How would your relationships be different if you could experience the world from the other side of the gender divide, and understand how a man or woman (whichever you are not) feels and experiences life? Would it bring more compassion for the things that irritate you?

Today's guest has something very few people can offer: a real life perspective on living as both a woman and a man.

Since Jason Hill transitioned he has experienced radical shifts in how people perceive him, how he's treated professionally, how much emotional vulnerability feels accessible, how his sex drive changed, and even how much physical affection is available to him.

In this fascinating conversation, we explore what those experiences reveal about men, women, love, sex, emotional intelligence, and the invisible expectations we place on each other.

We talk about:

• How Jason has been treated as more intelligent and receiving more professional opportunities as a man
• The pressures men can carry with the expectations to provide, earn, protect, and prove their worth
• Why having male privilege doesn't mean life is always easy
• What women usually don't see about men's vulnerability to violence, rejection, and emotional isolation
• Why so many men are touch-starved, and how sex can become one of the only socially acceptable forms of affection
• The surprising ways we're socialized differently as men and women
• Why emotional intelligence can be learned
• How to make the goal of conversations understanding what is actually happening for another person, rather than winning the argument
• What greater empathy across genders could make possible in our relationships

Jason's story invites us to hold multiple truths at the same time: men benefit from systems of privilege and still experience profound pain, loneliness, objectification, and pressure. Women suffer from discrimination and often have assumptions about men that can make it harder for men to feel loved and understood.

The more we're willing to get curious about those contradictions, the more possibility we have for love.

Because emotional intelligence isn't about becoming better at arguing your side. It's about becoming better at seeing the person in front of you.

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Dating feels brutal for so many relationship-ready singles, especially over 40. In this episode, Shana James talks with Adam Cohen Aslatei, CEO of Three Day Rule, about how AI is reshaping modern matchmaking and how AI makes it easier for people to date and find real, emotionally available love. They explore dating burnout, why the apps are failing people, the power of intentional dating, and how AI can even support deeper human connection. A must-listen for those who want to stop unconsciously swiping and start consciously dating and creating meaningful relationships.

Find out how to have the best love and sex of your life!

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We explore what happens when being "the one who saves" starts costing you connection with yourself and others. Brent Perkins joins me to unpack how overgiving and self-abandonment can masquerade as love, and what it really takes to move from trying to be the hero to letting yourself be human. You'll learn to give without depletion, create agreements instead of expectations, and practice the art of receiving love as fully as you give it.

Find out how to have the best love and sex of your life!

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