On this episode Coach Jackie welcomes Andre Paradis as her first male guest, a Los Angeles–based relationship coach, NLP practitioner, and communication educator. Andre explains that healthy relationships require releasing childhood trauma and understanding how men and women process, speak, and listen differently, since miscommunication can escalate hurt and distance.

Jackie shares her “I Got It Girl” story rooted in control, fear, and survival after her mother died when she was five, and how midlife helped her recognize the impact and learn to let go and receive support from her husband.

Andre describes “coming online” around age five, how early meanings shape lifelong relationship patterns, and how he moved from a painful childhood to feeling alive through dance, eventually working with major artists. He outlines how unresolved sa ...