Famous at Home

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The Emotionally Present Man Jun 17, 2026

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Most men were never taught how to be emotionally present. They were taught how to provide, how to perform, and how to push through. And for a long time, that felt like enough. But if you've ever come home after leading hundreds of people at work and felt completely lost in your own living room, you're not alone. This is why famous at home exists in the first place.
In this episode, Josh discusses the tension men feel between the demands of their professional lives and the deeper call of their homes. Drawing on decades of research—including what one USC longitudinal study found is the single greatest factor for passing faith across generations—his own coaching work with high-capacity men, and two personal moments where he heard the quiet voice of God, Josh unpacks the three relationships every father must tend: with his wife, with his kids, and with Jesus.
Whether you lead hundreds at work and feel lost at home, or you're simply trying to figure out what a present, emotionally engaged husband and father looks like in practice — this one's for you.
*Thank you to Bernhardt Watches for sponsoring this episode! Click here and be sure to use the code FAMOUS at checkout for free shipping!
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:03 What it means to be famous at home
7:35 What research shows for men as dads and husbands
9:46 How to be emotionally safe for your wife
13:53 How to be emotionally safe for your kids
19:05 Hearing and obeying the voice of God as you lead your family
23:30 The Living Legacy Cohort
25:48 A special message to fathers
Show Notes:
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for Raising Future Legends!
www.raisingfuturelegends.com
Reserve your seat for Tender & Fierce Fall Cohort beginning August 17, 2026: https://www.famousathome.com/offers/V75F6bY2
Get a copy of the Famous at Home book: https://amzn.to/4vZUQql
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Follow Josh on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/joshua.straub
Follow Christi on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/christistraub
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

Raising Future Legends: Kids Who Carry the Kingdom Everywhere They Go Jun 10, 2026

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We've been asking our kids the wrong question since kindergarten. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" confuses identity with performance, and Josh argues we've been setting them up for anxiety and false selves ever since.
This episode reframes the whole parenting mission around the theme of Jesus's central message: the Kingdom of God. When kids understand their personal role in building for the kingdom of God, their identity stops depending on what they do, what they have, or what anyone thinks of them. It's a parenting paradigm shift that gives our kids a purpose bigger than anything the world has to offer.
We also announce the launch of a brand new parenting platform for raising emotionally healthy and spiritually mature kids called Raising Future Legends.
*Once again, thank you to Bernhardt Watches for sponsoring this episode. Click here and be sure to use the code FAMOUS at checkout for free shipping!
https://www.bernhardtwatch.com/
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:03 Life updates
4:03 Identity and purpose for our kids
7:40 What did Jesus mean by the kingdom of God?
13:28 Who our children become and what it means for building for the kingdom of God
17:50 An exciting announcement about Raising Future Legends
24:07 An invitation into a new way of living and parenting
Show Notes:
Sign up for Raising Future Legends!
www.raisingfuturelegends.com
Reserve your seat for Tender & Fierce Fall Cohort beginning August 17, 2026: https://www.famousathome.com/offers/V75F6bY2
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Follow Josh on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/joshua.straub
Follow Christi on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/christistraub
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome
Thanks to our sponsor: Bernhardt Watches! Use the code FAMOUS at checkout for free shipping!
https://www.bernhardtwatch.com/

Letting Go of Old Assignments to Lead Your Family Into New Seasons Jun 03, 2026

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After a break with family and a slower pace of life, Josh returns with some existential questions, one in particular that's been sitting heavy: Am I conforming to what everyone else around me is doing, or am I "appointing" my time well with the people who need me most?
Drawing from Isaiah 43, Psalm 90, and Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Josh walks through what it looks like to grieve the past well, release the assignments of old, and step fully into the season God has for your family right now.
He further unpacks how sweetening retrospect—or nostalgically living in the past—can breed depression, how anxiety about the future keeps us from the present, and why the mundane drive-time moments are shaping the hearts of your children more than you realize. A practical, honest reset if you're catching yourself distracted or not as intentional as you wish you might be.
** Thank you to Bernhardt Watches for sponsoring this episode! Click here and be sure to use the code FAMOUS at checkout for free shipping!
https://www.bernhardtwatch.com/
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:05 A podcast and Straub family update
4:00 What we learned being out of the country and the lessons it’s teaching me
8:45 Upcoming Famous at Home cohorts
10:20 The existential questions about what matters and why we make the decisions we do
15:03 How the nostalgia of the past keeps us from moving into a new season with our kids
21:20 Practicing the presence of the moment without your mind racing
23:40 “Appointing” versus conforming
30:42 How God builds our faith now to prepare us for what He’s preparing for us in the next, new season
34:12 Stepping into the “new season” for your marriage
37:15 Practical ways to “appoint our days” and be present in the moment with our kids
41:00 Number 1 regret of the dying
Show Notes:
Reserve your seat for Tender & Fierce Fall Cohort beginning August 17, 2026: https://www.famousathome.com/offers/V75F6bY2
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for the Your Family Purpose online video series to build emotional safety and set your family values
https://www.famousathome.com/your-family-purpose
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Follow Josh on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/joshua.straub
Follow Christi on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/christistraub
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome
** Grab your Bernhardt Watch: http://bernhardtwatch.com/
Use code FAMOUS at checkout for FREE shipping

Why Your Communication Type Matters with Jason VanRuler Apr 29, 2026

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Have you ever had a conversation with a loved one go in a completely different direction than what you saw coming? Your intention was there, but the way your loved one received it was nothing in the way you intended it?
Our good friend, Jason VanRuler, started to see this pattern in many of the people he had come into therapy. Conversations between people -- where everything was at stake -- and the intentions were there, but someone inevitably walked away feeling hurt, unseen, or even abandoning the relationship altogether. What one person meant isn’t what the other person heard.
So Jason asked himself, “Why does it sometimes land well, and other times not?”
The more research he did, the more he learned predictable patterns that led to 5 primary communication types: Peace, Advocate, Thinking, Harbor, and Spark. Each one with a strength and each one with an opportunity. Not only that, each person has their own primary and secondary type.
In this episode, Jason unveils each type, how we develop our own, and how we can better understand how our spouse, kids, and loved ones communicate with us. We get into marital dynamics and why we usually marry someone with similar secondary type, but the trouble that can arise when we realize we don’t have the same primary one. We also talk about how knowing the types can help us communicate at a deeper level with our kids.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Jason VanRuler joins the show!
4:34 Why these communication types matters
6:00 Jason introduces the 5 PATHS of communication
11:16 Where our personal communication style comes from
14:05 Strengths and weaknesses of each communication type
20:20 The communication types in our children and how we give what we didn’t get
25:05 How different communication types serve us in marriage
Show Notes:
Get Jason’s new book Discovering Your Communication Type: The 5 Paths to Deeper Connections and Stronger Relationships: https://amzn.to/4sZzbwc
Check out Jason’s website: www.jasonvr.com
Reserve your seat for Tender & Fierce Fall Cohort beginning August 17, 2026: https://www.famousathome.com/offers/V75F6bY2
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

Calling Out Purpose in Your Children Apr 15, 2026

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Quick note: We announced the Tender and Fierce fall cohort. See show notes below.
What’s the first question we ask our kids in kindergarten? “What do you want to BE when you grow up?” We do our children a disservice by asking this question because the very nature of the phrase implies that what you DO is who you are.
What about for ourselves as adults? What does it means to live in “fullness of life,” even when our circumstances might not match our heart’s desire? Perhaps Teresa of Avila held a clue to this mystery when she said, “God is among the pots and the pans.”
In this episode, Josh and Christi define what we mean by the word “purpose” and also identify other flaws of our modern cultural understanding of purpose and how it influences how we shepherd the hearts of our kids. One question to consider, “Is our understanding of purpose, especially when raising our children, filtered through a biblical lens?” In other words, who is God calling our children to “become?”
Josh and Christi also discuss Christi’s own “mid-life” crisis, the many layers of purpose, what the Bible tells us about meaning, and how we squelch our children’s desire for purpose even in early childhood.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:40 Welcome to our own mid-life crisis
4:40 Tender & Fierce fall cohort announcement!
5:40 Christi’s mid-life crisis and rethinking what “purpose” really is
13:00 The layers of purpose and helping our children find theirs
20:00 Ecclesiastes and the discovery of meaning
23:20 Finding “fullness of life” no matter your life circumstances or current occupation / role
29:07 What keeps us from living in purpose
33:00 What multiplication and expansion of our purpose actually means
Show Notes:
Reserve your seat for Tender & Fierce Fall Cohort beginning August 17, 2026: https://www.famousathome.com/offers/V75F6bY2
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download the Famous at Home app from Apple, click here.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/famous-at-home/id6502221394
Download the Famous at Home app from Google Play, click here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kj2147486660.app2&hl=en_US
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

Raising Confident, Resourceful, and Resilient Kids Mar 25, 2026

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We all want our kids to be confident, resourceful, and to know what they’re good at. The trouble is that we make two big mistakes as parents: We either don’t give them enough challenge, or we burn them out with too much.
Do your kids know that they have what it takes to overcome struggle?
Do they feel confident in knowing what to do when it comes to life skills and everyday tasks like cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, or taking care of animals?
Do they know what they’re good at and have a healthy sense of what to do with things they’re not good at?
We call this resourcefulness, and it’s one of the most important traits to cultivate in our kids.
What is resourcefulness?
How do we offer a healthy dose of both support and challenge to help our kids build resilience?
What do you do when you see things in your kids they don’t see in themselves?
These are the questions we tackle in this episode.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:24 What resourcefulness is and the two extremes we tend to take as parents
7:40 The good and hard of giving children responsibility
12:03 Giving kids support while offering challenge
19:38 How to know if you’ve over-supported or over-challenged
24:15 When you see things in your kids they don’t see in themselves
30:00 When you push beyond what you think you’re capable of
Show Notes:
Get 10 Days of the Easter Story: A Family Experience Through the Feelings of Holy Week
https://amzn.to/4lpPGQf
Join our KidsRQ Community: www.kidsrq.com
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download the Famous at Home app from Apple, click here.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/famous-at-home/id6502221394
Download the Famous at Home app from Google Play, click here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kj2147486660.app2&hl=en_US
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The Feeling of Joy: Why it Scares us + How to Pass it on Mar 20, 2026

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Get ready for the early episode pivot in this one, folks. Talking about their marriage a few minutes into recording, Josh and Christi had a moment that sent them spiraling into laughter. The atmosphere shifted, so they shifted with it. And the result?
A conversation about joy!
In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about why joy can be so difficult to feel. “We’re actually scared of joy,” Christi says. “It is such an intense emotion that our bodies feel under threat.” Christi goes on to say, “The feeling of joy is so big that you can’t start at 95%, you have to begin by micro-dosing it at about 5%.”
But feel it we must. The Bible says that the joy of the Lord is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10). If it strengthens us, it must be dangerous for darkness. No wonder it takes courage to feel it. Like anything else, joy is caught, not taught. Josh and Christi talk about how to overcome the fear, shift the atmosphere, and pass joy onto our kids.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:24 10 Days of the Easter Story
2:53 Josh & Christi’s wedding story
5:55 The unexpected pivot into joy
7:30 Shifting the spiritual atmosphere for joy
13:10 Left brain knowledge of versus right brain experience of joy
17:52 How joy is birthed within us
21:16 God is a joyful God
28:14 Why we’re afraid of joy
31:30 How to micro-dose moments of joy in your life
34:01 Practical ways to experience joy and pass it onto your kids
42:55 Ways to make joy not feel threatening
Show Notes:
Get 10 Days of the Easter Story: A Family Experience Through the Feelings of Holy Week
https://amzn.to/4lpPGQf
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download the Famous at Home app from Apple, click here.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/famous-at-home/id6502221394
Download the Famous at Home app from Google Play, click here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kj2147486660.app2&hl=en_US
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

Inner Child Parts, Epigenetic Transmission, and Parenting Mar 11, 2026

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Have you felt yourself revert back to a child in the way you react to your kids, or a particular situation?
Watching from the sideline, Josh recently had a moment where his inner child wounds collided with the reality of the his son’s experience on the soccer field. When we come face-to-face with the dissonance between the way we REACT, and the way we want to ACT, something deeper is often at play. Becoming mindful of those moments, and how we respond to them, influences what we pass onto our kids.
In this episode, Josh & Christi talk about how to identify an unhealed inner child “part” of yourself, give examples of redeemed and unhealed epigenetic transmission, and provide a beautiful example of how Jesus meets us right where we are.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 The messages we picked up in childhood in order to fit in
6:15 How to identify an unhealed inner child “part” of yourself
9:13 Examples of epigenetic transmission of unresolved inner child pain
17:37 The motivation of our parental decisions
20:30 Disappointment, condemnation, and the feelings of Holy Week
28:56 How Jesus’ restoration of Peter is for all of us
Show Notes:
Easter is coming up! Get 10 Days of the Easter Story: A Family Experience Through the Feelings of Holy Week
https://amzn.to/4lpPGQf
Interested in our Spring Love Your Marriage Cohort? Apply now. Starts March 30.
https://www.famousathome.com/loveyourmarriage
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter

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

Why Emotional Safety is the Bedrock of Parenting Mar 04, 2026

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In this episode, we lay the foundation for what really matters most when it comes to raising Gen Alpha kids—emotional safety. It’s also the beginning of how we got started with Famous at Home — discovering the power of, and talking about how to cultivate, a posture of emotional safety in our homes for our kids.
As we continue season 8 on Parenting Gen Alpha, we define what emotional safety is and why it matters for getting every outcome we desire in our kids.
We also talk about the four walls of parenting, the importance of reparenting our own inner child, and why emotional safety is so important to who our kids are becoming.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction and insight into Josh and Christi’s current day-to-day as parents
3:20 Setting the stage for today's topic
7:21 What emotional safety is and why it matters
11:13 Being able to bring the fullness of who you are to the relationship
13:50 Support and challenge in parenting
16:55 Reparenting our own inner child
21:02 Leading in grace and following in truth
25:49 Emotional safety and the need for community
Show Notes:
Get Safe House: How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well:
https://amzn.to/4rc52c9
Ladies, sign up here for Spring Tender & Fierce Cohort!
https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce
Interested in our Spring Love Your Marriage Cohort? Apply now. Starts March 30.
https://www.famousathome.com/loveyourmarriage
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The One Factor For Raising Resilient Kids Feb 25, 2026

Show notes

One of the most intriguing, humbling, and challenging aspects of being a parent is how our kids mirror who WE are.
And what’s really difficult are the societal — or cultural — norms shaping who we are as humans.
Who are we becoming as adults?
How are the decisions we make shaping our kids?
Do our unrealized emotions influence how resilient our kids are becoming?
As we continue our series on Raising Gen Alpha Kids, these are questions Dr. Josh and Christi address. Some highlights include:

What it means to “choose your hard”
How loneliness becomes a byproduct of self-protection
How silence plays itself out in marriage and the cost it has on our kids
What if you’re exhausted and can’t choose the hard thing?
The joy and “hard” of helping our kids build resilience

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:28 Ways to go deeper
7:30 Choosing your hard
11:40 Loneliness and the environment of the home
16:19 How loneliness becomes a byproduct of our self-protection
20:03 How silence plays itself out in marriage and the cost it has on our kids
23:10 What if you’re exhausted and can’t choose the hard thing?
27:48 Choosing a different kind of “hard”
32:41 The joy and “hard” of helping our kids build resilience
Show Notes:
Ladies, sign up here for Spring Tender & Fierce Cohort!
https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce
Interested in our Spring Love Your Marriage Cohort? Apply now. Starts March 30.
https://www.famousathome.com/loveyourmarriage
Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching
Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching
Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter
Download the Famous at Home app from Apple, click here.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/famous-at-home/id6502221394
Download the Famous at Home app from Google Play, click here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kj2147486660.app2&hl=en_US
Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

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