Welcome to the series finale of Growth Minded Marriage. What can we say? This podcast has changed our life. We are overcome with gratitude for you, the listener, and for the support you offered as we put ourselves out there and tried something new. With your love and support we have come home to our true selves, which turned out to be the purpose of this journey. We just didn't know that when we started! We can't wait to enjoy our one wild and precious life as they unfold, together. Wishing you ...
Nov 22, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Nov 15, 2021•10 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Nov 08, 2021•13 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Oct 25, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Oct 18, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Oct 11, 2021•21 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Oct 04, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Sep 27, 2021•18 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Sep 20, 2021•13 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we share the good, bad and ugly moments on our growth journey. We hope this podcast is a living example of what self-actualization looks like in the everyday. Podcasting is fun for us because of YOU the listener. So thank you for listening and being a part of our journey. We hope hearing our hone...
Sep 13, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Welcome to Season 2 of the Growth Minded Marriage. This season we are committed to doing only the parts of podcasting we love and ditching everything else. We get to make it up and so do you! Join us as we explore the highs and lows of each week. We will be reflecting on what went well, what we learned and what we never hope to repeat. Podcasting is fun for us because of you the listener doing life right along side us. So thank YOU for listening and being a part of our best life. A note on show ...
Sep 06, 2021•15 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Season 2 officially begins September 6th, but as we get behind the mic to limber up we want to share what to expect in the upcoming season. If you were around for Season 1 first, thank you, and second you will notice lots of changes. In Season 2 we plan to focus on the parts of podcasting we love and ditch most everything else. Because (if you need reminding like we did) we get to make it up! Subscribe to Growth Minded Marriage to always find our latest episodes immediately in your feed. The fir...
Aug 30, 2021•19 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Season 2 is not quite here but as we get behind the mic to ramp up for it we want to share what to expect in the upcoming season. If you were around for Season 1 first, thank you, and second you will notice lots of changes. In Season 2 we plan to focus on the parts of podcasting we love and ditch most everything else. Because (if you need reminding like we did) we get to make it up! Follow/Subscribe to Growth Minded Marriage to always find our latest episodes immediately in your feed. Join our G...
Aug 26, 2021•15 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Hello Growth Minded Marriage Community! Kevin and I are still over here living our dream life, only much much slower and intentionally. We are loving our summer slow down and reset. Thanks for being patient while we take this break and gather ourselves for Season 2 coming September 2021. Meanwhile, I had a burst of creative energy that I channeled into taking one step forward with a project that feels like something, just not exactly sure what yet. Thanks for being a safe and supportive place fo...
Jul 25, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Join our Growing Together email community HERE Whether you believe burnout, adrenal fatigue or HPA axis disruption are real medical conditions or not, it is undeniable that stress has a negative impact on the body. We all have different sources of stress and different tolerance levels for that stress. This is not about comparison, who has it worse or who can suck it up and keep going longest. This is an honest conversation where Kevin and I realize that we just don't feel good. We want to own th...
Jun 17, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 24
We have had to take some really hard and honest looks at our careers over the years. I was a full time working mom with 1, 2 and then 3 kids. Kevin was a work from home dad and also our primary caretaker. Life looks differently now. We both are working part time, and sharing the kid duties more evenly. After all the changes, we both have come out the other side with a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction with our careers. Join us as we explore how a sense of control, mastery and autonomy have k...
Jun 03, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 23
"Creative collaboration is the lifeblood of our relationship"~Sonja Overhiser After listening to this episode you will understand why Kevin and I draw so much inspiration from Sonja Overhiser. She is the co-founder of the wildly popular food blog, A Couple Cooks , and the new food justice initiative Food + Wellness Equity Collective . We were honored when Sonja agreed to our audacious request to be interviewed and are proud to bring you this inspiring conversation. Resources Mentioned: Food Matt...
May 20, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 22
A few months ago, Kevin read Adam Grant's latest book Think Again , and loved it. On Kevin's suggestion, I went searching for Adam on my favorite media, podcasts. I was in luck! I found his podcast by TED called Work Life , and downloaded an old episode from May 2019 called The Perils of Following Your Career Passion . Needless to say, I was very intrigued. I knew from Kevin that Adam has a contrarian perspective, but I had never heard someone say to NOT follow your passion. Of course I had to l...
May 06, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 21
“Most of life is choosing what you already chose.... Our lives are stories of recommitment. ~David Brooks Kevin and I come full circle in this episode. We are recommiting to our dream life. Our lives will be a balance between a satisfaction with who we are now, and an openness towards who we could become. We are focused on making the ordinary feel extraordinary. Our lives are about staying true to what we have already chosen, and exploring the expansive world our focus now allows us to see. Plus...
Apr 22, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 20
As a recap (in case this is your first episode, hello there!): Kevin and I have been tracking our downloads since March 11th, 2021. At the end of 30 days, we made a $1/download donation to Count The Kicks in honor of our good friends' son, JP. Count The Kicks is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering and educating mothers to track their baby's movements while still in the womb. Tracking baby's movements for 30 minutes every day can alert you to changes which may be a sign something is going wrong w...
Apr 15, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 19
***Our Count the Kicks Drive closed on Friday, April 9, 2021. Thanks to you we were able to donate $724 to educate and empower women. Our campaign was inspired by our good friends Kelli and Pat (Ep. 15) and their story of growing through the loss of their son, JP. Learn more about their story, Count the Kicks and Kevin and I's journey by choosing an episode below. Start with these episodes. Ep. 15 Growing Through Grief Ep. 11 Making Friends Along This Journey: Kathy and Tom Gottberg Ep. 4 Mary C...
Apr 08, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Kevin and I want the holidays to be filled with magic and wonder. We want our 7, 5 and 3 year old to look back on their childhood with warm happy memories. And, we decided early on to be honest with our kids, and let them in on the big secret. Over the years, we have been building our family's Easter traditions incorporating the idea that Mommy and Daddy are the Easter Bunny. Sure they ask questions and are sometimes confused by all the outside information, but we have a simple message that allo...
Apr 01, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Resources from this episode: Read Mary's personal blog on our NEW website Sign Up for a future Love and Logic course Learn More about the Beliefs & Principles of Unitarian Universalism Explore the Soul Matters material What is Deep Listening ? (I had a hard time finding a great resource. Putting this on the list for a podcast topic) Take a peak at the 8 week Neurodharma course we start April 2021 Learn more about Count The Kicks The couple behind Growth Minded Marriage Podcast is committed t...
Mar 25, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Our long time friends, Kelli and Pat, courageously share their story of growing through grief after losing their son, Joseph Patrick (JP). The trauma of JP's death and life's journey after such a devastating loss could have easily been a story that ended in separation for Kelli and Pat. Instead, they grew to recognize that the most loving thing they could do was to support each other as they healed in their own individual way. They exemplify the value of prioritizing your own mental health and h...
Mar 11, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Our two part parenting series now becomes a trilogy. Listen, we are recording and releasing episodes in real time so we didn't know life would create another episode. We are thrilled to announce that parenting is a tad less draining these days and we want to share what has been working. February 2021 brought cold weather, power outages and chaos over much of the U.S. All our time indoors and the hell that can be an unanticipated snow day (am I right?) pushed us to our final limits. And, you know...
Feb 25, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This is the second episode of our 2 part series on parenting. Check out Ep. 12 to start from the beginning. Kerri Gray is a mother of 4 and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has spent the bulk of her career teaching positive parenting classes to families in the greater Kansas City area. Now, due to the pandemic, her classes have been moved online and made accessible to everyone. She works in conjunction with a non profit organization in the Kansas City area called, Lee's Summit CARES....
Feb 11, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 13
If you are struggling to stay calm with your child and don't know who to turn to, you can call The National Parent Helpline 1-855-427-2736 (in the U.S.) With a bit of nerves we offer this honest conversation about our parenting journey thus far. In the first half of this episode, we bring you up to speed quickly on the past 7 years of parenting. Some of our listeners may not even know we have kids! We have a son who is nearly 7, and two girls ages 5 and 3. But, this episode really is about the s...
Jan 28, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Kevin and I have been on a quest to find "our people". We know that our friends can influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Which is great, but Mary was always left wondering, "How are we supposed to meet these magical people?!" Well, now we have some answers! Kathy Gottberg is an author, blogger, and free thinker. She has been a writer for nearly 40 years; publishing 7 books and blogging at SMARTLiving365.com since 2011. Her husband, Thom, is a commercial real estate broker who has been ...
Jan 14, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Kevin and I were thrilled when Kristen Young, Executive Director of Leadershape, accepted our interview request. In doing so, she took a big leap of faith. She exemplifies someone who is willing to take a risk and open herself up to new experiences, something Kevin and I deeply value. Kristen believes in the mission of Leadershape, "To transform the world by increasing the number of people who lead with integrity and a healthy disregard for the impossible." The last 16+ years of Kristen's life h...
Dec 31, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Happy Holidays from Kevin and Mary!
Dec 24, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 9
