It all started with a bucket of water.
On a Saturday morning, my dad called for a meeting with my sister and I. I was 8 years old at that time. I had this gut-wrenching feeling that something had happened because our family didn’t just come together at the dinner table.
“Your mom and I are getting a divorce…I’m so sorry. But…here’s a lesson I want you to keep with you, Relationships are like flowers, and if you don’t water them, they’ll die.”
I was confused at how my parents had come to that conclusion so nonchalantly.
“Papi if that’s all it takes, why don’t you just take a bucket of water and water your relationship?”
Asking my dad this question triggered my quest for answers to help couples water their relationship in a practical way.
Hi, I’m Sayuri
I’m a Relationship Coach who helps highly driven business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals go from distant, frustrated, and passing ships in the night to loved up, supported, and working together as a team.
People come to me hoping they can…
Find a fair way to distribute the household responsibilities with their partner
Get on the same page with important life decisions
Reignite the romantic spark they felt at the beginning of their relationship
Feel like they’re a team—cheering, supporting, and prioritizing each other’s dreams
Break out of the mundane day-to-day routine, and experience more joyful, adventurous, and energizing moments together
Is this what you’re hoping for in your relationship, too?
I'm here to tell you it's possible. I've seen these hopes come to life for my clients.
They’re able to feel as alive in their relationship as they are in their work. They navigate life’s domains with inner peace and confidence knowing they’ve bulletproofed their relationship.
They open themselves to showing up in their relationship at more meaningful levels. And, I guide them with my relationship skills, strategies, and systems.
Friend, you know deep down, that passing ships in the night was not the relationship you signed up for.
Perhaps you want to build a successful business, but you want your partner to go on this wild journey with you, supporting you in the process.
Or maybe your partner is working outside of the home while you stay home with the kids—but you still want the family to stay united and make precious memories together.
For you, it’s not just about you being happy. It’s about your integrity. Knowing you’re showing up in your relationships with those who matter most—your partner and kids—in alignment with how your clients, social media followers, and community perceive you.
Because you know that at the end of your life, no career accolades could amount to the fulfillment, joy, and meaning you feel of having those who matter most by your side.
That was my hope, too.
I’ve always been a highly driven career woman.
But my career won’t come at the expense of being a present wife, mom, and homemaker.
I started You & Me Time®, when I was a sophomore in college. As soon as God gave me the idea for this business, I felt a huge responsibility to steward this calling.
So I prayed for a mentor that would be my life example of someone that had a fruitful life. Since I was pursuing entrepreneurship, I specifically prayed for someone that was successful in business, but also in marriage and family life. As the saying goes, “Find someone that is where you want to be, then follow their steps.”
S. Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A, Inc., was my model of real success. So I prayed, picked up the phone on a Monday morning, and called the Chick-fil-A, headquarters.
That same month, Truett invited me in to visit him in person. had the opportunity of not only share with him my plans with You & Me Time®, but receive his personal mentorship. I absorbed his wisdom like a sponge. I read his books. And, I was introduced to his board of advisors that also mentored me in marketing, leadership, and the “my pleasure” second mile service Chick-fil-A is well known for.
Even though I’ve always been a highly driven career woman, I recognized that my drive can’t cost me the people I love. I knew where that had led my parents and I promised myself that I’d do everything in my power so my daughter and future kids won’t have to go through my childhood.
Feeling safe at home, having the love of my daughter, and being supported by my husband, that’d be my secret weapon to stay grounded, consistent, and persevere the challenges that come with building a business.
As I was learning from Truett, I was growing my confidence in building You & Me Time.® As long as I was clear about my why, my values, and my priorities, I didn’t have to fear my career would cost me the relationships that mattered most.
“We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.” - S. Truett Cathy
Many people sacrifice their family for their career, when their family could actually be the safe environment where they’re cared for, protected, and propelled to do their life’s-work.
Before I knew it, I began to help business leaders strengthen their marriage and show them how they can maximize their time together by turning it into You & Me Time date-night experiences.
And today, I’m helping amazing people have a solid love-relationship that not only improves their immune system, but makes them feel alive, joy, and fulfilled.
With S. Truett Cathy at his office receiving mentorship, Founder of Chick-fil-A, Inc.
With Dan Cathy, Former CEO of Chick-fil-A, Inc, planning a surprise date-night for him and his wife for their 41st Wedding Anniversary
With Gary Chapman, New York Best Selling Author of The 5 Love Languages
Discovering My Zone of Genius
As I was planning You & Me Time® for business leaders, I found my zone of genius.
The people I was serving were overcommitted, overstretched, and burnt out. While they loved the experiences I was planning for them, the reality is that the next day they’d go back on the hustle and grind.
I knew a one-time date-night experience was not going to sustain a long lasting relationship.
So I fuse my skills in creating systems, organization, and strategic planning with my training in Relationship Coaching—so that I can equip my couples with more practical ways they can water their relationship with the time they already have.
I’d found My Gift.
Having built close relationships with the people I felt called to serve, allowed me to be in tune with what they really need and found ways to meet their needs where they’re at.
Over the past 10 years, I’ve been able to help people from all walks of life turn their relationship around and gain back their partner as their best friend.
They bring an open heart and willingness to rise up as the leader of their life.
I help them see new possibilities and finally see how their happily ever after is actually more than possible.
And I can help you do the same.
I show highly ambitious woman like you transform your relationship—even if your partner is unwilling to change—and how to go from distant, frustrated, and passing ships in the night to loved up, supported, and working together as a team.
Are you going to love well the ones who matter most?
If you've been looking to reduce the tension with your partner, bring back the harmony, joy, and love into your home, I invite you to explore my program, Effortless Love here.
Here’s how you can experience You & Me Time®:
Effortless Love Relationship Course
If you’re ready to take your relationship from distant, frustrated, and passing ships in the night to loved up, supported, and working together as a team, enroll in my course!
You & Me Time® Conversations Starters
If you’ve ever slapped the phone out of your partner’s hand while simultaneously declaring “let’s talk” only to be followed by “about what?”, this is for you.
Bespoke Date-Night Experiences
If you’re over the same sushi date night at the local restaurant it’s time to book in a one-of-a-kind experience that’s fun, fresh, and full of meaningful connection.
Entrepreneur Meets Relationship Coach
I’ve helped over 500 couples from all over the world enhance their relationships.
So, if you’ve ever felt like the relationship advice you’ve received is not practical and fails to take the reality of your life into consideration, you’re in the right place.
As an entrepreneur, I know firsthand how my days are filled with team meetings, launch planning, and delivering transformations to my clients. And as a wife, I know what it feels like to be conflicted between the incredible purposeful work I do, and knowing deep down that passing ships in the night wasn’t the kind of relationship I signed up for.
Through my simple, easy, and real-life relationship strategies and resources, you’ll be able to communicate effectively, manage conflict, and maintain a healthy loving relationship in a sustainable and practical way.
I’m excited to be your guide on this journey.
“We learned new things about each other and were able to better understand what life has been like through each others’ lens. We now have a roadmap for the future of our marriage.”
— Felix Hodges, Owner of Chick-fil-A Davie North
“My home was like another production environment between all the chores and with homeschooling our kids. You & Me Time helped us to pause and knock down the walls my husband and I had built through the years without realizing it. We got to experience each other more meaningfully once again.”
— LeeTrisha Koepsell, Wife
“You & Me Time was absolutely what we needed to connect. My husband and I work full time and with our son, we're just incredibly busy. We were able to break out of the routine and have new conversations we just hadn’t taken the time to think about or process.”
— Nancy Lash, Wife
Fun Facts
1. You & Me Time® took it’s baby steps in college!
I graduated from Nova Southeastern University with a Business, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship degree. For a final project, I had to put together a business plan. Not knowing what business concept or idea to choose, I went to my professor and asked him for some ideas.
Here’s what he had to say, “Think of a painful experience you’ve gone through in your own life. Ask yourself, are there other people going through a similar challenge? If so, how could you make your bitter experience better for others?”
This sparked the idea for not just a business, but what became my life’s work, You & Me Time.
2. My training background.
I became a Relationship Coach trained in Gottman Method Couples Therapy offered by The Gottman Institute. I’m also a Prepare-Enrich Facilitator which allows me to use the #1 Research-based couples assessment in my work.
Having over 12 years of business and marketing background gives me a unique edge to fuse what I’ve learned in business to create strategic and practical systems, processes, and tools that make it easy and simple for you to reduce friction in your relationship, bring harmony into your home, and connect at more meaningful levels even if you have little time or energy to give to each other.
3. My messy childhood became my message.
After my parent's divorce, my mom, sister, and I moved to NY from the Dominican Republic. At only 8 years old, I had to let go of my friends, my culture, and the most painful part, my dad.
My parent’s divorce left me with a lot of questions. “Why did my parents end up divorced? Why didn’t they seek help on time? Why did they think divorce was the better option for my sister and me?
As I continued to move around, I became hungry for human connection. I was constantly on the go, new school, new teachers, and new classmates and this magnified my need to deeply connect.
Little did I know that with everything I was living, I was crafting my skill for communication and connection. I learned to observe, to pay attention to little things about someone that could spark a conversation such as the Jordan shoes they were wearing, their Hello Kitty pencil case, or the quote they had on the cover of their binder.
With every new person, I practiced the skill of asking questions (even though I didn’t know that was a thing. I just knew that was my way to make friends fast.) As Dale Carnegie says, “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
And questions became my vehicle to show I genuinely cared. I discovered this was my superpower and it was so freeing to know that I had the power to create the relationships I wanted and get to the depthness I was craving.
And now, I get to help you grow healthy relationships and get to the deep and meaningful levels that make you feel right at home.
4. Marriage is my love lab.
“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” -Mother Theresa
I love to study all things relationships, have read many relationship books, sought out personal advice from relationship experts, and have been trained in Gottman Therapy, but my biggest influence and inspiration by far is him, my hubby.
We’ve been married for 5 years and we’ve navigated many seasons of transitions and challenges from career changes, working together, managing a move, getting pregnant during a pandemic, and welcoming the birth of our precious daughter. Marriage is my love lab where we get to experience the ups and downs together, manage our conflicts, test new systems and techniques, and from that real and raw place, I get to now help you make it easier for you to maintain a healthy long-lasting relationship.
I’m on a mission to create a more caring world one relationship at a time, but I know that starts with me loving my husband and daughter first, and then bring that out to the world.
5. Growing The You & Me Time® Tribe.
Becoming a mom has added a new dimension and new meaning to my relationship with my husband. It’s now even more essential for us to keep the lines of communication open, learn how to navigate through our different desires and wants for our daughter in harmony, and stay a united front.
The most important work we can do to give her a healthy home and quality of life is to continue to keep our marriage at the forefront.
I’m often asked, “Now that you have a daughter, has your passion for relationships and marriage dwindled?” As if this was just a “phase” I would grow from once “real life” kicked in.
The truth is that my passion has 10x. There’s so much more at stake now that we have a little being dependent on us. Juggling the business, the housework, with the sleepless nights, breastfeeding, teething, changing diapers - could easily drift any couple apart even the relationship masters. This is why doing this work has become even more important than when I first started when I was a sophomore in college. It’s become my duty.
The why behind it all:
You’re living in the most pivotal and defining moment of your life.
The world is changing at such rapid speed, and you need to make sure you and your partner are unshakeable. It’s now more important than ever that you learn the skills to navigate the challenges, cope with stress, and face life as a united front.
Jack Welch said it best when he said, “If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” If businesses don't innovate, they become obsolete. In the same way, if you’re operating your relationship by default instead of by design, you’ll end up drifting apart or filled with frustration, resentment, and bitterness.
My friend, my husband and I have gone through financial challenges. We went through a very lonely pregnancy because of the pandemic. We navigated through becoming first-time parents and you know what... when I look back, I notice something very unexpected. We were happy. We were unshakeable. We were a team.
But I know that’s because we’ve done and continue to work on “US.” No matter what the news says, the clients we lose, or what the doctors say, we’re a rock-solid team.
Your partner is your strongest support system. You need to lean on each other now more than ever and have the tools you’ll need to face life together. This is why I’ve read countless of books, attended marriage conferences, and gotten trained in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. I want you to be ready with real-life systems and tools that will help you become unshakable together.