182 | regaining sanity as a parent with Justin Whitmel and Lauren Earley

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Today we sat down with writer, author and lawyer, Justin Whitmel Earley, to chat all about the impact of friendship. Deep friendships have the power to change your life but because of today’s “hustle culture,” busyness, and the fear of vulnerability many people have, these deep friendships are harder to come by. Justin’s newest book, “Made For People” is all about how we are made for community and connection yet in today’s world, people are lonelier than ever. This episode will inspire you to deepen your friendships, fight loneliness, prioritize friendships in a faced-pace world and more! Order Justin’s book “Made For People” below! https://www.zondervan.com/p/made-for-people/ For more FamilyMade shows ▶https://www.familymade.com/podcasts Follow Shawn’s Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow Shawn’s Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow Andrew’s Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Andrew’s Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewdeast?lang=en Like the Facebook page! ▶ https://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast Love you guys! Shawn and Andrew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:05.2	you mythical status or get you a nickname like Mad Dog or Dragon's Breath. It's hot. Good hot.
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0:15.2	Drizzle from Dominoes, it will get you fired up. Subject to availability.
0:20.0	What's up everybody, welcome back to a couple things. We're Sean and Andrew. A podcast
0:23.7	all about couples and the things they go through. And Andrew said this is probably the best
0:28.5	interview we've had yet. Listen, I don't always fan boy, but Justin Whitmore early is one of my
0:34.9	favorite authors. He wrote a book called Habit to the Household, which has drastically changed my
0:40.0	perspective of parenting and the day-to-day that is involved with parenting. And he recently came
0:45.0	out to book called Made for People, which is about friendships, which is an interesting topic when
0:49.9	you're an adult and you have kids and less time to make friends. So him and his wife Laurence
0:54.8	it down with us. We talked through Habits to the Household, how it got started, why they started
1:00.7	changing the habits in their life, especially when it as it pertains to kids. They then talk
1:06.8	about Made for People, the other book about how to make friends as adults, the importance of it,
1:12.2	why our world is so lonely. And yeah, they're great people. They're very wise.
1:20.4	This is actually his third book. His first one was The Common Rule, and also Lauren has her own
1:25.9	list that she has online called Laurence List, where she's thoughtfully collected different batches,
1:31.1	whether it be picture books or kids books or materials for adults. Anyway, what strikes me and
1:37.5	is so impressive to me about these two is just their thoughtfulness and ability to
1:43.5	provide vocabulary and like a grid of navigating life. So whether it be parenting and
1:48.9	habits of the household, they break down each day into 10 different phases and give you very
1:54.1	tangible practical at the end of each chapter, things to try, things to say. And it's like so helpful
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