Do You Feel That? — Why Brittney and I Started a Podcast and a Coaching Practice in Nashville

Most podcasts about intimacy start with a credential. A degree, a certification, a clinical specialty. The host establishes their authority, then delivers information from that authority. The listener receives it. Everyone stays safely in their designated role.

Do You Feel That? was never meant to work that way.

My wife Brittney and I started this podcast — and built the coaching practice alongside it — because we kept noticing something that credentials alone couldn't address. There was a massive gap between what people knew about intimacy and what they were actually experiencing in their intimate lives. Information wasn't the problem. Something else was. And a podcast that led with authority wasn't going to touch it.

What we wanted to create was a conversation. An honest one. The kind that happens between two people who have done this work on themselves and in their own marriage — and who are willing to say that out loud. A husband and wife talking honestly about desire, connection, embodiment, and what it actually takes to keep a relationship alive and growing. Not a clinical presentation. Not a performance. Just two people who have lived this, still living it, inviting you in.

That's what Nashville asked us to build. And it's worth explaining why.

Cover of the "Do You Feel That?" podcast featuring hosts Scott and Brittney, showcasing a bold, modern design with a playful purple and pink palette.

What This City Asked For

Nashville is not a city that makes it easy to slow down and tell the truth about the harder, quieter parts of life. It's a city of builders — of people who moved here, or stayed here, because they believed something was possible and decided to pursue it. That energy is one of the things we love most about living here.

It's also one of the things that makes honest conversation about intimacy surprisingly rare.

According to recent census data, more than 80 people relocate to Nashville every single day. Many of them arrive as couples — drawn by the job market, the culture, the sense that something alive is happening here. And almost all of them arrive without a guide for the intimate dimension of everything they're building together.

Nashville's particular combination of professional ambition, faith culture, and relentless forward motion creates conditions where the gap between a couple's external life and their intimate life can widen significantly before anyone names it. The city rewards achievement and punishes stillness. Vulnerability requires a deliberate act of will that the pace of Nashville doesn't naturally create space for.

Do You Feel That? exists to create that space. One conversation at a time. Between a husband and wife who have had to create it in their own lives and know firsthand what it costs not to.

Why a Husband and Wife

There's something specific about the format that matters.

Most conversations about intimacy coaching are one-directional. An expert delivering insights to an audience. That model has value — but it also maintains a distance that works against the very thing intimacy requires, which is genuine two-way presence.

When Brittney and I record together, something different happens. You're not listening to an authority — you're listening to a marriage. To two people navigating the same terrain you're navigating, from the inside of an actual relationship. We bring different perspectives, different entry points into the work, different parts of the conversation that each of us is more naturally drawn toward.

Brittney brings a quality of warmth and directness to the show that cuts through the theoretical quickly. I tend toward the frameworks and the bigger picture. Together we cover territory that neither of us would reach alone — which is, it turns out, exactly what the best intimate relationships do.

The podcast is a living example of what we're talking about. Two people choosing, episode after episode, to show up honestly for a conversation that most couples never get to have out loud.

Why Audio

Audio is an intimate medium. This isn't an accident — it's the core insight behind both Do You Feel That? and Coelle, the guided audio intimacy platform I founded.

When you listen to something, the relationship between speaker and listener collapses in a way that reading simply cannot replicate. The voice comes directly into your ear. The conversation happens inside you. For conversations about intimacy — which are inherently personal, often burdened with shame and silence, and rarely invited into ordinary life — audio creates a private encounter that meets people where they actually are.

During a Nashville commute. On a walk through Shelby Bottoms or Percy Warner. In the kitchen in the early morning before the house wakes up. These are the moments when Do You Feel That? finds people — and when honest conversations about desire, disconnection, and what it means to feel fully alive in a relationship can actually land.

We chose audio because it's the format that best mirrors what we're talking about. Intimate, personal, present.

Why a Coaching Practice

The podcast creates the conversation. The coaching practice is where the conversation becomes change.

I work privately with a select number of Nashville individuals and couples as a sex and intimacy coach — people who have reached the point of wanting more than a podcast episode, more than a guided audio experience. People who are ready for a guide who will walk alongside them through the specific, personal terrain of their own intimate life.

What Nashville has had very little of is coaching in this space — the forward-looking, growth-oriented, practical support for people who are fundamentally healthy and ready to invest in something better. Most of the support available here is clinical. Therapy, counseling, treatment-oriented. All of it valuable and necessary for the people who need it.

But there's a large population of Nashville individuals and couples who don't need treatment. They need a guide. Someone who has done this work themselves, who knows the landscape, and who can help them move from where they are toward something more alive.

That's the gap the coaching practice fills. And Nashville — with its professional intensity, its faith culture's complicated relationship with sexuality, its influx of transplant couples navigating a new city without a support network — has no shortage of people who belong in that gap.

What Nashville Is Ready For

I believe Nashville is one of the most ready cities in America for this conversation.

Not in spite of its faith roots — partly because of them. There is a deep well of conviction in this city about the sacred nature of relationships, marriage, and family. What has often been missing is the practical, shame-free, embodied guidance that helps people actually live that conviction rather than just hold it as an ideal.

Brittney and I have found, in our own marriage and in the work we do with others, that intimacy and faith are not in tension. They never were. What is in tension is the silence that faith communities have often maintained around sexuality — and the shame that silence produces. That's the tension we're trying to dissolve, one honest conversation at a time.

Nashville is ready to have the conversation. We're here to make sure it happens.

Three Ways to Engage With This Work

Listen to Do You Feel That? — Brittney and I release new episodes exploring desire, connection, embodiment, and the honest territory of intimate life. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

Explore Coelle — If you want to begin this work privately, at your own pace, Coelle offers guided audio intimacy experiences designed for exactly that. No live sessions required. Just you, a thoughtful guide, and the parts of your intimate life you're ready to invest in.

Work with me directly in Nashville — If you're ready for something more personalized, book a free discovery call. Confidential, no pressure, and built around where you actually are. Virtual coaching is also available for those outside Nashville.

Scott Schwertly is a Nashville-based sex and intimacy coach, founder of Coelle, and co-host of Do You Feel That? — a podcast about desire, connection, and what it means to feel fully alive. He hosts the show with his wife, Brittney.