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Famous at Home

Famous at Home

By: Josh + Christi Straub
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 We all long to put our families center stage. Yet, in a world that competes for our time, attention, and identity, we often give our family the leftovers instead of our full, undivided hearts. Welcome to the Famous at Home podcast, with marriage and leadership coaches, Dr. Josh and Christi Straub.

With a realistic, grace-filled look at the struggles families face, the Famous at Home podcast is like having a cup of coffee with authentic friends who just “get you,” yet with the practical and life-changing coaching strategies Josh and Christi use to help spouses, parents, and leaders stay emotionally engaged and connected to their biggest fans.

With topics designed to help you set healthy rhythms between work and home, be fully present with your kids, and build a rock-solid marriage, the Famous at Home podcast will awaken your own heart and revive your family.

Because we all need to find our way back home.Josh + Christi Straub Christianity Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences Spirituality
Episodes
  • Calling Out Purpose in Your Children

    Calling Out Purpose in Your Children
    Apr 15 2026
    Quick note: We announced the Tender and Fierce fall cohort. See show notes below.

    What’s the first question we ask our kids in kindergarten? “What do you want to BE when you grow up?” We do our children a disservice by asking this question because the very nature of the phrase implies that what you DO is who you are.

    What about for ourselves as adults? What does it means to live in “fullness of life,” even when our circumstances might not match our heart’s desire? Perhaps Teresa of Avila held a clue to this mystery when she said, “God is among the pots and the pans.”

    In this episode, Josh and Christi define what we mean by the word “purpose” and also identify other flaws of our modern cultural understanding of purpose and how it influences how we shepherd the hearts of our kids. One question to consider, “Is our understanding of purpose, especially when raising our children, filtered through a biblical lens?” In other words, who is God calling our children to “become?”

    Josh and Christi also discuss Christi’s own “mid-life” crisis, the many layers of purpose, what the Bible tells us about meaning, and how we squelch our children’s desire for purpose even in early childhood.

    Time Stamps:
    0:00 Introduction
    1:40 Welcome to our own mid-life crisis
    4:40 Tender & Fierce fall cohort announcement!
    5:40 Christi’s mid-life crisis and rethinking what “purpose” really is
    13:00 The layers of purpose and helping our children find theirs
    20:00 Ecclesiastes and the discovery of meaning
    23:20 Finding “fullness of life” no matter your life circumstances or current occupation / role
    29:07 What keeps us from living in purpose
    33:00 What multiplication and expansion of our purpose actually means

    Show Notes:
    Reserve your seat for Tender & Fierce Fall Cohort beginning August 17, 2026: https://www.famousathome.com/offers/V75F6bY2

    Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching

    Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
    https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching

    Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter

    Download the Famous at Home app from Apple, click here.
    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/famous-at-home/id6502221394

    Download the Famous at Home app from Google Play, click here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kj2147486660.app2&hl=en_US

    Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome
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    37 mins
  • Raising Confident, Resourceful, and Resilient Kids

    Raising Confident, Resourceful, and Resilient Kids
    Mar 25 2026
    We all want our kids to be confident, resourceful, and to know what they’re good at. The trouble is that we make two big mistakes as parents: We either don’t give them enough challenge, or we burn them out with too much.

    Do your kids know that they have what it takes to overcome struggle?
    Do they feel confident in knowing what to do when it comes to life skills and everyday tasks like cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, or taking care of animals?
    Do they know what they’re good at and have a healthy sense of what to do with things they’re not good at?

    We call this resourcefulness, and it’s one of the most important traits to cultivate in our kids.

    What is resourcefulness?
    How do we offer a healthy dose of both support and challenge to help our kids build resilience?
    What do you do when you see things in your kids they don’t see in themselves?

    These are the questions we tackle in this episode.

    Time Stamps:
    0:00 Introduction
    1:24 What resourcefulness is and the two extremes we tend to take as parents
    7:40 The good and hard of giving children responsibility
    12:03 Giving kids support while offering challenge
    19:38 How to know if you’ve over-supported or over-challenged
    24:15 When you see things in your kids they don’t see in themselves
    30:00 When you push beyond what you think you’re capable of

    Show Notes:

    Get 10 Days of the Easter Story: A Family Experience Through the Feelings of Holy Week
    https://amzn.to/4lpPGQf

    Join our KidsRQ Community: www.kidsrq.com

    Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching

    Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
    https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching

    Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter

    Download the Famous at Home app from Apple, click here.
    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/famous-at-home/id6502221394

    Download the Famous at Home app from Google Play, click here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kj2147486660.app2&hl=en_US

    Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome
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    37 mins
  • The Feeling of Joy: Why it Scares us + How to Pass it on

    The Feeling of Joy: Why it Scares us + How to Pass it on
    Mar 20 2026
    Get ready for the early episode pivot in this one, folks. Talking about their marriage a few minutes into recording, Josh and Christi had a moment that sent them spiraling into laughter. The atmosphere shifted, so they shifted with it. And the result?

    A conversation about joy!

    In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about why joy can be so difficult to feel. “We’re actually scared of joy,” Christi says. “It is such an intense emotion that our bodies feel under threat.” Christi goes on to say, “The feeling of joy is so big that you can’t start at 95%, you have to begin by micro-dosing it at about 5%.”

    But feel it we must. The Bible says that the joy of the Lord is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10). If it strengthens us, it must be dangerous for darkness. No wonder it takes courage to feel it. Like anything else, joy is caught, not taught. Josh and Christi talk about how to overcome the fear, shift the atmosphere, and pass joy onto our kids.

    Time Stamps:
    0:00 Introduction
    1:24 10 Days of the Easter Story
    2:53 Josh & Christi’s wedding story
    5:55 The unexpected pivot into joy
    7:30 Shifting the spiritual atmosphere for joy
    13:10 Left brain knowledge of versus right brain experience of joy
    17:52 How joy is birthed within us
    21:16 God is a joyful God
    28:14 Why we’re afraid of joy
    31:30 How to micro-dose moments of joy in your life
    34:01 Practical ways to experience joy and pass it onto your kids
    42:55 Ways to make joy not feel threatening

    Show Notes:
    Get 10 Days of the Easter Story: A Family Experience Through the Feelings of Holy Week
    https://amzn.to/4lpPGQf

    Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now. https://www.famousathome.com/coaching

    Men, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort:
    https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching

    Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter

    Download the Famous at Home app from Apple, click here.
    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/famous-at-home/id6502221394

    Download the Famous at Home app from Google Play, click here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kj2147486660.app2&hl=en_US

    Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome
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    48 mins
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