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First Year Marriage Show: Marriage Advice | Newlyweds | Engaged Couples | Relationships
Marcus and Ashley Kusi: Marriage Coaches for Newlyweds
Newlyweds, lets be honest, the first year of marriage can be a very challenging year. But if it is seen as a transitional year, you can use it to build a strong foundation for your marriage and relationship. This podcast is dedicated to newlyweds and couples in their first few years of marriage. Even if you are past your first few years of marriage, engaged, in a relationship, or simply interested in marriage, you will learn something new with this podcast. Marcus and Ashley will be sharing marriage tips to help newlyweds build a strong foundation for their marriage. We will also have conversations with great married couples who will share experiences from their first year of marriage; the struggles, problems they encountered, how to communicate, resolve conflicts, adjust with each other and married life, lessons, marriage advice for newlyweds, and tips on how to survive the first few years of marriage. The awesome First Year Marriage stories shared on this podcast wil
- 18 minutes 34 seconds040 Dealing with Long Term Health Issues in Our Marriage
In today’s episode, we give an update about health issues we are going through right now. How it has impacted our marriage, life, and family.
Plus what you can learn from our health struggles to apply in your marriage. Our health issues started last summer and played a huge role in our decision-making process.
We also talked about our new book, First Year of Marriage: The Newlywed’s Guide to Building a Strong Foundation and Adjusting to Married Life.
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21 June 2016, 12:57 am - 40 minutes 37 seconds039 New Marriage, New Culture with Alison Chrun
Welcome back! Alison Chrun from California is our guest for today.
Alison has been married for 8 and a half years, is a mom to two boys, and presently pursuing her Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.
She blogs at Appetite for Honesty and writes for large blogs such as Scary Mommy and The Huffington Post.
Description of First Year in one or two words
Exciting.
Some of the topics we discussed are:
1. Becoming ONE as a couple with your finances.
2. Should you merge your finances?
3. How to decide whether to buy a house before having babies.
4. Getting married to a new culture.
5. How to express your feelings with your spouse.
6. Benefits of open and honest communication with your spouse.
7. Why you should help your spouse.
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Resources Mentioned
The experience of growing up with divorced parents.
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29 September 2015, 2:55 am - 40 minutes 20 seconds038 Honeymooning Through All 50 US States as Newlyweds with Heath and Alyssa Padgett
Heath and Alyssa Padgett are our guests for this episode. They have been married for 1 year and 1 month.
Heath and Alyssa live in an RV, and spent their first year of marriage traveling for 200 days across the lower 48 states of America. They recently finished visiting all 50 States.
The amazing thing about their honeymoon is Heath working a different job in every state while they traveled together.
Description of First Year in one or two words
Adventure.
Some of the topics we discussed are:
1. How to be together as a couple 24/7.
2. Working together side by side.
3. Letting go of unneeded things to focus on your marriage.
4. Why having a common goal to work on together is necessary.
5. How to take bold action on your dreams.
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Resources Mentioned
FREE marriage eBook from Alyssa and Heath
Slowing down to the speed of life
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Pre-marital Counseling
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18 August 2015, 2:22 am - 35 minutes 11 seconds037 Creating Laughter and Meaningful Conversations in Marriage with Tanja Pajevic
Tanja Pajevic is our guest for this week. She has been married for 10 years, lives in Boulder Colorado with her husband and their two sons.
Tanja is a former Fulbright Fellow to Slovenia, writer and consultant. She is also the author of the best-selling marriage book, 9 Steps to Heal Your Resentment and Reboot Your Marriage.
Description of First Year in one or two words
Big Change.
Some of the topics we discussed are:
1. Getting married later in life.
2. How to create joint and separate bank accounts.
3. Raising kids while adjusting to each other and married life.
4. The benefits of humor and laughter in marriage.
5. How to resolve crisis together.
6. Learning to give and take in marriage.
7. The importance of deeper and meaningful conversations.
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Resources Mentioned
To Raise Happy Children Put Your Marriage First
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4 August 2015, 3:18 am - 28 minutes 43 seconds036 As a Newly Married Couple Should You Combine Finances? with Jason Pockrandt
In today’s episode, Jason Pockrandt share’s his first year of marriage story. Jason has been married for 2 years, is the father to a beautiful girl, and lives in Bay City, Michigan.
He is a Speaker, Life Coach of Live To Give, and author of The Confident Father’s Guidebook: Five Steps to Personal Transformation, Rediscover your worth, and live the life you desire today.
Jason also coaches, speaks, and serves other husbands and fathers who want to reconnect to their passions and purpose.
Description of First Year in one or two words
Outlandishly exciting.
Some of the topics we discussed are:
1. How to deal with two different family upbringings/ dynamics.
2. Embracing new changes in your life as a married couple.
3. How to deal with finances together as a couple. Should you combine your finances or not?
4. Getting through the adjustment period.
5. Learning to live together under one roof as a couple.
6. Dealing with relationship struggles with relatives.
7. Speaking your spouse’s love language religiously.
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Resources Mentioned
The Disc Personality Profile Assessment
Contact Links
Email: [email protected]
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21 July 2015, 4:45 am - 035 After Our Move… with Ashley and Marcus Kusi
It’s been a while since we released a new episode. Our move to a new city coupled with Marcus’s new job has kept us very busy for the past month.
If you have moved before with kids under 3 years of age, you know its not as easy as moving to a new house without kids.
But we are very excited to share updates about our move, communication in marriage book, and the podcast with you.
First, we want to thank everyone who has read, reviewed, or purchased our book:
Communication in Marriage: How to Communicate with Your Spouse Without Fighting.
We are very happy to see the impact it’s making in marriages all over the world.
Second, after pondering over how many episodes to release each month, we have decided to release a new episode every other week instead of the weekly episodes.
Lastly, listen to this week’s episode to learn more about why we made this decision and our future plan for the podcast.
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Communication in Marriage: How to Communicate with Your Spouse Without Fighting
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7 July 2015, 12:44 pm - 9 minutes 43 seconds034 Choosing a Theme for Your Family with Ashley Kusi
How will you describe your family in one word?
In this week’s episode, Ashley shares one of the important things that has helped us enormously in our marriage.
It’s called a Family Theme.
And due to us choosing one for our family, our decision-making process has become easier.
Our family theme has also impacted our family positively. Hence, the reason why Ashley talks about it in this episode.
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19 May 2015, 4:02 am - 30 minutes 30 seconds033 Honest and Difficult Conversations with Paul Angone
This week, Paul Angone is our guest. He has been married for 7 years, has two daughters, and lives in San Diego, California.
Paul is the author of All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job, and the best-selling book 101 Secrets for Your Twenties.
He is passionate about helping twenty somethings and thirty somethings discover their purpose, and live life to the fullest.
Description of First Year in one or two words
Adventure and complex.
Some of the topics we discussed are:
1. Building a strong foundation for your marriage.
2. Traditional marriage roles reversal.
3. Having honest and hard conversations with your spouse.
4. How to deal with marriage expectations.
5. What to do when you feel attacked and defensive.
6. Childhood patterns that affect you, and your marriage.
7. Choosing each other over anything else.
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P.P.S. Do you find it difficult communicating with your spouse? Check out our recently compiled list of the best marriage communication books for couples today.
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5 May 2015, 4:50 am - 23 minutes 46 seconds032: The 20 Marriage Lessons We Learned as Newlyweds
In this week’s episode, Ashley shares 20 marriage lessons we learned from our First Year.
It’s based on one of our popular blog posts.
You can read the post by clicking here.
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Marriage Resources Mentioned
Original blog post for this podcast episode.
Communication in Marriage: How to Communicate with Your Spouse Without Fighting.
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28 April 2015, 1:47 am - 51 minutes 3 seconds031 Walking Through Sex Addiction with Jon and Jema Anderson
Living in an RV is not easy, and that’s what our guests for this week, Jon and Jema Anderson do every day.
Jon and Jema have been married for over 20 years, live and work full time in an RV, and have 4 kids.
Description of First Year in one or two words
Jema: Chaos.
John: Intense.
Some of the topics we discussed are:
1. How to overcome sexual addiction in marriage.
2. Struggling with doing things differently as a couple.
3. Talking about your problems, inward struggles, and issues together.
4. How to communicate about sex and intimately.
5. How to express your feelings and emotions.
6. Dealing with sexual addiction.
7. Why keeping secrets is harmful to your marriage.
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Marriage Resources Mentioned
Getting help from the government programs.
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21 April 2015, 5:10 am - 29 minutes 25 seconds030 Standing up for Your Spouse and Marriage with Alex Barker
Alex Barker from Michigan is our guest for this week. He has been married for 5 years and has two children.
Alex is a pharmacist by profession, an online business coach part-time, and former host of the well known Leadership Dojo podcast.
Note: Click here to get access to the Bonus Session about sexual challenges with Alex.
Description of First Year in one or two words
Challenging-reward.
Some of the topics we discussed are:
1. Looking for common themes with your marriage issues.
2. Standing up for what you want.
3. Sexual challenges in the first year.
4. Taking responsibility for your actions.
5. How to listen to your spouse with two key principles.
6. Helping your spouse stand up for their decisions.
7. The joy of improving yourself due to your spouse’s characteristics.
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Marriage Resources Mentioned
Bonus content on sexual challenges
Marriage Counseling and Therapy.
Contact Links
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Enjoy your marriage, enjoy your life!
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