"I Meant Well...and Other Words That Kill Relationships" - with Heather Linchenko - Episode 253

From Crisis to Connection - with Geoff & Jody Steurer

Relationships of every kind make up the fabric of our lives. In this episode we invite Heather Linchenko to join us, author and expert on healthy relationships. Heather discusses her book 'I Meant Well…and Other Words That Kill Relationships,' which offers advice on improving relationships. She shares insights from her experiences working with Stephen R. Covey and Douglas T. Snarr and talks about her personal journey of learning and teaching relationship skills, emphasizing the importance of addressing both sides of relationship dynamics - nurturing and addressing conflict. Heather also shares personal anecdotes, including transformative parenting techniques and advocating for clean, deep, and genuine relationships.

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About Geoff Steurer:
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist, relationship educator, and coach with over 20 years of experience. I am the co-author of, "Love You, Hate the Porn: Healing a Relationship Damaged by Virtual Infidelity", the host of the weekly podcast, "From Crisis to Connection", and have produced workbooks, audio programs, and online courses helping couples and individuals heal from the impact of sexual betrayal, unwanted pornography use, partner betrayal trauma, and rebuilding broken trust. As a leader in the field, I am a frequent contributor on these subjects at national conferences, documentaries, blogs, magazines, and podcasts. I also write a weekly relationship advice column available on my blog. I founded and ran an outpatient sexual addiction and betrayal trauma recovery group program for over 14 years, co-founded and chaired a local conference to educate community members about harmful media, and founded and administered a specialized group therapy practice for over 10 years. I currently maintain a private counseling and coaching practice in beautiful Southern Utah where I live with my wife and children.

About Jody Steurer:
Jody has been a strong voice supporting women as co-host of the podcast “Speak Up Sister”. She completed a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University and is an ACA certified coach. She runs a small business and has years of experience in corporate training and organization. Jody’s most challenging work has been raising her four children (two of which are on the autism spectrum). She loves to do landscape design, paint in watercolor, spend time outdoors, and snow ski.

About Heather Linchenko:
Heather Linchenko's “claim to fame” was working for several years as the executive and personal assistant to Stephen R. Covey, author of the best-selling book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. She also worked for many years for Douglas T. Snarr, a Salt Lake City native, who spoke in circuits alongside effectiveness gurus like Zig Ziglar and Art Linkletter (household names of the time). She worked closely with each of these thought leaders in the perfecting process of works they authored.

She followed in the footsteps of these and other mentors by authoring books herself: Letters from Kazakhstan, which details her family’s 1998 adventures in post-Soviet Kazakhstan; Your Kids are Human, which teaches parents and teachers how to educate their children in a way everyone loves (no resistance!); and “I Meant Well” And Other Words That Kill Relationships, wherein she shares a wealth of knowledge on how to make bad relationships good and good relationships vibrant.

She has developed a course called "Expand Your Influence" by which she trains executives—through the development of specific mindset and relationship skills—how to fast-track their way to greater influence (thus success) in their personal and professional lives. She has been referred to as "The Relationship Scientist" and her most recent book has been referred to as "The Relationship Bible."

She also developed a revolutionary system, called MathHacked, for teaching times tables to kids without the use of rote memorization or coercion.

She is Mother to five exceptional (just ask her!) children and enjoys singing in choirs, riding horses in the mountains, watching inspiring movies, enjoying food prepared by anyone other than herself, and being “Grandie.”

Her favorite compliments are that she has “a genuine heart,” “an inordinate capacity for work,” and “a mind that’s a wonderful place to visit.”

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