Baggage Claim
Baggage Claim is a space for blended families, marriage, and friendship.
Here, we dive into real-life conversations about the ups and downs of relationships, from navigating second marriages to unpacking the baggage we all bring. Hosted by Greg and Jessica, who both have rich experiences with love, loss, and family, this community is about sharing stories, learning together, and growing stronger as couples and individuals. Grab a drink and join us as we unpack, laugh, and claim our baggage—one conversation at a time
Episodes
70 episodes
What If Happily Ever After Is Built Not Found
You can love each other and still be running a relationship on autopilot. We get honest about the hidden systems already shaping your marriage: the routines for money, schedules, and kids, plus the unspoken patterns you rely on when conflict sh...
A Six Month Marriage Reset That Actually Works
A thriving marriage isn’t luck, and it definitely isn’t a roll of the dice. We’re six months into the year, so we’re doing a real-time marriage check-in and asking the question most couples avoid: if the tools to build a strong relationship are...
You Can Change The Mood By Changing The Frame
The fastest way to turn a normal day into a blowup is to “see” something that isn’t actually there. A cup on the counter becomes disrespect. A missed chore becomes proof they don’t care. A quiet drive home becomes rejection. We’ve all done it, ...
Kids Shouldn’t Carry Adult Heartbreak In Blended Families
The fastest way to wreck a blended family isn’t a missed pickup or a messy schedule, it’s turning your kids into the place you dump your hurt. We get real about the quiet, everyday moments when bitterness, resentment, and old divorce pain sneak...
From Barbershop To Mic Night: A Couple Builds Joy
Your marriage doesn’t need more pressure. It needs more room to breathe. We sit down with our friends Richard and Nibia Conley and the conversation goes everywhere we love: relationships, real-life stress, and the kind of laughter that actually...
What If Fun Is The Missing Ingredient In Your Marriage
If your home feels like a command center for schedules, bills, sports, and stress, we get it, and we’re not here to pile on more rules. We’re Greg and Jess, and we’re making a case for something that sounds simple but can be revolutionary for m...
You Can’t Split The Day Without Splitting Hearts
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are supposed to feel simple. In a blended family, they can feel like a stress test for everyone’s emotions, schedules, and loyalty. We dig into what actually happens when expectations get too high, boundaries get b...
226 Food Choices and the The One Decisions that matters
You can say “I’d do anything for you” and still miss your marriage in the daily grind. That’s the tension we sit with today, because the biggest threats to connection usually aren’t dramatic, they’re subtle: distraction, autopilot, and a thousa...
Who Holds Your Hand When Life Hurts
Some nights we want to show up upbeat and polished, but real life doesn’t always cooperate. We’re recording after a week that feels way too heavy, and instead of pretending we’re fine, we sit in the truth: it’s okay to not be okay. If you’re ca...
The Iceberg of Family Culture: What's Hiding Under the Surface
Someday your child will describe your childhood home to someone you’ve never met, and they’ll focus on the parts that stayed: the feeling at the door, the tone at the table, the way safety and tension lived in the room. That thought stopped us ...
Stop Repeating The Same Fight
Ever notice how a new relationship can start fresh… then somehow you end up having the exact same argument you swore you’d never have again? Tonight we get honest (and a little ridiculous) about why patterns repeat, why “they’re the problem” is...
Dinner Rolls and Marriage Roles - Defining who we are in marriage
The smallest moments can reveal the biggest patterns. One of us walks into a room and talks to everyone, the other hangs back and watches, and suddenly you can see the same dynamic playing out at home: who leads, who follows, who carries the so...
The Ghosts At The Table
A lot of relationship fights aren’t really about the dirty dishes, the unread text, or the vibe in the room. They’re about the ghosts that show up with us, old trauma, old trust breaks, old survival habits that still run in the background like ...
We Call It Safe Space and It Gets Messy. Finding deep rooted adult friendships.
Real friendship is easy when life is easy. The test is what happens when the story gets complicated: divorce, remarriage, blended family dynamics, babies, exhausting work weeks, moving houses, and the slow drift into routine that can make a mar...
Moon Landings To Marriage Lessons In One Unscripted Night
We decided to do something risky: hit record with no plan and trust the conversation to take us where it needs to go. What starts as a fun question about conspiracy theories quickly turns into something more honest about trust, power, and why o...
Boundaries Or Secrecy? Setting Phone Rules In Marriage
Your phone can be a calendar, a camera, a workspace, and a dopamine machine, but it can also become the loudest unspoken argument in a marriage. We go from joking about road trip snacks to a topic that hits a nerve for almost every couple: phon...
Opposites Attract… Until Someone Is Late For Church
What if the secret to a lasting relationship isn’t finding the right person, but learning how to change together on purpose? We dive headfirst into the messy middle of modern love: the difference between secrecy and privacy, the myth that you c...
We Win Every Day When We Choose To See It. (50th live recording)
What if the real scoreboard in marriage and blended family life isn’t the promotion, the perfect trip, or the bigger house—but the quiet wins hiding in plain sight? For our 50th episode, we go live with friends, trace a personal history that ca...
Adoption, Infertility, And The Faith To Keep Going. Drew and Amber Mullinax story part 2
A weekend of “just helping out” turned into a love story that rewrote an entire family. We sit down with Drew and Amber to trace how respite care led them to Katie, how the foster system both stretched and refined them, and why adoption wasn’t ...
Two Families, One Pig Painting, And The Moment Our Daughter Found Us. Drew and Amber Mullinax story part 1
What if the sign you needed was hanging in your hallway the whole time? We sit down with our friends Drew and Amber for a warm, funny, and gut-honest conversation about fast love, hard choices, and the winding road that led them to their daught...
Waffle House > Roses. "Put the Phone Down and Pass the Syrup"
February gets loud with glitter, cards, and big-price dinners. We go the other way. Greg and Jess unpack why hype-heavy Valentine’s pressure rarely leads to connection, and how simple, repeatable habits—naming expectations, choosing quality tim...
The Baggage Claim Method™: 9 Steps to Build a Stronger Marriage and Home
What if you could trade relationship chaos for a simple map you can actually follow? We break down a practical framework that moves from You to Us to Family, so you can stop reacting to fires and start building rhythms that last. No silver bull...
The Good Old Days Aren’t Over—They’re Unfolding
What if the good old days aren’t behind us at all—but unfolding in front of us, easy to miss because we’re scrolling, planning, or rushing to the next thing? We open with laughter and a live-show announcement, then settle into a conversation th...
Collateral Beauty,Finding Grace That Stays When Grief Won’t Leave Part 2
Loss can level a life, but it can also sharpen what matters. We return to the theme of collateral beauty—those quiet, steady forms of goodness that rise alongside grief—to show how pain and hope can occupy the same room without canceling each o...
Collateral Beauty. We don't heal by explaining pain away; you heal by working through it.
The calendar flips, the resolutions fly, and then real life hits: loss rarely stays in its lane. We open the door to a raw conversation about what happens after death and divorce, where the heartbreak is obvious but the hidden fallout is not. I...