The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. Marshall

By: Andrew G. Marshall
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  • Hello, I am a marital therapist, communications trainer and author. I have thirty-five years helping couples and individuals make better relationships. I have written twenty-plus self-help books which include the international best-sellers ‘I love you but I’m not in love with you’ and ‘How can I ever trust you again?’ My books have been translated into twenty languages. I trained with RELATE the UK’s largest counselling charity. Perhaps it has been turning sixty but I have become interested in spiritual as well as psychological questions. Who am I? What are my values – as opposed to my parents, my teachers and the wider society? What makes my life meaningful? What do I believe about life, the universe and everything? Although my clients might come to me because of destructive arguments, falling out of love and infidelity, they are also interested in having more meaningful relationships and a more meaningful life. So what is the meaningful life? Why do we so easily lose our way and get lost in depression, anxiety, doubt, addictions and obsessions: the swamplands of the soul? One thing I know for sure is that there is not one answer. Each of us has to find out for ourselves what makes our life meaningful. But we can learn from each other, share our experiences of how to navigate the journey, how to endure and learn from the swamp, and finally how to find solid ground. I have decided to use my original training in radio and journalism to interview witnesses for what makes life meaningful. Each week, I invite someone who is a therapist, academic, self-help coach or who has an enlightening personal story to share their knowledge or experiences. I hope our discussions will help you discover what makes your life meaningful and find more purpose and contentment.
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  • Chester Elton: How Gratitude Can Revolutionise Your Life

    Chester Elton: How Gratitude Can Revolutionise Your Life
    Dec 23 2024

    It’s hard to move on social media these days without bumping into a post on gratitude. If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, this week’s classic interview with Chester Elton, “the apostle of appreciation”, is for you.

    According to Chester, gratitude cuts to the heart of who we really are. Gratitude exists at an emotional level and is about WHO is in our lives, WHAT we find meaningful and HOW we live. If we make time for gratitude, we can find a way to live that makes everything less stressful.

    Chester and Andrew also discuss the ways we can build gratitude into everyday life, adding meaning and lightness to our daily routines.

    Chester Elton has carried out extensive research into how gratitude can help us lead in the workplace. His books, co-authored with Adrian Gostick, include Leading With Gratitude and All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results.

    Subscriber Content This Week

    If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:

    • Three things Chester Elton knows to be true.
    • AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

    Follow Up

    Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

    Take a look at Andrew’s new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

    Read Chester Elton’s Leading with Gratitude Book

    Sign up for Chester Elton’s free LinkedIn newsletter, The Gratitude Journal

    Read Chester Elton’s article on Why We Should be Grateful for Hard Times

    Read Jay Shetty’s book Think Like A Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

    Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall

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    49 mins
  • Christmas Party: The Best & Worst of Christmas Traditions with Love Coach Cate Mackenzie

    Christmas Party: The Best & Worst of Christmas Traditions with Love Coach Cate Mackenzie
    Dec 16 2024

    Christmas is a time of heightened emotions: lots of fun, lots of food, plenty of arguments. This year Andrew invites friend of the podcast and love coach CATE MACKENZIE to explore what Christmas means to each of them.

    Cate and Andrew discuss:

    • Their best and worst Christmas experiences.
    • Christmas traditions that work.
    • Most evocative Christmas songs
    • Cultivating the right mindset to make the most of Christmas
    • Accepting pain and disappointment if they arise.

    Cate Mackenzie is a COSRT Accredited Sex and Relationship Therapist, Love Coach and Artist. Her passion is supporting people to fall in love with themselves, with life and with others. Cate was the dating coach for Channel 4’s 'The Undateables', a flirting coach on Channel 5's 'The Jeremy Vine Show' and a Sex Therapist on Channel 4's 'Kinky Britain'. Her heart paintings have been sold in 80 countries worldwide through IKEA.

    Subscriber Content This Week

    If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:

    • Different Christmases for Different Times in Your Life
    • Three things Cate Mackenzie knows to be true.
    • AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

    Follow Up

    Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

    Take a look at Andrew’s new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

    Visit Cate Mackenzie’s website

    Listen to Cate Mackenzie’s podcast, Love, Pleasure and Joy with Cate Mackenzie

    Follow Cate Mackenzie on LinkedIn and Twitter @CateMackenzie and Instagram @Catemmackenzie

    Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall

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    50 mins
  • Ru Callender: Do We Need a New Approach to Funerals?

    Ru Callender: Do We Need a New Approach to Funerals?
    Dec 9 2024

    Do we need a complete rethink of the rituals we use to mark the end of life? This week Andrew talks to undertaker and author RU CALLENDER about what he’s learnt over the course of his career.

    Ru Callender became an undertaker in order to offer people a more honest experience than the stilted formality of traditional ‘Victorian’ funerals. Driven by raw emotion and the unresolved grief of losing his own parents, Ru brought an outsider, ‘DIY’ ethos to the business of death.

    Ru has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their father’s funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of the KLF, is building the People’s Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool – all in the name of creating truly authentic experiences that celebrate those who are no longer here and those who remain.

    Subscriber Content This Week

    If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:

    • How to design a ritual
    • Three things Ru Callender knows to be true.
    • AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

    Follow Up

    Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

    Take a look at Andrew’s new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

    Read Ru Callender’s book, What Remains? Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

    Follow Ru Callender on X/Twitter @wayswithweirds

    Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall

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    54 mins

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Wonderful. Thoughtful. Entertaining.

Andrew G Marshall is insightful and compassionate. The guests are almost always engaging and friendly.
The podcast tackles subjects from relationships, personal growth and communication, to the psychology of fairy tales. Andrew himself, guides the listener through the topics with clarity, occational light hearted humour and enthusiasm.
Listeners can write into the podcast with a problem to be discussed, this is one of my favourite aspects of the show.
Definitely in my top 3 podcasts. The new episodes are available on a Monday morning, giving me a 'thought for the week', in which I contemplate the weeks' subject and put into practice some of the subject matter that has 'landed with me' from the pod.
Food for thought delivered in a clear and entertaining way.

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