On this episode of Practicing Love, we talk about spiritual intelligence, which can make relationships stronger — and hotter.
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Spiritual Intelligence Makes Your Relationship Stronger: Show Notes
There are so many kinds of intelligence — emotional, relational, erotic — and it’s exciting to see how our understanding of human connection keeps evolving.
Today’s Practicing Love episode explores a less-talked-about but powerful form: spiritual intelligence.
If you don’t identify as spiritual or religious, think of spiritual intelligence as a growth mindset — a way to meet yourself and your partner with more compassion, curiosity, and intention. It’s about loosening the grip of old patterns and deepening into the kind of love that can actually last, which sadly is rare these days!
The more my clients take on a growth mindset, and learn to be more conscious about their actions and reactions, the more I see conflict decrease and intimacy increase.
In this episode, I speak with Yosi Amram, Ph.D., author of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership and a man with a rare combination of heart, brilliance, and grounded insight.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Relationships that go beyond ego
- Balancing autonomy and connection
- The difference between heart-following-genitals vs. genitals-following-heart
- How to assess whether someone’s a good fit when dating
- Practicing boundaries without disconnecting
- Why repair matters more than avoiding conflict
- The grief that can come with evolving your identity and purpose
Yosi brings a refreshing and deeply human perspective to how we love, lead, and grow.
When you’re done with this one, check out our Man Alive episode too, on the benefits of spiritually intelligent leadership. It’s another rich conversation.
And if you’re a woman looking for love, stay tuned: my free class How to Attract Conscious, Commitment-Ready Men After 40 is coming soon. I can’t wait to support more women in finding the love I know is possible.
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Bio:
Yosi began his leadership journey in the Israeli military where he received numerous awards and garnered the fastest promotion record in his regiment’s history. Despite these accomplishments, the military chafed at his soul, eventually inspiring his lifelong quest for more humane approaches to leadership.
After leaving the military, Yosi studied engineering at MIT and earned an MBA from Harvard. He took the leap into leadership experiments of his own as the founder and CEO of two tech start-ups, both of which he led through successful IPOs.
Then, as CEO of a public company with a rising stock price, he experienced a psychospiritual breakdown, a “dark night of the soul,” which catapulted him into a spiritual awakening. The epiphany was both excruciating and exalting, enabling him to see through the illusion of separation to the truth of our interconnectedness. This put his life and value system on a fresh trajectory.
He went back to school for a PhD in clinical psychology, ultimately developing the first research-grounded theory and validated measure of spiritual intelligence (SI) with an associated model he created and named Spiritually Intelligent Leadership (SILeadership). This research has received over a thousand citations to date.
Yosi is devoted to awakening greater spiritual intelligence in himself (a lifelong journey) and in the world. Working as a therapist and leadership coach, he has supported over 100 CEOs as they built organizations, led thousands of employees, and reached annual revenues in the billions, all while increasing their happiness, power, and effectiveness as leaders in their work and personal lives.
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