Building A Family Economy with Rory Groves
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy is joined by Rory Groves, who moved his family to a homestead 12 years ago and eventually quit his software engineer job to build a family economy.
They talk about the implications of the industrial revolution and how anti-family (and anti-God) it is, and how families can start to make the mindset shift to build a family economy in a modern world.
There are some really fundamental, theological questions that require wrestling with, because so many Christians today give up some fundamental arguments to the secular world, and Jeremy and Rory break many of these down around topics like work, family, economy, and more.
They look ahead at the next few years and what to expect with AI, and Rory gives an overview of his book Durable Trades as a way to defend your family against the likely devastation that's incoming.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:05 Rory's Journey From Programming To Farming
5:55 Did God Design Family To Work Together?
8:07 The Industrial Revolution...Disaster?
17:53 The Economic Implications of a Family-Centered Life
23:12 The Family as The Basic Economic Unit
29:36 How Important is Land?
31:01 How To Launch Into A Family Economy
35:14 The Future of AI and How Families Can Properly Defend Themselves
41:30 Family Worship Rhythms
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Resources Mentioned:
Family Life by Kevin Swanson: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996171983/
The Natural Family by Allan Carlson: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0747Q5XKL/
Durable Trades by Rory Groves: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1725274140/
The Grovestead Newsletter: https://www.thegrovestead.com/newsletter/
Gather and Grow: https://gatherandgrow.us/
Family Inc: https://courses.familyteams.com/familyinc
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| 0:00.0 | Would you say the Industrial Revolution was a mistake? |
| 0:02.1 | Like, how would you describe that transition that happened? |
| 0:05.0 | An unmitigated disaster, I would say, yes. |
| 0:08.6 | You got to look at the trend line of a thing. |
| 0:11.1 | And it is catastrophic. |
| 0:12.8 | It was a mindset change that said, it's okay to rip apart families as long as it increases profitability. |
| 0:19.1 | Profitability justifies everything. |
| 0:24.6 | That is not a historical way for societies to endure. And I think the mind shift away from families towards individual pursuits |
| 0:29.6 | comes across as like, well, it's more liberating that way. |
| 0:32.6 | Well, it's the liberty that brings you into bondage because all of a sudden, |
| 0:36.6 | we don't have the support networks, we don't have all of a sudden we don't have the support networks. |
| 0:38.3 | We don't have the generational structure. |
| 0:40.1 | We don't have the option in many cases to live a way that the families used to live. |
| 0:45.7 | To disciple our children as we sit in a house, as we walk by the way, as we lie down as we rise. |
| 0:51.3 | These are not options that many individuals have anymore. |
| 0:54.5 | Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a |
| 1:01.1 | multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms. |
| 1:07.9 | Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about |
| 1:12.1 | all things family. Everybody, welcome back to the podcast. I am excited to be joined today by Rory |
| 1:18.1 | Groves. Rory, thanks for jumping on here today. Happy to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:22.9 | Yeah, so Rory and I have been like circling each other's works a bit. And man, I've been diving into the family economy. |
| 1:29.5 | This is a topic that is very interesting to me, one that I think is going to be, I can't imagine a more relevant topic for the next five to 10 years. |
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