Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 197 | the best of 2023. + GIVEAWAY

Episode Date: January 4, 2024

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When you're with Amex Platinum, you get access to exclusive dining experiences and an annual travel credit. So the best tapas in town might be in a new town altogether. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at Amex.ca. what's up everybody welcome back to a couple things with Sean and Andrew a podcast all about couples and the things they go through uh by the time you listen to this we will be on maternity leave with our new baby as I sit here and have the mic literally poking into my belly it's resting on your

stomach yeah yeah Sean has done a wonderful job preparing us for this maternity leave We have worked double time the past six months to film enough content to roll out as we take a break. But this episode is always one of our favorites. It is. And it is the best of 2003 from this podcast. This is as much for us as hopefully it is for you. But it's a time that we get to stop, reflect, and remember some of our favorite things. And it's been a heck of a year.

I think this year in particular, babe, on couple things. it has been my favorite year yet why i feel like we just got into our groove up into this point we kind of had this um mentality with every interview with a couple we'd be like oh how'd you meet what's your story what you're whatever in this year it was like more intentional conversations with couples about specific topics that like they held a domain in which was really cool I agree. I feel like we found our place and purpose for this podcast. We started it because I like to start new things. I like the internet and I like media.

And so the podcast was one form of that. Let's just bring this full circle. You started it four days postpartum with our first baby, Drew. That was four years ago. Can you believe we've been doing this podcast for four years? No. We're 160-something episodes in. It's crazy.

but now I feel like we actually are able to to have conversations that bring value I get calls I didn't tell you this I got a call yesterday about the Joey and Heath episode for RO one of my favorites ever someone said thank you for doing that episode I've never thought about my phone as that episode has made me think about it and that was from Trevor who called me and it's like so the the show's interesting because there's not a lot of dual hosts right if you think about late night shows or whatever uh the news there's not a lot of dual hosts there's not a lot of married dual hosts that kind of have different perspectives and there's not a lot of times where uh there's two guests simultaneously speaking in the same way we have them so i'm really pleased with the topics that we were able to discuss i'm really pleased with the guests that we were able to book um we went for less when we first started we were trying to get like the biggest celebrities yeah right and now it's actually people who have stories that we've learned from that we think you listeners can also learn from.

Well, and one of the sole purposes of why we started this four years ago was people kept asking us for marriage advice, which we laughed at. And we're like, we have no clue. We're trying to figure it out. So we were like, how about we bring in couples and learn from them? Yeah. And so now, instead of trying to get the heavy hitters, we're trying to get the heavy hitters who have so much to teach us and to teach the world that it's just really powerful. And there's something special about a podcast. It's brought you and I closer together. It's enabled relationships with some of the guests we've had on that otherwise wouldn't exist.

Podcast is one of my favorite ways to learn. I love listening to podcasts. We hope that this is a podcast that you love listening to. Anyway, 2023. What a year it was. So much has happened. Let me start by giving some high level numbers. Okay.

So a couple things this show has done in the first. first 10 months of the year over 715,000 downloads. Great. So that's like, huge. Sorry, 715,000 downloads a month is what it's average. Oh, dang. 7.15 million is what the downloads

have been through the first 10 months. Dang. Which is pretty cool. So there's a chance that we sniff at 10 million downloads for the year with just this show. But the network as a whole has taken stride. So a couple things as part of the family made network, which has been a project that Sean and I, have put our heart and soul into we'll talk about it more the network as a whole in the first 10 months has done over 1.2 million sorry why do I struggle with this 12 million downloads in the first

10 months so that's over 1.2 million per month do you think anybody else listening geeks out over numbers like you do I just think it's important and I think it's proof that they're that this is working and people want to hear this stuff and it's not like comedy type content it's not like polarizing political content it is it is family content that hopefully makes you giggle a little bit maybe makes you eye roll like Sean does all the time maybe makes you learn something new and hopefully inspires you to go back home and be a better parent spouse girlfriend boyfriend boyfriend whatever it is so that's my diatribe now we can roll into it now we can roll into it um it has been a really cool year

to see everything that family-made media has done, which is like our baby that we started. We had our first ever family-made event. That's right. Where I will never forget someone during a Q&A while we were live on stage really just wanted to kind of share their story and say thank you more than ask a question.

And this was not like staged. It was truly like off the cuff. But it was so powerful. they started crying and just said we came from they both came from broken families broken you know marriages in their home and they said thank you for putting on and creating family made and creating a couple things you truly saved our marriage and gave us hope and inspiration and a platform of people to look up to to really kind of like develop a healthy relationship which is so cool I love hearing feedback. I love doing live events for that reason to hear that feedback.

It's so special. The event was amazing, sold out a show. We had some of the best speakers and communicators in the world, and I truly believe that. Justin Woodmore early came, who read a book called Habits of the Household. If you haven't read it and you have kids, go read it right now. We had Sissy Gough join us. We had Rachel Cruz of the Dave Ramsey, Ilk. We had Mallory Irvin.

we had the heiners we had Jacqueline Gibson we had Willardsons honestly it was really special and each of these people have an amazing story that's worth sharing and each of you have have an amazing story but the feedback we got like here is one comment we got from the event it says thank you guys for everything you did to make today a reality it was so fun to meet other like-minded parents and the keynote panel speaker lineup was double hand emoji that was from Morgan. Can I read one more? One more. Okay. This says, well, Shannon Willerson did a huge post on this on our Instagram. We could talk about that more. Ethan, who joined us, missed college game day. He's the Oklahoma fan, missed the last OU game. He said, just want to let you

know. We had a great time at the family made event. It was awesome and can't wait for the next one that we can make too. So it's like they're going to come back and that's mission accomplished. What are some other highlight things that happened this year, baby? Well, first of all, we got pregnant. Pretty excited about that. Yeah, still pregnant. Going to welcome baby number three to the family. I probably as we speak, it's welcomed, which is pretty awesome.

We got our pilot's license. You? I did. You got your pilot's license. That was one of our big goals for the year. Sean got inducted into the Hall of Fame for gymnastics for the 80th time. We were on today. day show where we got to talk about family

made. How cool was that? That was pretty cool. I was really nervous. That was crazy, dude. They're a machine. To see though, like you said, with all your nerdy analytics, which I love about you, to see the impact that like it's actually being

picked up and people are bringing attention to people like us who want to talk about family is really cool. We also hosted the YouTube conference that was a couple weeks ago, which was really special, a fun opportunity. built a house in Tijuana we took the kids that's right on their first mission trip and we did a YouTube video on this on our main channel we're debating opening this up to some of you guys

listening to come down to Tijuana and build a house with us for a weekend if you guys would be interested and I want to reinforce like it's safe it's our family who runs the mission down in Tijuana we have you know relationships with the government down there everything would you be interested in going with us please comment down below so we can gauge if we want to like open this up to everyone based on the comments on the YouTube video there's a lot of interest really yeah we went to Tijuana we also went to Disney for the first time we went to Greece we went to the Grand Cayman Islands Sean and I did yeah we did we did

the Estes red carpet where we announced our pregnancy that was really fun you looked amazing thank you gosh you look good I don't know what color blue that dress was but dang we took our first couple road trips with the kids oh my gosh dude those were so fun we just traveled so much this year if you want to say the vlogs of all that that's on our main channel sometimes we talk about it on the podcast but it's way more fun to watch we we took the kids to Greece I said that oh we talked about Greece do you remember that we also had our seven-year anniversary we did and I started my PhD casual in psychology so very excited about that

let's talk about some top episodes from 2023 though in relation specifically to this show The first one that comes in mind are Ben and Katie Gonzalez. Yes. Oh, my gosh. So much younger than us. Teen parents got married, like accidentally got pregnant, got married after they had a baby. So inspirational. Every odd stacked against them by statistics, the world, culture, society.

But to hear their perspective on raising a baby together on marriage, on how. how to work through a relationship, through all of the ridiculously hard things, was so inspirational. Yeah. I think that, and it's weird because, like,

I feel like in my head, like even when we, like my reaction to when she was pregnant, like I feel like you never think, like I'm 17 years old. I'm focused about playing video games and playing sports. Like that's all I'm focused on. So like,

it's just hard to like, like I feel like it didn't process. Like, oh, it's not going to happen to me. Like, it's totally fine. And like, I think that whenever it came into perspective,

I was like, clearly something like this is this is your life now like like step up to the plate essentially great dude you said it was your favorite interview of all time yeah um i really enjoyed that conversation and you i remember when you posted on instagram and said that everyone needs to literally stop what they're doing and go listen to it yes if you're listening to this it is probably worth a listen uh to go listen to those two but they have a youtube channel as well and highly impressed by Ben and Katie. Another one that comes

in mind is the interview we did with Sissy Gough, who again spoke at the event, but she played a big role in the wake of the Nashville shooting. We all kind of live in the same area of town, and honestly, this was probably one of the hardest episodes

we've ever done, but we wanted to have Sissy with us on the show to talk about this because there were tears in our house. That was a scary day for us. We thought our kids went to the school where it was going down yeah there yeah and anyway there's been a lot of counseling in the nashville area that cissies provided and uh she is the executive director director of day star counseling ministries um and she chatted to us chatted with us about how to talk to your kids about school shootings and other tragedies like this it it is like worth being pensive about how do you talk to

your kids about tragic world events whether it's a school shooting or natural disaster or the war you know i think especially grade school kids we need to tell them very factually very short you know concrete language because they're concrete thinkers this is what happened immediately tell me what questions you have because we want them to lead the conversation because like i talked about in that video kids have this innate ability in tragedy even if their parents are getting divorced it's this amazing phenomenon inside of them that i have kids who

will ask immediately why is this happening and then I have kids who don't ask for four years because internally they can't handle the information yet and so that's why we want to really follow their lead on what they're asking it was it was one of those that we really felt compelled to talk about because Nashville is a very small community if you live here you like you feel that and understand it and we experienced firsthand that day like some of our closest friends whose kids were in that school. We thought our kids were in that school at first because of communications. We were seeing parents and kids coming out of the trees and the woods and we were hearing it. It's just it was a counseling session not only for everyone else but for us as well. Yeah. Another one that

comes to mind is the mommy daughter interview. This is an annual tradition. It's always special to record and look back on these conversations that we have. She's grown so much already. and speak so much differently. But honestly, from a personal level, having these conversations available to reflect on is really special. And we've done this with both of our kids when they turn two, three, and four.

We plan on doing it every year until eternity. Remember how many Oreos she ate? Juju. Who's that? Dad Dad. What do you love about Daddy? His heart. his heart. What does he love about you? What's his favorite thing about you? I don't know.

You know. What is this? Heart. Yeah. I'll never forget that. And then I will never forget at the very end. She's like, Mama, I think I'm done. And I was like, great. Great. Here we go. Ah, man. My mom, I'm all done. I'm all done with what. Your cookies? Not all done with work All done with work, okay But we always try to make this a big deal with the kids And make her feel really special She usually gets dressed up by herself In a princess dress

And she gets to go to work with mom and dad So it's special Another amazing episode One that we didn't know Would have as much impact as it did We've actually had phone calls from our sister My sister-in-law Your sister-in-law

Saying that it's her kid's favorite thing to listen to to and it was your episode on grief after losing your dad yeah that's actually you think that was a deep pivotal point in this year us putting the thought and planning in our content was me losing my dad right at the turn of the new year it'll be honestly when this episode goes live it'll probably be a year exactly yeah uh but it was it was really healing and cathartic Also emotional, probably the most emotional one we've done. I wanted to, we recorded it probably three or four weeks after we lost my dad. So like the initial jarring and raw emotions had kind of passed.

Still very much there. You could see that in the episode. But I've continued to journal and was journaling back then about what the grief process is like. Because I just thought that maybe it would help me process. it, and hopefully if you've gone through something like that, sorry, hopefully you haven't gone through something like that, but if you have, then hopefully that episode would help you process it. But the feedback we have gotten was really encouraging, and I felt like we got to walk through the grief with all of you listening together as a family. It was really special

and helped me heal. So thank you. Thank you. I think I'm a little melancholy, just being humbled by the fragility of life and, like, struck by a new perspective. My dad and I had a great perspective or great relationship, and I'm so thankful for that. Not even when I can say that. I feel like I was his student. I feel like I benefited so much from the things that he sacrificed for us. And so all those things leave me to just be grateful. And really, from a high level, the two takeaways from the last couple weeks for me,

me are one that I was extremely blessed to have a dad who loved and cared for me as my dad did and two that God is good and I've felt that I've seen that it's been really amazing over the past couple weeks to experience that and I think the first of having been blessed by such a great father reinforces the second that God is good those were two of the more sombre episodes we did we also So I had some giggles. We did, including Jesse James Decker and Eric Decker, which was a comical, fun interview. They are wilds and we'll say anything. This is the first podcast interview they've done.

Jesse openly admitted that she doesn't understand podcasts, which is hilarious. It's just an interview, you've done a million of these, but the podcast format throws her for a loop. But Eric is a former NFL wide receiver and his wife, Jesse, is a same. her songwriter. She's also an author and founder of her own clothing line. Kittnish. And so it's fun to talk about ambition and balance and marriage with these two. Laughed a lot, as

we said. And I feel like it really did show a lot of their personality in the episode and I think a lot of you enjoyed that. They have a, they had their own reality TV show. Oh, yeah. And they as a result have a large devoted following on the night. And I think

a lot of them enjoyed the episode. For sure. What I say is the biggest thing is committing to that in life and just obviously we fundamentally love each other and like we're super attracted to each other for for reasons but to phone reasons because you get like a nice butt and a great body and ambitious like this doesn't go away but yeah I agree with her I think I think it's the foundation it's the foundation it's what's in your heart and she's got a great That's how it gets deeper, guys. Obviously, I might be this

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at participating restaurants in Canada for limited time. another one that comes in mind is the uh the announcement of the third baby i think that was the most popular episode uh but we were really excited to post this back in july we held on to the news for a couple months um and honestly for no particular reason too i think it was just because it was third baby i don't know when you find out you're pregnant with your first it hits so hard immediately but with a third there's so many distractions so it took us a lot longer to digest it all yeah so We waited until we were able to, like, be like, oh, yeah, we're having a third kid. Yeah.

To announce it to all of you. I am excited to see how our kids that we have right now, Drew and Jet, play with the third baby. I know. Oh, we need, like, a whole episode I'm telling Drew the sweetest thing ever. She is so excited. Drew, I, she blows me away every day. That's how sweet she is. She's like, gosh, there's a, I posted the video when she came out.

It's been a weird, hard couple weeks. And, like, you didn't tell her to come out? I didn't. She came out and, like, rub my shoulder, gave me a kiss, as if I was okay. She's like that. I don't want to say all the time, but most of the time. She's crazy. She's very sensitive to other people's feelings.

It's amazing. She had asked where Daddy was, and I said, I think he's out on the front porch. Drew is my heart. Jet is my joy. Like, that dude can rile me up, like, and I can't wait to see the dynamics with the third one. And this might be the last pregnancy, so we were really trying to soak it up. I think it is. A lot of the people had predicted that you were pregnant, Sean.

Yeah. So. Yeah. We waited too long to where it was obvious. The support and excitement that we heard from you all was really special. So thank you for that. I can't wait for the episode. Probably the first week of February.

So look for it when we come back and we tell you everything about this new little one. Plans are subject to change. I'm sorry. Another one we did. Oh, we made new friends. Hannah Brown and Adam Wollard. Yes. It was a really cool interview with former Brasserette, Hannah, and her boyfriend at the time, Adam.

They got engaged shortly after the interview, and I actually had gotten pretty close with. You had known about it. Yeah. Adam and I are buddies. So he had told me before the interview. And I was really, like, it's one of those things where you're just like looking at Hannah. I'm like, I can't, don't ruin the surprise. Don't ruin the surprise. I will say it was really, really special to hear and see their dynamic and to hear about.

how they've supported each other within their relationship and a lot of insecurities and trauma and just, you get to see a different side of Hannah and their relationship that you would never see on reality TV. Yeah. And it made you respect her so much. I agree. And obviously

her whole kind of relationship trajectory has been public, her being on The Bachelorette, uh, and Bachelor and Bachelor and Bachelor and All the shows. Oh, the show. And so this was kind of like a really cool, deep conversation. Um, but I'm glad most of all that we have them as friends.

Yeah. We've seen them quite a lot. But there was a lot of like shame that I was dealing with publicly, not even just privately. And it just made me like lose who I was. I think I just like lost my like, um, the way I could even like describe myself who I thought I was, who I thought people thought I was. And so that was my rock bottom.

Like yes, I've been through like really hard things that were like upsetting. and difficult and hurtful and painful but when it comes to like questioning like who you are that's a rock bottom that is interesting and it's kind of like whenever I talk about

like an ego shedding it's like you have this identity ideal of like something you can always go to and point people to and like this is who I am all of these things all these accolades all of these things make up who I am and when something is taken out like your innocence or

like your goodness yeah or like for me when i left the banking career like you're not a banker anymore so that's that's not a piece of this identity that you've created that you can point to anymore so it's almost like you're in this like vast open space of like what the heck am i yeah i was really like not okay but i think you have to get to that to be like your best another interview that comes to mine is the interview we do with jet when he turned to uh his first official That's right. Didn't say too many words, but it's going to be adorable to watch. Which is funny because that was only a couple of months ago and already he's talking so much more. So much better. One of my favorite things about his little interview is so different than Drew is with Drew's first interview, she was pretty chatty. Like she would still answer. Yeah. And Jet is chatty, but he's so quiet. He'll be like, yeah. Jet, what's my name? Daddy

Daddy Yeah Hey What's your favorite song? The wheels on the bus go What are you doing in the microphone? Don't eat that He really is

He's either super quiet and like whispers or he yells But I feel like the videos really do reflect their personality as well Drew did hers in a princess dress that we said jet was flying on the flight simulator. And a lot of you love the episodes as well. Actually, that was one of the things that was brought up at the family made event. Someone came up and said, thank you so much for doing those interviews. Usually we'll share like a personal message to the kids reflecting on that year. And somebody listening said that that meant a lot to her just to see like the thought that goes into that.

So anyway, it also reminded me that Jett's not a baby anymore. I know. Stop it. Stop it. I can't think about that. I'm sorry. Another interview that I really loved was when I got to interview you, babe, and ask you vulnerable questions. That feels like a long time ago.

Yeah. We didn't really know what to expect from that episode, and a lot of you liked it, much to our surprise. But it did bring out some tears. I did. We learned a lot about each other, which is funny, because I feel like we talk about so much and we try to. to like not have new things

I don't know how to say that new things learned but those questions brought out some vulnerabilities in both of us that we had never shared with each other one thing that makes me nervous is like dang what if there was actually like a car accident and you or the bump

got you know hurt and there's high impact I don't think about it often but those are some those are some thoughts that we actually never really talk about I know you say you're scared. I don't know if you've fully voiced, like, through, you know, as we're giving birth or walking into the hospital, you're like, I'm nervous. Yeah.

We haven't really broken that down fully, but those are some of my thoughts. Thank you for sharing. That's actually a question we've never talked about. Yeah. And something we've never voiced. I think I voiced it to you on a podcast a couple, a couple podcasts ago, how I say the same prayer in birth. I mean, I've only given birth twice.

But I remember saying this prayer on the operating table with Drew and repeating it with Jet, which was, God, I just pray that you bring this baby into this world safely. And like, they get a chance to be a part of our world. And if you don't mind, can you help me stick around to be a part of it too? And I think that's just me, like, admitting. the same thing that you just admitted. Like, I know birth has been around

since the beginning of time. But it is scary. And, yeah, I would say my fear of mine is not making it through birth. We got to talk about the biggest excitement and fears with this baby.

I feel like it, I feel like as a whole the episode brought us closer together. And it was a good reminder for why we do this podcast. Just how fun it is to be vulnerable with each other and with you guys. You okay? Yeah, I don't like thinking about that. What?

I know. I'm pregnant, okay? We can't ask these questions. Pregnancy gets scarier every time. People say it gets easier. I think it gets scarier because you like, you know more and more. Oh, my gosh. How much from a miracle it is.

Why am I crying? Damn, but have me tear out, man. Did we do the biggest fight episode this year? Probably. That was bad. Oh, man. Good time. We won't do that one again.

We're not, like, vulnerable. I don't even think, I don't consider our content vulnerable. Because we've always, it's not like in the moment. No. Right? It's always something that we've. But a biggest fight, you never really get over. So when we tried to do that one, it just started the fight again.

hilarious. Good times. And then, last but not least, one of our favorite series we did this year. was our wildest stories. That was fun. I'm still adding to that list of stories. I'm sure we'll have more come the new year. These were really just fun episodes about how dumb we are,

how much I'm an idiot I am. We got to think back on some of the wildest times that we've spent together. And honestly, we have, it's a long list of notes. I would encourage you listening to, if you're married or like dating, what are the wild experiences that you've gone through together? We talk about your encounter with a bear

being naked in a hot tub. Yes. Taking a canoe down a dumb hill and breaking your collarbone. When you almost walked out the door on me, your GED we talked about. Yeah, Marshawn Lynch. I think we talked about Trump and that. Yeah. We talked about a lot of things.

So many things. And I should, I probably should have been fired for this, given the role I was supposed to do. But I was like, Marshawn, I just wanted to wish you the best of luck, and I hope you have fun tomorrow. Here's some Skittles. and I just, like, handed him the whole bag. And I remember he, like, winked at me or something, and he was like, thank you. No, he said, I remember it like this. Oh, God.

There's this sea of reporters. Yeah. Throwing questions left and right at Marshawn. He's only replying with, I'm only here so I don't get fined. I'm just here, so I don't I can find. Sean is on his left, pushes his way to the front, whispers this little thing, doesn't ask a question, just gives him skittles. And I remember as him looking, I think there's footage of this.

We have to find it on YouTube, looking to his left and saying, oh, you kind of cute, though. That's the only thing he said other than I'm just here and don't get fined. So fast forward to 2018? No, 2016. We reported to the Raiders right after. No, this was 2017. I ended up being on a team with Marshaun Lynch.

He went to the Raiders and I was there and I confronted Marshaun about it. I was like, yo. You kind of hit on my wife back in the day. And his reply was pretty epic. He said, I called her cute. I wasn't lying, though, was I? I wasn't lying, though. He remembered the exact exchange.

And he's like, Super Bowl? Oh, yeah. He was very nice. It was great. But that was weird. That's one of my favorite stories because Marshawn Lynch is just such a legend. It's a five-part series. If you want to check that out, then you can find it.

Just type in one story. Oh, and when you got the call from the CD, Oh my gosh Really the moral of story is I am dumb and no wonder I didn't make the NFL But we didn't realize until after Until after we started posting these Stories and videos that

We have had A lot. Maybe I don't know if it's more than normal But a lot of crazy stories We do some wild things It has been an amazing year A wild year A massive transition year it's been really special we've gone through a lot of very highs of highs and lows of lows

and we've taken you guys along the ride with us but we just want to say thank you it has been an awesome awesome year I fell in love with this podcast more than ever this year and I'm so excited for next year in the interviews it's going to bring the topics it's going to bring and the adventures it'll bring with you guys yeah thank you for listening. We hope that this episode and this show makes you a little more reflective on the things that matter most in life and how to do those things the best. Summer's here, and you can now get almost anything you need for your sunny days delivered with Uber Eats. What do we mean by almost? Well, you can't get a well-groom lawn delivered,

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But for right now, we can be content, be grateful. And that's all we got. Wait, one more thing, babe. We've got to finish out the year with our giveaway. Oh, shoot. Sorry. So, Andrew always does this. Shoot.

How many winners? How much cash? Are you just let me riff with it? Yep. And then I'll do the rest. Ready? Yes. How many?

Five. Okay. How much cash? $1,000. Wow. Let's go. To finish out the year strong, we want to give five lucky winners $1,000 cash as a thank you for listening.

We did this giveaway last year and it was really fun way to get close to, like close out the year and say thank you. In order to enter the giveaway, I can handle this part. Leave us a rating on whatever platform you're listening to. stars guys come on if you think we deserve it Apple podcast Spotify a thumbs up if you're on YouTube write us a review on those platforms as well telling us what your favorite episode was this year and be sure to include the code words best of 2023 in that review so code words best of 2023 so it's subscribe review rate and use best of 2023 so we can find you so

we know it's an entry that's right we're going to have us in the minions go through this. Good luck and thank you. Also, if you want to find out more about Family Made, what we're up to, there's a ton of other shows that are producing awesome episodes. Check those out. We have a newsletter that could be helpful. We'll probably talk about the Tijuana trip in there. What else? Oh, I think we'll maybe do like certain quote unquote premium content, like for Sean and I's goal setting type episodes that a lot of you have interest in and other hopefully helpful resources. You can go to familymaid.com.

Can I close out now? Yes, please. Okay. That's all we got. I'm Andrew. I'm Sean. We're the East Fam. And happy new year. Happy New Year.