103 How To Make Friends ft. Jennie Allen

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week on Couple Things, we sit down with Jennie and Zac Allen! .We talk about how to gain deeper relationships with your friends and family, the ebbs and flows of marriage, and working through conflict. We also discuss her upcoming book 'Find Your People,' which focuses on how to build a meaningful community around you. Check out all of her social media and book below! Instagram: @jennieallen @ifgathering Facebook: facebook.com/jenniesallen facebook.com/IFgathering Book link: https://www.jennieallen.com/find-your-people We are sponsored by these companies that we love. Check them out below: Better Help ▶ Visit betterhelp.com/EASTFAM and join the over 1,000,000people who have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional• Our Couple things listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/EASTFAM. HOP WTR ▶ For a limited time,, we have a special offer just for our listeners… Get 20% off your first purchase! Plus, get Free Shipping when you order 24 cans or more. To get this offer, go to hopwtr.com and use our promo code EASTFAM to get 20% off PLUS free shipping. Athletic Greens ▶ Athletic Greens Is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/eastfam. If you haven’t yet, please rate Couple Things and subscribe to hear more. Follow us on Instagram to keep the conversation going at https://www.instagram.com/couplethings... And if you have suggestions/recommendations for the show, send us your ideas in a video format – we might just choose yours! Email us at [email protected]. Subscribe for more! http://bit.ly/3rnOdNo Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Twitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/ShawnJohnson Snapchat! ▶ @ShawneyJ Follow AndrewsTwitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/AndrewDEast Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast Snapchat! ▶ @AndrewDEast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're not close friends with anyone until you've gone through a conflict.
0:03.3	Because you will eventually have a conflict and then you know that's a close friend.
0:07.7	When you when you work it out and you deal with it together and you forgive each other
0:13.4	and then you're okay again, that is a good friend because you know that's not going to end.
0:19.0	That that you can go through and weather conflict.
0:27.0	What's up everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.
0:29.1	What's Sean and Andrew? The podcast all about couples and the things they go through.
0:33.7	Today was an awesome interview. We have Jenny and Zach Allen.
0:37.0	That's right. Our audience was really excited about this. They used the word icon
0:41.8	when describing Jenny and Zach. So Jenny is a New York Times best-selling author.
0:46.8	She is coming out with a book called Find Your People on February 22nd.
0:51.6	You might have heard of her other books like Get Out of Your Head made for this.
0:56.9	Nothing to prove, restless, anything and stuck. She has a lot of books.
1:01.6	Between her and her husband they had so much advice on building communities,
1:05.1	gaining deeper relationships with their friends, your family and the community around you
1:09.4	and how to get things, how to get through things like drama and gossip and superficial relationships
1:15.0	that we all struggle with. Which is really important you know because you
1:18.1	have to make it through conflict to have impactful relationships.
1:23.0	So her husband Zach was a pastor and now he does other things like being the CEO
1:29.5	of a company called Sport Ice which we do a little bit. He's also a rancher.
1:33.2	Yeah, they have some pretty cool stories. They do.
1:36.3	And we really enjoy talking with Jenny and Zach. So if you want to find out more about them
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