Ep 74: Getting in Relationship Shape with Roy Biancalana

by Zach Beach | Oct 24, 2021 | Communication, Conscious Relationships, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Skills for Love

So many people are working on their race-day strategy, but aren’t ready to run the race at all. People always ask me about where to meet people, what to wear, what to say, but they don’t ask what it means to actually be ready to be in a relationship with...

Ep 73: Putting Loving-Kindness into Action with Terry Helwig

by Zach Beach | Oct 17, 2021 | Kindness, Meditation, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Unconditional Love

To me loving-kindness is a wakeful meditation, a matter of being present in the world. I think of it as throwing open the doors to my heart. I think of it as lowering a drawbridge over the moat of my ego, which allows me to be vulnerable, to let others in, practice...

Ep 72: Creating a Marriage of Equals with Catherine E. Aponte

by Zach Beach | Oct 10, 2021 | Communication, Marriage, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Psychology

We are people, not categories. Saying men are from Mars or woman are from Venus does not honor us as individuals. When you classify people based on categories, you bring all the preconceived ideas about those categories, and then you lose sight of that person as an...

Ep 71: Uncompromising Intimacy with Alexandra Stockwell

by Zach Beach | Oct 3, 2021 | Communication, Intimacy, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Self-Love

When people are uncompromising and genuinely curious and genuinely curious and not threatened by the other’s desires and experience, that leads to more connection, more creativity, and new solutions that one of them trying to manage the whole thing...

Ep 70: Should We Get a Prenup? with Aaron Thomas

by Zach Beach | Sep 26, 2021 | Divorce, Finances, Marriage, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone

Someone who gets a prenuptial agreement is no more likely to get divorced than someone who doesn’t. In a large part, it’s really insurance, and the best insurance that you can buy, because a lot of what you are protecting against is the confusion about...

Ep 69: How to Date When You’re Marriage Minded with Marcia Naomi Berger

by Zach Beach | Sep 19, 2021 | Communication, Dating, Marriage, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone

I’m much in favor of a collaborative type marriage, where no one is considered superior or in charge of the relationship. It’s a joint venture; you’re a team that is investing energy to keep your relationship great so that both of you are fulfilled...