Josh has the unique ability to engage personally with his audience and also deliver great and practical content. He will create great results for any organization who uses his speaking.
Josh takes most pride in his role as a husband and dad. On stage, Josh is a speaker, author, marriage and leadership coach, and podcast cohost.
He and his wife, Christi, lead Famous at Home, a company equipping leaders, corporations, and families in emotional intelligence and relational connection. Josh is also a Fellow of the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling.
Josh most enjoys coaching leaders to be famous at home so they can thrive on their stage. He speaks regularly for Joint Special Operations Command and serves military families across the country.
Josh is author/ coauthor of nine books including Famous at Home: 7 Decisions to Put Your Family Center Stage in a World Competing for Your Time, Attention, and Identity and Safe House: How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well. He and his wife, Christi, host the Famous at Home podcast, lead a yearlong coaching program called the Leader's Heart Cohort, and co-wrote three children’s books, What Am I Feeling?, What Do I Do With Worry? and What Do I Do with Anger? to help parents foster emotional awareness in kids.
They also have two children's books to help kids experience the true meaning of Christmas and Easter, 25 Days of the Christmas Story: An Advent Family Experience and 10 Days of the Easter Story: A Family Experience Through the Feelings of Holy Week.
No one wakes up and decides, “I’m planning to ruin my marriage, neglect my kids, and cause mistrust in my family.” Yet our personal “chase” and busyness can lead us there. As a husband and dad himself, Josh offers a realistic, grace-filled look at the struggles families face in a culture that competes for their time, attention, and identity, and describes the necessary rhythms that can help us put what’s most important center stage in our lives.
There are a lot of opponents—both good (kids, jobs, activities) and bad (financial pressures, addiction, health issues)—competing for the intimacy in your marriage. With all the busyness, it becomes too easy to live on the surface—pretending things are good, when they’re really not. And the next thing you know you feel like you’re just going through the motions, or worse yet, you make your spouse out to be the opponent. Yet, we lead and work best when our marriage is strong, when our spouse is our greatest teammate, and we fight for, not against, each other. Doing so requires going deeper than you might have imagined, but you’ll be surprised at how doable it is with just 15 minutes a day.
As leaders, we live in a world competing for our time, attention, and identity. The problem for each of us is that the pull toward the immediate gratification of achievement and success outside the home can wreak long-term havoc inside the home. Add in any level of success, and the pressure to show up for fans, stakeholders, followers, and customers only escalates. As a marriage and leadership coach to high-capacity leaders and organizations, Josh takes an inside-out approach to leadership, helping leaders become more present inside the home, so they're more fully present outside of it, on their respective work stages. Josh uses the principles of emotional intelligence to provide a practical, inspiring approach to 1) show up fully present with those you love and lead, 2) set healthy rhythms between work and home, and 3) build a reputation of being a well-rounded leader in all areas of life.
Our kids need purpose, but they also need to navigate the difficulties of worry, discipline, technology, and even when we--as their mom and dad--lose our cool. Josh explains the practical ways to navigate each of these hardships of raising children, by cultivating an emotional and spiritual growth environment to live, love, and lead well.
No one wakes up and decides, "I'm planning to ruin my marriage, neglect my kids, and cause mistrust in my family." Yet our personal pursuits and busyness can lead us there. In this book, marriage and leadership coaches Dr. Josh and Christi Straub show how seven core decisions can help us put what's most important center stage in our lives.
Famous at Home is Josh and Christi's realistic, grace-filled look at the struggles families face in a culture that competes for their time, attention, and identity. Whether you've found yourself putting more effort into becoming famous on stages outside the home, or your stage is the home, Famous at Home offers guidance and inspiration to help you give your family the best version of you instead of your leftovers.
Famous at Home will help you and your spouse
You really can be famous at home, showing up in intentional and meaningful ways for your biggest fans. All it takes is realizing that the greatest red carpet you'll ever walk is through your front door.