The KEY To Building A Family That Lasts: 3 Generations, 1 Table, Every Week (And How To Make It FUN!)

FREE PDF: How To Start A Weekly, Multigenerational Family Meal Rhythm: familyteams.com/meal --- If you decide to craft a weekly, multi-generational family meal, and stick with it every week, we're convinced that this is THE thing that will unlock a close, cohesive, loving family that lasts for generations. BUT... And it's a big but... If it's not fun, nobody's going to want to do it. You can only force little kids to join you at the table for so long until they're big enough to decide for themselves. Ideally we want our kids to come back to the weekly family dinner table when they're 10, 20, 30, 40, 50...you get the idea. So in this episode, we're talking about how to unlock the FUN of the weekly family meal (especially for dads). Dive in and lay the foundation so you can get the most out of this month's weekly family meal deep-dives! On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 0:52 The ONE tool that will turn your family into a multi-generational family 2:47 Why fun matters 5:00 The risk of missing fun 10:05 Fun killers 14:40 Let it be meaningful 16:35 How dads can prepare their hearts for joy Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: FREE PDF: How To Start A Weekly, Multigenerational Family Meal Rhythm: familyteams.com/meal --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

There's an unhinged consensus that patriarchy is a problem, it's bad, and it needs to be dismantled. That's one of the core tenets of the new, secular world order and "morality". It's totally false, but it's been spurred onward over the past 100 years by feminism, which has also become a consensus. We're so steeped in it that seemingly everyone has assumed feminist tendencies and beliefs, just due to the waters in which we swim, culturally. Jeremy is joined by Dr. Carrie Gress today to talk about feminism, gender, abortion, and why all of this is a slow but steady under-the-radar revolution in an attempt to destroy America and Christianity. This conversation is VITAL to understand if you don't want to be polluted by the world. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:28 Something Wicked and End of Woman 5:06 This is NOT what feminism means 8:48 Should you want your daughters to be empowered and independent? (clip?) 12:46 Freedom as license vs to do what you ought (clip?) 20:59 Does this require theology? 26:33 Birth control (catholic birth control clip) 33:00 Abortion as a Feminist sacrament 41:54 The IDEAL Feminist movement --- 🎁 FREE COURSE: 5 Days To Transform Your Family Into A Team: https://familyteams.com/transform/ --- Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: Something Wicked by Dr. Carrie Gress: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQFVNVJL End of Woman by Dr. Carrie Gress: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684514185/ Theology of Home: https://theologyofhome.com/ Dr. Carrie Gress: https://www.carriegress.com/ Dr. Carrie Gress on IG: https://www.instagram.com/carrie.gress/ --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

🎁 Start Connecting with Your Kids' Hearts FREE 1-Pager: https://familyteams.com/hearts --- Many of us are very cut off from our emotions and our own hearts, which makes connecting with our kids' hearts almost impossible. In this episode, we're joined by Philip and Natasha Dosa of Stay and Go. They're our community coaches for January 2026 in the Accelerator, and they talk today about the lightbulb moment that changed everything in their family (external vs internal tension), as well as tools and rhythms they've developed in their own family to connect with their children's hearts and connect their own hearts to their heavenly Father. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:57 The Dosa's Story 7:38 The importance of the heart 18:13 Impact on parenting 22:17 Getting from external to internal tension 26:58 How this plays out as a mother 30:05 Day to day emotional regulation 35:10 One of the greatest superpowers to keep families together 45:00 Get good at this Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: Stay and Go: https://stayandgo.org Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator 🎁 Start Connecting with Your Kids' Hearts FREE 1-Pager: https://familyteams.com/hearts --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

You've probably heard about this phrase, "DINK Lifestyle"...it stands for "Dual Income, No Kids". This is a lifestyle that some couples are choosing to live, whereby they prioritize work and income and doing whatever they want, without the "burden" of kids. This is a selfish, anti-family, and very sad way to live, and it's vital that we put forward a more compelling vision for the future so that we save as many people as possible from going down this path of regret. Jeremy is joined by Robert Bortins, CEO of Classical Conversations, to talk about the SILK lifestyle..."Single Income, Lots of Kids". We talk about why DINK is so destructive, the underlying philosophy behind it, and how to create a real vision for flourishing. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:08 DINK vs SILK 3:59 Promotion of certain lifestyles 9:37 What's wrong with celebrating DINK? 15:45 Vision for flourishing 21:40 Narratives and deciding what to celebrate Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: X Post: https://x.com/TheRobertBshow/status/1994556735764533374 Classical Conversations: https://classicalconversations.com/ New York Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/opinion/marriage-divorce-happy.html Woke and Weaponized by Robert Bortins: https://wokeandweaponized.com/ Robert's Substack: https://substack.com/@therobertbshow --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

🎁 Get our top 10 questions to ask kids to build connection: https://familyteams.com/connect --- This is the tool you need to be using as often as possible to win the hearts of your kids. And don't worry about it being this huge chore you need to somehow fit into your schedule... This can be done mostly doing the same things you already do, with a bit of extra intentionality and connection. We're talking about having 1 on 1s with your kids (and even having the kids do 1 on 1s with each other!). If you do these regularly, you'll always know where your children's hearts are at, and be able to speak life and love into them. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:17 The 1 tool to use so no kids fall through the cracks 2:15 1:1s without adding more calendar chaos 5:07 How to have conversations with your kids 7:49 Cadence and system for 1:1s 12:32 Mom's unique role Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: Get our top 10 questions to ask kids to build connection: https://familyteams.com/connect Join The Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

🎁 FREE toolkit for capturing your kids' hearts: https://familyteams.com/hearts --- A father's emotional availability is one of the biggest drivers of generational faith and a peaceful home. But it's misunderstood, not well practiced, and definitely not well supported. In this episode, you'll learn why the father's heart posture is SO important, how he can start to shift it more toward his kids, how his wife can help with humility and love, and what 3 things we recommend you start doing to start capturing your kids' hearts more and building a strong foundation for your family team. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:10 Emotionally unavailable fathers 3:28 What does healthy emotional availability look like? 5:14 The warmth of the father 7:48 How a dad's emotional availability impacts his family 13:22 How to actually become more emotionally available Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: Get our FREE toolkit to learn how to capture your kids' hearts for greater impact and connection: https://familyteams.com/hearts Join the Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator The Toxic War on Masculinity by Nancy Pearcey: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801075734 --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

🎁 FREE Handbook on How To Capture Your Kids' Hearts: https://familyteams.com/hearts --- None of the rhythms, habits, tactics, or strategies we talk about will work if you lose your kids' hearts in the process. This is the foundational, fundamental connection you need in order to truly build a family team that survives the ups and downs of life. In this episode, we're trying something new, and we're honestly really excited about it... This is a conversation hosted by Blake Allsmith, long-time Family Teams supporter and Pryor family friend. He's joined by Jeremy, April, AND Jeff, for an amazing conversation with a ton of different perspectives and insights on one of the major risks of losing your child's heart: The Black Sheep Effect. What is it, how does it show up, what are the red flags, and how can you make sure you don't succumb to it? You'll learn all that, and more, in this conversation. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:29 What is the Black Sheep Effect? 3:05 Red flags 6:07 Why do we see this pattern? 10:15 What happens long term? 16:38 Identity 20:32 Practical examples and solutions 27:02 Capturing Your Kids' Hearts Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: FREE Handbook to Capture Your Kids' Hearts: https://familyteams.com/hearts Join The Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

We think having an annual family summit is one of the most important rhythms families can add to help them start to become a family team. In this episode, we're joined by Blake and Chandler Smith, who will be our coaches inside the Family Teams Accelerator in December. They are EXPERTS when it comes to meetings (which means they're fun and connective, NOT boring and horrible like you'd think). They break down why they do a family summit every year, how they do it (the 3 main sections), lessons learned over the past decade-plus of doing this, AND the extremely vulnerable exercise they do every year. Listen to this, get excited about how this could change your family's life, and then join us inside the Accelerator! --- FREE SUMMIT REFLECTION APP: https://familyteams.com/summit JOIN THE ACCELERATOR: https://familyteams.com/accelerator --- On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:43 How to reflect on the previous year 6:48 Why do a family summit? 13:59 The elements of a successful structure 15:35 The most meaningful activity for moms 19:50 State of the family 22:12 Encouraging the mothers 24:50 Encouraging the fathers 27:26 Accelerator --- Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com --- Resources Mentioned: FREE SUMMIT REFLECTION APP: https://familyteams.com/summit JOIN THE ACCELERATOR: https://familyteams.com/accelerator Principles by Ray Dalio: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074B2CZJG/ --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

We have been doing this for over a decade, and it's paid off HUGE dividends for our family. Today we're talking about our annual family summit, including why you should consider doing one, and how to pull it off. This is SUCH an impactful day for us, and for so many of the other families in the Family Teams ecosystem that we really wanted to give you guys our full playbook. That's why we're dedicating the entire month of December in the Family Teams Accelerator to this topic. It's THAT important. --- FREE PDF ON FAMILY SUMMITS: https://familyteams.com/summit   JOIN THE ACCELERATOR AND GET THE FULL TRAINING: https://familyteams.com/accelerator --- On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:07 Annual Family Summit 3:02 Where to do family summits 7:21 Why have a family summit 15:59 Evening of reflection 20:00 The day of the summit 29:04 Reviewing family culture   Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com   Resources Mentioned: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982137274/ 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250857775/ Atomic Habits: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1847941842/ --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

Do you know why you're living the style of life you're living? Do you know just how new it is, and what the modern western society has done to family? It's been a long march to get here, but the results have been devastating. Rory Groves joins us today to talk about the book their ministry is re-publishing, Henry and the Great Society, and why this is an important cultural message that we need to get into as many people's hands as possible. This podcast cuts to the very root of what's broken about modern, western society, and yet gives hope as Rory and Jeremy discuss how to return to a more normal, family- and community-centered approach to life. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 0:49 Why Republish An Old Book 7:15 Why "The Great Society"? 12:14 Why We Still Assume Newer, Better, Faster Tech Is The Answer 17:56 What USED To Exist To Promote An Alternative Vision To "MORE" 22:41 Freedom As The Ultimate Value 31:21 The Solution To The Good Life 39:50 How To Make Decisions About Technology Follow Family Teams: Facebook: https://facebook.com/famteams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams Website: https://www.familyteams.com Resources Mentioned: Henry and the Great Society: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gatherandgrow/henry-and-the-great-society Gather and Grow: https://gatherandgrow.us/ Durable Trades: https://www.thegrovestead.com/durabletrades/ The Family Economy: https://www.thegrovestead.com/familyeconomy/ Freedom Is Killing Our Liberty by AZ Adams: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1TZN52S/ --- Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!