Shawn Johnson East

The hardest part about my husband and I was we're very different people.

I'm very emotion driven.

He's very statistics driven.

Numbers.

And facts versus feelings.

And so we tried to blend our voices for a long time in the book and then ended up giving up on that.

And so you see in our book, we do my chapter versus hip chapter, my voice versus his.

But we coming from athletics, going into marriage, going into working together, running a company together, now being parents together.

There are thousands of books out there and headlines and social media saying, here's your hack to being happy.

Here's your hack to making a million dollars.

Here's your hack to the best marriage.

And if it doesn't work, just swipe to the next one.

And that's just toxic culture.

And it doesn't work that way.

Like you said at the beginning, you've worked so hard.

It's a gift.

And a lot of people don't know how to do that.

But I also think our culture doesn't teach that that's a cool thing to do anymore is actually like work for something.

And so we broke it down, the word commitment, into a science-based, emotional-based, psychological-based book in all forms and tried to prove to people that it's actually the hack by just sticking with something long enough.

On an example that we give on the show, Special Forces for me.