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Famous at Home

Your biggest fans already live under your roof.

Welcome to the Famous at Home podcast, hosted by marriage and leadership coaches Dr. Josh and Christi Straub. In a world competing for your time, attention, and identity, it’s easy to give your family the leftovers instead of the best of you.

Josh and Christi bring clarity to the rat race we live in with an honest, grace-filled, and often humorous perspective to the real-life challenges families face today. They offer practical coaching strategies you can put into practice right away to have an emotionally safe marriage, be fully present with your kids, and lead with purpose.

Each episode explores topics like marriage, parenting, emotional safety, work-life rhythms, connection, relational joy, and leading well outside the home without sacrificing the people you love most. Think of it as sitting down for coffee with friends who encourage you, challenge you, make you laugh, and help you grow.

Because the greatest red carpet you’ll ever walk is through your front door!

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Copyright: © Josh + Christi Straub

Latest Episodes:

A 150-Year Review on the State of Today's Family Jan 29, 2025

Show notes

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/

Moving Your Family Beyond the Matrix Jan 22, 2025

Show notes

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/

Awakening the Hearts of Your Children Jan 08, 2025

Show notes

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/

7 Ways to Transform the Heart of Your Family Jan 01, 2025

Show notes

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/

Emotions and the Holy Spirit Dec 25, 2024

Show notes

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/

The Complicated Relationship Between the Heart & Nervous System Dec 18, 2024

Show notes

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/

The Courageous, Compassionate, and Cheerful Heart of a Man Dec 11, 2024

Show notes

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/

The Tender & Fierce Heart of a Woman Dec 04, 2024

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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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 What’s coming in 2025
5:40 Introduction to Tender & Fierce
11:03 The meaning behind Tender & Fierce
13:08 What you can expect from the Tender & Fierce cohort
20:10 Who is Tender & Fierce for?
21:27 Why a Tender & Fierce retreat?
24:28 How to awaken your heart to be tender & fierce
32:56 The awakening of a family’s heart
Show Notes:
Sign up for the January 2025 Tender & Fierce Cohort! Sign up here. https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce
Men, interested in The Field Experience? Sign up for Cohort 1 before December 31: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience
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

What is the Condition of Your Heart? Nov 27, 2024

Show notes

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 to your kids? Do you feel full enough to enter into the world of your spouse? No matter the condition of your heart right now, you can reclaim it.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:08 Introduction to Season 2
2:51 Josh’s pet peeve and how it relates to the condition of our heart
6:30 How to measure the condition of your heart
9:53 The supernatural and natural ways of awakening the heart
14:37 Resources for kids and emotions
16:33 The most vital part of who you are and how to identify your emotions
19:59 Season 2 preview
20:46 Your heart and the pursuit of curiosity
28:08 What an awakened heart looks like
Show Notes:
Sign up for the January 2025 Tender & Fierce Cohort! Sign up here. https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce
Men, interested in The Field Experience? Sign up for Cohort 1 before December 31: https://www.famousathome.com/thefieldexperience
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/

Finding Your Way Home to Your Kids Nov 20, 2024

Show notes

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 Introduction
1:15 Behavior versus character
3:53 Why emotional safety in parenting was the heart of how Famous at Home began 
9:00 You’re child is not the only one 
10:55 How to show up with your kids in their BIG feelings
13:10 The single greatest conclusion of parenting research 
17:21 Parenting styles and the Holy Spirit 
20:00 Marital satisfaction and parenting 
20:52 How do you act as a child? Why we have to play the long game.
22:10 Research on emotion coaching kids
23:45 Navigating judgment and your own healing as a parent
28:45 The two filters Josh is using to parent his kids 
31:17 The single greatest parenting strategy for raising kids
Show Notes:
Sign up for the January 2025 Tender & Fierce Cohort! Sign up here. https://www.famousathome.com/tenderandfierce
Men, interested in The Field Experience? Join the interest list! https://www.famousathome.com/mensinterestform
Order a copy of the Famous at Home book to put your family center stage. Click here: https://amzn.to/3y1jJFz
Order a copy of Safe House: Why Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well https://amzn.to/3Zpeui5
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/

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