How well do you manage your relationship with the screen? How would your spouse describe how well you manage your relationship with the screen? What about your kids? As we continue season 5 on relational intelligence, we discuss screen time and its effects on our nervous system. We share some sobering statistics about screens and hope by the end you honestly evaluate the answer to the question, “What role does the screen play in the quality of my life?” Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction 3:20 How do...
Jun 25, 2025•38 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Forgiving others can be complicated. Especially when you’ve been hurt deeply by those you love the most. As we continue season 5 on relational intelligence, we discuss the reality of forgiveness, why it’s so complicated, and a helpful process for forgiving others. We also offer a beautiful story of deep forgiveness in marriage as a model and a path forward. Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction to forgiveness and why it matters 3:16 The reality and process of forgiveness 7:50 The people we have to forg...
Jun 18, 2025•29 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Why do we self-protect in relationships? Especially if it hurts our deepest levels of intimacy with those we love? Though we’re hurt in relationships, we’re also healed in relationships. As we continue season 5 on relational intelligence, we discuss the ways we self-protect, why self-protection is a form of artificial intelligence, and how to break free. Our hope for this episode is to give you hope that you can surrender self-protection and discover deeper relational connection with those you l...
Jun 11, 2025•45 min•Season 5Ep. 2
In season 5, we’re talking about relational intelligence. In this episode, we’re specifically looking at it through the lens of marriage, the delicate dance of intimacy, and why emotional safety is so important. We also introduce season 5, which covers hot topics that challenge how we think about relationships, why we become numb to them, and how to navigate relational connections with those we love in a world becoming more artificially intelligent. Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction to season 5 3:0...
Jun 04, 2025•47 min•Season 5Ep. 1
In this episode, we address listener submitted questions, each of them around the constant demands and interruptions that come with raising children. Christi also walks us through an exercise to help calm nervous system dysregulation. Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction 4:15 Costco trips, homeschooling, and the evolution of a marriage and family 8:48 A practical exercise for nervous system regulation in the moment 15:55 Listener question: Mom of 4 littles trying to find a soul at rest with all the de...
May 21, 2025•38 min
What does it mean to "love your marriage?" Is it something you've thought about? Or perhaps something you brag about to others? In this episode, Josh talks about what we mean by loving your marriage, the deeper meaning of marriage, and poses three revealing questions to ask yourself about your marriage. Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:50 Tender & Fierce coming up 2:55 What we mean by loving your marriage 9:50 The purpose of marriage 13:44 Falling in love over and over again 16:27 How our ma...
May 14, 2025•36 min
Sometimes people come into your life as mentors, but they also become dear friends. We met Bill and Laurie Lokey in 2018 and little did we know how Bill’s cancer journey would unite our hearts and deepen our friendship. As we continue our series on The People Who Shape Us , Laurie joins Christi to talk about the healing nature of relationships through grief and loss. No matter the loss in your life, whether it’s the loss of a spouse or loved one, or even the loss of a dream or deep relational hu...
May 01, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Have you ever been walking through life when you happen to look over and see someone else walking in the same direction? It’s like your spirit shouts, “Oh, me too!” This is precisely what happened to Josh and Christi with their dearest friends, Luke (one-half of 4-Time Grammy Award winning For King & Country duo) and his wife, Courtney (founder of Technicolor Woman and author of Technicolor Woman Devotional). Their ensuing friendship is one they share about in this episode, because it’s a te...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 6
For the first time ever, Josh’s parents, Mike and Sharon Hess, join the show! We’re in a season called The People Who Shape Us , and we thought it fitting to have the most influential people in our lives share their own story of faith, and in this case, blended family. Josh shares his perspective of growing up in a blended family, and Mike and Sharon address co-parenting, raising kids in a two income home on shift work, and overcoming shame. Looking for hope and healing in your story? May this o...
Apr 16, 2025•55 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Did you know that being socially isolated is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day! What's really sad about this is that we're seemingly more "connected" than we've ever been, but research shows we're also more isolated. Friend, it should be obvious by now that being "connected" does not equal relational intimacy. That's why we're addressing the beauty found in friendship as we continue our series on The People Who Shape Us. In this episode, Christi hosts her dear friend turned sister, Court...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Season 4Ep. 4
This episode boasts the MOST influential people we’ve ever had on the podcast! Ray and Lora Lee Wood, aka Christi’s Dad and Mum, join us for the first time ever to talk about what it was like parenting Christi (quite a trip) and the lessons they learned from being parents. This is a fantastic multigenerational episode for parents, grandparents, and in-laws alike. Ray and Lora Lee share practical and life-giving insights for parents across all ages and stages, and the secrets to keeping all three...
Apr 02, 2025•52 min•Season 4Ep. 3
As we continue our series on “The People Who Shape Us,” John Eldredge joins us. He is someone who has shaped how we pray and ultimately how we relate with Jesus ourselves. He’s been a mentor and spiritual father to many, and has significantly shaped how we lead even our children to experience Jesus for themselves. In the beautiful, kind words of a spiritual father, John shares stories about how he healed while raising his own kids, and what that healing did for how he started to relate to and ex...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Welcome to season 4, where we spend each episode either honoring or talking to “ The People Who Shape Us .” Make no mistake, we are who we spend time with — for better or worse. Whether it’s parents, mentors, friends, or extended family, we take time this season to let you in on the people who shape us, why connection is so difficult to find, and why we have to war for healthy relationships. In this episode, we introduce season 4 talking about why healthy relationships seem so elusive, and what ...
Mar 19, 2025•29 min•Season 4Ep. 1
What a bizarre encounter with our dental hygienist taught Josh about prayer, and why we cannot attune to both God and our kids at the same time—but the encouraging insight this offers us. This week’s episode offers lessons Josh and Christi are learning in their own spiritual journeys as parents, and a few behind the scenes happenings of what’s coming with Famous at Home. Registration for Cohort II of Tender & Fierce and The Field Experience ends soon. See show notes for details. Time Stamps:...
Mar 12, 2025•15 min
Every individual is given gifts and talents, ways they can influence the lives of those around them for the better. Even more, every family is unique. The currencies you value as a family define how you live. What are your values? The currencies that shape your family? Is it time together? Certain hobbies or activities? Adventure? Or perhaps achievement? You may even find that the values you live by are not the values you want to be living by. That’s what the matrix does. It sucks us into living...
Mar 05, 2025•37 min•Season 3Ep. 7
The fruit of modern-day parenting, statistically speaking, is an anxious generation. The Surgeon General even said as much of parents in an August 2024 “Advisory on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Parents.” Why we’re trending in this direction is the focus this season of the podcast. In this episode, we cover another way to defy this cultural imposition by expanding joy capacity. What if “joy” became a metric for what defines your family, and for how you raise your kids? How would your life, ...
Feb 26, 2025•39 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Is your life marked by celebration? Do you genuinely believe that everything you need for today, including enough time, is already given to you? Or do you end your day frustrated by what didn’t happen rather than celebrating what did? We’re in a series on the 5 shifts families long for, and in this episode we talk about why people are longing for more celebration in their everyday lives. As we keep looking to move “Beyond the Matrix,” asking the question, “Why are we doing what we are as a famil...
Feb 19, 2025•48 min•Season 3Ep. 5
We’re in a series on the 5 shifts families long for today and in this episode we talk about why people are longing for a more simple life. “We’re too busy,” or “There’s not enough time,” is the heart cry of many families today. Sadly, there’s also a ripple effect of the stress we feel as parents that gets passed onto our children. Our kids feel the busyness. As we keep looking to move “Beyond the Matrix,” asking the question, “Why are we doing what we are as a family?” this episode is a conversa...
Feb 12, 2025•29 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Do you live in a perpetual state of rest with exhausted moments, or do you find yourself living in a perpetual state of exhaustion with restful moments? In Season 3, we’re looking to move “Beyond the Matrix,” asking the hard questions about how we lead our families. Unfortunately, for many families, a chorus of words seem to ring out of what people today long for, but can’t seem to attain. The word we cover today is “rest.” This episode is the first of 5 familial shifts we’ll be talking about as...
Feb 05, 2025•42 min•Season 3Ep. 3
There have been some major societal, socioeconomic, cultural, and technological shifts over the past 150 years that have changed not just family structure, but who our children are becoming. In this episode, we ask the question: Is what culture is giving us right now beneficial for our family? In Season 3, we’re looking to move “Beyond the Matrix,” asking the hard questions about how we lead our families. In episode 2, Josh takes a 30,000 foot view of the changes throughout the last 150 years in...
Jan 29, 2025•29 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Whether you realize it or not, you’re living in a matrix that shapes how you think, feel, and live your life. And your family, for better or worse, is along for the ride. Welcome to Season 3, what we’re calling, Beyond the Matrix . In this episode, we challenge you to ask one question: Why are you doing what you’re doing as a family? More specifically, who, or what, is shaping the decisions you make? Do you know why you’re making the decisions you are? Have you ever thought about flipping things...
Jan 22, 2025•43 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In the final episode of season 2, we talk about very practical ways to awaken the hearts of your children. Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:23 The joy of childhood 4:21 Increasing oxytocin in a child’s brain 8:18 The single most important technique for your child’s heart and brain 11:15 What this weekly question can do for your kids and teach you as a parent 16:05 How joy is transferred to the next generation 20:05 Fight or flight and the ways to reconnect Show Notes: Order a copy of the Famous ...
Jan 08, 2025•27 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This is one of our most foundational and transparent episodes. We took the 7 things that have transformed the heart of our family the last number of years and expounded on each of them in a detailed way to help you understand the “why” behind these decisions and how they can change the direction of your family. We certainly don’t expect you to implement all 7 of them today, as this is a yearslong journey. However, find the one that most resonates with you right now. Which of these will most move...
Jan 01, 2025•59 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Living with a heart fully alive is one of the best gifts you can give your family and pass onto your children. But emotions are complicated. They can be clouded by our circumstances, suppressed in favor of “getting things done,” or ignored to avoid confrontation. Unfortunately, this can easily become our default, especially when certain religious traditions equate emotion with sin. We’re in Season 2 titled “Awakening the Heart,” and in episode 5, Josh and Christi discuss how we are to take our e...
Dec 25, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 5
We’re in Season 2 titled “Awakening the Heart.” In episode 4, Josh and Christi explain the nervous system and why its primary purpose in our lives — to protect our connection, belonging, and dignity — can actually shut down the heart. A deeper understanding of how our bodies were created to survive can lead to deeper levels of empathy for yourself and those you love. Josh and Christi tells stories from their own marriage that highlight how the nervous systems puts up guardians around our hearts,...
Dec 18, 2024•46 min•Season 2Ep. 4
We’re in Season 2 titled “Awakening the Heart.” In episode 3, Josh talks about the hearts of men and answers Christi’s questions about the upcoming men’s coaching cohort called The Field Experience . One of the things we often find is that a family is revived when the heart of wife and mom, and / or husband and dad, is first awakened. Christi interviews Josh as he shares stories about how his own heart has been awakened, research on what makes the difference for generational faith transmission, ...
Dec 11, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 3
We’re in Season 2 titled “Awakening the Heart.” In episode 2, Christi talks about how to awaken the tender and fierce part of who you are as a woman and answers questions about the Tender & Fierce Cohort. One of the things we most often find is that a family is revived when the heart of wife and mom, and / or husband and dad, is first awakened. Josh interviews Christi as she shares why awakening the tender and fierce part of who you are begins with curiosity and is enhanced through community...
Dec 04, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 2 of the Famous at Home podcast! This season is titled, "Awakening the Heart." Living a fully present and attentive life for ourselves and our loved ones is a matter of the heart. But what do we mean by "the heart?" In episode 1 of season 2 we take an honest look at what our hearts need to thrive, how we can measure the condition of our hearts, and what curiosity has to do with living fully alive. Would you say your heart is awakened? Is your heart in a place where you can yes ...
Nov 27, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Let’s be honest, parenting is the most guilt-ridden, shaming role on the planet. Which is why a nagging question seems to live under the surface of our very full lives, “Am I doing a good job with my kids?” In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about what really matters when it comes to getting the outcomes we most desire in our kids. They also define emotional safety, talk about why parenting is the wrong term, and get honest about what our kids really need from us. Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduct...
Nov 20, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 7
"What's going on within your spouse's heart matters more than what's going on between the two of you." The gateway to finding your way home to your spouse is through his / her heart. But that can be easier said than done with there's already so much hurt built up through the years. In this episode, Josh and Christi lay out practical ways to fight for your spouse's heart while also prioritizing the healing of your own. Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:12 New 2025 offerings for Tender & Fierce...
Nov 13, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 6
