Welcome to Date Night with the White's here on the Date Your Wife podcast. Today's conversation with Garrett and Danielle is about the topic of Money and the important role it plays in your relationship.
Every week married couple Danielle and Garrett J White share insights and perspectives from within their own lives regarding the following topics discussed each month:
Week 1: Sex
Week 2: Money
Week 3: Parenting
Week 4: Communication
In This Week's Podcast....MONEY
Point #1: Men Must Produce
- When you make enough money to put your family into abundance, theres a shift in the way that you see yourself as a man and a shift in the way you see your relationship. It also affects the way your wife sees you.
- Generally, women want to be taken care of. Even if we can produce, we still want our man to 'be the man' and take care of us. A man is sexier to a woman when he's the one producing.
QUESTION: Does this ring true for you as a couple?
Point #2: Be Comfortable
- Garrett: Inside of our relationships, money sits at the core. It allows you to do so much shit as a couple or it constrains you to do so much shit as a couple. We have friends who celebrate their success and use it as tool to inspire other people to create more, and then we have other friends who simply hide it all and pretend like they're broke.
- Danielle:There was a period of about five years where we were experiencing rapid growth and we disconnected ourselves from people. I had surface relationships and felt like I was kind of guarding myself. What I've come to realize now is that I can have relationships with everyone - it's just a matter of me being comfortable with me.
QUESTION: Are you living in a scarcity mindset while being surrounded by your wealth?
Point #3: You Must Leap
- In 2009 after I had lost everything, I was offered a job from a friend at a very crucial time for me when I didn't have a lot of belief in myself. I was terrified as a husband and as a producer and had lost all confidence in myself. There came a pivotal moment when I realized my life was in the balance and something in my soul said "you must fucking leap."
- Danielle: When we were dating, I saw Garrett for who he was and who he could become. I knew there were great things in store for him. So when I saw him selling out, I was so upset because I knew what he was capable of doing and becoming so much more.
QUES5ION: Where in your life have you settled?
Point #4: Don't Settle
- Garrett: One of the greatest gifts my wife has given to me about money is that she rode my ass about it. My wife helped me see that being driven by the money is not about being driven by the money. As you get better and better at making money as a man inside of marriage, inside of that place it forces you to become a new man.
- Danielle: I think that people play it safe in life in fear of failure. If I leap and I fall on my face, then there's consequences; but if I just stay in the safe zone then I can just ride this out forever. If you're listening to this and you're feeling a stab in the heart to take action in your life, do it.
QUESTION: Where in your life are you feeling the call to take a leap of faith?
Point #5: Team Work
- Garrett: There are a lot of you here who need to rise. Danielle and I work as a team to push each other. There are times she wants to settle into her little comfortable cocoon and then I kick her straight out of the cocoon, I rip it open and throw her off the cliff. And she does the same for me.
- Danielle: You can produce way more as a couple if you can get on the same page of experiencing more growth together. If you can take those experiences of who you are as a couple and make them work, two is better than one, at least in my experience for us. We push each other in that way.
QUESTION: What is your dance as a couple in the way you support each other's growth?
Communication Challenge:
Have a conversation as a couple and allow yourself to collide and dream. Sit down and set a target of a game that you could create together. Who can you become as a couple economically? Who can you become as a producer individually or collectively? What would it require for you to become to pull that off?
Date Night Topic:
Give yourself some credit for where you are. Challenge yourself on your Date Night to have a conversation about possibility or collision. Either one of these paths will lead you to a new position and possibility inside of your life.
Quote of the Week:
"The reason why money matters and the reason why business matters - the reason why continuing to grow and expand matters - is because as you get better and better at making money as a man inside of marriage, inside of that place it forces you to become a new man. I'm not the same human being I was a year ago. My money is a reflection of my ability to produce and create value in the marketplace. So I produce and I create more not for the target of having money, but rather we are in this place of a desire to become more, and inside of that we use money production as a way to accelerate that.
--Garrett J White
"Be you at every level."
--Danielle K White
