Key Takeaways Vision doesn't become reality on the mountaintops but rather in the valleys. When God promises he follows through, just not always on our timeline. When it's built by faith it moves from information to revelation. When you love your spouse in front of your children they will trust and believe you. The key to communication is identification. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’...
Aug 11, 2022•26 min•Season 5Ep. 238
Key Takeaways Empathy is a game changer. Forgiveness causes ripple effects that we may never see. Our emotions can be an enter sign for the internal work that we need to do or an exit sign for a situation that we need to get out of. Sacrificial decisions are courageous decisions even if they don't make sense to others. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram...
Aug 04, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 237
Key Takeaways There is much value and importance in keeping your spouse as your number 1. Time spent with your children is something that you can never get back. Be intentional with your time and prayer for and over your children. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Jason Romano Jason Romano is an author, speaker, and media professional with o...
Jul 28, 2022•31 min•Season 5Ep. 236
Key Takeaways Doing something stretching and challenging with your child can bring a closeness and bond that can only grow for years to come. Repetition and patience in fatherhood shows intention and presence. The window of time we get with our children is slowly closing. Be mindful of the trade-offs. The Four Smart Choices: Confront reality Grow capacity Fuel curiosity Create change dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive a...
Jul 21, 2022•41 min•Season 5Ep. 235
"People are looking for purpose, but because their own needs seem so stark and so great, they don't get to it. It's a paradox that by focusing on other people's needs, you are going to find that your own needs will be met -- So, sometimes as parents it is important (wherever we are at) to say, 'Hey, let's go find a place to serve'" Key Takeaways Pray with your kids and teach them to pray Serve with your kids Make time to play with your kids - gives you a chance to build trust for later things Ta...
Jul 14, 2022•33 min•Season 5Ep. 234
Key Takeaways Acts of obedience can result in miracles, adventures, and boldness they've experienced as a family. Transparent money management can be the best instruction for kids. What children learn from their parents is more "caught than taught." The importance of being transparent with your children about finances far exceeds putting up a wall and believing it isn't beneficial. It's beneficial for both spouses to be involved in finances. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad l...
Jul 07, 2022•35 min•Season 5Ep. 233
Key Takeaways: When the Skoogs were met with resistance preparing for a trip to China, they chose to continue to walk in God’s calling for them. How one choice, of going to church to serve, turned into a legacy of leading people to Jesus. The impact that Tim left his kids as he modeled Kingdom prayer and adventure. The five principles/practices that the global church implements. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as the...
Jun 30, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 232
"One of the greatest gifts that my parents and then my dad was able to give me was he wanted to expose me early on to the world, to the needs of the world, to the challenges of the world." "....he did that by taking us to some of the most difficult places in the world." dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Tim and Ryan Skoog Tim and Ryan are a ...
Jun 23, 2022•30 min•Season 5Ep. 231
“Servanthood is the way to the top. You will never outgrow serving…the more you have the more you’re required to give.” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Jason Vallotton Recovering mental health, Cultivating spiritual fathers, and Living with Hope. Jason Vallotton is the pastoral care overseer at Bethel Church in Redding, California and is a...
Jun 16, 2022•43 min•Season 4Ep. 230
"God is very interested and motivated in the initiation of our children. It’s what makes Him come alive. He has their best interests in mind. And when I put down my agenda, I got curious. I got responsive. The path that my children have chosen and the God has chosen for them is not what I would have chosen in so many ways, but being a student and being attentive and participating has changed everything." dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping da...
Jun 09, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 229
How do I feel about God? Am I satisfied? Comfortable? Cynical? Disappointed? Indifferent? Am I on fire? That torch in my hand will be passed to my children more substantially than any religious education. If I want my children to grow spiritually, I must stay alive.” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Mark Foreman Mark Foreman lives in the Sa...
Jun 02, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 228
“I wanted him in this liminal space. My goal was to irreparably break his heart for the poor of the world so he’d never just be a spoiled, complacent American ever – He’d always be haunted, because those years are so formative… I just wanted to get in there, God’s heart for the poor.” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Jon Tyson Jon Tyson is ...
May 26, 2022•40 min•Season 4Ep. 227
“I think that we are called to pour our life into what will be left behind…I’m convinced that what will be left behind is not structures we built, not things we implemented, but just people that we fathered – that’s what’s going to be left behind.” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Banning Liebscher Banning Liebscher was on staff at Bethel C...
May 19, 2022•34 min•Season 4Ep. 226
"If your kids don’t see the sabbath day as their favorite day of the week, then you’re doing it wrong” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Jeremy Pryor Jeremy Pryor is a business owner, creative entrepreneur, author, podcaster and a builder of multiple movements with family at the core. We’re incredibly thankful for this conversation with Jere...
May 12, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 225
“Human beings were not meant to live in isolation and we weren’t meant to live in a constant unknown. Learning to let it go (benevolent detachment)… is step one.” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook John Eldredge John Eldredge is an author, a counselor, and a teacher. He is also president of Ransomed Heart, a ministry devoted to helping people...
May 05, 2022•40 min•Season 4Ep. 224
“I think that our best moments as families, our best moments as parents but also kids’ best moments, are when we are given the capacity for meaningful action in some way. That is, we have some ability to have something matter that we do, AND we are exposed to meaningful risk – that is, it could go wrong and we could lose something.” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTu...
Apr 28, 2022•42 min•Season 4Ep. 223
"So you’re going to make some sort of mistakes. But fellas, I want you to know for sure you are absolutely dadAWESOME, because I got an awesome dad and I know I’m going to be an awesome dad because I’m a give it my all. Even if we’re going the wrong way, I’m going the wrong way all the way, because I’m doing it because I love my kids and they’re going to know that.” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their ...
Apr 21, 2022•37 min•Season 4Ep. 222
You can’t take out a pair of pliers and change wires and go, there you go, I told you, this is how we can fix you. We’ve got to cultivate what we want, and I think part of us as people looking back at our lives, I think if we don’t get over ourselves early enough, then we take up all the energy to fix ourselves and we ignore to sow what we want in our children. It’s amazing when the kid starts drifting, and you no longer have the reach and control you think you have. dadAWESOME We’re on a missio...
Apr 14, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 221
"We have to break the spirit, disciple these kids and send them on risky, crazy adventures so that they can get their own stories so they can keep telling the miraculous amazingness of how good and amazing our Father is." dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Gary Black Gary and Lisa Black have been married for nearly two decades. Raising their ...
Apr 07, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 220
"the best way that I can be a strong father is to be the the most profound loving husband I can be... Children need to know to the degree that they're able that those two people. Love each other deeply" dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Dick Foth Dick Foth is an author, storyteller, and popular speaker. He holds a master’s degree from Wheato...
Mar 30, 2022•29 min•Season 4Ep. 219
"Why is it that people, you give your prime time to people you hardly know? And the kids and I get the leftovers?" dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Dick Foth Dick Foth is an author, storyteller, and popular speaker. He holds a master’s degree from Wheaton College Graduate School and a doctorate from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. He a...
Mar 24, 2022•27 min•Season 4Ep. 218
"I just want to pour in... I don't want to be the guy who's over on the couch. Whose mailed it in and thinks that everything's going to be great. I want to be 100 percent in the game. Are they on my calendar or are they on my prayer list? Are they people I'm spending time with? I just want to keep honing..." dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook...
Mar 17, 2022•42 min•Season 4Ep. 217
“The world is crying out for men and dads who are on fire. That love what they’re doing and their giving it their all” dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Chad Johnson After twenty-eight years of joyful marriage, author Chad Johnson is still pursuing the woman of his dreams, the lovely Jenise. Chad is a successful entrepreneur and business coa...
Mar 10, 2022•44 min•Season 4Ep. 216
dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Robert Lewis Few have had as significant an impact on discipling men in the past forty years than Robert Lewis. As a pastor, speaker, and author, Robert’s passion for leading men to grow in biblical manhood led him to produce the Men’s Fraternity film series in 1995. This three-year men’s curriculum quickly ...
Mar 06, 2022•40 min•Season 4Ep. 215
"sons are looking for the substance of life, as I hope to prove they hunger for the best things and in the absence of these anchors, sons drift. But when loving dads add these into the manhood mix, their sons flourish. They become noble men, gentlemen, men of valor, principled men, knights. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Robert Lewis Few ...
Mar 03, 2022•40 min•Season 4Ep. 215
And you could do that as an awesome dad to just hover. I think that's the first thing God did over the Earth. He just hovered. Hover over each person your family like, what is kid number one need that I could only uniquely provide them. Because if they need a ride, they could get Uber to provide. They'd give em a ride. But just say, is there something else they uniquely need that only I could provide and then hover over your spouse and hover over a couple of friends for a moment? And did you say...
Feb 24, 2022•35 min•Season 4Ep. 214
40 new experiences; things I've never done in my life... Instead of moving towards comfort and rhythms and things I've already done before, I am intentionally adding new things because I want to stay curious. I want to be a learner... I want to stay humble. I want to be in this growth mindset. dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Jeff Zaugg Jef...
Feb 17, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 213
"Peace is the atmosphere of heaven... peace is the oxygen of heaven. It's everywhere in heaven. It is just like righteousness, peace and joy are the kingdom of God. It already belongs to us, Jesus said, I give you my peace, I leave you, not as the world gives..." dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Seth Dahl Seth Dahl is a writer and worldwide...
Feb 10, 2022•33 min•Season 4Ep. 212
I'm trying to reawaken something inside you. I'm trying to reawaken something that was lost. And this is who you are and and this is trying to stop it. Keep going. Keep hunting. Do it... dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Seth Dahl Seth Dahl is a writer and worldwide speaker to adults and children. He is known for his powerful wisdom communic...
Feb 03, 2022•28 min•Season 4Ep. 211
dadAWESOME We’re on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We’re passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God’s awesomeness. | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Derick Zwerneman With a life of unique experiences, Derick has served as a husband to 1, father to 3, a firefighter for 25 years, outreach pastor for 9 years, and a network development leader for a disaster relief network for 3 years! He has never met a stranger, and the Joy of the Lord is his strength! His ...
Jan 27, 2022•36 min•Season 4Ep. 210
