Drama Free Living with Dennis and Lisa McIntee

Dennis and Lisa explore the responsibility of owning your own emotions. You can increase your personal power, become less reactive, and solve issues faster when you recognize that no one can make you feel a certain way. Instead, create a game plan for how you will react when you encounter disrespect or rudeness in the workplace. With the help of the Aggravation Activator, you can channel the energ...

In this episode, Dennis and Lisa ask a thought-provoking question: Why are you unsatisfied? Dissatisfaction often occurs when you are not clear about what you want. As a result, you can get stuck on autopilot or lose yourself to what others think is best for you. To help you ask for what you want, they share two thinking tools you can implement immediately to gain clarity and live intentionally. ...

Dennis and Lisa had the opportunity to present a workshop at a recent marriage conference put on through One Extraordinary Marriage. They condensed the session into this week’s podcast to share the four capabilities of a drama-free marriage (or any kind of relationship). In addition to covering all four, they share a thinking tool called the Trigger Identifier created to help couples communicate m...

There are only 24 hours in each day. To accomplish your goals and focus on what’s important, you may need to take some things off your plate. In fact, as Dennis and Lisa share in this episode, eliminating unnecessary distractions will help you simplify the process and experience freedom. With the help of two free tools from the Leadership Development Group, you can evaluate how you spend your limi...

Dennis and Lisa are exploring the realm of goal setting when it comes to changing contexts. At the airing of this episode, it is almost midyear and those January goals might be looking a little off-kilter. This conversation is all about understanding when to tweak goals, let them go, or realign expectations. A growth mindset requires being comfortable with a constantly evolving environment.  The L...

This week’s episode is a life-giving deep dive into the power of using experiences to create a brighter future. If you have faced a challenge, loss, or are going through it now, this is an episode to bring hope and confidence for your next steps. Dennis and Lisa also provide a thinking tool called The Learning Matrix to help you process and create value from the past.  The Leadership Development G...

Dennis and Lisa are tackling the topic of work–-and the key question regarding the difference between hard and easy work. They live out the mantra that work should keep you happy because it should fulfill the joy in your heart. In today’s episode, they explain how to determine what kind of work is “easy” for you as well as what to do when you are stuck in a situation where you don’t have the choic...

Dennis and Lisa are rounding out their series on The Four C’s of Teamwork with a discussion on commitment. In this episode, they review why people won’t commit, what it takes to become committed, and the four drivers of motivation for most people. They also share a thinking tool to use with your teams to help them identify the best ways to work together in harmony. The Leadership Development Group...

As Dennis and Lisa are continuing their series on the “Four C’s of Teamwork,” they are focusing this episode on clarity in healthy teams. Clarity is the outcome of conflict and always the big goal for leaders. The more focused and clear we are, the more powerful we can be. Listen today and discover the power of clarity.  The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa...

As Dennis and Lisa continue their series on the Four C’s of Healthy Teams, today’s episode is all about conflict. At its root, conflict is important and healthy because it is a sign you care, and providing clarity is actually an act of kindness. Conflict gets a bad reputation because it is most often associated with unhealthy situations, breeding a drama-full workplace. Dennis and Lisa walk throug...

In the second episode of Dennis and Lisa’s series on Teamwork, they are exploring the concept of Care. Specifically, they are using the model of the five love languages to apply to a business setting. To illustrate the application of a framework typically applied to personal relationships, they utilize two thinking tools designed by Leadership Development Group to help employees truly learn to car...

In this four-part series kick off, Dennis and Lisa are sharing four keys to developing healthy teams. In this introductory episode, they explore some of the nostalgic origins of teamwork theories developed in the 1990s. While much has changed in three decades, there are some tenets that absolutely hold true. Tune in to this conversation about why healthy teams are important and what happens when w...

Dennis and Lisa have worked together for nearly three decades and are dedicating this episode of Drama Free Living to sharing their top five tips from their experiences. They cover the joy of the journey, pitfalls to watch out for, and their personal favorite tips to keeping their intimacy and unity while running a business as a team. A must listen for working married couples and families in busin...

Dennis and Lisa continue their series on emotional intelligence with a second episode on external communication. This episode focuses on the things you are not saying at all when you communicate–the importance of a caring orientation, meaning found in people versus words, and context over content. Tune in to learn how to manage your emotions, evaluate your thinking, and become a more confident and...

When it comes to external communication, it is challenging to keep emotion at bay. In today’s episode Dennis and Lisa are discussing tactics to use to manage your emotions and take stock of the way you are presenting yourself. They review strategies to harness your context and content so you are experienced in the way you intend. Building trust is all about being consistent and regulating your int...

Dennis and Lisa return with their series on emotional mastery with a special episode turning inward. The key question they are answering is this: once you have identified the feelings you are encountering, what do you do with them? They discuss strategies for managing stories we tell ourselves impacting our emotions as well as empowering questions we can ask ourselves to help shift the narrative....

For their 100th episode of the Drama Free Living podcast, Dennis and Lisa are channeling Mr. Rogers and the topic of emotional mastery. Using Mr. Rogers’ famous song, “What do do with the mad that you feel,” they take you through a thinking tool called the Emotions Clarifier. The goal is to not live in lukewarm stasis, but to allow yourself to feel your emotions so that you can push your energy in...

It may seem ironic that the Drama Free Living Podcast would tout the values of drama as a gift, but that is exactly what Lisa and Dennis are tackling in today’s episode. Drama is actually a tool that can help us name our emotions and recognize our stories. Once we recognize the stories we are telling ourselves about the world around us, we can control our inner thoughts more and find peace. And th...

Leading up to Valentine’s Day, Dennis and Lisa have focused on emotional intelligence, communication, and the drama that often bubbles up when those things are out of alignment. In today’s episode, they teach how we are only in control of our responses–what other people think or feel about is not our responsibility. By realizing what we CAN control and letting go of what we CANNOT, there is freedo...

Join Dennis and Lisa for another episode of the 'Drama Free Living' podcast. Discover how our inner narratives shape our connections and learn to live a drama-free life by managing these stories. Explore emotional intelligence and intimacy and how they lead to deeper connections. Shape your story and live a meaningful life. The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Li...

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon and on the day of their 32nd wedding anniversary, Dennis and Lisa are musing on connection. An 85-year long Harvard study determined that personal connections are the most important components of health and happiness, above all else. In this episode, Dennis and Lisa discuss how to find true happiness and ways to better understand yourself so it is easier to atta...

Joy is not a destination but a journey. In today’s episode, Dennis and Lisa walk through their goal setting process they do every year, focusing on the Seven F’s of Freedom. By focusing on Faith, Family, Fun, Fulfillment, Friends, Finance, and Fitness, they look at what it means to achieve their goals in each of these areas ten years from now. You can easily do this exercise at home with your visi...

Dennis and Lisa join the Drama Free Living podcast with a compassionate message to remind listeners to set high expectations tempered with a heavy dose of grace. We are not creative when we are negative towards ourselves. Self compassion has been scientifically proven to lower anxiety so we can actually be more productive. By being gentle with ourselves we may actually be more able to accomplish t...

Dennis and Lisa return to the Drama Free Living podcast with four valuable insights gained from the Leadership Roundtable participants. They discuss some of their best advice or tips for making the most out of the year ahead. After all, sometimes the biggest opportunities are found in the smallest things. The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exi...

Dennis and Lisa are looking back at the most popular podcast episodes in 2022 and kicking off the new year with a return to the message they shared first in January. Dennis and Lisa are helping us enter the new year without the stress and tension that sometimes accompanies resolutions and goals. By focusing on gratefulness and three key tactics to do so, they present an alternative to the resoluti...