Blue Sofa: Recent Episodes
Amanda & A.D Adedapo
I married my business. A.d & Amanda run a large multimillion dollar real estate team together. But how do they balance that while still keeping maintaining a marriage and home life. Every week we have intentional conversations to connect on our blue sofa.
A.D and Amanda talk about their journey to understand each others needs around the subject of romance.
Monty and Lila are a couple out of New York. The two discovered their connection after meeting in a leisure travel network marketing company that ignited both their journeys as entrepreneurs. Today, Lila is a PR specialist of a family-owned company, as well as a growing YouTube personality and host. Monty is an expert social media strategist, coach and content creator. Monty and Lila are also food & lifestyle content creators and influencers, who have grown a following of over 10K on Instagram, showing off their passion for food and fun. Their loving relationship is shaped by laughter, intellectual chemistry, and the thirst quality time and new experiences.
A.D and Amanda become honest around their desire to have children. Amanda share her fears around child making and raising and you may be surprised by A.D's reaction.
Season 2 is kicking off with a BANG! First guest on our virtual sofa are Monty and Lila and they are dropping all the gems about dating, getting engaged, and planning to get married.
Monty and Lila are a couple out of New York. The two discovered their connection after meeting in a leisure travel network marketing company that ignited both their journeys as entrepreneurs. Today, Lila is a PR specialist of a family-owned company, as well as a growing YouTube personality and host. Monty is an expert social media strategist, coach and content creator. Monty and Lila are also food & lifestyle content creators and influencers, who have grown a following of over 10K on Instagram, showing off their passion for food and fun. Their loving relationship is shaped by laughter, intellectual chemistry, and the thirst quality time and new experiences.
We revisit out wedding vows. However what happens during the reading is highly unexpected. I recommend this practice for anyone who is married. Why? Because we forget what we said that day. And the only time we revisit them, is during a vow renewal and maybe anniversaries.
We will be playing the game @TonightsConversation the card game. This Episode A.D and Amanda discuss the benefits of their differences. Also what their lives will look like in 10 years.
Today on the Blue Sofa we have Maurice and Christian are a couple out of Maryland. The two discovered their connection after meeting unexpectedly through Instagram. Maurice and Christian bonded over their love for traveling, trying new things, but most of all their love for Christ. Their relationship is shaped by their spiritual foundation, laughter, and their ever growing love and appreciation for one another.
Bernie and I never dated. We went straight from being co-worker…to being engaged (that’s a long story). After a yearlong engagement, we got married in October 1997. From the get-go, couples would often ask us how we solved our problems in our marriage. We willingly shared our solutions. But what perplexed me was we had only been married 6 months…and these couples had been married 5, 6, 10 years.
After doing this for several years, I decided to write down some of our solutions (because I got tired of repeating myself). Then Bernie had the idea of turning it into a business. And that was the birth of the Pre-Marital Bootcamp in 2000. At first, we focused solely on engaged couples. In 2005 we had our first married couples. As we started getting more clients, we decided to go back to school to get some actual training to learn how to better serve our clients. In 2006, we bought 14-acres and built Fort Wiggins, our private facility where we base our operations, activities, and events.
Through the years, Bernie and I have experienced communication challenges, multiple shifts in priorities, financial setbacks, the passing of a parent, struggles with conflicting goals, unhappiness, and a host of other issues that plague couples. But we also experienced happiness just being together, being on one accord, accomplished family goals, financial success, unity against external opposition, and fun.
All of these dynamics have built a fortified force…an unbreakable entity that we call The Wiggins Household. With support from family and a small core group of like-minded couples who share our same values and relationship goals, we avail ourselves to fulfill the purpose of our higher calling: to help individuals navigate their paths to their life’s purpose and pursue a happy loving trusting relationship.
How do we work together? A.D and Amanda run a multimillion real-estate team together in Washington, DC. Honestly one word. Delegation. We split the business up into areas of Sales and Operations and then every thing fans out from those two categories. There also some benefits to working with your partner, but A.D gets in to that towards the end of the episode.
A.D & Amanda dive in their differing “BIG WHY’S” around real estate. Through this conversation A.D get into how he decided to make career choice around real estate and how it has impacted him, his family and surrounding community.
Part 2 of how we went broke. Going down memory lane and seeing how we have grown. Yes we were literally 1 month away from not being able to pay our mortgage, finish planning our wedding and grabbing life by the horn and taking control.
We ask each other honestly... Knowing everything that we know about each other, Would you marry me again? The answers are a little unexpected.
In this episode A.D and Amanda go into the why behind the what. Why they decided to create an intention place to connect with each other.