Hi, friends, welcome to another episode of That Sounds Fun, spiritually stronger.

I'm your host Annie F. Downs. I'm so happy to be with you today. Okay, did you hear the episode

on Friday? Have you heard the whole song of spiritually stronger? Did you get to stream it yet? What do you think? Tell me, tell me, tell me. We are so happy that that song is available to you wherever you love to listen to music. Today, we're jumping back in to our rhythms as we've been doing since the beginning of the year,

where we're talking about what helps us become spiritually stronger.

In a world we cannot control, we can be spiritually stronger.

And now we're going to talk for a couple of weeks about community, particularly today,

about community and commitment, something we all can get a little bit better at.

And one of my favorite couples is joining us for this conversation.

Today on the show, I get to talk with my friend Sean Johnson East and Andrew East.

These two joined us back in 2019 for our couples series.

We'll link to that episode.

And you can find them in episode five of my TV show,

I Gotta Ask. They are just such kind and wise friends who are navigating parenting,

marriage, businesses, and casually winning reality shows like Special Forces. Spoiler,

but you got to watch it. And you know we had to talk about it.

Today we wanted to spend some time talking about community, though. I've watched them build such beautiful friendships here in Nashville, both in this season of life and before they had

kids. As we are getting spiritually stronger, this is our reminder that we don't have to do that

alone. We're going to spend the next few weeks really talking about what it looks like to commit to community, how to communicate well, and why it matters. We have some incredible guests coming your way. Also, Sean and Andrew's new book, The Courage to Commit, recently hit the New York Times bestseller list, and we got to celebrate that at the start of the show because there's always a good reason to pull out the confetti poppers, y'all. And now here's my

conversation with my friends, New York Times bestselling authors, and winners of special forces.

It's Sean Johnson East and Andrew East.

Sean and Andrew, welcome back to that. Sounds fun. Thank you good to be here. Y'all are very kind to do this. Y'all just landed from Seattle. We did. Like hours ago. It's okay. You know what? We've already been up for hours though with the babies. We've been at it, you know? Also, any time to hang with you, Annie. I know, you are very kind. I feel the same way. Thank you. Summer starts after this for y'all. Like, are you all kind of done with, do you get some time off? It's summer, summer. Like, we're going to go back to doing, I mean, we absolutely love this work. Yes. This is just a different work that we've done normally. So we go back to the work that we love that fills our cups. We're going on vacation with the kids. We're going to the beach. We're doing real summer with the kids. Yes. That's great. We say around here, work hard, play hard, rest hard, pray hard. And the rest hard and play hard are so vital to doing all this.

And first, before we jump in to our community series, we have to celebrate the y'all hit New York Times.

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