Relational Joy: Why You Need It and How to Grow It

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Think about the deep neurobiological connection happening in your brain as you walk into a room and encounter someone who lights up at your presence, and the fulfilling sensation of knowing that person is beaming from the inside out with only one message, “I am so glad to be with YOU!”

Without relational joy, there is no relational intelligence. Instead, relational joy is the antidote to the numbing out of our hurried lives because you walk around with a sense of knowing you are seen and loved.

As we continue season 5 on relational intelligence, Josh provides what he calls the “JOY STARTS framework”—four principles and corresponding practices spelling the word JOYS to jumpstart relational joy in your life and in the lives of those around you.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction & Review of Season 5
4:54 Moving from self-protection to experience life-giving relationships
6:27 How our senses are tied to relational joy
11:38 What relational joy feels like
13:11 Introduction to the JOYS STARTS Framework
13:50 Joy is found in the face - practices that increase facial delight
21:40 Our brains are built for connection - practices for sharing joyful moments
25:02 You return to joy, not just peace - practices for redeemed conflict resolution and resilience
30:51 Set rhythms of joy - practices for daily joy rituals
33:32 Practices for building relational joy in a screen-saturated world

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0:00.0	Jesus says in John 15, I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be
0:06.9	complete. And then in Nehemiah 8, the joy of the Lord is your what? It is your strength. Relational
0:14.1	joy is a state of being. It is not circumstantial. And so as you think about living out of relational joy, joy is found
0:26.1	in the face. And that state of being is developed over time when we experience the face of the
0:35.0	face of the Lord Jesus in our lives, the joy of him being in our presence,
0:40.8	and the joy of loved ones around us.
0:43.8	I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down.
0:52.0	I'll just let go and I'll try help me walk this road and find my way back home.
1:16.6	Welcome back to the Famousandone podcast. What a joy to be with you this week. I know, Christy, always says to be, you sound like a radio announcer.
1:25.3	Every time I start. And today is no exception it seems like so
1:29.0	uh it is an honor to be with you guys season five episode seven we are coming to a close this
1:35.5	week in this episode and if you're new to us you just you saw this topic and you're like man
1:41.2	I love what they're talking about right now. I want to click this topic.
1:45.3	We do seven episode seasons and we're wrapping up season five today on relational intelligence.
1:51.9	So many.
1:52.5	I mean, this season could, I mean, we could do an entire podcast on relational intelligence.
1:58.0	We really wanted to hit some hard topics and that's what we've done. Today,
2:02.6	I'm going to try to summarize it all. Unfortunately, Christy's not here. She's up in Canada. We got
2:07.5	part of our family up in Canada. She's helping her family this week. So prayers to them.
2:12.5	They're doing some awesome stuff up there and just some life changes that we will bring to you at some point.
2:18.7	But she's up there helping family. And the other part of our family is here in Tennessee this
2:24.4	week. And so I'm coming to you solo to wrap up this conversation. But as I do, I would
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