362. What It’s Really Like To Work With My Husband: Chatting To Dr John & Dr Cristina

What is it really like to work with your husband, run a business together, raise a family and somehow keep your relationship strong through all the different seasons of life?

In this week’s episode of With Danielle Collins, I’m joined by husband-and-wife physician team Dr John and Dr Cristina, founders of The Longevity Protocol.

This conversation went in so many interesting directions. As two couples who have experience of working together while also raising daughters and navigating family life, we talk very honestly about the realities of being in business with your husband or wife, the good parts, the challenges, how you separate/integrate work from home life and what happens when the lines between the two inevitably become blurred.

I also share some of my own experiences of working with my husband, Bruce, and what we’ve learnt from building a business together while raising our two daughters.

But our conversation goes much deeper than business.

With nearly 40 years of combined experience in hormone optimisation, sexual wellness and regenerative medicine, Dr John and Dr Cristina share their perspective on some of the common changes women, and couples, can experience in their 40s and 50s.

We talk about hormones, relationships, intimacy and sexual wellness, as well as how both partners can change during this stage of life and why understanding what is happening physically and emotionally can be so important.

We also explore the bigger topic of longevity and healthy ageing. Is our increasing obsession with optimisation actually making us healthier or can trying to do everything perfectly become another source of stress?

Dr John and Dr Cristina believe longevity shouldn’t simply be about adding more years to your life. It should be about staying strong, connected, curious and capable of really enjoying those years.

We chat about muscle and strength as we age, hormone health, relationships, pleasure, connection and why our sexual health may tell us more about our overall wellbeing than we realise.

This is such an open and interesting conversation about marriage, working with your spouse, raising a family, women’s health, hormones and longevity  and ultimately what it means to create a life that feels good to live, rather than simply trying to live for as long as possible.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What it’s really like to work with your husband or wife
• Running a business together while raising children
• How we navigate working together as husband-and-wife couples
• Relationships and marriage through your 40s and 50s
• Perimenopause, menopause and changing hormones
• Intimacy and sexual wellness as we age
• Why sexual health can be connected to our wider health
• Muscle, strength and staying capable as we get older
• Whether we can become too obsessed with wellness and longevity
• Finding a sustainable approach to healthy ageing
• Why longevity should be about living well not simply living longer

If you’re navigating your 40s or 50s, working with your partner, experiencing hormonal changes, thinking more about longevity, or simply wondering how to create a healthier and more fulfilling life as you age, I think you’ll get so much from this conversation.

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