Ep. 90: Looking Back to Move Forward: Our 2025 Family Reflection

About this episode

In this episode, Keonte and Kristin reflect on their family experiences in 2025, discussing their marriage, parenting, and favorite moments as they prepare for the new year.

To close out the year and step into a fresh start, we’re dropping a special mini pod in honor of the New Year. Shorter than our usual episodes, but packed with reflection, honesty, and intention as we look back on 2025 together. 💍 Forever Segment — Marriage Audit We take a real look at our marriage in 2025. Did we grow closer? Where were the highs and the hard moments? What lessons did the year teach us about communication, partnership, and love moving forward? 🌱 Roots & Bloom Segment — Parenting Audit Parenting comes with constant learning curves. We reflect on how we showed up for our kids this year, what worked, what needs adjusting, and if our kids could grade us, what they might say. We also talk about intentional changes we want to make in the new year. ✨ Lifestyle Segment — Top 3s of 2025 To keep it light, we wrap up the episode sharing our Top 3 Movies, Music picks, and Favorite Moments from 2025. The things that made us laugh, think, and pause along the way. As we head into the new year, this episode is all about reflection without judgment and growth without pressure. Here’s to learning from the past and moving forward together.

People in this episode

Hosts: Keonte McDonald, Kristin McDonald

Topics covered

• family reflection
• marriage audit
• parenting audit
• new year
• personal growth

Keywords

• family
• marriage
• parenting
• reflection
• 2025
• growth
• new year

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