Diacardia - The podcast for pairs and partners

In this episode, social psychologist and lifestyle medicine expert Christine Carter, Ph. D., explores the emerging research behind Alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline, and lifestyle medicine. Can changes in sleep, exercise, nutrition, stress management, and social connection play a role in brain health? Christine discusses a recent clinical trial, the science behind lifestyle medicine, and...

Can you speak the unspeakable? Something you need to say, but it feels too risky. Great relationships soar when we can speak and hear the unspeakable. Listen when an outstanding marriage coach and therapist, Andrea Dindinger, asks her husband whether he thinks about them getting divorced. It's scary. But look at all the learning the courageous, curious, and caring question unleashes. And watch...

What does it really mean to listen through the heart? In this episode of Diacardia, Debbie Phillips interviews Dan Mulhern and turns the lens back on the practice at the center of this podcast. Together, they explore: Why we get stuck trying to be right in conversations How breath awareness helps us move out of our heads What it means to truly listen, not fix or respond How deep listening can make...

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 s...

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 diacar...

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 i...

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 m...

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 pa...

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 conversa...

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 independ...

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...

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 pa...

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.