Daniel Faust from Learn & Live talks about helping veterans thrive at home, at work, and everywhere in between. Daniel knows how military families struggle with all the typical issues of marriage and relationships on top of the stresses that comes from military life. Using his own experiences he’s helped military families exploit their unique strengths, which can help repair what has been broken in their relationships.
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Scott DeLuzio: 00:44 Hey everyone. Today my guest is Daniel Faust. He has served 17 years in the US Air Force and is now a relationship consultant with Learn and Live. In this role, he helps veteran couples create thriving and passionate marriages. So Daniel, welcome to the show. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?
Daniel Faust: 01:04 Yeah. So, I was active duty 12 years and I have now been in reserves for 8, so the website is a little outdated. So, that just reminds me that the website needs to be updated. When I got married in 2006, I just totally botched up my marriage and I was like on a deployment, wrestling with a divorce while my son was going to be born a few months later. And I realized I really need to go over and fix myself in that particular regard. So I got a revelation to go over and teach the world better relationships. And from there I was like off, and my wife said slow now and you must have a plan. And I’m like, Oh, okay. So three more kids and four more deployments. And about six years later we transformed out of the service.
Daniel Faust: 01:55 I won’t say transition because that is like a personal cuss word to me. We transformed out of service and went towards the civilian world. Oh, that sucked a lot. And, we almost went homeless during that time and we just learned we need to go over and really get our marriage on board. It wasn’t until 2013 because 2006-2007 was the application of learning how to thrive in marriage. 2013 was actually living it out. We were just living and learning instead of learning and living. And that’s when I got spiritually kicked in the nuts that day in 2013. And it was like, all right, I really need to revamp my marriage and treat it almost like we treat a deployment. We need to prepare and we need to get tasked and we need to get trained to go over and go.
Daniel Faust: 02:46 And in marriages we just tend to jump in and are like, Hey, sex will solve everything. Sure, it will. Well, it really doesn’t. It’s great. Like from two months to two years, that’s the average...
