Blended Families Interview with Ron Deal Part 1 - Second Marriage | Ep. 11
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Awesome Marriage Podcast we have Director of FamilyLife Blended, Ron Deal. Ron joins Dr. Kim as they about second marriage and the uniqueness of blended families.
Ron is a family and marriage author, speaker, and therapist. He is the leading expert and advocate for blending families well and ministering to blended families. Ron is married to his wife Nan and a is a proud father.
Tune in below to learn more about second marriage!
RESOURCES
You can purchase Ron's latest book, The Smart Stepfamily Marriage: Keys to Success in the Blended Family.
For other great info check out FamilyLife.com You can also follow Ron on Twitter!
Ron shared about the Blended Families summit coming up in Colorado Springs, you can register here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. |
| 0:10.4 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson, and the admin for Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:15.3 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:19.7 | Dr. Kim Kim Kim, is the founder of I Want an Awesome Marriage and author of Seven |
| 0:24.9 | Secrets to an Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:27.4 | Mill Smith is the innovation pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, as well as the |
| 0:33.0 | innovation director at Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:35.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, welcome to the Awesome Marriage podcast today. I am so excited to have a good friend, a great guy. |
| 0:48.6 | Ron Beale joining us. He's the head of Family Life, Blended. Ron, welcome to the Awesome Marriage |
| 0:53.2 | Podcast. Thanks, Kim. It, welcome to the Lost Marriage Podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | Thanks, Kim. |
| 0:55.5 | It's good to be with you. |
| 0:57.1 | You know, you're married. |
| 1:00.6 | Your ministry to step families is so needed. |
| 1:04.5 | I was doing a conference a few weeks ago, and it was an event. |
| 1:05.9 | We had a couple hundred people there. |
| 1:07.9 | And I'd never done this before. |
| 1:10.1 | Something I just said, how many of you are in blended families? It was probably at least 75% of those people raised their hands. |
| 1:15.0 | And so the need is so there. |
| 1:17.3 | And that's been your passion. |
| 1:18.4 | How did you get so passionate about stepfamilies? |
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