Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 141 | Things We're Thankful For & GIVEAWAY

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

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new year's resolution podcast but with Thanksgiving coming up we thought what better way to celebrate Thanksgiving and the holidays than to take a moment and talk about what we are thankful for so it it only makes sense to start with saying happy holidays Thanksgiving to you listening it's been a fantastic year we hope uh This podcast has led to meaningful conversations, hopefully deeper connection with your partner, your family, whatever that looks like. We're happy to be a part of it. And thankful for all the feedback, reviews that you give us.

But like, no question about it. The holidays can be a crazy time of the year. And it's like you're overwhelmed with the travel, the shopping, the stress of like all the planning that goes around, trying to like go to see the lights and go do all the things that are involved. So we wanted to take time to slow down and reflect on what we're thankful for. That's something that Sean and I have consciously tried to practice. And I feel like it's paid dividends. It truly has. I feel like it's so easy to get lost in the motion of life and everything can kind of seem like a blur and you can always be stressed. Or you can take this episode as a

reminder to sit down with your spouse or your friends, your family and talk through the year. What have you loved? What do you think you could do better? But truly, with thanks. Thanksgiving coming up, instead of just sitting there and watching football and eating good food, let's really talk about what we truly are thankful for, like the foundation of Thanksgiving begin. Today's episode is only going to be as helpful as you make it. So we're going to stop and reflect on what we're thankful for, kind of give some prompt questions.

And if you're interested in partaking, take out a piece of paper and join us as we kind of answer these questions of what we're thankful for in different areas of life. But one perspective I'd like to share. We interviewed a couple who said something simple but profound. They said, we don't know what next year is going to look like, but we know it's going to be the best year yet. Yeah. And honestly, that's kind of what it comes down to, is perspective, right?

Life can be crazy or it can be fantastic and a wonderful adventure. It's like, how do you label it? So today, at least, and hopefully for the rest of this season, we're going to be labeling this as a fun adventure that we're thankful for yes before we get into it though we would like to say thank you to all of you because without you we wouldn't have this podcast we truly feel like you guys are family we've learned so much about a lot of you and your families and new babies that have been come to the world and marriages and engagements and everything we truly appreciate every single one of you

so to say thank you we are doing a giveaway with this podcast if you listen all the way through we'll tell you how to enter but we'll be giving three listeners $500 cash before the holiday season that's right and we don't say this enough but you all really do steer the direction of this podcast we have ideas on what to share but your feedback and comments really help inform what topics you want us to cover and so we hope you continue to do that but I wanted to start with some fun facts about being thankful as we get into this episode yes according to Harvard health, gratitude is strongly associated with greater happiness. I believe it. Gratitude helps people improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships. Improve their

health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships. I feel like I first hand have experienced that this year. Because having kiddos and being so aware of people's influence on our kiddos, and us on our kiddos, I've noticed just the difference between pessimistic opinions and lifestyles versus optimistic people. And I feel like when you're pessimistic, you just spiral into this like full body experience of stress and your cortisol level spike and you get angry and you get in arguments. and it's always like a why me mentality and what don't I have and why can't I

it's just a spiral and it's so unhealthy whereas if you can find the optimistic view of every experience in life it makes it feel like a alright then let's do this it's not being disillusioned it's like hey this is hard but what's good about it like for me it's when we put jet to bed it's always hectic

Like that dude is full tilt all the time. He's running around. He weighs 35 pounds, which is like really heavy. But he doesn't help you at all. No, he's like dead weight. And so I like every night when I carry up with the stairs, I like fight this battle of perspective where it's like my body is like panicking because he's heavy and he's squirmy and he's dropping stuff. And I have to pick and it's like I feel it in my chest. Literally physically feeling in my chest.

And I'm like, okay, peggotty breath. I know. Just pause reflect and realize that. I will not always be able to carry this kid to bed. Like, I have a couple more months of this before he's running up the stairs himself, before he doesn't want to have anything to do with me, like hold my hand, whatever. So it's like, all right, keep an check. You probably have more than a couple more months, but I understand it.

The kid is just rapidly developing. Another fact states, Robert Emmons, the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude in particular, studied over a thousand people from the ages 8 to 80 and found that those who kept a gratitude Wow, gratitude journal for a minimum of three weeks experienced, stronger immune system, lower blood pressure, the ability to sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking, higher levels of positive emotions, more joy, more pleasure, and describe themselves as more helpful, generous, forgiving, and compassionate. Geez. First of all, I want to interview that guy. I know. I think it just goes to show that if you can take a second each day to write something down that makes you

feel happy that you are happy for it can change the whole trajectory of your 24 hours this is why i feel like prayer is really important it's kind of the role that prayer plays where it's like all right you know maybe you stop for a minute or two a couple times in the day and you're like all right let me just take a step back kind of get the broader perspective on things and usually when i'm praying it's like me saying something i'm thankful for like they thank for the fire or the beautiful weather or my kids smiles or giggles or whatever you know it's just like that's that's a good it's been a good rhythm for me to have and i also want to add to that life is not perfect we know that and everyone's lives like different and some are faced with a lot more adversity than others

but this is just a challenge that amongst like the greatest darkness this is something i'm sure preacher or pastor i said you can always find something some little piece of light or hope to hang on to All right, with the holidays coming up, it's more important for us than ever to keep our mental health in check. We all know that the holidays can be stressful, and when you add kids to the equation, they somehow can get even more stressful. You've got to get the bags packed, the car loaded, take the road trip, be away from home, get off your normal schedule. It can be a lot. But honestly, I feel like since we've been working with better help, we've been able to enjoy these moments more and be more present in special moments like these. having an online therapist that we can call chat or video chat with is honestly incredible.

We can just shoot our therapist a message when we're feeling overwhelmed and having her there to talk to has made such a difference. For those who you don't know, BetterHelp is customize online therapy that offers video, phone, and even live chat sessions with your therapist. So you don't have to see anyone on camera if you don't want to. Plus, it's much more affordable than in-person therapy. Give it a try and see if online therapy can help lower your stress.

Listen, try it out if you haven't, and a couple things is sponsored by BetterHelp, and our listeners, which is you, can get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com slash E-S-Fam. That's B-E-T-T-E-R-H-E-L-P dot com slash E-SFam. We'll also link it down below, and let's get back to it. Okay, so our first area that we're going to discuss what we're grateful for, let's just start with marriage, shall we? It's just a couple things podcast. Yeah. So the question is, what aspects of marriage are you the most? thankful for in the last year I would like to say and this is probably not what you're

expecting but I think this year with a second kid has been a challenge for us I think we've had some hard times and learning how to communicate differently and lead a life with two kiddos while starting a new business and things have not been easy but what I've been most thankful for this year is that we have fought really hard for each other through it and I don't mean that in a dramatic way like it was that we weren't going to fight for each other but it's like we are both very stubborn and we're very competitive and it's like no we are not going to let a day go by why are you shirking where we're going to be in a bad place we're going to fix this that's how I think

by we being stubborn me and I agree and I agree things are getting serious now you know life is life is getting serious um i think i'm thankful for i feel like i uh thanks to your you and your help have become more self-aware of myself and then in doing so i am now more aware of how my actions habits good and bad affect you so it's like i was thinking like you've just been so busy let's just talk about low-hanging fruit like fitness right like okay or spirit like yeah uh like daily devotions i've realized that i have to show like i have to do the thing in order for you to like feel like it's possible you know what i'm saying do you agree with me here

i think so so like if i'm not reading daily devotions i'm not going to be able to tell you like what's like read devotions you know i'm saying yeah also me being late me overbooking us it's like i've been more aware of how that used to be a cute little thing that i did oh it's like it ain't cute babe it's and now it's like a big thing yeah so thank you for that of course i do i am very thankful for a lot of those conversations that we've had this year have been just the realization that life is crazy and busy and having to have such a awareness of your spouse and of life in order to make each other's priorities, like, happen. Yeah.

Has been made a parent this year, which has been awesome. Our next question is, name a few reasons you're thankful for your spouse. Sean is very patient. She, I feel like you have a really clear vision for what you want our marriage to look like, what you want our family to look like, what you want our home to look like. what do you want our home to look like and do a great job you really like that last one I do have a very clear vision of our home

I am very thankful too okay you're beautiful your giggle is amazing I'm not kidding I love your giggle it's my favorite thing ever you love to read books and yeah okay

I have no time to read books you're a fantastic host and I feel like you have yeah you're very supportive of me as well thank you and that's the biggest blessing ever literally thank you and I would say you're very supportive of me which is wonderful in my wildness but I am very thankful that we are completely different I know we've struggled with that a little bit this year but I think it's really cool we didn't interview with a friend of ours and she asked us to like this question what do you think before in your spouse and it was in the heat of an argument and i something that i have forgotten about that is just my favorite thing about you is your goofiness and i brush it off sometimes

like oh i'm just annoyed by it or whatever and i'm not it is so refreshing it's refreshing to i take life too seriously and it's refreshing to see you have fun and giggle and play and be a total fool but i'm also thankful that you are so driven to lead our family and in our business and in protecting our family it's it's amazing this is interesting we talk a lot about each other but very rarely with questions like this i know yeah i know i'm sweating next how have you seen your spouse grow this past year and why are you grateful for that growth um i think you've grown communicating uh what is it grace with a sprinkle of truth or is that the bible verse i don't remember you're doing a better job at like uh delivering your needs in a way that i understand thank you

You know, I'm understanding Chinese. I'm kidding. Thank you. That's Sean's way of saying we naturally speak different languages are the way we speak does not often get received. She says we speak different languages. Yes. I have seen you grown a lot in your confidence as far as like business goes.

You have this like naturally self-deprecating demeanor that's you say a joke, but I think the underlying foundation of it something. sometimes as you second-guess your abilities. And I think you're one of the most capable individuals in whatever it is because you apply yourself so heavily to something that you always see it through. Whether it succeeds or not, we never know. Like that's up to kind of the world a lot of times. But it's been really cool this year to see you grow in your confidence in our business

and leading our family and leading our business and leading employees and just everything. I've seen you kind of grow into that and it's been really fun to watch. Thanks, man. Welcome. Why are you thankful to have them as a partner in life and as a partner in parenting? Because we are polar opposites. I disagree. I know you're going to be in cheeky, but we're a really good team, dude.

We are. I was thinking about this the other day. Like, it's really fun. Sean will, this is kind of how it works from a high level. She'll be like, hey, I want to go on tour. and it's like this passing thought that she'll have and then it's like my job to actually make that happen so then I'm not actually

no I don't like put it on you no no I love it yeah that's what I'm saying it's like we're a good team you have all these ideas I have a dream and then I'll turn around one day and he'll be like I did it and I'm like I don't know if I was actually serious about it I've actually learned that I have to be careful what I like voice because you'll just make it happen but that's talking about business that goes for everything too like going to a pumpkin patch or like she'll be like hey let's do this and then it's kind of

you know like we just help each other out in a really good way so I love I love having you as my teammate I love having you as my teammate I think one of my favorite things that I'm thankful for as far as like us as a partnership is we constantly challenge each other in a good way like we challenge perspective we have philosophical debates we are constantly talking about the future of our kids and how every single thing we're doing on a daily basis affects them. I love that. We constantly challenge each other. And we encourage each other to be the first one to say,

I want to challenge you to be better at X, Y, and Z, whether that's a better human or to handle a situation better. But I love that about us. You said we're polar opposites. It's like we have the same values, way different styles. Yes. And that's really good because if it was just, we did the same. thing the same way, then it would kind of just get amplified and probably unbalanced.

So we keep each other in check. All right, next area we're going to talk about is kids and parenting. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot trackside. So being a fan for life turns into the trip of a lifetime. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Presale tickets for future events subject to availability and vary by race. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at MX.ca.

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Honestly, I've read a couple of these topics a week, and I feel like I know exponentially more about how food and fitness can affect my health on a day-in-a-day-out basis. So, anyway, we'll link that down below. If you want to learn more, check it out. I highly recommend it. Levels, health, everybody. Let's get back to it. Why are you thankful for each of your children individually? Oh, my gosh.

Drew is just magic. Like, we did the interview with her. Yep. So special. She is like just randomly saying, Daddy, I love you. She's randomly coming to hold your hand and cuddle with you and give you kisses. So randomly be like, you're my very best friend. She's like really communicative and sweet.

Like she's a sweetheart. So I'm really thankful for that. With Jet, it's so fun. Like he's wild and a handful and stressful a lot of times. But it's like so fun. You're not going to have an. an unforgettable moment with that kid. No, and I think one of my favorite things

that I'm so thankful with both of them is that they both exude so much joy and I think it's easy as a parent to be like, oh, I had a hand in that. And I don't think we did to a certain extent, but to see the joy that they have for each other, for life, for us, for their grandparents,

for their babysitters, like everybody, They just are such happy babies, and that makes me feel like we're doing something right as parents to at least harbor that or, like, encourage it. Drew is just her own little thing, and to see her kind of grow up this year and be more communicative and have opinions and everything. It's so fun. And Jett is just a constant reminder that you can't grip too tight, honestly. Like, and I say that in the context of with Drew, I felt like I could kind of express my OCD of wanting to control everything a little bit more because she was more of a timid infant and she would listen a little bit better,

whereas Jed is just more wild. And with him, he's just, he's his own dude. He lives in his own world, and it is so fun to sit back and be like, you know what? He's going to be okay, and you just kind of have to sit back and smile. Both of them, when they smile, all is right with the world. Next question. What are sometimes you've been really thankful for them this year? Gosh.

I feel like Jet at his birthday party was... that was really a special day and an important one so that was the first thing that came to mind and then Drew let's see I would say I would say her birthday as well she was so funny and to see her interact with her friends is great I have a distinct thought about Drew going a different direction I woke up having a bad mom day where my patient was not was very thin my optimism was very small you know just a hard day and i snapped at drew for something that wasn't necessary and i remember having to have my first like real where i i knew it was 100% my fault you know and i had to have my first real like conversation with drew on forgiveness

and making sure she understood as a three-year-old she did not do anything wrong and it was in mommy's place and like all of these things and she just made me grow as a human there and to see her say like mama i forgive you and it's just she is they both are the most brutal in the best way mirrors of who we are because we directly impact their lives and influence them and jitter i mean times i've been really thankful good heavens i mean watching him fall and jump and sprint and learning to kind of ride a strider bike or run into school for the first time and be happy about it and there's so many times. Next question is, have you asked the kids what they're thankful for this year and what did they say?

So we'll have Drew pray. We kind of are in a prayer rotation pre-dinner. So I'll go, my turn to pray, Sean's turn to pray, Drew will pray. Anytime she is the best prayer. She'll be like, I'm thankful for Nashy boy and I'm thankful for Elsa and I'm thankful for mac and cheese and I'm and it's like, oh, I need to learn the lesson of she's thankful for a mac and cheese. Like I also can be, right, no matter what happened that day. Jet doesn't talk yet, so. But I think he would say balls.

He loves playing sports. He loves a scooter. And food. Oh, my gosh. He does love food. Kid can eat. next section is health how talk about how you we often take our health for granted and it's always something to be thankful for I think that's been a huge realization for us this year

we've had some close friends go through some very very tragic health things this year and witnessing firsthand how precious and fragile life is. It's been an eye-opening experience. So this year has been really interesting for us. We've both kind of had revelations to a certain extent about our health and taking care of ourselves and influencing our kids that way. We've been on more self-discovery journeys of our health and making sure we have time

to make it a priority. I know it's a very vague answer. I feel like the expectation of us is that we're like health and fitness. This gurus, geeks, we spend all of our days trying to get ripped, shredded, strong, and, you know, live for 100 years. That's really not what our day to day looks like. We try to do the most reasonable, approachable things that have the biggest payoff. So, like, I work out for 30, 45 minutes a day. I work out for 30 or 45 minutes once a week right now.

And then we try to, like, you know, have different vitamins that we're not taking 90-0. and we're not on any extreme diet but it's like I'm really thankful for the balance that it has and you like really viewing health is nothing more than being able to enjoy the other like the other aspects of life so our kids or like travel or like going on hikes outdoors like that's what I want to be healthy for so never taking that for granted is this episode is brought to you by Defender. With its 626 horsepower twin turbo V8 engine, the Defender Octa is taking on the Dakar rally. The ultimate off-road challenge. Learn more at landrover.ca. To add to that too, I know I agree with Andrew when I say that I feel like a lot of people's thoughts or assumptions on us

are that like supplement geek or workout geek or whatever that we just obsess over it but we don't our approach to the word health when it comes to our life is very like all-encompassing and i say that in the context of mental health making sure we understand um like moderation and how to have joy and enjoy a birthday cake that is filled with every type of delicious sugar, butter, icing, and enjoying Halloween and not over-exercising or obsessing about material items or body image, when it comes to our overall health, we are looking for a long-term goal of happiness and physical health. And I think that takes a very balanced lifestyle in a lot of different ways and aspects.

yeah and we're so we still have a long way to go but it's not obsessing it's it's getting to a point of health where again uh it's not it's not prohibiting or distracting us from other things in life and that means staying healthy so like not having physical injuries or whatever like can't get on a flight because of xyz condition yeah but it's also meaning on the other side saying hey we're not spending nine hours a day or away from a family every weekend doing competitions, which is probably what I would lean to. It's like just just getting to a certain threshold. Yeah.

And I will say to a huge kind of like health journey we've been on this year, specifically myself is just education on my body. I feel like up until this year, I feel like I was kind of like blindly going down this path of like, oh, a doctor somewhere said this when I was 12 years old. so it must still be true or I would go into Walgreens when I had what I thought was a cold and I would just grab a medication over the counter, you know, everything. I was like blindly going through life and I kind of had this like revelation. I was like, you know what?

Before I do that, before I go grab another allergy medicine or whatever it is, I actually want to go see specialists and see what's going on with my body to make sure I'm taking care of it the right way. So I went to specialized allergists and asthma specialist to make sure I was on the right medication and I did the whole everly well where I tested food sensitivities and I made sure I found out I was severely allergic to dairy, which makes a lot of sense. Yeah, just tried to educate myself more, which has been a fun journey. That's good. I'm also thankful for healthy kids. My gosh. And medicine.

I mean, they both have been very lucky. They're very healthy children, knock on wood. But they both had tube surgery this year. Yeah, my healthy, we mean like an ear infection every month. Yeah. You know. They're doing well. They're sick all the time.

But generally, they're healthy. They're doing well. And it's like, I was just watching a video of a dad who had a son with cancer. And I was like, my gosh. never take a day for granted so next up job what are you thankful for with work currently um i love who we work with i love what we do i love how we connect with so many people and i don't take that lightly i want to make sure we are putting good things into the world since we have that opportunity i've been thinking about that question um if you had all the resources in the world

what would you be doing and i really feel like if i want to the lottery which is you know whatever two billion dollars right now i would still be making youtube videos and still doing interviews and still working with you so it's like i love what we do i also feel like we've worked really hard this year like explicitly stating our mission to celebrate and encourage families through educational and entertaining content yeah and it's like i i just find a lot of purpose in it thanks to you listening where it's like on a daily basis we get feedback from you all and that's the best it's like hey we were just on in oklahoma we're just in florida we saw many of you and it was like these stories of how

this podcast episode or this video uh affected you it's like that is the best so that's what i'm thankful for i also think um it's been really cool i'm really thankful for we had this idea years ago to start a company called Family Made and we had some very hard conversations along the way of is this something worth committing to and putting our money and our investment and our family and our time into and at one point we almost walked away from it but this year we launched it and it's been really I'm really thankful for how it's gone and the progress that it's made because again having the ability to reach so many people is a very intimidating for lack of a better word power that you can have. We don't take it lightly. And we want to make sure we are uplifting

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Yeah, so as of this moment, we have eight shows signed, I think two more in the hopper. Yep. To be released later this year. And it's been like so fun to help people tell stories that we never could. So stories about special needs, adoption. you know mixed marriages this whole thing that's been really meaningful so thank you all for helping support us as you always do you never fail to impress us and then last up friends and family talk about with like again we're saying talk about because we want you to follow these prompts talk about how you're thankful for a good community of friends that is something we've really really

worked on this year you guys remember our new year's resolutions of this year we wanted to host a community like get together game night once a month every month this year and we've done that and our community of friends has grown we have a open front door policy where if we invite 10 people to game night each one of those 10 friends are welcome to invite others we want people to feel like they are loved and welcome and open to the community of friends that we've grown and it's been really, really special. I agree. Back to the point about us having different skill sets.

I feel like our friends each have different skill sets than us and keep us in check. Yeah. Prevent us for being too extreme in any direction. So I'm super thankful for that. My men's group has been fantastic this year. I look forward to it every meeting. We read books, discuss it, get to know each other.

And it's like, I don't know how to do without that. It's the best. also talk about how you're thankful for family so with us we're so thankful that my family lives close and they're able to help us on a daily basis and we're also thankful that Andrew's family lives pretty close four hours away and we get to see them a lot they've gotten to come visit a lot we've gone to San Diego to see your brother and his family that live in Tijuana San Diego and Tijuana it's been really special I feel like we've had a really good year with in connecting and staying close one thing that was great from i'm the middle of five kids and love

each of my siblings but my youngest brother got married this year and he was always the one i always had beef with right but at his wedding uh his groomsmen were talking about him and i realize that i've always viewed him as like my little baby brother who was like annoying and did this wrong and you know I would do some things differently. But to hear his friends talk about him, like his peers and identify qualities of like, Grant's so adventurous and he's so caring. And he's always like watching out for other people.

He's always like, I was like, dang, hold on. I'm hyped about my little baby brother. Like, I love that dude. I did before, but it was like, it was just kind of fun to check myself and my default perspective. Anyway. It was really special.

It's also really special to welcome new people into the family. So our baby brother's now wife, it's so exciting to have, to just see the family grow. And our sister-in-law is getting ready to have another baby. It's really special. I have always been one of those that I'm a firm believer. Family doesn't have to be blood. I think family is who you make family. And it's been really, really special to just see our family just continue to grow.

All right, excited to hear what you all are thankful for, but let's talk about the giveaway. Yeah, so speaking of wanting to hear what your thing before to enter into this giveaway. So three winners are going to win $500 cash, comment either down in the podcast comments or on YouTube, five things. Yes, five. We're going to make the list on five things you are thankful for this year. Make sure you're also following at Family Made Media on Instagram, Sean John. and Andrew East on Instagram and that you're subscribed to the family made media YouTube channel linked in the show notes below so we're going to select randomly three

different winners to win $500 and if if you're selected we're going to reach out to you we'll also do an announcement this is really fun I loved reflecting and maybe we should do this more not on podcast but help you all listening we're able to glean something and maybe take a second to to realize you have something to be thankful for as well and we hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving a wonderful holiday season no matter what season you're in in life just remember that there is always something to be thankful for and just use you know this holiday of thanksgiving as a reminder for that so that's all we had for you i'm andrew i'm sean we're the east fam out