Intentional Fatherhood Rhythms with Maury Wood

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest and I both want fathers to be more intentional.

And, like most things, it doesn't take a crazy amount of planning or effort to show up a little bit more for your wife and kids.

Maury Wood joins me to talk intentional rhythms, and shares a few really useful, and easy-to-implement rhythms and lessons that any dad can benefit from.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:23 Why Grit & Wit

4:37 Wrestling With Legacy

11:35 The Family Walk

14:22 No Consequences Questions

19:30 Cop to Coaching Phase

26:00 Measure Twice, Learn Once

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Resources Mentioned:

Grit & Wit: https://gritandwit.substack.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaurywood/

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0:00.0	And you might think, well, am I going to turn my kids into nerds or wrestling fanatics?
0:03.6	Yes, you will.
0:04.6	And that's awesome.
0:05.4	Like, they're going to be the weird.
0:07.2	They're going to be as weird as you are.
0:08.6	Like, that's the, that's God gave them to you.
0:10.8	And this is something that's so weird is that we want our kids to somehow form into some
0:14.6	homogenous monoculture instead of like our unique family culture.
0:20.5	Hi, welcome to the family teams podcast.
0:22.6	Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms.
0:31.6	Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all things family.
0:42.6	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today by Mari Wood.
0:44.6	Mori, thanks for jumping on the podcast today.
0:51.4	Thank you for having me. Yeah. So one of the things you and I both share in common is we want to see fathers become much more intentional. That is a huge problem we have.
0:56.8	I think we've placed the bar of fatherhood so low.
1:01.3	It's like, and we don't realize how much opportunity there is.
1:04.4	And so Mori writes a great subset called grit and wit.
1:09.3	And so there's a few insights that as he's gathering that I want to
1:13.7	just tease out in this podcast, but there's a lot more there if you want to jump on his substack.
1:17.2	But, yeah, Maury, tell us a little bit about your story, kind of, you know, where you're from.
1:20.4	We'll dive into some of these insights. So I think it would be really helpful for families to hear. Okay, thank you. I, my name's Maury Wood. I grew up on a farm in southern
1:31.7	middle Tennessee. We learning hard work and all the things that we do on the farm, you do it. We didn't
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