The Most Important Thing
The Most Important Thing is a podcast about building intentional family culture. We explore how ambitious, busy families can create connection, meaning, and resilience at home—just as intentionally as they do in other aspects of life. Each episode blends personal stories, research, and experiments you can try in your own family. Because when the world is moving fast, the most important thing is what we build at home.
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Nov. 17, 2025
TMIT 36: Breaking The Rules Together – Harnessing Trickster Energy as a Family
This week, we’re exploring an unexpected (but so necessary!) aspect of family dynamics: trickster energy —a playful, inventive, and boundary-testing spirit that helps us stay adaptable when life feels too rigid. The episode k...
Nov. 10, 2025
TMIT 35: Don’t Tell Me To Calm Down – Turning Anger into Insight as a Family
If we’re serious about building resilient family culture, we have to talk about the emotions that actually show up in real homes — and anger is a big one. For both of us, anger has been tricky. We’ve tried to calm it, redirec...
Nov. 3, 2025
TMIT 34: “Read the Room, Kid!” — Cultivating Shrewdness as a Family
Envy isn’t a character flaw—it’s human. Shrewdness isn’t cynicism—it’s discernment. In this episode, we explore how to normalize envy and develop the important skill of “reading the room,” so both kids and adults can stay kin...
Oct. 27, 2025
TMIT 33: Our Biggest Takeaways from Six Months of Building Family Culture
For the past six months we’ve been deeply studying family culture, and we’re more convicted than ever that it’s The Most Important Thing. Top 4 Takeaways Start from strength, not scarcity Most parenting content starts from a ...
Oct. 20, 2025
TMIT 32: Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify, on How Family Builds Greatness
When you meet Cliff Weitzman, founder and CEO of Speechify, his magnetism is immediate. He knows exactly where he’s headed, and he’s willing to think harder and work smarter to get there. It’s the same energy that’s made Spee...
Oct. 12, 2025
TMIT 31: The Collison Brothers (An Extra Ordinary Family)
We’re kicking off a side quest called Extraordinary Families — stories of real families whose everyday cultural habits added up to something remarkable. This week, we’re diving into the upbringing of Patrick and John Collison...
Oct. 6, 2025
TMIT 30: Mindset Reset Part 2 – Building a Culture of Growth at Home
In the first part of our Mindset Reset series, we broke down common misconceptions about growth mindset and explored how it plays out in the everyday dynamics of family life. Now in Part 2, we’re taking things further by shif...
Sept. 29, 2025
TMIT 29: Mindset Reset – What We Get Wrong About Growth Mindset
Mindset isn’t just “fixed” or “growth.” It’s a spectrum—and once you see that, you’ll understand yourself, your kids, and your family in a whole new way. In this episode of The Most Important Thing , we translate insights fro...
Sept. 22, 2025
TMIT 28 : How We Divide, Conquer, and Connect – The Shared Operating System Behind Our Marriage
Every couple has to navigate how to divide responsibilities, whether it’s managing groceries, handling finances, or aligning on long-term goals. For us, the breakthrough happened when we shifted away from addressing everythin...
Sept. 14, 2025
TMIT 27: Parenting Gurus and the Business of Anxiety
TMIT 27: Parenting Gurus and the Business of Anxiety This week, we explore a topic that hits close to home and raises big questions: the booming industry of parenting advice and how it’s built on the back of your anxiety. But...
Sept. 8, 2025
TMIT 26: Sometimes Adults Suck – Leading Our Kids Through Conflict With Grownups
🎙️ TMIT 26: Sometimes kids run into conflict with other kids. But sometimes kids run into conflict with grownups—teachers, coaches, camp counselors, even random adults in the community. And when that happens, most of us as pa...
Sept. 1, 2025
TMIT 25: Culture Eats Parenting for Breakfast
TMIT 25 🎙: This week we’re talking about the difference between parenting and building family culture, using a framework from Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson. Parenting is a lot like management—it creates stability th...
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