268 | necessary pruning in life

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today we dove into a topic we’ve been talking a lot about ever since we became parents of three kids and that’s “pruning” in our lives. After we became a family of five we really had to sit down and figure out what was the best use of our time and take a look at our top priorities. We ended up having several things we knew we needed to cut out for the sake of the goals we have for our family, marriage and career. We’ve talked so much about this topic and we would love to hear if you can relate :) We hope this episode inspires you to re-evaluate what’s really important to you and align your time and energy with those priorities. We love you guys! Love, Shawn & Andrew Check out the SKIMS Ultimate Bra Collection and more at https://www.skims.com/couplethings #skimspartner 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 #Relationships #Family #Priorities #ShawnAndAndrew #Pruning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.3	With Sean and Andrew.
0:03.3	Today's episode is all about pruning.
0:07.2	That's right. Pruning. Another title for this episode could have been necessary endings in life.
0:12.0	But that is a book title.
0:13.0	That is a book title. We actually had the opportunity to sit down and interview Dr. Henry Cloud and his wife, Tori, who wrote a book called Necessary Endings.
0:21.8	And I read that book about two years ago.
0:23.8	And I would say this philosophy shaped our strategy and approach in 2024 and still has
0:32.0	trickle effects in 2025.
0:33.9	But Sean and I are both operating with the default of starting a lot of things.
0:41.1	We?
0:41.8	I think we both like to start a lot of things.
0:44.6	We?
0:45.4	You don't, are you saying you don't?
0:47.4	I think I tend to start a lot less than you.
0:50.6	That's probably fair.
0:52.0	Yeah.
0:52.5	But the side effect of that is maybe not seeing everything through
0:58.1	that I start or maybe not doing everything with as much excellence as each thing might
1:03.0	deserve because you probably don't have the bandwidth too that's right also kind of this
1:08.7	unending busyness.
1:12.1	And so anyway, I read this book.
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