Couple Goals

Is is possible to give everything to your career and your marriage at the same time? Is 'busy' a bad word? What does it look like to be truly vulnerable with someone else? How can you live a big life but include everyone around you? How can you process long-term illness and its impact together?

We covered all this and more with powerhouse couple Dan and Charlie Blythe. Dan is the Global Youth Director for Alpha and Charlie is EU Director for international anti-slavery charity A21. Parents to two young boys, they also host Yung Cubs, a parenting podcast supporting mums and dads through raw and real conversations about the day-to-day realities of raising children in our modern world.

They are passionate about living big, full lives which benefit other people - they're constantly on the move, 'busy' is a banned word in their household. Though they don't always get it right - they want to try and see the things they do as a blessing which they can use in serving as many people as possible.

In this episode, Dan and Charlie share with genuine honesty about their story together and their heart to serve each other. We also hear about Charlie's lifelong challenges with epilepsy and the impact that had on their relationship, how they manage to balance family life and work, and what their vision for relationships is.
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Couple Goals is back for Season 2 with a whole new slate of guest couples and experts! Our hosts Luke and LJ Meates are asking, 'how do we make relationships work in the face of everything life throws at us, in a culture where it feels like everything is against commitment and long-term love?'

Every episode, couples share honest relationship stories about their best and worst moments together - revealing how they survived relationship challenges, what they learned, and how their couples advice could benefit us all.

Featuring deep conversations about real relationships that don't hide the hard stuff, this couples podcast is for anyone seeking relationship advice, wants to hear authentic love stories, or simply loves love.

Topics covered include anxiety, building connection, infertility, bereavement, mental health, faith, growing a family, parenting, communication, love languages, disability, hope, conflict, sex and intimacy and much more.

From Care for the Family, a UK charity dedicated to strengthening family life. cff.org.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jo Hargreaves is The Faith-Filled Therapist. She's built a huge online following with her insightful content on neuroscience, mental health, therapy and how the brain works. She joins Luke and LJ to talk about how we can use an understanding of our body and brain to get to a place of health and healing for our relationships.

They covered a lot! From vagus nerve stimulation and the parasympathetic nervous system to mental health tips, dealing with overwhelm and the testosterone cycle in men. Jo brought a huge amount of wisdom and perspective on the difference between how men and women process similar situations, the impact that this can have on a couple and how to build deeper connection with each other.

Jo is passionate about helping people understand that their decisions and feelings make sense in the context of what's happening inside their body, based on their lived experience, their hormones and their neurobiology.

Listen in to learn how to retrain your body to work for your relationship - not against it.
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Couple Goals is back for Season 2 with a whole new slate of guest couples and experts! Our hosts Luke and LJ Meates are asking, 'how do we make relationships work in the face of everything life throws at us, in a culture where it feels like everything is against commitment and long-term love?'

Every episode, couples share honest relationship stories about their best and worst moments together - revealing how they survived relationship challenges, what they learned, and how their couples advice could benefit us all.

Featuring deep conversations about real relationships that don't hide the hard stuff, this couples podcast is for anyone seeking relationship advice, wants to hear authentic love stories, or simply loves love.

Topics covered include anxiety, building connection, infertility, bereavement, mental health, faith, growing a family, parenting, communication, love languages, disability, hope, conflict, sex and intimacy and much more.

From Care for the Family, a UK charity dedicated to strengthening family life. cff.org.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jordan and Kezia Lawrence-Graham are a force of nature. Between them they have half a dozen different careers spanning business ownership, healthcare, leadership and content creation and are still finding time to build a family and advocate for people to invest in real relationships.

Behind everything is the strength of their own relationship and the way that they champion one another in everything. As their Insta bio says - 'marriage is our spice 🌶️'. For them, married life isn't something that gets in the way of success, but the engine that helps drive everything - from family to work to their socials, where they share the reality of parenting an excitable 1 year old with their followers.

With a relationship story that's straight out of a rom-com, they went from meeting on the street to getting married just 4 months after their engagement. They then quit their jobs, travelled round the world, and ended up flipping 5 houses in their first years. They don't mess around!

In everything they want to be open about the reality of married life, the challenges they've faced together and how they're still learning every day to invest in their relationship to make it stronger. They're passionate about using their platform to help other people see the value of marriage and family life in a world that often tells us to prioritise ourselves above everything else.
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Couple Goals is back for Season 2 with a whole new slate of guest couples and experts! Our hosts Luke and LJ Meates are asking, 'how do we make relationships work in the face of everything life throws at us, in a culture where it feels like everything is against commitment and long-term love?'

Every episode, two couples share honest relationship stories about their best and worst moments together - revealing how they survived relationship challenges, what they learned, and how their couples advice could benefit us all.

Featuring deep conversations about real relationships that don't hide the hard stuff, this couples podcast is for anyone seeking relationship advice, wants to hear authentic love stories, or simply loves love.

Topics covered include anxiety, building connection, infertility, bereavement, mental health, faith, growing a family, parenting, communication, love languages, disability, hope, conflict, sex and intimacy and much more.

From Care for the Family, a UK charity dedicated to strengthening family life. cff.org.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dai and Cath Woolridge are fun to be around. Filling the studio with laughter, this super creative couple are poets, speakers, artists and hosts who have built a reputation for living life to the full and not taking themselves too seriously.

But as they reveal in this episode, their marriage has been marked by a 17 year long journey with infertility that has challenged them and their marriage like nothing else. It's something they are still in the middle of right now.

With extreme vulnerability, they share how their infertility journey has shaped them and their relationship, being open about how grief, loss and disappointment impacts them differently. Drawing on their own experiences, they also offer wise words on how best to connect with and support people around us who are experiencing infertility.

They didn't come with perfect answers, a glorious redemption story or the happy ending that they might have expected at the outset of their marriage. But from the middle of the pain, they share how they've been able to find hope for the future.

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Couple Goals is back for Season 2 with a whole new slate of guest couples and experts! Our hosts Luke and LJ Meates are asking, 'how do we make relationships work in the face of everything life throws at us, in a culture where it feels like everything is against commitment and long-term love?'

Every episode, two couples share honest relationship stories about their best and worst moments together - revealing how they survived relationship challenges, what they learned, and how their couples advice could benefit us all.

Featuring deep conversations about real relationships that don't hide the hard stuff, this couples podcast is for anyone seeking relationship advice, wants to hear authentic love stories, or simply loves love.

Topics covered include anxiety, building connection, infertility, bereavement, mental health, faith, growing a family, parenting, communication, love languages, disability, hope, conflict, sex and intimacy and much more.

From Care for the Family, a UK charity dedicated to strengthening family life. cff.org.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does hosting a relationships podcast do to your marriage? Would it become couples therapy, showing you all the issues you hadn't dealt with? Or does it bring you closer together as you talk with inspiring couples who share their stories of overcoming struggles and building strong relationships.

In a special bonus episode to celebrate the conclusion of the first ever season of Couple Goals, we turned the tables on our hosts, Luke and LJ Meates. Now they're the ones in the hot seat! We reached out to all the guests who have been on the show this year and they've sent in their questions for the Meates' to answer.

Luke and LJ have also gathered their TOP RELATIONSHIP TIPS from every conversation this season. These are the things that hit them hardest, caused them to re-examine their relationship and gave them practical things to try.

Season 2 of Couple Goals coming in 2026!

Check out our channel for more uplifting relationship support, real marriage stories and deep wisdom on how to make relationships work.
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How do we make relationships work in the face of everything life throws at us, in a culture where it feels like everything is against commitment and long-term love?

Every episode, two couples share honest relationship stories about their best and worst moments together - revealing how they survived relationship challenges, what they learned, and how their couples advice could benefit us all.

Featuring deep conversations about real relationships that don't hide the hard stuff, this couples podcast is for anyone seeking relationship advice, wants to hear authentic love stories, or simply loves love.

From Care for the Family, a UK charity dedicated to strengthening family life. cff.org.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.