START THE SHIFT
Bridge Success and Fulfillment
Many entrepreneurs reach a point where success stops feeling like freedom and starts feeling like a trap. The business grows, the obligations stack up, and the relationships at home and at work begin to feel stretched thin. You become the person everyone depends on, yet your own sense of joy and connection quietly drifts.
Start The Shift is the doorway out of that feeling. This talk weaves together the core teachings from The Relationable Toolkit and The Monogamy Spectrum to help leaders redesign the way they work, lead, and love. Both systems offer practical, human tools that guide entrepreneurs back to clarity, alignment, and fulfillment.
Using stories from 25 years in a trailblazing relationship with his husband, Joe, and 16 years of business leadership, this session teaches leaders how to regulate emotional heat, define their boundaries, strengthen trust, and build relationships that feel both nourishing and sustainable.
This is the shift from reacting to responding. From performing stability to actually living it. From feeling stretched thin to feeling grounded again. This is the shift from feeling trapped by success to feeling fulfilled by success.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Understand
Participants will learn the foundational ideas that connect both books:
The Three Entities model (you, your partner, the relationship) shows how nourishment and balance keep personal partnerships healthy.
The three tool groups of The Relationable Business, Culture Setting Tools, Safety Creation Tools, and Self-Discipline Tools, form the emotional infrastructure teams need to stay aligned.
Emotional, physical, and financial monogamy are choices that require honesty, consent, and shared agreements.
Participants leave understanding the architecture of connection at home and at work.
2. Analyze
Participants will examine the root causes of misalignment in both systems:
How unclear rules, power dynamics, and emotional temperature spikes destabilize cultures.
How personal history shapes boundaries and commitment, both professionally and personally.
How intersection growth leads to misalignment while parallel growth supports long-term stability.
This section reveals that most entrepreneurial burnout and relational stress come from the same source: undefined expectations and unconscious patterns.
3. Apply
Participants will use tools from both frameworks to shift their daily interactions:
Defining relational boundaries through honesty, consent, clarity, and shared agreements.
Using the Magnifying Glass, Safety Net, and Ledger to rebuild psychological safety after conflict.
Clarifying what belongs in rules, agreements, and preferences so both teams and partnerships know how to succeed together.
The focus is on empowering leaders to practice intentional communication in every relationship they touch.
4. Evaluate and Integrate (for workshops only)
Participants will integrate the ideas across both personal and professional spheres:
Assessing where their culture is drifting and where their relationships need attention.
Mapping themselves on The Monogamy Spectrum across physical, emotional, and financial domains.
Creating personalized agreements for home and work that support trust, alignment, and long-term stability.
This brings the two systems together into one steady practice of relational intelligence.
In Summary
Start The Shift is an invitation to redefine what success feels like. It combines the emotional clarity of The Monogamy Spectrum with the cultural intelligence of The Relationable Business to help entrepreneurs build lives that are not only productive, but meaningful. Leaders leave with a deeper understanding of themselves, stronger tools for communication, and the confidence to design cultures and relationships that are kind, resilient, thoughtful, and aligned. This is where the shift begins. This is how success becomes fulfilling again.