This month in the Family Teams Accelerator, we're going deep on The Romantic Partnership.

Marriage is so much more than just romance or just partnership. We think it fundamentally has three parts to it that we've spent a long time trying to get right. In this episode, we're joined by Rhett and Angela Barbour, who are our Accelerator coaches this month, to discuss super practical ways to apply these three fundamental principles to your marriage, so you can build a true romantic partnership that creates a family that lasts generations.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

3:29 Covenant As The Foundation

14:16 Stoking Romance with Date Nights

24:32 Partnership and Organizational Leadership

35:02 How To Thoughtfully Apply This

Mentioned:

Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

7 Tips For Date Night: https://familyteams.com/date

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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!

FREE GUIDE: 7 Tips For Leveling Up Your Date Nights: https://familyteams.com/date

The world...even most of the Christian world...sees marriage wrong.

Marriage is not primarily a romantic, love-based relationship.

It's much more than that. It's a covenant, designed to create a God-honoring family that lasts 1000+ generations.

In this episode, you'll learn 3 things we've done to build our own marriage that also seems to have worked for the dozens if not hundreds of couples we're closely connected with.

To get the FULL deep dive into all of these topics (and more), join us in the Family Teams Accelerator this month!

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro and Sydney's Wedding!

2:07 Family Teams Sees Marriage Differently

4:37 Play #1: Found Your Marriage On The Bedrock of Covenant

12:35 Play #2: Date Night

17:56 Play #3: Building Your Romantic Parntership With "Co-Founder Meetings"

25:47 Join Us In The Accelerator!

Follow Family Teams:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

FREE GUIDE: 7 Tips For Leveling Up Your Date Nights: https://familyteams.com/date

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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!

Birth rates are declining rapidly across the Western and developed world.

Yet...there are still families out there having 5+ children, completely defying modern trends.

What encourages someone to have a large family?

How do we promote the benefits and joys of having a lot of kids?

What does it mean for the future of our country and our world?

In today's episode, Jeremy dives into this topic with economist and author, Dr. Catherine Pakaluk of the Catholic University of America, to discuss her work on the subject, specifically her book Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying The Birth Dearth.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:01 Why Write A Book About Mothers With 5+ Children

5:35 Why Women Choose To Have More Children

8:04 How Do Lawmakers React To Such A Faith-Focused Finding?

14:21 A Purpose So Strong You Can Withstand Anything

24:18 Individual vs Team Mentality in Family

31:04 Roles in Family

36:30 The Healing Power of an Infant

41:48 The Benefit of Having Older Kids Around Young Siblings

Follow Family Teams:

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Resources Mentioned:

Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying The Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684514576/

Catherine Pakaluk Website: https://pakaluk.com/

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

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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!

Modern parenting experts are saying some pretty bizarre things.

Is it truly good for children to get a sense that they're not in charge?

Or does parental authority somehow limit their freedom of expression?

Is the chief aim of parenting to create a "safe" environment for our kids?

Should we force our kids to create their own version of good and evil?

We answer these questions and more on today's podcast.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:45 How does authority interact with children?

1:41 Dr. Becky Talks Authority

11:55 Gabor Mate on 3 Modes of Parenting

20:10 The Issue With Parenting As An American

24:27 The Collapse of Parenting

31:24 Feeling-Driven Parenting

34:21 Parenting Prosperity Gospel?

Follow Family Teams:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Dr. Becky Reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDj6bW4u2ts/

Gabor Mate Reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/DES_PqEoYv9/

Dr. Leonard Sax on Andrew Klavan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6BFgkdIcy0

Adam Lane Smith Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrSuMeck9hI

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082YHJ62F

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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!

NEW!!! 👉 Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

This week we sit down with Accelerator Community Coaches Nate and Katelyn Sallee to get their practical insights into how they're building their family team.

We focus on 5 parts of their life: communication, family devotions, work, entertainment, and hospitality.

We want you to be able to hear from real families who are applying what they're learning from Family Teams, so that you have a real life example to consider as you begin to build your own family team.

Nate and Katelyn are this month's community coaches inside the new Family Teams Accelerator, so if you want to learn more from them, or even ask them specific questions about what you hear in this episode, make sure to join us inside the Accelerator, where you'll be getting insanely practical coaching on how to apply all of this in your own family.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro and NEW Monthly Podcast Episode Segment

2:12 Entering the Family Teams Universe and Building a Family Team

9:50 Communication as a Family Team

15:20 Family Devotionals

22:17 Family Team at Work

32:27 Entertainment as a Family Team

37:52 Hospitality as a Family Team

Follow Family Teams:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082YHJ62F

Jesus Storybook Bible: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310708257

Dwell Differently Scripture Tattoos: https://dwelldifferently.com/

Louie Giglio Books: https://www.indescribablekids.com/books

Dude Perfect: https://www.youtube.com/@dudeperfect

The Master Plan of Evangelism: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0800788087/

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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!

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! (See below and listen to the episode!)

Today we'll will give you a sneak peak into a HUGE topic at the core of what we do at family teams...

How To Transform Your Family From A Nest Into A Team

We break down the importance of family movie night (including two of our top 10 picks that show family teams in action), and share an important hack we learned when our kids were younger to practically build our family into a team.

You'll also learn about a HUGE announcement in the Family Teams world that'll help you on the practical side more than anything else we've ever done.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:54 Huge Announcement!

3:50 The Importance of Family Movie Night

4:50 Movie Pick #1

11:21 Movie Pick #2

17:57 Do Individual Things Together

19:53 Swap Individual Sports for a Family Team Sport

27:48 Join The Family Teams Accelerator!

Resources:

Top 10 Family Team Movies: https://familyteams.com/movies

Family Kick Ball Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v0vWa3pqCs

Family Kick Ball: https://familykickball.com/

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

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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!

Jeremy's daughter, Sydney, is getting married soon, so Jeremy starts off today's episode talking about something every daughter wants to talk to their dad about:

Contraception in marriage! 😂

The whole conversation focuses on the purpose of marriage, children as a result of marriage, and what it means that most poeple in the western world today think having kids is optional.

The numbers are pretty shocking (93-98% population collapse?!), but there's a Christian response to all of this that we think you should know about.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:15 Should Having Kids Be Considered Optional?

6:30 Three Purposes of Marriage

15:49 Contraception in Marriage

26:35 Is Western Society Hurtling Toward Self-Destruction?

Follow Family Teams:

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Orthodox Priest and Catholic Apologist Discuss Marriage Clip: https://youtu.be/4v2gCF6fil0?si=lIRCDWFh5QoB1lRU&t=2809

Previous Episode on Contraception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECwOr1DIeTg

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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!

We live in a decidedly "therapeutic culture".

There are a million questions we could ask about the implications of this, especially as it relates to fatherhood and motherhood, but the one we focus on today is, "Is embracing this therapeutic culture maladaptive for men?"

Put another way, we discuss whether fathers are different enough from mothers that the question of therapy itself has to be broken down among gender lines.

As always, we believe fatherhood and motherhood are the anchor points of gender. The entire REASON for gender.

So, it makes sense that we talk about roles and how each member of the family could or perhaps even should approach therapy.

Hit play to find out if dads should approach therapy differently.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:25 Has therapeutic culture done some kind of damage to fatherhood?

2:48 Boys vs. girls talking about their feelings (Christina Hoff Summers Clip

5:55 Gender impact on therapy

8:04 Modern and ancient world collide over therapy

11:45 Therapy in the Sopranos

18:59 Therapy to become a victim

29:15 The risk of being too extreme and not having a support network

Follow Family Teams:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Tyler Graham:

https://www.3mphfatherhood.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/3mphfatherhood/

Philip Dosa:

https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipDosa/

Christina Hoff Sommers on Dad Saves America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKe8BxvjZIs

Dewayne Noel on Modern Wisdom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB8ma6fmb1A

Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBYHTV2D

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082YHJ62F

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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!

Our first granddaughter is 10 days old, and we have a family story to share with you, that we hope will encourage and give hope to all of you mothers out there (and the fathers who lead family teams!).

The story you're about to hear absolutely shocked the nurse involved...but we thought it was totally normal.

It's just one more proof point to the goodness of God's ancient plan for families, and why we think the Family Teams model works so well.

This wasn't something we planned for, or even had as a goal, but our hope is that in sharing it with you, it gives you a direction and perhaps even opens your eyes for the first time to just how deeply connected you can be with the other people in your family.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:44 Why Kelsey included her mom in her birth experience

7:21 How April is processing her role as matriarch (especially with the birth of her grandchildren)

15:00 The transition from mothering a teen to mothering an adult child

17:28 How moms can start laying the groundwork for an extremely close lifelong relationship with their daughters

22:16 A daughter's encouragement to other mothers and daughters

25:55 Building a family team beyond the early years

29:54 Intentional birth training

Follow Family Teams:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familyteams

Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

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

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082YHJ62F

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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!

It is SO strange that a new parenting trend emerges every 5-10 years.

For generations, there was basically just "parenting"...passed down from one generation to another.

Multi-generational wisdom, essentially...very Family Teams.

But with the disintegration of generational families and the rise of hyper-individualism, parents these days are left to come up with their own methods, focusing a little on this, then a little on that.

Not only is it dangerous to use an untested parenting method, MOST of them that come out these days (formerly in books, now often via social media influencers), are extremely secular and certainly not wise (the fear of God being the beginning of wisdom...).

Jeremy digs into this issue, and how to root yourself in a solid Biblical understanding of fatherhood and motherhood, joined by his wife April and Donna Cheung.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:48 The rise of "parenting trends"

2:35 Why modern culture has led to so many different parenting philosophies (clip)

8:30 The risks of being a young mother in the information age

19:10 Why most parenting studies are bunk and how to weigh advice

26:44 Potential for deception, especially with secular parenting books

32:37 Don't go down the "way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death"

Follow Family Teams:

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaleen Doucleff, PhD

Maiden, Mother, Matriarch Podcast Clip

The Case Against The Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry

Family Plan Calendar

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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!

One of the biggest reasons for the birth rate nosedive is that people no longer hear the positive arguments for having kids.

All they hear is the constant societal push for "freedom" being the ultimate virtue. It's led to a culture of hyper-individualism, where having kids makes absolutely no sense, because kids necessarily infringe on your freedom.

In this episode, Jeremy is joined by Tyler Graham to make the case for fatherhood from 3 different angles:

1. The Benefits for You

2. The Benefits For Your Family/Business/Marriage

3. Your Duty To Have Kids

Dive in, and remember that one of the major ways you can impact your own kids and community is by constantly telling and showing everyone how great fatherhood and motherhood truly is.

On this episode, we talk about:

00:00 Intro

00:31 Making the Case for Fatherhood

02:35 The Best Possible Relationship (Jordan Peterson on Parenting)

10:40 A Venture Capitalist's Take on Having Kids

18:37 Grandchildless Grief From Wrongly Engineering Society

20:41 Matt Walsh's Duty Argument For Having Kids

33:26 Reaping the Fruit of Hyper-Individualism

Follow Family Teams:

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Website: https://www.familyteams.com

Resources Mentioned:

Jordan Peterson Clip

@nikunj on X.com

How Generational Selfishness Is Destroying Our Future by Matt Walsh

Do Kids Owe Their Parents Anything? on Jeremy Pryor's Podcast

Tyler Graham on LinkedIn

3mph Fatherhood Newsletter

Family Plan Calendar

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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!