79 Stephen and Amanda Miller

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week on Couple Things, we got to chat with power couple Stephen and Amanda Miller! We dive into marriage, family, and adoption with these two beautiful souls. Join us for an amazing and powerful conversation! Here are the topics that we cover: 0:00 introduction 7:29 what it was like jumping into parenting 8:15 the journey of becoming pregnant as teenagers 21:15 what fears did you have going into adopting? 25:27 what type of parents would do well with adoption? 28:58 how do you deal with the identity of all your children? 33:06 how do you keep the identity in your relationship with 7 kids? 38:42 the importance of reminding yourselves why you fell in love 40:31 how did you get into youtube? 46:50 why they didn’t do youtube from the start 51:35 advice for adoption and parenting 55:35 lessons from Lincoln's brain surgery 59:20 best piece of advice You can follow the Millers on Instagram here ▶ https://www.instagram.com/THEMILLERFAM/ The Miller Family's website is linked here ▶ https://www.themillerfam.co ANDD....WE ARE GOING ON TOUR!! Check out the link below to see if we are coming to a city near you in 2022! Click here to get your tickets now ▶ https://www.couplethingspod.com/ We are sponsored by these companies that we love. Check them out below: ZOLA ▶ ZOLA.com/couplethings promo code: SAVE50 UPSTART ▶ upstart.com/EastFam Don’t forget to use our URL to let them know we sent you! SLING ▶ Go to sling.com/EastFam to sign up now and get your first month for just $10! 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/couplething... 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	Presence is the most important thing and same with marriage too giving my children the honor of my eyes
0:07.5	Instead of the you know the top of my head looking down at a phone
0:10.8	That's a really big struggle, but I think that that would cover a whole gamut of things
0:21.8	What's up everybody welcome back to couple things with Sean and Andrew a podcast all about couples and the things they go through today
0:28.8	We have a treat for you. We have Stephen and Amanda Miller. That's right family of nine Miller party of nine come and that's you
0:36.5	So seven kids both biological and adopted. Yes
0:40.5	Their story is amazing. Yeah, it just we're only a family of four. We don't know how they do it
0:46.3	We have so much to learn from them. Imagine even trying to get restaurant reservations. No bonkers
0:51.7	It is we were fortunate enough they recently moved to Nashville
0:55.5	So we did this episode in person, which is always a rare treat
0:59.6	We had him over for lunch then we sat down with him and boy died and did I enjoy getting to know them?
1:04.5	They had such cool perspective on the meaning of family and how it all blends together and
1:11.1	Just hearing how hearing about each and every one of their kids. It was just really cool
1:16.3	I feel like we have a lot to learn anyway, so thank you Stephen and Amanda for joining us
1:19.8	It was a true pleasure and we're excited to see our friendship grow
1:23.2	If you want to find out about the Miller family will link all their information down below and we got to do a comment of the week
1:29.1	One second so today's coming of the week comes from last week's episode
1:32.7	There's a lot of people who work cited about the Phil Donahue Marlowe Thomas
1:37.7	Interview rightfully so I'm still geek that we we got that to happen
1:41.6	But let's see Colbertan says fantastic interview love Phil Donahue and Marlowe
1:47.1	Valerie says oh my gosh such a beautiful episode full of wisdom. I loved it
1:50.7	And then Dan says Sean you look amazing your great mom daughter and overall person
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