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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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We have been doing this for over a decade, and it's paid off HUGE dividends for our family.
Today we're talking about our annual family summit, including why you should consider doing one, and how to pull it off.
This is SUCH an impactful day for us, and for so many of the other families in the Family Teams ecosystem that we really wanted to give you guys our full playbook. That's why we're dedicating the entire month of December in the Family Teams Accelerator to this topic. It's THAT important.
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On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:07 Annual Family Summit
3:02 Where to do family summits
7:21 Why have a family summit
15:59 Evening of reflection
20:00 The day of the summit
29:04 Reviewing family culture
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Resources Mentioned:
7 Habits of Highly Effective People: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982137274/
7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250857775/
Atomic Habits: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1847941842/
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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 | for a lot of moms, if you have a husband, let's say, who's involved in a team at work and they're having off-sites and they're talking about like, oh, how do we get there and how do we grow the business or how do we help our department or whatever's going on there? He's feeling like a part of a team and he's all stirred up. That is oftentimes how you lose your husband and he accidentally switches the teams. This is why I'm always telling wives, please don't discourage a process like this. |
| 0:22.0 | And dads, please engage your family in a process like this because this is so unifying. |
| 0:29.6 | Hi, welcome to the family teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational |
| 0:35.6 | team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, |
| 0:39.8 | tools, and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all things family. |
| 0:47.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with my lovely wife, April. April, how are you doing today? |
| 0:53.1 | Hello, I'm good. Doing well. You're all excited for our |
| 0:59.5 | November of birthdays and Thanksgiving. Yeah. Very exciting. Yeah, very busy, very busy month for us. |
| 1:09.2 | We've got, we had a big men's event that we were part of. And then we went into, I just got back from my discipleship kickoff. So we, people and I both do that when we start in launch discipleship groups. And we've got a big family mission summit for others. We're going to be leading in our house next week. |
| 1:29.0 | And what we're going to talk about today with you guys is the drum roll, the new theme for the accelerator for the month of December. |
| 1:38.5 | So in the month of November, we've talked about Christmas because we're getting ready for December. |
| 1:42.5 | But in December, we talk about |
| 1:45.1 | family summits to get you guys ready for your annual family team summit that you guys can pull off. |
| 1:51.7 | Oftentimes, the best time to do this is either between Christmas and New Year's when you have |
| 1:56.1 | some time on your hands and are able to really look back and think and reflect, or you can do |
| 2:00.6 | this the first week |
| 2:01.3 | of January. Those are kind of the times to me that are like really natural to do a family |
| 2:05.8 | summit. So we want to help you guys understand how to do this. So this is what, this is what we're |
| 2:11.1 | how long we've been doing our family summits? April, do you remember? Wow. It's been probably like maybe 12 years, 10, |
| 2:20.9 | 12 years. Yes. It's been awesome. Yeah. In our 12 years. And so we'll walk through some of the |
| 2:26.4 | things we've learned now. A couple of things you guys need to know. Number one, if you go to family |
| 2:29.7 | teams.com slash summit, you will get our free download on how to do family summits also if you join the |
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