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dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Wayne Francis Wayne Francis leads the New York City location of The Life Church and was the founder and lead pastor of the former Authentic Church, which merged with The Life Church in early 2020. Wayne and his wife, Claudene, have been married for twenty years and have two beautiful teenage daughters, Haleigh and Ryleigh. Show Notes: Coming SOON Episode Links: https://thelifechurch.com/locations/new-york http://leadershipinblackandwhite.com/ FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript Coming Soon!

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Seth Barnes Seth Barnes is founder and president of Adventures in Missions, a discipleship and missions ministry that has taken over 125,000 people on mission projects around the world since 1989. The mission of Adventures is to deeply connect people to Jesus and his movement. Their goal is to train 100,000 disciple makers focused on fulfilling the Great Commission. Adventures has ministry training centers around the world that are focused on making that goal a reality. To move toward the fulfillment of the vision, Seth also founded the World Race in 2005. The World Race provides trained teams of young adults the opportunity to engage in 11 international mission contexts in 11 months using an experiential, missional discipleship model. Adventures emphasizes listening prayer, relationships, and servanthood in their work amongst the poor. Both through ministry/training centers and World Race ministry teams, Adventures maintains an active presence in a number of African countries. In addition to overseeing Adventures in Missions, Seth is a speaker, author, and prolific blogger. His blog, Radical Living, can be found at www.sethbarnes.com. Seth is married to Karen. They have five children and seven grandchildren. Seth's books on Amazon Episode 200 Party: Tuesday, January 9th from 8-10pm we are gathering 200 dadAWESOME friends for a couple hours of fun. Spikeball, Cornhole, Music, dadAWESOME Giveaways, Food and some Vision/Mission/Hopes for what's next. We're hosting this party in NE Minneapolis at Ninth Street Soccer and Coffee: 801 SE 9th St, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Here's the RSVP Form: https://forms.gle/R3ApseRfsX49Kuk26 Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Episode 200 Party: https://forms.gle/R3ApseRfsX49Kuk26 Join for dadAWESOME meetups around the south/southwest this winter! 3:19 - Adventures in Missions: The World Race 4:31 - Being a 9 year old with his dad in the Vietnam War 8:20 - YouTube clip from 1988 - pulling kids around on palm tree leaves example - 53 min. mark on this video) 8:40 - The continuum of softness to drivenness. Get feedback. 9:12 - And innovation, not just at work, but also on the playground, so that palm branch, it looked like just, you know, something might have to throw away or it could be this magical ride that they could jump on and pretend it's a horse or something, you know, and that's I always tried to approach the playtime that way, you know, inventing games not just like pulling down a box and opening it and letting somebody else set the rules. 10:44 - "So it's great to be soft when they're, you know, zero to five and they need boundaries, of course. But but you've got to start challenging them and people ask me, you know, when, when can I take my child on mission? Well I used to take them at age four and five on a mission. And man, that really tones down the entitlement, which is a huge issue these days for dads." 13:24 - the importance of challenging entitlement in our kids 13:59 - Somebody needs to be taking them out of entitlement, out of a self-focus, out of this place of just kind of, I don't know, they get to Yale and they're called snowflakes. I mean, we've got to stop this as a as a nation or we're just not going to have a generation to hand any kind of inheritance to" 14:14 - How do we help our kids embrace pain? 14:56 - Know the phase you are in: Ages 0-5 - Identity formation. Ages 6-12 - Body, Soul & Spirit formation. Ages 13-18 - Connection to the world of adults. 1. From 0-5 Identity formation. Main job is loving them & attachment formation. Key activities: Focused attention, touch, eye contact. Play with them & teach them agency (example - me 33 yrs ago playing w/ the kids - 53 min. mark on this video) 2. From 6-12 Body, soul & spirit formation: Main job is mentorship/discipleship. Stay deeply connected w/ them and help them move toward, not away from challenge so that curiosity guides them and kids become lifelong learners. This is where the battle for faith is won or lost. My secret weapon was to take/send them on mission. 3. From 13-18 Connecting to the world of adults. Help them embrace the process of growing, especially by embracing the healthy pain of responsibility & discipline. In this last stage, I watch so many dads absolutely fail. They don't trust their kids and specifically, they don't trust them with what I call "healthy pain" - instead confusing it with the kind of caustic pain that they often have not adequately processed themselves. 15:20 - Piaget and cognitive development 18:01 - "And we've got to lean into the future if we're ever going to raise greatness in our kids." 18:09 - John Tyson's Primal Path - The capstone was The World Race for his son. 21:05 - "We're going to do fun and missions. And, you know, I'm just trying to

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Chris Bruno There is nothing more exciting to me than the intersection of transformation and adventure. This is why I founded Restoration Counseling - a place where we daily engage the power of restoration and epic re-storying. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I specialize in men and masculinity, sexual addiction, trauma and abuse. My experience as a men's therapist and my work with men at Restoration Project provide me a wealth of experience when navigating the landscape of a man's heart. As I work with clients, my focus is on discovering and "reading" the narrative of their lives and guiding them toward the transformation that comes through adventurously and honestly engaging our sorrows AND our glories. This, to me, is what I was created for. Episode 200 Party: Tuesday, January 9th from 8-10pm we are gathering 200 dadAWESOME friends for a couple hours of fun. Spikeball, Cornhole, Music, dadAWESOME Giveaways, Food Trucks and some Vision/Mission/Hopes for what's next. We're hosting this party in NE Minneapolis at Ninth Street Soccer and Coffee: 801 SE 9th St, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Here's the RSVP Form: https://forms.gle/R3ApseRfsX49Kuk26 Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Episode 200 Party: https://forms.gle/R3ApseRfsX49Kuk26 Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to become an intentional dad 1:52 - if you missed last week, hit pause and listen to PART 1 - Episode 196 with Chris Bruno 3:11 - (Jeff Question) - Explore with us how how we could move in the direction of shared experiences versus just intentional friendships moments 3:37 - "You need someone who's willing to ask what we call a deep dive question." 4:13 - "we asked the question 17 years ago today, what was happening in your life, what was going on for you and how did you get there?" 4:26 - "Now it's asking for some information, but really what we want is not just the content of what was happening, but we want the context of what was that like for you and that's the difference between just hanging out with the pals and going to that brother level is what was that like for you? Help me understand what it felt like to walk in your shoes. " 6:15 - (Jeff) I believe that our heavenly father can heal outside of time, back to moments in that healing ripples its way back through time and we experience way more benefits. 6:34 - "God does not heal memories because memories are kind of locked in. He heals stories. Yes, but not a memory doesn't become a story until it is told to another person." 7:41 - "That's where memories are. God wants to go backwards into our lives and heal all of those big T and little team moments in our lives. But we can't do that. We don't do that. Just by remembering to ourselves is where we when I invite you, Jeff, into my story and I have someone witness and be with me in the story and experience with me and empathize with me. What happened in the story? That's where healing actually happens." 10:03 - "Grace actually means that we're given this favor, this delight, this pleasure and nothing can detract from it and nothing can add to it." 11:55 - "there's actually a first story. There's actually a child of delight that still also lives within me. That's older than that's the first that's more original to who. He made me to be. And so as I can unpack and get back around my second, the other things. The second story that I came to believe I can slowly start to reveal come into become the man I was designed to be." 13:10 - "if my brothers know both my second story and my first story, they get to ask me that question. How would you like to engage right now?" 14:30 "Awaken within your child the way that they should go, then when in the future they will not depart from it. So if our task as parents, as fathers is to awaken within our children the glory that God has written there, that original story, that image of God written into their lives as he wants to let the world know who he is through them. If we can awaken that in them, then then I think they they will. Of course, they will still have traumas and tragedies and things that happen to them. Yeah, but the likelihood of them struggling in the ways that many of us have is is far less so." 15:12 "our job as fathers is not to protect our children from pain." 18:57 - "our stories leak, and we might think that we're doing well. We might think that we are the the top of the totem pole as far as killing it at work and killing it at home and killing it everywhere, killing it at church. But are stories, the stories of pain, the stories of struggle, those stories of trauma they will leak?" 19:35 - Start doing this work today because the benefits the family tree changing benefits will be for generations to come." 21:44 - Trauma passes down through gene

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Chris Bruno There is nothing more exciting to me than the intersection of transformation and adventure. This is why I founded Restoration Counseling - a place where we daily engage the power of restoration and epic re-storying. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I specialize in men and masculinity, sexual addiction, trauma and abuse. My experience as a men's therapist and my work with men at Restoration Project provide me a wealth of experience when navigating the landscape of a man's heart. As I work with clients, my focus is on discovering and "reading" the narrative of their lives and guiding them toward the transformation that comes through adventurously and honestly engaging our sorrows AND our glories. This, to me, is what I was created for. Episode 200 Party: Tuesday, January 9th from 8-10pm we are gathering 200 dadAWESOME friends for a couple hours of fun. Spikeball, Cornhole, Music, dadAWESOME Giveaways, Food Trucks and some Vision/Mission/Hopes for what's next. We're hosting this party in NE Minneapolis at Ninth Street Soccer and Coffee: 801 SE 9th St, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Here's the RSVP Form: https://forms.gle/R3ApseRfsX49Kuk26 Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Episode 200 Party: https://forms.gle/R3ApseRfsX49Kuk26 Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to become an intentional dad 6:58 -Parallels from a Rafting Guide to a Father 7:02 - "It's our first time down this river when we're fathering our kids and it's not our first time down the river." 07:14 - "We can still guide our children down the river that we've never been down before because we've been down rivers before." 7:46 - "What I've experienced in the past, my kids won't experience, but they may experience something similar. And that just gives me the freedom to kind of journey down a river and see what comes." 9:02 - "we became the men that we are today because of the men that were with us before and the guidance of the men that we had or the lack of guidance of the men that we didn't have, that that's so impactful for who we became." 9:16 - "the most important person in our lives as far as men goes is our dad. If he was there or if he wasn't there, that's important. And there's a shaping that happens inside of us in his presence, his intentionality, his wisdom, his guidance, just like we were talking about with the raft. All of those things are super important for how we've navigated life." 9:47 - "There are two ways I think that fathers bring destruction into their children's lives. It's either in their absence or in their violence and in his presence, He brings life and he brings words and, you know, attention and affection and intention. But when those you know, whether it's violence or there's absence, there's going to be something significantly kind of shaping in the life in our lives. And the fact is that all of us have that to some degree, because we don't live, we don't live in the Garden of Eden. 10:22 - "all of us have some level of wounding and pain that we've experienced, and therefore we bring that in. So in order for us to be the kinds of dads that we want to be that are dadAWESOME dads, right, that it's not that we muster something up, it's more that we need to read our story and it's more that we need to read our story of where have we come from?" 10:45 - Kurt Thompson says, "the number one variable for children to grow up with the ability to connect in a secure way in relationships, the number one variable for that to happen is the parents investigation of their story" their own story. 12:30 - TEDx talk from Chris Bruno about his childhood - https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_bruno_restory_how_to_live_your_truest_story 14:02 - "There is something beautiful in my parents that just decided we're not going that route. (Special Needs Sister) We're not going that route and we're actually going to keep her at home and we're going to find ways to love on this child and bring her up in the context of our own home." 15:24 - "My horse died and there was something about that experience where I was in the house watching the vet with with the horse outside, they were outside in the corral and I watched my horse collapse and it was in that moment that something inside of me collapsed as well. And I couldn't do anything. I couldn't get out to the horse. My parents had said, Don't go out there, and I was 13 years old." 15:52 - "something inside of me collapsed. And I remember distinctly kind of making a vow inside of my own soul this little 13 year old boy vow of I'm not going to give my heart to another like that again because he had become my companion..." 16:22 - "...And that collapsed inside of me is actually something that I have had to work on pretty hard to to trust God for to move into,

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Tim Olson Tim Olson is an author, teacher, Principal. Pastor, and life coach with forays into audio publishing, radio hosting, and home remodeling. His understanding of father-child relationships was fostered through years of observation and application in education, coaching clients around the world, and working with the National Fathering Ministry in Minnesota and Ukraine. As a business life coach, it was through coaching family business owners that the significant connections between a father and his children (or with his own father) finally gelled into observable patterns that helped form the basis for his coaching and for his book, The Legacy of Absence. Through it all, he's found his way to helping others to discover who they are meant to be and to become that person. He and his wife, Kay, have been married for 54 years and are blessed with three children, six grandchildren, four bonus grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. They make their home in New Hope, MN. UPCOMING FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100 Mile Bike Rides — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to become an intentional dad LINK TO PART 1 of the conversation with Tim Olson timolsonauthor.com 2:18 - Images from the book: present father, the involved father, the passive father and the absent father LINKS to the images: https://dadawesome.org/195/ 2:49 - "You can be present physically and not present emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. And you know, that's actually even worse." Sharing statistics on risk of pathological behavior in children. 6:05 - Story from Ukraine of two fathers that work out of the home - one is absent, and one is still intentional even though not physically close - and the stark difference in the success of the kids 9:06 - Working with inmates, what do they wish they had from their dads? 10:48 - "We've realized that death is not as bad for kids as being abandoned and just just a dad who's overworking is abandonment. We all abandoned our kids. And every kid, every person has been abandoned to some extent, some so little you don't even recognize it. And we don't realize that that's what it is. We just remember the not being chosen part." 11:34 - Describing the reconciliation process 14:21 - "[Dad's role is] to prepare us to face the world on our own. And so he does that primarily by teaching us four things and developing them in us. And those four things are: self-esteem, confidence, maturity and identity. And identity is perhaps the most important because that describes who we are and whose we are.... These are perhaps the most important words that a father can say, I believe: 'You are mine. You belong to me. I love you.' That's identity." 17:17 - "How we deal with the hurt and wounds of our own father's failures, determines our ability to be good fathers and mothers, you know, to our own children. 17:38 - Quoting Richard Rohr - "If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it." 17:56 - In Louis Meade's book, he says to forgive is to set the prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner was me." 26:27 - 4 Things he shared with his kids: 26:32 - "I know that things happened in our relationship that hurt you. I said things and did things that hurt you. Even now, I didn't even know it. And I want you to know that I would never do anything like that on purpose intentionally, but I know it happened. And so I want to ask you to please forgive me for those things." 27:35 - "I am no longer your parent and you are no longer my child. Well, that sounds pretty offensive at first. I said instead, from now on, I am just your father and you are just my son." 29:27 - "It would please me more than anything to continue to be able to speak into your life." 30:15 - "No matter what you do, with your decisions and with your life, good or bad, it will never change how much I love you. That will never change." 33:01 - Quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." Episode Links: https://timolsonauthor.com/ https://www.dadsfirst.org/ Tim's book - The Legacy Of Absence FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Tim Olson Tim Olson is an author, teacher, Principal. Pastor, and life coach with forays into audio publishing, radio hosting, and home remodeling. His understanding of father-child relationships was fostered through years of observation and application in education, coaching clients around the world, and working with the National Fathering Ministry in Minnesota and Ukraine. As a business life coach, it was through coaching family business owners that the significant connections between a father and his children (or with his own father) finally gelled into observable patterns that helped form the basis for his coaching and for his book, The Legacy of Absence. Through it all, he's found his way to helping others to discover who they are meant to be and to become that person. He and his wife, Kay, have been married for 54 years and are blessed with three children, six grandchildren, four bonus grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. They make their home in New Hope, MN. UPCOMING FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100 Mile Bike Rides — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to become an intentional dad 2:55 - Praying for his grandsons-in-law 4:55 - National Fathering Ministry - https://www.dadsfirst.org/ 6:03 - "Dr. Richard Green, a former superintendent of Minneapolis schools. And he said to us, if the kids come to us for kindergarten and do not have an involved father or an involved grandfather, they are already lost to us" - This conversation was the purpose for working with black urban fathers of preschool children. 6:46 - Working with fathers in Ukraine - starting a fatherhood ministry that has impacted the nation 8:06 - Ukrainian college women drawing where dad sits in the family circle 9:22 - "The father for a time was even taken out of the Russian dictionary. And and if you go back in history and I covered some of this in my book about how that worked with communism and and Marxism, ... they did their best to eliminate the father from the family and the the government was supposed to be the ones who essentially raised the children by way of the mothers...the government was in charge." 12:26 - Malachi 4:5-6 12:46 - Gordon Dalby is a great spokesperson about fathering, and he [share that].... the brokenness in this world between children and fathers reflects the brokenness between humanity and God." 14:16 - "We have to try to find the right path or we become complicit in crimes against it." 19:28 - "One of the things that I heard them say often was, 'you know, my grandfather was like this, my dad was like this, I'm like this, and my kids will be like this, and there's nothing I can do about it. It's just the cards we were dealt.' And I would say to him, You know what? That is a lie right out of the pit of hell, yes, you can change. You may not be able to change how tall you are and the color of your skin or anything like that, but you can change your personality, you can change your character quality, you can change the things you want and don't want to pass on to your kids. You can do that." 20:56 - Story of reconciliation with his own son and not wanting to pass on generational sins 31:30 - "Christ's example shows us as leaders in our areas of strength as dads to come underneath our children and our wives to lift and encourage and to praise and to pray for and to make them who God intended them to be. But you know, the moms, their wives have their areas of strength just as strong and in their job then is in their areas of strength is to come under us as fathers and to pray for us and lift us and encourage us and support us to be the best dads we can be. And so there's this mutual coming under, this mutual submissiveness, and it's the strongest, not the weakest, that submits." Episode Links: https://www.dadsfirst.org/ Tim's book - The Legacy Of Absence FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript Coming Soon!

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Trent Walker Trent and Siobhán are a husband and wife singer-songwriter duo raising their 5 sons on the road full time in a nearly vintage Foretravel motorhome. Their original songs speak of adventure, bravery, reaching out to others and trusting in a God who never fails. Their family motto has become to "live simply, so that others may simply live." Come watch as they cross the nation in search of the joys of life and sharing them with others. If you are interested in having us come and share our song and journey with your church or even a group of friends at your home, please give us a shout. We would love to come and be a blessing wherever we can. UPCOMING FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100 Mile Bike Rides — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to becoming an intentional dad Donate to F4F 5:39 - Dallas Willard - A Life Without Lack 6:18 - Why call the channel EVERYDAY Family Adventures? 7:02 - "Life is pretty awesome. So let's start with that basis and know that I don't want my life to be boring. And that's a choice. And so that's an everyday choice. And so we're going to choose quite effectively to make every day an adventure in some way." 7:47 - "I'm going to choose to have hope and look at tomorrow with opportunity. And I think that we as dads have to go before our kids in that in that optimism, especially today when the world is in a hopeless place." 9:03 - Song: Speak: https://youtu.be/PeT8LQOffDs 14:18 - "I mean, that was kind of the faith and the words that needed to come out of our mouth and begin coming out of our mouth during that time when we were really struggling and we were praying every morning, getting on our knees was just this like, I am not going to leave this place until I get the favor of the Lord because I am done with being passive. I'm done with being like, woe is me. I'm going to I'm going to choose to believe in in this God that I've spoken about all my life, but really never took action steps in it." 14:42 - Missions as a family: "Live simply so that others may simply live." AND "To inspire people to find their own adventure in life, something that will bring them joy while bringing others joy as well." 23:34 - "I believe, the more you worship God, the more you get the heart of Christ and the heart of Christ to be around people and love people. And so I believe the more you look at Jesus, the more you fix your eyes on Jesus and the more you're singing about him and glorifying him and maybe getting your eyes off of yourself. Jesus keeps doing this wild thing. You look at him more and he keeps showing you where his heart is and his heart is the love the world." 27:14 - Wanting the heart to grow bigger. Episode Links: www.trentandsiobhan.com YouTube Channel: FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript coming soon :)

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Jackie Bledsoe Jackie Bledsoe is a professional blogger, author, and speaker, but first and foremost a husband and father, who encourages men to better lead and love their families through his blog, JackieBledsoe.com. He's a contributor to All Pro Dad, Babble.com, Good Men Project, and Huffington Post. His work has been featured on Yahoo!, USA Football, MichaelHyatt.com, and more. Jackie, who has been happily married to his wife, Stephana, since June of 2001, lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with their daughter and two sons. Wild at Heart BASIC in Northern Wisconsin When? October 28th through the 31st, 2021 (event ends at 10am Sunday) Where? HoneyRock Camp 8660 Honey Rock Rd, Three Lakes, WI 54562 What is BASIC? Wild at Heart BASIC is Wild at Heart Boot Camp led by John Eldredge and his team through video sessions in your local area. RSVP by signing up here: https://sites.google.com/view/wild-at-heart-basic/home UPCOMING FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100 Mile Bike Rides — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Donate to F4F Happily Married Couples How I Built This and Stayed happily married podcast BOOK: The Seven Rings of Marriage dadAWESOME Nudge - Text 651-370-8618 Wild at Heart Basic Event - Check out link to Register The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey 4:33 - The biggest rocks related to parenting and marriage 8:02 - heart attack on Thanksgiving 2018 10:35 - Blog post - "what you must teach your daughter before she turns 16" 10:56 - "Preparing your daughter for marriage" blog post 11:32 - Advice: Model what you want to see in your daughter's future husband - model that in how you treat your wife 14:58 - teaching his daughter to manage finances 19:56 - Marriage advice 21:59 - So know that if you're in a hard season right now, just keep the course, stay the course, stay. ...do not grow weary in well doing. But at the proper time You receive a harvest if you do not give up. So that's the word that I give to you dads as well. It can be tough right now, but keep doing things that you know are going to lead to the end that you want in your marriage and your fatherhood and your business, whatever it is, and trust that that harvest will come at some point. Wild at Heart Basic Event - 4 days, 3 nights. Honey Rock camp in WI Episode Links: https://jackiebledsoe.com/ https://happilymarriedcouples.com/ FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Ken Castor After thirty years of next-generation ministry, Dr. Ken is balding in his hairline but still bold in his faith. He is the Family and NextGen Pastor at Wooddale Church. He served as the Professor of Youth Ministry at Crown College for over a decade and in nextgen ministry for two decades before that. Ken is the "Blue Letters Editor" of the Award-winning Jesus-Centered Bible, and has authored numerous discipleship resources like Grow Down and Make a Difference. He's also a nerdy Cubs fan, the founder of NEXT Ministry Conferences, has several Chuck-Taylors, and enjoys living in Minnesota with his brilliantly witty and slightly freezing family. Wild at Heart BASIC in Northern Wisconsin When? October 28th through the 31st, 2021 (event ends at 10am Sunday) Where? HoneyRock Camp 8660 Honey Rock Rd, Three Lakes, WI 54562 What is BASIC? Wild at Heart BASIC is Wild at Heart Boot Camp led by John Eldredge and his team through video sessions in your local area. RSVP by signing up here: https://sites.google.com/view/wild-at-heart-basic/home UPCOMING FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100 Mile Bike Rides — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to becoming an intentional dad Donate to F4F Local gold SPONSOR: Accelerate Business Solutions - https://www.xceleratenow.com/ Ken Castor - Family pastor at Wooddale Church - https://wooddale.org/ 3:47 - Unpacking the meaning of resilience in the family. Developing spiritual grit. 8:52 - Wishing he had spent more time preparing the meals together as a family instead of just one parent preparing the meal and rushing to the table. 12:39 - "Every facet of life as a dad, it's hard to give up what I'm good at and let my kid do it not as good." 19:35 - "There are some intentional rhythms I've built into my life so that my kids would know that, hey, my dad's all about Jesus. Like that's been my goal. But I can be as intentional as I want but if in the unintentional moments my kids see a jerk or they see somebody who's living a different lifestyle or who's talking bad about their wife or whatever, it those moments are the ones that actually matter." 22:27 - Discussing the story of the prodigal son with an emphasis on the father. 28:02 - "The measurement of a good father is not based upon the behavior and outcome of the children. The measurement of the good father is, does he reflect God, the father, and the character and the heart that all of his children would be in relationship with him at home." 32:13 - The story of adoption 34:47 - On the season of waiting for fatherhood (waiting for pregnancy, adoption, etc) "That season of preparation is... The principles that you're working on in your heart and your soul and faith in that season of preparation are the same resources that you will turn to as a dad so that that season of waiting. You can't be impatient and do fatherhood well." Wild at Heart Basic Event - 4 days, 3 nights. Honey Rock camp in WI Episode Links: https://kencastor.com/ Books & Resources from Ken Castor FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript https://dadawesome.org/191notes

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Dr. Greg Bourgond As President and Founder of Heart of a Warrior Ministries, Dr. Greg Bourgond, has taught in graduate / post-graduate schools and ministry organizations, and has spoken and preached in many churches and ministry contexts around the world. He is also the author of many award winning books. He has been happily married for 48 years and enjoys time with his grandchildren every chance he gets. His previous experience includes ten years in the defense industry and commercial business, and over twenty years in various ministry positions. He also completed twenty-nine years of active and reserve duty in enlisted and officer ranks in the U.S. Navy. He has received degrees from Chapman University, Bethel Seminary and Nova Southeastern University. He has also completed post graduate work at Harvard University. He has also twice been C.S. Lewis Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the Kilns in Headington England. Wild at Heart BASIC in Northern Wisconsin When? October 28th through the 31st, 2021 (event ends at 10am Sunday) Where? HoneyRock Camp 8660 Honey Rock Rd, Three Lakes, WI 54562 What is BASIC? Wild at Heart BASIC is Wild at Heart Boot Camp led by John Eldredge and his team through video sessions in your local area. RSVP by signing up here: https://sites.google.com/view/wild-at-heart-basic/home UPCOMING FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100 Mile Bike Rides — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to becoming an intentional dad Donate to F4F 3:13 - Heart of a Warrior Ministries Dr. Bourgond's Books 8:05 - "God wires men cause to die for, a challenge to embrace, and loved ones to protect." 10:32 - "Robert Lewis, who coined the definition of authentic manhood, is to reject passivity, accept responsibility, lead courageously and wait on God's reward." 10:55 - David Morrow published the book Why Men Hate to Go to Church. 14:11 - Above all else, guard your heart for from it becomes the wellspring of your life. - Proverbs 4:23 14:55 - "Whatever is stored in your heart will manifest itself in overt behavior that either bring glory and honor to God or dishonor and shame." 16:10 - "What I found out that men have an ability, especially in Western culture, to proclaim a belief system that bears little correlation with how they behave. There's an inconsistency and incongruity and incoherence, but how they behave over time will give you an insight into what they truly believe at the core of their being." 16:42 - "The decisions that we make are always processed through the values we hold, even if we can't articulate them." 22:44 - "It will always be the case in Western culture, nobody really cares what you had to say, until they observe how you live. And if you try to live a life of integrity and honor under God's authority, people ultimately want to hear what you have to say, even if they disagree with you. Why? Because they can't get past a life well lived." 23:01 - "Living intentionally in the same direction over an extended period of time will have a greater impact on your children than anything you could possibly say." 24:21 - "And what I learned over the course of time is that sometimes God called you to be a sage on the stage. In other times, he wants you to be a guide by the side. And I understood that parenting needed to be situational. That you needed to change your leadership style with the confidence and the competence being demonstrated by that child in whatever task you give them." 26:46 - "If your child is a skeptic, simply answer the questions they're asking. If they're cynics, simply question the answers they're giving me." 35:01 - "S = R / E. S stands for either satisfaction or success or significance. R stands for reality and E stands for expectations." 38:04 - "Neil T Anderson who said it's not what you do that determines who you are. It's who you are and Jesus Christ that should determine what you do." 39:15 - "How to determine the purpose God has for your life." 39:01 - "Infinite God has chosen you as his finite creature to implement his redemptive plans for the world." 40:22 - "Every man is given a unique purpose for their life. So it's finding out what that is by tuning your heart to the heart of God. Listening to the still small voice of God in your life, leaning forward to hear it and allowing God's word to transform you and to wash off the world." 41:18 - "The point is, guys, give your life to something that matters. Make a difference. Too many guys are like ships tied to a pier, spend all of their life polishing the brass, making sure the steering m

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Pablo Ceron Pablo has been a speaker, teacher and leader of men's ministry initiatives for over 10 years. He's also the Founder and President of WILDSONS, a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration of the hearts of God's people. Pablo was born and raised in Colombia and moved to the U.S. in 2,000, where he married his loving wife Juanita. After a long journey through the desert, and into their "promised land", they now live in Colorado with their two wild sons, Mateo (10) and Lucas (4). Pablo has also worked as a Product and Technology leader for over 20 years. UPCOMING FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100 Mile Bike Rides — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Link to PART 1 of this interview with Pablo Ceron: https://dadawesome.org/188/ Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to becoming an intentional dad FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Sponsors: Aleph Holdings, Alpha & Omega Wealth Strategies, Substance Church, River Valley Church, Chick-Fil-A Blaine 2:34 - Pablo talks through steps to healing and restoration: (1) Invite Jesus into the place in our hearts where we feel wronged, where life is unfair.... (2) Renounce the lie that life is up to me, that I will need to fight every battle because no one else will do it for me (3) Ask What is the truth? 5:09 - "We have come to believe certain things about God and ourselves and life and then to then to bring those before God himself and to have an encounter with him where the truth is revealed to us and we get to be initiated into living life in the way that results out of that being truth." 17:41 George MacDonald says that the hardest and the gladdest thing is to cry Abba, Daddy to God from a full heart. 15:01 - Describing the meaning of "Sons" in the ministry Wild Sons. 21:50 - "When the student is ready, the teacher appears, when the Son is ready, the Father appears." 24:31 - "Father, I receive you fresh as a father, and I choose to become your son, would you father me?" 24:53 - "And if I can go on this journey and become my father's son again. Then it must be true that my two boys are his his sons, too, and he is more interested in fathering my two boys than I am, and he knows them and has known them before the foundation of the world. So he knows their hearts. He knows what they need. He's orchestrating a journey of initiation so that they can become the men he created them to be. I play a crucial role, and my role is to ask my dad, father, father, 'would you allow me to see my son in the way that you see him? Would you allow me to see what is it at this age in this season that you're doing in his heart, in his life? And what is my role in partnering with you for that?'" 26:45 - Pablo's story of how he begins a journey of initiation from age 10-21 and God told him, "Delight in what he delights in." 28:55 - The raising of my boys is not up to me because life is not up to me. 29:43 - "The invitation is to ask God for a revelation of what he's doing in our children's life. And for us to participate in it, knowing that the outcome is up to it's up to God, we have no control over it." Episode Links: Wild Sons FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Pablo Ceron Pablo has been a speaker, teacher and leader of men's ministry initiatives for over 10 years. He's also the Founder and President of WILDSONS, a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration of the hearts of God's people. Pablo was born and raised in Colombia and moved to the U.S. in 2,000, where he married his loving wife Juanita. After a long journey through the desert, and into their "promised land", they now live in Colorado with their two wild sons, Mateo (10) and Lucas (4). Pablo has also worked as a Product and Technology leader for over 20 years. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to becoming an intentional dad FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Sponsors: Aleph Holdings, Alpha & Omega Wealth Strategies, Substance Church, River Valley Church, Chick-Fil-A Blaine Prayer Team Sign Up for Aug 28th Ride Volunteer Sign Up Previous episode with Pablo - Episode 98 5:02 - Wild Sons 5:51 - "That has now been almost two decades of this journey with God. And the fruit of that is that we want more people to experience what we have come to experience the goodness of God, the treasures of the kingdom, the blessing of living a life of peace and a life of adventure and freedom and joy. " 9:15 - "There is an expression of Christianity or at least the message that as men we receive is that we need to set aside all our desires and our passions and become a nice guy. Yeah, and that's not at all what I read in scripture. What I read scripture is quite the opposite. Is God inviting men into a wild adventure. " 10:21 - "Adventure by definition implies we we are risking, we're going into into the unknown, into the frontier, into an area where we don't have the answers, where success is not guaranteed, where things could go wrong. And if God doesn't show up, we're doomed. And that's how we come alive, let's do it." 10:49 - (Talking about Wild Sons) "And part of the recovery of their heart is to recognize their need for adventure and and and and how adventure makes a man come come alive. We believe that men shouldn't be tamed, but should be given permission to be themselves and live with passion and live with freedom ." 12:16 - Wild Sons Muster 16:50 - "So for those who are willing to let it all go and go after Jesus, all in. Yeah, they're going to experience life to the fullest. Jesus promises." 27:09 - "Everything that we do is an expression of what we have come to believe at the level of the heart about God, about who we are, about who my wife is, about who my boys are, my children, about the nature of the world." 29:52 - "Ask Jesus, who have you created my child to be? Look for the true identity of the child and speak to their identity, and they will come alive." 31:42 - "When I am in my good days, when I am connected to the Father, the way that I'm learning to parent my sons is by understanding who they truly are and to speak to that." 32:31 - "Even when we are in the darkest places and in the worst of our sin, he's not coming with accusations of shame and guilt. He's coming with love to say, I know you're better than this. You may have chosen wrong, but this is not who you are. Come and act according to who I made you to be." Episode Links: Wild Sons FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Jon Tyson Jon Tyson is a New York City based Pastor and Author. Originally from Adelaide Australia, Jon moved to the United States over two decades ago with a passion to seek and cultivate renewal in the Western Church. He is the author of multiple books including his latest book, The Intentional Father. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Make a DONATION to FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to becoming an intentional dad FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Sponsors: Aleph Holdings, Alpha & Omega Wealth Strategies, Substance Church, River Valley Church The Intentional Father book 4:29 - How the relationship with his kids has changed to building adult friendships with his kids. 5:21 - Weekly family meetings 7:33 - "Raising a son is real work, but we have to get this right, because if we don't teach our sons, the world will. If we don't teach our sons about women pornography will if we don't teach our sons about friendship, they'll live a life of loneliness. If we don't teach our sons about leadership, they'll be followers all their lives. Being a father is not about efficiency. It's about discipleship. Father is not about time management. It's about heart development." 9:37 - "A lot of good involved dads, but an intentional dad that goes that step further to consciously ask who is my kid? What at what time of history did they live in? What am I responsible to sort of give them that's going to tee them up for their future." 10:58 - Minimal manhood and skillful manhood 17:00 - Leaning into the "firsts" and making them intentional moments 17:22 - Quote from Jim Rowan - "Life is not measured by the length of our days, but by the intensity and frequency of beautiful moments ." 17:54 - The Power of Moments book 19:35 - Books/articles he had his son read when he got his first job: Your Money Counts; Total Money Makeover. ESSAY: Why Work by Dorothy Sayers 23:41- Ken Blanchard's One Minute Manager 24:05 - Exponential by Dave Ferguson 24:07 - "It's just the process of how to give away what you have and make sure it shows up in somebody else's life. It takes more time to do that. It takes a lot of time, but when you see the joy of somebody who owns something that's literally gone from your life into their life, they now have a deposit and this deposit can be given to somebody else's life. That, to me, is one of the greatest things you can experience as a dad." 25:16 - "I think this is the key here, because so often our culture is built on charisma and charisma is like that person possesses the magical gifts that none of us have. And therefore, it produces celebrity culture and consumerism. But when you codify the gift and you can show somebody, here's what I'm doing that is working, you then impart it to them and it creates contributors in confidence rather than consumption." 25:59 - Shop Class as Soul-craft 28:15 - "Men need a cause. A cause is bigger than a vision, more expansive than a strategy, and more long lasting than a season. It's larger than a fight." - From The Intentional Father 30:09 - On the power of a cause in men: "I basically want to infuse that a man has strength and that he should utilize it in a great fight. But the difference is it needs to be in the real world as opposed to just accomplishment. And it needs to be for the sake of others. It's never your strength. It's never to oppress others for self gratification. It is always to lift the oppressed for the sake of the other." 30:52 - "And a part of it is to try and help young men realize, don't give you a vigor and your strength to wasted things because you have no idea how you could participate in God's great cause if you channel them for the sake of others." 32:14 - Wisdom on relationships: "The circle of intimacy, the circle of impact in the circle of influence" 33:13 - Most important priorities in 2nd through 5th grade: (1)"maintaining the emotional bond and setting the family culture" (2) "understand the psychological development of what's happening in that age" 40:50 - "I just have a path of intentionality that sets up the odds in your favor. And again, you can't control your son's heart, but you can fight for it. And this is a plan to fight for your son's future. And I believe that when we do that, we activate the heart of God's divine favor comes through our way, the Holy Spirit, gets involved and we're not on our own. And without it, I think you're left to chance and you're left to the world." Episode Links: The Intentional Father book The Primal Path Course FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS M

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Bob Merritt Bob Merritt led Eagle Brook Church for 28 years. He retired in March of 2020 and lives in White Bear, MN with his wife Laurie. He joins us for this 2-Part podcast conversation on fatherhood themes ranging from leadership blindspots to fatherhood insights learned from his dog Blue. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to becoming an intentional dad PART 1 of this conversation with Bob Merritt - Linked Here 2:33 - Dave Merritt speaking about his dad 5:58 - Asking his son, "Where do I screw up?" 7:24 - Jeff asks, "What have you learned about your Heavenly Father from your dog?" 9:37 - Parenting wisdom he sees in his kids 11:38 - Jesus in my weakness. Show yourself strong. It's not about me. I need you. It's a posture of kneeling, actually, as a physical posture of saying this is not about me delivering awesome. This is about me being average in desperate need. 13:03 - I was just driven by this this absolute fear and sense of responsibility that I had to say things to a congregation that were true and helpful and relevant to their lives. And if I failed at that man, what a what a failure. And I just I couldn't allow myself to do that. 16:07 - Sharing a significant parenting moment with his son. 22:01 - Quote from John Maxwell, "There's enormous magic in a tiny word, do. When we tell ourselves I'll do it, we unleash tremendous power. What is the number one catalyst for change? It's action. And if you take action, it will change your life." 23:13 - "I'll tell parents, you might not know what to do. You might say some things wrong, but do not bail. Don't walk away, don't.... ignore the issue. Pay attention to the right time and the right away, but stay in the battle. Don't just pretend there's not an issue. Don't pretend that it's going to fix itself . You might have to give it time to simmer down or whatever, but don't abdicate the responsibility of being a parent to the culture. You're the parent. God put you in that role for a reason and you might not know the exact thing to say or do.... but got to be there. You got to be present." Episode Links: Bob's book "Done With That" Bob on Facebook Eagle Brook Church Final Message from Bob (March 2020) FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Bob Merritt Bob Merritt led Eagle Brook Church for 28 years. He retired in March of 2020 and lives in White Bear, MN with his wife Laurie. He joins us for this 2-Part podcast conversation on fatherhood themes ranging from leadership blindspots to fatherhood insights learned from his dog Blue. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the dadAWESOME Nudge to becoming an intentional dad 3:44 - Bob's daughter, Meg, shares reflections on her dad. 7:54 - The impact of dads bringing their families to church 11:35 - Deuteronomy 6 - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts [parents]. Impress these things on your kids. Talk about them when you sit at home, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, when you get up ..." 12:37 - "So the question I would have for dads: Do you know God's word well enough? Are God's commands on your heart? Because you can't teach your kids what you don't have." 14:28 - "Pain, I think can lead to passion or pain can lead to passivity." - Jeff Zaugg 16:01 - "You know, life is full of pain. We all have it. But what I would say is that God doesn't cause that pain. Right. But God can help you heal from that pain and put you on a better path if you'll be willing to allow him to do that." 17:23 - "Pain is a signal that something's wrong when it comes to life." 21:12 - "So if I've got an anger issue, but I'm not seeing it. Will I have enough humility so. Will I have enough strength, Jeff, to ask somebody, 'Hey, will you help me see some things in my life?' See it's a person of strength who's willing to admit I've got an anger problem or I've got a spending problem. People of weakness, will never admit they have an issue." 25:19 - "You got to be humble enough and self-aware enough to know that we all have flaws and weaknesses, that if we could just get somebody to help us look at that, you know, it could just open the world to us." 28:02 - Deuteronomy 30 - "I've set before you life and death, blessings and curses now choose life so that you and your children may live." Episode Links: Bob's book "Done With That" Bob on Facebook Eagle Brook Church Final Message from Bob (March 2020) FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Troy Mangum Troy Mangum is an author, speaker, podcaster (The Kindling Fire), and men's advocate. He is a Lumbee Indian tribal member. Troy lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife Kathy. He has two sons, two daughters, and one son-in-law. A former YWAM missionary, hardcore punk singer, substance abuse counselor, busker, longboarder, exotic fruit farmer, vert skater, singer-songwriter, software engineering manager, traveling hitchhiker, and seminary dropout. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME day updates! 2:14 - Troy Magnum is author of Fatherhood Face Plants 3:50 - How to be a difference maker/fire starter. 4:29 - "There are so many men that are dads that are fatherless and and they need to know that they can become amazing, incredibly amazing fathers with God training them as father." 8:25 - "So we all have a back story that God, if we're willing to let God take us there, he'll take your treasures out of you. That will be so deep and rich because it's a generations before you. It's not about you. It's about you inheriting something God put back way back in generations before you." 11:35 - "A lot of what the book is about is about, you know, that whole idea of getting back up and becoming the dad your kids need so much of the storyline with God is to get back up, to receive forgiveness, to seek reconciliation, to receive wholeness, to do whatever it takes to become a man that God wants you to be for your children and for your own self and marriage and et cetera. And so that is such a crucial crossing point because men so many times out of guilt and shame, they retreat and and the kids are just like, OK, I guess I guess this whole dad thing's over for you now, huh?" 13:04 - 1 Corinthians 1:27 - "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." - But God.... 13:29 - Telling the story of a two year separation and then reconciliation with his wife. 15:04 - "You pass on as a dad, you pass on who you are more than what you know. You can know the right things to do. You can know the scriptures that say you should do this, you can know a lot of things, but you will pass on who you are..." 19:03 - A wall or wind - Are you going to be a wall your kids need to scale to get to what God has called them to be, or are you going to be wind in their sails? 21:50 - "You pass on who you are more than what you know you want to be the whole, the most whole, healed, healthy in every sense of the word, man that you can pass on." 22:29 - Stepping into the frontier and letting God teach the skills you need. ..."are you willing and aware that this is offered to you, this training module? You look in any scripture, any man in the Bible, you can say they went to training... And a lot of that training has to do with difficulty sometimes and challenges and putting yourself in the frontiers of 'I've never been here. I've never done this. I don't have the skill.' None of that intimidates God. And if you yield yourself to God, he will put you in situations that are above your head, above your pay grade, above your talent, above your skill intentionally to help you learn skills, talents, abilities, confidence, [so he can expand your influence.]" Episode Links: https://thekindlingfire.com/ Troy on Instagram Troy's Podcast: Apple Pod Troy's Book - Fatherhood Faceplants FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Jeff Zaugg Jeff and Michelle Zaugg recently celebrated 15 years of marriage. They live in New Brighton, MN with their 4 young daughters and their Goldendoodle Boomer. After 10-years of entrepreneurial non-profit ministry leadership, Jeff served as a pastor at Substance Church in the Twin Cities for the past 7 years. In Fall 2020 Jeff took the leap and went full-time fatherhood ministry. He is the founder and lead cheerleader at dadAWESOME & FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS. When he's not wrestling or playing hide and seek with his daughters, you might find Jeff out for a bike ride, making a pour over coffee, sitting by a fire with his wife or challenging some friends to a game of Spikeball. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME day updates! Story of boat drifting Dark Alone Drifting Sinking Embarrassed Terrified Taking on water DRIFTING to DREAMING Definition of DRIFTING: to be carried along by currents of water or air, or by the force of circumstances... To wander aimlessly Drifting Lack of vision Lack of purpose Just trying to get through the day Numbing Stalled out Controlled by fear John 10:10 shows us the two options - DRIFTING vs. DREAMING The Thief comes to KILL, STEAL & DESTROY (Drifting) But I have come to bring ABUNDANCE… LIFE to the FULL" (Dreaming) Satan wants to kill, steal and destroy the work of God in your family, your work, your ministry, your friendships,your finances, your marriage, your parenting, and your health… The Thief (satan) wants you to be a DRIFTER. DRIFTING is a WIN for satan Remember our Bible Story? Saul was DRIFTING – he was the king and he was sitting under the pomegranate tree… (Meanwhile, Saul was taking it easy under the pomegranate tree) >> There were about six hundred men with him Jonathan was DREAMING – he was a CHANGE MAKER… As the son of the king, he had the option of relaxing like his dad. He could have played it safe… There is a Gravitational Pull towards Drifting. Our brains are wired to Avoid Pain... Limbic Cortex = Lizard Brain - ​​It's in charge of fight, flight, feeding, fear, freezing up... The lizard brain is the source of the resistance Pain is One of the Primary reasons we DRIFT. Hurts, pains and past struggles lead us to avoid risk... PAIN >> Passivity… Pain can lead to PAUSE or a Plateau in our journey of trusting God. PAIN >> Passion & Purpose DREAMER - Kids don't worry about constraints or limitations... They think with a filter of abundance and possibility Acts 2:17 "…God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams." (Joel 2:28) Two Steps for each of us: We are going to Remember & Run Remember You Are a Child of God - it starts with your identity… You are a LOVED child of God. To live as a DREAMER, you must receive this gift and step into your identity as a Son of God… A Daughter of God Run! Throw off the Weight and Run! Hebrews 12:1 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us" Pain leads to Passivity. Pain leads us to hit PAUSE on our DREAMS. The pain of our past has stolen our FREEDOM and we are looking through the little rearview mirror and over our shoulder at what should be behind us. The windshield of your life needs to be so much BIGGER than the rearview mirror Experience the healing that your Heavenly Father wants for you. Episode Links: YouTube Video of the entire Message - Drifting to Dreaming FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Marcus Montana Marcus Montana, known as TRU-SERVA to his music audience, is a passionate man whose mission is to help others find true life. Growing up in a single parent home in Lacombe, LA outside of New Orleans, he was forced to raise himself while his Mom worked two jobs to provide for the family. Trapped in a materialistic society he chased after self-satisfaction, experiencing a void of true love. He was left broken after a long pursuit to fill that void, until one day.... At age 16, while TRU was at the end of his rope, drained from the emptiness of unfulfilling pleasure, he came face to face with Christ. He chose to take a spiritual step and committed to a personal relationship with Jesus. TRU felt a calling to use his talent of hip-hop to help change lives. From a young age, hip-hop influenced his style, language and attitude and it felt natural to use this genre of music and way of life to help reach people. Through his rap lyrics, he portrays a powerful message of the cross and of a positive change. He sees himself as an over comer and example of hope to many, where he stepped above the trap of being an African American male dead or in jail by age 25. A strong vision for connection is what this musician strives to accomplish each and everyday. TRU aims to make a connection between the streets and the church, saying "The walls of the church need to fall down and people need to get out of their seats and go out." He also wants to see the connection between generations, where he can speak to both kids and adults. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME day updates! 4:03 - Marcus talks about growing up without a present dad. Learning how to be a dad from his mom. 10:27 - The difficulty of seeing God as a Father without having a father. 11:00 - "When we had Malakai, that changed my whole perspective because when Malakai was born, he just laid there, didn't do nothing, and I loved him. You know, he wasn't trying to get my attention saying, hey, look at me, he just laid there. And it gave me a perspective that I don't have to do anything for the Lord to love me, you know? And so that changed my whole life…" 13:17 - "The goal isn't perfection, it's his presence." 14:00 - "It's a thin line between using wisdom and stepping out on faith. You know, when you got other people who are responsible for you. But I've also learned that when I follow the leading of the Lord, he takes care of it." 23:30 - "You know, Martin Luther King said rioting, rioting comes as the voice of the unheard. And, you know, if your kids are trying to share with you and you're not listening, you're too busy. They're rioting." Episode Links: Spotify - Tru Serva Reverb Nation - Tru Serva Website - Transformation Records FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript https://dadawesome.org/182notes/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Matthew Hooper Matthew's personal and professional pursuit of holistic growth are at the center of his life and work with others. He holds degrees in Communication from Biola University (1994) and Christian Ministry and Leadership from Talbot School of Theology (2001). Spiritual Development and Pastoral Counseling were the specialized emphases of his graduate work. Matthew also received a certificate in spiritual direction from the Archdiocesan Spirituality Center in Los Angeles. Currently, he is studying to complete a doctoral program in Higher Education Leadership at Azusa Pacific University. Over the past 17 years, Matthew has cultivated his vocation toward influencing the holistic development of emerging adults, leaders and professionals. In 2016, Matthew launched a professional consulting business (TRACK 3 Leadership Development) integrating insight from leadership, psychological, and theological perspectives for the purpose of holistic growth in individuals and groups. Recently, Matthew has excelled as a primary group facilitator for Growth Skills Foundation. He finds unique inspiration for his work in creation, music, spiritual friendship and the daily pursuit of humility as the highest virtue for human growth and spiritual flourishing. Matthew, his wife, Sheela, and their three children, Annie, Breeana and Jarren, live, work and play in Sutter Creek, CA. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME day updates! Sign up for the F4F 100 mile Ride by 1:07 - Check out episode 180 for the first half of the conversation with Matthew Hooper 2:26 - Travel tips for living in a trailer 4:12 - Everything is better as a team. Be a team in the routines of setting up and taking down. 5:00 - Recommendation: Stay at least two nights at each site. 5:28 - Expect that things will break down. 7:35 - "I would say having very consistent patterns with safety in mind, with consistency and structure in mind for your family, because there's going to be plenty of unstructured reality." 8:56 - Dad Wisdom #1: Own your role as dad. "No one can be a dad like you. No one. You're the dad in your family. So own it." 9:17 - Dad Wisdom #2 - Decide what you want to do as a dad. How do you want things to be? 10:34 - Dad Wisdom #3 - Listen to your kids 12:35 - A Grace Disguised by Sittser 13:36 - Listening to clues in the physical body to recognize grief 14:31 - How he handled tragic loss 17:18 - You need to pace your work with sadness, you need to move towards it with intentionality. Invite other people into that and then give yourself permission to take a break. 17:56 - Article: Navigating sadness on the journey of life "Facing the sadness, embracing the sadness, pacing sadness." 18:35 - "Please turn toward your heart, please. The more you're able to do that with you, the more you can do that with your wife and especially your kids. Your heart is the most important part of who you are, and that includes your deep feelings of thought willing and emotion coalescing in the heart. And so to be to be a man of heart, I think, is what I would what I would call dads to above all else." Episode Links: TRACK 3 Leadership Development FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Matthew Hooper Matthew's personal and professional pursuit of holistic growth are at the center of his life and work with others. He holds degrees in Communication from Biola University (1994) and Christian Ministry and Leadership from Talbot School of Theology (2001). Spiritual Development and Pastoral Counseling were the specialized emphases of his graduate work. Matthew also received a certificate in spiritual direction from the Archdiocesan Spirituality Center in Los Angeles. Currently, he is studying to complete a doctoral program in Higher Education Leadership at Azusa Pacific University. Over the past 17 years, Matthew has cultivated his vocation toward influencing the holistic development of emerging adults, leaders and professionals. In 2016, Matthew launched a professional consulting business (TRACK 3 Leadership Development) integrating insight from leadership, psychological, and theological perspectives for the purpose of holistic growth in individuals and groups. Recently, Matthew has excelled as a primary group facilitator for Growth Skills Foundation. He finds unique inspiration for his work in creation, music, spiritual friendship and the daily pursuit of humility as the highest virtue for human growth and spiritual flourishing. Matthew, his wife, Sheela, and their three children, Annie, Breeana and Jarren, live, work and play in Sutter Creek, CA. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME day updates! Sign up for the F4F 100 mile Ride by 5:51 - Traveling with 6 people to 48 states in 4 months 7:54 - Four principles to order our thoughts and decisions 8:58 - Principle #1: Missional - Bringing Christ's kind of love and and the peace and joy and life of the kingdom, wherever we went 11:07 - Principle #2 - Being Adventurous - meaning to kind of push ourselves to do things we weren't normally doing 11:31 - Principle #3 - Positivity - "if we're going to be missional and adventurous, we need to stay positive because we know that at some point this experience is going to be stretching." 12:11 - Principle #4 - Stretching - "Life is stretching and what we need to do is own that that is true and not live in an illusion that life is not that. So life is stretching. If we stayed here, there would be elements that would be stretching about that. If we go, that's going to be stretching and maybe even be more stretching. But the reality is life is stretching." 13:17 - "the daily pursuit of humility as the highest virtue for human growth and spiritual flourishing." 13:52 - Flourishing as a dad 13:58 - "When you tilt your mind and heart toward flourishing with your intense thinking and your intentions, you are aligning with the power of God's image in us and for Christ followers and the power of the Spirit in us and between us in terms of his his community as people." 16:41 - What is stopping dads from flourishing? Pride (lack of humility) and lack of vulnerability 17:08 - [Humility is] Seeing ourselves accurately in relation to ourselves, God and others." 20:46 - Book recommendations for flourishing, humility, ownership: John Townsend - Hiding from Love & Henry Cloud - Changes that Heal 22:17 - Tips and tricks to traveling as a family in a trailer Episode Links: TRACK 3 Leadership Development FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript

dadAWESOME \We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Mark Batterson Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church (NCC) in Washington, DC. One church in seven locations, NCC owns and operates Ebenezers Coffeehouse, the Miracle Theatre, and the DC Dream Center. NCC is currently developing a city block into the Capital Turnaround. This 100,000-square-foot space will include an event venue, child development center, mixed-use marketplace, and coworking space. Mark holds a doctor of ministry degree from Regent University and is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books, including The Circle Maker, Chase the Lion, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, and Whisper. He and his wife, Lora, have three children and live on Capitol Hill. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME day updates! Sign up for the F4F 100 mile Ride by June 27th. 3:35 - The Circle Maker book by Mark Batterson - inspired by his father in law Bob Schmidgall 4:02 - Things Mark learned from his father-in-law - Fun surprise ideas for the family and setting boundaries with ministry. 8:21 - How Parkinson's law influences fatherhood 9:00 - So I am really challenging dads to establish boundaries. But I do want to recognize that life doesn't come in nice, neat boxes where every day or every week looks like every other day or every other week. I don't. It's really hard to challenge work and home or vocation and family. I would argue that you're never 100 percent balanced. You're always counterbalancing. 10:13 - Establishing boundaries in dad life 10:34 - Why set life goals? 10:40 - you won't accomplish one hundred percent of the goals that you don't set. And so faith is being sure of what we hope for, Hebrews 11. And I just think that goal setting can be an expression of faith. 11:54 - One thing I learned is you can't just set the goal, like you got to reverse engineer it and figure out what are the daily habits that are going to get you to those goals. And that's where the magic happens. That's where the hard work habits. And that really is the key to going after those goals. 15:42 - Seven kind of character traits of being the man, playing the man (Episode 146) Virtue #1 Tough Love Virtue #2 Childlike Wonder Virtue #3 Will Power Virtue #4 Raw Passion Virtue #5 True Grit Virtue #6 Clear Vision Virtue #7 Moral Courage 17:04 - prayer does turn parents into prophets and you can shape the destiny of your kids with your prayer life. And they're going to be moments in your life where that's all you've got. 16:22 - "The deepest desire of my heart to be famous in my own home and it's hard to be famous in your own home and you're never home." 18:13 - Draw the circle book - 40 days of prayer 19:21 - Prayer for healing for our friend, Brian. Episode Links: Mark Batterson Win The Day dadAWESOME Day FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript https://dadawesome.org/179notes/

Today is dadAWESOME Day... It's a decision day and a declaration day that this coming year is going to include movement toward becoming more dadAWESOME for my kids. It's the first day of the dad year and we're offering four options for adding specific intentionality to your dad life. This video (https://bit.ly/DAdayVID) outlines the 4 dadAWESOME Day Challenges and we are praying that you step into this year saying YES to becoming dadAWESOME. JOIN the dadAWESOME Day Challenge by texting one of these four keywords to (651) 370-8618 1) I am LOVED - text the word "loved" to (651) 370-8618 2) I am INTENTIONAL - text the word "intentional" to (651) 370-8618 3) I am FREE - text the word "free" to (651) 370-8618 4) I ENJOY my kids - text the word "enjoy" to (651) 370-8618 MORE INFO: https://dadawesome.org/day --- learn about making a DONATION to dadAWESOME: https://dadawesome.org/give --- Download the 2-page Mission/Vision/Invitation Overview for dadAWESOME: https://bit.ly/2021dadAWESOME

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Mark Batterson Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church (NCC) in Washington, DC. One church in seven locations, NCC owns and operates Ebenezers Coffeehouse, the Miracle Theatre, and the DC Dream Center. NCC is currently developing a city block into the Capital Turnaround. This 100,000-square-foot space will include an event venue, child development center, mixed-use marketplace, and coworking space. Mark holds a doctor of ministry degree from Regent University and is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books, including The Circle Maker, Chase the Lion, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, and Whisper. He and his wife, Lora, have three children and live on Capitol Hill. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list and for all dadAWESOME day updates! 1:52 - Monday, June 21st. Just write down DadAWESOME day - our launch pad to a year of becoming dadAWESOME. 2:42 - Minneapolis Fathers for the Fatherless - signup deadline is June 27th. Sign up at F4F.bike 3:49 - Mark Batterson's new book: Win the Day 5:15 - Going from "This is crazy!" to "This is awesome!" 7:10 - "Your actions are perfectly designed to achieve the results that you're getting." 7:38 - Discussing the idea of the grand gesture: choosing to change upstream, because we know we want to see a desired change downstream 9:51 - "A grand gesture...It's just doing something that signifies, I'm making a move towards solving this problem or accomplishing this goal." 13:03 - JMD, Just manageable difficulty - if something's too easy you actually lose interest. 16:06 - Every move we make, every risk we take sets the stage for someone else. Your brave is someone else's breakthrough. 20:14 - Habit number 2, Kiss the Wave - the obstacle is not the enemy. The obstacle is the wave. 21:18 - "I do think that it is some of the suffering that makes us appreciate the gift that life is and helps us identify with a God who suffered, who went to a cross, a God who loves us enough to go through Gethsemane. And so sometimes I need to be willing to walk through some of that suffering." 22:49 - DadAWESOME day is a declaration day. It's a decision day to make the next three hundred and sixty five days a decision towards becoming dadAWESOME. 23:47 - "If you do little things like they're big things got as a way of doing big things, like they're little things" 24:29 - "time is measured in minutes. Life is measured in moments. It's Wind the Clock habit number 6. 25:34 - "God wants to turn the hearts of the fathers towards their children. And I think when that happens, then revival happens." Episode Links: Mark Batterson Win The Day FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Becky Thompson Becky Thompson is a bestselling author and the creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional community, gathering over one million moms in nightly prayer. Speaking hope into the struggle of balancing life as a wife mother, and daughter of God, Becky has become the voice of modern Christian motherhood. You can learn more about Becky's top Christian podcast, Revived Motherhood, or find more of her work by visiting BeckyThompson.com. Becky lives near Nashville with her husband, Jared, and their three children. Dr. Mark R. Pitts Dr. Mark R. Pitts is a graduate of the University of Tulsa Law School. He is an ordained pastor and a well-known Bible teacher in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, area where he lives with his wife, Susan. They have been married for 41 years and have two adult daughters and three grandchildren. In 2019, Mark created the Midnight Dad Devotional online community with his daughter, Becky Thompson, the creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional. Mark enjoys teaching Scripture and praying for dads. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list. Monday, June 21st. Just write down DadAWESOME day 02:25 - Midnight Dad Devotional One Hundred Devotions and Prayers to Connect Dads Just Like You to the Father. 3:47 - What if our kids inspire us to be dream chasers? 3:55 - "I love that because to me, being a dream chaser is being a God chaser. You know, I don't think that we can ever separate the two." 5:30 - Learning the Father's love from her dad. 7:14 - We don't just have a heavenly father that parents us. We have a heavenly father who fathers us. 9:21 - "That's and that's also whole all scriptural that we are supposed to improve, if you will, improve our children, if they are supposed to be, we want them to be better than us. We don't just want them to have a better life, be more fortunate, be more prosperous. We want them to be better than us. We want them to take what we have to give them what God has breathed into them, into into us, and therefore we breathe into them and that they are going to take that and go much farther than we could have ever gone." 10:42 - "Our prayer is that men will see themselves as God sees them. We've already talked about that as they are as the warriors they are, fighting in the trenches for their families against all odds, overcoming every trial that comes their way." Quote from Midnight Dad's devotional 13:03 - "You, father, dad, are going where you're going. This is supposed to help you know, that you have a heavenly father who's going to get you there, who's going to help you accomplish that, where no other human can help you as well as your heavenly father can help you." 15:16 - "So here's the thing about Noah is that he invited his sons to build with him, that it was a family build, that Noah got the download and it required the help of his whole family to create what would be for the whole family. And so I think as dads are listening and they're like, well, this is what God has called me to. It's not just for them. It's with them that there isn't anything that God calls a parent to, that he doesn't also call the children to participate in." 16:45 - "It's the difference between that and fathering, which says I'm going to intentionally stay relational with you. I'm going to care not about what you did today, but how it made you feel. And then I'm going to invite you into my story of what God is doing in me. And the only way for a child to see the impact of what God is doing in the father is if he intentionally makes the decision to include his children in what he's going through and how he feels about it. And and I think that's what it means to build with it." 22:14 - "it was the promise of presence, which is I am certain that I will see and experience this goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, not just know about it, not just here about it, not someday." 22:52 - You can never have more. It's the one thing you could never fully possess because there's always more to gain that the act of having more means that you have to always be reaching and going and trying. - Quoting her dad You can never achieve more, you can never actually hold more. I want to tell him that this is going to be a lifetime journey. 26:57 - "I have made spectacular failures as a as a parent. I have never made a failure as a father because my heart is pure, my heart is true. And what I want for my children is what my heavenly father wants for me." Episode Links: Midnight Dads Book - on Amazon Midnight Dads Webpage: https://beckytho

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Terry Esau Terry has over 10 years in the non-profit sector, having exercised his leadership as the founder of FB4K in 2010. In addition, Terry has been instrumental in catalyzing the move from a Minnesota-only platform to the 12 US cities that FB4K currently calls home. Terry has been recognized for his societal contributions both nationally (USA Today Make A Difference award) and internationally (Guinness World Records). In his spare time, Terry is a published author and speaker on various topics, including the 'Wellbeing of under-resourced kids in America.' In addition to his bicycle advocacy, Terry is an avid cyclist, musician and artist. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 1:50 - Text "DAD" to 651-370-8618 to join the text list. 2:16 - Monday, June 21st. Just write down DadAWESOME day 2:53 - Free Bikes for Kids 4:44 - How to teach kids to ride a bike with a balance bike 5:58 - I kind of feel like we should live our lives with this adventure and hope and excitement. You know, it's like instead of instead of living cautiously, it's just it's just not a great way to live. '7:18 - Sharing his dad's story of being on his own at age 16 and then serving on MN Legislature for 16 years. "He didn't let the problem of not having that education hold him back. You know, he kind of took things into his own hand and he said, I can educate myself by reading books, you know, so. So he did that. And he was you know, he was a flawed man, and a flawed father, just like I am. But you know what he he modeled? He modeled boldness and courage, and I think that's what has helped me." 12:20 - "I look at the Holy Spirit not as a dove, but as a sharp elbow. And, you know, and our job is to keep tender ribs so that we feel the nudge of that sharp elbow." 19:35 - Terry's book: Surprise Me: A 30-Day Faith Experiment & Be the Surprise: Experiments in Spontaneous 25:11 - Free Bikes for Kids website - (picture of the smiling girl) 26:17 - Setting the Guinness World Record for most bikes collected in a day (5,512 bikes on year, then 10,000 the next year) Episode Links: Free Bikes For Kids Terry's book: Surprise Me: A 30-Day Faith Experiment & Be the Surprise: Experiments in Spontaneous Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript:

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Matt Norman Matt Norman is President & CEO of Norman & Associates. Through Norman & Associates, he helps people think and work together more effectively. Matt's mentorship has helped Fortune 100 corporations, non-profits, and entrepreneurs change the way they engage with their employees and clients. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 2:23 - New Text Message platform! Text the word "DAD" to 651-370-8618 3:09 - Save the date for June 21, 2021 - dadAWESOME day 5:48 - Creating a pathway for unlimited screen time and how that has contributed to more productive activities for the 13 yr old sons 8:42 - How marriage counseling and being a part of a mens group helped pull out of the darkness of the season of infertility. "I'm part of a men's group that, you know, has been a very important part of my life. And it's been sitting around with those men in a non fixing, non rescuing, non minimizing environment." 11:18 - Book: The Four Patterns of Healthy People 13:08 - "I just I can't emphasize enough for myself and other people that I've journeyed with the value of finding authentic people that are willing to tell the truth and have grace and love in that." 13:50 - Three questions: (1) Where are we often stuck? Where do I shrink back? (2) What's not working for me in some of my relationships? (3) Where am I getting triggered? Where are my hot buttons? 17:41 - Pete Scazzero - The Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast 18:20 - "And even in our families where we hurt each other....Sometimes we slight each other or wound each other in in intentional ways because we're hurting ourselves and we want to, you know, make ourselves feel better by hurting someone else. But sometimes ...we're wounded. And so we're going to put on this armor and I think that armor... blocks us off from having...more intimacy with the Holy Spirit, more intimacy with our other important relationships, more effectiveness in whatever work may be, because as we work with others, we need to let others in and allow ourselves to be seen if we're going to have 'vulnerability-based trust' in the workplace." (from Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team) 20:22 - Favorite leadership book, A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedman - "The most important characteristic of leadership is to be a non anxious presence." 23:36 - Noticing that positivity can be tied to defensiveness 25:17 - What he hopes his kids say at the end of his life? 28:15 - How do we measure our day? Scoreboard and checklist or relationships and community? 31:35 - "We do all these things to rationalize, justify and excuse ourselves. And yet freedom and joy and connection lies on the other side of growth." Episode Links: http://MattNorman.com Four Patterns of Healthy People: How to Grow Past Your Rooted Behaviors, Discover a Deeper Connection with Others, and Reach Your Full Potential in Life and Business Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/175notes/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Tim Burt & Danny Gutierrez Thankful for this father-in-law / son-in-law conversation about intentional fatherhood. More about Danny. More about Tim. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 16th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 1:24 - Episode 16 - Danny Gutierrez. Episode 23 - Tim Burt. Episode 69 - Renee Burt & Stephanie Gutierrez. 2:25 - "Affirmation is a powerful biblical encouragement for us to participate and to encourage one another and to lift up one another." 3:53 - Tim - "I just always exhorted her, always encouraged her. I always encouraged that she could do those things that were on her heart. And and I think Stephanie would probably say that the affirmation she's received over the years is it's been a real strength in her development." 5:24 - Tim's daughter Stephanie, "My dad not only loved me, but he liked me." 8:02 - "We get to step into being what maybe we didn't receive and that we didn't have modeled for us." 12:28 - Tim talks about the benefit of listening and drawing out connection from his kids and how he wishes he would have done that more. 15:45 - Advocating for a special needs child 19:24 - The multiplication effect when you're learning for others. 20:22 - Tim - "Pay attention to how God uses you and just go with that." 21:19 - Tim - "People are all good at different things, and it's just not something you're good at. It's something that God can take to another level." 24:51 - Tim - "If you will just make a commitment to do something, you're going to find out what you shouldn't be doing and what you're absolutely not good or gifted at. And you're going to discover the things that you are gifted and you're good at. And the discovery is part of the whole thing. But it doesn't happen without taking some kind of a commitment, and as a pastor, I'm going to say God wants you to commit to serve in the local church because it's not for the church, it's for you. It's all about him developing you." 26:50 - Danny - "Be intentional with your interest, because I think right now we live in a world where everything's asking for it and we give it away so easily... And I think if when we put interest in our kids and what they're interested in and what their hopes and dreams are and what some of their, what they like to do and what's going through their little minds or what season of life they're in, when we give intentional interest to that, I think it becomes molding us into the kind of dads they need us to be in those particular seasons. 28:17 - Tim - "And if you will just be very conscientious about asking God for help all day long, every day, you'll constantly be taking off some of the burdens of fear or inadequacy or anything else that you're facing in your life. And all I would say is just try to remember some of the things you asked because he answers a whole lot more things than you're paying attention to. And if you'd pay attention to him, you'd know how much he works in your life, which is the proof of how much he loves you. And he would be so much more real to you." Episode Links: Danny Tim Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript:

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Pete Stanley Pete & his wife Kaycee are the founders of The Reel Hope Project. He believes family is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. Kids need family, and Pete considers it an honor to play even a small role in helping to make that happen. Plus, he's married to Kaycee (Reel Hope's executive director), so ignoring The Reel Hope Project would be like trying to avoid candy if you lived with Willy Wonka. Pete speaks on behalf of The Reel Hope Project each week at events and faith communities, sharing about Minnesota's waiting kids CREATING VIDEOS OF MINNESOTA KIDS WHO ARE WAITING TO BE ADOPTED... In Minnesota, there are 1,000 kids awaiting adoption into a forever family. They work with counties and adoption agencies to mobilize the faith community to bring foster kids into forever families. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 1:02 - May 14th - Early Registration deadline for F4F Minneapolis ($25 discount). Sign up at F4F.bike 1:33 - Reel Hope Project 4:24 - "It seems like the moments that I really get excited about in terms of being a dad come after I've had to give a hard word to my son." 6:00 - "Family is one of the most powerful forces on the planet." 06:15 - "And so I would I would distill that further and say that you learned it around the dinner table and you can't have a dinner table without family, without community. And I think that's how you learn how to have disagreements, how you learn how to have arguments, how to learn how to take turns, to talk about your day and interact with other people. And and so I think that that is like that is sort of the the the the foundation for for all of these things that we're trying to build, like all these beautiful things that we're trying to build in the world, take root in healthy whole families. 7:29 - The importance of having a team of people around you when entering the adoptive world. 9:18 - How to handle the friction that comes into marriage when adding kids, or adoptive kids to the family. 11:23 - Speaking highly of his wife 13:17 - Why men/dads still need to grow up 13:57 - "The father wounds that you're going to inflict on your children are already healed. Like God is, God has worked that out. And so that sort of gives me, that gave me, that gives us permission to dive in, head first to the relationship that we have with our kids." 19:13 - Recommendation: setting up therapy for your kids, benefits of therapy as a dad. 22:54 - What is the Real Hope Project? Making super high quality videos of kids in MN who are waiting to be adopted. A thousand kids have no family and need to be adopted. 25:29 - Praying about adoption while starting an adoption ministry. 28:00 - Misconceptions about adoption. (1) It can be expensive. (it actually can be virtually free.) 28:33 - "The kids don't get put into foster care because they're bad. They're in foster care because someone important in their life didn't do something that they needed to do for them." 31:00 - thereelhopeproject.org 31:52 - Finally Home - Fort Collins, Colorado 33:30 - Book recommendation: The Connected Child by Karen Pervis Episode Links: thereelhopeproject.org Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/173notes/ ‎

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Adam Griffin Adam Griffin is the Lead Pastor of Eastside Community Church in Dallas, Texas. Adam is the cohost of the Culture Matters Podcast and the coauthor of the book Family Discipleship. In 2018, Adam completed his Doctor of Educational Ministry Degree at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he designed a strategy for churches to address racial reconciliation in Dallas. Adam lives in Lake Highlands with his wife Chelsea and their three sons Oscar, Gus, and Theodore. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 2:21 - Join the momAWESOME Challenge - Send a text with the word "MOM" to 651-370-8618 3:03 - May 14th - Early Registration deadline for F4F Minneapolis. Sign up at F4F.bike Article: "Raising Kids the World Will Hate." Adam Griffin: "I'm seeing some of the fruit of the labor we've put into our kids to the point now where for us family discipleship, which is really what we're talking about, has become so normal that if I remove myself from a situation, my kids can lead themselves through it." 6:58 - Family discipleship at bedtime 7:29 - "I feel especially passionate and saying I don't want my oldest son to be the only one who's got leadership experience in this family." 7:53 -I'm trying to, like you said, build in not only them to be receivers, but then to be leaders and already I'm thinking about them as fathers. I'm thinking about them as husbands. I'm not just thinking about them as my kids with some obligation I have to mention Jesus as we put them to bed. But I'm trying to grow men." 9:22 - Choosing scriptures for his kids. "Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like a man and be strong and let everything you do be done in love.".... "Be strong, show yourself a man, keep the charge of the Lord, your God, walk in his ways and statutes." ...."He's told you, O man, what's good and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love, kindness and walk humbly with your God." 11:50 - "I believe is that there's a countercultural nature to the way Christians are called to parent, to lead, to live, and that's that we are not of the world, even though we're in the world, it's that we will be hated because Jesus is hated." 12:20 - I want them to stand by what they believe, regardless of what the world would say about it or how small the minority of people is who believe that." 13:05 - "Do Griffins follow the crowd? And my sons will say that to me only if the crowd is following Jesus." 14:12 - Book: Family Discipleship and the idea of being "dads who take the lead." 16:22 - "If when you think about leading your wife or you think about leading your kids, you're thinking about how can I lay down the gifts God has given me of strength or wisdom or insight or of time in order to meet the needs of those people that the Lord has me living with right now? And so leadership, to me, it has to be servant-hearted and it has to be service-oriented because that's the way we see Jesus lead and that's what he's called us to do." 17:22 - Family discipleship - Critically important, but mostly ordinary. 18:38 - "So what they need from you, dads, is a demonstration of what it looks like to be an imperfect person who follows a perfect God. They don't need you to be their savior. They have that in Jesus Christ. But what they what you can serve is an example of like, well, here's how dad makes mistakes and repents. Here's how dad tries and fails. Here's how dad tries and succeeds." 20:45 - Modeling, Time, Moments, Milestones - the framework for discipleship 22:32 - "And it's in those significant times where it's going to be memorable that we have the opportunity to point to God's faithfulness, no matter what the circumstances, and to create something bigger." 23:55 - I really believe in the concept of family discipleship that we help you walk through. What is modeling look like in your house? When are you going to do family discipleship time? What language can you use in your household around moments? And then what's your plan for milestones? What do you want to build towards or when you want to be doing? 27:51 - Quote from Charles Spurgeon, "we sow, we reap... Let us expect our children to know the Lord. Let us from the beginning, mingle the name of Jesus with their ABCs." - making family discipleship as important as education. 30:43 - Quote from Charles Spurgeon - "Aspire, dear brethren, to shine widely as a candle set upon a candle stick gives light to all that are in the house. First see to it that you are truly sa

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Nick Hall Nick Hall is the visionary of Together, author of the book Reset, and the Founder and Chief Communicator for Pulse. As an evangelistic voice to this generation, Nick Hall has shared the Gospel at hundreds of events to more than five million people and is regularly featured as a speaker for pastors gatherings, student conferences, training events, and festivals around the world. Nick is also the President and CEO of The Table Coalition and sits on the board of the National Association of Evangelicals. He has been featured on major media outlets including the Huffington Post, USA Today, Fox News, US News & World Report, Washington Post, Christianity Today, Moody Radio, Christian Broadcasting Network, Trinity Broadcast Network, and The Christian Post. Nick is married to his best friend, Tiffany, and they are proud parents of Truett, Ruby, and Jude. They live in Minneapolis, MN. Nick has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from NDSU and a Master's in Leadership and Christian Thought from Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, MN. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 2:21 - Join the momAWESOME Challenge - Daily texts for 9 days leading up to Mother's day - Text "mom" to 651-370-8618. 3:13 - Pulse https://pulse.org/ - Exists to make Jesus known 6:47 - On looking for young evangelists to mentor. "I've lost a lot of mentors and heroes. And then in that, at some point you kind of open your eyes. You're like, wait, I'm not just the one that's supposed to receive anymore. Like, man who who is coming after me." 10:25 - "You know, like I have told people all around the world about how God loves you and that it's this free gift. But I have consistently tried to earn it" 10:39 - "I think it's true for a lot of us as dads, or just people trying to make it, is like...the starting blocks in track. And I think a lot of people's starting blocks are guilt and shame. And you're pushing off to prove others wrong or you're pushing off to show people that you are enough. But I think it's like learning to rest in the fact that I'm enough, because my Father says I am. I'm enough because of what Jesus did for me, I am the beloved son of God." 12:39 - Description of prayer from the book The Life of the Beloved - "Prayer is being quiet enough to hear the good things that God says about you." 16:55 - What does it look like to live on mission? Why is it important for dads to live with deep conviction? 18:23 - "The mission that I'm on is are we living our life to point people to Jesus or does our life look like everybody else's?" 19:55 - "But I do just think that there's this exciting opportunity that we have to change our neighborhoods to change the sports teams our kids are on, you know, to claim the ground beneath our feet and to welcome our family into that mission as well." 20:22 - Pulse Resources https://pulse.org/ 22:48 - Learning from his dad 27:25 - "And I just think, like, there's always somebody who's doing what you want to be doing or somebody who you would like to look more like. Right? And so for me, I just think, one of the secrets of life is... getting around people who are a step ahead... Who are further down the road... who can help you see your blind spots." 32:00 - "I think the biggest thing that we all need individually is just like am I personally being connected to the word of God, the spirit of God, the people of God. Because if I don't have an inflow, if I don't have an inflow from truth from God, if I don't have an inflow of truth from my community, and if I don't have an inflow of somebody kind of helping me see through this, personally, I feel really lost. Right? And so those are just be three things that that I think are super crucial lifelines." 32:36 - "I think the the greatest challenge of being a parent is realizing and letting God parent you. And, you know, the best way to love your kids is to realize that you're the beloved son of God." Episode Links: https://pulse.org/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/171notes/ ‎

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Dr. Joe Sevlie Dr. Joseph H. Sevlie, D.C., FASA, is a 1983 graduate of Northwestern College of Chiropractic and founder and director of the Center for Natural HealthCare, PLLC, in Red Wing, MN. He is a full-time practicing licensed chiropractic physician, a certified acupuncturist, and functional medicine practitioner and nutritionist. His primary goal is to see his patients dramatically improve their health, energy, vitality, and joy for living, using chiropractic services paired with functional, revitalizing natural medicine. Dr. Sevlie is married to his wife, Tami, and has seven children and fifteen grandchildren. Tyler Sevlie Tyler and his wife Vanessa live in Minneapolis with their 5 (soon to be 6) kids. Tyler works on a Financial Planning team by day and is a superhero dad by night. He's also famous in the coffee review, craftsmanship and tips field. Tyler was instrumental in the launch and growth of the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike ride and he joined dadAWESOME back in November of 2018 on Episode 44 (Spiritual Slavery to Sonship). FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 5:41 - Facilitating a heart connect with our kids 8:18 - Sharing Biblical values in the context of making up a story 16:50 - "Don't live in your own understanding it, if you live in your own understanding, you're going to miss it. If you live it in God's understanding, through the power of the Holy Spirit, in his presence, he will make everything clear and he'll provide and he'll do his gig" 17:50 - Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship by Jack Frost 18:40 - "It was we tell the people about Jesus because that doing that so telling others about Jesus is statistically one of the greatest predictors of your own kids loving Jesus." 27:13 - Primal Path curriculum. 30:00 - Letters from Dad ministry 33:20 - John Eldridge Wild at Heart 33:20 - John Eldridge Fathered By God 33:20 - Stasi Eldridge - Captivating 33:39 - "what's so crucial for a daughter is his dad needs to tell them how beautiful they are. If they understand they're beautiful in dad's eyes, they have their self-image and who they are. They can then received love from their heavenly father. They can really receive love from their dad. They need to hear that from dad daily." 35:56 - "staying connected heart wise and and making sure they know when you screw up, you know that and and you make it right between you and them, I don't think he can ever go wrong. So cheering him on, letting your daughter know she's beautiful. If you screw up saying, look, I'm really sorry, it's good, I'm going to do better, I want to do better, and with Jesus help, I'll do better. And and always bringing Jesus back into the equation with your kids because they know that he is the source from whom dad gets everything from." 36:53 - "Jesus Christ is the kindest person I've ever met. Yeah. That's so true. I've seen that in your life. just like you enjoy how kind he is. And you regularly like a reconnect, like you go back to him and spend time with him and you get refreshed with that kindness." Episode Links: Dr Joe Sevlie's Website Tyler's Coffee Instagram Account Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship by Jack Frost Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/170notes/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Michael Jr. Known as a comedic thought leader, Michael Jr. brings laughter and encouragement to audiences all over the world. Using comedy and dynamic storytelling, he inspires audiences to discover and activate their purpose. This unique skill set has landed him on stages like The Tonight Show on NBC, Tedx Talks, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. His mission to make laughter commonplace in uncommon places means that he also seeks opportunities to share his gifts with those in homeless shelters and prisons. You can find him in Sony Pictures' feature film War Room, as well as starring roles in Selfie Dad, Laughing On Purpose and More Than Funny. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 4:45 - "I have five kids and I have...five extra kids. And what I mean by that is there's a there's being a dad and there's also being a dad like one, because around us there's always some kids who don't have a father figure in their life at all." 5:55 - "The greatest name I've ever been called is DAD...I just I think there's a lot of guys who are missing out on some great opportunities in life... the cool part is, is even where our dads lack, God completely picks up plus some..." 7:39 - Funny How Life Works book 9:36 - "There's going to be times where things seem rough. You don't know what to do as a dad. You're struggling. But just the fact that you're there, just the fact that you're present is awesome. But in those times when things are getting hard, the key thing to do is to be still and listen to the Father's voice because he is talking to you. And what he wants you to know is that he's right here. He loves you. All you have to do is open your eyes." 11:17 - "Correct but don't reject." 12:43 - "Telling his kids after discipline: "I just do not like disciplining you. But it is a requirement. It's what I'm called to do. Otherwise you won't be prepared for when life tries to discipline you." 16:14- Addressing the "hecklers" in our lives - often our own negative self-talk. "You have to address the heckler and use scripture to chase the heckler away." 17:05 - On stepping out of being amatuer as a dad. The oldest dad in the world gave you this assignment, which means you must be ready for it....He is the greatest dad ever. And he looked at you and said, you know what? You're ready. 17:43 - The impact of his dad apologizing to him. "I remember him apologizing to me and I and I don't know if he was human before that. Like that's when he was most human when he apologized... " 18:11 - Tips for having important, hard conversations with your kids. 20:12 - Quote from Funny How Life Works: "Looking back, I now realize that many of the things I resented or found annoying about my earthly father are the very things that allowed me to open the gifts my Heavenly Father had deposited in me. 23:46 - "So you're going to make some sort of mistakes. But fellas, I want you to know for sure you are absolutely dadAWESOME, because I got an awesome dad and I know I'm going to be an awesome dad because I'm a give it my all. Even if we're going the wrong way, I'm going the wrong way all the way, because I'm doing it because I love my kids and they're going to know that." 24:55 - The way comedy works is there's a set up and there's a punchline. Right? The setup is when a comedian makes you think in one direction. What a punch line is when you change that direction in a way you're not expecting. The results are revelation, fulfillment and joy expressed through laughter. In life, it's the same way. 33:49 - So by all means, look for those opportunities to speak into somebody's life. That base that you got. You got that base for a reason. Some kids need to hear that coming from five feet above them, or a foot above them. Or eye to eye contact or maybe even looking up to them. Just speak into their life. Episode Links: https://michaeljr.com/michaeljr Funny How Life Works Book Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Conversation Transcript https://dadawesome.org/169notes/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Dr. Peter Larson Peter J. Larson, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, published author, and leader in assessment development. He is the former President of Life Innovations and the co-developer of several internationally used assessment tools, including PREPARE/ENRICH, MCODE, and TruMotivate. He is also an experienced couples therapist and the former Director of Research and Clinical Services for the Smalley Relationship Center. Peter has been married to Heather Larson for 25 years and has three children ages 17, 18 and 20. Peter and Heather regularly teach, write, and coach premarital couples together. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 4:42 - Tips for dads taking their 11 to 13 yr old son or daughter on an intentional trip: 5:57 - "A big topic of the conversation is how do you show up, and not be conformed to just what everyone else is thinking and doing?" 6:11 - How do you prepare your younger child to WANT to go on a trip when they are 13? 10:48 - "You can't just start strong or launch them. Well, you gotta finish strong too. And because that does impact you. And that's like probably one of the few pain points, when I think about my dad - like, man, he was such a rockstar. I wish he would have finished a little stronger in terms of his, just his modeling of lifestyle." 14:33 - Peter's take on cheering on his athletic son - "There's being proud of your kid, and then there's being like letting your own identity creep into it.....So, you know, keeping your priorities in check, and making sure that's not the only focus of life. You know, life's a whole lot more, especially than something like that." 16:12 - Prepare Enrich [https://www.prepare-enrich.com/] - marriage and premarital assessments for couples. 17:00 - Gloo [https://www.gloo.us/] - assessments and developing tools to serve churches 19:34 - On encouraging strengths in our kids: "...Starting to pay attention to what is it that they naturally do and that they love, and realizing there's some motivation there that is going to serve them throughout their life. And how do we unleash that - fan those flames. And what's fun is it's going to be different than you, you know, they're their own unique person." 19:52 - True Motivate tool [https://trumotivate.com/] 23:02 - "You can't make them do anything they don't want to do. And now on the flip side.... actually you do have influence though. And influence is wonderful because it's like a continuum. And so your question, your challenge as a dad, as a parent, is to think about how can I maximize my influence while knowing I don't have control." 24:22 - How do you influence your kids? 5 ways... 25:21 - (1) Light up when your kid walks in the room. 27:30 - "[My kids are] copying the things I do, even when they don't make sense, you know, when they're irrational." 29:57 - Why to make date nights a priority and what that models for our kids. 31:21 - (2) Setting up routines as a family 32:18 - (3) Making church a priority 33:55 - (4) The importance of outsourcing influence to other positive influences and letting go of control. 36:47 - (5) Don't get on the roller coaster of emotion with our kids 39:54 - "Great parents are often very willing to share a little bit of gold. And so don't hesitate to look for those moments where you can glean a little of that and mine some gold, because those things have informed our last 20 years of parenting and has been awesome." Episode Links: www.gloo.us www.prepare-enrich.com Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Full Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/168notes/ ‎

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter David Horsager David Horsager is the CEO of Trust Edge Leadership Institute, national bestselling author of The Trust Edge and The Daily Edge, inventor of the Enterprise Trust Index™, and director of one of the nation's foremost trust studies: The Trust Outlook™. His work has been featured in prominent publications such as Fast Company, Forbes, The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal. David has delivered life-changing presentations on six continents, with audiences ranging everywhere from FedEx, Toyota and global governments to the New York Yankees and the Department of Homeland Security. Get free resources and more at www.DavidHorsager.com, www.TrustEdge.com, and www.TrustEdgeCoaching.com FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 1:53 - LINK TO DAVID's 1st time on dadAWESOME - https://dadawesome.org/138/ 3:55 - Praxis Labs Resources https://www.praxislabs.org/ 4:45 - New insights as a dad 5:17 - "See the good, say the good, share the good." 9:24 - David's 2020 reflection video - "15 Things I Learned In 2020 That I Can Use Forever" - 10:01 - "Reflection allows space for God to speak to us." 12:01 - Rhythms of rest and pause 13:41 - Pacem in Terris - Hermitage retreat center 17:33 - SEEDS - Sleep, Exercise, Eat right, Drink water, Source of strength 20:24 - "People that are leading well, actually have a source of strength beyond themselves. And they're better at work. If people are getting all their life from work, they're worse at work." 21:16 - "Inputs, always lead to outputs" 22:13 - Phil 4:8 - Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, whatever is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.' 24:28 - The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson 26:06 - Discussing inputs as a dad that lead to great outputs 26:07 - "Quantity time builds quality time." 28:08 - Pathway to Purity 31:04 - David's new book: The Trusted Leader 33:22 - Trust Edge - David's bestselling book. 34:32 - Faith-based module about what God's saying about trust. - Email the team for this resource. Anne (at) trustedge (dot) com 34:58 - Trustedleaderbook.com/dadAWESOME 35:41 - How dads can be difference makers. 36:09 - Making a list of 5 DMA's (difference-making actions) for each day. Ask: What are the difference-making actions today to drive our mission, to do what we're supposed to be called to do today? What are the most important things? 37:52 - One thing that consistently comes to mind is consistency, which is the final pillar of the Trust Edge Framework. And...as a dad or a leader, little things done consistently make the biggest difference, not the big things you thought... Little things done consistently make the biggest difference. Episode Links: David's new book: The Trusted Leader www.DavidHorsager.com Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Full Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/167notes/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Rob Champion Rob Champion is the campus pastor at People's Church in Oklahoma City, OK. He's been married for 25 years to his wife Nickie and they have a 20-yr old daughter and 18 yr-old son. FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 3:20 - Describing the transition from younger years to high school "coaching mode" and friendship beyond. 5:32 - Coaching out of relationship 7:42 - What he saw from his dad - what areas he admired, and what he chose to do differently in his family. 12:42 - Thoughts on brotherhood - Quote from Ecclesiastes - "One can be defeated, but two can stand back to back and conquer, and the triple braided cord is not easily broken." 15:26 - Killing Kryptonite by John Bevere 18:22 - Weakness as a dad - struggling with anger. 20:53 - How he recognized the need for a change. Recommended book: Leadership Pain 22:48 - "I've learned that in our journey, don't be afraid of the pain, the pain that you experience is God's trying to show you and grow you through your pain. So embrace it and be willing to go on the journey. God will lead you." 23:49 - "Anything you're not liking in how you're behaving is tied to a root in your life that God is trying to uproot." 24:42 - "Guard your heart for out of it flows the wellspring of life, everything comes out of it." 27:28 - Rob's Brotherhood Groups https://www.facebook.com/groups/menszoomgroup/ 30:45 - Practical mentoring tips: "Seek first to understand your kid, seek first to understand your wife, seek first to understand anyone..." 34:01 - "And just because you may not have the skills that another brother may have or, the abilities that someone else may have, understand that you, your value is not based off of what you do. It's based off of whose you are, you belong to the Father and your value is rooted in that. Stand confident in that understand you have something to offer your kids. You have something to offer your spouse. You have something to offer your church. You have something to offer this world and walk in your gifts and let other people do the things that you're not so gifted in and celebrate them in it as well." Episode Links: Pastor Rob's Brotherhood Zoom Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/menszoomgroup/ People's Church https://peoples.church/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Full Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/166notes/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Dean Stinchfield Dean and his wife Lisa have 2 daughters and a son-in-law and they live in the west metro of the Twin Cities. He leads the ministry Men of The Kingdom and his personal mission is to glorify God by participating in the advancement of his Kingdom by equipping and encouraging the next generation of moral leaders in the church. (Matthew 6:33, 1 Corinthians 10:31, 2 Timothy 2:2, 1 Peter 5:2-4, Matthew 28:19-20, Hebrews 10:24-25) FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: PART 1 of this Dean Stinchfield conversation: https://dadawesome.org/164/ 1:42 - Men of the Kingdom https://www.menofthekingdom.com/ 2:08 - Chuck Colson Centurion program https://www.breakpoint.org/join-the-centurions/ 2:37 - Being told by Chuck Colson, "If you don't think you're doing something for the Lord right now, you're missing it. As a Christian there's no such thing as retirement. There's just repurposement." 3:54 - "The biblical model of the church is everybody has been given a gift by the Holy spirit and that gift isn't to edify them, it's to serve the church and equip and encourage other people." 4:33 - Describing Men of the Kingdom - how he determined "the great work" he is meant to do in life. 6:29 - GUIDE FOR HELPING DADS FIND PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT https://www.menofthekingdom.com/resources-curriculum/ 7:03 - A personal mission statement answers the questions - What are the unique gifts that you've been given? What are the burdens on your heart? Where do we feel completely alive? 7:28 - Three eternal questions: Who's your audience? What timeframe are you living your life? What treasures are you going after? 8:52 - Reading the Beatitudes with a Dad filter (Matt 5:3-12) 16:05 - Being asked to play a dad role for his friend who passed away tragically 18:46 - Living from the personal mission statement 21:28 - Final thoughts from Dean: Have courage. Pray dangerous prayers. What kind of mission do I have for my life? Take risks. Fail often and early. Don't be a critic. Be an encourager. 23:28 - Man in the Arena - "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt Conversation Links: https://www.menofthekingdom.com/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Dean Stinchfield Dean and his wife Lisa have 2 daughters and a son-in-law and they live in the west metro of the Twin Cities. He leads the ministry Men of The Kingdom and his personal mission is to glorify God by participating in the advancement of his Kingdom by equipping and encouraging the next generation of moral leaders in the church. (Matthew 6:33, 1 Corinthians 10:31, 2 Timothy 2:2, 1 Peter 5:2-4, Matthew 28:19-20, Hebrews 10:24-25) "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. —MINNEAPOLIS, MN — August 28th, 2021 — DENVER, CO — September 18th, 2021 — PHILADELPHIA, PA — October 2nd, 2021 — NEW YORK, NY — October 9th, 2021 — PHOENIX, AZ — November 20th, 2021 Register Here: https://f4f.bike/ Show Notes: 3:20 - Quote from Edmund Burke, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." 4:47 - In response to this quote from Edmund Burke - pressing into the ownership of the space God has put in front of us. "This is my space and God's given us a space to....we got to have ownership of that and step forward. And we have kingdom power, so we should be stepping forward and utilizing that kingdom power." 5:04 - "The man in the arena" - speech by Teddy Roosevelt - every dad is a man in the arena. 5:42 - Beliefs passed down from his parents - that the future is good and we have a good Heavenly Father. Drawing out the best in him and projecting that into the future. 6:33 - "That which we focus on tends to multiply....find the best parts of your spouse or the best parts of your kid and focus on those because they'll tend to expand. Either in your vision but also in your life." 8:18 - Sharing with his girls: "I will always love you. I will always be your dad. Jesus will always love you. We will always be friends." 10:08 - The emotional bank account - word bank account inside our kids. Affirmations are deposits and criticism is a withdrawal. 11:46 - Why repetition is important when it comes to speaking life. 12:26 - Setting up a foundation to be able to recognize when a relationship is right, this is what it feels like. 14:02 - Sharing a not-so-awesome dad moment. 15:12 - The best thing I can do for my girls is to love my wife and respect my wife and honor her, no matter what our relationship is doing, I'm called to sacrifice and love my wife, period. 15:08- Speck management vs Log work - focusing on the small flaws or failures of other people, focus on yourself. 22:10 - "CS Lewis talked about the God-like patchwork. He said, the revealed word is like, we're walking in this dense wooded forest. And every once in a while, the sunlight breaks through the canopy. And I think God's word is like that." 24:34 - On why the local church is so important. "AW Tozer talks about in The Pursuit of God , that we should have an authentic relationship based on an experience, not hearsay, with God the Father, God the son and God the Holy spirit. And the local church gives us a chance to do that." 25:33 - Why he volunteered in the kids ministry. Conversation Links: https://www.menofthekingdom.com/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Full Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/164notes/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 2021 Announcement: Registration is NOW OPEN for the FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS 100-mile bike rides. Click HERE TO SIGN UP for one of these cities: --MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- August 28th, 2021 -- DENVER, CO -- September 18th, 2021 -- PHILADELPHIA, PA -- October 2nd, 2021 -- NEW YORK, NY -- October 9th, 2021 -- PHOENIX, AZ -- November 20th, 2021 Goal - To raise $1,000,000 for the fatherless. Four dadNOTES from the first Two Months of 2021: 2:24 - Are we ready emotionally to handle the journey that our kids are on? We need to bring our emotional strength to their situation. 2:32 - Episode 156 - Pastor Peter Haas (Part - 2 of 3) "I've noticed that my kids don't need me to have all the answers, but they do need me to be emotionally capable of helping them find God in the midst of that. And, I've noticed that the greatest disciplers aren't the ones with all the Bible answers. They're the ones that are just willing to be present and go on a journey with you." 3:26 - Are we opening doors, are we hosting an attach on the hearts of our kids? 3:33 - Episode 159 | Zach Neese - Story of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah. "One of the ways that Lot, a righteous man, one of the ways he failed was in guarding the gateways of his kids' hearts from the culture that they had moved into. The culture influenced them, they didn't influence the culture....we have more access points in our lives today than at any other point in history and we have less training in how to guard those access points than in any other time in history." 5:33 - Episode 161 - Efrem Smith - "Now my dad and I talk and we can't have a phone conversation without my dad saying, 'I love you. I'm proud of you. I love you'….and even at 52 years old, hearing my 77 year old dad say that to me even now is so empowering [and] so transformative. And so, I think for me, one thing I would say is dads need to not be afraid, not be hesitant in a healthy way of being vulnerable in front of your kids, because what that shows is that you're not stronger than the creator of the universe...we do a disservice to our kids if we lead them to believe that we can live well without God." 7:21 - Episode 160 - Phil Comer - The concept of "the box" from the book Raising Passionate Jesus Followers [NEED LINK] – Jesus is the foundation, then there is discipline, encouragement, the rod of correction, order. The top is affection, affirmation and fun. Book Blitz: (9 books) 9:55 - Pursuit: 21-Day Prayer and Fasting Devotional - Practical takeaways for why fasting is a game-changer. 10:22 - Bible Recap by Tara-Leigh Cobble. - Daily Bible reading plan - an app and a book. 11:08 - Man Maker Project: Boys are Born. Men are Made. (Chris Bruno) - Unpacking the fatherlessness epidemic - Malachi verse - hearts of kids returning to fathers. "God's final warning is serious and dire. In essence the welfare of society rests on intentional fathers. Father well, God says, and the world will be blessed. Father poorly, and the world crumbles. It's really that big." 12:03 - Win the Day by Mark Batterson - daily rhythms for winning the day. Sponsored book for the F4F tour - free for every person who registers for the ride. 12:40 - Essentialism by Greg McKeown - What is the priority and how do we narrow our focus? 13:20 - Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be by Mark Batterson - A template for dads and sons for how to "play the man" and "be the man." Quote from the book, "My father had, to a marvelous degree, the gift of opening doors for his children, of leading them into areas of splendid newness. This surely is the most valuable legacy we can pass on to the next generation. Not money, not houses, or heirlooms, but a capacity for wonder and gratitude, a sense of aliveness and joy." - Quoting Arthur Gordan 14:39 - Business Made Simple by Donald Miller - includes 60 free videos with his book. 14:52 - Autobiography of George Mueller - A man of faith who built orphanages in the UK filled with stories of miracle provision. 15:25 - Walking with God by John Eldredge Conversation Links: Register for FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Derek Johnson Derek Johnson is a singer-songwriter who has a heart to see people experience the power and extravagant love of God through music that carries God's presence and anointing. He led worship at Bethel Church in Redding, CA for 5 years before relocating to the Sacramento area with the Jesus Culture team. He believes strongly in serving the local church and is a Jesus Culture Music artist and worship leader at Jesus Culture Sacramento. His heart is to see people transformed by encounters with Jesus who then transform the culture they live in. Derek is a relevant voice to this generation with a strong anointing for bringing intimacy and the joy of the Lord through praise and worship. Show Notes: 4:40 - "It's been a continuous journey that I've found with my daughter and now with my son is when you have children, I think more than even in marriage, you start to understand what love actually is and what love looks like, and kind of that responsibility in that way, that hits you." 14:09 - Books by John Eldredge - Wild and Heart and Fathered by God 14:23 - Takeaways from the book Fathered by God: "One, we need to be really intentional in the way that we father our kids, that really it is going to have to happen on purpose. To get in there and have the conversations and have the heart connection, realizing that our kids don't know how to do it." 15:19 - Creating "heartstrings" with our kids - where they open their hearts to us and we open our hearts to them. 15:45 - It's important to have grace for ourselves. 17:45 - The Voice of the Heart book by Chip Dodd 17:50 - "What I loved about Fathered by God was actually just the permission to recognize the gaps, to feel the pain of the gaps." 18:36 - Takeaways from the book The Voice of the Heart by Chip Dodd - "The cool thing that this book highlights is that your anger is connected to passion. So somewhere in there, if you filter that pain and that anger correctly, what you'll find is something you're actually deeply passionate about." 19:30 - "So these books are super instrumental and I think connecting that, God created us with emotions. They are there for a reason. They do need to be managed and certainly they need to be touched by the Holy spirit so areas can heal. But they're supposed to be in there." 20:00 - "And I think if, for us, as men, for us as fathers, if we have a vision - and we should have this vision - to have kids who are emotionally healthy and capable in their friendships and their marriages and their careers, then we have to begin by doing the inner work ourselves. And just being that example." 23:55 - Sharing the difficult journey of conceiving a second baby 31:55 - On living out Christian values with our kids: "I don't even want to list it out on a list and so that they can memorize it. I'm like, I want to live it so that you can catch it." Conversation Links: Derek Johnson Worship Artist Jesus Culture - https://jesusculture.com/ Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Full Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/162notes/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Dr. Efrem Smith Efrem Smith is a pastor, consultant, speaker, and author. He is passionate about life transformation, multi-ethnic development, thriving churches, and community development. As a product of the African-American Church, he also serves as a collaborative catalyst for African-American Church Planting, Disciple Making, and Urban Empowerment Movements. Efrem was the founding pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church, a multi-ethnic church in Minneapolis, MN, He served as the Superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church. He also served as the President of World Impact, an urban missions organization. Currently, Efrem is the Co-lead Pastor of Bayside Church Midtown, a thriving and multi-ethnic community in Sacramento, California. He is also Co-Owner of Influential LLC, a speaking, consulting, and coaching ministry. Efrem is also a Catalyst for African-American Networks for City to City North America. Efrem has been married to his wife Donecia for 28-years and they have two daughters. Show Notes: 3:22 - Movie "Black Panther" - "he simultaneously shows such great reverence and honor for his dad, but he disagrees with his dad at the same time. And I think that shows a real tension of the way in which we honor our parents. But then there are these moments where we may have a sense of calling in our life that that is so different that we decide there's a different way in which we're called to serve, a different way in which we're called to look at a career or a decision in life. And we're trying to simultaneously go a different way from our parents, but yet love them and honor them at the same time." 4:24 - Examples of ways Efrem stepped outside of the path his parents expected 6:42 - Examples of fathering characteristics that Efrem has tried to copy from his dad 10:13 - "Our lives can be a sneak peek to the Kingdom of Heaven" and I rewrote it, "our lives as dads can be a sneak peek to our kids, but way beyond just our own households." 10:23 - How to be dads who lead our families into courageous conversations about justice, racism and reconciliation 11:37 - A story of his dad treating others well even when he was treated poorly - "One of the things that my dad modeled in front of me was in spite of racial divisions and racial unrest, he was somebody that treated everybody respectfully and fairly... I had a chance to see my dad, even in the midst of times not being treated as well as he should have been treated in society, still treated other people - especially the people that were the skin color of others that weren't treating him so well, he didn't do that back." 12:26 - "I've tried to model racial reconciliation and unity and diversity in front of my daughters. And I know that that's impacted their relationships." 13:56 - "Maybe that's one sign that I'm modeling something well in front of my kids, that they see my intentionality showing reconciled, beloved community in front of them. And so that's one way we can be a sneak preview of heaven is in our relationships... allowing our kids to see that we're intentional about cross-cultural relationships." 14:50 - Additional practical ideas to help raise kids who can see the beauty in all people. "Even the dolls, even the toys that they had were intentional about their diversity. So they could see beauty and all kinds of people. They could see intelligence, they could see problem solving. They could not only see that they themselves could be anything, but they could see that other cultures, other people groups could be anything just by the kinds of storybooks and coloring books and toys." 15:35 - Time Machine Advice - Wishing that he would have listened more to his daughters 16:44 - Spending more time praying for our kids 17:35 - Efrem coaching us on the theme of raising daughters with INFLUENCE 17:40 - Documentary on Venus and Serena Williams - https://www.amazon.com/Venus-Serena-Williams/dp/B00CBFB8MG "As long as they could remember their dad told them they would be champions. There was this part of the documentary where when they were being asked, when did you know you were going to be great? And they were like, we always knew we were going to be great because our dad always told us we were going to be champions. Our dad always said, you're going to win Wimbledon. You're going to win the US Open. You're going to win the French Open and you're going to win it multiple times. Both of you will be champions. Both of you will be great tennis players." 18:35 - "When I would pray with my daughters at night, when I would put them in bed, I would say, 'repeat after me, I'm a queen. I'm beautiful. I'm God's daughter, I'm a champion.'" 21:00 - The decision to be more vulnerable and show emotions in front of his daughters 22:35 -

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Phil Comer After raising four kids who are all walking with Jesus, Phil & Diane were commissioned by the elders with the task of teaching parents how to raise passionate Jesus followers. Phil Comer, with assistance from his wife Diane and his son, John Mark, was the founding pastor of Westside: A Jesus Church, a large and vibrant church that welcomes millennials in Portland, Oregon. After handing the lead role over to his son, he and Diane launched Intentional: Raising Passionate Jesus Followers conferences as a way of teaching and training the hundreds of young parents in their church who were now raising families of their own. With his 40 years of pastoral experience and counseling, and lessons learned through his own parenting, he and Diane are bringing parents hope and practical help to accomplish their God-given task of raising children who will walk with God in vibrant faith. Brook Mosser Brook and Elizabeth Mosser help lead the Intentional Parent's ministry with Phil and Diane as well as serve at Riverbend Church in Bend. Elizabeth is Phil and Diane's daughter, which makes Brook their son in law, which means they are all family learning to do this thing called life and relationships together. They live in Bend, OR with their four children Duke (9), Scarlet (7), Birdie (3), and Sloane (1). Brook and Elizabeth are passionate about seeing their own four kids become all in disciples of Jesus and helping other's do the same. Video of this Conversation: http://bit.ly/DA160vid Show Notes: 2:50 - Raising Passionate Jesus Followers book 3:00 - Disproportionate relationships 4:45 - Phil's father's day message "Fathering Like a Father" YouTube Link 5:14 - Jeff asked Phil to speak life over Brook 5:33 - John 1 - Jesus was full of grace AND truth 8:12 - What does it mean to have a generational vision? 10:41 - "And I think sometimes we need to remember that what we're doing with our kids is of eternal value. We're affecting their eternity and even generations to come." - Phil Comer on having a generational vision 11:17 - Jeff asks Brook about the concept of "Default Settings" in parenting 13:39 - Praying over the emotional wounds we've caused our kids 13:50 - Praying "God, would you just shield them from the worst parts of me?" 14:11 - Being aware of where your weaknesses impact your family. 15:36 - Discussing the importance of seeing the big picture and not focusing only on individual moments. Phil and Brook run an organization called "Intentional Parents" 17:22 - "Anything lasting, anything of eternal value, anything of substance, we can't do without Him. But as far as the big picture....we parent out of relationship - our relationship with God and our relationship with our kids and life, it's a rhythm, and God designed it that way." 18:58 - You parent in relationships 19:33 - How to set your own family culture - have a macro vision. "What do we want to put into the world? What do we want to be known for?" 21:38 - What does it mean to "raise passionate Jesus Followers?" 21:56 - "Trying to raise kids that operate in a different kingdom all together." 22:50 - Analyzing scenes from movies to point out the lies people are believing. 23:41 - "So I think as far as raising passionate Jesus followers - it's every single moment is Deuteronomy 6. When you wake up, when you lie down, when you go along the road, you're talking about Jesus, you're doing it yourself. You're not asking your kids to beat something that you're not beating yourself. And it's raising kids that really know and love Jesus." 24:35 - Phil talks about when dads realize that it's a partnership with their wives, realizing kids are a gift from God, and their job as a dad is important - that's the lightbulb moment for dads at their conferences. Phil quoting his son, John Mark Comer, "Pretty much every problem in the world goes back to fathers not doing what they were called to do and not walking with the Father the way supposed to." 27:00 - "Cause I think everyone has father wounds in one way or another. Right? And you're never going to be a perfect dad, but you can be a thoughtful, intentional dad. And we're intentional about so many things in our lives. So as a dad, you can be intentional about your exercise, your hobbies, your work, your relationship with your wife, but oftentimes it doesn't usually trickle down to your kids, you know, by and large. And so I think if you can catch that vision to recognize like that is equally, if not more important than all those other things mentioned in the sense of work or hobbies or whatever, you will never regret it." - Brook 29:10 - Brook discussing how there is a process for you and your kids - there are phases 31:03 - Spiritual parenting - the most important thing you do is to teach your kid to walk with the Lord.

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Zach Neese Zach Neese is a Worship Pastor at Gateway Church where he oversees all areas of worship education including discipleship and worship training classes. Zach believes there is a difference between "leading worship" and pastoring people in the presence of God, and his leadership reflects his passion for helping people develop vibrant, transformational relationships with Jesus. Zach is a gifted teacher and writes much of the church worship curriculum. He also trains and advises worship leaders and churches around the world. Before coming to Gateway, Zach taught, worked with emotionally disabled young people, served as a youth and worship pastor in several congregations, and directed the Christ For the Nations Institute School of Worship and Technical Arts where he trained worship ministers from over 50 countries. He is a seasoned songwriter of many popular songs including the following: The More I Seek You Love Has Done It Faithful God Video of this Conversation: http://bit.ly/DA159vid Show Notes: 2:18 - Throw Confetti and please add the hashtag #dadawesome https://dadawesome.org/confetti/ 2:25 - Throw Feedback https://dadawesome.org/feedback/ 2:35 - Throw Some Powerful Prayers https://dadawesome.org/pray/ 5:35 - "That's comforting to me knowing that God knows I'm going to mess it up. And he still trusts me with some of his most precious people." We're never going to get it right all the time. Looking at the dads in the Bible...no one was a perfect dad. 6:40 - "I think we have to give ourselves a lot of grace and a lot of mercy, but I don't think it's ever too late to really begin ministering in your own house." 9:15 - Being a guardian of the doors in your household 12:11 - Story of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah 13:42 - The history of entertainment industry and the greek god Dionysus. 16:03 - "So as I'm guarding the doors of my kids' hearts, and I'm teaching them to guard the doors of their hearts, I'm asking questions like this, 'What spirit is this entertaining?' Teach them to ask, 'what spirit is this elevating? What spirit is this welcoming?' Because if this is a door, I get to decide who I host, who I invite, who I welcome and who I host. And everything is entertaining to some spirit." 17:06 - What are we hosting in our home? 20:18 - Telling the story of watching a movie and realized how it affected his kids in their sleep. 21:50 - How to close the doors to darkness once they have been opened. 28:42 - How do we know our kids' hearts? 29:54 - Covenant Eyes 31:12 - "To me, heaven is not going to be paradise unless all my kids are there. So to me, the most important pursuit in my life is the pursuit of God." 33:03 - Zach's prayer Conversation Links: Zach Neese at Gateway Church Zachneese.com Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Jeff Zaugg Jeff and Michelle Zaugg will celebrate 15 years of marriage this year. They live in New Brighton, MN with their 3 young daughters and they are expecting their 4th baby in Spring 2021. After 10-years of entrepreneurial non-profit ministry leadership, Jeff served as a pastor at Substance Church in the Twin Cities for the past 7 years. In Fall 2020 Jeff took the leap and went full-time fatherhood ministry. He is the founder and lead cheerleader at dadAWESOME & FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS. When he's not wrestling or playing hide and seek with his daughters, you might find Jeff out for a bike ride, making a pour over coffee, sitting by a fire with his wife or challenging some friends to a game of Spikeball. Celebrating Three Years of dadAWESOME: Episode #1 = "We Trust God" 3:20 - Throw Confetti and please add the hashtag #dadawesome https://dadawesome.org/confetti/ 4:30 - Throw Feedback https://dadawesome.org/feedback/ 5:38 - Throw Some Powerful Prayers https://dadawesome.org/pray/ 6:10 - 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 "My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power." Conversation Notes: Full Interview with Jeff Zaugg on the Bethel University Alumni Podcast (Apple Podcast & Spotify) 10:09 - Time hop of post-college career path 10:27 - YouthWorks, pastoring, kids pastoring, dadAWESOME 12:34 - Describing the work of dadAWESOME and Fathers for the Fatherless 13:17 - Malachi 4:6 - He will turn the hearts of the fathers toward their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. 13:41 - The promise that fuels the passion in dadAWESOME - Deuteronomy 30:19 - I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. 16:40 - The LIFE framework: I am Loved. I am Intentional. I am Free. I am Engaged. 17:28 - Fathers for the Fatherless events for Summer 2021 19:05 - "I think every entrepreneur, they find a pain point and you try to meet a need to correct that pain in some way you want to alleviate a pain." 19:49 - Publishing Episode 101 right after his dad went to heaven. 20:07 - Pain fuels passion. 21:16 - Being planted in the local church was a huge part of God seeding the vision for DA. 22:13 - Runs and Rides lead to Resources which lead to Retreats. 25:43 - How has God met you in the wilderness seasons? Expecting every 3-5 yrs a major life crisis will come my way. 26:28 - Wilderness Fellowship 26:50 - Finding brotherhood 27:24 - Freedom heart work 29:54 - Imagine Beautiful - marriage ministry 32:27 - "If you want to get shiny eyes for the current season, if you want to be at a spot, living in your passion, help other people around you get shiny eyes" Conversation Links: Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Full Transcript: https://dadawesome.org/158

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Peter Haas Pastor Peter Haas came to know the Lord while working as an EDM rave DJ in a nightclub. Since that day, he has traveled the world, sharing his radical conversion story and calling others to experience the same joy and power. He and his wife, Carolyn, planted Substance Church in 2004 and they serve on the Lead Team of the ARC (the Association of Related Churches). He is passionate about music, film, and comedy. Peter and Carolyn live in the Twin Cities with their 3 children, Lijah, True, and Eden. Conversation Notes: Part 1 of this conversation with Peter Haas (Episode 155) Part 2 of this conversation with Peter Haas (Episode 156) 2:09 - How to raise a kid who loves Jesus? Nightly rituals, helping them find mentors and live in community, and falling in love with God's church. 8:40 - How can dads help their kids with the big question of how can a loving, all-powerful God allow pain and hurt in the world? 10:40 - Navigating smartphones and technology. Create rules younger. 15:55 - When it comes to technology, "You do have to be a learner to be a leader." 17:00 - Talking about sex and pornography with your kids 19:01 - Covenant Eyes 20:09 - Setting quarterly goals 22:00 - Work life balance for dads 24:35 - [Link to Peter's blog post] 24:38 - Parable of the seed and the sower - Mark 4:18 25:23 - Planted in the house of the Lord they will flourish 26:43 - "Find dads who are living out your dreams and get around them." 28:28 - Peter's parenting blog posts How To Be A Better Parent – OR – A Better Son Or Daughter! How To Survive Young Kids – A Marriage Tip That Can Change Everything How Vacations Can Save Your Marriage (& Your Kids)! 3 Tips To Help New Dads Through The First 4 Months Of Fatherhood… Top 5 Must-Read Parenting Books Episode 22 with Peter Haas Conversation Links: Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Substance Church Peter Haas Instagram

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Peter Haas Pastor Peter Haas came to know the Lord while working as an EDM rave DJ in a nightclub. Since that day, he has traveled the world, sharing his radical conversion story and calling others to experience the same joy and power. He and his wife, Carolyn, planted Substance Church in 2004 and they serve on the Lead Team of the ARC (the Association of Related Churches). He is passionate about music, film, and comedy. Peter and Carolyn live in the Twin Cities with their 3 children, Lijah, True, and Eden. Conversation Notes: Part 1 of this conversation with Peter Haas (Episode 155) 2:09 - The trade off to having golden parenting time. 6:02 - How to find common interests with your kids 8:21 - We cannot expect our kids to initiate finding common interests. 9:55 - Taking advantage of fighting and whining for teachable moments to grow your kids. 12:11 - Your life happens in the margins and the less margin you have, the less time you have for those relationships. 13:53 - They won't understand us unless we seek first to understand our kids. 16:42 - Be present in the pain of life. 17:37 - "I've noticed that my kids don't need me to have all the answers, but they do need me to be emotionally capable of helping them find God in the midst of that. And, and I I've noticed that the greatest disciplers aren't the ones with all the Bible answers. They're the ones that are just willing to be present and go on a journey with you." 18:51 - "One of the number one predictors of healthy parents is the stress level of the parent." 21:36 - Being intentional beyond the sphere of our direct kids (boyfriends, friends circle). 25:19 - Focus on your marriage in the season where your kids are all young because when you begin to empty nest you realize how important your marriage is. 27:56 - Asking mentors, what do I need to be doing now so that it will make things easier later? Questions he asked mentors as a younger dad. 28:20 - Before age 13, make these four things clear: (1) "When it comes to dating, mom, dad and the family get to be a part of the choice...do they fit with the family values?" (2) Speaker 2: "No person will ever fulfill you and you need to understand that." (3) Speaker 2: "When it comes to the timing don't date too soon." (4) Start having the sex talk younger. Conversation Links: Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Substance Church Peter Haas Instagram

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Peter Haas Pastor Peter Haas came to know the Lord while working as an EDM rave DJ in a nightclub. Since that day, he has traveled the world, sharing his radical conversion story and calling others to experience the same joy and power. He and his wife, Carolyn, planted Substance Church in 2004 and they serve on the Lead Team of the ARC (the Association of Related Churches). He is passionate about music, film, and comedy. Peter and Carolyn live in the Twin Cities with their 3 children, Lijah, True, and Eden. Conversation Notes: Substance Church 5:20 - Sharing about dropping his daughter off in a new state for college last year 6:15 - "There are certain things you can't protect your kids from. You need to just watch them go through it." 8:11 - " I like to think this way... parenting is a series of 2000 conversations and I say 2000, I'm making up that number, but it's actually not just 2000 conversations. It's 2000 conversations, demonstrations and impartations." 9:56 - "And if you think about those 2000 conversations, impartations, demonstrations, what's weird about them is you can log a lot of those when they're young, but intellectually, the conversations, they all kind of happen in a very, very, very tiny window." 10:40 - The "window of discipleship" is between 12 and 16. 12:58 - You can't log all of the conversations, but what you can do is give them principles like Psalm 92: "Planted in the house of the Lord, you will flourish." 18:56 - "You can't export what you haven't first imported." 20:15 - Begin with the end in mind. 21:14 - Choosing priorities and avoiding regrets by paying attention to the juggling metaphor 23:57 - How being a part of church helps provide multiple mentors 26:48 - Sacred family rituals 28:20 - "Logging as many hours as we possibly can in that golden window is the definition of good parenting. And if they have to not be exposed to as many opportunities on purpose, and my kids don't regret it, it's not like my kids sit and think, well, I didn't get as many piano and dance lessons and as many sports opportunities. They never sit around and talk about that. They talk about how many hours we logged doing a common hobby together..." Conversation Links: Make a Donation to dadAWESOME Join the dadAWESOME Prayer Team Substance Church Peter Haas Instagram

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Jeff Zaugg Jeff and Michelle Zaugg will celebrate 15 years of marriage this year. They live in New Brighton, MN with their 3 young daughters and they are expecting their 4th baby in Spring 2021. Here's a link to the 2020 Zaugg Family Christmas Card. After 10-years of entrepreneurial non-profit ministry leadership, Jeff served as a pastor at Substance Church in the Twin Cities for the past 7 years. In Fall 2020 Jeff took the leap and went full-time fatherhood ministry. He is the founder and lead cheerleader at dadAWESOME & FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS. When he's not wrestling or playing hide and seek with his daughters, you might find Jeff out for a bike ride, making a pour over coffee, sitting by a fire with his wife or challenging some friends to a game of Spikeball. Conversation Notes: 1:20 - dadAWESOME is on YouTube 1:50 - 4 parts of todays podcast (WHY, WHAT, WHERE and HOW) Why dadAWESOME What were some highlights of 2020? Where is this ministry headed in 2021? How can I join the movement? 2:20 - Proverbs 24:3-5 Wise people are builders. they build families, businesses, communities. And through intelligence and insight their enterprises are established and endure. Because of their skilled leadership the hearts of people are filled with the treasures of wisdom and the pleasures of spiritual wealth. Wisdom can make anyone into a mighty warrior, and revelation-knowledge increases strength. I want this for my daughters: Their hearts filled with the treasures of WISDOM Their hearts filled with the pleasures of SPIRITUAL WEALTH They are a mighty WARRIOR They have revelation-KNOWLEDGE They have increasing STRENGTH 3:40 - WHY dadAWESOME - Rope Swing Ripple Effect 3:40 - "The reason we exist is we want to see a generation of dads who are builders, who are saying with intentionality and focus with their time, with their money, with their passions. I'm going to build a family. I'm going to build towards having a heart connection with my kids. I'm going to build, in a direction that glorifies the Lord in a direction that my, my girls, or in your case maybe boys, my kids, my sons, my daughters are proud of a dad. who is building something of significance." 4:15 - Wise dads are builders - they build rope swings 4:20 - All of the POSITIVES of having a rope swing - the contagious ripple effect 6:12 - All of the NEGATIVES of missing out on experiencing a rope swing 7:06 - The Ripple Effect of Intentional Fatherhood 7:40 - dadAWESOME exists to cheerlead and resource intentional fatherhood... Dads with hearts that are connecting with their kids 7:55 - Deuteronomy 30:19 "…I have set before you LIFE and DEATH, blessings and curses. Now choose LIFE, so that you and your children may LIVE. 8:20 - The NEGATIVE - the lack of fatherhood 8:30 - FATHERLESSNESS Ripple Effect According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18.3 million children, 1 in 4, live without a biological, step, or adoptive father in the home. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau. (2020). Living arrangements of children under 18 years old: 1960 to present. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau.) POVERTY >> 4X GREATER RISK OF POVERTY MOM-CHILD HEALTH > 2X GREATER RISK OF INFANT MORTALITY INCARCERATION > MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISON TEEN PREGNANCY > 7X MORE LIKELY TO BECOME PREGNANT AS A TEEN CHILD OBESITY > 2X MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER OBESITY EDUCATION > 2X MORE LIKELY TO DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL 9:35 - We believe that dads connected to our Heavenly Father's heart are more intentional dads 10:05 - FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS - awaken passion and awareness to the cause of the fatherless 11:05 - We Resource & Celebrate Intentional Dads & We Ignite Passion & Action for the Fatherless... Pain Fuels Passion 11:24 - What were some dadAWESOME highlights of 2020? 11:35 - January 2020 - dadAWESOME Podcast Celebrates 2-years (25k downloads) 11:45 - March 2020 - YouTube Intentionality (3k views in 2020) 11:56 - April 2020 - Creation of dadAWESOME Foundations (93 dads joined us) I am LOVED I am INTENTIONAL I am FREE I am ENGAGED & I EJOY my kids 12:24 - August 2020 - FATHERS FOR THE FATHERLESS (64 dads raising $104k for the fatherless) 12:39 - October 2020 - Jeff Takes The Leap to Full-Time Fatherhood Ministry 13:00 - Where is dadAWESOME headed in 2021? 13:05 - Proverbs 24:3-5 Wise people are builders. they build families, businesses, communities. And through intelligence and insight their enterprises are established and endure. Because of their skilled leadership the hearts of people are filled with the treasures of wisdom and the pleasures of spiritual wealth. Wisdom can make anyone into a mighty warrior, and revelation-knowledge increases strength. 13:43 - "Our prayer as a ministry is that we would be helping dads be builders, but that we would build a ministry based with skilled leadership and that

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Ted Lowe Ted Lowe is an author, speaker, and the director of MarriedPeople—the marriage division at Orange. Ted is the author of two books—one for marriage ministry leaders (Married People: How Your Church Can Build Marriages That Last) and one for married couples (Your Best US: Marriage Is Easier Than You Think). He served for almost 10 years as the director of MarriedLife at North Point Community Church. He lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with his four favorite people: his wife, Nancie, and their three children. Conversation Notes: 2:35 - "It's about going after more moments of awesome and fewer moments of awful." 3:30 - Moving from fewer moments of awful to more moments of awesome in marriage. 4:00 - Marriage is made up of micro-moves. "We can choose to have awesome moments and they're not as big as we think." 5:08 - What his dad did right 5:12 - On losing his mom at age 10 6:20 - How losing his mom has impacted how he has raised his kids 10:00 - A dad fail moment 11:40 - James 1:9 "Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry." 12:30 - "What they've found in neuroscience is that you need eight seconds once you're triggered for your frontal cortex to kick back in." 13:25 - Take time when everyone is calm to coach our kids 15:00 - Nurture vs Nature 15:30 - "Kids come into the world fully baked. God has created them and it becomes our job as parents to steward that" 17:48 - "When we look at our kids, you can take the pressure off yourself dads of thinking that you are in more control than you are... Give yourself some freedom that you just have to guide who they are" 18:24 - Analogy from Pastor Levi Lusko about being an Archeologist 19:35 - How to be intentional with finding and stewarding mentorship. Sharing wisdom from Doug and Kathy Fields. 20:40 - Telling his kids, "It's ok to be shy, but it's not ok to be rude." 22:45 - It's important to find those couples who are down-the-road for mentorship, but be careful not to compare your family to theirs because God created your family uniquely. 25:00 - How to invite feedback from mentor friends. 26:00 - Quote from Dr. Sue Johnson - "We're trying to get emotionally from a couple people what we used to get from a whole village." 26:10 - Their story of adoption 28:09 - Comparing a family to a baby mobile - "it doesn't matter if it's healthy or not, it starts getting in a rhythm. And when you add something to the mobile, whether it's good or bad, it gets the mobile off." 29:40 - The four core habits in his marriage book. Your Best Us: Marriage Is Easier Than You Think 30:30 - Biblical marriage is more about how God wants us to love each other, not necessarily from examples of marriage in the Bible. 35:07 - "Marriage is not about the big day, it's about the every day." 36:15 - "It always takes two to keep a negative cycle going, but sometimes one can stop it." 37:05 - "People don't have bad hearts they have bad habits. And habits we can change." 37:20 - His wife said, "I don't need you to FIX this. I need you to FEEL this" 36:23 - Final marriage tips: 38:44 - Sharing how his wife asked him not to talk to her like a man, talk to her like a woman. Colossians 3:19 - "Husbands, love your wives and don't be harsh with them" 39:15 - Stop patterns that frustrate her and stop allowing small things to frustrate you. 39:45 - Make moments you enjoy. What would make her so happy today. 40:00 - When asking her, "How can I love you more?" Then when she answers, say, "thanks for letting me know." 41:30 - Keep trying to win her heart... She's asking every day; "Will he still choose me?" 42:40 - Tips for becoming a more awesome dad. "Get on the same page as far about what you feel like you want to do with the kids. Because they will play you like a fiddle…kids need to know that you're solid." Conversation Links: Your Best Us: Marriage Is Easier Than You Think Married People: How Your Church Can Build Marriages that Last (Ted Lowe & Doug Fields) http://tedlowe.com/ https://marriedpeople.org/

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Aaron Smith Aaron Smith was one of the founders of Venture, now living full time in Thailand as a missionary with his wife and nine year old and thirteen year old kids. He has a passion to resource dads both in Thailand and the US. Conversation Notes: 2:37 - Discussing life in Thailand as a dad. 5:37 - Resources Aaron is providing to help Thai dads experience the love of God. - "I went to a counselor and was diagnosed with work-induced burnout and kind of the result of it was that I just felt like that God expected us to work so hard and prove our worth, similar to parenting here in Thailand. Like you have to prove you have to gain your worth, your value, you have to pay back your parents for raising you, I kind of felt that way with God. But that's really not God's character if you really read the Bible. You can see that there's so much love and grace there. He just wants to spend time with us. We don't have to earn it...His desire to relate to us is not based on what we do or not do...He really cares for and loves us graciously, mercifully compassionately, and his desire is to really connect with us." 8:22 - Losing his dad in a biking accident 16 years ago. 14:10 - Encouragement for dads with young kids and balancing expectations of family and work. 14:40 - Recovering from burnout and needing time to rediscover passion for God, kids, wife. 16:30 - Rhythms that add life 17:00 - Recommended podcast: From Burnout to Breakthrough 18:25 - Verse by Verse ministries - a resource Aaron uses for his morning time with God. 19:45 - Friendships and mentorship while living internationally. 20:19 - "More than anything else in life, as a human, I desire someone to know what's going on in my head and my heart at the most raw and honest level. If you don't have that, you're not living life. And then the truth is, like, what's inside of me is not always pretty, it's ugly, like it's really ugly and thankfully the last year I've spent working on developing that kind of relationship with my wife. Before this we had a good marriage right but it wasn't amazing. It was harmonious, but this last year we both made a commitment to each other that we're gonna share what's going on in our heart even if it's ugly, even if it's distressing, even if it's like, oh man, it's shocking, but we want to be known by each other." 22:45 - Fathers for the Fatherless rides and runs for 2021 23:15 - Sharing stories of the impact of Venture in Thailand. 29:57 - Aaron's closing prayer 31:30 - Recommended books: Surrender to Love (Book) The Gift of Being Yourself (Book) The Place we Find Ourselves (Podcast) 31:51 - Aaron's ministry page Conversation Links: Venture.org Aaron's ministry page

dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Seth Dahl Seth Dahl is a writer and worldwide speaker to adults and children. He is known for his powerful wisdom communicated through a contagious joy and childlikeness. Seth and Lauren love to empower families to build a strong connection that fosters peace and creates a thriving family culture. Seth, Lauren and their three children homestead with a large garden and handful of animals on a small farm in Texas. With over 15 years experience working with children and being a children's pastor, Seth has cultivated a passion to help parents create a thriving family culture at home. Sometimes parenting is overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be! Seth and Lauren love being able to equip people with the practical and spiritual tools they need to create the thriving family culture they've always dreamed of. Conversation Notes: Episode 137 with Seth Dahl >> Show Notes 2:11 - Keep Austin Weird Jesus Loves Austin Instagram 4:50 - Praying Scripture - protection from promises of God against fear Luke 4:18-19 - Jesus reads Isaiah - He announces that "The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."… 5:45 - Crafted Prayer by Graham Cooke 6:46 "I'm teaching my kids the Bible and I'm praying over them and I'm doing it over and over... I don't want them to just know verses that they learned in kids church. These are the Scriptures I want them to become who they are and to pull out that peaceful, powerful, loved, blessed child that they are..." 8:55 - Powerful story of transforming the pain of not having a father growing up into gratitude and intentionality with his own family 9:36 - "Be thankful in all things." 10:50 - "Honor is celebrating who they are, who God made them to be, without stumbling over their stuff." Wearing a ring as a statement of honor and reminding what he's changing and breaking off his family. 15:05 - An encounter with God that transformed the pain of his dad and his relationship with God. 18:52 - Seth's book - Raising Spirit-Led Kids: Raising Kids to Walk Naturally in the Supernatural 20:38 - 1 John 4:18 - "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." (NIV) 20:48 - The difference between punishment and discipline. 21:03 - Hebrews 12:8 - "If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all." (NIV) 21:13 - "If we punish our kids, we bring in the spirit of fear, not the spirit of God, the spirit of love....but if we don't discipline, it says we basically invite the orphan spirit, because they're now illegitimate orphaned children because we don't discipline, we don't correct, we don't have boundaries....so that's a huge part of the book because you don't want to punish, but you do want to discipline." 24:08 - The heart of sonship and identity vs. heart of an orphan. "At its simplest, it means we're no longer alone in this, we're not on our own." 26:15 - "The son is like, 'I'm not on my own. I do what I see the Father doing. He helps me, he leads me, he's for me, he loves me, he pours into me, and then I have it to give to them. I don't have to conjure it up. I don't have to figure it out. I don't have to do all these fancy tricks. I receive and then I give..." 28:25 - "He is the architect and we are the contractors. It's our job to figure out his plan that he's designed and then design it and help build it in the earth." 30:37 - Judges 13:8 - "Then Manoah prayed to the Lord: 'Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.'" Manoah prays for an encounter with God to give specific directions for how to raise his son. 31:55 - "I don't want to do it just from books, I don't want to do it just from the Bible, I want to do it from meeting God. I want encounters with God where he teaches me what to do with my kids and reminds me who they are." Conversation Links: Episode 137 of dadAWESOME with Seth Dahl Seth Dahl Website Raising Spirit-Led Kids Arrows Win Win Parenting