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 family?” this episode is a conversation on learning to celebrate the good.
 
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:00 A conversation about dogs and living in our purpose
7:35 Going beyond the matrix and living in our purpose
9:05 Upcoming coaching cohorts and Famous at Home app
11:10 Christi’s recent experience in Tender & Fierce
14:15 A foundational understanding of what it means to celebrate the good
20:25 Why we have trouble celebrating the good 
25:32 Strategies for celebrating the good and shifting the atmosphere of your home
37:47 Passing the good onto your kids in everyday life
42:30 The good doesn’t have to be big

Show Notes: 
Men, registration for The Field Experience Cohort II is now open!
Register here: https://www.famousathome.com/offers/6fze43ia

Ladies, registration for Tender & Fierce Coaching Cohort II is now open!
Register here: https://www.famousathome.com/offers/9J9Dwypn

Order a copy of the Famous at Home book to put your family center stage. 
Click here: https://amzn.to/3y1jJFz
 
Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome
 
The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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 conversation on the return to simplicity.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:00 The number one greatest parenting struggle today
5:35 The two ways we view “time” and how it influences how we live
9:00 The contemporary ways we fill our “margins”
11:24 What is the filter for how you make decisions?
15:28 Practical ways to simplify
23:03 Trying new life-giving practices in seasons 

Show Notes: 

Order a copy of the Famous at Home book to put your family center stage. Click here: https://amzn.to/3y1jJFz

Men, interested in The Field Experience? 

Sign up for the waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Ladies, interested in a Tender & Fierce Cohort in 2025? Sign up for waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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 we continue to ask the question: “Why are we doing what we are as families?”
 
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Living in survival mode versus longing for more
7:25 What it means to live in “restedness”
12:48 How exhaustion keeps us in a state of delayed joy
17:55 Internally moving to a base line of rest
26:22 Breaking through exhaustion in your marriage
28:08 How to give your exhaustion to God in prayer
29:47 The Genesis 1 paradigm for living in daily and weekly rest
33:08 Practices for a state of restedness 

Show Notes: 

Men, interested in The Field Experience? 
Sign up for the waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Ladies, interested in a Tender & Fierce Cohort in 2025?  Sign up for waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce
 
Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome
 
The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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 the Western world and the corresponding changes in family structure and child outcomes. For example, he talks about the generational trend from resourceful to entitled to anxious, and the societal factors at play.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:00 The top regrets people have at the end of their lives
4:45 What our children pick up from us in modern Western world
8:28 Family structure changes over last 150 years
12:08 How socioeconomic changes impacted the family over last 150 years
16:17 Changes in how we view children in last 150 years
19:16 How changes in religiosity in last 150 years have impacted the family
20:05 The effects of technological changes over last 150 years
23:08 Is what culture is giving us, beneficial for our family?
24:49 What’s next for your family?

Show Notes: 
Order a copy of the Famous at Home book to put your family center stage. Click here: https://amzn.to/3y1jJFz

Men, interested in The Field Experience? Sign up for the waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Ladies, interested in a Tender & Fierce Cohort in 2025? Sign up for waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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 upside down and going against what’s “conventional” for our day and age?
 
We take a listener question that, though may not be your circumstance, applies to many of us who feel stuck in how we lead our families.
 
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Introduction to Season 3: Beyond the Matrix
6:26 The macro and micro “matrixes” that shape your family
10:40 Christi describes her “macro matrix”
15:30 Josh describes his “macro matrix”
18:00 Why are we doing what we’re doing as a family?
19:08 How the ladders of society shape today’s family
22:54 God redeems our enslavement to a matrix
24:40 Listener question: Unhappy wife and mother with two young kids not sure if she should work or stay home
29:48 Working toward the version of you that loves best
35:18 Sacrifice and inconvenience as part of the journey
39:28 How is family being shaped? 
41:42 Closing prayer 

Show Notes: 

Order a copy of the Famous at Home book to put your family center stage. 
Click here: https://amzn.to/3y1jJFz

Men, interested in The Field Experience?
Sign up for the waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Ladies, interested in a Tender & Fierce Cohort in 2025?  Sign up for waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Download NONAH's new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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 at Home book to put your family center stage.
Click here: https://amzn.to/3y1jJFz 

Men, interested in The Field Experience? 
Sign up for the waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Ladies, interested in a Tender & Fierce Cohort in 2025?  Sign up for waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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 the needle in your family if you were to implement it today? The only way to bring the heart of your family alive is to take permission and choose to lead differently from what our individualistic and rat-racing culture imposes on you.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
4:00 Your family as a “living letter”
7:00 How we came up with the 7 ways
8:02 What helps you show up as the best version of you?
14:58 Evaluating the family schedule
20:59 How to establish family rhythms that serve your family
26:00 Giving kids responsibility
35:23 How screen time influences your family and what to do about it
43:53 Who are the life-giving people you’re surrounding yourself with?
51:07 Your family as a hospitable “living letter” to those around you
55:24 Your most useful takeaway for transforming the heart of your family 

Show Notes: 

Order a copy of the Famous at Home book to put your family center stage. 
Click here: https://amzn.to/3y1jJFz

Get a copy of the Technicolor Woman Devotional by Courtney Smallbone. 
Click here: https://technicolorwoman.com/products/technicolorwoman
 
Listen to our episode earlier in the year on The Spiritual Development of a Mother and Father.
Click here: https://shorturl.at/GRYxA

Men, interested in The Field Experience? 
Sign up for the waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Ladies, interested in a Tender & Fierce Cohort in 2025?
Sign up for waitlist: https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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 emotions to God and partner with the Holy Spirit in them. Are emotions from God? If so, what does He want us to do with them? Can they be a pathway to living a more fulfilled and “lived” life? Listen in as Josh and Christi share how they prayerfully take their emotions to God in prayer, and partner with the Holy Spirit in their everyday lives.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Season 2 overview
2:56 God and our emotions  
7:06 The four voices in our lives 
9:27 Discerning the voice of our emotions
15:00 How emotions lead you back to God and how to listen to the Holy Spirit as Counselor, Comforter, and Guide
24:10 Fighting for what’s going on within your heart and taking that back to God in prayer
28:26 What we pass onto our kids 

Show Notes: 
Men, interested in The Field Experience? Sign up for Cohort 1 before December 31: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Sign up for the January 2025 Tender & Fierce Cohort! Sign up here. https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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, but how also how we can become attuned to what happened and resolve it well so that our hearts remain open and alive to all that’s happening within and around us.
  
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:21 It’s Christmas time
4:26 Introduction to the nervous system
6:14 A neurobiological understanding of the heart and nervous system
10:21 How the nervous system functions
14:35 The ladder of the nervous system
20:00 Where the complicated relationship comes into play
25:38 How your body gets rid of survival energy
30:45 The bottom rung of the nervous system ladder
32:18 A biblical application to calming your system and healing your heart
38:00 An understanding of stuck “energy” 
41:33 Taking the first step

Show Notes: 

Men, interested in The Field Experience? Sign up for Cohort 1 before December 31: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Sign up for the January 2025 Tender & Fierce Cohort! Sign up here. https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/

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, and how we can cultivate the “fields” God has given us with courage, compassion, and cheerful hearts.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:17 Christmas ideas from Famous at Home
6:12 Why Josh is launching a men’s coaching cohort
11:35 What the Field Experience means
16:35 The nuts and bolts of the cohort
20:32 The need for community in leading your family
23:51 Passing on a heritage to your children and knowing your “why”
28:05 The glimpse we leave to those around us by how we lead
29:28 Speaking to wives about change 36:00 Emotional health and men
 

Show Notes: 
Interested in The Field Experience? Sign up for Cohort 1 before December 31: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience

Sign up for the January 2025 Tender & Fierce Cohort! Sign up here. https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce

Get 25 Days of the Christmas Story: An Advent Family Experience by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3ZmCKkB

Get What Am I Feeling? children's book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/40ZCadZ

Download NONAH's brand new single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Famous at Home podcast is made possible by listeners like you. We'd be honored to have you partner with us in helping bring revival to today's family. Click here to donate. https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/project/single-project/2504/