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How To Be A More Emotionally Available Dad

The Family Teams Podcast

Release Date: 12/11/2025

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FREE 🎁 - The Family Freedom Blueprint: Should marriage start with the assumption that it's essentially a business? That's a shocking thing to hear for our modern, western ears. But Adam Lane Smith is right. Family is supposed to be a productive enterprise. It's only recently that we've taken all productivity out of the home and become such hyper-individualized atomic units, separated from each other. In this episode, I argue for God's original design for marriage, and give you 3 dynamics that substantially increase the likelihood you'll stay married in an amazing, godly union. [This is...

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🎁 FREE COURSE: Transform Your Family Into A TEAM: -- There IS a way to deal with sibling rivalry and bickering. And some of the experts like Dr. Becky get a LITTLE bit of the puzzle right... But they're missing something HUGE. It goes way, way deeper than "parenting tactics", but it's not new. In fact, it's how most people, for most of history, lived and thrived in large, happy, productive families. I'll share the solution to sibling rivalry today, including simple tools you can start using in the next 15 minutes to bring peace to your family. On this episode, we talk about:...

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This episode explores the reasons why the Protestant church is directly contributing to the destruction of the multi-generational household. I'll dive into 3 specific issues that I see, and then give steps I think we can take as a church to solve them, so that we stop teaching an unbiblical view of family, which has far reaching consequences. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:07 The church is teaching the wrong idea of family 3:01 3 Ways the church promotes unbiblical family 3:40 Problem 1 8:17 Problem 2 10:20 Problem 3 16:03 How to recover the multigenerational family Follow...

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Money is such a contentious issue. In the world at large, but specifically within the Christian community. The love of money is the root of all evil...but does that mean making money is wrong? Do I really need to tithe 10%? Is budgeting a lack of trust in God? There's a million questions that end up becoming quite theological, and it can be tough to find God's peace in the whole conversation. That's why we brought on Bob Lotich, from Seed Time, to give us an overview from his experience and perspective as a Christian financial expert, on how families can think about money from a Christian...

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Humans are meant to live in a large, rooted, multigenerational family. The modern world has destroyed that. Here are the 3 things I think have most led to the destruction, and 3 solutions I think can help you escape from the trap of the nuclear family. Thank God, we've been able to build a strong, multigenerational family over the past 30 years, and these are not just hypotheses, but things that actually work for us and the families we mentor. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 0:16 Why is Family So Broken? 1:43 The Largest Variable That Destroyed The Multigenerational Family?...

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Our name is Family Teams. Everything we do revolves around that idea. But sometimes, it's important to dive into what that PRACTICALLY looks like on a day to day basis as a busy family. That's why we've invited Brent and Katie Kruithof onto the podcast to talk about build a family team. They're our expert coaches inside the Family Teams Accelerator (link below...join us!), and they break down a little bit of what they're going to be teaching us on the inside this month, from basic team-building exercises that you can start TONIGHT, to navigating things like sports and intentionality as a...

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Rob Kenney is best known as the man behind the viral Youtube account, "Dad, How Do I?" He shares videos explaining things that dads ought to have taught their kids... How to tie a tie, how to change a tire, how to make good food, etc. And he hit a nerve when he burst onto the scene in 2020, tapping into the father-hunger unconsciously felt by many young people today. But there's more to him than just fixing stuff. He's a Christian, and he wants to share his faith. In this conversation, we go into how he intentionally stepped into the identity of FATHER, and the backlash he endured from sharing...

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David Nasser narrowly escaped Iran in 1979 after the revolution. He saw "religion gone wrong" and decided that he hated God. You'll have to listen to what happened next, but it's one of the most glorious testimonies we've heard in a long time. David knows only too well that this is a critical moment for the underground church in Iran. We discuss his story, what's happening in Iran with the church, how we can help, and the biggest lessons on family that he took from the Middle East (compared to our western obsession with hyper-individualism). On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:15...

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FREE 5 Day Email Series to Turn Your Family Into a Team: --- Is it better to get a PhD, or have a child? I found this wild interaction on the "child-free" subreddit, and had to comment on it from our pro-family point of view here at Family Teams. There's a huge lie in the undercurrent of our society that has convinced so many young women to become hyper-individualistic and focused on self at the expense of children and family, and it's so tragic. This is a good way to showcase that lie and remind everyone to start celebrating kids and family. On this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro...

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There's a ton of talk lately about whether large or small families are better for kids, with most people saying small families are "obviously" better. This comes on the heels of influencer Ballerina Farm sharing that she's pregnant with her 9th, after which she received pretty hard push back from some people on X. In this episode, I'll walk you through why you're probably thinking about large families wrong, and explain the family teams way of thinking about this where the larger the family, the larger the blessing. On this episode, we talk about:  0:00 Intro 1:15 Blindspots 4:26 Peers vs...

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A father's emotional availability is one of the biggest drivers of generational faith and a peaceful home.

But it's misunderstood, not well practiced, and definitely not well supported.

In this episode, you'll learn why the father's heart posture is SO important, how he can start to shift it more toward his kids, how his wife can help with humility and love, and what 3 things we recommend you start doing to start capturing your kids' hearts more and building a strong foundation for your family team.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:10 Emotionally unavailable fathers

3:28 What does healthy emotional availability look like?

5:14 The warmth of the father

7:48 How a dad's emotional availability impacts his family

13:22 How to actually become more emotionally available

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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!