The Family Teams Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

Join The Accelerator: https://courses.familyteams.com/accelerator

Free Family SOP Playbook to Combat Chaos: https://familyteams.com/sop

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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!

The Only Way To Build A Healthy Family Culture Jun 19, 2025

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It's the problem we see most often...an active, engaged mom who's trying to lead the family, and a passive dad who's abdicated his leadership.

This does NOT work.

Mom MUST use her gifts to complementarily help Dad lead.

Dad MUST step up and start leading.

This shared vision is crucial for family culture and how your kids (and marriage) turn out.

Jeremy and April break this idea down by reacting to a couple of clips that show the importance of dad leading for the greater, common good.

This will challenge you, but after so many years helping so many families, this is THE way to build your family, because it is GOD'S way to build your family.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:43 Accelerator OPEN! (Family SOPs to Conquer Chaos)

4:37 Homeschool mom talks about family culture

13:58 Active Mom, Passive Dad Dynamic

19:28 Authority = Responsibility

29:02 First Wave Feminists Against Female Suffrage?

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Resources Mentioned:

Free Family SOP Guide: https://familyteams.com/sop

Sarah Mackenzie on Lila Rose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ-atgK-yoU

Nancy Pearcy The Toxic War On Masculinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEr-Qf-2WH4

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The One Metric To Heal The Broken Western Family Jun 12, 2025

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What if there was one, single, metric we could track to tell whether or not we were actually on track to restoring God's vision for family?

There's a lot of noise, a lot of competing priorities in the world, BUT...

I think we've found one metric.

We call it:

3 Generations, 1 Table, Every Week.

If you can build this rhythm into your family, it's almost inevitable that you'll become a multi-generational family team.

This episode covers exactly what this metric is, and how to achieve it.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:10 The One Metric To Track When Restoring Biblical Family Blueprint

5:36 Practical Step For Starting a Multigenerational Weekly Meal

10:37 The Use of a Single Metric

19:25 Ripple Effects of This Meal

22:19 An Answer To Demographic Decline?

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Intentional Fatherhood Rhythms with Maury Wood Jun 05, 2025

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Today's guest and I both want fathers to be more intentional.

And, like most things, it doesn't take a crazy amount of planning or effort to show up a little bit more for your wife and kids.

Maury Wood joins me to talk intentional rhythms, and shares a few really useful, and easy-to-implement rhythms and lessons that any dad can benefit from.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:23 Why Grit & Wit

4:37 Wrestling With Legacy

11:35 The Family Walk

14:22 No Consequences Questions

19:30 Cop to Coaching Phase

26:00 Measure Twice, Learn Once

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Resources Mentioned:

Grit & Wit: https://gritandwit.substack.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaurywood/

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The Surprising Game Changer For Families (That You Probably Think You Hate) with Jeremy and Kristin Netting May 29, 2025

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This is one of the foundational, fundamental things you should be doing if you want to build your family into a team that works together.

At first it doesn't sound exciting, and, you might actually think you HATE this idea, but trust us, we've been doing this for years and it has made ALL the difference.

For dad, it turns you into a leader.

For mom, it stops you from having to be the leader and be the only one who cares about what's going on in the family.

For kids, it gives direction, purpose, momentum, and growth.

Today we're joined by upcoming Accelerator coaches Jeremy and Kristin Netting to talk about why and how to run family team meetings!

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Free Family Meeting PDF: https://familyteams.com/meetings

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On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:14 Meetings

4:05 Why Meetings?

9:11 5 Types of Meetings

11:10 The Weekly Team Meeting

17:01 How Meetings Affect Moms

22:06 Why Dad Should Embrace Team Meetings

25:05 Meeting Tactics and Encouragement

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Resources Mentioned:

Free Family Meeting PDF: https://familyteams.com/meetings

Family Kickball Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v0vWa3pqCs

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The 1 Hour/Week That Has Transformed Our Family May 22, 2025

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This can transform your family's life so deeply. It's THE tool that, done consistently, turns your family into a team.

What is it, you ask?

The Family Meeting.

BEFORE you roll your eyes and delete this, hear us out!

We've been doing some form of this for 12+ years, and it has radically transformed our family.

It hardly takes any time, it hardly takes any prep, and it gives us immense peace, clarity, and a way to find and fix problems before they get too big.

Every productive team has meetings (sports, business, etc.).

If you're serious about turning your family unit into a family team, this podcast is a MUST listen.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:46 Meetings and Resources

7:10 Sunday Morning Meeting Rhythm

11:12 3 Elements of the Family Meeting

14:39 CAV

21:00 1 Improvement

27:39 100 Improvements in 2 Years

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Resources Mentioned:

familyteams.com/meetings

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The Ancient Ugandan Motherhood System That's Way Better Than The Nuclear Family May 15, 2025

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How do you care for a new mother? How do you care for a family?

If you're a citizen of the West, the answer is basically: you don't.

There's no recognition, value, or care for family anymore.

Yet there is an ancient way that most of humanity for most of time has followed that helps mothers and families thrive as multi-generational teams.

That way is still kept in places like Uganda, which Jeremy and April discuss today.

Can you even imagine this kind of support?

And if you didn't receive this support, don't worry...you get to be the one to choose to build this type of family downstream, and the work starts today as you build relationship with your children.

Stand at the crossroads and choose the ancient path.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:14 Stark Differences Between How Mothers Are Treated in The West vs. Africa

14:14 Ancient vs. Western Ways

21:02 The nuclear family is not the ideal

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Resources Mentioned:

Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/05/mother-west-uganda-parenting-uganda-society-switzerland

Family Plan Calendar: https://shop.familyteams.com/products/family-plan-calendar

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Ignore Michelle Obama, Become A Ruling Family May 08, 2025

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The natural, Biblical progression for a woman's life is to go from Maiden to Mother to Matriarch.

Each of these are seasons, and they're glorious in the way God guides us through them.

But...our culture HATES that last step.

Nobody is aspiring to grandmotherhood. The idea seems to be to go BACK to maiden after motherhood.

In this episode, Jeremy and April break down Michelle Obama's recent comments, the destructive nature of "therapy culture", and how it's impacting the way young women are interacting with religion.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:53 Michelle Obama vs. Matriarchy

7:37 A wife and grandmother's perspective

16:14 Becoming one with your spouse

24:04 First time in history young women are less religious than young men

33:23 How young moms can resist the worldly temptation to put themselves first

39:12 The modern self-obsessed culture is the opposite of Jesus' teaching

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Resources Mentioned:

1000 Households Discipleship: https://1kh.org

Michelle Obama Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWovz0V_Kw

Modern Wisdom Podcast Clip: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIUKUFrN3u6/

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578526123/

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3 Extreme Examples To Help Your Kids Master Anything and Never Give Up May 01, 2025

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This is the one thing I wish I knew earlier in my fatherhood journey.

Fathers, especially, have a HUGE amount of influence with helping their kids achieve mastery over skills and parts of life that they might not otherwise accomplish without dad's influence.

In this episode, we share 3 extreme examples of fathers casting huge visions and helping their children become world-class.

We're not saying to go to these extremes, but it shows the power of high-support / high-expectation fatherhood.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

4:05 The 2 Ditches of Fatherhood

12:22 Example 1: Raising Chess Prodigies

17:47 Example 2: Prime Time

19:37 Example 3: Tennis Champions

30:44 How To Train Your Kids In Mastery

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Resources Mentioned:

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578526123/

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How To Actually Train Your Kids (With Examples) with Grant and Kelly Stine Apr 24, 2025

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Listening to this episode and then taking some action could be the biggest peace-giving thing you've done in years.

Training your children well is often the difference between "we're done having kids" and "every child we add is a joy and blessing".

Grant and Kelly Stine completely changed the culture of their home in a very short amount of time by going all-in on training their children. They're our community coaches in the Accelerator this month, and give us some incredible, practical tools and stories in this episode.

👉 Join The Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:33 Discipline vs. Training

8:37 Early Wins In Child Training

14:04 The First Thing We Successfully Trained

17:52 If You Think It Sounds Like Too Much Work...

23:43 Train Transitions

29:25 Guardrails For Peace and Freedom

31:03 Train Values

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