The Ohana Adventure

Our children recently asked us if they could get "dumb phones!" When we asked why, they blew our minds! listen in this weeks episode to try and understand these epic kids and why in the world they would ever want to get rid of their new iPhones.

We have 6 kids, but now have 3 kids and three adults in our family. We learned long ago that each child had their own personality, their own psychosis and way of thinking! We needed to learn how each was an individual and how to parent to that individuality! this is how we cam up with our unfair parenting method.

Parenting, once you think you've got it "all figured out", Here comes ANOTHER stage in Raising your kids.  MARRIED DAUGHTER, and how to navigate your family life and relationships once they are married and have started their life and family.  What does it look like when they come over, does "parenting" stop, etc.  It somehow completely changes and theirs expectations and c...

Rachel was still a teenager when we got married 2 days after my 22nd birthday! This rubbed many the wrong way and also empowered others to try and dictate how we dated, arranged our wedding and lived our life! Did we listen to them, yes.  Did we do as they dictated, NO! we were young but not stupid and started this journey together 24 years ago and are still going strong!  Come along for this spic...

What kinds of things do you do to keep you and your family busy during the summer break, and not getting on each others nerves?  We talk about our schedules, how we keep our kids engaged and busy during the summer days.  How we organize and plan out our days.  We also add in fun and family adventures, whether they are small or big, it doesn't matter, we plan them out to make sure we get in go...

Did you talk to your parents about hard things? Do you want your kids to feel safe confiding in you with some of the harder things they are going through?  We have tested eating at the table together daily, creating a separate safe space to talk about the hard things, going on individual dates with each kids and many more ways to create relationships that will allow our kids to feel comfortable ta...

We lived in the UK for 18 months and learned more lessons than we had hoped to! There were some incredible experiences and wonderful people but, there were some terrible experiences and we've listed them here!

In my family we have multiple generations of family members who have served missions for The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or if you prefer the uneducated term... a Mormon mission. Our Church has kept the same name since the 1830's but the catchy phrase Mormons stuck with detractors of the church and still remains.

We have 6 children and each of them continually tells us how that "when they are married," or "When i'm married" they are going to do this or that. We'll we took all of those quotes literally and started helping our children gain habits that would prepare them for that marriage in years or decades down the road. Listen in to hear all of the ways we prepared them in to...

We have been parents of 6 kids for over 20 years and in this episode we go over what we set up when the kids were young to prepare them for the time they would move out, find their path and eventually get married if thats what they wanted! We made so many mistakes along the way and so many great choices... and well line them up in todays episode.

In this episode of Raising Ohana we get together as the Ohana Adventure and go over our kids unfiltered thoughts. do they love being youtubers or hate being youtubers? did they love being on youtube and now hate it or vise versa.  We go over all of the details and as our kids say... we spill all the tea!

How have you seen being vulnerable help others?  Or you?

   We discuss what impacted us growing up, and why we feel what we need to do with our kids.  We have our tips as well.       What's your thoughts on when you should have "the talk" with your kids?  What was it like for you growing up?

What if finding balance in life meant moving halfway across the world? Our journey from the fast-paced hustle of YouTube fame to the serene landscapes of Scotland has been nothing short of transformative. We kick off Season 4 of Raising Ohana by sharing personal stories from our whirlwind collaborations with household names like Disney and Lego, and the toll that lifestyle took on our health. Hear...

We are talking about our teen boys, the next two in the lineup.  Shae and Wyatt. These two teen boys are incredible young men but... teaching them to be responsible has been an entirely new experience for us.

Each of our kids has moved out at 17yrs old. Each of them has graduated Highschool early and left to College early. We were told this wasn't possible for "home schoolers" and have loved how this has happened over the years to each of our kids. What is so interesting is that each one of our children is so different from the rest but this has worked so well for each of them in differe...

FINALLY we are restarting The Ohana Adventure Podcast but have changed the name to RAISING OHANA! WHY? Because we will always be raising our Ohana (family) regardless of age or situation. We launched it on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@RaisingOhanaPodcast finally so that we could have more of a community with comments and the ability to interact more openly with you directly!  If you love audio...

After serving and doing hard work we always try to have a fun adventure to solidify the earlier experiences and lace them with adventure! An African Safari is one of the most adventurous things weve done! Lions eating Zebras, Elephants chasing you and Baboons almost jumping into your vehicle was only the beginning!

After helping the children of our first village draw and bring water to their village and realize how hard and time consuming it was... We decided that instead of donating what we did, we needed to raise $100,000.00 towards giving 30 more.

We left our home full of hope and excitement for our humanitarian trip to Uganda Africa! Whatever could go wrong did! Stay tuned for tips and tricks of what to do while travelling internationally in the new normal!

Jase is always on the upside and I have to figure out how and if he's being real or what his secret is?

The universe, our planet, our continent, even the Atom are filled with mostly blank space. Why don't we make time and space for it!? Here's how!

Today we are in Dallas Texas with Charan Prabhakar

We got caught in the TEXAS frozen storm and nearly died. But you won't believe the blessings we have seen in our life and how if we open our eyes you can see divine intervention in beautiful ways. We have been fortunate to help a friend in the most unexpected ways, to meet the perfect person for our upcoming business venture. 

We have been married for 19 years, owned multiple businesses, we homeschool our 6 children & life is not always rainbows & lollipops. We share the ups and downs & give you the REAL lessons we've learned. We talk about dating, sex, traveling with and without children...you want to listen to the very end because it gets awkward!