Parenting and marriage through faith, with the inner work included.
Famous at Home is a faith-rooted conversation about family life between Josh and Christi Straub, moving between practical parenting and the inner work behind it. One talk weighs kids doing their own laundry, and another links a fear of joy to a hypervigilant body before reaching for the prayer 'Father, forgive me.'
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Famous at Home is a family show held together by a married couple, Josh and Christi Straub, who treat the front door as the stage that matters most. Its episode titles map a steady territory: resilient kids, emotional safety, joy, inner child parts, and the friends who shape a family. Parenting sits at the center. It is rarely only about the child. The couple keep tracing a child's behavior back to the adult in the room. In the show's telling, cycles pass down when parents leave their own childhood wounds unprocessed, and children will live as their parents do, whatever the speeches say. The practical side is plain and usable. One idea is twenty minutes of one-on-one time, because a child among siblings seldom gets a parent alone. Another is handing kids their own laundry and dishes, since hard things get easier with practice and build character. Their own daughter's delighted 'I get both of you' makes the first point better than any argument could. What sets the show apart from a tips list is its vocabulary. Scripture on grace and truth shares the conversation with hypervigilance, neuroplasticity and epigenetic transmission, and a phrase like 'what's hysterical is often historical' explains why some tasks feel harder than they are. Fear of joy gets the same treatment. The body learned to brace whenever joy lowered its guard, and it can unlearn the pattern the same way. That conversation reaches for prayer and draws a pointed line between happy kids, kept content with treats and iPads, and joyful ones. The hosts hold themselves to the same scrutiny. One of them traces an old habit of pleasing authority figures, of feeling in good standing with God only when someone in charge approved, and admits to processing it live. Marriage runs underneath all of it. The couple say that talking openly about what makes each of them feel unsafe has helped their marriage, and they borrow a workplace feedback line about high expectations to describe support paired with challenge at home. The mood is warm and unguarded, with compliments exchanged on air, a plan for next time that may or may not hold, and a digression about Lenten roses. Close friends Luke and Courtney Smallbone join for a series called The People Who Shape Us. A good first listen is 'Why Emotional Safety is the Bedrock of Parenting', where marriage and parenting run through the same conversation. Another is 'The Feeling of Joy: Why it Scares us + How to Pass it on', where faith and psychology sit side by side. The sign-off keeps coming back to one image: the greatest red carpet you will walk is through your front door.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants parenting and marriage talk rooted in Christian faith and is comfortable hearing scripture next to ideas like hypervigilance, inner child wounds and emotional safety. Also suits someone who wants concrete habits, such as one-on-one time with a child or handing over the laundry, alongside the reflection.
What sets it apart: Its distinguishing move is pairing prayer and scripture with psychological vocabulary like neuroplasticity and epigenetics, then turning that lens on the hosts themselves as they examine their own habits out loud. Its parenting advice starts with the adult's work, and it reads a child's behavior as a reflection of the parent's.
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 rhyth…
Dirty underwear becomes your cue to let your kid own the laundry, with grace in reserve.
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Focused attention and ordinary chores become a practical route toward confidence, responsibility, and resilience.
Famous at Home offers a grounded, faith-forward look at how children build confidence when attention, support, and challenge work together. It starts with one-on-one time and the visible lift children get from focused parental attention, then turns to chores as everyday practice…
A faith-centered reflection on unlearning fear of joy and letting children meet it at home.
Famous at Home treats fear of joy as something learned in the body, a kind of protective posture that can make delight feel risky once vigilance drops.
A grounded conversation about approval, faith, and the patterns parents may pass on.
Famous at Home frames parenting as more than a set of choices, turning it into a look at the approval-seeking patterns adults can bring into family life.
A searching look at how parental self-protection can shape connection at home.
Famous at Home frames resilience as the work parents do when they stop dodging the feelings they would rather keep buried. The episode ties strong reactions to old wounds, casting self-protection as a nervous-system response that can quietly build distance from children,…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Scripture, surrender and faith put into practice.
Sam Jolman discusses how parents can talk to their kids about sex by answering their questions and meeting their curiosity.
An interview with Sam Jolman discussing how shame attaches to sexuality and the need for redemption in marital intimacy.
Famous at Home frames resourcefulness as a way to raise kids who can handle chores, pressure, and real responsibility.
Famous at Home's 'The Feeling of Joy: Why it Scares us + How to Pass it on' opens with Chrissy saying a body can learn to fear joy after a painful correlation.
["Famous at Home's \"Inner Child Parts, Epigenetic Transmission, and Parenting\" ties Christy's return to femininity to Landon's claim that unresolved inner-child wounds get passed into parenting.", "Christy describes childhood bows, college volleyball, and the pressure to \"tone that down,\" while Landon uses Micah's soccer and a 13-year-old's youth-group decision to ask whether parents act from love or fear.", "The conversation names Jamie Winship, Taylor Welch's The Deep End, Romans 8:1, and 1 John 4 to argue that approval-seeking can look spiritual while still being driven by fear.", "John 21, 153 fish, and Peter's coal-fire restoration anchor the close, and Landon points listeners to the 10 Days of the Easter Story as a family way into Holy Week."]
Famous at Home frames “Why Emotional Safety is the Bedrock of Parenting” around the Culture Code line, “I have high expectations of you and I know you can meet them.” Christy and her co-host connect that support-plus-challenge idea to Dr.
Famous at Home's 'The One Factor For Raising Resilient Kids' argues that parents have to choose hard, because avoiding hard things keeps children from becoming resilient.
On Famous at Home, David and Christy Straub connect parental fear with anxiety in Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
Max Lucado says parents can help anxious children by making time to talk about what they dread.
Gary Chapman says “the most important love language” is the one belonging to the person in front of you.
Josh and Christy open Season 7 of Famous at Home, themed 'loving well,' with an upcoming guest lineup of Dr.
Daniel Harmon, creator of the Tuttle Twins TV series, tells host Josh and his children Landon and Kennedy that the show grew out of Connor Boyack's book series, which began with "The Law." Harmon says each episode starts from one lesson and ends with a catchy phrase such as "the entrepreneur makes problems fewer," and that over 80% of episodes are watched with parents.
Luke and Courtney Smallbone discuss how friendships and personal integrity shape the lives of children and those around us.
A heartfelt conversation about friendship and sisterhood with Courtney Smallbone, exploring themes of pride, comparison, and encouragement.
A discussion on shifting family paradigms to align with a kingdom mindset rather than cultural norms.