Husband in Law

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will dive into the night of their wedding and what Steve did. Steve will start off by hilariously talking about how that day was “a great milestone” in his life because he had just given away his ex-wife. He left the wedding feeling like a huge burden had been lifted from him and the feeling was actually similar to what he felt the day he rode his bike awa...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will talk all about the week before Matt and Jessica got married. Jessica will talk about how empowering her bachelorette party was because of all the awesome things she got to experience like learning how to pole dance and lap dance. Matt on the other hand doesn’t remember much of his bachelor party except that they went long-boarding, because he had to g...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will continue their conversation on how dating was like for Matt and Jessica before they got married. They will dive into the subject of love languages, which refer to how different people love each differently. Jessica will explain how she is comfortable with her weird mix of love languages because everyone in her life loves her in their own unique way an...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will talk about how dating was like for Matt and Jessica before they got married. They’ll start off the episode by sharing how they’re all doing with social distancing and "sheltering in place" due to the global Coronavirus pandemic. Things have been out of balance for Steve because all he’s been doing is work (working a ton of hours because they l...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will have a conversation with Jason Dunnigan, better known as The Modern Dad on Instagram. His Instagram handle, the_modern_dad, is an ode to his message and belief that dads need to be more involved in their children’s lives than they traditionally have been. While he’s an expert social media marketer and runs global social media accounts for a craft comp...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will be talking about Matt’s dating life right after his divorce was finalized. He has been going through a very rough divorce because his ex-wife had insisted that she would be the one to file the divorce papers, and she dragged it on for more than a year and a half during which time Matt was going through the dry spell of the century. He wanted to start...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will dive into Steve’s dating life right after him and Jessica ended things, and they’ll start off the conversation with an interesting discussion on the type of guys he’s attracted to and likes to date. Right after ending things with Jessica for good, Steve dated Sebastian and after that too was over, he got into the dating scene in Boise. He had a bit of...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will share the second part of their conversation with Lindsey Ellison, a speaker, writer, and relationship expert whose main expertise comes from her experiences and studies dealing with narcissists. Lindsey specializes in narcissistic abuse, and is the author of the bestselling book, “MAGIC Words: How to Get What You Want from a Narcissist.”  She comes on...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will have a conversation with Lindsey Ellison, a speaker, writer, and relationship expert whose main expertise comes from her experiences and studies dealing with narcissists. Lindsey specializes in narcissistic abuse, and is the author of the bestselling book, “MAGIC Words: How to Get What You Want from a Narcissist.”  She comes on to share her inspiring...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will chat about when it is the right time for someone to introduce whomever they’re dating to their kids, especially when they’re in a co-parenting/blended family arrangement. Jessica feels that the way to handle that is very personal and depends on the unique situation one is in. In her own experience, when she dated someone she would sometimes introduce...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will dive into why Steve and Sebastian’s relationship didn’t work out and discuss how dating went for Jessica. A lot of listeners have been reaching out to the trio about why Steve and Sebastian are not together, and so they will go into a journal entry that Steve had written about what went wrong with the relationship. Steve and Sebastian met while Steve...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will interview Melanie Parrish Anderson about her book, "Lessons Learned from the Starfish." Melanie, who also happens to be Matt's aunt, is an exceptional teacher. She began her teaching career 25 years ago in kindergarten and Title One Math. After seven years, she transferred to second grade where she really got the opportunity to really posi...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will talk about how Matt came into everybody's life. They recently attended a winter carnival in McCall with all their kids, and they will talk about how much fun they had there, Steve especially, who Jessica and Matt had not seen having that much fun in a long time. They will then take a trip down memory lane and talk about how they first met. It was...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will start the show off by answering questions from their listeners, starting off with one that was sent to Steve about whether Matt contributes to the co-parenting of Penny between Steve and Jessica. They will dive into the fact that even though Steve and Jessica are primarily responsible for the parenting of Penny, Matt has a great parent-child relations...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will dive back into Steve and Jessica’s journal entries from the period when they had patched things up to try and give dating another try. They were each going through a very tough time because things were not working out as they had expected. They go back to June 10, 2012, when Steve was journaling about his spiritual struggles. He believed that he had l...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will take a deeper dive back into the time when Steve and Jessica were getting back together to give things another try. They will each pull up their journals and read through their six months of dating post-divorce period. Jessica will start by sharing a journal entry about how her and Steve passed by some of their friends in Colorado as they were heading...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will rewind to the point in time when they were all divorced but didn’t know each other yet. Matt’s divorce from Ann has just been finalized, and Steve and Jessica had also just gotten divorced, and they were all looking to get into the dating scene. Jessica was the first to start dating and was actually hooked up with a guy she used to work with when she...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will talk to Roxanne Kennedy Granata, author of the amazing book "Cutting Ties", where she shares her story of healing through the trials of sexual betrayal, fighting to save her marriage, divorce, and rebuilding her life. Not only does she share her personal story, but she also offers hope to all women so that they can heal no matter what happens...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will talk about the Christmas traditions that they’ve had that have changed over the years. Matt shares that he and Ann never really came up with some Christmas traditions because they were together only a few years. He talks about how they went to garden glow when they met during the Christmas holidays and explains why he ended up hating garden glow so pa...

In this episode, Steve and Jessica will finish the story of their first Christmas after they separated and then dive into the cliffhanger question that has so far remained unanswered. Jessica and Matt will talk about what Thanksgiving was like, and describe how they celebrated Fake Christmas (Black Friday). They actually went all out and did the stockings, gingerbread houses, the whole nine yards....

In this episode, Steve and Jessica will share what life was like for each of them during their separation. They will reminisce about how they spent their Thanksgiving that year, and talk about their cooking skills, or lack thereof for Steve. When they separated Jessica was in Boise living in their old house and working with a lawyer on their divorce papers, while Steve was in Oklahoma. Even though...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will welcome two very special guests, Ashlan and Wallace Nelson. They'll be talking about their experiences blending families, co-parenting, and making it all work. Ashlan and Wallace have been married a little over two years now, and their marriage was the second one for each of them. They blended two families when they got together with Wallace bring...

In this episode, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will talk about gratitude and how it plays into our individual lives and things that we're grateful for, as well as how it plays into relationships. They will start off by each sharing what they’re most grateful for and Steve will talk about being grateful for him and Penny being alive after the slight accident they had o...

In this episode, Matt, Steve, and Jessica will talk about Jessica’s book and journal, and specifically the journal. It’s called the Boldology Journal and it’s aimed at helping people determine where they have issues in their lives so they can work towards being happier and more fulfilled. They will talk about the part of the previous episode where Steve’s sister was present that they didn’t air be...

In this episode, Matt will talk about what life was like after his divorce from his ex-wife was finalized. He had just found out that she was three months pregnant for the man that she had cheated with, and life was a little too hectic for him to even date again. He will dive into some of the terms of their divorce decree, most of which were more favorable to him, and how he used his time after th...