The Conscious Couples Podcast

Welcome to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they share how you can win at love whether you’re single or in a relationship. Winning at love is a complex concept. But if you’re willing to do the work, you will be able to reap positive results for your relationship. Relationship Talks #15: Overcoming the Fixed Mindset in Your Rela...

Welcome to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they share how you can create space for vulnerability in your relationship and how you can be vulnerable with your partner. Being vulnerable with your partner requires accepting yourself first before you can open up and share with someone else. Vulnerability builds trust, k...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about walking on eggshells around your partner, what it is, and why you feel like you have to. In the same way an egg demands delicate treatment to avoid cracks in its frame, a person that walks on eggshells around their partner will observe considerable caution to avo...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they talk about expressing your truth without guilt in your relationship. To speak the truth in love could mean expressing your feelings about your relationship, what you want to do, or voicing your opinion about something. It is not always comfortable or easy because...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about building and growing unwavering trust in your relationship. You cannot have a healthy relationship without it. And yet, virtually all of us can bring to mind a scenario where our trust has been broken. Trust is vital for a relationship to survive. If your relatio...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they share how you can keep harmony in your relationship while living together. Living together can be both exciting and stressful. You’ll have to make adjustments to your lifestyle when you move in together to accommodate each other. No matter what changes or adjustm...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they ask whether you and your partner have each other's back. It shouldn’t matter who you’re around or who you’re talking to; your partner should be able to rely on you no matter what, and vice versa. At the end of the day, communication is key to any relationship. Relation...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they talk about relationship alignment and what you can do when you find out that you and your partner are misaligned. Relationship alignment should be a goal of any couple. Should you be proactive, find the nearest exit, or stay? Relationship Talks #14: Building Your...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they share how you can create your standards for a potential relationship. When some people think of relationship standards, they jump straight to “the list” of things they want in a partner. The list of attributes you want in a romantic partner is not the same as the standards...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they talk about the difference between having a fixed mindset and a growth mindset in relationships. How we think about our relationship and partner matters, and depending on our core beliefs, we might manage our feelings in a way that brings us closer or takes us fur...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about the fear most people have about outgrowing or being outgrown by their partner. Identify which of the scenarios they talk about your relationship is in and then take action. It’s difficult, painful, and no one’s fault, but sometimes you really do outgrow the peopl...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they talk about what you can do to avoid hurting your partner. It might be a hurtful comment, rejecting your partner physically, or being unfaithful. When you hurt the one you love, it causes strain in the relationship. You're only human, so you can't expect...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about the importance of showing gratitude to your partner through your actions. It can be through complimenting them, letting them have a break, writing a note of appreciation, or just being thankful for them even when they’re not around. No matter how you choose to sh...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they talk about the challenges people face when they start living with their partners and how they can overcome them. Living with a partner means a new level of shared intimacy, closeness, and togetherness – but it can also lead to some serious relationship stumbling...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about why you get stressed when you travel with your partner and how you can address those issues to avoid getting stressed in the future. Because there’s nothing quite like seeing the world with your significant other, visiting a new place together – or bringing your...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they talk about setting healthy boundaries in a relationship and how you can do so. You’ll find boundaries in every kind of relationship — from friends and family to colleagues and brief acquaintances. You can’t see them, but these lines help you stay “you” and provid...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about the importance of taking ownership of your actions in a relationship. Taking ownership is an empowering reminder that you have control over your role in your relationship. Taking responsibility creates trust and dependability. When you take responsibility for you...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they talk about relationship paradigms and the importance of recognizing and understanding yours. When it comes to relationships, you and your partner should be on the same page. Although conflict is unavoidable in any kind of relationship, you and your partner should...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today, they talk about the three scenarios you can possibly be in: to blend your friends with your intimate relationships. We all want our friends to like our new partner and vice versa. Otherwise, we’d be in a very awkward and uncomfortable position: in the middle. To join the MAY Re...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about addressing red flags in your relationships. When you're dating someone new, the romance and excitement of the "honeymoon phase" can blind you, and you may not be aware of the warning signs. When you see them, take note and express your truth to you...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. This episode talks about how screw-ups are somehow vital to the success of a relationship. Committing mistakes takes a toll on any relationship, often leading to sleepless nights, existential angst, and overwhelming feelings of deficiency. But it doesn’t have to be that way; the key i...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about the importance of emergency check-ins in your relationship. Every relationship goes through situations that make you or your partner feel frustrated, hurt, or distant. Check in and make sure you’re still on the same page when that happens. Join Relationship Talks...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In today’s episode, they talk about the cornerstone question and how important it is as a foundation for any healthy relationship. It serves as a means for you and your partner to understand each other and make sure that you’re not holding each other back from being yourself in your r...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. In this episode, they talk about the importance of checking in on your relationship and making sure the connection is still there. Nowadays, it’s so easy to get disconnected from any relationship, even when you live in the same house or sleep beside each other. What with the busy sche...

Welcome back to The Conscious Couples Podcast with your hosts and real-life couple, Emilia Smith and Alan Lazaros. Today they talk about approaching a challenging conversation with your partner and why it’s important to do so. They also give tips on how you can have that conversation you’ve been trying to put off for so long. Whether it’s picking the right timing or the manner you approach your pa...