Overcoming Obstacles Together: Tools for Elite Performers' Marriages | Amy Wine
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When does pursuing your goals mean neglecting your relationships? For high-performing couples, maintaining intimacy may become hard and require intentionality.
In this episode, Amy Wine shares her strategies for helping elite athletes, entrepreneurs and busy professionals prioritize connection - even when life gets hectic. Learn a system for designing communication around each partner's unique rhythms and needs.
Learn about the "married roommate" trap and how to overcome it. Discover Amy's techniques for educating spouses on the elite mindset and scheduling meaningful moments together.
Whether you're training for the Olympics or building an empire, get Amy's advice for keeping romance alive while chasing your dreams.
Highlights:
00:00 Intro
01:04 Who is Amy Wine?
01:40 Troubles with relationships
03:57 Married roommates stage
07:31 High-class problems
09:21 Being there for your spouse
11:23 The mindset of wanting the change
15:46 Finding the joy
18:08 We don’t own stuff, it owns us
20:41 How can people find Amy?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We had a 55% rate of couples staying together after two years of working with us. |
| 0:06.4 | They have to want to do the work and get out of the blame game, |
| 0:12.4 | take responsibility for themselves, realize their spouse isn't going to make them happy. |
| 0:16.0 | It just depends on where they come in in that mindset. |
| 0:19.0 | Let's talk about baseball players, professional baseball players for instance. |
| 0:23.0 | They're gone a lot. |
| 0:25.0 | And when they have little kids, their wife can't travel with them like they used to. |
| 0:28.0 | So it's putting systems in place that works for them based on that season, |
| 0:32.0 | that it's being as intentional |
| 0:34.0 | about what you do with your spouse |
| 0:36.0 | as what you do with your workout program, |
| 0:38.0 | your business, your profession. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, it sounds like you've got to be thoughtful set a blueprint and |
| 0:43.8 | schedule. |
| 0:44.8 | Welcome to the Hardway podcast with Joe the Senna, founder and CEO of Spartan Races. |
| 0:50.7 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course. |
| 0:58.0 | With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world. |
| 1:02.0 | Get ready to elevate your life today. |
| 1:04.0 | When battling brutal Spartan obstacles over a mixture of muddy miles and tough terrain, |
| 1:09.0 | starting off on the right foot means any foot protected by the lasting comfort and proven durability of mud gear |
| 1:14.4 | socks. Mud gear started equipping Spartans over 10 years ago and since then they've |
| 1:19.6 | perfected the art of protecting your most valuable race day assets. |
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