How To Build A Rock Solid Family Culture With Just One Dinner Per Week with Rhett and Ang Barbour
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
FREE PDF on how to start your own weekly family meal rhythm: https://familyteams.com/meal
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This is the final instalment in our Weekly Family Meal series on the podcast.
We start diving deep into this topic inside the Family Teams Accelerator in February, so if you're ready to start using this tool and building a lifelong rhythm, make sure you join us to get real-time coaching as you implement it, and connect with other families!
Today we're joined by Rhett and Ang Barbour, who have been doing an intentional, weekly, family meal for 20 years.
You'll hear why it's the ONE rhythm that they never compromise on, and how they've used it to drastically shape their family culture.
Listen in and get highly actionable tips on starting your own meaningful weekly meal to help build your family's culture.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
2:04 How the Barbours got into this rhythm
6:49 Getting started with little kids
16:34 How this has impacted Rhett and Ang personally at a soul level
25:22 The perfect Thanksgiving meal every week
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FREE PDF on how to start your own weekly family meal rhythm: https://familyteams.com/meal
Join the Family Teams Accelerator for hands on training: https://familyteams.com/accelerator
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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!
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| 0:00.0 | if you want to craft a family culture, this is it. This is the canvas on which to build that. |
| 0:07.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with our good friends, Rhett and Ange Barber. |
| 0:14.0 | Barber thanks for jumping on here today. Absolutely. So the barbers are in Super Summit mode, |
| 0:20.2 | I found out. So they're doing back to back various |
| 0:23.2 | summits, summits for their immediate family, summits for their extended family. So you guys, |
| 0:30.1 | you guys are doing it right. But that was last month. We're not talking about that anymore. |
| 0:33.7 | We are on to the multi-generational family meal. This is the one tradition that if we could |
| 0:40.6 | get you guys to try one thing, man, this is what does it. This is what flips your family into a |
| 0:46.4 | multi-generational kind of family. And so you guys need a tool like this. This tool exists. There's |
| 0:52.0 | lots of ways to do it. And so I wanted Redden, Ann should come on here for two reasons. One is they're going to share with you guys a case study for how this works and how it has worked for their family. And I think that's really important. As you guys have heard over the last three podcasts, we're just unpacking the elements of how to do a multi-generational family meal. And I think it's important just to, |
| 1:11.9 | okay, this is how it will work for another family. The second reason is they are our community |
| 1:16.0 | coaches in the family teams accelerator for this month. So the upcoming month, and we want you |
| 1:22.0 | guys to dive in there. So the month of February is going to be all about the multigenerational |
| 1:26.3 | family meal. And so we want you guys to take time to really understand that. |
| 1:30.5 | So retina, you're going to be doing a coaching call in the accelerator. |
| 1:34.6 | And so if you guys have questions that kind of get brought up by their story and what they're |
| 1:39.3 | going to share in a minute, definitely take note of those and jump into the accelerator. |
| 1:43.1 | And you can talk to them about |
| 1:44.5 | about those things and we also just remind you guys have at family teams.com slash meal a little |
| 1:50.0 | one pager if you want to like have a little template I always found this is what I was looking |
| 1:54.5 | for when we first started with somebody please just give me the super easy template so I could |
| 1:58.7 | just go of paint by number how to get this thing going. |
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