Teaching Work Ethic and Love as Fathers: Lessons from Hunting, Alaska, and Faith

The Born And Raised Audio Experience

KODY KELLOM

Leisure, Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The hosts discuss feedback from a four-day elk-hunting class with 44 attendees and their podcast, which listeners said is as much about being a man as hunting. They reflect on teaching children work ethic, contrasting physically demanding jobs with current work, and emphasize not "ruining" work ethic by excluding kids from helping; a friend's advice is to let a child assist with projects even if it's inefficient. They talk about giving kids autonomy without overprotection, Wyatt leaving for a demanding summer deckhand job on an Alaska sport-fishing boat out of Seward, and the father's hope he's prepared him. The conversation covers treating kids' ideas with increasing respect, learning alongside them, maintaining love through conflict, and grounding parenting in biblical themes of love and measured, purposeful anger.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the born and raised audio experience presented by Onyx
0:18.0	The times are you changing we gotta go presented by onyx i'm a little concerned you're not to get
0:35.6	and i'm a lot to get blindsided.
0:38.5	No, man, so I've had a lot of good feedback. I did the hunters gathering here just this last
0:44.1	weekend. And man, it was just, I didn't know what it was going to be like going into it. It's four
0:49.4	days of teaching L cutting to people. We had 44 guys in class and man, I came out away from that
0:58.5	thing, just batteries charged, rejuvenated. I was exhausted, obviously, but it was just, for one,
1:04.3	I didn't know if I could do it. For two, I didn't know, you know, what I was going to do. I had an
1:10.0	outline and everything but man for
1:11.6	tri-teaching elk for six hours straight in one day just that's just one day and you've got
1:17.4	three other days to do the field skills and stuff like that too and and anyway just
1:22.7	just some of the feedback that I got but was really awesome but I got a lot of feedback on our podcast too. There was a number of the feedback that I got, but was really awesome. But I got a lot of feedback on our podcast, too.
1:29.4	There was a number of guys there that religiously listened to the podcast, and they loved it.
1:34.3	They absolutely loved it.
1:36.0	And their biggest takeaways on the podcast were it's not even so much of the hunting.
1:40.9	They said, they love the hunting side.
1:42.5	And he goes, you know, most of them said
1:44.4	you can hear hunting. It's about being a man is what they said. And that really resonated with me.
1:49.8	And I just, it took full circle. And don't worry, I'm going to land the plane here after a bit.
1:57.1	But it went full circle with as far as I brought Wyatt to that. And he helped me do some of the field skills stuff and everything. And he was there for the guys, for them to bounce ideas off. And I thought it was super important because it was a different level of stages of hunter. A lot of these guys hadn't killed anything. Some of them had killed some stuff. There were some that was never stepped foot in the woods before hunting.
2:21.2	There are some that were pretty accomplished that just wanted to hone some more skills.
2:25.4	It was all over the map.
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