252 | Our view of "success" and why it may shock you

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In today’s episode we dug into the topic of “success” and what that means to both of us these days. This was a pretty deep one! It was cool to reflect on how our views of success have changed over time and talk about how we don’t usually agree with how the world defines “success.” We would love to hear your thoughts on this one so please let us know in the comments if you resonated with this one! We also share some books that have helped us with this topic—check out the links below. Love you guys! Shawn and Andrew Get the best pillow EVER from Lagoon! ▶ https://lagoonsleep.com/pages/lagoon-the-couple-things-podcast-from-shawn-johnson-east-andrew-east Get a free sample pack from LMNT! ▶ https://DrinkLMNT.com/EASTFAM Beam Kids is now available online at https://shopbeam.com/COUPLETHINGS Take advantage of our exclusive discount of up to 40% off using code COUPLETHINGS Our go-to books ▶ https://amzn.to/4eENfoT Follow our podcast Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/shawnandandrewpods/ Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletter Follow My Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Shop My LTK Page ▶ https://www.shopltk.com/explore/shawnjohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow Andrew’s Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Andrew’s Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewdeast?lang=en 00:00 – what’s today’s episode about? 01:30 – comment of the day! 02:00 – spring break update 05:00 – why success? 06:55 – shawn’s random thought 08:30 – the definition of success 12:00 – fulfillment vs. success 17:00 – our treasures vs. worldly definitions 21:30 – worldly fame, money, titles… vs. happiness and fulfillment 25:11 – setting your goals & finding your own “success” 28:08 – what success looks like now 30:00 – chasing other people’s definitions of success 34:25 – everyone has their own story 36:08 – is there such a thing as being “extra blessed”? 37:26 – is success a choice? 38:15 – how do you stay grounded? 40:38 – books that have helped us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.0	What's Sean and Andrew?
0:03.7	Today's podcast might be interesting because my brain is moosh.
0:07.7	Sean was in New York for the last two days doing two full days of podcasts.
0:12.8	Podcasts.
0:13.5	That's a lot of talking on it.
0:14.5	A lot of just deep thoughts.
0:16.6	I can't talk that much. I applaud you for being able to talk that much.
0:20.5	Thanks. I don't really. I don't really. Today's I applaud you for being able to talk that much. Thanks.
0:21.0	I don't really.
0:22.4	I don't really.
0:23.9	Today's episode, though, we're going to talk about success and what it means to you, to us.
0:29.4	I'm excited about this one because last night I'm in this men's group with a bunch of older guys.
0:34.0	And this was one of the topics of discussion that really sent us on this hour and a half
0:38.7	exploration of like, man, what is success? How do you feel successful? And those are kind of two
0:44.5	different things. And so we've scripted this out for you. And I think getting Sean's perspective
0:50.2	on something like this is always so fun for me to hear just because she's accomplished
0:55.3	so many people's dreams and so many different arenas like you've done all the things. So have
1:00.3	you. No, I know. We're both. We've all honestly, everyone here has accomplished an amazing thing
1:07.6	if you're listening. Yes. Like that is just true.
1:16.2	And part of what I'm trying to inspire in people is recognizing like what you've done is awesome.
1:16.6	What you've done is awesome.
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