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Marriage Therapy Radio

Marriage Therapy Radio

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Look... every couple struggles. You fight too much; you're bored; sex is either okay (or rare); maybe you're even considering divorce. OR... maybe your marriage is actually pretty good, but you want to go deeper. In this podcast, straight-talking marriage therapist Zach Brittle tackle the most common complaints virtually every marriage experience. Along the way, they reveal the science behind strong relationships and talk about what's really going on for couples. Topics include conflict, communication, compatibility, money, sex, in-laws, infidelity, time-management, future dreams, and more. If you want relief? A deeper connection? A new way forward...? Then you've got to find out what's REALLY going on in your marriage. That's what this podcast is about. You can learn more about Zach, and his alternatives to traditional therapy at marriagetherapyradio.com.

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  • Ep 425 When Life Keeps Breaking You: A Marriage Story About Illness, Resilience, and Starting Over w/Kate & Mike

    Ep 425 When Life Keeps Breaking You: A Marriage Story About Illness, Resilience, and Starting Over w/Kate & Mike
    2026/05/19
    Zach sits down with Kate Northrup and Mike Watts, a married couple and longtime business partners who have navigated one of the more quietly grueling partnership stories you'll hear on this show. Kate is an author, podcast host, and creator of the wealth and wellness program Relaxed Money. Mike is her co-founder and the operational engine behind their growing portfolio of ventures. Together they have been a couple since 2011, and by their own account, about eight of those years were genuinely brutal.The episode covers a lot of terrain: a traumatic first birth and a chronically ill newborn, Mike's years-long battle with topical steroid withdrawal that left him dropping 40 pounds and unable to function, two broken bones from separate accidents, a second pregnancy in the middle of all of it, a family that moved nine times in eleven years, and a business they were building through every bit of it. Kate describes reaching a breaking point in 2016 and calling her best friend from a supermarket parking lot to say the marriage might not survive. That call led them to the couples therapist they have worked with ever since. The conversation goes deep on what therapy actually gave them, why Mike initially resisted it, how they reframed getting help as a business decision rather than a personal failure, and the structural tools that have kept their partnership functioning, from scheduled money meetings to the weekly date night they kept even when Mike could barely walk.What makes this episode land is the lack of drama about the drama. Kate and Mike are not performing for the camera. They correct each other's word choices in real time, laugh about falling asleep at dinner, and openly admit that the early years were impulsive in ways that could have unraveled everything. But underneath the lightness is a real story about what it takes to hold a marriage together when the body, the business, and the bank account are all under stress at once, and how asking for help is not a sign the relationship is failing. It is what keeps it from doing so.Key TakeawaysAsking for help is an operational decision, not a confession of failure. Mike Watts reframed couples therapy the same way he would think about hiring a contractor: the job needs doing, so you bring in someone qualified to do it.The crisis that breaks you open may also be the one that moves you forward. Mike's illness forced a relocation that ultimately brought both of them back to life.Running a business with your spouse requires containers. Logistics bleed into date nights. Business ideas creep into bedtime. Designated meetings for money, planning, and connection keep the categories from collapsing into each other.Repair over time builds something stronger than ease from the start. Kate says their connection now is better than it was in the early years, and those early years were not the hard ones.The body is not a passive vehicle. Kate and Mike both treat physical experience as meaningful information, not just inconvenience to push through.Having a standing weekly date night matters more than having a perfect one. They kept theirs through illness, stress, and bad company.Stability is something you can grow into, even if it was never your default. Mike describes the provider instinct arriving a decade late, and finding that it fit.What your partner brings to the table may be the thing you cannot generate on your own. Kate saw every conversation as connected; Mike compartmentalized. The tension between those two things became a feature, not a flaw.Guest InfoKate Northrup is an author, entrepreneur, and host of the podcast Plenty. She and Mike run a coaching and education company focused on helping high-capacity people build what she describes as the energetic and logistical infrastructure behind their financial lives. Their signature program is called Relaxed Money, currently in its sixth iteration. Kate's approach combines neuroscience-based somatic techniques, nervous system work, and practical personal finance.Instagram: instagram.com/katenorthrup Website: katenorthrup.comMike Watts is Kate's husband and business partner, handling the operational and strategic side of their ventures. He is also building out a short-term rental portfolio and has been open about his years-long experience with topical steroid withdrawal and the physical and relational toll of chronic illness.Instagram: instagram.com/mikejwattsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    45 分
  • Ep 424 How Two Alphas Build a Marriage That Actually Works w/Dana & Adam

    Ep 424 How Two Alphas Build a Marriage That Actually Works w/Dana & Adam
    2026/05/12
    Zach sits down with Adam Roach and Dana Gentry, a married couple from Charleston, South Carolina, who have spent nearly a decade building what might be the most strategically intentional relationship he has ever heard described on the show. Both are high-achieving entrepreneurs on their second marriages, and they arrive with real tools, real failures, and a refreshing lack of pretense about how hard it was to get here.The conversation opens with Dana sharing that her first book, Restore: 90 Days to Intentional Living, just landed at number 14 on the USA Today bestseller list, which sets the tone for everything that follows. These are people who do not drift. From their annual January planning retreat to vision boards presented to the whole family, their approach to marriage looks less like a feeling and more like a decision they make over and over again. Adam, a communication-focused coach who played tennis in college, describes how they identified early on, with the help of a therapist, that they were both alphas and would need to figure out who takes the lead and when. That single insight has shaped the way they handle conflict, celebrate each other's wins, and divide the emotional labor of their relationship.Some of the richest material surfaces around what it actually means for two competitive, driven people to stop trying to win and start trying to keep the ball moving. Adam draws a vivid parallel from the tennis court: in a match between two alphas, one will always dominate. But if the goal becomes keeping the rally alive, the whole game changes. Zach builds on this with his own framework for conflict, noting that the problem is never really about winning the point but about whether the relationship is the court or the casualty. The episode closes with two practical tools that listeners can use immediately: the feel it or fix it check-in before someone unloads on their partner, and Zach's version, do you want to be helped, hurt, or hugged.Key TakeawaysSecond marriages can thrive when both partners are honest about what went wrong the first time and intentional about not repeating itWhen two alpha personalities share a relationship, they need to decide who leads in which lane. Defaulting to whoever is more passionate or skilled in a given area works better than trying to win every roomThe seven-day rule: no more than seven days apart without one of you flying to the other. Proximity protects connection, especially when both partners travelBefore your partner starts venting, ask: do you want me to feel this with you or help you fix it? That one question changes the entire conversationZach's version: do you want to be helped, hurt, or hugged? The alliteration is easy to remember and the question is hard to skip"Vegetable soup" conversations, where grievances from five different fights get stirred into one, are a sign you did not release the last point before serving the next oneVision boards are not just personal. Adam and Dana make them as a family, present them to each other, and stay genuinely invested in each other's goals, not just their ownSeeing your partner as a true equal, not just a legal partner, is a prerequisite for the kind of mutual support that makes ambitious two-career marriages workGuest InfoAdam Roach is a communication-focused entrepreneur and relationship coach based in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the founder of I Love Coaching Co., a coaching community, and brings a background in competitive tennis to his frameworks for conflict, communication, and resilience in relationships.Instagram: @adamrroach Website: https://ilovecoachingco.com/ Dana Gentry is an entrepreneur, speaker, and newly minted USA Today bestselling author. Her first book, Restore: 90 Days to Intentional Living, published February 3rd and hit number 14 on the USA Today bestseller list during launch week. Her work centers on helping people stop drifting and start living with intention across faith, business, and relationships.Instagram: @danaggentry Book: Restore: 90 Days to Intentional Living, available on Amazon and wherever books are sold. https://restoredevotional.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    39 分
  • Ep 423 |19 Years In: How a Dating Coach and His Wife Actually Do It w/Evan and Bridget

    Ep 423 |19 Years In: How a Dating Coach and His Wife Actually Do It w/Evan and Bridget
    2026/05/05

    Zach sits down with Evan Marc Katz, a dating coach for smart, successful women, and his wife Bridget. The premise alone creates an interesting tension: what does it look like when the guy who coaches women on how to find a partner actually goes home to one? The answer, it turns out, is less glamorous and more grounded than anyone might expect.

    What surfaces quickly is that Evan and Bridget do not have a fairytale origin story. They were on the same dating site at the same time and never matched. They met at a party, talked for six hours, and built something slowly. Evan, who dated more than 300 people online over a decade, had never stayed in a relationship longer than eight months before Bridget. She, a serial monogamist by nature, had come from a completely different kind of romantic history. The episode moves through how two genuinely different people with different worldviews, different sleep schedules, different appetites for depth, decided to stop scanning for flaws and start building something that actually works. Along the way, Evan makes a sharp case that the qualities dating culture rewards, height, income, shared hobbies, politics, are almost entirely irrelevant to long-term happiness.

    Bridget holds her own throughout, and some of the episode's best moments come from her plainspoken honesty: she does not love deep conversations on demand, she sleeps until 11 on weekends without apology, and she has no interest in discussing politics with anyone. Far from being a liability, Zach and Evan both recognize this as a kind of relationship wisdom. Bridget is the high-EQ anchor of the marriage, the one who sees everyone's point of view without judgment and never keeps score. Her sign-off captures the whole thing: never keep track, but always be ahead in giving.


    Key Takeaways

    • The traits that attract you to someone (chemistry, common interests, credentials) are almost entirely unrelated to the traits that keep a marriage together
    • What gets you into a relationship and what sustains it are two distinctly different skill sets
    • Choosing a partner who is good enough without requiring them to change is not lowering the bar, it is setting the right one
    • The couple is a unit; when you stop tending the relationship itself, the garden dies even if nothing dramatic happens
    • One person cannot be everything; healthy relationships require each partner to have a life outside the marriage too
    • Assuming positive intent when your partner does something frustrating is one of the most practical things you can do daily
    • Common interests are probably the least important compatibility factor, and most people treat them like the most important
    • The Five C's are what every failed relationship actually failed on: character, kindness, consistency, communication, and commitment


    Guest Info

    Evan Marc Katz Dating coach for smart, successful women, primarily working with clients in their late 30s through early 70s who are navigating first-time or second-time partnerships. Evan spent over a decade dating online himself before meeting Bridget, which informs a very personal and data-driven approach to his work. He is also the host of his own podcast.

    https://www.evanmarckatz.com/

    Bridget Katz Evan's wife of 17 years, together for approximately 19. Bridget brings a grounded, high-EQ perspective to the conversation as someone who has lived alongside a relationship expert without becoming one herself. Her candor and warmth are notable throughout.

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    43 分
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