10CBF: A Podcast for Blended Families
S3-E10: "Blended Families and 'The Go-Giver Marriage' with Ana and John David Mann"
Today's guests are the amazing Ana and John David Mann, co-authors of the best-selling book 'The Go-Giver Marriage,' and two of the most fun guests we've had on the show!
John David Mann is coauthor of more than thirty books, including four New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers, including “The Go-Giver” (coauthored with Bob Burg), which has sold over 1 million copies and won the 2017 Living Now Book Awards Evergreen Medal for its “contributions to positive global change.” He is married to Ana Gabriel Mann and considers himself the luckiest mann in the world.
Ana Gabriel Mann, MA, holds a Master’s degree in clinical psychology and dance-movement therapy from Antioch New England, where she specialized in working with adults and family therapy. In addition to her work in family therapy and 5 Secrets marriage coaching, she has been clinical director for a program for people with Alzheimer’s disease, co-founded New England’s first college of Chinese medicine, and worked as a corporate consultant, speaker, trainer, and coach.
John and Ana have been dreaming about writing “The Go-Giver Marriage” together for nearly two decades. The book was released in March 2022. Full disclosure: I read this book before our interview and LOVED it!! I had previously read 'The Go-Giver,' (co-authored with Bob Burg) the book that kicked off the series and also loved it. This book was even better!
Quotes:
"No one escapes their childhood without emotional wounds."
"Never bad-mouth the other parent in front of the kids, ever, ever, ever."
"The most important thing you can do for your kids is to give them an example of a happy life."
"The very things you needed as a child are the same things you need as an adult."
"This is giving without the expectation of return."
"'Allow' is a lot like grace. It is letting the other person be who they are. But this does not mean to enable or give up boundaries."
"The opposite of appreciation is criticism."
"If kids get everything they need when they're young, they become remarkable adults!"
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