This week, Francie takes a fun departure from the current series to talk about an idea that's become a real rhythm in her own marriage and resonated with listeners ever since she started sharing it: how to plan a sexcation. Whether you have a full week and a real travel budget, or you can't get five feet past your front door right now because life is life, Francie walks through a full spectrum of options — starting small and building up.

She shares the origin story of her and Wyatt's "hotel dates" (born out of COVID lockdowns), why a 24-hour local Airbnb might be the sweet spot for couples with limited time or budget, and what a 48-hour-or-longer getaway can open up for a couple with more margin. Along the way, she gets practical about food, screens, conversation starters, and the small things — a feather, new lingerie, a watercolor set — that build anticipation and connection. She closes with an honest word about what to do when the trip doesn't go as planned.

In This Episode:

• Why you don't need a big trip to have a meaningful getaway — start small and build from there

• Hotel dates: the COVID-era habit that became a lasting rhythm in Francie and Wyatt's marriage

• Why a 24-hour local Airbnb offers a different (and often better) kind of privacy than a hotel

• What changes when you have 48 hours or more: new hormones, new experiences, new memories

• Practical tips for food, screens, conversation starters, and building anticipation

• What to do when life interrupts the trip you planned

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Francie continues her celebration of holy masculine strength — and this week, she gets specific. Masculine strength "used well," she says, isn't about domination or performance; it's strength channeled toward self-giving love, the kind Ephesians 5 calls husbands to.

Francie unpacks three concrete ways her husband Wyatt's strength has healed her heart and body over 21+ years of marriage: his disciplined gaze (and what it's meant that his eyes are for her, not a scroll), his willingness to become a curious student of her body and design instead of assuming he already knew it, and the intentional, unhurried way he creates safety in their intimate life — what he calls "the pace of my pleasure." She closes with a tender word on the power of words: how careless ones wound, and how measured, honoring ones can heal decades of body shame.

In This Episode:

• What "masculine strength used well" actually means — and why it's the opposite of domination

• The gift of a disciplined gaze, and how it healed Francie's fear of being compared

• How Wyatt became a "student" of Francie's body — and why the curiosity mattered more than expertise

• Spontaneous intimacy vs. intentional, unhurried intimacy ("the pace of my pleasure")

• How words — in conflict and in the bedroom — can wound or heal

• A closing charge to the husbands showing up, imperfectly, anyway

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Francie's back from a summer away — and she's kicking off a new mini-series on something our culture rarely celebrates: holy masculine strength. After a clip about honoring husbands went semi-viral this summer (and pulled in a wave of new male listeners), Francie felt the nudge to open this conversation to husbands too — not just wives.

In this episode, she lays the theological groundwork, starting with the Hebrew word tov me'od ("very good") — the phrase God used only once He'd created both male and female. Then she gets honest about female design itself: more nerve endings, more erogenous zones, more built-in capacity for pleasure than most of us were ever taught to expect. So why do so many of us walk into the bedroom already in to-do-list mode?

Francie also shares candidly about seasons in her own 21-year marriage marked by shame, numbness, and disconnection — and introduces the three-part framework she'll spend the rest of the series unpacking: how her husband Wyatt's strength has helped her feel seen, safe, and celebrated.

In This Episode:

• Why Francie is dedicating a series to celebrating masculine strength — and inviting husbands to listen in

• The Hebrew word tov me'od and what it means that God called male AND female "very good"

• The design of female pleasure: nerve endings, erogenous zones, and the shift from "doing" to "receiving"

• Francie's own story of numbness and healing, 21 years into marriage

• A first look at the framework: seen, safe, celebrated

Ready to go deeper right now?

Back to the Garden is the guide I wrote for exactly where you are — a married woman's guide to pleasure by design. It's the most honest thing I've put together, and at $18 it's the easiest yes you'll make this week. → here

Questions? Find me on Instagram or at franciewinslow.com