We all want to put our families center stage. Yet, in a world competing for our time, attention, and identity, our families often get our leftovers instead of our best. Welcome to the Famous at Home podcast, with marriage and leadership coaches, Dr. Josh and Christi Straub. With a realistic, grace-filled look at the struggles families face, the Famous at Home podcast is like having a cup of coffee with authentic friends who just “get you.” yet with the practical and life-changing coaching st ...
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Talking About Hard Things in Marriage [Emotionally Healthy Marriage 3 of 5]
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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 …
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The Emotionally Safe Marriage [Emotionally Healthy Marriage 2 of 5]
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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 wi…
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Who Did You Marry? [Emotionally Healthy Marriage 1 of 5]
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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: som…
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The Spiritual Growth of a Father and Mother [On Becoming Great Parents 5 of 5]
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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 al…
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Honor, Identity, and Showing Up for Our Kids [On Becoming Great Parents 4 of 5]
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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 pare…
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The Single Greatest Thing to Being a Better Parent [On Becoming Great Parents 3 of 5]
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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 t…
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On Healing and Becoming a Calmer Parent [On Becoming Great Parents 2 of 5]
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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 Fin…
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4 Pillars of Emotional Health in Kids [On Becoming Great Parents 1 of 5]
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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 ou…
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Being the Solution + BIG Famous at Home Updates
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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 ne…
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Walking in Your Identity with Steve Petermeyer
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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 thre…
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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 a…
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Lessons from Childhood with Luke Smallbone
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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…
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Helping Kids When They Feel Alone with Max Lucado
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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…
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From Broken to Wholehearted Living with Christi Straub
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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…
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Raising Mentally Strong Kids with Dr. Charles Fay
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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 …
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The Spiritual Development of a Father & Mother
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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 engagi…
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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 ten…
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