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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 348 | Great Families are Broken

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.9729 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy and Jeff discuss what defines a sucessful family.

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0:00.0

What's up guys? Welcome to the five-minute fatherhood segment. I wanted to talk to you, Jeff,

0:09.2

about, okay, what does it mean to really be succeeding as a family? Does it mean that, you know,

0:15.7

nine out of ten times you're just crushing it when you're interacting with your kids, with your

0:19.7

wife, in your life in general.

0:21.8

So there's a few things that we want to talk about in terms of like, how do you think about

0:26.4

what it looks like to succeed as a family?

0:29.4

So I'm going to start with this quote from Stephen Covey, and then there's also some research

0:33.0

we've been looking into as well.

0:34.4

But he wrote this, good families, even great families are off track

0:38.0

90% of the time. The key is that they have a sense of destination. They know what the track

0:43.7

looks like and they keep coming back to it time and time again. And this is so true. And for a lot of

0:51.0

people who may listen to what we're saying about family or have ideals that they want their families to achieve, they could feel totally defeated because, you know, they're off track, you know, 50% of the time. And even though they're skillfully leading their family back to the track, they could think, well, there's something terribly wrong with us. And I love what Covey is saying here is just like, guys, like every family gets off track

1:14.8

constantly.

1:15.8

What's really unique is the ability to bring the family back.

1:19.0

It's the ability to repair that breach.

1:21.3

And so that kind of dovetails into some of the research that we've been recently thinking

1:25.3

about.

1:26.5

Yeah, it was awesome. Josh Straub, another guy

1:28.0

integrated, which if, you know, any business owner, kingdom loving guys, you know, we would,

1:32.8

you know, love to have you check it out, feel my teams.com slash integrated. But Josh is a PhD

1:36.7

in the group and kind of owns, you know, some internet stuff and, and some practices in regards to

1:42.5

counseling and mental health.

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