Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 291 | Nothings Off Limits

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

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What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things. With Sean and Andrew. Today we have another nothing's off limits. Ask and we'll answer. We are back to our regularly scheduled programming. I feel like we haven't done a normal podcast in such a long time. I don't feel like our life has been normal in such a long time.

Are we going to get back to normal? What do you think? Probably not. Because our life is crazy. You know what I was thinking the other day, the things that once stressed us out, no longer stress us out. They didn't even like register on our radar anymore. It's like, we're so, we've gotten involved in such stressful things.

Yeah. That now everything else used to stress us out seems small. But can I just say it? I feel like we are so incredibly blessed. And every day I wake up, I'm like, I cannot believe this is our life. I see these little munchkins, even though they're waking up at 5 a.m., which is just a phase, guys. And in this new house, I'm telling myself that, okay? um in the same house and like the opportunities and our work and like our team and

we have an army of people around us that are just so freaking amazing and i i literally it's like a pinch me moment all the time i'm just like how how is this our life so you're in disbelief of it but do you like it you're enjoying it i'm i keep going down this black hole and being served up like emo emotional vibe Instagram reels of like if only I could talk to myself five years ago and tell her what's happened or 10 years ago or whatever I I never imagined in a million years I would be living this life it is truly everything I could have jumped of and more but that feels too lucky and I know luck probably doesn't have anything to do with it because it's like I could go into a whole sermon right now. But I just feel so grateful, so incredibly grateful. And I don't even

know how to scratch a surface to say thank you to all the powers that be. This is a sappy as I've seen you be in a while, dude. Also really interesting and cool that you express your emotions through Instagram rails. That's cool. I didn't know that, but I don't express them. I feel them. I feel them internally. And I'm like, yep. I, uh, do you feel like we're busy? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like... Yes and no. That's not the reason I've been straight. It's not like, oh my gosh, we're so busy, you know?

It's, uh, we have been, we've had full schedules, but I don't feel like it's been, wow, I'm so busy. It's like, uh, we just have full days, you know? Which could also be interpreted as busy. But it's a feeling. That's a difference. I feel like if someone were to ask us to like do something at 1 p.m., we'd be like, I'm so sorry. Like, I literally cannot. But I think it's because a lot of times we don't want to because we like what we're doing.

No, I think it's because we have a team around us that are like, you've got to get this done. We're behind. So there's been an abnormal amount of travel because of the media we did for the show. We went to New York and all the places. There's Dancing with the Stars finale. It took Sean to L.A. School at this point in life, I'm realizing like kindergarten, the amount of activities that are scheduled and also that you want to go to as a parent all of them is the christmas

play kind of yeah it's so fun so they're just like we have full days and it's it's really fun but i agree with you that i'm very grateful i am so excited for these next couple weeks because i feel like a lot of projects that have been keeping us busy yeah for the last while have come to a close so that includes the show and all the stuff around that interviews and whatever the book manuscript we just finished like our fifth round of edits and that's finished now which is crazy that's been a long project i mean i think two and a half years ago is when we first submitted the proposal for that and i also am so pumped about how that turned out i know it's i we love it selfish stay tuned oh you love it that should release uh next is that spring or summer

spring spring so stay tuned summer yeah I don't know what technically that is summer and then school finished the house finished but also like I smirk at all of this because we're coming to a close on all of these but yeah at the same exact time so many doors are opening and new opportunities are starting and new projects are starting to where it's like clothes open that's what I'm saying it's like it used to stress on that. It's just not... Man, it's just like life. Anyway, we digress.

Today's episode is Nothing Off Limits, Part 2. You guys love these. Yeah, we did this in May, and it was a big hit, so we're going to wind the year down with this. What?

Have we done any of these? How about the top? No. Okay. Okay, right. Yeah, yeah. So we did, I think, 27 questions, like never TMI,

the first time. Mm-hmm. And now we're going to answer Another 27. We'll try to answer them not super long-winded to try to get to all of them. Again, it's fascinating to see what you guys are so curious about.

Let's do our feature comment of the week, though. This one's from Tria Perkins, who says, I've never commented on a video like ever, but I found this convo on marriages and about your happiness to be so funny and insightful to listen to. This is such a thought-provoking topic, and it made me think about the saying, happy wife happy life which then turned into happy spouse happy house would love to hear y'all's thoughts

on this who's supposed to be happy the wife the spouse or the marriage um and would love to hear part two to this discussion wow that's a involved comment tria where do we even start let me just tell you my husband's relationship with happiness he does not believe that should ever be the goal I personally don't like happy wife happy life I think that is it feels kind of like sarcastic and I feel like it's used in society in a way of like just do anything you can whether it's like not say something or lie or deceive or like whatever to just appease the wife and then everyone can be happy I don't I think that sounds like a toxic household I think intentional

spouse living makes for like a joyful house we should do a whole episode on this but as a whole I do want to make you happy and actually I would say I've agreed with that saying

more and more as I've gotten older I want to make you happy but I'm not going to do like everything I can to make you happy in the sense of um saying like treading lightly just to whatever I have to do

to like get everything perfect I'm not going to like we're going to fight it out and we're going to like get in the weeds with it and we're going to make sure that we're both understanding and you know

this goes I mean so that was a comment from the marriage isn't about your happiness episode which we did have different concepts of that word Sean said I'm not about happiness it's because I'm like

I'm not here to just make you smile and giggle I'm here to like bring you joy and I don't know like build a life together and do stuff that's purposeful so anyway uh uh that was a departure from our not the off limits episode you ready to jump into this let's do it okay question one on a scale of one to ten how much do you care what people think about you hmm which people that's that's my reaction uh i would say i'm

the people that I interact with, like Sean, I care a lot about what they think of me. That's so interesting. I almost viewed as like concentric circles. And the number gets smaller, the wider out you go. Yeah. Yeah. I would say to answer this in a more,

this is how I interpreted it. The younger me, so like 12 to 20, I cared 10 out of 10, what every single person thought of me. more so the mass population than those close to me. The older I've gotten, the less I care. But the more I care about the people close to me. Yeah.

The more I care what my kids think. You, you know, our closest friends. So it's like swapped itself. Yeah. I was thinking about this after our redemption episode, which people had a lot of passionate opinions on, which was fun to see. But I was thinking like literally no one has ever made everybody happy.

And so I don't say that in a way of like, oh, screw that. I'm not trying to please anybody anymore. And like socializing and being warm and welcoming to even strangers or friends or family or anybody. Like that still matters a lot. But coupling that with the idea. that like not even Jesus who is God made everybody happy you know what I'm saying like that guy

made a lot of people angry and I'm not saying like we're on some worthy mission like that it's more of a realization that like dang it depends if you're asking me uh is he a good guy like is Andrew a good guy it's like well it depends on who you ask and when you ask it you know I'm saying like if if you ask Sean is Andrew a good guy two nights ago when we had a little argument. I don't know. It's like, yeah, your answer would probably be yes still, hopefully. But like, depending on friends or whatever phase we're in,

because I think there's like seasons, it depends. So anyway, that's why redemption matters. Question number two. What do you guys argue about the most? You know what came up again recently? Not really about us, but it brought back some memories was dogs. Yeah. Dude, freaking.

We used to argue all the time about. dogs because we're both dog people I love dogs Sean loves dogs but we train dogs different their lifestyles are different where they are they on furniture or not are they whatever whatever we don't have to get into the weeds of that I would say what we argue about the most is nothing but like literally very small things that have no weight but we're either tired or hungry like we're you and I are very like at the end of the day we get over stimulated and just drained and like one little thing will set us off scheduling though also comes to mind you agree with that you're talking about oh man marriage marriage marriage we argue a lot

about scheduling because me I married a I married a yes man and you say yes to everything and then tell me later and so we're working on it we're working on it it runs in the family you know it does it runs deep and which has helped so much the understanding of knowing where it comes from has that really yes what is it just made you understand it's not like andrews a dummy kind of thing it's like no there's yeah it's it's patterns it's historical it's not you know appreciate that um but it also that can be a little like man i'm not sure it well ever change. I think we're better.

We've gotten better. We've implemented so many systems. So many systems and yet it's still a problem, but it's fine. Oh, man. My favorite is when Andrew will say yes to like three different things all at the same exact time on the same day. And you're like, you know what? It'll work out.

And I'm like, that's like the math is a mathing. I don't disagree with you. It's just something. it's like I just love it you know freaking just saying yes to stuff I just love it yeah okay speaking of which and we talked about business versus full schedules whatever we're going to have an announcement coming up uh in a couple weeks about balance life design exciting we could tease it balance life design.com is a project that uh I've helped build and it's been really fun to like hey if you want to live an intentional life if these are your

big goals, how do you break those down into the day-to-day actions? Andrew basically took like our annual goals setting and made it into like a program that you can put yourself there, which is great. Yeah. So that took our annual goals that Sean and I have built and then tried to systematize it like our athletic schedule for the day-to-day for anybody no matter what your career. So stay tuned for that. Anyway, next up. What are the top three ways you make money? Is it ads? I feel bad asking, but you said nothing is off limits. Nothing else off limits. I would say number one, Andrew started doing Angel investing a long time ago. When did you start that? 2015. Yeah, back in 2015. Back when I was supposed to be focusing on football and I did

bad job. You did not do a bad job. Focusing on football. I did do a bad job at that. So Andrew, majority, us, some, me little. We do a lot of like startup investments. We work with a lot of companies on the very beginning side and kind of like put skin in the game to help startup companies get going. So I would say that's one. Real estate, uh, is another, which have been fun. We spend our time doing a lot of things when we're not filming. Yeah. This is my favorite way we make money though. Yeah. I mean, it's like the most fun. I love the tech of the platforms. I love the cameras, the software, the community aspect of this. This feels like the most exhilarating. And I will say

my third, we can say number three. This might be our favorite, but it's not number three, comparatively speaking. Number three would be like events. So public speaking, going to sporting events, being hired to like go be at a place. It's weird. To Sean's credit, she's done a phenomenal

job building a personal brand, which is like, I'm so impressed by you. So have you. I mean, I'm just your number one cheerleader. But it's uh you know like writing a book or appearances obviously that's so abnormal and it is um it's really fun it has its unique pros and cons i'd say but you've wielded all of that very well to your credit so you know a pinching moment i had the other day what's that where i was looking

back and i was like someone was asking about my public speaking oh we were talking about it because we're doing more public speaking for the book i cannot believe i spoke at am i MIT and at Stanford business. Yeah, that's sick. What? Okay, parents, quick honesty moment. Why does it feel like when it comes to kids snacks, it's either zero nutrition or a ridiculous amount of sugar, especially during the holidays?

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Like, Lance is a fantastic afternoon. For sure, but I was with Connolly's Rice. She's like a DC politician. She's, yeah. She's a whole other world. It is. What the heck? It's just crazy.

It's crazy. to me sometimes. I'm like, what is our life? So yeah, those are our top three ways. And then there's like small things here and there, like, you know, ads and whatever we do. But that's like passion projects. Question number four. How do you handle different sex drives? Wow. Okay. Switching topics here. My husband's sex drive is a lot lower than mine and I feel bad about it. Interesting. Talk. Me? No. I'm telling how do you handle that? Talk. I would say my sex drive is lower than yours? Maybe. You horny little hippo? You're a little, yeah. Wow. Never thought I'd do that out of your own. I'm like, you know, MLB pitchers need like two days rest. You know, it's like, I got a

I got to like rest and replenish. Yeah. Just wow. I can't imagine who's going to listen to this right now. How do you handle? How have we? How do you handle it? I think just a lot of communication. You have to like get past the oh you're different and and like actually talk about like what your needs are and really i've tried you don't freaking listen oh my god cut that out what do you say ander i think it's here's here's how i think we have done it for probably nine years i'd say the first first year we got after pretty good but i think it's been patience on your side stop oh my gosh and then i would say it's been like hey let's freaking like what do we yeah this is let's let's go time you know even if i'm not

not like like really focused on that at the time you know then I'm like we could still rally sacrifice for you I did not say that I did not say that yeah obviously we don't know please help comment it's an interesting topic though because I well I'm curious statistically who would have actually can we look this up yeah okay which gender has a higher sex drive. Let's just do a quick like AI search. Men often report a higher sex drive or libido than women. Yeah, men self-reportedly have higher sex drives. So that's interesting. But anyway, I feel like that's been a unique, I think there's like an expectation that like the man. There's like the idea that all they think about is sex. And it's like, I don't

And there's a lot of stuff I like to think about. And also for my whole football career, forever, it was always like, coach is saying, don't disrespect women. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, that's like, I think maybe there's scars in that sense. That's probably a whole another. Yeah, a whole not other podcast. Anyway, please help. So thank you for your comments. Next question. Do you want to reference that or no? Yeah, what? Where your scars come from? No, that's it. That's a high level way to do it. It's good. You don't want to go deeper than that. I just had teammates that did stuff.

And then it's like, yeah. And I was so focused on football for such a long time. And it was like, don't do this because it'll mess up football. You know? Yeah. Meathead Andy. Meethead Andy. Next question.

Well, now you don't have football, so. Let's get a comedy. Do you want to be buried or cremated when you die? I, have we talked about this? No. I think I used to have a really strong opinion of this, and I don't think I really care anymore. I don't know if I really care.

I'm like cremated? Yeah. I feel like a coffin just costs a lot of money. And then you got to like, why do you got to buy land for your dead body to sit in, you know? Yeah. I agree. And then it's like, okay, you can go visit the site. I've gone to see my dad's graveside a couple, like a couple times.

And not like it's always been when someone else had a funeral there. Yeah, but I don't even know if I like going. going to a gravesite though because it doesn't feel like them yeah and it doesn't like do anything it doesn't do much for me but what does is like oh we'll listen to piano music

that makes me think of my dad in a way different way than like here's a piece of ground okay so cremated do you want to like sit on a mantle or do you want to be like set free I think yeah toss me to the wind baby have you seen those videos actually flush me down the toilet that's I think that'd be fantastic

have you seen those videos or someone like goes to throw it and it just blows back on I'll say you free off the Grand Canyon, baby. Whatever. But then where are you going to send me free? Do you want it someplace exotic? I don't know. It doesn't do it.

It doesn't mean anything to me. Send me free in the ocean. I have no romance. I don't need any pomp and circumstance. Turks and Kekos ocean. I do. I do. You're going to go to Turks and Kikos with the family?

What were you about to say? With the new lady? No, I did I say that. Yeah, no, I have no. preconceived notions about like oh here you need to honor me in this way i'm like i'm dead i'm gonna add another one if i were to go before you or vice versa how long would you want either of us to wait before we moved on longer like just wait until after the funeral leave oh my god just wait a little bit oh my gosh you know would you want your spouse to move on yeah this is a i'm i'm i don't

don't mean this in a silly way this is not on the on the list here but uh yeah i would i've seen i'm dead freaking i don't want you to be sad lady you'll you'll be sad a little bit i think you maybe miss me a little bit to the funeral and then freaking you got life to live keep doing your thing i actually don't think i would it would be possible for me too oh like move on to someone else i don't think it's the same way the same way so why you're in a funny mood today okay Next question. Do you ever feel like your eating disorder is triggered with so much focus on fitness? No.

No, but I'm like very, very intentional about it. Even though I feel like I am like free of an eating disorder, I feel like it will always be with me to a certain extent because how intentional I am about, like, even today. I went to pick up like lunch. This is a confession to Andrew, actually. Sorry. And this place that we pick up lunch a lot, they have the best cookies in the entire world. You had a cookie without me?

I had a cookie without me. Oh my gosh, dude. Sean. I'm sorry. And like old eating disorder me would have been like, you can't have that. Like that's not good. It's too much sugar.

Like whatever. And whenever I feel that coming in, I'm like, no, you have to remember it. Like everything in moderation is totally fine. and so it's like it's a constant just like intentional thought process andrew's also very aware when like I get too busy during a day and I'll forget to eat or I'll skip breakfast not because of the eating disorder side but because of like just busy mom life and you always encourage and help me to say like you need to stop you need to make yourself a full breakfast you need like which I think is really good

stuff so no I don't know last time I have been fully triggered but it's been a long time is a huge win for me. I'm proud of you, babe. Thanks for you. But you did say you intentionally do that, and so that means you intentionally eat the cookie without me. I know. I did.

The good one that we just had, the gooey butter, the gooey. And even worse, I bought one thinking I'd eat half and I'd give you half, but then I ate the whole thing. I'm proudy. No, honestly, it's been really fun to see how you've grown. I thought you lunch, though. No, thank you. It's delicious.

I'm super grateful. you have you've I think matured a lot in this area which is cool and I think it's benefited our family that you've worked through that so thank you thank you uh why did you remove all your YouTube videos like your old blogs and stuff kind of just felt like you know a new age for shot and Andrew a lot of new stuff happening and um you like the platforms changed a bunch There's a couple different reasons. I also think to a certain extent, we love sharing our life with you,

but it at one point got to be like there was so much archived footage of like our whole life that it kind of felt strange to have that much out there. And it felt better to be like, here's a video from this week. And we might take it down, we might not.

Like it's, yeah. Impulsive. Yeah, I mean, we had a lot of conversations about it, but, I also feel like I don't know growing up us we would have to watch a show when it was on and then like you'd be gone

and then like maybe you appreciate it a little more like this the short snippets of time yeah feels better yeah and I'm not saying you guys need to appreciate our vlogs but it just was like a hey actually it's kind of nice to have a sunset date on some of these videos yeah next have you gotten turned down from partnerships because of your faith yes

doesn't bother us but our faith isn't something we'll get rid of to do a partnership so yep when do you have the biggest mom and dad guilt

all the time you really feel that way yeah I'm a mom and constantly think about how what shortcomings I'm doing for our children I'm constantly

thinking about how awesome you are. Thanks, baby. To our kids. I think about that with you. I am my own harshest critic. Okay, I'm Taipei.

I'm first child. You know, it's just kind of things that I work on. I would say some of my biggest mom guilt are days like, for example, yesterday. Yesterday was really, really hard for me. We're in the middle of huge transitions with like moving houses and moving rooms and like, there's just so many big things happening. and our kids went off to school and they just had a really rough morning

rough mornings are really hard for me that's kind of my biggest mom goal because right then I just want to be like we're not going to go to school we're going to skip everything we're going to go get ice cream all day and you know but you can't do that all the time

you balance it well uh dad guilt honestly we've talked about this before like i give our kids a lot of room to play both literally and like figuratively and so i feel like when maybe they bump their head or like get hurt in whatever way because of the amount of space i give them i like feel so guilty i'm like dang i could have it's like it's a trade off because i know they're learning something in the whatever and they you know, they're growing their physical and mental and emotional skills through the injury, but you're like, gosh, I could have hovered a little more, you know, that would be mine.

You do a great job. Thank you, baby. I'm proud of our kids, and our kids handle all of our shortcomings well, whatever they may be. Whatever happened to your coffee company, where did it go? A lot of stuff happened. Well, shut down. Yeah, Unicorn Coffee. We write about this in the book.

due to a couple different things. First was the priority thing. Like we had our second kid right around then. And it was like, actually the company was doing really well. Yeah. And then we decided that we could either keep running and growing that company or like spend more time with our family. And it was a hard decision to make. Like that's obviously the choice was family all along to have stuff.

started a company that was doing well and then shut it down was a hard decision but like thank goodness for you and your perspective to make it so easy and clear cut and like say obviously we have to choose our family so kudos to you and I'm grateful to have your perspective um but yeah yeah that's what happened next up what are you the most insecure about lately and what are you doing to help most insecure about lately just all the stress I've been putting I don't want to say we I've been putting on the kids with like all the move and the transitions

they've been doing great they've been doing great and I'm not like insecure in a bad way it's just like I'm concerned as a mom of like am I pushing them too much but they've been doing a phenomenal job about you I'd say the amount of time I'm spending with my siblings. We talk about Indiana a lot that our kids love spending time in Indiana with their cousins. My mom and four siblings are up there.

And you're like, it's just, there's a constant tension, I feel like, of like, man, it would be nice to hang with them more. I need them. They need me, you know. So, but we live a good life. So I wouldn't change a single thing. Okay, let's talk about holiday chaos for a second. I'm thinking about that year where we tried to hit three holiday parties in one day,

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think it's because joy I was doing supplements before joy in a way of like I know you're supposed to take magnesium I know you're supposed to take omega's this is the recommended multivitamin like I was piecing together my own regimen joy actually like does blood draws as frequently as you would like and they look at all your blood panels and then prescribe supplements specific to your blood panels. And for me, I was really low in vitamin B. I actually have like a, I don't know, I couldn't even tell you what it is, but like a, I'm anemic to a certain extent, but like really bad to assert in a way where I have to take a very specific supplement that like allows me to absorb folic acid. And as soon as I started doing like tailored supplements specific to my blood type,

it changed everything. Yeah. Yeah. Next question. Have either of you ever battled legitimate depression? Yes. You?

I don't think so. Yeah. I had a really hard time coming off of gymnastics when I retired. It was like the peak of my insecurities, peak of I went through puberty at the same time,

which was really late in life. I went through the peak of my eating disorders there was just a lot of like things peaking at the same exact time I went from training 30 hours a week to not training at all a lot of my hormones were changing obviously with puberty so it was just I had a really hard time mentally trying to sort through all of that did you get diagnosed oh no is that what I mean it's really legitimate I don't know I don't know, like after the ADD conversation we had, this is interesting because I'm like,

all right, have we, I don't want to like, I don't know. I don't think it was like, so maybe not, maybe not legitimate depression since it wasn't diagnosed. Don't let me freaking belittle that. That's not the reason I asked. No, but I'm also thinking, yeah, I think it was a form of depression, but it wasn't chronic obviously because it

like it came and went and it was like a long like a long term healing process through a psychiatrist and nutritionist and like a just like getting my life back on track

I don't know I don't feel the same way I do about that as I do like ADHD where I'm like no no I'm for sure have it like I don't even need a psychiatrist I could be like but I got it I was asking because we've just actually never I've never asked you had you ever been diagnosed with it I think it's I think this is

where like myself and your oldest brother really related it was it was more so that like funk which you could call depression that came after leaving such high level elite athletics that were so consuming and you and I talk about this a lot where I was trained to be so obsessive so obsessive that was my craft i could hyper fixate and obsess so much on one thing and when that was gone i like felt very lost so i think that sent me into what you would probably call by minor depression just trying to figure out how do i fill now this void of time and this obsessiveness what do i what do i fixate on now yeah there's a documentary one of our buddies helped produce called the weight of gold that talks about

yes the letdown after after achievement in sport and some crazy stories around that yeah anyway how do you handle friendships that involve different political views than you have especially if they're passionate about their views respect it I think you and I are pretty good at this Yeah, but like, I think you're also downplaying the conversations that we have to level each other off. And when a comment fires you up in a certain way or vice versa, there is like, politics is interesting because it like gets you personally emotionful in a weird way. But we don't alienate ourselves from people who have differing views because they have a different political view. We actually feel strongly that like people with different. political views should be friends like it's not like you stay over there i come over here you know

yeah i i feel you know i feel like every time there's a presidential election the family dynamic extended family dynamic gets uh gets interesting and i'm like in my mind if there's any group of people that you should give uh give priority to trying to find what's more similar than different to it's your family you know i'm saying like find what unites us rather than divides us obviously like people have different views but you should not um with your most important relationships let those drive a wedge into them i think it is sean and i's goal to like to really get to the core of an issue and say oh well what's your goal is it to take care of people or whatever mine too so let's just make sure we start on that we both want to take care of people

And I think we just have different ideas of how to do that. Yeah. But as a whole, like, for a long time, I would say, oh, we don't, I think we both used to say, we don't know that much about it, so we're going to stay uninvolved. And neither of us are, like, super passionate politically. I think we're seeing how important it is. But, yeah, to that answer.

Yeah. next have people ever said there's a celebrity you look like Josh Allen I've been getting a lot the quarterback I've also heard people say Chris Pratt for you me yeah all right I'll take it yeah uh Tobolizio for you no you said that you literally said that you brought it back up why because I have big ears no you're freaking adorable is why and big teeth I don't know Who came to our wedding

Sabrina Is she a spice girl Now what? Tita girl Oh my gosh Sabrina Brian When I had blonde hair

We like to really similar Yeah yeah yeah all right sean if you're going on a beach trip will you get a bikini wax or just shave that feels way too personal nothing's off limits i can't answer that question i actually legitimately don't want to answer that so yeah i'm assuming shave but anyway i have no idea i have no idea you're not like oh i'm not going to lie i think the reason i'm having a hard time with some of these questions is i got stopped by the dean of our school saying he's now a listener of our podcast and i there's just like i'm like it's a weird to think that maybe he's listening to

this so sorry you are wow okay okay how do you deal with feeling let down by your partner oh i feel I it's the worst feeling in the world to feel like I'll let you down no how do you deal with feeling like I let you down oh I just love you really I just punch you in the throat

and then I'm going to move on you know what I'll just tell you about it okay what did you say I'll just tell you about it you actually do and honestly that used to annoy me and I used to be like give me a break but

I'm becoming more and more grateful for that it usually takes you two days to freaking have awareness over what it was changed from our last argument And we were like, I'm just not going to tell you anything anymore. Me? Yeah. I'm just not going to tell you about any little thing anymore, okay?

Did I say that? You did? I'm pretty sure I did not say that. But whatever, whatever. It is, that is verbatim. This is why I'm grateful for Sean, because, like, she, I think, really fights for things that mean a lot to her. And that, that actually is important. You chose, you chose this.

You chose a fighter. I'm saying I like it. You know how bored you would be if I was just like, oh, yes, ma'am. What is it? You'd be so bored. Oh, my gosh. I'm just thinking about... This got brought up in a conversation with my sister in the other day.

The... I'm just thinking of, like, what it took to get into the East family. And you know what? Any of those other girls that you brought around would have gotten in so easily. But there was a reason. There was a reason. You chose me.

You were talking about this with a sister-in-law? Yes. Because there's a new person potentially coming in the family and he's getting hazed. And I'm like, I feel it, bro. Not getting hazed. I am the only other... I am the only other person who got hazed, like,

this guy I feel it but you know what? It was worth it it was worth that fight because you chose a feisty person I'm trying to think of

my response to that but all I can think of is how much I love you do you know about all the hazing there's no hazing it wasn't hazing that's a wrong word sorry people ask you questions

okay I think it's good to like get a glimpse of the it's part of the family culture did you ask them to do that? Hey guys here's the strategy to try to vet Sean you got to wake her up at this all right next question okay what do you mean when you say you're building a family compound here uh you got it multi-generational so my parents will live on the same property as we do more than one home is kind of what we mean by family compound is like it's not just like our house and then it's on a piece of property large enough that we feel it's truly like a

we don't have like a door-to-door neighbor it's kind of like a compound in the sense of it's a property where we foresee our lifestyle slowing down and just like living on this land for a while not like homesteading but that's interesting I'm not never actually explicitly thought about this but i would say yeah a place where uh we are more inwardly focused together as a family so that prioritizes togetherness and that's somewhat brought about by us being a little out of the suburbs if you will um multiple i would say three or four generations uh living on the property i would say a couple different living areas and then also the last piece to me would be a place we could host people and then a place

that we can learn from and teach our kids through so we can learn from the generation above us and like whether be you know putting together cars in a garage or farming or like you know gardens uh just a place that we can learn together i also think too it's like moving a lot of like our activities on a daily basis instead of it's out instead of it being out of of the home, like in the city or like somewhere else, we're now looking to bring that more inward and have like our activities be compound-based. To again prioritize togetherness. And also I would say there's like a aspect of it being long-term too.

Yeah. Yeah. We foresee this being a place that will be passed down as well, kept within the family. Next up, how did you get through an early miscarriage as a couple involving the dad when it feels isolating? It was really hard for me early on to involve Andrew. because I don't feel like we were as close then as we are now, if that makes sense,

which is crazy because we were still married. Because I felt like I had to handle that grief and stuff on my own. And I tried very hard to be as open and vulnerable in that process as I could, even though I knew it wasn't, like, experienced the same. But explaining to Andrew and kind of breaking down in front of Andrew and, like, leaning on Andrew when I needed it, I think is how I did it. It was more so I don't want to go cry by myself in our bedroom. I need to, like, have you be able to help me.

Yeah, it was our first pregnancy, which I don't know if that's, like, easy or harder. But, like, I did feel like we kind of made the transition until, like, all right, we're going to be parents. And, like, you know, we talk about the identity shift that happened with our first kid a lot. and uh and it was weird because we like started making that switch because we were pregnant and then miscarriage happened so there's just a lot of like a lot of emotions and like layers to those emotions so there was like the immediate sadness but there's also like kind of the long-term grieving and then the the even longer term questions of what would be able to have kids at all yeah um and then there was a miscommunication between us because you were like ready to try

immediately again and i was like let's give it some time and then whatever but i i would say again back to sean like fighting for things of matter to her we really had a lot of hard conversations over dozens of hours talking about that and it was like i think doing that process allowed us to grow closer through that yeah i remember sitting at that kitchen island a lot sometimes we would be you know touchy-feely sometimes we would be at a distance on the other side from each other um but i think we grew through it so thankful for that next up do you think it's appropriate for your husband to look at pictures of other girls on social media or watch videos of women on TikTok.

I mean, what kind of pictures in the video? We watch fitness challenges a lot. Like, couples doing that. So, like, does that count? This is a very, very gray question. Very, very great. Because, like, social media, social media.

I think if you're sitting, scrolling through social media, you're going to be served up girls and guys. Right? So, like, if we're sitting, both scrolling, I'm seeing guys and I'm seeing girls. If I as a wife actively say, oh, let me click into this guy

and like look at him because I'm intrigued of some kind. I don't think that's appropriate. I agree. It's interesting though because this really goes down to like intentions. Like if you're scrolling and your intention to say,

oh, what's, wonder what, whatever background or I wonder what he's talking about or whatever. Like, I'm totally fine with that. But if your intention is like he's smoke. It's literally like a check your heart and check, check why. Which I think then it becomes a trust issue. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

I'm like, oh, hey, I'm doing this because I'm interested in whatever their topic is. And then it's like, that's the ultimate thing that you want to be conscious of. And if I'm scrolling through social media, like just keeping in mind, is this going to undermine the trust if she says hey why are you looking at that girl you gotta you gotta just like keep the long term in mind

I think yeah that is a gray area question though it is because you're going to get served up everything but I would say if you're like scrolling

because oh this chick's hot yeah that's not good you shouldn't do it Like, what do you expect to happen out of that? That's good. Anyway, how much time would you say you actually chill? It seems like you're always on the move. Not a lot. We try really hard to just chill on the weekends. Saturday, Sunday. I would say from like 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. We're full. Full. We do a decent job shutting down at night. But then we go directly to bed. We've been going to bed super early. Usually Sean and I will have. have like an hour and a half to chill together um we chill on the weekends i would say we

we've gotten better at like deliberately scheduling vacations too to chill then so do you feel like we chill enough though let me just ask that vaguely we're not chillers but do we chill enough for you we're not chillers is that a no so i think you and i would both say probably no but then if we chilled more we'd be like antsy i think we chillers enough I think we're chill enough Don't do that I think right now

In our phase of life I would like more chill But it's not possible We're not in a chill phase of life It is possible we totally can No I just mean it in the sense of like Our kids are not in a chill phase of life Our kids are like an on the go

Always moving Always needing activities face of life So like It would be wrong of me to say I just wish we had more time to sit and do nothing Because it's like It's not going to happen But you're saying chill comes at the cost of like, well, are you, do you think we should take more time away as a couple?

No. Right. Me neither. Yeah. So you kind of like embrace the not chillness of this phase of life. Exactly. But it's not really because of work. No.

Okay. Just phase life. That's great. Okay. Does Andrew ever get sad with Sean's parents around so much when his mom lives in another state? I love Sean's parents. Honestly, we have a, I have a hilarious relationship with her mom. Her dad is like the most helpful guy.

ever we see them literally every single day yeah we live with them yeah um and i do love my mom too so uh we see her probably i don't know 20 times a year like we see her pretty pretty often i was to say at least once a month we see your mom yeah your mom does such a phenomenal job of like she does spread herself thin but she like goes from family to family family yeah this is actually like one of the main reasons i got my pilot's license too was so we could make more frequent trips up to Indy to see them. So. Yeah.

Yeah. I think I answered it. Where's the craziest place you've had sexy time in the last three years? Last three years. What were you going to say? Well, there's a couple of the top of the list just forever. I'm trying to think. Okay.

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Do you actually like the products you advertise on Instagram and use them all? We do. Yes. It was so funny. We had someone who talked to us the other day.

They were like, they came and visited and they saw the dose in their fridge and they saw the AG1 on the counter and then they saw... Well, you actually use this? And like, yeah, we literally test supplements for a living now

and find the ones that we like and we do the same thing with the products. Our home is filled. even with our new home. It is filled with literally every brand we've ever promoted because they're like non-negotiables for us. I actually feel passionate about this

because especially when you have kids, you realize that a product can change the game. If you have this passie versus that one, this bottle cat versus this one, it really makes a difference. So it has become a fun project for Sean and I to like

do a lot of this testing and experience. experimenting and then say this is what we use and here's why because of XYZ. And if you are also an XYZ situation, then you should check it out. So like we take it seriously and we try to be diligent in how we communicate that. So yeah, we love it though, honestly. Like going to the grocery store is one of our favorite things because of all the new things you could see and try and taste test and whatever. We're always sampling. Sampling drinks. I mean, there's some. that we don't even need to sample anymore because we have our favorites.

Yeah, I could list off 30 items where when we were going with the new house, it was like, oh, we have to have this. Like we have to have Caraway. That's the pots we use. And we have to have Bowling Branch in every room. It's like, dude, we use that all day, every day. There's just so many things that it might seem like a lot to you,

but it's truly our lifestyle. And we've tried so many and found like our staples. So now we get to experiment, which is fun. Yeah, and we always are constantly trying whatever the newest, quote unquote, latest and greatest is. Also, you guys don't get to see because we aren't about cancel culture life of any kind and everybody has their preferences.

But like, we say no to 20 brands on a weekly basis just because it might not be a preference of ours. Like we constantly have companies sending us stuff to try and we're like, you know what? like good for you guys love that you have a company but it's just not something that aligns with us or something we like the taste of or like our kids didn't like it so we don't promote it yeah yeah it's good all right that was fun that was fun uh that's how we have thank you for listening if you made it this far and you have not yet liked the show or given a rating or subscribe to it please do so now we're not done john okay we're not done

It was just saying so. Do you have any outro, inspirational words? Speech. I love you. I love you too, babe. So much. Yeah, I'm glad that we can go off limits together. Me too.

Think about doing that solo. If I'm like a solo guy answering nothing off limits, that's a totally different vibe. Together, it's like really fun and we can keep each other. Yeah, it's good. So anyway, thanks for listening. That's what I have. I'm Andrew.

I'm sure. Until next time.