How To Run An Annual Family Summit That'll Change Your Life
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We think having an annual family summit is one of the most important rhythms families can add to help them start to become a family team.
In this episode, we're joined by Blake and Chandler Smith, who will be our coaches inside the Family Teams Accelerator in December. They are EXPERTS when it comes to meetings (which means they're fun and connective, NOT boring and horrible like you'd think).
They break down why they do a family summit every year, how they do it (the 3 main sections), lessons learned over the past decade-plus of doing this, AND the extremely vulnerable exercise they do every year.
Listen to this, get excited about how this could change your family's life, and then join us inside the Accelerator!
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FREE SUMMIT REFLECTION APP: https://familyteams.com/summit
JOIN THE ACCELERATOR: https://familyteams.com/accelerator
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On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:43 How to reflect on the previous year
6:48 Why do a family summit?
13:59 The elements of a successful structure
15:35 The most meaningful activity for moms
19:50 State of the family
22:12 Encouraging the mothers
24:50 Encouraging the fathers
27:26 Accelerator
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Resources Mentioned:
FREE SUMMIT REFLECTION APP: https://familyteams.com/summit
JOIN THE ACCELERATOR: https://familyteams.com/accelerator
Principles by Ray Dalio: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074B2CZJG/
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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 | their competing agendas vying for your family's attention. |
| 0:03.5 | Your sports team coach had a wonderful plan for your life. |
| 0:06.8 | And you can totally just go along with their plan. |
| 0:09.4 | And it's like, oh, he wants us to compete every single weekend. |
| 0:12.2 | And then also your church has an agenda for your life. |
| 0:14.3 | And any other volunteering things you do have an agenda in my business has an agenda for my life. |
| 0:18.7 | The question is, what is the family's agenda for our life, right? |
| 0:22.8 | And we need to meet strategy with strategy. |
| 0:25.9 | And so the point of the summit is to create enough space to say, where the heck are we going |
| 0:31.6 | as a family? |
| 0:32.9 | And what would it look like to move a couple steps closer to that goal that we want to be at? |
| 0:41.6 | Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become |
| 0:43.8 | a multi-generational team on mission |
| 0:46.4 | by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms. |
| 0:50.4 | Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, |
| 0:53.2 | and we can't wait to chat about all things family. |
| 0:56.4 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with my good friends, Blake and Chandler Smith. |
| 1:00.8 | Thank you guys for jumping on here today. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, absolutely. We're happy to be doing this. |
| 1:05.9 | Yeah. So we're diving into how to have an annual summit, and we feel like this is one of the coolest tools that you can adopt as a family. You do it once a year, and what this can do in terms of bringing unity and clarity to your family as a team is huge. And so I know that the Smiths and our family, we've, and many other families, we've been like figuring this out and trying to understand how to do this for many, many years. But Blake and Chandler are the people that April and I go to. We want to really level up anything regarding meetings. It's like, okay, what are, what are Blake and Chandler doing? They've studied this. They've thought about this. They, I've optimized this. And so when it came to this next month in the accelerator, we're like, let's get Blake and Chandler on here and talk about the annual summit. |
| 1:46.9 | So super excited that you guys are here. For those of you guys listening to this, the accelerator, we do this every month. We have a different theme. So we did Christmas in the month of November because, of course, we're getting ready for December. but the month of December, which is coming up, |
| 1:59.8 | we are going to talk about the summit |
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