How To Build A Rock Solid Family Culture With Just One Dinner Per Week with Rhett and Ang Barbour
Release Date: 01/29/2026
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FREE PDF on how to start your own weekly family meal rhythm: --- This is the final instalment in our Weekly Family Meal series on the podcast. We start diving deep into this topic inside the Family Teams Accelerator in February, so if you're ready to start using this tool and building a lifelong rhythm, make sure you join us to get real-time coaching as you implement it, and connect with other families! Today we're joined by Rhett and Ang Barbour, who have been doing an intentional, weekly, family meal for 20 years. You'll hear why it's the ONE rhythm that they never compromise on, and how...
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This is the final instalment in our Weekly Family Meal series on the podcast.
We start diving deep into this topic inside the Family Teams Accelerator in February, so if you're ready to start using this tool and building a lifelong rhythm, make sure you join us to get real-time coaching as you implement it, and connect with other families!
Today we're joined by Rhett and Ang Barbour, who have been doing an intentional, weekly, family meal for 20 years.
You'll hear why it's the ONE rhythm that they never compromise on, and how they've used it to drastically shape their family culture.
Listen in and get highly actionable tips on starting your own meaningful weekly meal to help build your family's culture.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
2:04 How the Barbours got into this rhythm
6:49 Getting started with little kids
16:34 How this has impacted Rhett and Ang personally at a soul level
25:22 The perfect Thanksgiving meal every week
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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!