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🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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How to Raise a Successful Family with Scott Donnell
Setting up heritage, not inheritance. (1:32)
Money trauma. (9:30)
Faith, family, and F.I.S.H. (13:29)
Kids need both sides. (19:26)
The difference between discipline and punishment. (22:01)
The 4 C’s Framework to build anti-fragile children. (31:21)
His thoughts on smartphones and the internet. (40:44)
Pick your inner circle carefully. (49:33)
The ‘4 Family Forces’ destroying family culture. (52:20)
Faith revival. (1:02:57)
Anxiety is a sin to repent of, not an emotion to medicate out of. (1:06:24)
You can’t serve both God and Mammon. (1:09:45)
Looking sideways instead of looking up. (1:15:35)
Learning to surrender. (1:22:58)
Many are gifted, but few are anointed. (1:28:46)
Mentor family. (1:39:55)
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| 1:29.0 | forward slash quiz. All right. Here comes the show. Scott, welcome to the show, man. |
| 1:34.8 | Good to be here. Appreciate you coming. We found your content. Adam was the first one. We found your |
| 1:39.4 | content on parenting and just great advice and really resonated with us as fathers. |
| 2:00.8 | But I want to know how you got there. Like, I want to know your story of how you got to doing what you're doing now. And off air, I was like, I want to hear your story. Like, it's wildest crazy. I don't know if you want to hear it. And I'm like, even more I want to hear about that. Now I'm interested. Yeah, take us back a little bit. Wild story, man. |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah, so I think for me, I have a great family. Just been super blessed. It's not like a |
| 2:11.4 | started from the bottom now we're here kind of thing. But I'm really thankful for the life |
| 2:17.3 | that I was raised in. So I come from four |
| 2:20.3 | generations of entrepreneurial folks, strong faith, great families. And like my grandpa, |
| 2:31.4 | it's just a rock star. He just passed. I got to do his eulogy. His name's Barney Beeksma, just a rock star, he just passed. I got to do his eulogy. |
| 2:35.8 | His name's Barney Beeksma, just a total stud. |
| 2:39.7 | And I've seen countless things happen in his life, but he was the real life, George Bailey. |
| 2:46.6 | Like he, the movie was basically his life story. |
| 2:49.9 | He started Woodby island savings and loan. |
| 2:52.7 | Oh, wow. |
| 2:53.2 | Back in like the late 50s. |
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