Love Intently Podcast with Sophie Kwok

Hunter caught Sarah’s eye first when they were 12 and she would sneakily find ways to spend more time with him….for instance, she signed up to be a soccer trainer on his soccer team. Then Sarah started dating his best friends, and Hunter realized… “Oh shoot, she’s not going to wait around forever…” Finally, when they were 17, they became official. Hunter knew Sarah was going to be more than just a girlfriend when he decided to attend the University of Texas with her. Somewhere along the way, Hunter picked up a camera and never put it down. He started with weddings, and as his craft grew, one day by accident on a whim, they became overnight Instagram influencers because of a random trip to Canada and a photo of their beloved pup, Aspen. They share the details behind this story of building a following of close to half a million followers on this podcast episode. Since then, they have been featured in National Geographic, CNN, Instyle, Mashable, and People to name a few.Contrary to popular belief, it has not been a quick journey to becoming full-time content creators and storytellers. It took them almost five years of hard work and intentionally treating their business, as a business to go full time on The Lawrence House. Sarah and Hunter share the details of their journey of becoming full-time storytellers in both domestic and international locations through photography, film, writing, and experience curation.Staying connected while building a stainable business together hasn’t always been easy. They share practicals on what’s worked for them and how they draw boundaries to leave room for their marriage to thrive.Links: https://www.thelawrencehouse.com/ https://www.instagram.com/hunter_lawrence/ https://www.instagram.com/sarah_michelle_lawrence/ https://www.instagram.com/aspenthemountainpup/Shownotes: www.loveintently.com/blog/sarah-and-hunter-lawrence

This week’s episode is with CJ and Erin Finley who also happens to be a part the love a great story collaboration in partnership with Live a Great Story! Both CJ and Erin play many roles in the Austin Fitness and Entrepreneur community. They’re never shy to help, shout out, or champion anyone. Both engineers by trade turned into business, fitness and wellness enthusiasts and experts. They bring immense value to anyone they interact with.CJ and Erin have the love story that romcoms are made of. CJ first asked her to be his girlfriend when they were ten… and not long after Erin broke up with him over aim. Despite the breakup, they remained close friends but, in CJ’s eyes, she was always the girl that got away. Listen in for their full story of how tragedy and losing her father brought them back together.Their passion for fitness and wellness stems from autoimmune diseases they’ve both had to continue to work through. They share how they have supported each other despite seasons of having more questions than answers when it comes to their health.They’re honest with where they started to where they are now. They have very different personality types but have learned how to leverage each other's strengths for the better!Links: https://www.instagram.com/erin.spiration/ https://www.instagram.com/thriveonlife/www.loveintently.com/blog/cj-and-erin-finley

Harville Hendrix Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt Ph.D. are internationally-respected couple's therapists, educators, speakers, and New York Times bestselling authors. Together, they have written over 10 books with more than 4 million copies sold, including the timeless classic, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. In addition, Harville has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times. However, marriage—even for marriage experts—is never easy. They share insights from their own marriage as well as their best practice suggestions for other couples centered around imago, safe conversations, and zero negativity. This episode we go into the science behind how and why we choose the partners that we do. They share the Imago method and how we can have safe conversations which become healing rather than damaging. These two are world changers and movement makers. They are starting the movement of Safe Conversations through their Non-profit Relationship’s First in Dallas and have plans to expand to the rest of America and beyond. Any conversation with them is one worth listening to as their insight, expertise, and wisdom is not one to ignore. www.loveintently.com/blog/harville-and-helen/2019/1/30

Alora Rachelle Brown and Ken Brown are a precious couple met as kids and slowly became best friends. He first professed his love for her, and she freaked out leading to a summer of not talking. Luckily, that summer Alora realized she really liked Ken too.Alora is a self-made top-rated wedding photographer in Michigan. She has a massive heart to see other people rise with her and to empower other women to step into their calling, whether it be a full-time mom or something else or both. She’s the kindest and truest overachiever you’ll ever meet.Ken is an automotive engineer and an incredibly supportive husband and father. In this episode, he redefines what providing for your family as a man means, and it really struck home with me.We’ve talked about the enneagram quite a bit on this episode, if you don’t know what that is, go back and listen to the episode with Brandon and Ashley Hill, we go way more into depth there. For those of you that do know, Alora is a 3w2, and Ken is a 5, and if you know what that means it totally shows in this episode.https://www.instagram.com/alora.rachelle/ https://www.alorarachelle.com/ https://www.loveintently.com/blog/alora-rachelle-brown-and-ken-brown

On this week’s episode, our founder Sophie Kwok and Annabelle Dura share their journey of moving from an avoidant or anxious attachment style to a secure attachment style. Shortly after Sophie read the book Attached by Amir Levine, she shared it with Annabelle and it completely shifted how they approach love and relationships. Annabelle Evangeline is a Los Ángeles based writer and entrepreneur who believes that the key to unlocking life’s purpose is by living vulnerably, practicing creativity, and embracing community.She is the author of into the darkness, a workbook for trauma survivors created from her own experience with mental health and sexual trauma. Since then, she has been passionate about creating tangible worksheets, experiences, and tools to heal through hardship and live a purposeful life.Since reading the book, Annabelle has entered a relationship with a secure partner and she shares her experience thus far. Sophie and Annabelle discuss how digging into their attachment styles brought greater healing, self-awareness, and healthier relationships in their life.Links:https://www.instagram.com/annasbanana123/ https://www.instagram.com/itdarkness/https://www.instagram.com/sophie_kwok/

Brandon and Ashley Hill share their journey of getting out of debt (they ate red beans and rice for every meal...for way too long), career changes, pursuing their passions and being married to the opposite personality type.They started as best friends first but slowly Ashley caught the feels for Brandon. She eventually told him through stick figure drawings but not wanting to ruin their friendship, Brandon expressed he wanted to stay friends first. He came around eventually and they got married young and they share how they grew together through their many career and life changes. Brandon Hill is a phenomenal storyteller, photographer, videographer, and thought leader. Ashley currently works at the Thinkery as School and Gallery Experience Manager.This conversation is incredible, with lots of laughs, some tears, practicals, and heart. In part one, they share their story of meeting, giving each other tattoos, writing music together, and diving deep into the Enneagram and how it transformed how they understand each other and themselves. In part two, we talk about how they got out of debt, entrepreneurship, and how they’ve navigated their faith evolving. If you typically attract the opposite personality type, this episode is for you - chock-full of good practicals they have learned through years of trial and error. Linkshttp://howdybrandon.com/https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-howdybrandon-show/id1318467311?mt=2 http://instagram.com/howdybrandon https://www.instagram.com/ablove/ 

Brandon and Ashley Hill share their journey of getting out of debt (they ate red beans and rice for every meal...for way too long), career changes, pursuing their passions and being married to the opposite personality type.They started as best friends first but slowly Ashley caught the feels for Brandon. She eventually told him through stick figure drawings but not wanting to ruin their friendship, Brandon expressed he wanted to stay friends first. He came around eventually and they got married young and they share how they grew together through their many career and life changes. Brandon Hill is a phenomenal storyteller, photographer, videographer, and thought leader. Ashley currently works at the Thinkery as School and Gallery Experience Manager.This conversation is incredible, with lots of laughs, some tears, practicals, and heart. In part one, they share their story of meeting, giving each other tattoos, writing music together, and diving deep into the Enneagram and how it transformed how they understand each other and themselves. In part two, we talk about how they got out of debt, entrepreneurship, and how they’ve navigated their faith evolving. If you typically attract the opposite personality type, this episode is for you - chock-full of good practicals they have learned through years of trial and error. Linkshttp://howdybrandon.com/https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-howdybrandon-show/id1318467311?mt=2 http://instagram.com/howdybrandon https://www.instagram.com/ablove/ 

Ameerah is the brains and grit behind Brunch and Slay, a wonderful lifestyle company helping women and brands forge life-long relationships and partnerships. They offer courses, content, and experiences to help women build and win. Ameerah is a brilliant mind who has worked with incredible brands including Soul Cycle, Microsoft, Kendra Scott, and Kroger. On this episode, Chad and Ameerah talk both heart and practicals on how they’ve supported each other’s careers. They share what they’re dreaming and working towards. Adding kids to the mix can make entrepreneurship tricky, but they share some practicals on how they make it work. They share how they create healthy boundaries to the content they protect their space and the things they consume. They both met through serving in the military but their love story is rooted in their deep genuine friendship. Linkshttps://brunchandslay.comhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/straight-out-of-corporate-with-k-renee-ward/id1266388229?i=1000394525193&mt=2https://brunchandslay.com/podcasts/https://www.instagram.com/brunchandslay/

Clay Olsen was on a date when he first met his wife. Captivated by her presence and beauty, he convinces a friend to hack the school system to get her number and email… and that’s just the beginning!Clay Olsen is also the founder of Fight the New Drug, an organization devoted to educating our generation the impacts of pornography neurologically, emotionally, and globally.88% of the most popular scenes in porn has physical, aggression or verbal harm towards women. Join us as we discuss how porn is shaping the way we view women, love, and intimacy.To Clay, Love is focus: giving people our time and attention and ultimately our focus.https://fightthenewdrug.org/about/ p.s. Curious about learning your love personality?! www.loveintently.com/beta

“I feel super, super blessed everyday that I married someone who is up for the adventure,” says CJ Casciotta of his wife Kelly. When CJ, speaker and author of Get Weird: Discover the Surprising Secret to Making a Difference, appeared on writer Kelly’s porch as the only stranger in a group of friends, they couldn’t possibly have foreseen the path that lay ahead of them. A year later, they found themselves on that very same porch as CJ proposed lifelong partnership. Since then, CJ and Kelly have been discovering and embracing their weird through the joys and hardships of marriage, navigating a miscarriage, entrepreneurship, and parenthood.Join us this week as CJ and Kelly share the fears of their early relationship, the bravery, faith and love that helped them overcome it and how discovering and utilizing your unique weird may just be the secret to becoming a better leader, partner and parent.Get a copy of Get Weird: Discover the Surprising Secret to Making a Difference at getweirdbook.com!