Your Brain's Default Settings Could Be Sabotaging Your Marriage (How Neuroscience Reveals Your Blocks) with John Assaraf: Episode 402
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Why is it so hard to change the way we show up in marriage, even when we know what we want to do differently? In this special episode, we sit down with John Assaraf, a renowned global leader in success and performance coaching, decades-long behavioral neuroscience researcher, and CEO of MyNeuroGym.com. He's authored 4 bestselling books (including 2 New York Times bestsellers) and has been featured in 11 films.
Together, we explore the science behind why we get stuck in patterns like defensiveness, withdrawal, or reactivity and how to finally break free. Whether you're trying to communicate better, stay calm in conflict, or just feel more connected, this episode reveals what's really happening in your brain during those moments, and what it takes to rewire it.
John shares breakthrough insights from his book Innercise, along with practical tools to reshape your beliefs, upgrade your mindset, and master the habits that shape your relationship. Which is required if you want to get new results in your life and marriage. If you are ready to become the partner your relationship and your future needs, this episode is a must-listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.2 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team |
| 0:10.6 | no matter the challenge that you face. And today, Jocelyn and I bring you an interview from a special |
| 0:15.2 | guest. He is renowned global leader in success and performance coaching with decades long behavioral neuroscience research. |
| 0:23.3 | He has four bestselling books, two of them being New York Times bestsellers, and he's been |
| 0:28.9 | featured in 11 different movies like The Secret and been on shows like Larry King and Anderson Cooper. |
| 0:36.8 | Now he's currently the CEO of My NeuroGim.com, |
| 0:41.0 | whose mission is to help individuals strengthen their mindset so they can achieve their goals |
| 0:46.2 | and dreams faster and easier than ever before. Let's get into this interview with John Asraf. |
| 0:53.7 | So, John, welcome to this episode. |
| 0:56.5 | And so just to kind of create the framework for the people listening, I'm so ready to have |
| 1:01.8 | you on today, you know, couples come to us for a result in their marriage. |
| 1:08.1 | And that result might be connection and understanding. And then people have |
| 1:13.1 | listened to this podcast and come to us because they really believe in the simplicity of the |
| 1:18.9 | skills and tools that we teach, which are usually communication or conflict resolution focused, |
| 1:24.4 | as the actions to get them there. But I'm so excited to take this to the next layer with someone of your caliber that has |
| 1:32.3 | been doing this for this long so we can get to that layer about the perception, the mindset, |
| 1:39.3 | and the attitude, and why that is important to drive that action with the tools they learn from us and |
| 1:47.6 | then finally get the result, you know, and what really stops people. So that's kind of the context |
| 1:52.4 | I wanted to paint today. So you can go wherever you want from this. But the first question would be |
| 1:57.1 | give us the basics there, right? Like maybe that's even new for people. Like I know I want a result. |
| 2:01.2 | I usually take an action. But what does my mindset and attitude really have to do with that? |
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