White Nights & Other Stories by DOSTOYEVSKY, F: Recent Episodes
Danielle and Justin Williams:
No one should ever feel alone in their marriage. (If only it were that easy), but the trials and challenges of life take their toll on even the best couples. So where do brave couples go to breathe new life into their relationship? They tune into the Legendary Marriage podcast, where hosts, Danielle and Justin Williams share from their 15+ years of marriage, compelling interviews, research & expertise to inspire and challenge couples to create a vibrant marriage full of intimacy and connection. In a no holds barred, fun, and witty give and take, Danielle and Justin speak candidly about the importance of communication, sex, money, romance, faith, and community, among other things. Episodes are jam packed full of authentic stories, engaging interviews, insight, and laughs that will leave you smiling tomorrow. Don’t settle for an ordinary marriage, make yours LEGENDARY.
In this special episode, Justin and Michael Warden have a powerful conversation about the transformational impact of The Braveheart Intensive Men‘s retreat, a catalytic experience that transformed Justin, and it was the birthplace of Legendary Marriage. Sponsors: Freshly: Get 30% OFF your meal- click HERE. You can ALWAYS help support the Legendary Marriage mission to impact 1 […]
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In this special episode, Justin and Michael Warden have a powerful conversation about the transformational impact of The Braveheart Intensive Men‘s retreat, a catalytic experience that transformed Justin, and it was the birthplace of Legendary Marriage. Sponsors: Freshly: Get 30% OFF your meal- click HERE. You can ALWAYS help support the Legendary Marriage mission to impact 1 […]
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In this special episode, Justin and Michael Warden have a powerful conversation about the transformational impact of The Braveheart Intensive Men‘s retreat, a catalytic experience that transformed Justin, and it was the birthplace of Legendary Marriage. Sponsors: Freshly: Get 30% OFF your meal- click HERE. You can ALWAYS help support the Legendary Marriage mission to impact 1 […]
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Author Robin Reed shares how he taps into his romantic heart to entertain and inspire his readers. Not only that, but he gives us some clues on how to infuse more romance into our relationships. About Robin Austin Reed Contributor to popular blogs and authoring five non-fiction books, Robin has been writing for over a […]
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Trials and challenges WILL come, how will you respond? In the middle of a crisis, we made a Defiant Decision, and it changed the course of our lives. In this week’s show, we share our story, and make a special announcement. Sponsors: Freshly: Get 30% OFF your meal- click HERE. You can ALWAYS help support the Legendary […]
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Have you ever thought – “Marriage- what did we get ourselves into? “ Today, Scott Kedersha shares from his new book, Ready or Knot about some of the crucial conversations all couples should have before, or after they get married. Scott’s new book, Ready or Knot outlines the 12 conversations that every couple needs to […]
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Have you ever felt like your relationships are stuck in the shallow end? Maybe you want to be more connected with the people in your life. Today, author Mike Bullock shares how he learned to infuse more love and connection in his friendships and his marriage too. Show Highlights: How speed metal and drag racing […]
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Do you ever feel like your family is committed to wonderful things, but each of you is being pulled in different directions and you’re left feeling exhausted and disconnected? Scott and Ashley share how they realized time was fleeting as they started to prepare for their kids going off to college, so they got clear […]
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Do you ever avoid tough conversations? If we’re honest, we all do. WE try to save face, protect each other, and keep the peace, but it usually ends up biting us on the keester. Our Guest Heather Gray shares her story, and talks about the one key conversation that could change it all around. About Heather Gray: […]
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Does your inner monologue sound like a bag of angry cats? Dont’ worry – you’re not really crazy, you’re just complicated, and this week’s guests, Cynthia Darst and David Darst share some insight into your Inside team, and their story too.
About Cynthia and David Darst
With over 40 years of combined coaching experience, Cynthia and David work with all kinds of relationship systems – from an individual’s relationship to themself, to business partnerships, teams and groups. Cynthia and David are both on the senior faculty for The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), and for CRR Global (formerly The Center for Right Relationship). They travel the world working with teams and training others in skills to enhance their coaching and leadership.
Check out the Team Darst Facebook page and their WEBSITE: www.TeamDarst.com
Show Highlights:
Backstage romance David never wanted to become a coach Getting to know the different voices in your head How to be with your spouse in the hard times Don’t lose yourself in your marriage Your marriage needs both of you fully
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Talk About It:
Each week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters. Here’s your conversation starter: Ask your spouse; “What do you need right now?”
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A search for #couplegoals on Instagram, Facebook, or Google will yield a whole bunch of fun results, and leave you wondering how they do it. Well, in this last episode of 2018, Danielle and Justin break down their process for dreaming together, getting on the same page, and making 2019 your best year ever.
Show Highlights:
The trouble with New Year’s Resolutions Diving into Instagram #couplegoals Why most resolutions don’t work. Reviewing the year Talking about Core Values The Family Legacy Statement Defiant Decisions Identifying goals Getting Strategic The Weekly Family Meeting
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Each week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters. Here’s your conversation starter: What would make 2019 the best year ever for your family?
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In this “mini-sode” Danielle and Justin talk through the top 10 Christmas arguments that couples have.
Warning: the conversation derails… A lot.
Show Highlights:
• Christmas confessions • Top 10 Christmas arguments • Talk about it Segment
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Each week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters. Here’s your conversation starter: What would make THIS Christmas your best ever?
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This week, our guests are none other than Devin and Carla McConnell – Danielle’s parents! In this nepotistic episode, Devin and Carla share how they have stayed best friends for more than 44 years, and how they’re daily making an impact by serving those in their community.
Carla and Devin McConnell are a legendary couple with a story of how they transformed their marriage over the years, and never stopped being best friends. They share the story of how they fell in love, despite Devin being the worst boyfriend ever!
As they go back to their 44 years of marriage, they reflect on how they rarely ever had a date night, but focused on the kids and paying the bills. The backstory is revealed on how the McConnell family developed their collective sense of humor, and how the retirement years turned all their years of working hard to having the space to live out their legacy, by loving their grandkids and making an impact in the community, by actively providing furniture for people transitioning from homeless to a home, through the Epworth Furniture Ministry.
Show Highlights:
Sending out 27 Christmas cards and landing a true love Is a joke proposal really the best idea? Getting married with no plans or expectations Devin taught Carla to have a sense of humor After the hots fade, are you still friends? On a mission to give furniture to the formerly homeless Being present, as grandparents
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Talk About It:
Each week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters. Here’s your conversation starter: What area of life have you historically gone your own separate way, but you’d like to move forward together?
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This week we have Shannon Upton on the show. Shannon shares how many of us are reluctant to host parties in our homes, because of expectations put on us by others, but mostly by ourselves. The truth is our friends and family just want to be with us. She gives us some great practical ways to get out of our heads and plan for a wonderful party, where we truly experience each other in community.
Show Highlights:
What’s so special about getting together anyway?
Getting over the roadblocks of holding a party
How to play to your strengths as a host
Being present during the party
How introverts can navigate a party
The magic of hosting together with your spouse
How cleaning up can relive the party again
Bringing Jesus into any event
About Shannon Upton: Shannon is the author of Organizing You and Building Your House, Biblically-based self-help books that will teach you how to clear out your own spiritual clutter. She has written two Organizing You group Bible studies, blogs, and offers several tremendous resources to help you live in Christ’s abundance. She’s also an encourager who loves to share organizing ideas, prayers, and scriptures through social media. (She admits to being slightly addicted to Pinterest.) Shannon believes that the Lord allowed her to struggle with clinical anxiety, and then healed her of it, for His purpose. She wants to help you clear out your spiritual clutter so you can fully enjoy your family and grow closer to the Lord. You can find Shannon at her WEBSITE, on FACEBOOK, TWITTER, and PINTEREST. You can get Shannon’s books through our STORE on Amazon.
Resources: Shannon has written several books including; Organizing You, Organizing for Christian Hospitality, Building Your House, and Organizing for a Wonderful Wardrobe.
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Talk About It: Each week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters. Here’s your conversation starter: What excuse/reason could you make to throw a party?
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Today’s guest, Amy Rasdal met the love of her life at an abandoned gas station. Amy dishes all about that story, the joys of married life, as well as her personal mission to liberate corporate working moms, by empowering them to build successful consulting businesses.
Amy and her husband Chris both attained many degrees in college, with the goal of working in the corporate world. Everything shifts the day before Halloween and Amy decides she never wants to have the corporate, jet-setting lifestyle. She then she changes all of it and begins her business, at home, making more than ever possible in the the 9 to 5 corporate gig. Now she works from everywhere, including Disneyland! And helps others do the same.
About Amy Rasdal: Amy Rasdal is a working mom of two kids, ages 14 and 4. She traded her corporate job for consulting 15 years ago and loves it! Now she lives a very blended life with almost no boundaries. She works and plays every day, and Amy liberates corporate working mothers by empowering them to build their own successful consulting businesses.
“I’m quick on the mute button and I can tell you a foolproof way to do a professional conference call from Disneyland.” – Amy Rasdal
You can find Amy Rasdal at her WEBSITE, on LINKEDIN, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, and FACEBOOK. Amy also has a great FREE resource for listeners ready to take a stab at building theri own business.
Show Highlights:
The miracle work done in Disney with giant lollipops
Meeting the love of your life at an abandoned gas station
A female CFO switched her whole perspective of corporate
Having no boundaries within structure for the win
Speaking gig wearing the baby!
Working with hubby as a team
Worked from the hospital, just after giving birth!
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TALK ABOUT IT: Each week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters. Here’s your conversation starter: What do you want to set as a priority in your schedule?
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Early in their marriage, Jaime and Nathan Cross found their differences driving a wedge between them, so they dug in and did their work. Nathan, an extreme introvert, started speaking up, using more words of affirmation, and Jaime, who is a woman of action , learned to slow down and be more present. By the way, they did it all while building a hugely successful skin care company together – MIG Soap!
About Jaime & Nathan: A cool breeze blew across the great Rockies as Jaime and Nathan entered a little corner print shop as strangers more than 16 years ago. Standing in line, it was love at first sight and they haven’t left each other’s side since. For the last eight years, they have been building their eight figure skincare company.
Jaime is a chemistry wizard, a business building machine, a futurist and visionary called to change the world through empowering entrepreneurs. Nathan is an artist, a music maker, a theologian and jujitsu master called to change the world through revolutionizing the way we relate to our Creator. Together they take their four beautiful boys on intrepid adventures all over the Colorado mountains. You can find Jaime on FACEBOOK, at MIG Soap, and on her PODCAST.
Show Highlights:
The unhealthy conflict styles that almost destroyed their marriage
Balancing building a ministry, a business and a family
How MIG organic skin care was born out of a desperate call to God
Becoming adoptive parents as newlyweds (less than 1 year!)
How differences play into your working relationship
Teaching their kids to be entrepreneurial
TALK ABOUT IT: Each week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters. Here’s your conversation starter: What’s the big dream you could pray for?
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When do you want to retire? Today’s guests Alli and Matt Owen from OwenYourFuture.com share their story of how they saved up, payed off debt and now live their dream of traveling, and having adventures in “Clifford, their big red van,” while helping other couples Owen their financial future as well. Oh, and They are 28 year old.
You may know Alli and Matt Owen from Huff Post, MSN, CNBC or their wildly popular YouTube channel. They saved 70% of their income for 4 years and are now enjoying a “mini-retirement” traveling the Americas in their self-converted bright red Sprinter van, Clifford. It is their hope to help more people to get out of debt and maximize their savings so that they can pursue their own version of financial freedom. You can find Alli and Matt at their WEBSITE, and on INSTAGRAM,
Show Highlights:
Retiring at age 27!
Part of the FIRE movement community to retire early
Retro-fitted a van named Clifford, for their travels
Saving 70% of their income
On a mission to get others free from debt
What they learned about each other living in 70 SQft.
The 10-Minute Money Checklist
Tame Your Wild Money Habits in 10 Minutes per Week!
Mr. Money Mustache article that Alli mentioned
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Talk About It: Each week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters.
Here’s your conversation starter: What’s the retirement scenario we dream of?
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This week we’ve got Mr. Mark Ferguson on the show! Mark is a real estate agent, and investor, he’s an author and the creator of the Investfourmore.com blog. Mark’s real estate team sells hundreds of homes every year, he has flipped over 150 houses, owns 16 rental properties and has written five books including; Build a Rental Property Empire, Fix and Flip Your Way to Financial Freedom, How to Make it Big as A Real Estate Agent, How to Change Your Mindset to Achieve Huge Success, and The Book on Negotiating Real Estate: Expert Strategies for Getting the Best Deals When Buying & Selling Investment Property. Mark’s purpose is to help as many people as he can become financially free through real estate.
Mark created InvestFourMore.com in March of 2013 to show people how to invest in rental properties. The blog became popular very quickly and Mark has been featured on The Huffington Post, Zillow, Forbes, Money Magazine, The Washington Post, and more! You can find Mark at his website, on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Show Highlights:
Buying vs. renting a house
Worst case scenarios when buying a house
How to buy a house the right way
When flipping is a good option
Does the “vibe” of the house matter?
Signs becoming a landlord is a good option
What home repairs are a ‘no go’ when making a buying decision
TALK ABOUT IT: Here’s your conversation starter: What could it look like for us to save/ make money with real estate?
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This week we’ve got Mr. Mark Ferguson on the show! Mark is a real estate agent, and investor, he’s an author and the creator of the Investfourmore.com blog. Mark’s real estate team sells hundreds of homes every year, he has flipped over 150 houses, owns 16 rental properties and has written five books including; Build a Rental Property Empire, Fix and Flip Your Way to Financial Freedom, How to Make it Big as A Real Estate Agent, How to Change Your Mindset to Achieve Huge Success, and The Book on Negotiating Real Estate: Expert Strategies for Getting the Best Deals When Buying & Selling Investment Property. Mark’s purpose is to help as many people as he can become financially free through real estate.
Mark created InvestFourMore.com in March of 2013 to show people how to invest in rental properties. The blog became popular very quickly and Mark has been featured on The Huffington Post, Zillow, Forbes, Money Magazine, The Washington Post, and more! You can find Mark at his website, on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Show Highlights:
Buying vs. renting a house
Worst case scenarios when buying a house
How to buy a house the right way
When flipping is a good option
Does the “vibe” of the house matter?
Signs becoming a landlord is a good option
What home repairs are a ‘no go’ when making a buying decision
TALK ABOUT IT: Here’s your conversation starter: What could it look like for us to save/ make money with real estate?
Disclosure: some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, we earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase.
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Life is full of tough choices. When there are big decisions to be made, and the outside world thinks that you’ve gone crazy, what do you do? Today’s guests, Phil and Shae Bynes, share about how they choose to lean in to each other, listen to what God is saying and share every bit of it with their family.
About Phil and Shae Bynes
Phil and Shae Bynes are a couple of crazy kids in love who have been happily married for 19 years, and together since they were 16 years old. The are the proud parents to three beautiful daughters ranging from 18 months to 17 years old and live in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Phil is a licensed massage therapist and owner of Crazy Good Massage. Shae is Founder and Chief Fire Igniter of an organization called Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur where she inspires, teaches and mentors Christian entrepreneurs to do business in partnership with God and have greater Kingdom impact through the work the do in the marketplace. You can Find Shae on FACEBOOK, and at her WEBSITE. Shae’s book, “Grace Over Grind” is available on AMAZON. You can find Phil at his WEBSITE.
Show Highlights:
Marriage proposal in high school
God called Shae out of high paying job
Asking God for a plan each day
Weekly couple meeting
Growing faith through being homeless
Kids praying for $ too pay the bills
Family Church held at home
Do we want to have more kids?
Is our teenage daughter ready to find her forever man?
Talk About It:
Every week we challenge you to set a time with your spouse to have a conversation that matters.Here’s your conversation starter: What is something God may be teaching you in this season?
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