Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 143 | the biggest one yet

Episode Date: December 9, 2022

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And I'm Sean. And we are the East fam. And you're listening to A Couple Things. Yes. Podcasts all about couples. and things they go through. That's right. Today's going to be a fun episode.

It's a live stream. We used to do these all the time. And Sean, well, she got stressed out by him. These never, ever, ever go smoothly, guys. For example, Andrew accidentally went live 10 minutes ago. And he's like, do you just want to jump into it? I'm like, no. We're not prepared.

Here's the thing. There's a bunch of software. They're always updating. There's internet problems. but we're figuring it out. And what you don't see is that like a marital argument basically starts because Andrew's over here in the self-deprecating mode. He's like, brick.

Ugh. Oh, good. I'm like, oh, my gosh. I need you to calm down because this is like supposed to be an easy thing. It just pressed live, you know? So with us we have Paige Swanson, Stacey, Abarka, Katie Osborne, Julie McGrady, Logan Bateman. Gosh, good morning, everybody. Samantha Payne look at all these wonderful people here with us I am so excited I actually love

live streams because there is so much going on what you don't see behind our computers we have our content for today the things that we want to talk about which is the topic of work life relationship balance which we still have yet to figure out but we're learning we also have the live stream up we're looking at all of your comments and questions coming in so please if you have any live questions for us today we're happy to like call your name out and answer your question if you want to keep it anonymous please let us know also today is huge so I'm going to give you the rundown of how this episode is going to work in a minute we are going to announce the three five hundred dollar cash winners from Thanksgiving to enter that giveaway

you had to subscribe to our podcast and tell us something you were thankful for while nominating someone for this cash prize then about halfway through We are going to announce the $1,000 cash winners from the most recent giveaway. There are three of them. And at the end of this show, we will announce something we're very, very excited about when we've never needed, or we've never done before,

which is we are giving $10,000 cash to one winner. The only caveat out there is we have sent all of our winners, Zoom links. So at any point in time, if someone jumps on a Zoom, link they might join us here live on this stream that's right so there's going to be seven total winners today and having doing these giveaways Sean and I have been doing these giveaways in December for five six years yeah they've looked different each and every year there was a point where Sean was packing boxes hundreds of boxes with like a dozen different trinkets in it and shipping

them out and then we had pallets in our garage at one point as companies came and made the giveaways bigger but this year we're kind of keeping it simple we thought that it would be fun to just give away cash as a thank you and it's not lost on us how fortunate we are to be a part of this community and I just want to say thank you from Sean and I it's amazing like when we started making YouTube videos in 2015 we didn't know what we were getting into and we were doing slime videos we were doing vlogs we were doing a bunch of random stuff and ultimately we have now been able to to make content that i feel like resonates with so many of you that we feel like is important and that's that's content that celebrates and encourages family and our community is all about being

positive and enforcing positivity it's all about um uplifting people it's all about just keeping it uh entertaining and educating where possible which is why we We love this podcast because we're able to talk to true experts. So to see our show above CNN and NBC and ABC and Joe Rogan and all these people is really just a testament to you all for putting us in this position and reinforcing that mission that like family can be such an aspirational thing. It's more important than the daily news and it's it's more important than the next entrepreneurship stick that's going on. And so we're glad that you feel the same way. And we're also really, really thankful that you have participated on this journey with us. So thank you.

I want to answer a couple of questions here before you jump into this. A couple of clarifications that I'm getting from Lexi. The Zoom links have not been sent out yet. So if you haven't received it yet, don't worry. Also, you guys are. They're going out in DMs. Basically, however you enter, like if you contact us through D. DMs we are sending it through Instagram or on the podcast channel anywhere but mainly

Instagram if you have your if we have your IG so I'm also sorry last thing subscribed and followed is the same thing and it does not matter if you're in the United States or in Canada or another country everyone is was like part of this that's right we'll send it anywhere we pay out via PayPal I just paid out a newsletter giveaway winner yesterday so congrats and we have seven more today so let's talk about work life balance though shall we oh my goodness okay so jumping into this podcast wait we have to announce the 500 winners first okay go ahead are you ready for this i'm ready do you want to start it off or do you want me to no you got it okay 500 dollars let's just

jump right into it number one congratulations to marley willard that's right marley willard i willard i will type your name into the chat marley says she's so thankful for supportive and loving family have been there for her at her lowest. She's thankful for God's grace and his constant love despite what I've done. She's thankful for genuine friends who brighten her day and make her laugh and all the professors, administration, students who have been a part of her journey. She's thankful for our podcast, which have been so helpful in navigating her relationships with others, food, and herself. And she admires how we work hard doing this. So thank you, Marley. That was from a YouTube comment.

That's really cool. from the from the Thanksgiving episode the next winter is Joe Winkler he says it's been a challenging year that's for sure my husband had quintuple bypass surgery and other health scares and issues the last three years it's thankful for him our kids grandkids both our families and good health in the future love that Joe the Winkler fam yes and number three the last winner of the five hundred dollars cash is Emily Calhoun congrats this is fun I love getting it's like I just realized we are about to give away close to $15,000 today so those people who just won as well as the people who will win yes need to do what um if you are

a winner to make it as easy as possible if you could email support at familymaid.com that would be awesome otherwise we will find you we will hunt you down um you can dm us you can leave a comment on Apple podcast or Spotify you can kind of go in any direction we have people who will be looking for your your comments if we don't get a comment from you don't worry we will find you we will find you we will give you money so work life balance we wanted to cover why a healthy work life is necessary for a healthy life and relationships and how it can easily fall how so easily we can fall into the do more culture that I feel like our society

has created and it's really just about making small changes to create healthier balances Sean wrote a book years ago called the winning balance we have experienced this from the negative standpoint what a bad work life balance feels like and so gonna try to share our experiences through that process today I also want to say that I know everybody's work life balance looks different and there are a lot of like single parents or parents out there are just people in general who are working multiple jobs at a time especially during this crazy phase of life with a recession whatever your situation we're not necessarily going to talk about how you shouldn't be working a lot and you shouldn't like you should make time

it's more about this mentality change of making sure your priorities are in order and learning how to find tiny little boundaries throughout your life and your situation to make sure that you are setting yourself up in your family up for success that's right and we know there's a lot of you out there working multiple jobs have crazy schedules young kids we just wanted to say that you're doing a great job keep it up you have our support and respect so thank you for all that you do for the people in your life but what have we experienced from our lack of work life balance burnout is the first thing that comes to mind yes i feel like and i kind of entered the whole work world at different ages and so i

learned a lot early on and i learned it all the hard way because i started working for professionally when I was 12 as a professional gymnast and then I kind of hit the more corporate level of work when I was 16 and I learned firsthand what burnout was and that was just basically I was doing everything for other people I was trying to chase a job title or an income or do things that other people said like they would say this is the path you're supposed to go down or this is what I think is the going to lead you to the most success or whatever it was and I was just working working working working working working working trying to get in as many hours as I possibly could and do as many opportunities as I possibly could and it just all felt like I was working against myself and burnout I think

is when you come home at the end of the day not only tired but defeated you don't feel like you've filled your cup at all you feel like you've just emptied it and you're not getting any joy out of what you do and I used to give lectures and speeches to college kids oh my gosh multiple times a month for years and I would I would preach the same thing that I learned which is your job And there's a lot of circumstances that are different, but your job definitely has to give you, you know, you have to be able to pay your bills. But at the end of the day, there are jobs that will make you happy and there are jobs that won't. And I think that joy is the most important. You can get protein at home or a protein latte at Tim's.

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about how we we all end up somewhere in life some of us get there on purpose and so it's like thinking about hey what do i actually what do i actually want from my life and what do i want for my family and having a a clear vision of that even though it's going to change and it will evolve I think it's so important because it's so easy to Sean and I do this stumble through the motions you just like are in survival mode right doing one thing after the next because it has to be done but when you take a step back and you realize like hey this job is hard I don't enjoy it all the time but there's purpose in it that's a good place to be right and then that that can give you energy more so in the future and that's important we're going to do a whole episode on goals

Sean and I were actually just sitting down and thinking about a family motto, mission statement, and family core values, and dialing in that of like what is your DNA, what gets you excited, what is just an absolute drag, goes a long way. And then the ruthless elimination of hurry is a book pretty much about like, once you know what's important in your life and you have a vision of that, how do you eliminate hurry by eliminating the non-essential things? So that's a brief thought. for my end I want to give one more thought too about the burnout because there are a lot of comments coming through of people who are saying they feel exactly that they're like checking the boxes as we talk and it can be a really scary feeling to feel burnout because you feel defeated and backed into a corner because especially as parents which a lot of you are parents in the comments you have this feeling and we have felt that before we've been there where it's like I can't quit my job because I have to be able to take care of my babies and I have to be able to pay bills and pay child care and all these things health insurance whatever and i think what and i have done in those

scenarios is we're like okay this is the phase of life we're in we are burnt out we don't enjoy what we're doing we need to change it so instead of quitting our job and being like okay i'm going to quit and i'm going to go find another job that i like which is pretty unrealistic when you have kids and you have a lifestyle you have to um continue uh what we did is we continued doing those jobs with this idea and this mindset of okay where i'm at right now isn't where i want to be but let's go find it like in those few spare minutes after you put the kids down let's start looking for new jobs and taking interviews and seeing what path i can go down that might bring me a little bit more joy and even if that means sacrificing a few more dollars just because you're taking a not as high

paying job if that brings you more joy and happiness and satisfaction that's going to that's worth more than a few dollars we realize like look there's limitations to that right Sean mentioned like you have to pay the bills but but like establishing your own limitations on your terms is it's actually pretty freeing right you're not gonna live this bound boundary list life where you can do anything you want that's just not how it works but establishing your own boundaries can be an amazing process the comments coming in are amazing by We have like Sarah Kay, white homing girl.

Did you have one you want to talk about? Yeah, Sarah Kay has asked, how does one not feel defeated when so many variables are negative and out of your control? I think Andrew and I felt that massively during the pandemic where it was really hard for us every day to find something positive to feel hopeful. and I think when you are within like in a situation where you feel that where there's so much negative I think all you can do is try to find one positive a day to focus on whether it be health or family or even the thought and I say this to each other a lot which is like it could always be worse like it could always be worse and there's always like another scenario that we aren't thinking of

so we always have to act like or not act but like believe that we're blessed if that makes sense yeah my dad establish this routine of every day when he wakes up he says this is the day the lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it and like some days we wake up and we just say it out of routine but some days we wake up and we're like bummed out it's a bad day like two days ago, I didn't want to do anything. It felt like, it felt like all the momentum was against me and there was just a ton of friction, right? Of like, oh, hey, you can't do this. You can't do that. That didn't work out. They said no. This got canceled. And I'm like, dang. But when you have that perspective of like, I'm going to rejoice, that changes your lens that you're wearing

from, oh, dang, this is such a bummer to looking for the things that you could potentially be grateful for and that's a big difference okay last one before we hear from our sponsors um jenna says or no lindsay sorry i definitely feel burnout i want to support my family but also want to do what i love having a hard time balancing the two this is easier said than done but again going back to that process where i was saying understanding it's a phase and we're going to take a new path of what we enjoy um the way that i always see it now with our kids is if when our kids if when our kids grow up if they are stuck in this rut of feeling like they just have to do it to support their family I think that's the wrong perspective you have to teach your children and show your children

by example that just going through the motions for a paycheck is not the important part of it it's truly living life and enjoying life and even if that's a little bit more on the edge and is scary I think that's a better lesson to teach your children then I just have to do it man there's so many comments in here that one address we probably should just actually come up with an episode there's people asking about or there's people talking about how they're in this weird in between between careers how do you deal with burnout as an athlete sean and i have experienced this in our professional athleticism careers like when you in sport and go to another career that's a whole journey and a whole process but we'll pause there for a second

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Oh, my goodness. But not being able to hold your kids for several days. I was out for four days while I was fighting off the flu. It was one of the hardest things I had to do, to be honest with you. to help you guys three sick people in one house is like hard to stay sane but in moments like that we lean on better help a lot it's just great to chat with a therapist at any point and talk to them about how you're feeling or what you're going through career changes or what have you uh it helps a ton um you can even like chat with them or text with them too which you actually needed because you couldn't go more than two sentences without coughing um but if you guys don't know better help is customized online therapy that offers video phone and even live chat sessions with your therapist so you don't have to see

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all these comments are great thank you for participating this is really a treat I miss doing these we used to do live streams like once twice a month but but then it was just I was bad at it so we stopped doing it I also want to say Paige Swanson she said ever since our shrink chicks episode she's been wanting to do therapy with her husband and she loved that we mentioned nothing has to be quote wrong in your relationship to do therapy um we learned this first hand we did pre-marital counseling and I think this helps with work life balance just having someone to talk to and like bounce ideas off of I the whole thing that's the whole thing therapy has such a horrible stigma around it of like you have to be in the trenches and need help it's not like a white flag it's literally someone to just kind of be a mentor for you okay so the next section we have mocked up here is talking about why it's hard to have work life balance in today's world there was a time when we as americans worked during the day and had time at night to live life how we wanted to but i feel like in 2022 the culture is so

much different and it's always pushing us to do more make more money grind harder no matter what the cost is to our personal life and well-being and i feel like it's chasing missed it's like chasing nothing what do you do with more money what do you do with more money it's like you want more money there's a study that your happiness plateaus after making a certain amount of money so like just keep that in mind this is really hard for me and this makes me really sad because the one of the blessings that came from I guess the pandemic is like this whole virtual world being able to work virtually and work from home but I think one of the negatives that came from working virtually is there's no 9 to 5 anymore it's you can continue working forever

literally forever you can clock in clock out whenever you want and in a world that is just like how much can you do how fast how long and with all these like oh don't get even get me started but all of these like Instagram CEOs who are preaching this unless you're working 57 hours a day and sacrificing your whole life and sacrificing your relationships and if you aren't giving everything up and going into debt whatever then you're never going to make it like that's just a load of crap and that makes me so mad because Something we try to preach and, like, do here with our business is like, we want people to have a family. And we want people to be able to go home and enjoy their husbands and their kids and actually have time and turn work off because, oh my gosh, it's just, it's exhausting.

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experienced employee burnout at their current job, and 83% of respondents said burnout from work has negatively impacted their personal relationships. Think about that. Another study published in July 2018 found that workers who were expected to check email at all times of the day reported lower levels of health and well-being and less satisfaction in their relationship with their significant others you know something I did last night what's that so you and I went to bed at like eight right and I sat on my phone until 1030 doing what just like work stuff looking up new content ideas and like all of these things and at 1030 as I like set my phone down I literally was like no I can't do this anymore and I went into

my phone and I set all of like the screen time shut off and at 8 p.m. every night my phone will shut off and at 8 a.m. every morning it will turn on and my social media accounts can't be used for longer than an hour because it's just this like it is so draining to sit there and just be sucked in by this idea of comparing and constantly competing with the world there's this word intentionality that comes to mind it's like you could probably get more done in a shorter amount of time if you're really intentional and less distracted it's like when we're working it's so easy like bring up tic-tok and get lost in that for a half hour and then your focus gets broken and you have to spend another five 10 minutes getting back in the zone so that you can work on the article that we're writing

or work on this proposal or like it's like you can if you're intentional with your time you could probably be more efficient and get the things done that you want to but it's figuring out what do you actually want done is the first step in that and being like hey i actually dinners with my family when there's no tech no emails involved really makes me feel recharged and loved so let's design our day around that okay a couple more comments then we let's go to our thousand dollar winners okay tiffany huntington said it's so much harder to unplug and use the quote or the the the line I have limited access to email excuse on vacation anymore and that's so true people like if you want to take time off work people are like yeah you have a phone you can still check your

emails yeah it's crazy it's so hard to escape anymore like you used to could just leave a job at whatever time it was and be like I'm done too bad don't have a computer at home Lexi just went on her honeymoon and we didn't did we bother you about work at all no I hope not did you check your email did you check your email did you check your email you think it's like an addiction or like a habit yes okay iPhone if you're listening Apple iPhone iPhone Apple um can you please come up with like a system to where you can like lock people out you should create like the nine to five app on a phone that you can download where it's like oh you left work I'm sorry you're literally unreachable you want to go over the thousand dollar giveaways yes

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helping to pay for dad's cancer treatments. These were randomly chosen winners, but it's so fun to kind of have heard stories around them. And congratulations to you all. Thank you for participating. Thank you for joining us. And we do have one more winner. That's a $10,000 giveaway winner. that we're excited to talk about. But let's first finish out this work-life balance episode. Let's do it. So how do you know if you need a better work-life balance? According to a working psychologist, working for long periods without leaving your desk,

checking emails when you should be present with family or friends, working weekends and eating lunch and dinner at your desk are all signs that you don't have good work-life balance. So it might be time to make a change. But we thought of some ways that you might be able to get a better sense of work-life balance. Do you want to talk about the first one? yes which is prioritizing your health um health is wealth uh-huh but truly it's just like having the idea that if you are on your phone all the time and if you're feeling yourself defeated or depleted if you're coming home super unhappy or depressed making time to check in with yourself

and see how you're doing are you able to spend 20 minutes a day 30 minutes a day to yourself are you able to kind of prioritize your kids or your family or your spouse at all or is worked truly just taking over everything. And I think if you have those reflective periods of time and you can answer those questions and be like, yeah, I do have time for myself, then that's good. And if you can answer, if you can't answer that and say yes, then I think you need to start figuring out how to follow a routine

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It probably will unlock some deep conversations that may be needed conversations. And that's something that we've done is like, someone asks about how do you find your passion too? Having conversations with other people of like, hey, you know what, Sean? You want to know what you're passionate about? Well, let me show you or let me tell you when I see you doing X, Y, Z, it seems like you're really in the zone. You're really loving it. You're really good at it. Like, including other people on this journey can be really fun.

Ander and I do this thing every once in a while where we did it recently where we started to feel that burnout and feel like we were kind of losing ourselves and I remember Andrew asked me this question he said I need you to make a list of all of like the hobbies or activities or things that you do that kind of like fill you up so is it reading a book is it sitting around a fire is it going for a walk is it going shopping is getting your nails done whatever make a list and then Andrew did the same thing and we worked on making sure we could schedule in one of those things a week and that's literally like to all of you who are like oh I work seven jobs or whatever it is I yes I understand that but it's it's trying to schedule in like 30 minutes a week start there where you can sit down and read a book to yourself or do something another thing we thought of that can help you find work life balance is unplugging when you can clarify what your work hours are and with your boss and co-workers and talk about what's expected can be super helpful and it's like just having the conversation saying hey sir appreciate you sitting down I want to be done with work at 5 p.m because that's when my kids uh let's see that's the one

hour I can see my kids and eat dinner with him so that's why it's important to me do we think we could schedule work around that I think goes a really long way and it's like a healthy conversation to have that should be respected right by the boss um next up is we kind of already talked about this but unplugging when you can and finding a job you love so like throwing two in there but unplug when you can get away from all of the opinions and all of the perfect filtered edited pictures and the competition and this like these inputs just like get away from them as much as you can whether that's like taking sunday off from your phone or tv or instagram or social media or whatever and then the finding a job you love truly ask yourself and i know that's hard because it's hard to find jobs

these days but ask yourself if you're doing something that you enjoy and if you don't don't quit your job but let's maybe start going down the road of finding a new one and then learning how to say no too freaking we need to learn how to do this better but uh if you're constantly putting other people what did you just talk about that are you laughing why you can't say no we're not good at that lexie's laughing at us but if you're always putting other people's needs uh at work ahead of your own look it's like great to be a team player and contributor that's for sure something we value but also again establishing boundaries and saying hey I can't do this because I'm being intentional doing this other thing instead so anyway let's do our last ad and then we'll come back and do the $10,000

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about how my voice sounds like ryan reynolds do you agree with that hey i mean he is like my celebrity crush so i'll take it i thought i was your celebrity crush you are that's what i said thank you so much um hey yours is blake lively okay we're not talking about that right now though let's say some comments and then we'll do the giveaway let's do like three comments how about ready yes um let's start with ronda berry i need advice for my student athlete first year college football he is struggling but mom and dad can't really advise and he doesn't want to talk to someone he's in the medical field i mean you can speak to this just college football balancing academics and athletics is just a lot for everyone. I think just reassuring him that he's not alone. It's hard for everyone and that he'll

just like, I don't know, just stick with it. What would you say? I like your take on it. I'm looking at Mark Blakely's comment where he says, how do you balance everything when you know that if there were people who, that because there are people who prioritize work, we have the things like the iPhone, Microsoft Word, and other things. So it's like talking about Steve Jobs, Elon Musk of the world is how I'm in talking to this question. I really think we would still have those things. But if you look at a guy like Elon, he's a CEO of multiple different companies, he probably isn't supposed to be the CEO of a media company, right? Seems like he's really good with the STEM-based science engineering type stuff. If he just eliminated that hurry in his world and injected some more work-life

balance, he could probably still develop the cool things that he has. freaking PayPal and Tesla even though he didn't found it and SpaceX it's like you can do it it's like just eliminating the things that are unnecessary that's my hot take on it was that too passionate no it's good Whitney canateson says how can I help my husband's burnout at work as I'm a stay-at-home mom I think that's I think it's the same for both of you it's so easy to be to get burnout as a stay-at-home mom as well because that's a full-time job I think you just need to have conversations you with your husband like I was saying to Andrew where you list the things you good i'm good okay where you list the things that fill your

cup ask him what what you can do for him where you can schedule in time where he can have an hour to himself or whatever it may be to kind of support each other all right we have a last comment from sivella read who says don't forget to like this video there's a ton of comments but not a lot of like so hit the like button thank you saivella and now on you ready for this to the coup That's not the right word to the Magnus opus to the peak the pinnacle the biggest giveaway we've ever done yeah $10,000 cash I'm gonna let you announce it okay these are all randomly chosen they are so many of you participate in this thank you we've already talked about doing another one soon probably focus around the newsletter so keep an eye on that um this was really fun this like the best part

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listening that's our episode on work life balance our biggest giveaway yet what a fun episode thank you for joining the live stream i'm andrew i'm sean we're the east fam out