Shawn Johnson East & Andrew East On Reinvention, Relationship Advice, & Building A Purpose Driven Life
The Bossticks
Dear Media
4.4 • 15.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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#985: Join us as we sit down with Shawn Johnson East and Andrew East – former elite athletes, entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, and parents of three. Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson East and former NFL athlete Andrew East have continued their success story beyond sports; sharing the unfiltered realities of marriage, parenthood, and entrepreneurship to their digital community. Together, they host the hit podcast Couple Things and recently co-authored, The Courage to Commit. In this episode, Shawn and Andrew open up about navigating major identity shifts after their athletic careers, building a business together while raising a young family, creating healthy boundaries between work and home, and why persistence has been the driving force behind every chapter of their lives. They also share their approach to communication, commitment, personal growth, and we dive into what it truly takes to build a lasting partnership – both in business and in marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bostics starring Lauren Bostic and Michael Bostic. |
| 0:07.0 | Together, they are the Bostics. |
| 0:15.0 | So why did you guys decide to start a podcast as a couple? |
| 0:18.0 | Because that's what crazy people do. |
| 0:20.0 | It's what crazy people do.'s what crazy people do we spend |
| 0:21.0 | every week and second together oh well well do you want the actual story yes give us the actual story |
| 0:26.9 | uh i got pregnant with our first child our daughter drew and seven days was it seven days |
| 0:34.1 | it's about right yeah seven days after I gave birth, he started the podcast. |
| 0:37.8 | He launched it. |
| 0:39.0 | Just by yourself? |
| 0:39.5 | We never talked about doing it. |
| 0:41.0 | He launched, no, no, with no, with no episode. What do you mean? You just launched it by yourself? He came up with the name. He came up with a concept and he launched it. And he said, he's sent out on Apple Podcast. He was like, we're starting a podcast. |
| 0:52.6 | I didn't really know about this is a great marriage. |
| 0:55.3 | This probably sent us in therapy. |
| 0:57.0 | Mistakes were made. |
| 0:57.9 | Mistakes. podcast. He's like, we're starting a podcast. I didn't really know about this is a great marriage. |
| 0:55.3 | This probably sent us in therapy. Mistakes were made. Yeah. It charted. So then we had no, |
| 1:01.0 | no choice but to like do the thing. I was so pissed. I was so mad. But weren't you excited that it |
| 1:07.5 | charted that way? People were excited for you guys to do a show. Yeah, but I was most part of my first kid. Michael. I was like, you have, you sound, she was seven days postpartum. I was. Michael. It was crazy. But I will say it's like our favorite thing that we do now because we get to have like actual real conversations with people, which is really cool. And we talk about relationships. |
| 1:28.6 | Well, we were talking before we started about like just some of the mutual friends we have. And I'm sure if we start to like go down the list, the reason that we started doing this and why we like it so much is because we get to meet so many incredible people. I mean, like we wouldn't we we wouldn't be sitting here with you guys without the show. And it's been like a real, you know, |
| 1:46.1 | everyone tries to go to these networking events |
| 1:47.6 | and do these things. That's so uncomfortable for me to stand around with the cocktail and they'll be like, oh, God, hopefully someone talks to me. But this, you get to basically go to anyone with any platform, say, hey, do you want to come talk about whatever you're doing for hour, two hours? Yeah. Tell them about the text that you got sent today about what your friend said about them. |
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