AP 121: Choosing Humor in Challenging Times || with Shaun and Nicole Johnson of @thejohnsonfiles

About Progress

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Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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No matter how you crack it, life is plain hard. To endure it well, learn to laugh alongside the tears! Shaun and Nicole Johnson have inspired thousands of people to find the silver lining in their struggles because they've done the same for themselves. Their Instagram pageis full of posts of lip synching and hilarious skits that have inspired so much fun and laughter. But the greater purpose behind sharing them? Shaun and Nicole are seeking the humor through the trials they face as a married couple, including years of infertility, and they hope to inspire others to find that light for themselves, too. Listen in to hear how CHOICE and OPENNESS have both been important threads to the Johnson's unity throughout their difficulties, and why humor has been a wonderful method to unifying them. Learn how they are just a normal couple doing their best (read: don't compare yourself or your marriage to them!), why you need to feel the hard emotions in order to move forward, and what this can look like for you. Show Notes: The Johnson's Instagramand Website Progress Program!!! Doors for application are open for just another week! Contact Monica for podcast consultingand Progress CoachingSong Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Warm Lights" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to About Progress. I am your host Monica Packer and I am here to teach you how to take back your life and dared to progress
0:14.8	towards bettering yourself, honing your gifts, and using them for good in the
0:19.6	world. Listen in to be inspired by others who are walking the same path of self-improvement paired with self-love,
0:27.0	and to be a part of a community that knows life is about progress, not perfection. You probably will not be surprised to hear that I tend to
0:37.6	err on the serious side of life. I know, surprise right but truly this is not my favorite trade
0:48.0	about myself and it's something I've been truly working on especially within
0:51.8	the cultural dynamics of my little family.
0:55.7	We have been working on trying to add a little bit more silliness, some more fun, a little
1:02.0	bit more levity and creativity, and I'm not lying when I tell you that this was almost 100% inspired by the couple I'm going to share my interview with today.
1:14.0	Sean and Nicole Johnson are on the show. You might be familiar with them from
1:19.0	their Instagram profile called the Johnson files. They share videos, lip sinks, just
1:27.3	humorous posts about life and things we all know that are done in such a way that makes you laugh hysterically.
1:35.8	I have cried laughing over many of these videos, but seeing how they engage with each
1:41.2	other and with other people, how they
1:44.0	choose to find the silliness and joy and happiness in their lives has inspired so much of that in my own.
1:51.0	And recently the Johnsons were really bold and in kind to share the struggles they've been
1:57.2	through of infertility of their six-year marriage and today we're going to chat about how choosing to find the humor in their
2:06.0	trials has been for them. Now it's not an easy choice it's something that they have
2:10.8	had to work on and part of that has until learning how to truly
2:15.1	feel the hard emotions they are going through and sharing them together and with others.
2:20.6	The Johnsons go into this as well as sharing how they hope people learn from them to choose the joy, to choose the openness, and to also know that you can't compare yourself to other people on Instagram that were all
2:35.8	experiencing life and it can be hard but that you can be like them too and step into
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