The Relationship Revolutionary, with Dr. Jeni Wahlig

A surrogacy journey in the US can run a quarter of a million dollars for one child. And that's only the cost you can put on a spreadsheet.This week's guest is Sam Leeson, founder of babyREADY, host of the Becoming Baby Ready podcast (now in its fifth season), and a birth worker and educator who has supported queer families for nearly three decades, from the very beginning of their journey through their first years of parenting.In this episode you'll hear:The real financial numbers behind queer family creation, and why they've climbed so dramatically over the last twenty years. The “anxiety cost” that doesn't show up on any invoice the what-ifs about paperwork, donors, and outcomes that live in the body long after a decision is made. How legal and political realities shape what's even possible, depending on where you live. What “implications counseling” is, and why finding the right person for it matters so much. And why having one consistent person who truly understands your whole story can be, in Sam's words, game changing and life saving.This is episode two of our Proud Love series, where every June we center two-spirit and LGBTQIA+ voices, stories, and truths. If this conversation lands for you, share it with someone walking this road right now. 🚀 Go deeper inside The Relationship Revolution Community... The space where powerful women (and the partners who love them) learn to lead love differently -- with truth, courage, and support.🔗 Learn more and join here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for all Catalyst Conversations:    / @powerfulove  For answers to questions you didn't even know you had, visit babyREADY.infowww.babyREADY.infoListen to Sam's podcast, becoming babyREADY:https://www.babyready.info/podcast

Catalyst Conversations: A Relationship RevolutionEp. 13: The Biggest Myth About Happiness (And What Actually Works) | May Myths FinaleYou've done the work. Read the books. Tried the therapy. Done the journaling. And still something is missing.The reason? You've been looking in the wrong place.In this final episode of the May Myths series, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with Christy Holt — author, podcast host, and self-described Happiness Hussy — to bust open the biggest myth about happiness most high-achieving women have been living by without realizing it.Christy brings two divorces, zero apologies, and a decade of helping women stop performing happiness and start actually feeling it.In this conversation:• Why the self-help industry profits from keeping you stuck and how to recognize when it's happening to you• The "common denominator" moment that shifts everything (in relationships and in life)• What actually happens when you stop chasing external happiness and start aligning internally• The practical approach to creating feel-good states now without waiting for circumstances to cooperate.Join my free masterclass- "From Frustrated... To Fulfilled- How to get your partner to finally show up the way you've been asking, without burning yourself out trying to make it happen." https://powerfulove.com/the-love-you-...🚀 Go deeper inside The Relationship Revolution Community... The space where powerful women (and the partners who love them) learn to lead love differently — with truth, courage, and support.🔗 Learn more and join here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for all Catalyst Conversations:    / @powerfulove  Get Love, Unstuck — Christy Holt's guidebook to creating healthy, happy relationships, starting with the one you have with yourself:www.loveunstuck.comListen to Christy's podcast, Create Your Happy wherever you listen to podcasts!www.createyourhappy.ca

In this episode of Catalyst Conversations: A Relationship Revolution, Dr. Jeni Wahlig is joined by Gianna Yazana — philosopher, relationship coach, and writer — whose work draws on Socrates, Carl Jung, Eric Fromm, and ancient mythology to dismantle one of the most damaging stories women carry: that love is a reward for becoming desirable enough.Together they unpack why performing for love guarantees you'll never actually receive it, what happens inside relationships when a persona — not a person — shows up, and what it looks like to stop chasing love and start becoming it.In this episode:• The capitalistic logic that turned you into an object to be acquired — and why it's woven into every piece of dating advice you've ever received• What the honeymoon phase crash is really about and why the performance always breaks down eventually• Jeni's client story: what happened when a woman stopped hiding herself and showed up fully• Eric Fromm's radical reframe: love is not separate from us — we are love, and becoming it is the whole path• The question that replaces 'how do I get chosen?' and why it changes everything• What 'love yourself first' actually means, made concrete and actionable🚀 Go deeper inside The Relationship Revolution Community... The space where powerful women (and the partners who love them) learn to lead love differently-- with truth, courage, and support.🔗 Learn more and join the community here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...Join my next FREE Live masterclass: "From Frustrated... To Fulfilled. Get The Love You Deserve." https://powerfulove.com/the-love-you-...📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for all Catalyst Conversations:    / @powerfulove  Get Gianna's free reflective guided journal — designed to help you reset your relationship patterns by moving from performance and external validation into self-awareness, presence, and a more conscious way of loving:https://philosophicalhearts.com/chall...Additional resources:Loving in the Now Mini Course — https://philosophicalhearts.com/sales...#RelationshipRevolution #RelationalLeadership #DesirableWoman #LoveYourself #AuthenticLove #WomenInRelationships #PerformingForLove #SelfLove #RelationshipCoach #PowerfuLove

The past is in the past. You can't change it ... you can only accept it and move on.That's the myth. And it's one of the most costly beliefs we carry.In this episode of Catalyst Conversations: A Relationship Revolution, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with Nikko Anna Jean CEO of Heartshine Revolution, #1 Amazon best-selling author, and creator of the Heartshine EFT Method to bust open the idea that our past is fixed. Because neuroscience and quantum physics are telling a very different story.In this conversation, you'll hear:Why the past doesn't live in a fixed event ... it lives in your nervous system, your memories, and your identityWhat EFT tapping actually is and why it goes far beyond stress reliefWhat inner child reparenting really means and the step most people skipWhy your inner child is likely running your most important adult conversationsWhy affirmations and visualization fall short when the nervous system hasn't been addressedHow to become the conscious creator who actually changes the wiring not just paints over itThis is Episode 3 of the May Myths series, where Dr. Jeni and her guests are cracking open the inherited stories that keep us stuck in love, leadership, and life.🚀 Go deeper inside The Relationship Revolution Community... The space where powerful women (and the partners who love them) learn to lead love differently with truth, courage, and support.🔗 Learn more and join here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAIj7diqMCOdLDH4Ufg1X8hQRZLWnTTryE2SxbQDuvqDFf1A/viewform📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for all Catalyst Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@powerfuloveGet a free chapter of Niko's book here:https://heartshinerevolution.com/booksAccess Niko's free masterclass — The 4-Step Method to Break Toxic Cycles and Become the Coach You're Meant to Be:https://nikoanab.easywebinar.live/event-registrationAdditional resources:Inner Child Revolution Podcast — https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXf5CW9T2Yly0m04zeN3eTxYtqYTGOxxM&si=EinSav7LlcA6jsD6 .

What if the identity you've been living was never really yours?In episode two of the May Myths series, Dr. Jeni Wahlig is joined by Charu Seth — ICF-certified identity strategist, transition coach, and author of She Stands Strong ...for a conversation that dismantles the myth most high-achieving women never see coming: the myth of who you are.Charu works with women over 40 who are navigating divorce, career reinvention, empty nesting, and other life transitions that strip away the familiar anchors of identity. Together, she and Jeni pull apart three pervasive myths that keep women performing roles instead of living from the truth of who they actually are.In this episode: why 86% of high-achieving women face a specific identity crisis right now, the three myths quietly running your sense of self, why reinvention doesn't mean starting from scratch, how knowing who you are is the foundation of every relationship you lead, and the one question you can ask yourself today to start the journey home.And one line you won't forget: 'Expiry is for food, not for people.'This is the Relationship Revolutionary — a weekly Catalyst Conversation for the woman who wants it all. 🚀 Go deeper inside The Relationship Revolution Community... The space where powerful women (and the partners who love them) learn to lead love differently -- with truth, courage, and support.🔗 Learn more and join here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAIj7diqMCOdLDH4Ufg1X8hQRZLWnTTryE2SxbQDuvqDFf1A/viewform📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for all Catalyst Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@powerfuloveComment 'CATALYST' for more information on The Third PathGet The Identity Recalibration from Charu here:https://thrive-transform.kit.com/17eea8835bAdditional resources:Book — "She Stands Strong" on AmazonInstagram — https://www.instagram.com/thrivetransform/LinkedIn — www.linkedin.com/in/charu-seth-0b8b631Website — https://thrivealter.com

The box someone built for you was never built with your name on it — and it's time to stop pretending it fits.In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with writer, speaker, and disability advocate Michelle Steiner, who was told she couldn't go to college, couldn't be published, and couldn't build the career she wanted. She did all of it. Their conversation goes far beyond disability advocacy — it's a reckoning for every person who has internalized someone else's story about what's possible for them.In this episode you'll hear:• Why the real limits keeping you stuck are almost never your identity or diagnosis• What hidden and invisible disabilities reveal about how we love and lead in relationship• Jeni's personal confession about how she perpetuated ableism in her own partnership• What "doing it afraid" actually looks like — and why courage doesn't require certainty• What becomes available when you finally give yourself permission to live outside the boxThis episode is part of the series Hard-Won Truths: Lessons That Transformed Everything. These truths don't come from books. They come from living.🚀 Go deeper inside The Relationship Revolution Community... The space where powerful women (and the partners who love them) learn to lead love differently -- with truth, courage, and support.🔗 Learn more and join here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAIj7diqMCOdLDH4Ufg1X8hQRZLWnTTryE2SxbQDuvqDFf1A/viewform📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for all Catalyst Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@powerfuloveSign up for the "How To Get Your Partner To Finally Show Up The Way You Deserve" Masterclass here: https://bit.ly/masterclass-imworthitGet Michelle's free resource — Steps to Success with a Disability — here:https://www.canva.com/design/DAHEJH5lKTk/ehqIGEoB9Nyqrv8Kg8tNlg/editAdditional resources:Michelle's blog (Michelle's Mission): www.michellesmission.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/michelle.steiner.493966Instagram: www.instagram.com/steiner7250

You survived. You're finally safe. So why does it still feel like you're waiting for something to go wrong?This week on The Relationship Revolutionary, I'm sitting down with Ruth Carroll — author, speaker, EMT, and a woman who survived nearly three decades of abuse and then had to learn, from the ground up, how to actually live again. Ruth doesn't speak from a textbook. She speaks from the fire she walked through. And what she has to say about the gap between being safe and being FREE is one of the most honest, earned things I've heard in a long time.In this episode:• Why the trauma brain keeps scanning for danger long after the threat is gone• The familiarity trap — and why a healthy relationship can feel more threatening than a harmful one• Ruth's four-stage framework for moving from survival mode into real freedom• How to identify and dismantle your triggers (with a specific, real-life example)• Why it is never too late to start — at any age, at any stageThis is part of our April series Hard-Won Truths: Lessons That Transformed EVERYTHING — conversations with women broken open by life and transformed by what they found on the other side.New episodes drop every Friday at 12:30pm Pacific. Go deeper inside The Relationship Revolution Community... The space where powerful women (and the partners who love them) learn to lead love differently-- with truth, courage, and support.🔗 Learn more and join here: https://bit.ly/TRRCommunity👉🏼 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for all Catalyst Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@powerfuloveComment or email [email protected], subject line “'THIRD PATH' for more information on The Third Path programGet Ruth's free guide — Safe But Still Not Free: A 5-Step Guide to Rebuild Trust, Rediscover Who You Are, and Step Into Your Full Life — here:https://07c163b8-effa-455c-bfe4-08c45264702c.filesusr.com/ugd/2fd747_7248a94a73324b37b33f12cec3134efe.pdfAdditional resources:Held by His Hands — https://a.co/d/08Z8Ms4ELetters From the Other Side of Pain — https://a.co/d/0cc03YBmWebsite — https://heldbyhishands.wixsite.com/held-by-his-hands

You’ve been carrying pain that no one around you can quite see. In your body. In your relationship. In the quiet ache of a dynamic that just won’t shift.This week’s Catalyst Conversation changes that. Jen Uschold is a physical therapist, Fellow of Pain Science, and national board-certified health and wellness coach with 35 years of clinical experience — and what she’s learned about pain in the body translates, with striking precision, to pain in your relationship.In this episode:•  Why your heartbreak is a body experience — and why your physical pain is shaped by your emotional world•  The pain-fear-avoidance cycle that keeps you stuck — and exactly how to find the exit ramp•  The deceptively simple shift from “I have to” to “I get to” — and why your nervous system notices the difference•  How Jen used pain science to navigate her own divorce — including the photo album that changed her mediation•  What Viktor Frankl wrote from a concentration camp that applies directly to your relationship right nowThis is Episode 2 of Hard-Won Truths: Lessons That Transformed EVERYTHING — the April series of The Relationship Revolutionary, where every guest has lived something real and come out the other side with wisdom that transforms.Ready to stop letting pain run your relationship? Join the Relationship Revolution Community at https://bit.ly/TRRCommunity or email [email protected] with “Third Path” in the subject to learn more about The Third Path program.Get the FREE PainLESS Mini-Tool Kit from Jen here:https://www.jenuschold.com/painless-freebie❤️‍🔥 And if you want the whole set, use Coupon Code: PAINLESS10 to get 10% off!Buy it here: https://www.jenuschold.com/offers/M4hcsz2c?coupon_code=PAINLESS10

There is a strange and painful kind of loneliness that no one talks about.Not the kind where you're alone.The kind where you're surrounded... and still unreachable.You've built the career. The family. The reputation. And somewhere in all of that building, you stopped letting people all the way in. Not on purpose. It just happened — one guarded moment at a time.This is the 4th episode in March, 2026 series- The Living Relationship: How Love Dies, Evolves, & Is Reborn. In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with certified life coach and author Stacy Rocklein to talk about what the loneliness behind the armor is really asking of you... and what becomes possible when a guarded woman finally decides she wants more.They cover:→ Why high-achieving women are often the loneliest people in the room→ What betrayal and shake-ups are really inviting you to become→ Forgiveness as a transition tool — not for them, but for you→ The gap between trigger and response, and the baby step that closes it→ How to ask for what you need when you've spent years needing lessThis is Relationship Reincarnation — and it is not the conversation you think it is.Stacy Rocklein is the author of Forgive Without an Apology: How to Heal, Set Boundaries, and Create Deeper Connections. Find her at stacyrocklein.com or grab her Feel Wheel at go.stacyrocklein.com/feelwheel.The Relationship Revolutionary: Catalyst Conversations on Love, Life & Leadership drops every Friday at 12:30p Pacific. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

You've read the books. You've tried the strategies. You can name exactly what your partner is doing wrong — and nothing has changed.Here's the truth no one teaches you: your power has never been in what they do.In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig opens her newest series-- Hard-Won Truths: Lessons That Transformed Everything-- with the story that changed it all, and led to the creation of PowerfuLove Relationships. This is the lesson she earned the hardest way possible, inside the most painful relationship season of her life. As a marriage and family therapist with a PhD and years of clinical experience, she had every tool available. And she was still the problem.What she discovered changed her relationship with Cal, launched PowerfuLove, and became the foundation of everything she now teaches: it only takes one person to change the dance of a relationship. It may take two to tango — but it takes one person to learn the steps and lead.In this episode:Why being the most educated person in the room can still make you the obstacleThe "unspoken manual" dynamic and what it's actually telling you about controlThe bank account metaphor that reframed everything about effort and equityWhat a withdrawing partner is often really communicating — and why pursuing harder makes it worseThe practice of Empowered Accountability and the one question that changes everything: What's my shit to own?This is not theory. This is the truth Jeni lived... and the move that's available to you right now.Join the Relationship Revolution Community: https://bit.ly/TRRCommunityInterested in The Third Path? Email [email protected] with "Third Path" in the subject line.

Your relationship didn't change. Your hormones did. And nobody told you what that actually means.Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with Amber Vasquez, NP, Menopause Society certified practitioner, for the conversation your doctor probably hasn't had with you. This isn't about hot flashes. It's about the biology of disconnection — why you're fighting more, feeling less close, and suddenly out of patience with everything you used to tolerate. When estrogen drops, so does oxytocin, your bonding hormone. The "no fucks to give" feeling is real, it's biological, and it's telling you something important about what needs to change.In this episode you'll discover:→ The hormones behind the fighting, the distance, and the emotional volatility→ Why "no fucks to give" is a biological response — not a character flaw→ The Three F's framework: what perimenopause is doing physically, functionally, and emotionally→ How to track your symptoms and advocate for yourself medically→ What to tell your partner — and how to move through this as a team→ Why this disruption can become the doorway to a deeper relationship than you've ever hadThis episode is part of the March 2026 series-The Living Relationship: How Love Dies, Evolves, & Is RebornGuest: Amber Vasquez, NP | menopausepositivesolutions.comJoin the Relationship Revolution Community: https://bit.ly/TRRCommunityWork with Dr. Jeni: powerfulove.com | [email protected] CATALYST for VIP Intensive details

Beyond the Breakup: Post-Traumatic Growth and Rewriting Your Relationship PatternsEpisode 2 | The Living Relationship: How Love Dies, Evolves & Is RebornYour breakups are not failures. They are data. They are doorways.In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with marriage and family therapy intern and trauma-informed coach Deborah Feathers for a conversation that will change how you see every painful relationship you've ever been in... including the one you're in right now.What you'll discover in this conversation:Why insight alone doesn't break the pattern... and what actually doesThe "relationship templates" we build in childhood and how they quietly run our adult love livesThe burnt toast analogy: what your amygdala is doing when your partner's tone sets you offWhy familiarity feels safe to your nervous system even when it's hurting youThe single shift that moves you from shame and self-blame into curiosity and compassionWhat post-traumatic growth actually is... and how to access it whether you're in a breakup or still in the relationshipThe questions worth asking yourself this week if you're tired of repeating the same patternsWhether you've just walked away from something painful, or you're starting to recognize old wounds playing out in your current relationship, this conversation is your invitation to stop asking what's wrong with you... and start asking what this is revealing.Connect with Deborah Feathers:deborahfeathers.my.canva.siteWork with Dr. Jeni:Relationship Revolution Community — $147/month, cancel anytime: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X8hQRZLWnTTryE2SxbQDnyy3GA_VZNY8BCH4ny71IO4/edit?usp=sharingThe Catalyst VIP Day (March, 2026 only) —Email "CATALYST" to [email protected] for more information and next stepsNew episodes drop every Friday at 12:30 PM Pacific.

Stop trying to save your relationship. Start asking what it's trying to become.In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig opens the March series with a truth that most people have never been given permission to hear: love doesn't fail because it changes. It fails because we keep trying to preserve what was never meant to last forever.What you'll discover in this conversation:Why "a good relationship is one that lasts" may be the very belief quietly killing yoursThe difference between falling out of love and outgrowing the version of love you were inWhat real commitment actually means... and why "forever no matter what" is a broken promiseWhy the honeymoon phase is a seed, not a peak... and what real love looks like when it finally has rootsWhat coevolution is and what it looks like when two people choose it over shrinking or leavingThe question that changes everything: not "how do we get back to where we were?" but "what are we willing to become?"Dr. Jeni also gets personal... sharing the story of her own recent rupture with Cal, a demolition phase that nearly blew up everything they had built, and what came out the other side.If your relationship feels different, harder, or less alive than it used to... this episode is not a warning. It's an invitation.