Diacardia - The podcast for pairs and partners

Protea Foundation Founder and CEO Cristina Pearse talks with Dan about two general kinds of trauma and how they affect close relationships. If you're partnering with someone who has experienced trauma or other significant loss you may experience them as highly sensitive and prone to being "triggered" by what seem like minor exchanges. We make sense of it. Cristina puts neurological science in understandable form. She helps Dan who shares about the early childhood trauma that's been hidden for decades. In their own diacardia conversation, Cristina and Dan explore how awareness generates new options for both partners to understand the hidden partner of PTSD in relationship. Diacardia does what it does: helps individuals grow more free and healthy and builds connection between them.

Part 2 of Dan's meeting with Tarik and Maya Glenn. Tarik, an NFL Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion with the Indianapolis Colts opens up. He shares what it's like for the embodiment of a strong man - and a strong Christian husband - to find a way to be emotionally open with himself, his wife and to us as listeners. Maya's response is one so many men need to hear. They talk about diacardia - speaking and listening through the heart - but even more so they show us what it actually looks like. Be impressed. Be inspired.

Diacardia: Where growth and partnership meet. In this powerful first installment (Part 1), we sit down with Tarik and Maya Glenn to go beyond the surface of "relationship advice." This isn’t just a conversation about marriage; it’s a masterclass in how to show up for your partner.True Diacardia is about showing rather than telling. You can hear it in the tremor of their voices and see it in the vulnerability of their tears. Tarik and Maya don't just talk about a great relationship—they live it.In this episode, we explore:The Beginning: How Tarik and Maya first came together.The Foundation: The pillars of faith and friendship that supported their early years.The "Real" Diacardia: What it looks like to grow individually while strengthening the bond as a couple.If you’ve been looking for authentic relationship wisdom and a raw look at what makes a strong marriage last, this interview is for you.#MarriageAdvice #HealthyRelationships #RelationshipPodcast #LongLastingMarriage #StrongMarriage #RelationshipGrowth #MarriageConversation#RelationshipCommunication #Vulnerability #EmotionalSafety #TrustInRelationships ##FaithAndMarriage #ChristianMarriage #DiacardiaPodcast #TarikGlenn #MayaGlenn #TarikGlennInterview

Goals can be off-putting. In the past, perhaps you haven't followed through. Or the goals lost their luster. Maybe it's better to let life happen, you think; live and adjust. Abby Medcalf, Ph.D. offers a different, useful and powerful way to look at goals. I've taught goals in my leadership work for over 30 years, I (arrogantly?) thought I knew all that was useful to know. Abby gave me a far different and highly useful perspective. Let her explain!

One partner is "dying" to talk, but the other doesn't want to. Then what? Monica Tanner, certified relationship coach shares game-changing ideas with Dan about the all-too-frequent situation where partners are opposite in that one feels the two need to talk, but the other just doesn't want to go there. How does that partner who wants to explore the challenges in relationship bring the resistant partner to the table? Dan and Monica share relationship research as well as their personal stories to help listeners find usable strategies to work on their relationships. Diacardia is the podcast that explores the power of good listening and thinking - we could call that dialogue - but also helps listeners develop the art of listening through the heart.

Diacardia is all about heart-to-heart conversations that make partnerships vital, effective and enjoyable. Episode 8 identifies perhaps THE most common mistake we make in communication. We explore how we put invisible frames on the important conversations we begin and then we are disappointed that we don't get what we want. Dan frames a conversation with ChatGPT about the power of framing conversations.

Are you so close that you are really a part of your partner(s) but also have an identity and seek to be apart from them at times? Then you are human. Dan explores how we can gain empowering awareness of how we can gain healthy apartness, and also balance that with being connected closely to our partners. To grow like redwoods, fed by the same roots, sharing the same space, yet towering in independence.

Apology can be a scary word. It's hard to give them, and sometimes you are not ready to believe in apologies that someone wants to give to you. This anxiousness can continue when one of you DOES decide to jump in. In this episode we help you break it down, make it safe, and thus deliver that incredible gift when you re-pair the trust and ease that were undermined. Let us know what you think as you move into this awesome space that can make relationships even stronger than they were before a setback occurred.

In this session, Dan shares a way to take what's weighing on your mind and heart and introduce it to your partner in a way that your partner can hear it. And he shares a way that you can listen to a partner when they need to get something off their chest - whether it's about you or their boss, an employee, an adult child or a parent. Dan shares how to make it safe and to strengthen your partnership through the sharing!

Sharing your core values with a partner feels great. In this episode Dan briefly shares the research on why value-sharing - or appreciating what your partner appreciates - not only feels great but provides a really secure foundation for working together on tough issues.

Good listening is like magic. It has a power to change you, your partner and your relationship. Grab your partner, or anyone you'd like to partner with to learn about and practice the magic of listening. Can you hear the sound of Ting?

Every great partnership - personal or professional - grows stronger in motivation and closer in alignment when the partners share their visions and goals. This episode is designed to make it easy for partners to share. One live listener shared that she felt her partner's heart grew in size like the Grinch. That's diacardia.

Grab your partner, gently. Diacardia is a podcast for pairs. It's an easy episode. Have fun with research-backed practice.