The Tessa Van Wade Show

Do you know your worth? Or more importantly, do you speak up for yourself and set high standards for your life? On this Thanksgiving episode, Tessa and Ben discuss three aspects of determining your value in both your professional and personal life.

Ben and Tessa discuss taking advice and giving advice. Who qualifies as someone who gives good advice and who are those people in your life who's advice you should disregard?

As women, where have we learned to stand in our power? Where is it difficult? How do we do big things when we're taught to play small?

Tessa and Ben discuss servanthood as a pillar of humanity. We need more people in the world that look to serve others with kind hearts. Kindness flourishes, while selfishness diminishes.

Tessa and Ben discuss the difference between how they experience anger and frustration. Is one better than the other? Why do some people cry it out when others just want to smash something?

Ben vents about his frustration with people who ruin things for the rest of us, then Tessa leads the conversation about the power of words and language. They both decide that the world's problems can be solved if we all just learned the skill of active listening.

Tessa and Ben discuss the stories that our insecurities convince us to be true. If you're not careful, you don't even realize that you are believing the lie.

Tessa and Ben discuss first impressions and trying to avoid disappointing those around us. They both make breakthroughs in this conversation and ultimately decide that there needs to be more kindness and grace in the world.

Tessa and Ben discuss how people can be their own worst enemies when it comes to finding happiness, and how identifying these behaviors is the first step to breaking free of them. It's easy to fall into the trap of self sabotage.

Tessa and Ben host a very special live podcast on the day of her new novel's launch. Tessa discusses the inspirations behind many of the themes of the book and Ben does a very good job of not making it all about him.

Tessa and Ben discuss their crazy week and how life's challenges and complications can often come all at once. Try to focus on the positive, hang on and stick it out.

Tessa and Ben talk about holding grudges in relationships and how behavior is triggered by unidentified traumas from the past.

Tessa and Ben talk about their most extravagant behaviors, which turns out are not very extravagant at all.

Are you an airport hero or an airport menace? Ben and Tessa discuss how people behave when traveling and what it reveals about their true nature.

On this episode, we discuss some stuff about women...getting fancy vs. keeping it simple , birth control, Tessa watching too much TikTok, and Ben hating Sundays.

Tessa and Ben reach a milestone in their marriage and discuss the thing they most deplore about themselves...but in a fun way.

Tessa and Ben discuss their adventures at the family cabin. Tessa has a "Field of Dreams" moment on a nature hike and Ben tries to wrap his head around what it mean to listen to that still, small voice.

Ben and Tessa continue their discussion about dreams and purpose. Tessa hopes to be inspired on their upcoming trip to the family cabin and Ben digs into his past to figure out why he seems to lack a grand dream for his life.

After a thorough "Maverick" movie review, Ben and Tessa discuss the challenge of pursuing your hopes and dreams in order to fulfill your purpose in life.

Ben solves the energy crisis and creates world peace and Tessa holds regular conversations with the Creator of the universe. And it all comes down to one simple concept...just love one another and be cool.

Tessa and Ben discuss the difference between being different vs. being obnoxious, evolving over the years, Tessa's first impression of Ben, the tortures of high school, and eating and exercising over 40.

Tessa and Ben bring their very best sickly voices to this episode as they discuss the Dad Flu Phenomenon, Ben's disdain for playing board games, and putting out content in the modern social media frenzied world.

Tessa welcomes special guest Shaka Senghor, New York Times Best Selling Author of "Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison." Shaka and Tessa discuss his newest book, "Letters to the Sons of Society," and his roles as a story teller, father, and advocate.

Tessa and Ben discuss what it takes to make a relationship last through life's ever-changing landscape...and bad fake accents.

Tessa and Ben celebrate mother's day by discussing the complexities of caring for tiny humans then delve into life before cell phones...also known as the good old days.

Tessa and Ben discuss Gary Chapman's "Five Love Languages" and learning to be bilingual in your relationships...and how much Ben dislikes romance.

Tessa and Ben discuss Ben's crippling fear of failure, loud birds, making a habit out of believing in yourself and speaking positively about others.

Tessa Interviews Drew Manning, New York Times Best Selling Author of "Fit 2 Fat 2 Fit," about his wild idea of gaining and losing 75 pounds (twice!), empathy, Keto, Paleo, relationships, and Did the weight really effect him all that much?

Ben and Tessa discuss how challenges and adversity are the things that bring flavor to our lives...and it's our perspective that determines the outcome.

This week Tessa puts Ben to the test. How does he rank the importance of background, personality, spirituality, health, and sex in a relationship?

In the first episode of The Tessa Van Wade Show, Ben and Tessa discuss their marriage, the challenges of raising teens in a world of social media, and trying to teach them the importance of making the right decisions for themselves. Yikes!