WHOA That's Good Podcast - Your Past Mistakes Are Never Greater Than God's Love

Episode Date: November 17, 2021

YouTubers Cole and Savannah LaBrant join Sadie and Christian to discuss how to lean into God's grace when your past mistakes are blinding, how to forgive the people who've hurt you the most, and what it takes to start a family vlog or podcast. Christian and Cole compare notes on their "judgmental Christian" phases, and they talk about how to make your relationship with Jesus about more than dos and don'ts. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, hey, happy woe that's go winzay. Hope you're having a great week. If you've been listening to the recent podcast, we actually had Bindi Irwin on a few weeks ago because she was on my Facebook audio room. Now we have another Facebook audio room with an amazing couple that I get to share with you on this podcast platform. It's Cole and Savannah La Brandt. I'm sure you know about them, but if you don't, they're just a beautiful couple who loves the Lord, loves each other, loves to dance. And I was so excited to get to have a conversation.

Christian actually joined me in this, so it was just fun to get to know another Christian couple who's fun and loves their kids and loves the Lord. So I can't wait for you out and listen to this conversation. Also, since we had this conversation, they had a major life update. And so we didn't even talk about their pregnancy, but hopefully we'll have them back on and we can talk a little bit about that. Hope you enjoyed this conversation with Christian and I and the LeBrant family.

I'm excited for another chat on behind the screens. This is going to be so much fun. Today, I don't know if you already saw on my Instagram or maybe you saw it from my video on Facebook, but we are getting to talk to two incredible people, Cole and Savannah, but before we welcome them on the show, I actually have another guest, you're only me and my husband, Christian Huff.

Bum bum bum bum bum. What was that? That was like the most epic drumroll you could have gotten. It almost was. It actually was. Okay, so Christian's joining us. And I just saw that the LeBran family had now joined us. Welcome guys.

I'm so excited to talk. Woo! This is cool. I'm with my wife Savannah. I'm Savannah. I'm cool. I'm. I'm. Y'all are awesome. And I'm so stoked to Savannah. I'm Savannah. I'm cool.

Y'all are awesome. And I'm so stoked to talk to y'all. So we've actually met, but we met like kind of randomly like outside of church one day. I remember. Yeah. And we kind of like chatted throughout the years of senior passion, but we never really had to like have. We've never gotten to have like a full on conversation. So I'm stoked. I know we're excited. Yeah. Yeah. Likewise. I know I've been We just talked like off screen and Christian and I have become like DM buddies where we give each other a lot. We have it. I can have like a real conversation Yeah, I don't think I ever have like one steady like person in idea and wait and you become that person. So Cool. Thank thank you I'm thank I'm thankful you haven't just left me on red yet not yet not yet it's

coming thanks for being a good friend to my husband Cole that's really sweet yeah good not many well for the people who maybe don't know you which I'm sure most of them do but if you don't know Cole and Savannah, kind of give us a little screenshot of what your life is all about. Oh, man, you want to say good? No, you take it. You want me to say good? Yeah.

So essentially how I would describe ourselves as someone that knows us, it's funny, because people will ask us what we do for work. And the best way that I explain it is, I tell people that we run a social media business. That's awesome. Just to sound a little more professional than YouTube. You know, especially with somebody that's older, but I'm assuming that we have more younger

listeners who will know what YouTube or so. We did do the YouTube thing. We've been doing social media since we met essentially. We didn't expect it to go anywhere, but we started dating and started just uploading some content. And we started just like making videos just to look back on because we were doing long distance. And we thought it'd be fun just to have videos to look back on and then it just kind of happened.

We got married, had some kids, and it's turned into a family thing. So I guess the best way to think of it is like any kind of family TV show that you would see on TV, but that's just, it's on the internet. Yeah, yes, I love it I love y'all's little intro and everything it really does feel like you're watching a reality TV show But it's like y'all a sweet family and it's so good. So yeah, you can say your youtubers and it's I'll do a great job

and y'all make the cutest dance videos and your family is just so much fun to follow I've been watching those videos for a long time actually like I remember when y'all make the cutest dance videos and your family is just so much fun to follow. I've been watching y'all's videos for a long time actually. Like I remember when y'all were dating and y'all did like, 10 kisses or something and it was like hilarious. I know, no. I go way back with y'all. I really love it. That's so fun. So I actually don't know the story of how y'all met. So how did you meet? Ooh, should I tell this one?

Yeah, you know. So at first he sent me a DM. And. Isn't that what everybody makes nowadays? Yeah, he sent me a DM. He's the same for us. Yeah. This was back when it was musicly days, not TikTok.

So it's funny. Well, let me DM on musically. He's a kid. You want to share each other's videos. Vine just died. So I need a reference. I was like, Vine died. I was trying to collaborate on to a new platform. So we see DM me strictly business, strictly business. But I responded saying like, Hey, of course, totally you're hilarious. I like went and watched all of his videos and thought he was like the funniest guy. I mean, my sister I remember just sat there for like an hour and a half watching how funny he was.

And then I met my message saying, of course, for Lee, let's do it. But he never responded back. And he says that he didn't even know how to check his messages. So he never even saw that I responded. Like he had no idea how to work that. I knew how to send messages. But I send a message with my number saying like, hey, yeah,

here's my number. Send me a video you want me to post and I'll send you one that you post. But that doesn't ever happen. and I'll send you one that you post. But that doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That doesn matter. That the summer, walking up the grove, I saw him at the corner of my eye. I know he saw me because we like glanced at each other for a second, but then I turned around because everybody was running off and I had to go grab her. And when I looked back, he was gone. So I was like, dang it, I wish I would have said hi,

but my sister was actually about to head out. So I said, if you run into coal on your way out, send him over, like tell him that comes at high. So she happened to, but just funny, I guess she was walking right past Barnes and Normal as you were walking out, right? Well, and sent him over and then from there it was just history. History.

That's so awesome. Yeah. And the growth is actually like a big place too. I know. Pretty random to run in. For those you don't know what the growth is, it's like in West Hollywood-ish area and like it's an outdoor basically like lots of stores lots of restaurants and so that would be a very random place to like meet the lovely life. And I live like two hours away from it so like I'm never over there and so

I was there at the same time he was it's just crazy totally a god thing. That is a god thing right? place is a right time yeah that's awesome I always say that to people and people are like, oh, I'm looking for a relationship. I'm like, you know, I really don't even know that if we, like, if we look, we can find it. It's almost like you just have to trust God and like be available and be willing and like all of a sudden you look up and the person's right in front of you because like,

you wouldn't look in the place that God normally shows it to you know Like if you were looking you might not be like at the group that day at Barnes and Noble or whatever it is like with your daughter You know, yeah, you think like looking would be more like dating apps You're going to like the single church group or whatever, but it's really in those random moments that God You know just kind of puts you at the right place at the right time. It's like trusting him for that. So that is really, really cool. So I'll have to say like dating back to whenever I was in high school, there was kind of like this question that everybody asked and it was like, who are you a bigger fan of, Justin Bieber or one direction, right? It was like this, it was just, it was your fan. But whenever

I was in high school, dim White Boys was thrown into the mix. I was like, are you just some fever? Are you under action? Are you Dem White Boys? Oh. Oh. Wow, you made it. I know you made it.

I'm assuming you said Dem White Boys. Oh, every time. Every time. Yeah. But you know what I mean? I wasn't even a Dem White Boys fan. Okay, that's what I was gonna ask. Did you know about?

No, I had no idea. I've never seen them. I didn't even have a vine, so I had no idea. I know it's gonna come out one day. I find all these old signs, posters and hats. And that's just those I was just a stalker. I was just secretly the number one fan. Yeah, one day you'll find it all.

No, that's hilarious. Kertian said he was also a white point spin. Oh, so y'all go way back. Well, that is hilarious. So you didn't know anything about them. So did you just happen to see him on, was it musically? Yeah, I just saw him on musically. And that's it.

I just saw his videos and thought they've just kind of lived on there. And he was just a new guy trying to put videos on musically. And I was like, sure, you're hilarious. Let's get you some followers. That is so awesome. I'm a gosh, I love it. So one thing that I love about your family is that y'all are really good dancers.

But more than that, you just have a lot of fun together. And you create space to have fun. Like I saw your video even with you, y'all like saying, it was a years ago, but y'all saying like yes to everything that I really asked for a day. And then vice versa, like it was so hilarious because you're in Target and you're just like being so silly and laughing at yourself and all that stuff.

So I know that's like a really big thing about your family. What do you think? Like the importance is of having fun and like how do you all carve time out to like make sure that you're doing stuff fun as a family? Is that something that you feel like y'all really value? Or does it just kind of happen?

100%. I value that more than anything. So I feel like I am like our big schedule person. And so I'm always trying to like figure out like for me a big thing is like always giving our kids one on one time, too, like getting the family time, but making sure we have a posy date day or a everly date night or even just taking Zeeland with me just to the park by ourselves.

Something as simple as it can even be just going to ice cream for 10 minutes, but I feel like getting those special one on one time with the kids, especially now that we're starting to have so many is like so important to. Yeah, it's awesome. But yeah, we value, we value family time more than anything. So that's awesome.

You can definitely see that and it shows it's funny that you said you're you know are having so many because I saw y'all post on Instagram and you were like you know how many kids do we have comments whatever and I'm like okay do you really want to have 12 kids or is that really what we're shooting for here so so let's go ahead and ask this question. The y'all actually want 12 kids. Or y'all like, what, whatever. I would probably cap out at like eight or nine. Right?

Whenever I met Savannah, she always told me that her favorite movie growing up was Sheeper by the dozen. And that's like always what she wanted. And I thought she was like joking. You know, I'm just like, Yeah, like maybe two. Cool, let's get married.

And then we get married and she's like, No, I actually think that would be awesome. I'm like, Oh. Yeah, like, yeah, like maybe two. Coolest of marriage. And then we get married just like, no, I actually think that would be awesome. I'm like, oh, yeah, like, yeah, like, I don't know. Maybe like keep her by like the quarter dozen is my alley, but she does what I want. She would be good with four max, max five. I know to clarify, I'm one of six kids. I love big families. I mean, we go back to Florida for Thanksgiving and we're around'm one of six kids. I love big families.

I mean, we go back to Florida for Thanksgiving and we're around all 70 of my relatives. And we love it. I love it. I'm one of the big family. But Savannah just wants a really, really, really big family. And I'm like, I don't know, 45 years old. And she wants a fourth kid.

That's awesome. So Savannah, did you grow up in a big family as well? Well, the cheaper brother doesn't move that did it for you family as well? Miller was the cheaper brother doesn't movie that that did it for you. You know what? Honestly was this brother that I did it for you. I swear. What's the other movie where I go to couples? Oh, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that one's called, but that one's good too. Yeah. Yeah.

I've always loved all the movies that have 5 million kids in them. I'm just a big baby lover. Like if there's a baby near me, I am holding it or talking to it or I'm like so baby obsessed, but I feel like we'll have six. That's awesome. Hey, that's a great number. We have six in our family actually. Three biological three adopted and it's a whole lot of fun. It's funny because it's like never quiet in our house. Yeah, it's so fun. I know. And Christian's family, he has, it's him and his brother. So smaller family. And it was so funny. Like the first time we went out to dinner, it was like table for like four or whatever, five. I was like, this is so different. But it's so sweet.

And honestly, him and his brother have big enough crazy personalities that it feels like a big family. So really, it's like whatever you have, you love, you know, and it ends up being fun no matter what. But we did love growing up with six kids. And I saw somewhere that y'all talk about adopting in the future too, right? Yes, we definitely wanted to adopt.

So that's awesome. That's so cool. Well, one thing I saw was I watched your wedding video just before preparing for this and just some of the different videos I did. And I mean, it's so beautiful and it has like 50 million views or something on YouTube and for a reason. Like Y'all's love story is just absolutely beautiful and you can just see your love on display so evidently, but also like your love for Jesus, that's so evident. And so I kind of wanted to go with some space here and y'all can take as much time as you want, but I would love to hear how like both of you came

to know Jesus for your own self and like how your faith has really impacted your life. Yeah, yeah, that's so good. Give me a start. Yeah, you can start. So I grew up in Alabama. So I know you guys are in Louisiana. So I'm sure it's similar culture and values and stuff. And I grew up going to a Southern Baptist church. It was I grew up, you know, quote unquote, religious

and knowing God and memorizing scripture at VBS and Sunday school and all that kind of stuff, but I definitely didn't like... You know, I was a guy who loved God, I definitely didn't have any kind of a relationship with God, it was more of like a do's and don'ts. Kind of thing, you know, wait until marriage, don't drink to your 21, but you know, the Holy Spirit wasn't really even mentioned and talked about. So I'll say once I kind of hit my high school years where a lot of my friends started you know doing stuff that I just wasn't comfortable with. I went through the space where I was like that judgmental Christian where I was like, you know, they're dilly dally and they're you know hooking up with so-and-so or they're drinking. I'm like, oh I'm not doing that because the Bible says not to, but I definitely wasn't like leading people to Jesus.

If anything, I was, you know, leading people away from Jesus. And then I probably had, you know, I was there, like, middle school, early high school, and then I just had this like big come to Jesus moment where I was just like, shoot like, I'm not, like, I don't even really know this guy, Jesus, you know, I'm just like following all these commands and et cetera.

And I'm not saying like that it's bad to, I think sometimes you just kind of have to almost get locked into a mindset of, okay, yeah, I am going to try and whatever your Jesus thing is, wait till marriage and not drink till 21, because there's hard season where you've got to buckle down. But I really came to know Jesus, probably more so in college, right before I met Savannah, was whenever I actually just fell in love with Jesus and had I become content and who I was,

just me with Jesus and so probably I could write before high school. It's funny because I don't have a specific day, I feel like so many people have a day or a day or a specific moment, but because I grew up knowing God and I got baptized probably two or three times. specific moment, but because I like grew up knowing God and I got baptized probably like two or three times. I was like, maybe this is like the time that I truly am going to follow him kind of thing. Yeah. I don't have like a specific day, but I think in college just when I have like that slowly as I walked our pastor talks a lot about like people, you know, miracles happening and healing's happening and how the Bible talks about two ways that miracles and healing's happening in summer instantaneous. You see instantaneous miracles and then others are as they went. And I feel like my not necessarily that my salvation

was like a process because obviously you know once you say you're always saved by thinking, yeah, my coming relationship. Yeah, as I walk kind of thing. That's so cool. That's actually similar to Christian. Like, now you kind of really got to know Jesus in college, which I think is so cool. Yeah, I mean, I grew up really just like, I mean, going to VBS and Sunday school and, you know, memorizing the scriptures and then, yeah,

I kind of transitioned from the judgmental Christian to the, you know, I might try out some of the worldly things, quasi-Christian, I guess you could say that I thought I might have been. But I mean, yeah, my relationship with Jesus didn't get serious until I got to college. They never really had a relationship, it was just kind of like you said, just the do's and the don'ts. But for me, it was it was gradual within the standpoint of like, you know, I went there, a Christian youth camp in high school my senior year, and I kind of started kind of winning off some of the

worldly things that I've become pretty attached to. But then when I got to college, it was a pretty instantaneous moment where I just really felt just the Holy Spirit just convict me in a way that I'd never felt convicted before and repentance became a real thing. And I just truly started following Jesus from that. But I really grew up, like you said, just memorizing scripture, doing the do's and the don'ts. And it's easy to get, it's easy to get hooked on that, but then once you realize that there's no relationship with that, then you kind of want to figure out a different

way to go about. Yeah, because relationship is like, you know, that's whenever you experience all the goodness that God has for you. And so it's really cool that y'all both said that, because I feel like a lot of people think like college is like, you're years years, like go do all the things that you always wanna do and go crazy and go wild and most people like do, but actually that can also be a really pivotal time in your life

where you can come to develop a deeper relationship with Jesus when you're on your own, when you're making your own decisions and start your life on a new trajectory. And so I just think that's always encouraging to hear when people say it was around college, because I think people account themselves out at the college age and I'm like, no, like this is such a huge time.

Like don't waste it, you know, don't sleep on it. Like you actually wake up and see what God has. So that's awesome. So you know, what's your story? Yeah. I would say I, I mean, I've always, I always grew up going to church as a kid. I, the pastor of our church was like one of my dad's best friends. So we always grew up religious. But then I feel like I kind of got lost like in high school in the very beginning of college. Just I feel like honestly, it was just kind of like toxic relationships that I was in.

That kind of drew me away from Jesus. And obviously I still always believed in him and I would go to church sometimes, but I was never really, like I never really had a solid relationship with him, you know? And I feel like there was just so many things that kept happening that just made me like, was never really, like I never really had a solid relationship with him, you know? And I feel like there was just so many things that kept happening that just made me like, and then I got pregnant with that really. And then I felt like there's no way of forgiveness for that.

But obviously there is. And I just felt bad even going to church being pregnant and 19 years old and not married, just beaten down just from bad relationships, honestly, just in general. And so also around that time, my parents got divorced. I feel like there's just a walk going on in my life, and I just kind of felt bleh. Yeah. And then right around when I met Cole,

and people get this confused sometimes by me saying, like, Cole saved me, but that's not the case whatsoever. I feel like Jesus can bring someone into your life to help you realize. Yes. You know? Totally. When coal came into my life,

I feel like he gave me a whole new perspective on like how I should be treated. And just even as my friend, like we just when we were friends in the beginning, just like making me realize what my worth was. And so I feel like I kind of got a whole new understanding of just guys who love Jesus so much and I thought how cool, how amazing it was.

And it was when we went to this passion conference where I feel like I really like rededicated my life to Jesus was at a passion conference and say, I think you might have spoke at it actually. I think I did because I remember seeing that y'all were there. Yeah. And I feel like it was in that in that in one of those, um, who is what's what's the girl's name, the wife?

Don't you? Yes. Um, which she was speaking. It was the first time during worship that I ever lifted my hands in worship. Just putting the girls I was with, do it, push me to and sing Cole and his friends do it. It was the first time I lifted my hands

and I just felt the presence of you that's so much never before. And I feel like I was totally just gave my life over to him in that moment at that conference. And everything changed. The way I see myself, just little things in my life that were going on like, and none of it mattered anymore. And I completely just gave my life over to him. And it was pretty rad. That is so cool. That is rad. That would be a gives me chills because I remember

the first time that happened for me. I was like 17 out of conference and I was just before I was speaking or anything. I was just going to the conference and I was like, can I see everybody raise their hands? I had never done that before and I was like, I was looking around I was thinking like, what are they feeling that I'm not feeling, you know? And I remember finally I was just like, okay, God, like, I just get like worshiped you, like heart abandoned, like not even think about anything else or anyone else or what they would think. And like finally when I like shut off the noise, like I truly encountered him. And like, yeah, it was not like I was trying to lift my hands and just happen out of a true

posture of worship, you know? And then like, I responded not like I was trying to lift my hands and just happen out of a true posture of worship, you know, and then like, I responded to the altar call and like, that was like the moment for me. And so that's so cool to hear you say. And just for people listening, like, you know, maybe you're not a believer, you've never come to know Jesus, but maybe you're out there and you're lost or you're you're struggling. And I just, you know, encourage you like you like open your heart because all of us are at that point at one time or another in our life and like the reason why we were so drawn to Jesus because like Jesus and himself he's just love he's kind he's joy he he gives us a hope beyond this world and so if you're interested in that I just encourage you to open your heart towards it. So like I

said I was watching your wedding video and one thing that you said Savannah in your wedding video was that like you didn't feel like you could have this opportunity to have a man. So Godly has cold to love you because you felt like broken. Which like breaks my heart to here, but it's also like I have felt the same exact way in my life. Like felt broken, felt unworthy of love. And then like I'm at Christian who's like so kind and so loving. And I'm like

oh, I'm so even able to do with it, you know, that kind of thing. And like to receive that love is just so overwhelming. And you know, it's a love that Jesus offers us to. So speaking from like your perspective now, being loved by Jesus, being loved by Cole and getting past his broken spots like what would you say to girls out there Are even guys to who are in that spot of feeling broken and like I don't know if there's like redemption for me because I did X Y and Z like what would you say to them now with the perspective that you have? I Think it took me a while to like love myself. I feel like I didn't really love my truth. I feel like that partly had to do just like with people that were in my life that

that made me feel that way but um I feel like honestly it starts there and like the second that I really started to love myself. I started to get a deeper connection with Jesus and I started to realize I just the important things but I really feel like there could be so many people in your life that are like that can tell you you shouldn't be doing that you shouldn't be with that person it's horrible and you know it is you know you're doing it and you know you deserve better but for some reason until you truly love yourself, you can't get yourself out of the situation. So, that is so true.

I remember I was going through this time, we're like, I was kind of, you know, feeling broken and kind of feeling lost, and it was after I went through this breakup with like a really toxic relationship. And I remember I was going through, kind of like counseling, but it was really just with the pastor

And she was like, you know, talking about how like hey, like you need to forgive this person in your heart So that you can be forward and like I went through the process like forgiving him there that space And she's like, can you may forgive these people for like what they did in the process? I went through that and then lastly she was like, okay, now, you need to forgive yourself. And that was like the hardest heart. And I just sat there and I cried and cried because I was like, that's the hardest thing. Sometimes it's like the hardest thing to forgive yourself,

to love yourself through it. But if you can get to that point, then you open up the door to be loved by others, be forgiven by others, to be in relationship with others. And so such a great point. I actually went through the same, I did like an inner healing. Yes, same. Yeah, and that changed everything for me. I mean, I think just forget.

That was pretty recently too. Yeah, forget, forgiving people that that have hurt you is like so big. Like, that was huge for me just like being able to forget everybody that's ever that has ever hurt me before I made me feel I'm worthy and then also forgiving myself I was just sobbing the whole time it was same yeah yeah it's so intense and honestly I avoided it for a while because I was like I don't like to cry in front of people I really don't want to go through this I really don't want to talk about it all,

but it was like the most freeing thing I've ever done. And honestly, I feel like I walked out of there and to this day walk with a different confidence than I did before. Yeah. And so that's so cool to hear that, you do that too. One thing in your video that sucked out to me that I thought was awesome was that in your sister's talk,

she started talking about how y'all bring out the goofy version of yourselves. She said, especially whenever y'all started dating because it was your sister. She was like, I saw such a goofy side of her that I hadn't seen in a while. And I think that is one thing that you know. It's the right relationship when you bring out the best versions of yourself. And so maybe talk about that for a little bit about just like sides of each other that you all have seen kind of like blossom as you've been in relationship

because I know Krishna I could say some similar things, the things that like we lost like from our childhood so now we're like coming back just out of like the love we have, everyone and other. Does that make sense? Yeah. You want to start doing it me to go.

You can go. I feel like you've kind of just always been goofy. You've always been. Yeah, ours will be different in the sense that like, maybe bring it a different side. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Where I didn't grow up with the same growing pains that's abandoned as far as I explained

and my coming to know Jesus I was fortunate to not make certain you know super bad quote unquote decisions that maybe let me super heard or like that I took away my goofy side so I was always like really goofy but with my growing up maybe I just helped you like loosen up a little bit yeah yeah that's all I'm gonna get is like loosen up and like not. Yeah, yeah, that's all I'm gonna get at is like loosen up and like not be so tied about certain things. Yeah, you know, realize what truly is like so important and I mean she's helped me mature because we literally met I met her at 19 so I was literally so okay, I mean I'm 25 still am to some extent but wow, she literally just like helped me like I feel turned into a man.

I had to find this retrospect where I was just total goofball. And I feel like he brought me back down to where we can't met in the middle. Where he needed some more goofball and I needed a little less and and we kind of met in the middle of that one. That's awesome. We kind of did too. In similar ways like I'm kind of like more We kind of did too. In similar ways, I'm kind of like more, so I'm like very extroverted, like more like to be around people at the time. And Christians like very introverted and more quiet.

And we kind of like made the perfect balance because now he goes out and like, like to hang out with people and everything. And I am like now kind of like, can we just actually chill at the house tonight? Like, it's okay. But I'm very extroverted at home though. You are, like you're crazy at home. Which I don't know if I can say I'm'm very expert at home though. You are like, you're crazy at home.

I'm telling you if I can say I'm not sure if I'm at home, but I'm more, I'm more outgoing when it's fewer people. It's funny like people will see our like some videos up post and be like, like people that know us like Christians. They so quiet like that. He seems so funny. I'm like, no, he's like the funniest, goofy as person I've ever met just at home. Like just not like in front of everybody. And you stayed for you. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I always tell her she's feel super special. I do. I feel the most special. I love it. And

then I like crash at home. So we're obviously we bring each other up. Okay, so one thing is, Christian and I just started vlogging, which we had not done before. We do all kinds of other social media, but we hadn't done vlogs. And it's been fun. And then mainly the reason why we started it is just because we really want to document honey's life and be able to have that to look back on.

And we felt like we share a lot of like work stuff and manage yourself. We do, which is great, but we also want to share like more of our life and our heart and stuff like that. And y'all have like set the best example for that. Like y'all's vlog is so great and it's y'all always say true to who you are and you've loved your family so well through it all. And so I kind of just wanted to take some time to just get some advice from you all. So I know a lot of people are listening to this, but maybe there's other people out there who are wanting to start vlogging or start a pie cast or write a book

or put something out there that might seem kind of vulnerable. What's your best piece of advice for starting something like that? Yeah, I mean, mine would be, you know, find why you're doing it. You had to find out that why. And it sounds like you guys in with us, it was the exact same thing. We wanted these memories of us dating.

Like I knew she was the one right away. So once we started our channel, I just thought this would be so much fun to look back on our dating relationship and 20 years and a year old. And, you know, even back then, not too many people were making near as much money or didn't even know how much money could be made

from it nowadays. And I'm not saying that it's even bad for people to go into YouTube as a money or side hustle or whatever it is because it's there. So I'm not saying that's bad, but I think realizing, are you trying to do it for the family memory aspect or are you trying to do it for the family memory aspect or are you

trying to do it for the business aspect and then whatever your why is we'll help determine the upload so obviously if you're you know trying to be the biggest youtuber and get the most subscribers in the most money then you got a you got a grind and you got a hustle and you got a you know treat like natural business if you're for memories and I feel like most of the time if you're trying to do it in that way, it's not really going to come off genuine and people generally more true. Watch it because I feel like they'll sense that. You know, I think it all depends also on like the content that you're making.

Obviously, if it's family oriented, then yeah, you got to be more cautious with that approach. But if you're just like a single, like I just met up with some guys, yes, they're who are a bunch of single early 20s. And it's like, obviously, they have all the right in all the room. Just a grind and work as hard as they can to try and be, you know, as best as they can as you would, as any athlete would or anything else.

So, yeah, yeah. You're finding that why and saying true to it. And I mean, we've made, you just got to kind of know what comes with it. And that the social media is a mean place and just the world, we live in a mean world probably, meaner than ever right now. And once you start putting stuff out there, you know, something that we weren't prepared

for was we were just making fun, family stuff, you know, for the most part seemingly innocent. And obviously you make mistakes along the way that you post you don't realize how much it's like oh whoa I made a mistake and then the whole world sees that mistake especially if it's family oriented and it's like oh now now they want you dead because of that mistake you know and I would just advise people I get especially now more than ever just like big super cautious with what you up with something that I were trying to get to be better at because we have made our fair share mistakes. It's like, okay, let's not get so focused on the grind of making content or whatever it is that we forget, you know, the quality or just even who we are.

It's just an important thing. Yeah. So that's good. What are some things, see all that are like special to your family that maybe you don't share on, you know, your vlog. Do you have, or you don't have to share the things, but do you all have things that are kind of like, this is like our time, no cameras, no, do you have like, boundaries in that or have you all gotten kind of to the point where it's like, you know, it's fine if the cameras are there. Because I feel like it was like dynasty, like, there's cameras in your house all the time, but then we knew when there wasn't going to be, you know, it's fine if the cameras are there. It's because I feel like it was like dynasty. Like there's cameras in your house all the time,

but then we knew when there wasn't going to be, you know, it was just kind of nice. But then also, we were so used to it that it didn't really matter, you know, if they were, like we were still the same people that we were with them or without, you know. So what does that kind of look like for y'all? Yeah. I think for us, I honestly feel like there's never really a camera. It's like that's, you know, it's like like there's never really a camera.

It's like, you know, it's like once a week for a few hours, there'll be a camera now, but. We've personally slowed it down, not just being in the space that we are now with re-evaluating what's really important, re-evaluating our why, what we want to do. Yeah, first off, even when we were doing like twice a week though, there would be like two days a week where there was like, for sure we. Yeah, first off, even when we were doing like twice a week though, there would be like

two days a week where there was like for sure we were going to film something and it was like a few hours of that day. Like it was awesome. We love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you,

love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, we love you, and like ask yourself the why. I actually did a devotional with some girls that a day and I was talking about how last week. So I just joined Christian's mom's tennis league, which is hilarious.

And it's like all of these like sweet moms, plantinous, and they're all older, you know, because it's like more middle-aged women, moms playing tennis, and I joined the league. It's been, it was a blast, but it was kind of funny. So I go out and everyone's telling me, oh, same though, you're playing the best girl in the league or playing Kim, and it was like this big thing

and I'm playing Kim. So I'm thinking, okay, how good can Kim be? Okay, my 20s, I play tennis, this is gonna be fine. See, I see Kim and her partner, I'm in my 20s, I play tennis, this is gonna be fine. See, I see Kim and her partner, I'm thinking I got this. Y'all, they like destroyed me. They had me. No, I got whoops, okay. Like, in the fight, Kim didn't even break a sweat.

And I'm over there like sweating, I can't breathe. I'm like, oh my gosh, this is bad. So look at my partner at one point in the match, as it was doubles. And I just told her I was like, hey, like we gotta slow the game down. Like, first of all, I can't breathe. Second of all, like they're gaining so much momentum on us.

And like, you know how, whenever somebody starts doing good and something, and it's like, they're just like, you can't stop them. I mean, they're just on a roll. It's kind of like that. And I was like, maybe if we slow it down, we can like fix the problem. So we slowed it down. She like, I just like, she need to tire shoes. She fixed her shoe. I stretched

it out a little bit and we got that to play him. Well, we still didn't win, but it did just help us like reposition and I was like, it's the same way in life sometimes where it's like there will be moments where you just need to slow the game down a little bit, you know, like, yeah, maybe something's catching momentum and it's not a good thing. You're maybe, you know, you're getting tired, you're getting worn out, you're having a little bit of a struggle to breathe. Well, like, it's okay to take a second and get things in place to be able to do be the best version of yourself and continue on. And, you

know, y'all seem to be doing that in certain things and saying, like, hey, like, let's, let's slow the game down a bit. Like, let's re-structure some things and re-ask yourself why, get our position and our footing right again. And then you're moving forward in the best way. I think, you know, in the culture we live in, life goes a hundred miles per hour and everyone's running and pulls me to head

and it's like, man, if I stop then, how am I gonna catch up? And it's like, just remember, you're running your own race. And, you know, we always say be like a race. Horse, put your blinders on run your race not the person's beside you and be okay with taking some time to get your footing so I think it's such good advice and I know of itself that y'all take that time to do

that. Well we're gonna start wrapping up soon but before I do Cole we have to ask you about your spider bite because that was epic. Like Christian said, he's been your DM buddy. We've been talking about that spider bite because I feel like that's like everyone's like low key fear that they would like get bit by a spider. Like it's too low key fear and dream. Like dream and like a little bit of a spider. Yeah, because like because you think like am I gonna develop some kind of like cool superpower? Yes, I'm like There are side effects positive side effects that have come from the spider-mind so is there really oh?

Yeah, yeah, the rumors are true. They I think spider-minds actually based off of a true story After my But yeah, I think people don't know I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was back, little backhouse, that my friend don't himself. And we saw the spiders, I think my chavit. We slept the first couple of days fine. And then the final day, I wake up to fly home early in the morning and I feel something on my face. And I look in the mirror and I see like two little bumps

and like, like, like, sight, slight swelling. And I'm thinking like, there's no way, like, you know, there's no way I got bit. And, and I guess hurting, but I don't feel too bad. And I get on the plane and this thing just like growing pretty fast where I'm thinking, is it just like a zit whatever else? Like I took picture documentation and it's slowly growing. But that's how I get home, which is like a four hour flight. Savannah, like really knows this thing on my face. And it's not just

like a bump like rotting my skin away, where it's like scabbing really bad. Oh my God. Just getting it like rotting away, but the bump has gotten too big. And I kind of told like, yeah, pretty positive I got bit by spider. And essentially within like two, three days, this thing was like literally the size of my ear,

right under my ear. And like what? Oh my God. And what was it bump? It was like mainly scabby and like very like lots of pus coming out of it. And I thought that maybe this spider bite had now got infected. Cause it wasn't just like. And then little baby spider started coming out of his face.

It laid eggs in my face. Wait, no. Yes. No, we're just kidding. No, but okay. I was like, oh my gosh Everything else I know she but luckily I have a wife who made me go in because if it wasn't for Savannah I probably just would have like which is so which is so I would just try popping it and they tell you don't pop it for any of our kids

He's the first one to be like oh no. Oh she has something on her finger. Let's take her in For him he's like no way am I going in. I'm like, this thing is you do have to. I saw you. I was like, I wish I was like that where I was like, oh, I'm not going to go in. I would be like, I would have landed and gone straight into the like, you are something dramatic. We look it up and no, I guess nobody's died of a black widow bite in the US in like 10 years.

So whenever I look that up, I was like, okay, either I'm making history or I'm surviving. Oh my gosh. Well, I'm so glad that I survived. I survived it. Yeah, I'm a survivor and maybe the next Spider-Man and so. Wait, so yeah, what are some of the positive side effects? Because I'm actually kind of like interested.

Christian. Yeah. Well, now he can fly. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah. I can hover like two inches off the ground. That's it though. I can't fly high.

You can crawl at walls. Yeah. It's a slight hover. Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. Oh, you guys are so awesome. Honestly, we really do like up to y'all in a lot of ways and just think your family's awesome. I, my family, you know, has done a lot in TV.

And TV is, you know, kind of crazy sometimes and there's a lot out there. And so we're always thankful for anybody just putting out such a positive light and y'all do that beautifully. So thank you for pressing past some of the mean things that people have done and probably, you know, from Archmerch, it's scary things people have done and, you know, just trusting God with your life and the things that y'all do because it's awesome and it spreads. And so I know

the people who are listening can't talk when I'm sure each of them would say thank you for just your example and everything as your family. So we love you guys. We are so for the little brant family. And thanks for joining me on the audio room. Thank you so much. We love you guys. Thank you for having us.

This is awesome. They're so awesome. Such a good example to me and I hope for you to hope you enjoy this pie gas and I'll talk to you next week.