33 Matthew + Emily West

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today in episode 33 of Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew, we’re chatting with contemporary Christian musician Matthew West and his incredible wife, Emily. Topics we cover: - First impressions (Matthew and Emily were engaged after 3 months!) - Pursuing a friendship first - Using laughter to get through hard times - Loving who you are, not what you do - Enduring hardship and finding gifts in trials - Refusing to fail - Being an example for daughters - How not to succumb to the pressure of perfection - Forgiveness and grace—grace for each other, grace from God If you haven’t yet, please rate Couple Things and subscribe to hear more. 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]. Last but not least, learn more about Matthew, Emily, and all they do at the links below. ––– Matthew West ▶ https://www.matthewwest.com “Hello My Name Is” – book ▶ https://www.matthewwest.com/books/hellomynameis “Brand New” – album ▶ https://www.matthewwest.com/music/brandnew The Matthew West Podcast ▶ https://www.matthewwest.com/podcast Follow @matthewjwest on IG ▶ https://www.instagram.com/matthewjwest/ Follow @mrsmwest on IG ▶ https://www.instagram.com/mrsmwest/ ––– We’re supported by the following companies we love! Make sure to check them out using our links below. Glossier! Get a glowy, dewy look and 10% off your first order ▶ https://glossier.com/podcast/EASTFAM Best Fiends! Download Best Fiends FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Learn more ▶ https://bestfiends.com/games/best-fiends/ 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 with Sean and Andrew a podcast all about couples and the things they go through today
0:07.0	We have a treat for you to our favorites Matthew and Emily West
0:10.9	Yeah, we first met them at an Easter brunch and must have been five years ago Andrew
0:16.3	Yeah, but Andrew grew up idolizing Matthew West. He's a Christian singer songwriter. Yeah podcast host five-time author
0:24.8	Non-profit ministry leader husband two-time grow that I mean I could go on yeah
0:30.2	The list goes on and Matthew was and is one of my favorite musicians of all time he has
0:36.2	been nominated for a Grammy five different times he won the 2018
0:40.2	Dove award a songwriter of the year he won an AMA award a billboard music award and a Caleb fan award and his wife Emily is
0:49.0	Way cooler than he is I mean their stories abs. Yes
0:52.5	Their story is absolutely incredible. They talk about how they got engaged within three months of dating and meeting each other
0:59.9	Which is pretty quick if you ask me, but I respect it the story to accompany that is incredible
1:04.8	They talk about the hardships of
1:07.3	Being together and being married while he's on the road and he's on tour and she's a stay-at-home mom
1:12.5	I feel like they just they have a lot of really good insight into how
1:16.9	the life of a musician in the life of a stay-at-home mom kind of works
1:21.7	Yeah, one of my favorite things we talked about was the different expectations for what their family life would look like
1:27.1	One came from a more broken family the other from a pretty
1:30.7	I guess healthy family and so working through that was really interesting and how they
1:36.8	communicated to each other so
1:38.6	Matthew also recently launched a new podcast called the Matthew West podcast and
1:43.3	Today actually our episode with him where he interviews us was released
1:48.1	So go check that out on the iTunes store Spotify wherever you listen to your podcast. We had a blast
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