,

most people don't have access to couples therapy or quality couples therapy. And that's really hard for me. You know, it's really hard for me to

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