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Paul, Jill & Nora TenHaken, Part 3

She's grown up in a home where the whole city knows her dad's name.

Eight years. Press conferences. Public scrutiny. Campaign seasons. Security details. Dinner conversations most kids never have to carry.

And through all of it, Nora TenHaken has been watching.

Watching how her dad leads. Watching how her mom holds everything together. Watching what faith looks like when it's not performed on a stage but lived out in a kitchen, in a car ride, in the quiet moments nobody else sees.

In Part 3, Nora joins her parents on the mic for the first time. And what comes out of this young woman's mouth will stop you.

We asked her: What makes your home the happiest place on earth?

We asked her: Who do you see yourself in more, mom or dad?

We asked her: What has it actually been like growing up in the public eye for the last eight years of your life?

And then we asked all three of them the question every family needs to sit with:

If your home could be described in one word, one word you hope lasts for generations, what would it be?

Their answer might make you rethink what you're building in your own house.

This episode is not about politics. It's not about legacy in the way the world measures it. It's about what happens when a family decides that faith isn't something they do on Sundays. It's the rhythm they protect every single day, even when the schedule says there's no time for it.

Fair warning: the laughter breaks in this one are unfiltered. We asked Nora who tells the worst jokes at home. We asked about the family tradition that started by accident and stuck forever. And we asked what moment in the last year made them all say,

"This is so us."

You'll laugh. You'll probably cry. And you'll walk away wanting to have a conversation with your own family tonight.

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Paul & Jill TenHaken, Part 2 (drop today)

She held the home. He led the city. And somewhere in between, they had to figure out how to stay married, stay close to God, and stay close to each other.

Part 2 is here.

Paul and Jill TenHaken sit down together for a conversation most couples in public life would never have on a mic. And they went there.

What "oneness" actually means after years of pressure, sacrifice, and learning to surrender together. Their love languages (and yes, they're different). The mentors who taught them what covenant looks like before they had to live it out. The habits that keep them spiritually connected when life is pulling them in every direction. And the one small, sacred thing that always brings them back to each other.

We also asked who said "I love you" first. And who really meant it first.
We asked what habit drives the other one completely crazy.
We asked what they used to fight about that now just makes them laugh.

This is not a polished, curated version of a marriage. This is two people being real about what it costs to choose each other and choose God at the same time, over and over again.
If your marriage needs a reminder that covenant is worth fighting for, this is your episode.

If you know a couple who's in the thick of it right now, send this to them. Sometimes the thing that shifts everything is hearing someone else say "us too."

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Before the city knew his name, before the title, before the office, there was just a kid from Worthington, Minnesota.

In this conversation, we didn’t ask Mayor Paul TenHaken about policy. We didn’t ask about budgets or elections or what comes next in his career.

We asked the question most people never get to ask a leader they admire:
Who are you when no one’s watching?
What does your faith actually look like on the hard days, not the public ones?
What does “finishing well” mean in your soul, not on your resume?

Paul sat with us for this one. No script. No talking points. Just a man talking honestly about the God who shaped him before the world tried to define him.
This is Part 1. Just Paul. 34 minutes that might change how you think about leadership, faith, and what it means to be a godly man before you’re anything else.

Part 2 with Paul and Jill drops Tuesday, and that conversation about marriage, covenant, and oneness will wreck you in the best way.

If you know a man who needs to hear this, a husband, a dad, a leader who’s carrying more than he lets on, send it to him.

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