267 | are we lucky?

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5.0 • 39.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In today's episode we got to sit down, walk down memory lane and reminisce about how crazy the timeline of our lives has been. It’s wild to think if one thing was slightly off, our whole lives could look entirely different. We truly wouldn’t change a thing :) Let us know what topics you want us to cover in the comments below, we’re gearing up to film some highly requested episodes! 🙂 The books we are reading, including "fluke" mentioned at the end of this episode ▶ https://www.amazon.com/shop/shawnjohnsoneast/list/LJALQY5VSMTD?ref_=aipsflist Love you guys! Shawn and Andrew Get 15% off your order of Chomps meat sticks at Chomps.com with code SHAWN https://www.chomps.com/SHAWN Beam Kids is now available online at https://www.shopbeam.com/COUPLETHINGS Take advantage of our exclusive discount of up to 40% off using code COUPLETHINGS Follow our podcast Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/shawnandandrewpods/ Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletter Follow My Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Shop My LTK Page ▶ https://www.shopltk.com/explore/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 (00:00) how we work over here (01:33) why i feel fortunate in life… (06:35) today’s featured comment (06:58) shawn’s all in… let’s get started (14:14) we’ve lived through the greatest tech boom of the century (15:55) medicine has never been better (16:30) poverty is rapidly declining (17:03) we have incredible education and personal freedoms (18:37) but we’ve also lived through some dark times… (19:34) our timing was “lucky” when we met (28:28) not agreeing on what “luck” is (29:47) being in nashville — is that luck? (31:40) applying luck to the outcome vs. the process (34:43) shawn working with her coach — was that luck? (36:44) andrew’s personal timeline didn’t happen — was that luck? (38:58) marrying young — was that luck? (39:45) starting social media when we did — was that luck? (40:52) i feel fortunate for when our kids were born (41:06) i feel fortunate for where i was when my house burned down (41:55) i feel fortunate for when you went to the olympics (42:20) my football career ended — that feels fortunate (42:50) i’m grateful for my team (44:06) i’m grateful for my vandy experience and the timing of our wedding (44:30) i feel fortunate that our growth came slowly… and that things didn’t happen how we thought they would (45:17) “flukes” and letting things unfold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody?
0:00.9	Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.1	With Sean and Andrew.
0:03.2	Today's topic is, our timing was the luckiest.
0:06.0	I'm very excited about this.
0:07.5	This is another one of those that you had everything to do with it, and I had nothing.
0:11.6	And I, let's see where it goes.
0:14.4	So let me tell you how we work over here.
0:16.4	Yeah.
0:16.8	We have a wonderful team who is very patient with us. And pretty much what we'll do is we'll have brainstorming sessions for short form video,
0:23.8	for YouTube videos, for podcast, and we'll throw some ideas at the wall.
0:28.4	And then it'll sit there as a list and we'll kind of just sort through which ones come
0:32.5	most naturally and are easiest to produce, as they say.
0:36.5	So then once we have those ideas, producing them,
0:39.5	looks like making a little outline, talking through like the intro, what's the flow of the show
0:44.6	going to be, how can we make it a compelling storyline, give it a story arc, make sure that it
0:48.4	makes sense, the flow of the whole thing. And this one has been on our idealist for two years, I think.
0:56.0	This is an idea you had.
0:57.9	Why do you feel so compelled to talk about luck?
1:01.3	Because I think it goes against everything you believe.
1:04.9	This is why I'm excited.
1:07.5	This is why I'm excited to unpack all of that.
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