...It's Nuanced (with LaTrease and Ana)

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...It's Nuanced is a podcast about Black love, marriage, and the art of building an intentional marriage — hosted by licensed marriage therapists and A Soulful Love co-founders Ana and LaTrease. Every honest question about love and partnership tends to arrive at the same honest answer: it's nuanced. Each week, LaTrease and Ana open up the conversations couples are actually having — communication, conflict, money, in-laws, intimacy, culture — and everything two people carry into a marriage. They speak to intentional couples: the ones dating with purpose, newly engaged, planning a wedding, or already building a life together and choosing to build it well. As two Black clinicians who have spent years sitting with couples, they bring cultural responsiveness to every episode, honoring the traditions, families, and identities each partner brings. Think of it as modern premarital education and premarital counseling in conversation form — thoughtful, warm, and rooted in curiosity. Come for the questions worth asking out loud, and stay for the answer that respects how real love actually works. Because when it comes to marriage... it's nuanced. New episodes bi-weekly. Explore our signature program, Foundations for Forever©, at asoulfullove.com.

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  1. hace 5 días

    Episode 2: "Marriage is for Broke Women"

    In episode 2, LaTrease and Ana respond to a statement making the rounds on social media — "marriage is for broke women" — and use it to open up how self-awareness quietly shapes everything between two partners. Some ideas about marriage go viral because they're provocative, and then they open something worth examining once you actually sit with them. Ana and LaTrease take the claim that "marriage is for broke women" and follow it past the hot take: what it assumes about partnership, what it reveals about the stories we absorb about love and money, and how the perspectives we carry into marriage get shaped by patterns we may not have named yet. From there they move into the real work — understanding our own behavior, and why moving toward conflict rather than around it is where couples actually grow. Self-awareness, it turns out, is preventative. Well... it's nuanced. In this episode: "Marriage is for broke women" — unpacking the viral statement and what it really assumesThe stories about love and money we absorb without realizing itHow the perspectives we carry into marriage get formed long before we notice themUnderstanding your own behavior as the first move toward understanding your partnerWhy self-awareness works as prevention, easing tension before it buildsHow intentional couples move through conflict togetherThe quiet strength in respecting a perspective that differs from your ownWhat conflict avoidance can cost a relationship over time Before you listen, ask each other: what did we each learn to believe about love and money? Chapters 00:00 — Welcome and Introductions 01:30 — "Marriage Is for Broke Women" 02:56 — Exploring Perspectives on Marriage 09:10 — Understanding Our Own Behavior 15:17 — How Self-Awareness Changes Things 22:31 — Moving Through Conflict Together 32:29 — Respecting Differing Perspectives About the show: ...It's Nuanced is a podcast about Black love, marriage, and building an intentional marriage — hosted by licensed marriage therapists and A Soulful Love co-founders LaTrease and Ana. Modern, culturally responsive premarital education in conversation form, made for intentional couples: dating with purpose, newly engaged, planning a wedding, or already building a life together. Your hosts: Ana and LaTrease are licensed marriage therapists and co-founders of A Soulful Love. Their signature program, Foundations for Forever©, gives couples the tools to design the marriage they want to build. 🔗 Explore Foundations for Forever©: asoulfullove.com 📩 Follow A Soulful Love on Instagram: @asoulfullove ▶ Subscribe for new episodes biweekly.

  2. hace 6 días

    Episode 1: Our Story, From Friendship to Cofounders of A Soulful Love

    In this debut episode, LaTrease and Ana open up the conversation at the heart of the show: the difference between planning a wedding and building a marriage — and why real love starts with the self. Before two people can intentionally build a life together, there's a quieter question underneath it all: what did you learn about love, worth, and belonging long before you met each other? Ana and LaTrease begin with their own stories — representation in academic and clinical spaces, what it means to be one of the few in the room, and how cultural competence shapes the way couples are cared for — then move into the heart of it: relationship skills, self-awareness, and how defining love for yourself becomes the foundation for defining it together. Well... it's nuanced. In this episode: Representation in academic and professional spaces, and being one of the few in the roomWhy cultural competence changes how couples are truly seen and servedPlanning a wedding and building a marriage as two different kinds of preparationThe relationship skills intentional couples grow on purposeSelf-awareness as the quiet work underneath a strong partnershipHow each of us defines love — and why that definition mattersSelf-love and self-esteem as the ground everything else is built onHow outside voices shape our sense of worth and belongingHow joy deepens with age and experience, and the ownership each of us holds over our own happiness Before you listen, ask each other: how did you each learn what love was supposed to look like? Chapters 00:00 — Representation in Academic Spaces 03:10 — Being One of the Few in the Room 06:00 — Cultural Competence in Education 09:56 — Love, Marriage, and Why We're Here 26:20 — Planning a Wedding, Building a Marriage 27:15 — The Skills Couples Grow on Purpose 28:24 — Love and Marriage 30:45 — Self-Awareness and Self-Investigation 34:11 — Defining Love for Yourself 52:21 — Self-Love and Self-Esteem 54:13 — How Outside Voices Shape Our Worth 01:08:11 — How Joy Deepens With Time About the show: ...It's Nuanced is a podcast about Black love, marriage, and building an intentional marriage — hosted by licensed marriage therapists and A Soulful Love co-founders LaTrease and Ana. Modern, culturally responsive premarital education in conversation form, made for intentional couples: dating with purpose, newly engaged, planning a wedding, or already building a life together. Your hosts: Ana and LaTrease are licensed marriage therapists and co-founders of A Soulful Love. Their signature program, Foundations for Forever©, gives couples the tools to design the marriage they want to build. 🔗 Explore Foundations for Forever©: asoulfullove.com 📩 Follow A Soulful Love: @asoulfullove ▶ Subscribe for new episodes biweekly.

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...It's Nuanced is a podcast about Black love, marriage, and the art of building an intentional marriage — hosted by licensed marriage therapists and A Soulful Love co-founders Ana and LaTrease. Every honest question about love and partnership tends to arrive at the same honest answer: it's nuanced. Each week, LaTrease and Ana open up the conversations couples are actually having — communication, conflict, money, in-laws, intimacy, culture — and everything two people carry into a marriage. They speak to intentional couples: the ones dating with purpose, newly engaged, planning a wedding, or already building a life together and choosing to build it well. As two Black clinicians who have spent years sitting with couples, they bring cultural responsiveness to every episode, honoring the traditions, families, and identities each partner brings. Think of it as modern premarital education and premarital counseling in conversation form — thoughtful, warm, and rooted in curiosity. Come for the questions worth asking out loud, and stay for the answer that respects how real love actually works. Because when it comes to marriage... it's nuanced. New episodes bi-weekly. Explore our signature program, Foundations for Forever©, at asoulfullove.com.

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