In this episode, we talk about how to find your true self and the freedom it brings to live from it. We also talk about the destructive ways our false self can influence our closest relationships. Want to know if you're truly showing up with others in your true self? We reveal the ONE question we use to filter how well we're walking in our true self and talk about what's keeping us stuck in our false self. Want to be comfortable in your own skin, joyful in who you are, and not swayed by others? ...
Nov 06, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Do you feel stuck in your marriage? Do you wish you could sometimes show up differently in how you parent your children? Do you desire a slower pace of life for your family? We all run into problems in our closest relationships, especially with those we love the most. But what if the problems we face are intensified, or perhaps even created, because of our own internal insecurities or lack of feeling loved? In episode 4 of season 1, Finding Your Way Home, we talk about the foundational solution ...
Oct 30, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 4
We want to introduce you to one of the most joyful collaborations ever. We asked our friends, Wes and Callie Strunk, from NONAH, to create a bumper for the Famous at Home podcast. It was so good that they turned it into a full-on song and inspirational message. In this episode, we interview Wes and Callie on their own journey to being famous at home and take you behind-the-scenes on how Find My Way Home came about. This song embodies everything about what it means to be famous at home, but so do...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Finding our way home is easier when we stop chasing the things leading us away from it. Which leads to a question you must answer if you want to be famous at home, "What is my 'chase' costing me?" In episode 2 of season 1, Finding Your Way Home, we talk about what it means to chase, share our own stories of “chasing,” and offer insights on giving up the chase. Time Stamps: 1:33 Introduction and overview of new season 3:15 What we mean by “chasing” 8:12 Christi’s “chase” as a wife + mom 15:03 Wha...
Oct 16, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The Famous at Home podcast has a new beginning! Though we have over 400 previous episodes out in the world, this is the start of a new vision for Famous at Home, what we call “red carpet to revival.” Welcome to Season 1! Each new season will consist of seven episodes and be built around specific topics to help bring revival to your family. Season 1 is called “Find Your Way Home,” where we talk about the meaning behind this new phrase and why it sets the foundation for the emotional connection an...
Oct 09, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Will the decisions you're making today get you to where you want to be ten years from now? Welcome to episode 5 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating a Spiritual Growth Environment in Your Home. In this episode, we talk about your "why" and the gift of involving your kids in a purpose greater than themselves. Here are some highlights: What it means for the household to partner with Jesus for the restoration of all things The generational influence of our kid's purpose Making those under ...
Sep 11, 2024•38 min
Parenting struggles are real. Screentime. Discipline. Anxiety. But what if we’re focused on the wrong things? Instead of trying to fix and manage the problems, what if we lived out the solution? What if the environment we cultivate is the very thing our children need? Welcome to episode 4 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating a Spiritual Growth Environment in Your Home. In this episode, Josh talks about their current parenting journey, the two competing worldviews that influence how kids...
Sep 03, 2024•34 min
Welcome to episode 3 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating a Spiritual Growth Environment in Your Home. There are many misconceptions about what practicing the Sabbath, or ceasing from work, really entails. People often view Sabbath as a day for lounging around the house, binging a show on Netflix, or just doing nothing. Those things can be fine, but do they really bring about "soul rest?" In this episode, Josh and Christi go in-depth about the purpose and meaning of Sabbath, and the uni...
Aug 27, 2024•49 min
Welcome to episode 2 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating a Spiritual Growth Environment in Your Home. One of the most frequent questions we're asked is how we maintain a spirit of peace as a family of five and all we have going on. "How do you carry such calm in your interactions with each other?" wrote one long-time listener. To begin, peace doesn't come without a fight. In this episode, we talk about practical ways you can war for and cultivate peace in your home. We talk about: Why ...
Aug 20, 2024•48 min
Welcome to episode 1 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating a Spiritual Growth Environment in Your Home. This series comes with a pdf workbook / discussion guide to go along with all five episodes (found in show notes below). You can use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content. Have you ever given thought to how your "household" is being defined? Or put another way, how often do you consider the direction your family is heading? Or the connected...
Aug 13, 2024•56 min
Welcome to episode 5 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage . Would you describe your spouse as your greatest teammate? It probably depends on the day, right? We all have opponents that war against the connection in our marriage and cause conflict. But how do we fight? Do we see the opponent for what it is, or do we make our spouse out to be the opponent? In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about how to name the opponent, talk about your dance, and take ...
Aug 06, 2024•33 min
Welcome to episode 4 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage . Joining us for a conversation about sex is our dear friend, a licensed marriage and family therapist whose specialization in graduate school was sex therapy, Laura Dugger. In this episode, Laura talks about how sex makes everything better. Wait until you hear the research! With honesty, vulnerability, and a solid dose of fun, Josh and Christi's interview with Laura includes: The hidden benefits o...
Jul 30, 2024•54 min
Welcome to episode 3 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage . Difficult conversations in marriage are inevitable. Whether it's parenting, sex, holidays, work schedules, or in-laws, all couples deal with "an elephant in the room." How can we best show up in these conversations? In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about how to talk about hard things in marriage. Here are some highlights: How to identify your motive when starting a hard conversation and why...
Jul 23, 2024•34 min
Welcome to episode 2 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage . What is emotional safety? And how do you cultivate an emotionally safe marriage? In this episode, Josh and Christi define and describe emotional safety, talk about what an elephant is in marriage, and how to be your true self in hard conversations with your spouse. They talk about: Approaching conversations in love rather than fear Having an "us against the world" mindset How to talk to your spou...
Jul 16, 2024•42 min
Welcome to episode 1 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage . Have you and your spouse ever looked at each other and wondered, "Who did we marry?" Lewis Smedes once said, "My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed—and each of the five has been me." It's amazing how much we change: sometimes for the worse, sometimes for the better. In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about the various "seasons" we go through as individuals and h...
Jul 09, 2024•41 min
Welcome to episode 5 of 5 in our first Summer Series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content. As a parent, what are we truly aiming for? What really is the goal of all this stuff we put into a bucket called “parenting?” And, at a deeper level, have I thought about how my own spiritual journey influences how my chi...
Jul 01, 2024•39 min
Welcome to episode 4 of 5 in our first Summer Series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content. In this episode, Christi talks to Josh about honor, our identity as parents, and how the tension of letting our yes be yes and our no be no. This conversation was unscripted and heartfelt, as Christi got to the heart of h...
Jun 25, 2024•39 min
Welcome to episode 3 of 5 in our first Summer Series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content. In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about the single greatest thing to being a better parent. Part of it may have to do with how we greet one another coming in the door, a conversation you don’t want to miss! Through t...
Jun 14, 2024•42 min
Welcome to episode 2 of 5 in our first Summer Series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content. *Note: We originally titled this episode On Motherhood, Healing, and Finding Your Voice. However, we changed the title after the recording because the content is about becoming a calmer parent, and whether you're a mom or...
Jun 06, 2024•37 min
Welcome to our first Summer Series! This is episode 1 of a 5 part series called, On Becoming Great Parents . We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content. In this episode, we address how we can enter into our child's world and build their emotional resilience. We outline 4 pillars that help us lay a foundation for our kids to manage their emotions, conne...
May 31, 2024•31 min
What if we stop focusing on problems and cultivated the solution? That’s the question driving a major shift happening with Famous at Home. Josh + Christi are together this week for a behind-the-scenes look at the last few months—the prayer, the wrestle, and the surrender. In this episode, Josh + Christi talk about the “why” behind the shift, the new offerings coming out as a result, the summer podcast series’, and a new rebrand unveiling this fall! Here’s a timestamp for each of the various topi...
May 22, 2024•51 min
What would happen if we could walk into any room bringing our identity, rather than getting our identity from it? Following up our episode on giving kids joy permission comes an episode on how to experience joy as a byproduct of walking daily with Jesus in our true identity. When we’re not walking in our true identity, we’ll get it from one of three places: what we have what we do or how we think other people see us. In this episode, Steve Petermeyer, a coach with Identity Exchange , joins us to...
Apr 29, 2024•47 min
There are so many parenting debates happening right now in the culture at large. Screentime. Discipline. Anxiety. But what if we’re focused on the wrong things? Instead of trying to fix and manage the problems, what if we cultivated the solution? What if the environment we cultivate is the very thing our children need? In this episode, Josh talks about their current parenting journey, the two competing worldviews that influence how kids experience joy, and how we can give our kids joy permission...
Apr 16, 2024•31 min
One of our closest friends, Luke Smallbone, who is also one-half of the four-time Grammy award-winning duo For King & Country, joins Josh in the cabin to share stories from his own childhood, which are depicted in a brand new movie hitting theaters everywhere, called Unsung Hero. Unsung Hero is a true story about his family's adventure of coming to the States from Austrailia, and the ups and downs they experience along the way. In this epsiode, Luke shares how some of these heartfelt moments...
Apr 05, 2024•38 min
Pastor Max Lucado joins us to talk about his new children’s book Just in Case You Ever Feel Alone. Josh’s 9-year-old daughter, Kennedy, joins the show this week to interview Pastor Lucado. In this episode, Pastor Lucado describes the consequences of anyone’s given worldview, and how the framework we give to our children influences how they view God and consequently sets them up to handle loneliness. Pastor Lucado discusses: A framework for helping our children and grandchildren develop a biblica...
Mar 28, 2024•33 min
Christi joins us this week to walk through insights she's gaining from Isaiah 61. In doing so, she shares more about her heart behind and the process of Tender & Fierce . In Isaiah 61, Isaiah prophecies Jesus as the One to come and bind up all the broken pieces of our heart so that we can heal and live wholeheartedly. What does it mean to experience and walk in that freedom? In this episode Christi discusses with Josh: What it means to live freely, and the one way to know when we’re not walk...
Mar 19, 2024•39 min
Should we argue with our kids? How do we set boundaries with them? What kind of parent does it take to raise a strong and loving child? The President of Love & Logic Institute, Dr. Charles Fay joins us to talk about his new book, with colleague Dr. Daniel Amen, Raising Mentally Strong Kids . This might be one of the most light-hearted conversations we’ve ever had around what is arguably the most shaming role on the planet—parenting. Dr. Fay provides super practical insights on raising strong...
Mar 12, 2024•44 min
As a parent, what are we truly aiming for? What really is the goal of all this stuff we put into a bucket called “parenting?” And, at a deeper level, have I thought about how my own spiritual journey influences how my children live out their faith and find purpose for how they live their lives? Does this matter to me as I think about how I’m engaging the task of “parenting?” In this episode, I (Josh) talk about what I'm learning from my own spiritual journey right now. From this, I propose a dev...
Mar 05, 2024•38 min
Christi introduces a phrase God gave her in prayer for what it means to grow into fullness of life as a woman, wife, and mother—tender and fierce. In this episode, she defines both words, describes their function, and talks about how we can reclaim tenderness where we lost it and fierceness where it’s gone sideways. Christi also talks about why tenderness is critical for loving others but has become rare in today’s world, and how we can embrace fierceness not as a weapon, but as a gift to love o...
Feb 26, 2024•30 min
Christi is back this week! Not only that, we have a new “studio” ( check it out on Youtube ). This week, Christi and I (Josh) sit down and talk about the lessons we’ve learned since God told us to “jump” last year and sell our house. The last six months have been a wild adventure. At first, we thought we’d be RV’ing the country. But, as God would have it, a different path was laid out before us. And on that path came lessons we may never have learned if we hadn't obeyed and jumped. In this episo...
Feb 16, 2024•37 min
