Aligned Attraction is the go-to podcast on intimacy for powerful women.
On the podcast, we teach you how to take a stance of 'fierce love' with yourself (and in your relationships) -- the kind of love that cuts through the illusion of unworthiness, and allows you to feel deeply safe to be yourself in dating and love.
Each week, you'll hear from us: Lee Noto & Ani Manian, Master Intimacy Coaches and Founders of Aligned Attraction (A modern relationship school for self-aware women who are ready to revolutionize their relationship with themselves and create sexy secure love.)
If you're ready to play FULL OUT and have the heart-throbbing love you’ve been craving, this is the podcast for you!
Ep. 98: We Broke Every Relationship Rule… And Our Marriage Got Better
My husband and I have done some things in our relationship that made the people around us genuinely worried about us — and honestly, I get it. From the outside, it probably looked like things were falling apart.
But what we were actually doing was throwing out the rulebook and figuring out what actually works for us, even when it went against everything we’d been told a healthy relationship is supposed to look like.
In this episode, I’m sharing three specific things we did that most people would consider a red flag — and why each one ended up being one of the best decisions we’ve ever made for our marriage.
Ready for your happiest, healthiest love life? Schedule a 1:1 call here to get started: https://linktr.ee/lee.manian
27 May 2026
Ep. 97: This one quality destroyed AND saved my marriage (are you doing it too?)
After nearly 10 years of coaching couples and individuals through some of the hardest relationship patterns imaginable, I've discovered one single quality that I've watched silently destroy relationships — including my own marriage — and yet, when finally confronted, become the very thing that saves them. In this video, I'm getting deeply personal about the childhood wounds, unconscious patterns, and self-protective behaviors that I didn't even know were running my relationship into the ground, and exactly what I did to turn it around. If you're struggling with relationship challenges, repeating painful patterns, feeling emotionally disconnected from your partner, or wondering why your love life never seems to change no matter how much personal development work you do — this one is for you.
Ready for your happiest, healthiest love life? Schedule a 1:1 call here to get started: https://linktr.ee/lee.manian
00:00 Introduction
00:53 What Is the Shadow?
01:50 Empathy as a Shadow Example
02:33 My Personal Story
06:42 Owning Your Shadow (The Eminem Method)
08:15 Creating Inner Safety
11:50 How to Find Your Shadow
13:27 Sitting with Discomfort
16:01 Building Capacity for Joy
21 May 2026
Ep. 96: Why Weird Couples Have the Happiest Relationships (And the 3 Traits All Thriving Couples Share)
After 10 years coaching couples, I started noticing a few surprising patterns in the relationships that didn’t just survive… but genuinely thrived.
Not the couples who simply stayed together out of logistics or comfort, but the ones who still deeply liked each other decades later. The ones who made it through betrayal, grief, rupture, and massive life transitions only to come out even more connected.
The biggest indicators had very little to do with what most people think...
In this video, I’m sharing the unexpected qualities I’ve seen in the happiest long-term relationships, and “being weird together” might matter more than we realize.
Ready for your happiest, healthiest love life? Schedule a 1:1 call here to get started: https://linktr.ee/lee.manian
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