In this exciting episode, relationship architect, author, and keynote speaker Melissa Nanavati joins Danielle Thompson for an insightful conversation about power couples and how they can build high-performing relationships that stand strong through challenges.

Melissa shares her journey to understanding the science of human connection and how she helps peak performers create healthy relationships, manage miscommunication, and leverage feedback and boundaries. Together, they remind us that relationships are meant to co-create in harmony. With clarity and intentional boundaries, you and your partner can evolve into the power couple you’re meant to be.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Melissa transitioned to understanding the science behind relationships

• How peak performers balance relationships and business

• What is the “evening gratitude ritual”?

• Orienting ourselves in positivity

• Navigating conflicts and finding the common ground

• How power couples avoid miscommunication

• The 4 core pillars for high-performing relationships

• Understanding “the feedback loop”

• Why we have to acknowledge what we’re afraid of

• How boundaries create clarity

Favorite Quotes:

“When we start to proactively acknowledge each other, we orient ourselves towards the positive.

“There are four core pillars that make for really high-performing relationships: courage, presence, play, and curiosity.”

“Two people can be at the same event and have entirely different experiences. All of us have lenses of reality.”

“I think openness to feedback is one of the most important things for high performers, especially to apply in their own relationships.”

“I really prefer the term harmony over compromise because compromise implies that you're giving away something, but you're not. You're coming to co-creation.”

Melissa Nanavati helps high performers build thriving, peaceful relationships while pursuing ambitious goals. As a speaker, author, and Relationship Architect, she blends neuroscience, biology, and lived experience to teach high achievers how to apply the skills that make them successful in business to love. Despite early success as a textbook author and Fortune 100

consultant, Melissa struggled with anxious attachment and went on over 100 first dates before meeting her husband. In their first year together, they raised $1.1 million while running two businesses. Through that journey, Melissa developed frameworks and tools to help high achievers in relationships. She is a trusted relationship coach for executives, founders, and driven individuals seeking actionable, science-backed tools to navigate love.

Connect with Melissa Nanavati!

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissananavati/

• Instagram: www.instagram.com/MelissaNanavati

• YouTube: www.youtube.com/@PeakPerformanceLove

Learn more at: www.peakperformancelove.com

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In today’s episode, business operations consultant Erica Seagrave joins Tamara and Danielle Thompson to share her journey from neurophysiology to becoming a business owner and, eventually, a consultant. Now, she helps businesses by stepping in as the operations COO, overseeing their systems and guiding them toward effective strategies for growth.

Erica explores the power of listening and identifying challenges, highlights the critical role of operations in driving success, and explains why company culture begins with leadership. This episode is an invitation to shift from working in the business to working on the business and to build a tailored system that truly works for you.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Erica shifted from being a clinician to a consultant

• Building a business that’s ready for exit

• How Erica helps businesses by being an operations COO

• Why operations are important in business

• The risk in CEOs wearing too many hats

• Why you should start working ON the business

• Growing a business from 7 to 8 figures

• Building an exit-ready business

• Why company culture begins with leadership

• Why listening to employees reveals real business challenges

Favorite Quotes:

“If things in operations are off, then everything else is off on the side of profit and different margins.”

“In so many businesses, the CEO wears so many hats, they can't focus. Their job is to focus on vision, strategy, and growth.”

“Operations is just so freaking important, but some people just don’t prioritize it as much.”

“A lot of times, it ends up being the leader or leaders of the organization where the core company culture is.”

“Taking the time to pull in your employees and have those open-ended questions is the most important thing that I've seen in leadership.”

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In this episode, we’re joined by Daniela Santangelo, founder and CEO of Freeway, who shares her inspiring journey from becoming a single mom and losing her business to rebuilding her life and career in Phoenix. Together, we dive into how she now helps other entrepreneurs secure the funding they need to grow.

Daniela opens up about discovering her MVP hack that unlocked new opportunities, the difference between businesses that truly need funding versus those that need sales, and why relationships and networks are key to finding the right investors. Her story is a powerful reminder that women entrepreneurs can carve their own path, scale their business, and go global.

What You’ll Learn:

• Navigating divorce, moving, and losing a multi-million dollar business

• How Daniela Santangelo helps people get funding

• The power of finding your MVP hack

• What are the industries that seek funding and those that rely on sales?

• Why bootstrapping a company is attractive for investors

• Why is funding needed in the tech industry?

• How a multi-million dollar company is built out of relationships

• Every financial situation is different

• Investors are investing in you as an individual

• Why Daniela Santangelo came back to Phoenix and started her new venture

Favorite Quotes:

“You have to do the gritty stuff of it's not perfect, it' ugly, it's hacked together—let me show that this is a problem worth solving and that's an idea and an opportunity that an investor can get around.”

“If you've been able to bootstrap a company for a period of time—that becomes more attractive too.”

“If you can get away with not going for funding—you're a super resilient person to be able to do that.”

“Even if you're getting angel investor money, it's because of the relationship. It's because they're investing in you as an individual. Your company is secondary. ”

“As founders, the more global experiences we have, the bigger businesses we can build.”

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