In this episode of Life By Design, hosts Jessilyn and Brian Persson talk more about their Discover, Define, Design framework for improving communication, especially between professional couples. They break down the first tenet of the framework, Discover, and talk in-depth about how it works using examples from their own life together.

Jessilyn and Brian explain Discover as a normal conversation but without blow-ups. Instead, their Discover conversation is based around key questions that each party can ask themselves, or each other, to keep conversations concise and constructive. The goal is to get the heart of what is triggering the upset and what lies we might be telling ourselves about our part in the conflict. Jessilyn and Brian use the example of taking out the garbage, an everyday kind of argument that most couples can rel ...