Can’t say enough how much this podcast and Laura Doyle’s resources have changed my life and my marriage. She has taught me things I never learned from my upbringing and her principles compliment my Christian faith. Laura Doyle’s resources are a godsend - I thank the Lord for her and her resources!! Laura, thank you so much!! And thanks to all of the women who have contributed their stories to the podcast!!

This podcast has changed my life as well as my friends lives. I love the testimonies we get to hear as Laura shares insights to intimacy skills along with women’s real journey with them. They are detailed on what they tried and what worked for them! If you want transformation in your marriage and yourself- The old advice is out- the intimacy skills are IN

Profound wisdom found here. Wish I had this amazing insight at age 18…. Would have saved me a ton of grief. Thank you Laura Doyle for helping save marriages and heal families.

My cousin recommend I listen. I thought it was worth a try. I’m still not seeing how it all works, but it’s better than doing nothing. Hopefully changes will happen. Well at least on my part.

I’m so grateful to have come across this podcast. Whenever I hit play, it feels like Laura speaks to the space in my who wants to be a better woman and wife for the betterment of my marriage. Thank you for continuing this great work!

This podcast is so helpful for my marriage because I get to hear real stories from real women on how they improved their marriage through Laura Doyle’s methods.

I’ve been binge listening to this podcast for the past 2-3 weeks and have already noticed some amazing changes in my marriage. I am still working on the skills but the title of this show definitely lives up to its name because I definitely feel empowered!

ETA: I do still believe in the skills and find that they work really well in marriage and all relationships, but the podcast has become a big ad for joining her programs and paying big chunks of money. It comes across as so cult like. Also, she had a guest (Irene) repeat two years apart with different life details (one child vs three children; 13 years of marriage vs 18 years of marriage); it’s possible that she was still telling her own story, but the details were different enough that the second podcast sounded fake, and there was no acknowledgment that she was a repeat guest (I listened to them next to each other by pure chance, and it is absolutely the same woman with the same name and the same voice), so it comes across as if she’s an actress telling a new story to seem like someone new. But I still do love the skills so much and I don’t believe all the testimonials are made up. Original review: With a few caveats, I have found this podcast to be incredible. I do absolutely recommend reading or listening to Laura Doyle’s book “The Empowered Wife” before listening, for a few reasons, but mostly because the interviews make more sense with that book for background. I understand the knee-jerk reactions many women have to Laura Doyle’s ideas, but on close examination, they boil down to respecting yourself enough to take care of yourself (put your own oxygen mask on first), and treating your spouse with the care and dignity you expect from him. Maybe it’s not always fair that women have to “go first,” but if you want to save your crumbling marriage, and everything you’ve tried hasn’t worked, you might find these skills useful and eye-opening. They really boil down to treating our spouses - and OURSELVES - with respect and dignity. The skills also allow the wife to let of the “emotional load” that so many of us women thought we had to carry. Having someone give me permission to “relinquish control” has done wonders in so many parts of my life, not just my marriage, and in a pretty short time at that. This is not in any way giving up the right to be a well-educated, powerful, opinionated woman or even handing over the reins of our lives - it’s just learning to stand on our own two feet instead of demanding that our spouse hold us up and it’s NOT taking on responsibilities that aren’t really ours in the first place. I may disagree with Doyle about financial management, but I agree on the need to combine finances, and I think there’s plenty of room to take what you can use and leave the rest, and even on that topic, I think it’s more about being fluid than about being rigid. There have been times when the language used, especially by her relationship coaches or by women who’ve been coached and are using the terms used by her coaches, veers into what I think of as over-the-top West-Coast-church-revival sappiness, and I would guess that Doyle has a religious background, BUT the podcast itself is not religious, even though some of the women interviewed do talk about religion often. If you’re a solid critical thinker and able to sift through information without throwing it all away because of one thing you don’t agree with, you’ll find so much helpful, useful information and a generally overall sound approach to marriage (and other relationships).

I’ve been listening to this podcast on and off for awhile now and finally decided to start really getting into it recently. Combined with the skills from the book, my marriage is becoming happier and I’m becoming more peaceful by remaining on my own paper. 10/10 recommend.

My marriage was rocky, and I was convinced that me pointing that out and insisting on counseling was the way to healing. Meanwhile I was constantly correcting, nagging, and being unintentionally demeaning to my husband. I’m so grateful for this podcast showing me how to bring intimacy back and makes us both feel valued!

Laura’s podcast is so informative and inspiring. She shows you how to take control of your own life and happiness. Her guests have used the skills she teaches and have transformed their lives. Highly recommend!

We’ve been to 8 different therapist and I believe many of the things we learned actually hurt our relationship. For the first time in a long time, I feel we have the chance to make it.

I love this podcast! Laura’s whole empowewd wife platform is what I didn’t realize I was looking for and I am so grateful to have found it. Now, some people in my life try to give me marrital advice and I can pinpoint whether or not it aligns with the six intimacy skills. Cannot recommend this podcast enough!!

I love this podcast! I listen to it every week. Each woman has a unique story of how she used the Six Intimacy Skills to transform her marriage from a crisis state to a thriving, happy marriage. Regardless of whether the week’s guest has a similar marital situation to my own, I always find lessons I can apply to my own marriage. Listening to the conversations between Laura Doyle and her guests (who are real, everyday women from all different backgrounds) is engaging and uplifting.

This is a great guide for folks wanting to enrich their relationships.

I have been an avid listener. So many episodes have really helped me to not be afraid to try the skills and have helped me become a better wife and person. I like hearing how other women are actually using and finding success with the skills and share it.

Thank you so much for all the advice and help you provide to all the ladies and wives. I listen and enjoy each one of your podcasts and the stories

My husband and I just had a wonderful weekend with not one argument or frustrated look or deep sigh of disappointment. We have been in a rough spot and the skills are changing things one piece of duct tape at a time! haha

I am so glad I stumbled on Laura’s book, The Empowered Wife, and decided to give this podcast a try. The first episode I listened to was “Why Do Men Look at Other Women”. Seeing men I’ve been in partnership with (and now my husband) looking at other women has always felt deeply painful to me; but I didn’t like how anxious and confused I felt keeping my pain to myself. I almost didn’t want to rip the bandaid off and listen to that episode, but I’m glad I did. Laura talked about how many beautiful women are in the world and how it’s hard to ignore beautiful scenery around us. And how we as women really just want to feel loved and significant…and we truly can’t read our husbands’ minds. All of that is so true! Hearing the truth delivered so gently was peace and life-giving to me. In the year 2024, I truly believe most women are like me in that they’ve been taught to be as independent as possible and to control situations because we “are the smarter sex” and “know better”. I truly didn’t know how masculine and controlling I was acting in my marriage, because all of us women who haven’t heard about the Six Intimacy Skills seem to think the same way! All I can say is that I’m excited to delve deeper into this podcast and to reclaim my femininity. Femininity is a lost art and the Empowered Wife Podcast is an exciting tool for bringing it back.

For being accountable for my actions and how important self-love is.

My marriage has been struggling for a while, now…well, for too long. I’ve researched how to help my marriage get better, and found Laura Doyle and The Empowered Wife Podcast and Book. I’ve been listening to and reading both, and am finding the content SO helpful. I have listened to other marriage podcasts, who have also provided very helpful information, but I find myself always migrating back to The Empowered Wife because of the simple and practical intimacy skills, as well as all of the women who come on the show to share their stories. Thank you, to Laura and all of these ladies. Such a great podcast! I receive so much hope and encouragement from it.

Found Laura and her skills 6 months ago and have soaking it all in, applying the skills, and transforming my 48 year marriage!! Being accountable for my role is giving me hope, and a new start!! Thank you Laura for all you do!!

I finally have hope. Thank you!

I’ve read her books, listened to over 100 of her pudcasts and can say after 27 years of a rough marriage, my husband adores me again! Learning to use the intimacy skills has changed many lives, Thank you Laura! The skills are based on eternal biblical truths that we all should know and practice, but unfortunately, no one taught us …. Until Laura. Thank you for pursuing your passion to end world divorce! Victoria Miglin

Listening to these marriages turn around when seemingly doomed has been encouraging. It inspired me to turn to God to relinquish control. It helps me with patience and fortitude for this journey is not for the faint. When the battle seems lost, inspiring stories can really help you get through the drought, the low times, and make it through.

Being accountable for your actions and emotions has changed my marriage for the better! Thank you Laura for sharing all your excellent skills. Listening to the podcast weekly inspires me to stay the course; what a gift to us married women.

This podcast has taught me so much and I cannot thank you enough, Laura and team!

I am learning so much that is helping me to bring my relationship with my husband back to life. The skills work, so don't give up.

I’ve been listening to this podcast for a week. Even being a lesbian there are things she mentioned that really resonate. I just bought both books and the workbook.

This podcast is such an encouragement! I listen to at least one episode a day. Hearing other women’s stories gives so much hope! Thank you for this!

Have found and been listening to this podcast for the past month plus reading The Empowered Wife. I can’t explain how inspiring all these stories are and Laura’s advice have been for me and how motivated it leaves me to work even harder on my marriage. Each episode is full of sweet nuggets to take note of!

Why I had to go through 14 years of pain before discovering this podcast, I may never know. I’m just thankful I’ve found Laura Doyle! From a decade of chronic illness to a recent morning over breakfast being told by my husband that I “deserved” his disrespect… I finally Google searched “disrespect in marriage” and landed here. And learned what respect in marriage actually looks like. This has truly been a break-through. I see my husband with new eyes and he says he now enjoys spending time with me. And after just 2 weeks of dipping my toe into the intimacy skills! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Laura Doyle’s Empowered Wife podcast (and her audiobook) has been playing in my ears every week (sometimes every day!) since I heard of her back in Dec. 2023. I’ve been married almost 27 years and wish I’d known her six intimacy skills so much earlier. We’ve had some great years in our marriage, but four years ago our marriage was in a very bad place. If I thought of our future as a couple after our five children left home, all I could see was the color black. It was so disheartening. At a breaking point, I complained to my husband one day that I was on empty. (He was supposed to fix that, right?) However, it seemed to fall on deaf ears when he looked at me with tired eyes and said he was giving all he had to give. I had little context for self-care, and when I took time for exercise or a shower, I felt GUILTY for taking time for myself and tried to hurry back to the overfunctioning mode of taking care of everyone else. I couldn’t let my husband do much for me either or I might lose my ‘martyr card’, and I’d been in overfunctioning mode too many years to risk losing that! My husband told me once he felt he was under a huge mountain of indebtedness to me; and not the good kind. He sensed that I felt after all I had done, anything he did for me was a drop in the bucket and he was not sure he could ever make me happy. I was being really hard to please and wasn’t very receptive and certainly not often vulnerable. Oh I fulfilled all my ‘good girl’ duties of feeding him, having sex, etc, but in a way some of this was really my hyper overfunctioning of a fear of being abandoned for not measuring up. It was exhausting. When I asked my husband if he’d go for marriage counseling, he said no, so I went by myself. I finally had to stop, it wasn’t helping our marriage. My husband looked depressed most of the time and when I looked in his eyes they looked dead. I felt it hard to imagine any future worth looking forward to in the state we were in. I didn’t have much language, skills, or framework for bringing my mature, emotionally regulated, self responsible woman to my marriage. I thought I was supposed to be busy & burnt out, that that was almost the marker of a ‘good wife’. It was how I had been scripted, and I had to understand that if things were to change, I was responsible for peeling back the layers of my scripting and being accountable for what I’d been handed and what I would get to heal. This realization started when I first saw myself ‘falling off the wagon’. I realized then I had some reframing and paradigm shifts that needed to happen. It took about three to six years. It was worth it, as I am at a better place today, and so is our marriage. My husband is a different man, a man I respect and find myself thanking God for often. There is life in his eyes again, and he is such a wonderful, committed, loyal, and heroic man. Back in the days when his eyes looked dead I wanted a counselor or SOMEONE to smack him into reality and fix him! I was so frustrated and done. It turns out, women like Laura Doyle and Alison Armstrong, and Martine De Luna, and Helen Andelin, were right and thankfully they can teach us how to understand men and use our innate feminine influence to call forth the best in them! It’s almost magical, and is a gently powerful like the warmth of the sun. When I take responsibility for taking care of myself well it is amazing how much more nourished I feel. My husband is happier too, and helps out and does things I never thought he would (or could- I cringe now at my arrogance) do. I’d read Fascinating Womanhood (great book!) years ago back when we were married one year and am so thankful an older woman saw me in my newly married state and gave me a book that would help script how I showed up in my marriage. This book gave me so many very useful principles to apply to my new marriage and build strong habits with my husband as well as a better understanding of men. A piece that was missing for me personally was understanding that I was way over functioning, all over my husbands paper, and inadvertently disrespecting him without even realizing it, and not good at receiving or vulnerability. No wonder he was exhausted; he had no idea how to make me happy! Thinking about this makes me sad for the version of us from four years ago. January 2022 I picked up the Queens Code by Alison Armstrong which started turning our marriage back in a positive direction. I’m so happy that a few months ago I stumbled upon Laura Doyle and her podcast, books, and intimacy skills! I am amazed at how my husband jumps at any opportunity to make me happy now, from carrying heavy things for me, buying me a perfume I mentioned I’d like, taking the family on the best trip we’ve had in a long time, cooking for both of us (I didn’t know he knew how!), telling me how attracted he is to me, sending me romantic songs on Spotify, sharing his thoughts with me, pursuing intimacy with me, and the feel and energy in our home is peaceful, sweet, and restful. I have a long way to go! I am practicing relinquishing control, learning to receive, and learning to be vulnerable, as well as duct tape, ouch, and self care. It is a journey that is bringing delicious polarity back into my marriage just as my husband and I are preparing to be empty nesters. Now when I imagine our future together when the children leave home it is bright, full of color, and exciting! Thanks Laura, the team who works together to make it all happen, and all the brave ladies who share on the podcast! Y’all are making a positive difference in marriages, and we’re so thankful for you!

I really enjoy listening to Laura Doyle and her teachings. It encourages listeners to look inward and understand that they hold more power than they might think to create a fulfilling and intimate relationship. The host’s ability to convey these concepts in a relatable, compassionate, and practical manner makes each episode a valuable resource for anyone looking to enhance their marital connection. For those of us committed to growing and improving our relationships, “The Empowered Wife Podcast” is a beacon of hope and guidance.

Have loved starting to listen to this podcast - all the stories and advice give me hope and Laura’s voice alone is so calming.

There is nothing like taking full ownership over your own happiness to really transform the whole world.

Such a wonderful insightful podcast that I try to listen to daily. Definitely recommend to everyone I know!

I can’t say enough good things about this podcast! The advice is practical and has worked well in my life. I also loooove listening to other women share about their marriage struggles and triumphs.

The wives and their struggles are so relatable. You will be inspired. I almost always learn something new about the marriage skills or about myself or hear something I just needed to hear. When feeling at all off track with my marriage this is my go to listening to feel better and get back on course.

I cannot tell you how wonderful this podcast is. All of the brave women who turned their marriages around are so inspiring! This keeps me strict with the skills and I look forward to it every week! Laura is such a gracious and wise host.

Every time I listen to a new podcast from the empowered wife podcast, I immediately see there’s more to the struggle in my marriage… and whats more I see ways I can change it without confronting him! Thankfully from applying the skills from EW podcast , my marriage has overcome addictions, depression, job switches, life changes and many baby births ! Without this podcast, I doubt I would be married still. Thank you Laura Doyle and team!

I never knew what I mean to men! This podcast has opened my eyes to just how much men desire happy women, and what happens when we aren't happy. I have seen my marriage change because I stepped into my power to be happy, and I've given my husband ways to provide that happiness. I am happier, and my husbandd is happier. This truly changed my marriage, and myself!

Love this weekly podcast to keep me working on what I can control with in my marriage: my self-care and how I respond. Most of the time it makes a world of difference!

I have concern for abused women who follow Laura. You need to know your husband’s behavior and treatment of you is NOT your fault. Seek resources on abuse - which does not have to be physical abuse.

I have read and listened to Laura for more than 7 years now. Every time I slack in reminding myself of these skills, my relationships suffer. She has nailed down concretely and hat even the Bible teaches about marriage, making it understandable and attainable

This should be taught in schools! Not only has this already helped my marriage but has transformed my heart.

This has been such a blessing and a breath of fresh air to find something that doesn’t require two to “fix things.” This is everything I needed to hear regarding staying on my paper and only focusing on changing and working on me! I absolutely love to hear the women’s stories! The testimonies are so powerful. Thank you ladies!

Laura Doyle was the first podcast I started to listen to, she’s still the only one I truly to on a regular basis. I look forward to each week when the newest one comes out, I can always relate to something in each woman’s story. They’re all so inspiring and so is her book. She’s truly transformed my marriage and my life, I’m forever thankful.

In September 2021 I experienced a crisis in my marriage when my husband unexpectedly announced that he was moving out. After several weeks of desperation a Google search led me to the Empowered Wife Podcast and my life began to change for the better. My husband husband has been home since 2022 and my marriage is the best it’s ever been. Not only do I continue to enjoy weekly inspiration from the podcast, but I was also privileged to be featured as a guest (episode 206).

There have many other reviews that says that she knows what she is talking about, but you just need to listen to her. Read the book, read her blog, everything. Even just taking a tiny amount of information and applying it your lives and relationships makes a difference. We are all human so don’t feel like you have to be perfect in applying everything, but just know that whatever you do apply, will only reap positive results.