Hi, we’re Heidi & Scott!

We are the founders and hosts of the Marriage IQ Podcast

Heidi is a marriage and sex researcher, educator, writer, and relationship coach. With a Ph.D. in human development and family studies, she draws on her doctoral research on sexual betrayal, marriage, religion, women’s issues, and healthy sexuality, as well as courses she taught on family stress and coping. Based on her research, she is writing a book on sexual betrayal and how it impacts identity and development.

Scott is a board-certified medical doctor actively working as an internal/family medicine physician. Also a marriage educator, his biggest thrills come from helping couples gain insight that helps them transform their marriages. He is the lead author on the book we are writing together on male intimacy.

We have also learned much from the hard things life throws at us. In our family, we’ve navigated mental illness, emotional trauma, disabilities, divorce, abuse, addictions, and, needless to say, a whole lot more! But we have learned and grown from each experience and like who we are better now! Our perspective is expanded, and our life is bigger, brighter, and well… scintillating!

We are crazy about our four children, travel, adventure, music (Scott, in his pre-doctor life, composed classical piano music… check him out on Spotify…and Heidi grew up in a home with six pianos and 10 piano players), history, sunsets and sunrises, and ballroom dancing.