Your Marriage Matters
Podcast Zero!
Meet the Jacobus’
Welcome to the very first Your Marriage Matters (YMM) podcast! We are so excited about launching this, so we are doing it TODAY on Valentine’s Day which is also our anniversary!
In this inaugural podcast, we want to answer 3 very important questions:
Who Are The Jacobus’? – We are Jim & Christie and have been married for 28 years on 2/14/2015. We live in Sugar Land, Texas just outside of Houston. One of the struggles we have had together has been with infertility; however we do have 1 son from Jim’s previous marriage so we are blessed. Our son, Jason, is 30 years old and is married to an awesome bride Caitlyn. They have one son Loklan and another child is due in August!
Christie is a nurse that works for the Memorial Hermann system where she is a nurse educator. She is also an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with Barnhill & Associated Counseling Center. Christie focuses on working with married couples but her biggest passion is “pre-marrieds”! Guys you are going to love listening to Christie because she brings a sweet, passionate, and patient voice to the podcast.
Jim is a CSP, Certified Professional Speaker, and speaks at conferences literally all over the world! He is also the Chief Content Officer at TheSalesGladiators.com which is a membership sales training site for sales professionals. Jim has been heavily involved in teaching Divorce Care for several years and loves leading that study and giving people hope for their future! You are going to love hearing from Jim because of his dedication, expertise, and passion for marriage.
What is this podcast about? – You can find these podcasts on ITunes and www.yourmarriage-matters.com. Not only are we going sharing information with you via the podcasts, but we will also be blogging! Each week the podcast comes straight from our book 101 Conversations Every Couple Should Have Before They Get Married! These questions come from 10 different categories we cover when we teach our pre-married workshops and conferences. Some are going to be fairly easy and some could be a little difficult.
We will be encouraging you to have conversations about things like communications, conflict resolution, money, sex, family, parenting, roles and responsibilities and much, much more! Each week we will introduce a conversation from the book, talk about why that conversation matters, give you some guidelines for having the conversation, and let you know if there are any hurdles you should watch out for. Then we are going to answer 1 listener question each week from you guys so bring on your toughest questions! To leave a question go to www.yourmarriage-matters.com/qif and let us know what you want to know! And then we will send you off with a fun question to deal with as well!
So, Why should you care? - We have been involved in marriage work for the last 15 years and the two biggest challenges we see in failed marriages are:
We chose this route because we care about you and your marriage and we thought this would be the best way to help keep you out of the counselors office and out of divorce court and most importantly help you build a healthy and vibrant marriage that lasts a lifetime!
In closing, Christie’s hope for everyone listening is that they will learn and grow and develop the skills needed to have the marriage you dream of. And Jim hopes to share that marriage is indeed challenging but when done properly it can be the most fulfilling thing ever - being invested in each other’s life because it doesn’t get much better than that. We care about you and your marriages and want you to build a lasting legacy that will be passed down to your children and their children.
Hope you enjoy this first podcast and begin looking forward to what’s coming up.
Jim & Christie Jacobus