638: How To Be The Parent Your Kids Deserve with Mike & Lindsay McCarthy
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest challenges parents face today is creating a real connection with their kids in a world where phones and screens dominate so much of their attention.
And here's where it really hits home. We only have "18 summers to create lasting connections" with our kids before they become adults, so why not make the most of it?
Today, I'm joined by two of my favorite people, Mike and Lindsay McCarthy. Mike and Lindsay are the co-authors of The Miracle Morning for Parents and Families and the Miracle Morning for Parents and Families Playbook.
Mike is also the CEO and co-founder of the Gobundance mastermind and co-created Fambundance with his wife, Lindsay. Together, they've spent more than a decade helping families create stronger relationships, healthier communication, and intentional family meetings and habits through events and their family legacy framework.
In our conversation, we talk about the systems and values that have helped them create a deeply connected family culture, how intentional parenting evolves as your kids grow older, and why creating shared experiences and family traditions can shape your children long after they leave home.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Getting Kids Involved In The Miracle Morning
- Teaching Kids About Service Through Daily Habits
- Creating Family Values, Not Parenting by Default
- The McCarthy "Dream, Define, Do" Family Framework
- Parenting Beyond The First 18 Summers
- Family Legacy Is About Much More Than Money
- How Family Meetings Foster Deep Connection
- Why Fambundance Was Created
- What to Expect At the Next Fambundance Event
- Parenting Gets More Fruitful Over Time
- Raising Kids Without Creating Entitlement
- Creating Family Experiences That Last Forever
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.5 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals |
| 0:21.9 | themselves and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you |
| 0:26.4 | need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go. If you are a parent, you are not going to want to |
| 0:33.5 | miss this episode with my good friends and co-authors of the Miracle Morning for Parents |
| 0:38.6 | and Families, Mike and Lindsay McCarthy. I've known Mike and Lindsay for over a decade. We co-authored |
| 0:43.7 | this book. We were neighbors for many years, and they're two of my favorite people because they're |
| 0:48.0 | two of the most intentional human beings on the planet, specifically when it comes to parenting. |
| 0:52.7 | You're about to learn how creating |
| 0:54.3 | family values, operating family meetings and other rituals that are taught in the Miracle Morning |
| 0:59.8 | for Parents and Families Playbook, these systems and rhythms enable you to create a culture in your |
| 1:05.4 | family that not only creates love and connection, that not only instills values in your children that you want |
| 1:12.1 | them to have, but creates a lasting effect so that long after they're adults and they're out |
| 1:17.8 | of the house, they want to keep coming back and they're living their lives in a way that is |
| 1:22.1 | consistent with the values that you instilled. And the reality is most of us parents are |
| 1:27.2 | unintentional and myself included. |
| 1:30.2 | And then we look back with regret going, oh, man, I really wish I would have done this or that. |
| 1:34.1 | No matter what age your kids are, if you are a parent, this episode will help you be the |
| 1:39.0 | intentional parent that your kids deserve. |
| 2:01.5 | Mike McCarthy, Lindsay, so good to be with you. You too, how? That was such a formal introduction. We were talking about, like, we do life together for those that don't know. We vacation together. We do dinners. We used to be neighbors. Sadly, I moved out of the neighborhood, so that's bummer. Regrets it, too. I know, yeah, a little bit. |
| 2:02.6 | Every time I see you guys. |
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