Shawn Johnson East & Andrew East
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Despite Olympic gold, NFL dreams, and a life that looked perfect from the outside, Shawn Johnson East and Andrew East faced identity crises, hard pivots, and unexpected lessons that came after the applause faded. They open up about marriage, parenthood, and why chasing achievement isn’t the same thing as finding joy. And Shawn shares the surprising reason some of her happiest moments had nothing to do with winning a medal.
"Courage to Commit: Embrace the Radical Power of Sticking with Something" is in bookstores now.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome back to Work in Progress, friends. |
| 0:21.6 | I am so excited today to sit down with a couple that I, frankly, adore. |
| 0:29.6 | I have such a good time watching them live out their extraordinary dreams, and my goodness, they have been doing that for quite a time. Today we're sitting down with |
| 0:38.9 | Sean Johnson and Andrew East. You know Sean from winning Olympic gold and Andrew from competing |
| 0:45.6 | at the very highest level of professional football in the NFL. But what inspires me about the two |
| 0:51.2 | of them is that their defining moments weren't just back on the balance |
| 0:56.2 | beam or out on the football field. They took place in their quiet daily routines. They've taken |
| 1:03.2 | place in the life they have found beyond sport, in the marriage they've built between themselves, |
| 1:09.7 | in the family that they have with their three |
| 1:12.2 | children. And they really have come to share with the world what they know and what we can all do |
| 1:22.7 | on ordinary days that can be just as meaningful as once in a lifetime milestones. The way they've |
| 1:29.4 | built their life beyond sport, growing a digital platform, navigating a long-distance relationship |
| 1:35.5 | and career pivots, and all the rest of it in real time is something that I love to observe, |
| 1:42.9 | and I know I'm not alone, because everyone always asks them what their |
| 1:46.4 | secret is to their joyful partnership and the way that they live their life. What I appreciate |
| 1:52.5 | about Sean and Andrew is that they're the first to admit that it takes a lot of work to make it |
| 1:57.2 | look as effortless as it seems. And now they are putting all of that work down on the page in their new book, |
| 2:06.3 | Courage to Commit, which is out now. |
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