Steve and Mary Alessi | Pastors | Christian Parenting and Marriage Mentors
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Find out why family is EVERYBODY'S business! The Alessis are a rapidly growing family of pastors who all work on the same church staff - and they face the same problems found in any family business. You’ll hear powerful conversations showing you how to build a happy marriage, a healthy family and a multi-generational legacy founded on Biblical principles. Now with over 200 episodes, we invite you to join our Podience and learn why family is everybody’s business. For more information on our Christian family and marriage podcast, our ministry and how we help build strong Christian families, check out http...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Alessis make Christian family counsel concrete by testing faith commitments against marriage, parenting, technology and changing relationships.
The Family Business with The Alessis keeps its microphone close to the point where Christian teaching meets household negotiation. Family members rotate through candid conversations about newlywed habits, shared decisions between spouses, parenting adult children and welcoming…
Four days before a wedding, Mary Alessi debates whether money talk is scarier than honeymoon talk.
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A house hunt becomes a practical reflection on faith, comparison, and stepping into a tighter family season.
Stephanie Muinia and Christopher Muinia turn house hunting into a grounded conversation about faith, money, and the pressure of growing up in public-facing ways.
A warm, marriage-centered conversation about capacity, household weight, and offering what is available.
Capacity sits at the center as Chris and Rochelle Alessis talk through a season with a baby on the way and more weight landing at home. The conversation keeps marriage in view, treating help as shared work rather than a scoreboard, with grace for the spouse running on fumes and…
A warm family conversation about helping children trust God's direction when loving parental challenge makes the next step harder.
This Family Business with the Alessis brings Steve and Mary Alessi into a warm conversation with their daughter Lauren about how parents help a child sort out what looks good from what they believe is God's will.
Food rules, grandparents, and vaccine questions expose the pressure inside ordinary parenting choices.
Modern parenting pressure shows up in the tiny choices that start to harden into family policy: whether a newborn should wait on water, how closely parents should manage food, and what to do when grandparents offer ice cream.
A Christian reflection on closed doors, delayed dreams, and the perseverance that can grow while waiting.
Waiting becomes the episode's main subject: not empty space before a hoped-for result, but a season that can shape character. Stephanie Muinia and Chris Muinia keep returning to closed doors, red lights, and the possibility that a refused opportunity may be protection from…
A warm marriage conversation about difference, misfires, and learning to hear each other better.
The Alessis turn a dating story and a communication slip into a plainspoken look at how difference can help a marriage instead of wearing it down.
A holiday-season conversation about stress, loneliness, and small steps toward connection.
The episode looks at the strain that can pile up at the end of the year and treats it as something seasonal, not a personal failure. Steve Alessi talks with Lauren Alessi and Ryan Landau about loneliness, making space for honest conversation, and the odd fact that a large family…
A faith-forward response to murder, bitterness, and the discipline of clear thinking.
Charlie Kirk's murder sets the frame for an episode about hate, anger, and what happens when bitterness gets the wheel. Steve and Mary Alessi answer with a Christian case for restraint and clear thinking, arguing for a faith that tests ideas instead of ducking them.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Lauren and Gabby take over the booth together.
The Alessi family welcomes Chris Hart and opens with a lively conversation about why a real target matters.
Steve and Mary Alessi, joined by Mary's twin sister Martha, discuss raising confident kids in uncertain times, emphasizing biblical principles, honesty in parenting, and resisting cultural pressures like social media and gender ideologies.
Steve and Mary Alessi open with family updates before moving into Charlie Kirk's murder.
The Alessis reset the introduction and bring Christian Kaladiud, Gabby's husband, into the conversation.
Mary and Steve Alessi open with a playful warning that couples can spend hours on a small issue and still never really solve it.
Steve and Mary Alessi spend the episode working through defensiveness and the harm it can cause in close relationships.
Steve and Mary Alessi interview their daughter Lauren about discovering her unique calling as a counselor, discussing her journey from feeling different in the family to embracing her quiet strengths through faith and parental guidance.
Mary Alessi gathers the wives in the podcast booth for their response after the husbands' side of the conversation.
Steve Alessi and Mary Alessi use Stranger Things, The Exorcist, Harry Potter, Wicked, and LGBTQ-themed scenes to discuss what Christians should let into their homes.
Steve and Mary Alessi use this episode of The Family Business with The Alessis to talk about planning Thanksgiving and Christmas before the season gets chaotic, noting they are in their eighth season with over 200 episodes and over a million downloads on YouTube.
Mary Alessi frames this Family Business episode around one question: how parents should handle the person their child chooses to marry, especially when the relationship starts with dating.
The Alessis spend this episode on pressure-filled parenting decisions around discipline, vaccines, food, and sleep, using Marino and Gia as concrete examples.
Steve and Mary Alessi discuss how sarcasm and joking can either signal intimacy or hide unresolved hurt in marriage, family life, and church leadership.
Stephanie Muinia and Chris Muinia use The Family Business with The Alessis to ask whether long delays mean God is absent or still shaping the outcome.
Chris opens by pointing to how oddly sticky the phone has become at Thanksgiving tables, Christmas tables, and even the plain old family dinner.
Chris and Rochelle Alessi talk about expecting their second child at about 10 weeks and how Rochelle’s pregnancies have required daily nausea medication, including the first pregnancy with Marino.
Stephanie Muinia and Christopher Muinia say they closed on a house after nine months of searching, then spent the episode unpacking the stress, delays, and decisions that came with that process.
Steve Alessi and Mary Alessi use The Family Business with The Alessis to frame 2026 around “becoming while building,” saying character has to come before a bigger body, business, or marriage.
Steve and Mary Alessi use the title question “God, please change my spouse” to argue that marriage exposes expectations that dating hides, including the “couch dance” shift from one shared seat to separate sides of the couch.
Steve Alessi frames the Dove Awards as a business system tied to Christian labels, promotion, and recouping money, then links that to Forrest Frank’s refusal to accept an award for a song he says Jesus gave him.
Steve Alessi opens with thanks, a warm welcome, and a note that the show keeps growing.
The episode starts with a dating story that folds into a marriage lesson.
Steve Alessi interviews entrepreneur Aaron Walker about the importance of male mentorship, accountability, and family priorities.
Gabby and Christian record their first Family Business episode together as a married couple, starting with the odd little thrill of being in the studio side by side.
The conversation opens with a warning about hormones, the endocrine system, and how early habits can hang around longer than people expect.
Season eight opens with the Alessis welcoming listeners back and sounding glad they still have plenty to talk through.
The Alessis open with thanks, a little housekeeping, and a nod to being past 200 episodes.
The Alessi sisters introduce a special episode discussing family relationships and promoting their podcast merchandise.
Two sisters-in-law discuss the pressures and delights of motherhood from a Christian perspective.
A Christian pastor and his son-in-law, a realtor, discuss the decision between renting and buying a home for young couples.
A Christian pastor hosts a rabbi to discuss interfaith collaboration and building relationships for community good.