# christa (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover christa. Page: Feed: --- ## 08.21.26 Clark Answers His Critics on Clark Stinks / WARNING: Online Medical Services _2026-08-21 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ Friday - Clark Stinks day! Christa shares Clark Stinks posts with Clark. Submit yours at Clark.com/ClarkStinks. Also, many Americans are ordering medications from online websites and pharmacies, and a major player is being sued by the FTC. Online medical services promising quick prescriptions for sensitive conditions seem convenient, but they could be costing you more than money—they might be… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT6810052385.mp3) ## 08.19.26 The FIRE Movement Today / Pricing Mind Games _2026-08-19 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ If you think winning the lottery is the only way to achieve financial independence, think again! The Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement has shifted drastically over the years in the wake of inflation, rising housing costs, and healthcare challenges, but the core principle of FI is more relevant today than ever. Clark shares his own journey—including retiring at 31 and starting… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT3732189636.mp3) ## What Your Spouse Can and Can't Hold (Mind the Gap!) _2026-08-19 · Enneagram and Marriage_ As we're talking about all month, every marriage has gaps and seasons where connection runs thin or a need goes unspoken for too long. As you're learning to healthily differentiate, don't move so far away that you lose sight of the connections you DO need to have. Find where your healthy and unhealthy gaps are right here and make the healthiest move for you and your family as we learn together in… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY4627410132.mp3) ## 08.18.26 Ask An Advisor With Wes Moss _2026-08-18 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ What History Really Says About All-Time Market Highs & Should You Move to a 55+ Community? With the S&P 500 continuously hitting new all-time highs in 2026, many investors are wondering if the market has moved too far, too fast. In this episode, Wes Moss dives into the history of market highs, explaining why record-breaking runs are actually far more common—and far less dangerous—than headlines… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT3096045518.mp3) ## 08.17.26 Renters Face New Junk Fees / Tap-To-Pay Scam Warning _2026-08-17 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ Finding an affordable rental was hard enough, but now landlords are taking a cue from hotels and airlines by hitting tenants with hidden junk fees. From mandatory charges for bundled trash pickup and overpriced cable to outrageous $200 monthly add-ons just for working from home, these unexpected fees inflate the cost of living. When apartment hunting, Clark urges us to check for this specific list… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT1005211575.mp3) ## Grief, Remarriage, and the Love That Lasts, with Clarissa Moll, 6 _2026-08-17 · Enneagram and Marriage_ ⁠⁠⁠This is a special and tender episode to close our month on what our spouses can and cannot carry for us, because some things, like grief, are simply too heavy for any one person to hold alone. Christa welcomes the award-winning writer and podcaster Clarissa Moll, who produces and moderates Christianity Today's flagship news podcast, The Bulletin, and who has become one of the most trusted… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY1081312869.mp3) ## 08-14-26 Clark Answers His Critics on Clark Stinks / Essential Documents _2026-08-14 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ Friday - Clark Stinks day! Christa shares Clark Stinks posts with Clark. Submit yours at Clark.com/ClarkStinks. Also, to protect your young adult and give your family peace of mind, there are critical legal and financial forms every teenager should sign at age 18. Setting up these documents is simple, inexpensive, and essential for any family navigating the transition to adulthood. Taking a few… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT1416574868.mp3) ## 08.12.26 One Bad Apple Deal / CDs: Opportunity And Method _2026-08-12 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ Apple device prices are soaring due to rising hardware costs, and their newest solution is to offer “forever leases” on iPhones, Macs, and iPads for a fixed monthly fee. While this subscription-style leasing model might make sense if you’re a tech enthusiast, it’s a dangerous financial trap for the average consumer. Before you fall for the low monthly sticker price—or get tied down by a carrier’s… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT4747032738.mp3) ## Your Virtue, Your Vice, and Awakening to Your True Purposes _2026-08-12 · Enneagram and Marriage_ So much of what we hand our spouse to fix is really our own inner work in disguise. In this episode, Christa turns to two of the most useful words the Enneagram gives us: your vice and your virtue. Your vice is the emotional pattern that runs the show under stress, the overused survival strategy of your type, and your virtue is the higher quality that naturally emerges as you heal and grow. We'll… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY3186113049.mp3) ## 08-11-26 Ask An Advisor With Wes Moss _2026-08-11 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ Is Your Retirement Missing Purpose? & Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared To Spend Your Retirement Savings Wes starts by looking at what ancient wisdom and modern research teach us about true fulfillment. As we leave the workforce, we often lose daily structure, active socialization, and full households all at once. To counter these major life headwinds, Wes discusses how planning your lifestyle goals… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT8850796342.mp3) ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fRQHtzgJFNjo) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## 08.10.26 Breaking Phone Addiction / Know The Affinity Fraud Trap _2026-08-10 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ Are you looking to break free from the time killing, mindless scrolling of phone addiction? Clark reviews the popular Brick Phone Lock—a $60 physical device paired with an app designed to lock you out of your most distracting apps. This tool might be a game-changer if phone addiction is actively hurting your productivity, work, and/or personal relationships. Also, a massive investigative report… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT8563394072.mp3) ## The Blind Spots Between Us, with Beatrice Chestnut, 2 _2026-08-10 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Christa welcomes the beloved Beatrice Chestnut, one of the most respected voices in the Enneagram world, for a rich conversation on the three centers of intelligence, the body, the heart, and the head, and how each one shapes the way we love, fight, and connect in relationships. So much of what we wrongly ask our spouse to carry comes from the parts of ourselves we have not yet done our own work… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY4899050724.mp3) ## 08.07.26 Clark Answers His Critics on Clark Stinks / Promises And Prenups _2026-08-07 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ Friday - Clark Stinks day! Christa shares Clark Stinks posts with Clark. Submit yours at Clark.com/ClarkStinks. Also, Clark has always considered himself an incurable romantic, and for years, his stance on prenuptial agreements was clear: signing one felt like writing a contract for failure before the marriage even began. But looking at the reality that over half of marriages end in divorce, he… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT9662253545.mp3) ## 08.05.26 Starting A Small Business / Automated Check-Out Warning _2026-08-05 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ More people are looking for ways to create their own job security. Clark shares two invaluable, free resources every aspiring entrepreneur should know about, and breaks down why the freedom of entrepreneurship remains one of the best ways to build lasting stability. Also, a critical look at the rise of AI-powered, cashierless grocery stores and automated micro-markets. Highlighting an outrageous… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT3422082896.mp3) ## Where Our Deeper Needs Really Belong with Coach Linda Hannigan, 3 _2026-08-05 · Enneagram and Marriage_ This week Christa welcomes Linda Hannigan, 3 (3-1 pairing), an Enneagram and Marriage certified coach, gifted orator, and truth teller whose candor and artistry make her a joy to learn from. Together they continue the August question of what our spouses can and cannot carry for us, and where our deeper needs actually belong. Linda brings her signature honesty, willing to talk openly about the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY1046250912.mp3) ## 08.04.26 Ask An Advisor With Wes Moss _2026-08-04 · The Clark Howard Podcast_ 5 Questions BEFORE You Claim Social Security & College vs. Retirement Savings Should you claim Social Security early or wait? While the math says waiting guarantees a bigger check, the real answer goes far beyond the numbers. In this episode, Wes Moss breaks down how to determine the right Social Security claiming age for your specific lifestyle, health, and portfolio. Also, Wes shares ideas to… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT5910538554.mp3) ## Feeling Unnoticed in Marriage: What Your Spouse Can't Do for You _2026-08-03 · Enneagram and Marriage_ So many of us have handed our spouse a job description they were never meant to fill, to notice our every need, validate our worth, provide our purpose, and keep us feeling seen, alive, and whole. And when they fall short, we feel unnoticed, disappointed, and we start to wonder if something is wrong with the marriage. In this opening series episode, Christa asks a different question: what if the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY1658974130.mp3) ## The Intimacy of Being Believed In: The Michelangelo Effect _2026-07-29 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Close partners sculpt one another by drawing out each other's ideal self, as we learn from the Michelangelo phenomenon, we find that couples who idealize each other are more likely to last and even grow into the best version the other sees in them, Christa explores how love, at its healthiest, is not blind but prescient. She also names the wise center of it all: we are not called to flatter a… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY1486156564.mp3) ## The Body Keeps the Score in the Bedroom: Intimacy, Safety, and Learning to Regulate _2026-07-27 · Enneagram and Marriage_ We often treat physical intimacy as something that happens only in the moment, but the body carries far more than the moment. It carries our history, our stress, and our old wounds, everything it has learned about whether it is safe to open. Drawing on Bessel van der Kolk's landmark work, The Body Keeps the Score, Christa explores how stress and trauma live not just in the mind but in the body… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY7667891548.mp3) ## How The Odyssey Maps the Journey of Your Own Growth _2026-07-22 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Many Enneagram teachers have used the Odyssey as a way to talk through the nine types, since there are nine temptations, nine believable reasons to never make it home. Yet each island of trials offers the hero (you!) a real gift of virtue, if you can look past the trap of the very thing keeping you from home. When we instead finally face God and the open sea, when we finally humble ourselves,… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY4624217745.mp3) ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/p0ak7IM5XQgD) _2026-07-22 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## When Sex Feels Like One More Thing to Do _2026-07-22 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Here Christa turns to a different weight so many couples carry: what happens when the body is simply depleted, exhausted, touched-out, and running on empty, and sex stops feeling like connection and starts feeling like one more thing on an endless list. Going under the hood of the dual control model, she explains why exhaustion is one of the most powerful brakes on desire there is, why the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY2324229732.mp3) ## The Art of (Married) Seduction w/Dr. Anna Elton, PhD _2026-07-20 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Seduction inside a long marriage sounds like a contradiction, and Dr. Anna Elton is here to tell us it is anything but. In this rich conversation, Christa welcomes Dr. Elton to unpack her framework for what she calls the desire equilibrium, the idea that desire is not one thing but three: desiring yourself, desiring your partner, and letting yourself feel wanted. Most couples pour all their energy… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY1439865188.mp3) ## Beloved and Imperfect: Meredith Hite Estevez, Loving One Another As Works of God's Art _2026-07-17 · Enneagram and Marriage_ As a special invitation in the middle of our summer exploring desire and intimacy in marriage, Christa pauses to learn from and to share an experience with a soulful friend, welcoming Meredith Hite Estevez, a Juilliard-trained oboist, writer, creative coach, and Enneagram Type 4 married to a Type 7, for a conversation about her beautiful new book, Art Is How God Loves Us. Meredith reframes art not… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY9896302838.mp3) ## Play as a Path Back to Desire: How Fun Reignites Your Sexual Intimacy _2026-07-15 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Today, Christa reveals the surprising other half of the connection coin when it comes to sexual intimacy: desire does not only need safety, it needs aliveness. Christa names the play deficit that creeps into long marriages as we become expert co-managers of a household and forget how to delight in each other, and shares Amy Muise's fascinating research on self-expansion, the finding that novel,… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY6126941238.mp3) ## Seen, Known, and Wanted: The Three Keys to Real Sexual Intimacy _2026-07-13 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Why do so many couples feel stuck in the bedroom even after decades of marriage? Christa goes straight at the real reason in this episode, the armor we put on to avoid being truly seen. Being physically intimate with your spouse asks something genuinely brave of us, to be seen not just in body but in our wanting, our desire, our reaching, and most of us have gotten very good at hiding those tender… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY8558549798.mp3) ## Afterglow: The 48 Hours That Change Your Marriage _2026-07-08 · Enneagram and Marriage_ We tend to think of physical intimacy as a moment, here and then gone. But the research reveals it is actually a window, a lingering afterglow that lasts up to forty-eight hours, and what happens inside that window may matter even more than the moment itself. In this episode Christa unpacks Andrea Meltzer's fascinating research on sexual afterglow, the finding that satisfaction stays elevated for… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY9325464070.mp3) ## Initiation: Who Reaches, Who Pulls Back, and Why _2026-07-06 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Almost every couple navigates it, and almost nobody talks about it openly: the vulnerable dance of initiation. Who reaches for whom, who tends to pull back, and the quiet hurt that builds around it over the years. In this tender and practical episode, Christa brings one of the most unspoken dynamics in marriage into the light. She explains why the lower-initiating partner is so often not less… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY6300501707.mp3) ## Lighting (Safe but Sexy) Fireworks in Your Marriage _2026-07-01 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Today we open the July series on sexual intimacy, and there's no better week for lighting the (safe but sexy) fireworks. Not the ones in the sky, the ones in your marriage. Christa dismantles the myth that real passion just strikes like lightning and reveals what the thriving couples actually know: fireworks are built, not stumbled upon, and synthesizes her decades of experience of working with… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY7356899348.mp3) ## The Foundation Before the (Sexual) Fireworks _2026-06-29 · Enneagram and Marriage_ This is the turning point of the Summer of Intimacy, the bridge from everything we have built in June into the sexual intimacy series beginning in July. But this episode names something deeper that has been happening all along. All month, Christa has not been teaching you to try harder at your marriage, she has been guiding you toward second-order change, a concept from family systems work that… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY9365193730.mp3) ## Two Essential Paths to Intimacy: Joy and Connection _2026-06-24 · Enneagram and Marriage_ In this crowning summer episode every listener needs to lean in for, Christa unpacks the two paths back to each other: connection, the path of being deeply known, grounded in John Gottman's research on love maps and turning toward bids, and joy, the path of shared aliveness, grounded in Arthur Aron's self-expansion studies on novelty and lasting passion. You will learn why you and your spouse may… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY4118090459.mp3) ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ssRb2hI6Qs1Q) _2026-06-24 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## 25 Years In: What I've Learned About Intimacy _2026-06-22 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Today Christa talks through 25 years of marriage to Wes - and instead of a typical teaching episode, we're reflecting on the story arc of marriages that thrive. Christa shares a lessonn about her own parents and their 25th, that didn't go the way she expected, what her dad unwittingly taught her about really seeing the person you love, and what 25 years has shown her about intimacy. She also… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY2297337987.mp3) ## What to Do When Sharing Backfires: Emotional Processing Containers _2026-06-17 · Enneagram and Marriage_ When you finally open up and say the vulnerable thing that needed to be said and shared, what next? Often, your spouse gets defensive, shuts down, or fires back, and now you're less likely to ever share again. This is one of the most common and heartbreaking cycles in marriage: vulnerability that backfires actually creates MORE hiding, not less. In this episode of the Summer of Intimacy series,… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY7116616738.mp3) ## Subscriber Series: The Container Method - Emotional Safety for Every Type in Marriage (Free to All This Week!) _2026-06-17 · Enneagram and Marriage_ This week's deep dive is FREE for everyone, and we mean everyone. Whether you're a longtime Collective member or brand new here, this one's a gift. We're going deeper into emotional processing containers, but this time we're breaking it down by Enneagram type. We cover every type in marriage: what backfires for each, what container works best, and how to create emotional safety with your specific… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY7634631600.mp3) ## Hiding in Your Marriage: What It's Quietly Costing Your Connection _2026-06-15 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Do you tell your spouse every sip of coffee, every flirt at the grocery store, every small moment of frustration? Probably not, and that is not automatically a problem. But there is a real difference between healthy discretion and quiet hiding, and when we do the latter, it costs us more than we realize. This week we are opening up the question of what we share, what we keep to ourselves, and why.… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY3318682814.mp3) ## The Tiny Moments That Make or Break Your Marriage: Emotional Bids _2026-06-10 · Enneagram and Marriage_ What if the thing that determines whether your marriage thrives or slowly fades isn't the big fights or the grand gestures, but the hundred tiny moments in between? In this episode, Christa unpacks one of Gottman's most important and least-talked-about discoveries: emotional bids. Every day your spouse is making small, quiet requests for connection, and you're either turning toward them, away from… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY1010392472.mp3) ## How to Stop Assuming the Worst About Your Spouse: Positive Sentiment Override _2026-06-08 · Enneagram and Marriage_ What if the distance you feel in your marriage isn't about love at all, but about a bank account that has quietly run low? In episode three of the Summer of Intimacy series, Christa dives into one of Gottman's most powerful research findings, positive sentiment override, and the hidden force that erodes it faster than almost anything else: mental load. If you have been quicker to snap, quicker to… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY3786325558.mp3) ## The Emotional Intimacy Secret Behind Couples Who Last _2026-06-03 · Enneagram and Marriage_ The couples who drift apart are rarely the ones fighting the most, they are the ones who simply stopped being curious. In this episode, Christa unpacks the love maps research and then hands you the exact questions each Enneagram type secretly longs to be asked, the kind of conversation starters made for a porch swing, a long summer drive, or those quiet few minutes at the end of the day. She also… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY4843760029.mp3) ## The Summer of Intimacy Starter Special _2026-06-01 · Enneagram and Marriage_ As we reflect on what irt really takes to create long-lasting, satisfying love, this summer season, we're coming into a place of focus, and this kickstarter episode launches the Summer of Intimacy, sixteen episodes across June and July covering every layer of what it means to be truly known and truly chosen by your spouse. June goes deep into emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and playful… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY9867935835.mp3) ## Limerence Uncovered: When Romantic Obsession Replaces Real Love w/Author Amanda McCracken _2026-05-27 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Meet author, New York Times viral writer, and wife/mom Amanda McCracken, the woman who sat beside Katie Couric and was told she had 'fairytale princess syndrome' as she dreamed of romantic love. This comment launched a ten year research journey that became the book, When Longing Becomes Your Lover: Breaking from Infatuation, Rejection, and Perfectionism to Find Authentic Love, that we're talking… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY2916988726.mp3) ## Hormones, Marriage, and Shifting Desire: Dr. Cathleen Gerenger, 7, on Thriving When Everything Changes _2026-05-25 · Enneagram and Marriage_ After a car accident sent her on a deeply personal journey into bodywork and healing, Dr. Cathleen Gerenge, Type 7, discovered that the path to thriving was not just clinical but deeply embodied, and that lesson changed the way she practices and the way she lives, and she brings her brilliance to us about thyroid, specific hormones, and taking care of us, just as she too found results and also the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY5555498030.mp3) ## The Science of Staying in Love: Novel and Creative Events _2026-05-20 · Enneagram and Marriage_ As we learn more about what relationship science says, we learn that not only was your brain designed for continued new learning, but fascinatingly, your marriage was designed to benefit from it, too. Researcher Arthur Aron has spent decades studying what keeps couples not just together but genuinely in love, and what he found might surprise you: novel shared experiences do not just make a… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY1989181733.mp3) ## Love Is Blind Star Kelly Chase: When a Type 3 Finally Comes Home to Herself (And Stops Self-Abandonment) _2026-05-18 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Kelly Chase, the breakout star of Love Is Blind, Season 1, brings something to this conversation that goes far deeper than what the world got to see when she said "no" at the altar. As a Type 3. we get to talk about the inside of the life of a type 3, as Kelly talks about both sides of the Performer personality, the side that performs to others and abandons self, and the version of herself that… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY2642442408.mp3) ## Up Close and Personal w/Milana Vayntrub, Type 7, Project Hail Mary, Finding Rest, and Growing Into Your Best Self _2026-05-13 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Milana Vayntrub is an actress, comedian, and activist born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, who came to prominence as Lily Adams in AT&T commercials — and in 2026 she stepped into something entirely new, playing Olesya Ilyukhina, a Russian engineer and cosmonaut in the blockbuster film Project Hail Mary alongside Ryan Gosling. But this conversation goes somewhere the red carpet does not. Milana is a Type… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY7353636033.mp3) ## When Your Hormones Are Costing Your Health and Family w/Dr. Alicia Newsome, Type 3 _2026-05-11 · Enneagram and Marriage_ There are times in life when you're exhausted, foggy, perhaps having headaches or gaining weight, and running on empty in your energy, and thus your marriage, and yet it's hard to explain why, since your habits haven't changed much. Dr. Alicia Newsome joins us today to talk about all of this and more as a physician who specializes in root-cause hormone care, and she is here to tell you that what… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY6224678452.mp3) ## Taking Care of You So You Can Bear Witness to Each Other _2026-05-06 · Enneagram and Marriage_ It is Maycember and everyone is running on empty, and your marriage still needs you. Not the leftover version. The actual you. In this episode, Christa makes the connection nobody talks about: taking care of yourself is not separate from loving your spouse, it is what makes you capable of the most generous thing a marriage asks of you. Bearing witness. Staying in the dark with your person without… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY7318621909.mp3?updated=1778021413) ## Finding Strength in Marriage When Your Health Fails w/Sydney Bennett _2026-05-04 · Enneagram and Marriage_ We are kicking off a new month of Enneagram and Marriage on health and wellness in marriage, and we are starting it in the deeps, in the heart of physical suffering. Today Christa interviews Sydney Anne Bennett, author, military wive, and storyteller with over 300K followers who became disabled two weeks after her honeymoon. Diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder, a condition where the… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY3661201498.mp3?updated=1777847697) ## Finding Your Healthy Voice in Your Marriage w/Jamie and Ruthie Slingerland, 7-9 Pairing _2026-04-29 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Today's guests are #1 high-level ICF-trained (top 2% of coaches) Jamie Slingerland, MCC and Ruthie Perez Slingerland, MCC married coaches, Enneagram mentors, and business partners who, brick by brick, have built a healthy communication pattern across years, even with opposite though both joyful personalities. Listen as we chat with Jamie and Ruthie Slingerland (7-9 pairing), and what happened when… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY9810101880.mp3?updated=1777426397) ## How We Really Fight - And Heal: A Conflict Masterclass w/Russ Hudson (Shock Points, Harmonics & the Instincts) _2026-04-27 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Russ Hudson, co-founder of the Enneagram Institute and author of The Wisdom of the Enneagram, joins Christa for a masterclass on conflict. This isn't just "here's what your type does wrong", Russ breaks down the deeper architecture of how we fight: shock points (the places where we get triggered and can't think), harmonic groups (the patterns underneath how we process conflict), and the instincts… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY9864612939.mp3?updated=1777255451) ## Same Conversation, Different Experience: Why Couples Miss Each Other w/Jason VanRuler, 2 _2026-04-22 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Christa sits down with Jason VanRuler (type 2), therapist and author who specializes in communication and relationships, for a conversation about why couples can walk away from the same conversation with completely different experiences. Jason breaks down the PATHS Assessment he developed to help couples understand their communication types and why what you say isn't always what your partner… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY6703945212.mp3?updated=1776813297) ## When the Past Shows Up in Your Marriage: Narrative-Focused Trauma Care w/Dan Allender & Steve Call (8-9 Pairing and 3-4 Pairing) _2026-04-20 · Enneagram and Marriage_ Christa sits down with Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Steve Call, longtime therapists, professors, relationship theorists and practitioners, and authors of The Deep-Rooted Marriage: Cultivating Intimacy, Healing, and Delight, for a powerful conversation about trauma-informed couples therapy through the lens of The Narrative Focused Trauma Care® (NFTC) Model Dan Allender created. Here in this juicy and… [Listen](https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CHRTDY1945033870.mp3?updated=1776610793)