Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Life By Design podcast. Hosts Jessilyn and Brian Persson introduce you to their reason for creating this podcast by sharing their personal relationship story. Through that story, Jessilyn and Brian delve into the tools they learned to strengthen their own communication which they now want to share with you through these conversations.
Jessilyn and Brian each tell their side of their professional story, the ways they used to function in their previous jobs that contributed to burnout, disinterest, and tension between them. With striking honesty, they each reveal what part they played in adding to that tension, and why it was so difficult to communicate effectively. What they learned through career change, self-development, and disciplined communication techniques ultimately brought their relationship to a much stronger place. It gave them the tools to ensure the tension doesn’t have a chance to grow because they are too regularly sharing their thoughts and struggles with each other. This podcast is all about Jessilyn and Brian’s Discover, Define, Design Framework, and teaching us how to implement communication tools in our own lives.
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Transcript
Jessilyn Persson: [00:00:11] Welcome to Life By Design podcast. We are your hosts, Brian and Jessilyn Persson. This is the first episode of our podcast, so we're going to share a little bit of our history and why we chose to do this podcast and do what we do now.
Brian Persson: [00:00:25] Mhm. Yeah. And throughout the podcast series that we're going to record here into the future, we are going to talk a lot about all the tools we picked up over the years. We're going to share a lot of our stories. We are going to give you all of the experiences that it took for us to get here today. So for this first episode, we are going to go over that history. So Jessilyn, talk a little bit about your professional couple life and why you wanted to get here to this table and help professional couples solve their problems and and resolve conflict, communicate better. Let's hear your history.
Jessilyn Persson: [00:01:06] Absolutely. So I am a senior project manager, a mom of two. And throughout that I found our relationship, it had its ups and downs, with us both being career-focused people, different careers, trying to manage what we have. And as time went on, I mean, the hurdles we went through and the pains and the illnesses, I would love to help other couples avoid that if possible, or the solutions and tools we have help them to get through it if they're currently in it. And that is kind of what brought me here today. How about yourself?
Brian Persson: [00:01:43] Very similar. Yeah. I worked in the tech industry for a long time, had a really good career, definitely had those golden handcuffs on me for a long time. And but eventually, you know, you just start to look at your life and you start to realize that there are things that are missing. And cracks start to show up. And recently, recently a few years ago now for us, we both really looked at those cracks and we figured out exactly how we were going to go and solve them, remake them, whatever it looked like. And so that ended up in this podcast, that landed us here today to share all thos
