Gender Intelligence Mini Course — Mars Venus Coaching
A Free Mini Course with Rich Bernstein

The Gender Intelligence
Foundation

Four sessions covering everything you need to understand why men and women think, communicate, and connect differently — and what that changes for you.

4 episodes · ~60 min total Free · No login required
Rich Bernstein Co-Founder & CEO
Mars Venus Coaching

Rich has spent nearly 20 years working alongside Dr. John Gray, translating the world's most recognised relationship methodology into a structured coaching curriculum. The school he built and leads has certified 700+ coaches across 43 countries in gender intelligent coaching. Everything in this mini course comes directly from that curriculum.

Episode 1 · 13–14 minutes

Why Men & Women Are
Wired Differently

Rich opens with the foundational science — the biological and neurological differences between men and women that shape every relationship, every conversation, and every coaching session. This is where it all begins.

What you'll take away
  • The biological basis for why men and women process stress, connection, and communication differently
  • Why these differences are not cultural conditioning — they're wired in, and why that changes everything for a coach
  • The single most common mistake people make when trying to "fix" the other person in a relationship
  • Why understanding this framework is the first step toward real, lasting change for your clients
Watch it applied.

Join Rich live and see how DISC communication styles change completely once you add the gender intelligence layer.

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Episode 2 · 11–12 minutes

The Energy
Underneath Everything

Beneath every relationship dynamic is a polarity — masculine and feminine energy that creates attraction, drives communication, and explains why certain patterns repeat no matter how hard people try to change them.

What you'll take away
  • The masculine–feminine polarity framework and how it shapes attraction, intimacy, and conflict in every relationship
  • Why the same behaviour that creates connection early in a relationship can erode it over time
  • How to recognise polarity dynamics in a client's story — and what they reveal about the real issue beneath the surface
  • The one shift that changes the entire energy of a coaching conversation with a couple or individual client
Now see it in action.

Watch how this changes every conversation — with every communication style, across both genders. Free live session.

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Episode 3 · 17–18 minutes

The Hormones
Behind the Dynamic

The deepest layer of the framework. Rich walks through the hormonal science behind stress responses, emotional cycles, and the chemistry of connection — and why this changes how a skilled coach reads every client.

What you'll take away
  • How testosterone and oxytocin drive completely different stress responses — and what that means in a coaching session
  • The hormonal explanation for the cave, the wave, and the cycles that most coaches misread as personality problems
  • Why the standard "communication tools" taught in most coaching programmes miss the biological layer entirely
  • What the full coaching system built on this foundation looks like — and what Rich's invitation to you is
The next step is live.

See Rich apply this to real communication combinations — every DISC style, through the gender intelligence lens. Free session.

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Bonus Q&A
18–20 minutes

Your Questions
Answered

Real questions from real people, asked live during the session. Rich covers the topics that come up most — opposite-sex friendships, the cave and the wave, menopause, masculinity, and what it looks like to coach through all of this.

Questions covered
  • Can men and women really be "just friends" — and what gender intelligence says about those dynamics
  • What to do when a man has been in his cave for three weeks — and how a coach helps a client navigate it
  • Menopause and the hormonal shift — how it changes the dynamic and what both partners need to understand
  • How to coach individuals when their partner isn't in the room — and why that works better than most people think
  • The moon cycle, masculine energy, and getting a man back into his strength
You've seen the why.
Come see the how.

Join Rich live and watch gender intelligence applied to every communication style — so you can finally understand any conversation you're in.

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