Couples, Money, and Working Together

The Money Fit Show

Season 2: Episode #30

Couples, Money, and Working Together, Dr. Ray and Jean Kadkhodaian of Couples Synergy

Dr. Ray & Jean Kadkhodaian are relationship experts and cofounders of their successful counseling center. After working with thousands of couples, they created a unique approach to coach couples to have amazing relationships, called Couples Synergy. They cohost the podcast, Couples Synergy: Real Couples, Real Stories… Real Relationships. As a married couple, they believe that they cannot teach it unless they live it. They help couples create the relationship of their dreams, with the partner they fell in love with!

1. Working together in previous jobs and now in counseling settings
2. What money meant to them when they were young, including power and control
3. The marshmallow experiment and how trust plays a role in the notion of delayed gratification
4. Couples fight more about sex and money than any other topic
5. How they had to create their own approach to money as a couple
6. Allowing a partner who enjoys spending money to pay for things
7. Allowing a partner who prefers to manage money to work on the budget
8. The relationship between responsibility and resentment
9. The freedom of living only on cash even if forced to do so due to bad or no credit
10. Settling debts with creditors
11. Remembering the most important things when finances get stressful
12. Being a young, single Mom, joining the military, and going to college
13. How a log in the wilderness can bring greater joy than a scratched dining room table
14. Disconnecting from your parents’ view of money and trusting in your spouse or partner
15. Accepting the reality of life rather than pretending money solves our most important challenges
16. Bouncing checks, paying fees, and stepping away for a trip to Mexico
17. Learning lessons rather than regrets
18. Making decisions quickly but changing mind slowly
19. The power of a faith and belief system
20. Not making decisions from a place of fear
21. Money is symbolic, so you need to learn to detach from those meanings
22. Blending of finances to create an “us” in relationships

Links referred to in the episode, and how to connect with the guests, Dr. Ray and Jean Kadkhodaian:

Couples Synergy Home

Couples Synergy Podcast

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