Our House with The Smylies

Time for yourself isn't selfish. But self-care becomes selfish when it stops pointing you back to God. We used to keep score. The cold plunge, the steam shower, AirPods and an audiobook at 3x, two hours to escape, and if you got yours, I got mine. It never actually filled us up. So we talk about what culture tells tired moms they deserve, why "you can't pour from an empty cup" is o...

Raising teenagers when everyone else says yes is hard, and our boys don't always like where we land. We're Jason and Malia, and two of our four sons are teenagers now. Our teens have phones, but they're on lockdown, and they know they're being raised differently than a lot of their friends. In this episode we get honest about what it looks like to set your kids apart: what the worl...

If your marriage looks fine from the outside but feels lonely on the inside, you're not crazy. We've been there. We've been married 16 years, and we've been on the brink of divorce four or five times. Most people around us never knew. So for our anniversary we sat down with questions we wish someone had asked us early on, and neither of us saw the other's list. We get honest ab...

The most dangerous idols in our lives aren't bad things. They're good things sitting in the wrong seat. We filmed this on the first football Sunday of the season, so we start with the obvious one. But this is just the two of us getting honest about all of it: the fantasy football years Jason admits consumed him, the 45 minutes Malia loses to a scroll she never meant to start, the AirPods t...

Tithing 10% of your income sounds crazy until you realize none of it was ever really yours to begin with. This one is just the two of us, working through what The Treasure Principle Bible study is doing to our hearts, our budget, and our bank account anxiety. Because most people want to be generous, they just don't feel like they can afford it yet. So we get honest about what changed. The 10%...

Most of us think a rescue is the end of a human trafficking story. Our friend Jess has spent years inside what actually comes after. Jess leads True ID, a Las Vegas ministry that walks with women rebuilding their lives after trafficking and exploitation. We asked her the questions most people are afraid to ask. Why do rescued women so often go back? What does it take to rebuild a life when the rec...

We keep having the same fight over and over. A week after saying we'd never quit this podcast, that fight almost made us quit. This one is just the two of us, days after one of the bigger blowups we've had in a while, walking through exactly how the same argument keeps finding us after almost 16 years of marriage. Because what couples fight about is almost never what the conflict is actual...

Every parent wants their kids to do chores without being asked. We wanted more than that, so we made up The 4 Levels of Service to change their hearts, not just their habits. For years our nightly kitchen cleanup was a fight. Somewhere along the way it stopped being one, and in this episode we walk through exactly what changed. The four levels we teach our kids, and the level most families never g...

Six months ago God nudged us to start a podcast with no plan and no paycheck. It has not made a dollar. We are not stopping We get into what it costs, in money and in time we do not have. What we do when the numbers say stop. The rule we made so this never consumes our family. And the one sentence our pastor said that settled whether we would ever quit. If God has put something on your heart and y...

Erica LeMarr was having her best year in business while her marriage quietly fell apart. What saved it is the last thing our culture wants to hear. If your life looks successful on paper and feels empty at home, this conversation is for you. She sat down with us and held nothing back. The night her husband finally said the thing that woke her up. Hear how a wife who says "I just obey my husban...

There is a way to start a gospel conversation without needing the right words. Scott Edlin found it the day before a Super Bowl. Jason was an atheist three years ago, and he still freezes when a stranger asks about his faith. So we sat down with Scott, founder of the Luke 2 Project, and asked what we actually wanted to know. What do you say when you do not have a verse ready? Why does he believe C...

Jon and Danielle Mackin were already Christians, but looking back, they realized God was not truly at the center of their home. Their kids had seen conflict, their marriage lacked grace, and faith was mostly something they practiced on Sundays. In this episode of Our House with The Smylies, Jon and Danielle share how that began to change when they surrounded themselves with people who lived out th...

For eight years, Desi and Steve hoped and prayed for a child. When doctors told them pregnancy was no longer likely, they had to face the possibility that becoming parents might look completely different from what they had imagined. Then, during an anniversary dinner, Steve said the words Desi had been trying to avoid: “We’re being called to foster care.” In this episode, Desi and Steve share thei...

Traveling with kids rarely goes exactly as planned. Flights get delayed, children have meltdowns, routines disappear, and something almost always goes wrong. After 14 years of traveling with four kids, Jason and Malia have learned that a successful family trip is not about avoiding the chaos. It is about preparing for it, staying on the same team, and remembering why you decided to travel together...

Ashton Winningham had his own plans. He was building a business, thinking about moving to California, and figuring out what he wanted his future to look like. Then God began leading him somewhere completely different: Bible college and missionary work in Peru. Ashton is a Bible college student and missionary from Las Vegas who followed God’s call to Peru, where he serves through Bible study, evang...

For years, Jason thought prayer was “woo-woo.” Bringing God into everyday life did not make sense to him, while Malia continued praying for him for 15 years. Today, prayer is one of the most important rhythms in their marriage and family. In this episode, Jason and Malia talk honestly about why prayer can feel awkward, especially for new believers or couples who have never prayed together. They sh...

Brian Davila made millions in real estate, paid off his house, and bought $50,000 Rolexes. And he still woke up anxious, empty, and without peace. In this episode, the real estate millionaire and host of The Way sits down with us to tell the truth about having everything the world sells as success and still feeling like something was missing, until he gave his life to God and everything changed. T...

Every parent of a teenager knows the fear: your kid is pulling away, the conversations are getting shorter, and you wonder if you're slowly losing them. In this episode we sit down with Brandon Davis, a youth expert who spends around 80 hours a week with kids as the youth director at City Light Vegas, a regional Young Life director, and a former high school teacher. He's walked thousands o...

We've hosted four au pairs over the years, and in this episode we tell the honest truth about what it's really like to invite one into your home. Our former au pair Judith lived with us for two years, flew back from Spain to surprise our boys, and the reveal went viral with millions of views. She sits down with us to talk through the good, the hard, and the parts nobody warns you about, wh...

We had a beautiful home, four healthy boys, and a good life, and Malia still searched for a bigger house almost every night. This is the story of how we stopped chasing more and finally found contentment. If you have ever told yourself "I'll be happy when we get the bigger house, the next promotion, the more comfortable life," this episode is for you. We talk honestly about discontentm...

In 2022, Omar and Aubi Foster sat in a counselor's office asking the question no couple wants to ask: how did we get here? Seven years married, two kids, a thriving gym, and a marriage quietly falling apart. This is the story of how rock bottom became the best thing that ever happened to them. In this episode of Our House with The Smylies, the Fosters share how God restored their marriage afte...

The 5 rules every Christian parent should know to protect kids from the dangers of technology, social media, and smartphones in 2026. Inspired by The Anxious Generation. Teen depression is up 134%. Teen suicide is up 121%. Kids are spending 7+ hours a day on a screen, and face-to-face time with friends has dropped in half. The data is alarming, and most parents don't know where to start. In th...

Neurofeedback helped our family heal ADHD, anxiety, rage, and trauma without medication. In this episode we sit down with licensed therapist Jillian Wendelin to break down what neurofeedback actually is, how it works, and why it transformed our marriage and our kids. Our family came to neurofeedback looking for a non-medical alternative for our son. What we found changed everything. Malia healed f...

Philip Renner is a missionary and worship leader who walks into the world's darkest festivals, including EDC in Las Vegas, to preach the gospel. In this conversation he tells Jason and Malia Smylie what he actually sees when he steps onto that ground, the night God told him one word that changed everything, and how he leads total strangers to Jesus in the last place anyone would expect. He als...

The government just released undisclosed UFO files. Pastors are being privately briefed about what's coming. And AI is quietly becoming the new false "Holy Spirit" for millions of people. In this episode, Malia interviews Jason, a former atheist who spent decades exploring Eastern religions, new-age spirituality, and transhumanism before finding Jesus, on how Christians can navigate UF...