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Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

John Eldredge

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today we got to interview someone we’ve been hoping to meet for a long time and that’s a personal favorite author, counselor and teacher, John Eldredge! You may know John from his most popular book, Wild at Heart, a book Andrew recommends to everyone. “Wild at Heart” has inspired a ministry that currently includes events, retreats , a podcast and several additional books published by John. As parents of two boys, it was really impactful to talk to John about how to best support, encourage and raise confident young men in today’s world. We hope you learn as much from this conversation as we did :) Love you guys! Shawn & Andrew To learn more about Wild at Heart or find a retreat near you ▶ https://wildatheart.org/ 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 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, interviews.

0:02.6

With Sean and Andrew.

0:03.8

Today we have a wonderful guest, John Eldridge.

0:07.6

You may have heard of the book Wild at Heart.

0:10.3

I have now read that book about three times, and it's a phenomenal book.

0:13.9

I think it's an important book for any father of sons to read or any parents of sons.

0:18.5

Or even a spouse.

0:20.1

Yes. Yes. it really talks about the

0:23.8

operating system of a man and it was written by John Eldridge who has three sons

0:28.5

himself John and his wife Stacy are living out in Colorado Springs and I am so

0:35.7

honored that John joined us because this book has meant a lot to me,

0:39.1

and I feel like it really reflects how my father raised me, which means a lot.

0:43.5

And John is an author, a counselor, and a teacher.

0:46.3

He's also president of Wild at Heart, which is a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God,

0:51.8

recover their own hearts in God's love, and learn to live in God's

0:55.2

kingdom. John went to Cal Poly and got a theater degree there, and then he worked at Focus on the

1:01.7

family for a while, got his master's from Colorado Christian, and he was working as a private

1:07.2

counselor at a private practice before launching Wild at Heart.

1:12.3

And he's big outdoorsman.

1:15.0

He loves all the Colorado Mountains and the beauty that that has big in the Shakespeare,

1:20.1

which we talk about bow hunting, cigars, all the manly stuff.

1:24.9

But they also at Wilder Heart just came out with a series, which is phenomenal.

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