[0:08]What's up, friends? Happy Wednesday, everybody. I hope you're having a great week, but per usual, it is about to get so much better because I have some amazing guests on the podcast this week.
[0:19]We have Christian on the podcast, which I know everyone's excited for, but maybe a little bit more excited, no offense, babe. No, definitely more excited. We have Sean and Andrew East back on the podcast. It's been a very long time since y'all were on the podcast, so welcome back, guys. Thanks for having us. Good to be back. We're so good to see you guys. Such big fans of you guys. I know. Hey, right back at you. Such big fans of y'all. Oh, by the way, this morning Christian realized something he was a little offended by. Would you like to share? Oh, um, yeah, I've never been on your podcast. Wait, you have definitely been on my podcast, so I don't know how I feel offended. Yes, that's how we first met. You were on redirected, dude. Christian. And we interviewed you guys too. I don't think I've never been on, I don't think I've ever been on couple things. Yeah, you have. Our interview was so bad, babe. He can't even remember it. Actually, I distinctly remember our interview cause uh we had to just come up with a a collage of pictures of you two. Which if I was, it was four years ago, which we you looked this morning and said it was four years ago. It was four years ago. So part of me for a lot happily the last four years. He was so offended and he's actually been on it. That is, that was like, we don't reverse. Now you're offended. I just don't, I don't have any recollection of that. I've interviewed you not once but twice on my podcast.
[1:43]Cause there wasn't, there wasn't video of either of us I don't think. So it was just like Christians and Sadie and Carey and so. Do you still do a podcast called redirected? Uh occasionally. We do couple things way more. That is so funny. Okay, we can cut all this out. That's so funny. No, we're not cutting this out. This is fantastic. That is so funny. Well, it is true though, like if you don't know someone and you do an interview and then you get to know them later, you kind of forget about the before time because you're, like, it's a different person almost, because now y'all are such good friends. I agree. Yeah, that's true. But you didn't know him at the time. No, and yeah, and if that was four years ago, yeah, I don't really remember, you know, four years ago is a little a long away. We've done a lot of squats and sauna sessions since then. I will say too, pre-kids is so hard to remember. That's true. I agree. Memories before children are so difficult. That's actually true. I agree. Okay, so no one's offended. No. I apologize. You can no longer be offended cause you were and hopefully y'all aren't offended that he has no memory of that. Not at all. I love it. That was hilarious. Now we all got to go back and listen. Um, but we are so thrilled to have y'all on the podcast because you guys were on my podcast whenever it kind of was getting started. And so that's crazy that we're years, yeah, years have gone by since then too. So we wanna catch up on all the things, but you also just had a really fun life experience. You guys were just at the Paris Olympics, so tell us about how it was. We were. It was actually amazing. We didn't know what to expect. We tried to just set as low of expectations as possible. Traveling to three different countries with three babies over the course of three and a half weeks. Well, and it actually, like was one of the greatest experiences we've ever had.
[3:37]The kids thrived. Um, we got to experience the Olympics on like a smaller scale, which was great, but also got to experience Paris and London and Italy and truly just have wonderful family time, which was really, really special. Yeah, it was really fun. We took a a couple trips this summer. Paris was one of them and right before Paris, we took an RV trip, which I had to convince Sean of, it took me like months to work that up. And so we took uh three nights in an RV and it was actually a really helpful perspective shift for us because the whole thing is over like when you travel with kids for the first time and there's always a first time, like, okay, this is our first time on a road trip. This is our first time in a plane, every time you have a first, it feels overwhelming, but for us, I feel like on that RV trip, it was a perspective shift of like, oh, we're gonna switch from feeling overwhelmed to like feeling this is part of the adventure. And so rolling into Paris, that's kind of how we're like approaching it, whereas, hey, things are gonna go not as planned and that's all part of the experience. So it was good. That is really good perspective. So you know how like everyone says, I feel like when you have kids, they're like everything changes and, you know, a lot of people think, I got to get my travel out of the way before I have kids or I got to do my things. You guys were, y'all had busy schedules before kids, y'all obviously lived um really cool and exciting lives with Sean being a gymnast and Andrew playing football and all the different things that y'all did. And then having kids, did y'all think it was gonna change your life and in the sense of you thought maybe you would be done with all the crazy stuff and the traveling, or did you always feel like, when we have kids, they're coming along for the ride? I distinctly remember, right before we had kids and we like got pregnant, um, everybody a lot of majority people around us said like, your life is going to change. Get your travel in now, your social life is over, like all those, you know, things people say. I distinctly remember having a conversation. Andrew was playing for the Chiefs at the time. I had made really, really good friends with, um, this girl, her name is Amy. And they had had babies and they had been traveling and bouncing around the NFL. And I remember her being such a believer, one, to like speaking into it and then two, telling me over and over and over again. She said, your life with babies is whatever you wanna make it. She said, you can travel, you can have a a crazier social life. You can do whatever you want. You can bring your babies with you. And she had shared with me all these like trips she had taken with her kids. And she said, it's a lot of work, but like our life never stopped. It actually got better. I also, my my definition of like a successful vacation or trip is when you go to a new city or new place and you just like experience that with all its glory. And I will never forget her saying that because it was the first time someone actually made it sound encouraging and fun and like it's better on the other side. And we kind of ran with that and we have traveled with all of our kids from the time they turn probably six weeks old.
[6:53]So like I'm talking museums. You just burn it out like you try to get out on town as much as possible. And I actually reflecting on how we used to travel, just Sean and I, we would kick back and chill, we'd hang in a hotel room until like 10, then go get breakfast, whatever, right? They've been on multiple international trips, mission trips, um, they have seen a lot of the world and it has been That's awesome.
[7:03]Better than before. And now with kids, I feel like we are way more outgoing. We experience way more because you kind of have to, I feel like in in some way with kids. It's like, okay, we need to have an activity.
[7:18]And so we're like more intentional with scheduling and we actually, I think pack our schedule with more things. So the vacation in some ways, uh no, in a lot of ways gets enhanced. That's good. I agree. I totally agree. We've had the same experience. It's only gotten better and yes, there are so many times where it's like, this is crazy and chaotic. Like our first trip with honey, I'll never forget. Like our very first, you know, you're gearing up the first time too. You're already nervous and like anticipating what it's gonna be like. And we're flying to LA. And so it was like a three and a half hour plane ride. So it was a decent, you know, first time plane ride. And we had two, we had uh connecting flight too. So the first one, Monro to Dallas, easy, all things good. I'm like, okay, we can do this. We got this. Then we get in the plane to go to LA and it was like on takeoff. We're just starting to go up in the air. She has a blowout and I'm like, oh no, okay. Here we go. Then the screaming starts. It was two hours in, and then the screaming never stopped. I think it was two hours in and I was like, I did not know what to do. I went to the back of the plane and I was in the bathroom with her and I was like, singing to her and all the things and I was just thinking, I'll just stay in the bathroom. So I think I stayed in that bathroom for probably 45 minutes, which is not a place you want to stay for 45 minutes, a plane bathroom. So I'm singing to her, trying to calm her. And then Christian comes and knocks on the door and he's like, let's switch. I'm like, thank you. And I was like, you can do that for me. I think that's it's part of the that the most powerful thing that would allow you to do the weights that you want to by yourself, uh as opposed to with other people, is like having a reason why.
[8:45]So then I go sit in my seat and all of a sudden I'm just mortified because I realize that people could hear me the entire time because I could hear everything they were doing. I can only see half of my body right now on my little frame. I was not trying to flex my tricep. You're being true. This is true. This is really what the Instagram is, which is the best. I truly believe that. I think you're a great creator, Christian. I was actually talking to a friend the other day about I don't know if I would use social media at all if I didn't have a dope wife like I do. Like, and I think when we first started our YouTube channel, this was the whole reason we started was because I said if, if the if the world could get to know my wife as well as I do, then everyone would be better off. And so I really have, I feel so lucky to really just have story after story after story that I could share on social media that like really just is about how dope you are. And that that's where I tried to keep it. Uh and and it's endless though, like cause you really are amazing. Oh, Jesus, man. All right. Y'all are the best. It's actually so true though, because I just looked at your Instagram today and I think one of your last posts was Sean on like the cover magazine and you're like, look at how good she looks. No, you you have your flaws, but you're dope. Okay? You're being true. This is true. This is really what the Instagram is, which is the best. Okay. My my why for it is because it's like an empathy building exercise. I realize like everything is kind of you can learn a lot about weightlifting by learning about flying a plane or something like that. There's always correlation and to me it's like, I have no appreciation for a DJ that gets up on stage and does his like pushing the button thing. But if I learned about it and if I read about it, I'd be like, actually that's sick and and it's a good practice. I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna ask your question real quick. How do you do that? Like, from a man in person, cause like, okay, I will say, in your defense, like, a lot of the men like, I don't know who are influencers, sometimes it can be a little, like, cringy for lack of a better word. I don't even like that word cause it feels so rude, but it can be, you know, it can just be like, oh yeah, that's kind of weird. But you don't feel that way. Like you're, and doing the influencer thing, it's funny, it's relatable, it's also respectable. And I feel like Christian has like having a hard time finding the balance of like, I wanna do that because I wanna use my platform, but I don't wanna look like this doing it, you know?
