When Life Expands Faster Than the Relationship…
Many high-achieving couples don’t realize what’s happening until they pause long enough to feel it.
The love is steady.
The commitment is real.
The partnership works.
But also…
Conversations revolve around logistics and work Intimacy takes more effort than it once did
Romance is postponed for "later"
The relationship stops feeling like a source of energy
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This isn’t failure.
It’s drift.
And drift is subtle.
That’s why we created The Relationship Upgrade, a 3-part series to light the spark and create the connection that makes your love + life feel alive again.
The truth that most couples
never learn is this:
Your relationship is not neutral.
It is either expanding your capacity for life, leadership, creativity, and wealth or quietly limiting it.
Extraordinary couples don’t rely on love alone. They design their relationship with the same intentionality they bring to everything else they build.
In The Relationship Upgrade, we will explore concepts, truths, and tools to help you bring a higher level of intimacy into your life.
This 3-part live series is for couples who are not in crisis, who desire a deeper love that is more powerful and connected. It’s for the couples who lead, build, and carry responsibility together and want their relationship to feel like their greatest advantage.
Not louder love.
Not perfect love.
Intentional love that evolves with life instead
of collapsing under it.
MEET YOUR HOSTS
Brooke +
Thomas Hemingway
Brooke and Thomas Hemingway have been married nearly 28 years and together for almost 29. They are the proud parents of six children, 19 and under, and the stewards of a life they intentionally designed. One rooted in faith, commitment, growth, and deep love. Their relationship has been forged through real life: medical school and residency, raising multiple children with chronic illness, seasons of depression, extreme financial loss, and the relentless pressures that test even the strongest marriages. Rather than allowing those seasons to pull them apart, they learned how to let struggle become a bridge, a place of deeper connection, honesty, and intimacy.
Their relationship today did not happen by accident. They are the first to say they did not always communicate well, stay connected, or fight fair. Like many couples, they once yelled more, withdrew more, and felt disconnected in the chaos of life. Through intentional work, powerful tools, and shared growth, they learned how to repair, reconnect, and choose each other again and again. From the early days of scraping together weekend getaways while earning $7.25 an hour, to raising a family of eight across Hawaii, Utah, and Florida, Brooke and Thomas have always prioritized time together, shared vision, and staying curious about one another. Their love story is one of devotion, desire, faith, and continual becoming.
Professionally, Brooke and Thomas are high-level leaders who believe the strength of a relationship directly fuels the abundance of a life. Brooke is a visionary entrepreneur, high-performance coach, speaker, and founder of Align for Success, where she helps women build meaningful businesses and lives through alignment rather than burnout. Thomas is a board-certified physician specializing in performance and longevity, a bestselling author, and podcast host dedicated to helping people reclaim vitality and strength at every stage of life.
Together, they model what is possible when a marriage becomes a place of partnership rather than pressure where love deepens, dreams expand, and life gets richer with time. At their core, Brooke and Thomas teach what they live: that a powerful relationship is not built by avoiding hardship, but by learning how to walk through it hand in hand and come out more alive, more connected, and more in love on the other side.
Rudi + Anniston Riekstins
Rudi & Anniston Riekstins are serial entrepreneurs, parents of two, and partners in life and leadership. They are the co-founders of Energetic Business Consulting LLC and co-hosts of the podcast The InPowered Life.
While they have built multiple successful businesses, they are not defined by external achievement alone. They are devoted to the quality of their inner lives and the relationships they cultivate, beginning with their relationship to themselves, then to each other, and outward into their family, community, and global impact.
Together for over 15 years, their work centers on conscious partnership, sacred union, and energetic mastery. They guide couples in creating relationships that amplify both partners, where love, leadership, and legacy evolve together.
They believe extraordinary love is not found. It is built through alignment, intention, and conscious choice.
