Hola!
As you may know, Henry and I have been married for nearly 13 years now! We aren't perfect and we will never be, but our heart lays with love and digging deep even when it hurts. So that we can become the best version of ourselves and lead from the inside out.
Our testimony is only what it is today because of the struggles, the fights, the hurdles, and the hardest parts of the journey. That's why I am excited to bring you a recent live interview we did with our friends and mentors at EIS.
EIS is a Counseling, Coaching, and Mentoring entity that helps people to find the freedom in their lives to become all they are intended to be, and to discover their “why“ and their purpose.
Their LIVE shows feature testimonies of people’s lives that have been transformed in many ways. From authors to coaches, and people like you and me, who are still very much on the journey, still learning.
So we were so honored to be asked to share our story on the livestream. Because, as we look back, we see how it wasn’t always easy, but we are glad for all the help and spiritual strength we received through our darkest days.
The EIS host Bill has been counseling us through our marriage—really, through the hard work that it takes to get to the results we wanted. So, in this interview, we reveal some unforgettable moments of our journey as partners, parents, and a couple.
As Bill says in the introduction,
“It was not always a perfect, forward-moving experience! There was plenty of ‘two steps forward - three steps back’ action. The hallmark of their experience, however, has been that of perseverance. They know the "next level" always exists, and they don't settle for having "arrived" at any particular place.”
Sometimes, you may go through a stage of growth where you feel like it’s getting worse before it gets better. And on those days, maybe it feels like you are stuck in the bad stage, without a way out.
Some issues we dig deeper in this interview include:
Why you must keep striving, keep looking to your mentors.
Mentors are the voice of experience who can guide and show you a thought pattern that is outside the narrow perspective you see sometimes when you are in the thick of it.
The work that it takes to reach your dreams is the reality.
The changes we need to make to make our marriage/relationship work. We never arrive, there is always something to learn, to remain humble.
Beautiful yet broken times in your life force you to elevate.
Find an opportunity to grow; remain consistent with your coaches, mentors, or marriage counselors.
Henry tells a lot more of his side of growth.
You will see how the different phases of growth are important.
The pain of growth.
As we kept learning, at times it felt like you reach a point where things start to hurt. When you decide to stretch yourself and get better, you might get hit with those challenges.
The practical steps we took
The crunch happens when you decide to keep going. So what we did to better ourselves, including a retreat, which we explain in detail here.
I want to leave you with the reminder that personal growth, relationships, leadership growth are all a journey, a work in progress. …We don't want to be those people that know it all, but want to LEARN IT ALL!
We wouldn't be here without the right guidance, mentorship, and support of the community we are blessed to be a part of. Hope you will watch to the end when we have a QnA with the listeners of EIS LIVE.
If you can’t see the model, we believe you can still strive to be the model. We continue to strive to be better for each other as a married couple, better for our kids, better for our business team, and just to truly be that message of hope and love, living out our values #LivingaLifeofLove.
Thank you for watching—we are all in this growth stage together!
Con Amor,
Henry and Alexandra
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