Heart of Man What Makes Relationships Work: A Roadmap For Depth, Passion, And Connection [Founders Series With Bjoern Keune] | EP 67
How can founders and high performers lead their relationships with the same clarity and intention they bring to their businesses, and create partnerships that feel connected, alive, and deeply meaningful?
Welcome back to the Founder Series, a 6-part journey supporting founders, business professionals, and high performing men who want to evolve from high functioning stress into embodied and integrated leadership.
A form of leadership that allows you to stay clear and calm under pressure by aligning who you are with how you lead.
In this episode, we explore a subject where the rubber truly meets the road for so many founders I work with...
Men who lead teams, inspire others, and move entire organizations forward, yet quietly struggle to create the depth and satisfaction they long for in their romantic relationships.
The truth is, most of us never learned the skills, tools, or principles needed to thrive in relationship. And for founders especially, the very traits that drive success in business are often the same traits that limit us in love, intimacy, and honest relating.
At the same time, our earliest imprints of love shape how we relate as adults, often unconsciously. Without realizing it, we rely on the same strategies that once kept us safe, the patterns that earned us connection, approval, or belonging growing up. And over time, these strategies begin to recreatethe very challenges we faced in childhood.
Eventually, this leads to a breakdown of safety and trust.
The spark fades.
Intimacy becomes inconsistent.
Communication turns surface-level.
And many founders discover how this bleeds into their work, their clarity, their presence, and their ability to lead.
In this conversation, Bjoern and I explore what keeps founders stuck in love and intimacy.
In this episode, discover:
- The impact that not having an education around relationships has on how we show up in love
- How our conditioning from parents, media, culture, and past experiences shape the way we do love and intimacy
- Questions and principles that help men step into relationship with more intention, clarity, and awareness
- The 4 key pillars that make relationships work in our view
- What creates emotional depth and closeness in long-term partnership
- How to navigate conflict in a way that brings partners closer rather than further apart
- How polarity fades over time and how it can be reignited
- How relationship can become a vehicle for both partners’ individual and shared growth
At its core, this episode offers a roadmap for founders and high performing men to lead with authenticity, steadiness, and heart.
To show up in heated moments without collapsing, to listen without losing themselves, and to offer direction while honoring their partner’s experience. To become a man whose presence creates safety, intimacy, and connection, in romantic relating and in every area of life.
If you are a man who has developed himself professionally yet struggles in relationship, and you long to feel more rooted, open, and present in love and intimacy, I trust this episode will meet you where you are.
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🌐 Join the first cohort of our upcoming co-led group membership, "The Integrated Founder Circle": https://www.alexlehmann.co/theintegratedfoundercircle
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Connect with Bjoern Keune:
🌐Discover more about 'Acta': https://www.acta.so/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjoernkeune/