Welcome to podcast episode 22, of “A Work in Progress: Growing Up Human”. Our goal is to have conversations that move us toward being fully human. Looking at wholeness, we explore what someone created in the image of God, looks like, good, bad, and ugly. My friend Dan Holford and I blend our experiences in the fields of education, counseling, and recovery to facilitate that conversation.

Today we thank Dr. Greg Smalley as he joins in our two part conversation about power vs. influence in marriage.

Dr. Smalley serves as the vice president of Marriage and Family Formation at Focus on the Family. Prior to joining Focus, Smalley worked for the Center for Relationship Enrichment at John Brown University and as president of the National Institute of Marriage, now known as Hope Restored. He is the author of almost 20 books including 9 Lies That Will Destroy Your Marriage: And the Truths That Will Save It and Set It Free and Reconnected: Moving From Roommates to Soulmates in Marriage. Smalley and his wife Erin host a popular weekly podcast called Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage.

Our focus will be differentiating between power/control and influence and what that looks like in our close relationships. How is this different from what we hear come out of the current "Manosphere"?