Together. A Podcast About Relationships

Today’s episode is about the paradoxes inherent to a happy marriage.

Angus and samantha, our guests this week, are very much like every other couple out there: they love each other and they have their challenges. What sets them apart is that they each consider it a privilege to do it takes to support one another through those challenges. And that is much easier said than done. They draw their strength from their faith, and their awareness of the paradox of marriage. I’ll let them share the details.

In other news, I’m excited to announce that we’ve been asked to create a pilot radio program based on our podcast. I can’t disclose the details yet, but I can tell you that it’s going to involve a listener call-in segment. We’re looking for questions from listeners about relationships. So if you have a question or you’d like some advice about your relationship, give us a call and leave a message at (415) 483-5112. We might be able to include you in our pilot!

Special thanks to Shure Microphones for donating their brand new MV-51 model that’s specially made for podcasters. We used it to record our intro and outro today, so if you like the sound, you know where to find it.

If you like what we’re up to here at together, please consider supporting our crowdfunding campaign at patreon.com/together - we’re on a mission to crush shame, and we’re just getting off the ground, so every penny helps. Thank you!

Welcome to Episode Number 54!

The intersection of romance and brutal honesty is our topic today.

We all sell our partners on ourselves, when we first meet - it’s part of how we seduce one another and fall in love. There’s nothing wrong with that. That said, it’s also possible to withhold too much about ourselves in that stage. As we’ve seen so many times on this show, healthy relationships require complete and direct communication.

Our guests today, Matthew and Sophie-Charlotte, are a fascinating balance of these two ways stages of love. One is the undying romantic optimist; the other is an unrepentantly honest realist. And the fascinating way in which their relationship comes together is the theme of our show.

If you would like to learn more about Matthew (he can teach you how to race motorcycles), you can find his website at www.speedgrins.com.

Sophie-Charlotte is the author of the bestselling book: Mobilized - The Formula For Mobile Success, and you can learn more about her at www.scmoatti.com.

In other news, I’m excited to announce that we’ve been asked to create a pilot radio program based on our podcast. I can’t disclose the details yet, but I can tell you that it’s going to involve a listener call-in segment. We’re looking for questions from listeners about relationships. So if you have a question or you’d like some advice about your relationship, give us a call and leave a message at (415) 483-5112. We might be able to include you in our pilot!

Special thanks to Shure Microphones for donating their brand new MV-51 model that’s specially made for podcasters. We used it to record our intro and outro today, so if you like the sound, you know where to find it.

If you like what we’re up to here at together, please consider supporting our crowdfunding campaign at patreon.com/together - we’re on a mission to crush shame, and we’re just getting off the ground, so every penny helps. Thank you!

Welcome to Episode 53!

We all hold an ideal vision of our future selves, romantic or otherwise. By definition, the ideal is never the reality. Our interview today is about coming to terms with what we really want, as expressed by what we actually create for ourselves. Our couple, Rachel and Greg, have a life they love, and one Rachel at least never would have planned in her twenties. But it’s perfect; I’ll let them tell you the details.

In other news, I’m excited to announce that we’ve been asked to create a pilot radio program based on our podcast that will involve a listener call-in segment. We’re looking for questions from listeners about relationships. So if you have a question or you’d like some advice about your relationship, give us a call and leave a message at (415) 483-5112. We’ll get right back to you, and we might be able to include you in our pilot!

Special thanks to Shure Microphones for donating their brand new MV-51 model that’s specially made for podcasters. We used it to record our intro and outro today, so if you like the sound, you know where to find it.

If you like what we’re up to here at Together, please consider supporting our crowdfunding campaign at patreon.com/together. We’re on a mission to crush shame, and we’re just getting off the ground, so every penny helps. Thank you!

Welcome to Episode 47!

This week’s episodes are about equality and gender in love and in work– what are the roles we’re expected to play, and what happens when we shake those up? Our couple, Emily and Rob know quite a bit about this topic. These two have been together nonstop since they met in college. And not only are they married, but they have founded and run several major venture backed companies together, and now operate a company called Din as co-ceos.

The expectations and demands these two face as a result of not just being a couple, but of running large fully staffed organizations, and by having taken capital from professional investors are not insignificant. You might think those demands are contradictory, but not for these two. Somehow Emily and Rob manage to both be both successful partners and to remain completely head over heals for one another.

In our conversation we explore not just how they manage the dynamic of working and living together 24/7, but how they handle the balance of power at work, and how that impacts their priorities as a couple.

Emily recently wrote an article on Medium called Why I’m Returning To My Maiden Name. We’ll talk with her about that article and that decision in part 2 of our interview on Thursday.

If you like what we’re up to here at together, please consider supporting our crowdfunding campaign at patreon.com/together - we’re on a mission to crush shame, and we’re just getting off the ground, so every penny helps. Thank you!

Today's episode is our first interview about gender roles.

I recently read an article by the Science Fiction Writer, David J Schwartz called Masculinity Is An Anxiety Disorder. It lays out a very compelling argument that the elements of masculinity that we men are expected to live up to in Western society, are utterly unattainable, and in many cases self-contradictory. And yet we all hold ourselves to this unachievable standard, thereby setting ourselves up for failure.

Of course this goes for women as well. Gender is without question one of the most unexamined and yet prevalent boxes that we all stuff ourselves into. Some might say that gender itself is biologically dictated, and that may be true or it may not, but either way, the roles and the behaviors that we expect to associate with our genders are subjective.

Our guests this week, Maia and Travis, allow us to take a gentle first look at the issue of gender. These two have a marriage that follows a fairly nontraditional structure, but it’s nothing that you haven't heard of before. What's instructive about these two is the ease with which they each take on their nontraditional roles in the family. More importantly it’s the genuine happiness and satisfaction that they take from living life the way they want that we can all learn something from.

If you’d like to learn more about Maia and Travis, you can check out their website at:

http://bitteshop.com/, their online children’s store focusing on sustainability and small batch artisinal brands. Maia’s very well known Pinterest profile can be found at: https://www.pinterest.com/maia_mcdonald/

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If you like what we’re up to here at together, please consider supporting our crowdfunding campaign at patreon.com/together - we’re on a mission to crush shame, and we’re just getting off the ground, so every penny helps. Thank you!