Episode 7: The Rawest Moment of the Season

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Welcome to today’s BONUS episode! We’re doing two reactions this week so we’re all caught up for the finale next week!! In Episode 7, we were hit hard. Shawn had a very real conversation with the DS about her perfectionism and what it means to keep her emotions in check. Then came the letters… and yep, they turned us into full on blubbery messes. It was emotional in the best way- probably the most meaningful challenge so far. Let us know what you thought about this episode, and we’ll see you again on Wednesday for EPISODE 8! Love you guys, Shawn and Andrew Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletter Follow our podcast Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/shawnandandrewpods/ 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) we are getting back on track (00:58) mind maps and organizing our brains (11:15) losing mark, christie, and the effects of murder ball (16:16) the schedule for day 7 (17:34) the gas mask challenge and navigating our partners (21:30) the tone change on day 7 and the power of disappointment (23:10) letting the ds down and our own personal struggles (25:09) andrew’s gas mask challenge (30:08) the team’s constructive feedback moment and finding the breaking points (32:30) shawn’s interview and the deep personal takeaways from this experience (42:10) fox’s edits and how it has all been portrayed (44:55) our death letters and the impact it had on us (49:50) answering your questions 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.
0:02.2	With Sean and Andrew.
0:03.7	And welcome to episode seven. I know we got it wrong last time. I think we said episode five, two weeks in a row. And we didn't post episode five. We posted episode six first. That's honestly my fault. I want to do that live stream, which then jumbled up the whole schedule. And then we had... I thought it was a bad idea. But I think it was worth it. Are we back on track? No. We have to post episode five and then we'll post episode seven. I think we just post episode five and let's have seven go live on time. Maybe we'll do that. Maybe we'll do that. Maybe we'll do that. Anyways, I got nervous for this episode, guys. Why? Because it's where they finally featured my interview, and I had no idea what to expect. It's funny, as we were watching this, in the very beginning, you can kind of see who the episode's going to be about by who they include in the early interviews, and it was like, Cody and Sean. Cody and me, why have to be Cody and me? Whatever.
0:54.7	It's great.
0:55.8	It is great.
0:56.8	There's a lot to debrief here.
0:58.2	Before we get to the debrief, though, do we have any personal life updates?
1:01.4	Anything going on?
1:03.2	A lot going on.
1:05.3	My brain feels a little overwhelmed today.
1:07.1	Why is that?
1:08.4	Missed a couple meetings.
1:10.6	A lot of few people down.
1:12.6	Self-deprecating Sean is now coming out.
1:15.5	You didn't let me down.
1:17.4	Thanks.
1:18.1	And I love you.
1:19.0	I love you.
1:20.8	There's just a lot.
1:21.8	It's a really, really busy time of year, no matter what.
1:25.4	The fall and holidays, as any parent knows knows is filled with so much magic and so much
1:31.6	responsibility and on top of that it's our busiest time of year with like charity events the charity
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