Dr. Jessica Higgins
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The Empowered Relationship Podcast helps you turn relationship challenges into opportunities and sets you up for relationship success, satisfaction, and intimacy. This podcast is designed to inspire, motivate, and guide individuals and couples into more empowered, conscious, and evolved ways of loving.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jessica Higgins turns relationship psychology into recognizable choices around conflict, intimacy, family strain, and communication.
Dr. Jessica Higgins treats relationship strain as something couples can observe and work with, then invites guests to make the process concrete.
A missed turn in Pasadena, and suddenly the argument is about what you didn't say.
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A grounded conversation about how shame forms in relationships, shapes protection, and leaves room for repair.
Dr. Jessica Higgins and Arielle Schwartz trace shame back to early relational insecurity, where a child can absorb confusion about caregivers into a private sense that something is wrong with the self.
Money habits, shaped by early relationship history.
It follows Sherry Rash and Dr. Jessica Higgins as they trace how early experiences can shape money habits and the way people relate to one another.
A practical, family-first take on wealth, stewardship, and what gets passed down.
This conversation treats wealth-building as a family systems question, with LaVesha Davis offering a business-minded view of generational money, shared responsibility, and the idea of a family bank.
A clear-eyed, body-aware conversation about desire, feedback, and what helps couples stay open to one another.
The episode treats desire as something practical and shared, not abstract. Dr. Diane Mueller brings a body-aware frame to the conversation, and the discussion stays grounded in ordinary life: noticing what invites closeness, what shuts it down, how overstimulation can make…
Resentment is framed as a signal toward unmet needs, with the conversation centered on receiving care instead of pushing it away.
Empowered Relationship Podcast treats resentment as a signal pointing to unmet needs, and the episode holds to the harder work of turning silent frustration into curiosity, accountability, and reconnection.
A clear look at how overachievement can distort love, control, and self-abandonment.
The episode traces how ambition can spill into romance, and it stays with the cost of treating love like work. Dr. Jessica Higgins and Karen Eldad circle the same hard point: overachievers can chase the wrong targets, let ambition run amok, and slip into control, strategy, or…
A warm look at how partners pick up on each other's states and move from criticism toward clearer communication.
Episode 492, Riding the Wave Together, Finding Ease, Resilience, and Connection in Love, brings Dr. Jessica Higgins and Daniel Miller into a conversation about how partners can sense each other's states before words arrive.
Connection comes first here, with blended families framed as a long game built on trust and shared leadership.
This conversation lands in family leadership, with attention on how a couple guides together without assuming alignment will happen on its own. April Eldemeyer and Dr.
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Shankar Vedantam unpacks the psychology behind relationships, careers, and money through researcher interviews.
David McRaney interviews researchers on cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, and why minds change.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Russ Roberts interviews authors and economists on ideas from classical liberalism to AI.
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Bill Benjamin connects the last 8% to a 34,000-person study that found people leave 7.56% unsaid in difficult conversations, then says those moments are where conflict, shame, and regret concentrate.
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Jessica Higgins opens by framing attention as the first move in conflict.
Zoey Charif argues that love can be measured with a formula built from self-score, partner values score, and partner traits score, and she says the strongest matches land when a partner is 4% above you.
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Psychotherapist and author Jessica Baum joins Dr.
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An interview with Madeline Garner about navigating grief and loss together as a couple.
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