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Speaker 1: Welcome to Christian Parent Crazy World, the podcast that tackles

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Speaker 1: tough topics to help you be a godly parent in

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Speaker 1: an ungodly world.

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Speaker 2: I am your host, Catherine Seekers, and in today's episode,

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Speaker 2: we are asking some questions that every family should wrestle with.

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Speaker 2: Questions like what is your family's unique identity? And by

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Speaker 2: that I mean why has God brought your family together?

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Speaker 2: What values define your home? And how are you intentionally

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Speaker 2: passing those values on to your children? Now, if those

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Speaker 2: questions leave you feeling a little overwhelmed, don't worry, you

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Speaker 2: are not alone. Most of us spend so much time

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Speaker 2: keeping up with the day to day demands of parenting

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Speaker 2: that we rarely stop to think about the culture we're

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Speaker 2: creating inside our own homes. That's why I am so

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Speaker 2: excited for you to hear today's conversation with Derek England.

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Speaker 2: Derek is the executive director of Family ID, which is

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Speaker 2: a ministry that has helped thousands of families move from

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Speaker 2: simply surviving to parenting with greater clarity and intentionality. That's

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Speaker 2: the ground we will cover in this episode of Christian

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Speaker 2: Parent Crazy World.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever.

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Speaker 2: Felt like your family is constantly reacting instead of living

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Speaker 2: with purpose.

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Speaker 1: If you struggled to.

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Speaker 2: Get everyone moving in the same direction, or if you've

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Speaker 2: wondered how to create a stronger family, culture and world

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Speaker 2: that is constantly pulling your kids away from your values,

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Speaker 2: than today's conversation is for you. Now, before we jump

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Speaker 2: in a quick note. As my family and I are

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Speaker 2: in the middle of moving to another state, I'm sharing

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Speaker 2: a few of my favorite conversations from the archives, and

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Speaker 2: this one is simply too good not to revisit. Today,

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Speaker 2: I am talking with Derek England, executive director of Family ID,

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Speaker 2: which is an incredible ministry that has spent more than

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Speaker 2: twenty five years helping parents build intentional, purpose driven families.

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Speaker 2: They have workshops and practical resources and even a completely

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Speaker 2: free family assessment that has equipped thousands of families to

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Speaker 2: clarify who they are, strengthen their relationships, and live with

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Speaker 2: greater unity and purpose. Because the truth is, families don't

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Speaker 2: drift towards health. No, no, they drift towards chaos. Says

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Speaker 2: the woman who's in the middle of moved to another state.

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Speaker 2: I know something about chaos, but building a thriving home

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Speaker 2: takes intentionality, and Derek is going to share with us

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Speaker 2: today practical tools to help us get there, and a

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Speaker 2: lot of biblical wisdom that can help any family create

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Speaker 2: a stronger foundation. So whether you're parenting toddlers or teens

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Speaker 2: or somewhere in between, I think you're going to find

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Speaker 2: this conversation just as timely as when we first recorded it.

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Speaker 2: So with that said, let's jump right in. Derek, Welcome

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Speaker 2: to Christian parent Crazy World.

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Speaker 1: It's so awesome to have you here.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thanks for having me. I'm really excited about today.

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Speaker 3: It is a crazy world, So glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I almost said welcome back. Our listeners don't know.

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Speaker 1: We have been having technical difficulties and I was just

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Speaker 1: telling you the more important topic, the more technical difficulties

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Speaker 1: I seem to have on the show, which says, this

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Speaker 1: is a very important topic because we're talking about families today.

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Speaker 1: We deal with a lot of really tough cultural topics

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Speaker 1: on this show, theological topics, apologetic issues, but none of

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Speaker 1: that really matters if our relationships aren't strong in our family,

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Speaker 1: if they're broken, or they're not thriving, or they're not

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Speaker 1: all that they could be. And let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: I was telling you at our first interview had all

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Speaker 1: the technical difficulties and our pre conversation. Your resources here,

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Speaker 1: the family id resources here are something I never really

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Speaker 1: knew I needed. I thought we kind of got this

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Speaker 1: family thing down. We have a strong family, We homeschool,

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Speaker 1: who we are. And the more I begin to investigate

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Speaker 1: your resources, I'm like, I'm a family podcaster pretty much

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Speaker 1: a period of podcaster, and I'm like, I need this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I don't have this down yet, Derek, And I know

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Speaker 1: you get that all the time, don't you.

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Speaker 3: All the time all the time. Because so until you

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Speaker 3: unthink it and you can't undo it. It becomes one

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Speaker 1: This is foundational stuff. This is family one oh one,

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Speaker 1: but they kind of do. It's like, here's your personality test,

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Speaker 1: and what are your giftings. It's all individual, individual, it's individual,

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Speaker 1: and yet the family is God's plan for his kingdom.

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Speaker 1: It's all about the family, and which is why the

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Speaker 1: family is under such attack in our culture today. But

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Speaker 1: I'm getting ahead of myself. So if I say this

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Speaker 1: before we dive in, why don't you tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit about yourself, your family and how you came

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Speaker 1: to be the executive director of Family ID.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely so, Gina. My wife and I have been married

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Speaker 3: was twelve years ago. We had little kids, they were

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Speaker 3: for something to know how to do family right. There

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Speaker 3: started talking about some of the things that we're going

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Speaker 3: was like I had those exact same thoughts and feelings

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Speaker 3: of like, why why am I so intentional at work?

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Speaker 3: and so Gina and I went we went to a

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Speaker 3: we walked out of there with mission statement, vision statement,

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Speaker 3: and core values. Essentially, this is our family identity, purpose

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Speaker 3: years ago, I was doing residential home lending. I was

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Speaker 3: obviously the right time. He had an opportunity available. I

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Speaker 3: to reach thirty million families with the message of family

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Speaker 3: the home.

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Speaker 1: Ah, that's so awesome. I tell you, I'm just kind

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Speaker 1: of just a little bit jealous when I'm listening to

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Speaker 1: you talk about this, I'm like, Ah, I wish I

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Speaker 1: discovered this so long ago, because we think because and

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Speaker 1: you're so right. We have all these metrics for work.

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Speaker 1: We have all these metrics for sports. My kids they're

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Speaker 1: playing baseball and softball, and they measure everything, like absolutely everything.

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Speaker 1: We have measures for my podcasting and how many downloads

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Speaker 1: what you want your marriage to be. But it's like

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Speaker 1: we virtually have no metrics or things to measure our

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Speaker 1: that God works through the family, so each family is individual.

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Speaker 1: It's the beautiful snowflake analogy, a much better one than

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Speaker 1: we're using in our culture today. But they were all different.

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Speaker 1: We're all beautifully unique with a different design for a

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Speaker 1: under the family is under attack, which isn't new to anybody, right.

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Speaker 1: We talk about that all the time on this show.

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Speaker 1: the work that you do. I think though we're kind

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Speaker 1: we're in so many different places with all of these

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Speaker 3: every family to receive this and go through Family ID,

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Speaker 3: and so we have a couple of resources and tools

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Speaker 3: go to our website, take the Family ID Assessment, which

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Speaker 3: they can go through the Family ID Masterclass, which is

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Speaker 3: what Gina and I went through twelve years ago, and

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Speaker 3: it highlighted. It goes through videos and worksheets, and it's

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Speaker 3: really really simple. I think there's like forty five minutes

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Speaker 3: It takes you step by step to go through, and

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Speaker 3: then application on how you put these things into practice.

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Speaker 1: Now, are those what I was understanding when I heard

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Speaker 1: you talk about it before? Those are smaller you're saying

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes total, they're smaller videos.

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Speaker 3: Right, Oh, there's like three. Yeah, there's eleven three to five.

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Speaker 1: Minute videos and those are free too, right, totally free.

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Speaker 3: All of it's free. All of it's free because we

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Speaker 3: want to do that. We want families to go through this.

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Speaker 3: We want to be able to partner with other organizations

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Speaker 3: a barrier to partnering with other people. And we do

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Speaker 3: we still do live seminars and workshops where we can

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Speaker 3: come to a church or an organization and walk groups

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Speaker 3: at the end of that one day or two day process,

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Speaker 1: And that masterclass that you can take for free, which

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Speaker 1: not on there a lot. I really don't like it

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Speaker 1: that much. But I was watching these videos of this

437
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Speaker 1: woman whose husband they have six kids, six kids. He

438
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Speaker 1: was diagnosed he has a rap it on set like

439
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Speaker 1: MS and he's had to go to assisted living. And so,

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Speaker 1: you know, we live in this world where we're disconnected

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Speaker 1: all the time, and a lot of our kids are

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Speaker 1: in public schools or private schools, and they're away from

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Speaker 1: us for most of their waking hours Monday through Friday,

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Speaker 1: and then they go do extra curricular stuff. We're so divided.

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Speaker 1: If we're not intentional about the family, we will die

446
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Speaker 1: as a family. We can't thrive as a family if

447
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Speaker 1: we're not intentional about it. And I frankly, I'm realizing

448
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Speaker 1: as I'm going through your stuff, I'm so excited to

449
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Speaker 1: share this with everybody. We can be far more intentional,

450
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Speaker 1: really defining what is it about us that God created

451
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Speaker 1: to impact the world. Who exactly are we? So let's

452
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Speaker 1: dig into this family identity and exactly how that works.

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Speaker 1: You've defined what like sixteen different types of families that

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Speaker 1: we might end up being.

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Speaker 3: That's right, So we have I think you touched on

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Speaker 3: the question there and you asked it just right, Catherine,

457
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Speaker 3: It is who are we? Who are we? Because we

458
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Speaker 3: can go in so many different directions that life becomes

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Speaker 3: so hectic that we never sit down and actually answer

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Speaker 3: the question, Hey, who are we? Guys? Who are we?

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Speaker 3: As a family? And I think that naturally happened probably

462
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Speaker 3: prior to that Industrial Revolution, when there was time there

463
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Speaker 3: were meals together, there were conversations around a table not

464
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Speaker 3: picking up a bite to eat on the way to

465
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Speaker 3: this practice, and that parent takes that kid to like,

466
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Speaker 3: there's all kinds of stuff and so one it's not

467
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Speaker 3: daunting or complicated to sit and intentionally ask the question,

468
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Speaker 3: as long as we are not afraid of the answer. Okay, guys,

469
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Speaker 3: who are we? Who are we? Who are we as

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Speaker 3: a family? What do we stand for? And even if

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Speaker 3: we're not together, how do we go continue our identity

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Speaker 3: in what we're doing separately? So we as an England

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Speaker 3: family and then I'll get into the sixteen types. Is

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Speaker 3: we as an England family? One of our core values

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Speaker 3: is excellence and everything? And so I know because we've

476
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Speaker 3: had conversations about it that where Gina is or where

477
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Speaker 3: my daughter is, or my son is, orhere I am

478
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Speaker 3: that they and I will do our absolute dead level

479
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Speaker 3: best at whatever we're working on. They and I hope

480
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Speaker 3: that it is reflected and people see the England family

481
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Speaker 3: as man they really care about excellence, They do things excellently,

482
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Speaker 3: and so that can be and is part of our

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Speaker 3: core idea entity because we intentionally asked the question and

484
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Speaker 3: answered the question, who are we? Well, we're the England's

485
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Speaker 3: and one of the things the Englands, the Englands do

486
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Speaker 3: is they have excellence in everything. They don't have to

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Speaker 3: be the best, but we'll do our best. Yes and

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Speaker 3: so and so it was so we took we ministered

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Speaker 3: to tens of thousands of families and we saw certain

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Speaker 3: tendencies in families and commonalities. And it turned out, as

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Speaker 3: we dug into it, that the way a family approaches

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Speaker 3: four core principles inside their home identity, purpose, direction, and application,

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Speaker 3: and how they prioritize those in a one, two, three,

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Speaker 3: four order changes or influences that culture and the dynamics

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Speaker 3: inside the home and culture. All I'm saying is is

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Speaker 3: it answers the question. This is how we do things

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Speaker 3: around here. This is how we do things. That's as

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Speaker 3: deep as culture has to be the traditions, commonalities, practices, foods, music.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is just how we do things right here.

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Speaker 3: But we found those commonalities, and we broke it down

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Speaker 3: into sixteen different family types and created an assessment to

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Speaker 3: help families understand which family type they are. And the

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Speaker 3: benefit of that is it doesn't answer all the questions.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't answer the question, Hey, who did God uniquely

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Speaker 3: create you to be? But what it does is it

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Speaker 3: gives a common language and gives an insight and a

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Speaker 3: quick rundown of some tendencies that might be in your home.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you an example. There's one family type that's

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Speaker 3: called the impactful family, and the culture inside that home

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Speaker 3: is that their highest priority is to go make an

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Speaker 3: impact in society or community around them. Well, if they

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Speaker 3: that's a great tendency, that's a great characteristic. I love that.

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Speaker 3: But if they're not careful, they can have let's say

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Speaker 3: five people in the family going in five different directions

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Speaker 3: to make impact in five different areas that are important

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Speaker 3: to them. Now, imagine if you had alignment in taking

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Speaker 3: those five people and they can say, oh, you know what,

518
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Speaker 3: we all agree that impact needs to be made over here.

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Speaker 3: Let's go impact together. Well, then you have synergy working together,

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Speaker 3: they can accomplish much more because you have a family

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Speaker 3: moving in the same direction, at the same pace, for

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Speaker 3: the same purpose. And it's crazy powerful.

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Speaker 1: That's such a great example because you also you're building

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Speaker 1: your family identity and your relationships when you organize yourself

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Speaker 1: around a common purpose. And I love like that first

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Speaker 1: that that first value that you have. That's that's something

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Speaker 1: you can really explained to a very young child, like

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Speaker 1: we we have excellence and everything sare share your other.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna get jealous when they hear that. You guys

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Speaker 1: know exactly what your and your kids know exactly what

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Speaker 1: your values are. Share exactly what those are for us,

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Speaker 1: because I think they're awesome. I'm gonna steal maybe a couple. Actually,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go through the whole thing and then we're

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Speaker 1: gonna you get to you have suggestions, so you don't

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Speaker 1: have to formulate these on your own. Do you see?

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Speaker 1: That's realiant? Because I think, Okay, when I first heard yours,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, wo, how am I gonna boil it down

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Speaker 1: in it? But you've you've kind of you've done a

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Speaker 1: lot of that, you've done the legwork. We just have

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Speaker 1: to kind of examine these and say which ones fit.

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Speaker 1: It's like going to try on you know, you're going

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Speaker 1: to try on these things. We're like, oh, these these

543
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: really resonate with my family, and some of yours really do.

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Speaker 1: I think they're awesome. All of them are awesome. But

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Speaker 1: tell us what your core values are as a family.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So we have five for guys that the England

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Speaker 3: that define who we are. We are radically protective of

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Speaker 3: quality time. We are prayerful and decision making, we have

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Speaker 3: excellence in everything, we have enduring family unity, and we

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Speaker 3: have unwavering integrity. And that's who we are. And the

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Speaker 3: beauty of those is those become a framework through which

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Speaker 3: you see the world and a lens through it, or

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Speaker 3: or a lens through which you see the world and

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Speaker 3: a framework through which you make decisions. So for us,

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Speaker 3: it's really easy to sit down at a dinner table

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Speaker 3: and say, hey, guys, we have all of these opportunities

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Speaker 3: in the week now. We are radically protective of our

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Speaker 3: quality time. So do we want to say yes to

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Speaker 3: all of these commitments or do we want to say

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Speaker 3: yes to quality time and say no to some of

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Speaker 3: these commitments. Because it gives you the ability to say wait, wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 3: there's a book about this. I've heard pastors say this,

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Speaker 3: when you know who you are, you'll know what to do.

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Speaker 3: And so hey, if you have to, we have to

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Speaker 3: define who we are first, then we can begin to

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Speaker 3: go make decisions. So the quality time is a great example. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's a better most parents or families we hear like, oh,

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Speaker 3: I just want to be a better parent or a

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Speaker 3: better family or that. But better, better is not a

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Speaker 3: target all the way get better and if if one

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Speaker 3: day you backslide, well then you think you're never going

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Speaker 3: to get better and all kinds of stuff. And you

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Speaker 3: mentioned in a while ago. We don't want to be

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Speaker 3: competitive in the family, but at the same time, it's

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Speaker 3: natural for all of us to want to have a

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Speaker 3: scorecard to know if we're moving in the right direction,

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Speaker 3: Are we winning? Are we not winning? Am I? Am

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Speaker 3: I headed where I want to be? And those core

598
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Speaker 3: values create guard rails to protect the culture on who

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Speaker 3: God created your family to be. Hey, these are the

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Speaker 3: core values, and if we're staying in it, then we're

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Speaker 3: moving in the right direction and we can move towards

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Speaker 3: the vision that He's called us to have in the future.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I have to ask you, you developed these

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Speaker 1: core values when your children were very young. Have they

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Speaker 1: changed over the years or have they stayed the same?

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Speaker 3: Good question. So we came up with five twelve years

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Speaker 3: ago and they were pretty close to the same. And

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Speaker 3: then when my kids were nine and ten, we went

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Speaker 3: through the Family ID workshop again and we did it

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Speaker 3: together as a family because we wanted their voices to

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Speaker 3: be part of it.

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Speaker 1: Because that's what I was wondering, because you know, I've

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Speaker 1: got my kids from nineteen to seven, so going through

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Speaker 1: those workshops now, they would have such an important voice

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Speaker 1: because it's got to you gotta have buy in by everybody, everybody.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: You can't have a value where one of them's no,

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Speaker 1: I don't agree with protecting quality time or what you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, because if they're not buying into it,

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Speaker 1: then they're not going to be able to live it

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Speaker 1: out and you're gonna you're just gonna have division in

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Speaker 1: the family. But you know, and I'm sure a lot

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Speaker 1: of them seemed like great things to have, and you

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Speaker 1: don't want to have too many because it gets too complied.

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Speaker 1: But if you have just like five, like you said,

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Speaker 1: then that really helps you navigate your days, your weeks. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is who we are, This is who God is,

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Speaker 1: not just that's right. It's not who I've invented myself

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Speaker 1: to be. It's who I've discovered God created me to be.

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Speaker 1: That's that's so important because it has to it has

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Speaker 1: to resonate because God has created you to be this

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Speaker 1: family with a purpose in mind. So let's talk about

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Speaker 1: some of the I love this, some of these these

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Speaker 1: different types of families that you might be.

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Speaker 3: Yep, And so to your point, we've done the heavy

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Speaker 3: lifting and so on the assessment. On the assessment, it's

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Speaker 3: simple questions you've answer, I agree or disagree, and it'll

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Speaker 3: lead you through the process. And then anybody can invite

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Speaker 3: their other family members to participate, and their other family

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Speaker 3: members will take their own assessments, and our system will

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Speaker 3: will collect all of those, combine them and give one

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Speaker 3: of sixteen family types.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, okay, okay, yeah, because we I was a

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Speaker 1: little jealous because you were on another show and she's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: we all got the same one. I'm like, my husband

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Speaker 1: and I took it and we see things differently, right,

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Speaker 1: and we got two differentes, but I can see elements

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Speaker 1: of both of them certainly, and it comes down, you know,

649
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Speaker 1: because it's my personality looks at things differently than he does.

650
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: And we'll get to what ours is and his is.

651
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: But share with us what those family types are.

652
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:32,280
Speaker 3: Okay, so they're sixteen and they are. Those family types

653
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 3: that prioritize identity are the collaborative, harmonious, reflective, and resourceful.

654
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 3: And then we move over those that prioritize purpose, focused

655
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:54,280
Speaker 3: and generous, inventive and visionary. Those that prioritize direction are impactful, resilient, strategic,

656
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 3: or trailblazing. And then those that are all about application,

657
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 3: go go go do ky put it into practice, are driven, empowered, evolving,

658
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 3: and nurturing. And there is no it is not a

659
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 3: hierarchy of families. So there is no goal family. It

660
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 3: is how your family. Because if we believe that God

661
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 3: knew us before the foundations of the world, then we

662
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 3: have to believe that He hand picked people to be

663
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 3: in your family for good or bad, for good days

664
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 3: and bad days and challenges and joy like, Hey, there's

665
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 3: purpose in that, and so let's discover what that purpose

666
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 3: is and really dig into it. And the assessment helps

667
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 3: give common language to that and understand who that, what

668
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 3: your family type is, so then you can look for

669
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 3: common cautions or ways to develop opportunities in your family

670
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: to make it better.

671
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: And you even have like each family is a different

672
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,720
Speaker 1: animal type too, just to kind of put some imagery

673
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: to it. I thought that was really fun. Wait here

674
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: with us, who you, who your fai family is, and

675
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: what your your animal is.

676
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 3: Okay, so we are the harmonious.

677
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: Wait, let me just say this is not a spirit animal. Okay,

678
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: let's just invite it. We're not talking about spirit animals here.

679
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 3: We're not about This is something fun that our team

680
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 3: put together and just threw an animal on there that

681
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 3: maybe exemplifies one of these character Just a fun thing, right,

682
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 3: And so we are the heart the England family. We

683
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 3: are the harmonious family. And so we prioritize identity and

684
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 3: that's understanding who we are and who God's called us

685
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 3: to be and making sure that relationships are strong and

686
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 3: people feel empowered and heard and respected inside the family.

687
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 3: And so you know, there are cautions with that because

688
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 3: it's really easy for us to get into and us

689
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 3: for no more mentality. Hey, if we're so over focused

690
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 3: on identity, we've got to watch out these things, and

691
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 3: so each family type has different opportunities or threats that

692
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: we have to watch out for. And these are just tendencies.

693
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,959
Speaker 3: This is not an overcast. This is just hey, watch

694
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 3: out for these things and be aware so that you

695
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 3: can develop who you are. For the harmonious family, it's

696
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 3: the elephant. The elephant is the mascot because it's all

697
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 3: about important relationships and strong connections. And how long a

698
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 3: child elephant stays with the parent is like four times

699
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 3: as long as most animals in the wild because it's

700
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 3: all about relationships and they stay together their whole lives

701
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 3: in families and packs and move together. And that's I mean.

702
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 3: For Gina and I, one of our greatest dreams is

703
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 3: to live near, close next door to our kids, right,

704
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 3: because it's the funniest thing, Catherine, my kids. I enjoy

705
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 3: them because they are a combination of my two favorite people,

706
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 3: me and my wife. So like they're blast I want

707
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 3: to be around them and I want to have great

708
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 3: relationships with them for a long time.

709
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. Okay, so drum roll. My family, according

710
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: to my husband, was all the things you just described.

711
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: He got harmonious family as well. So that's what he got,

712
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: and I see a lot of those characteristics both in

713
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: him and in our family. And by the way, okay,

714
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 1: so you send out this little thing that kind of

715
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 1: gives you those four core how you scored on identity, purpose, direction,

716
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: and application, But then you send like this really long,

717
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: healthy analysis of what each of those family types are

718
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: when you get it. So now I were, I guess

719
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of a split personality in our family.

720
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: I was a very different type of family. I came

721
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: out with the focused family, which, as I'm reading through

722
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: this passionate, intentional, persistent, uh check check check, yes, and

723
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: that's that is a lot of me. But see, here's

724
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: the thing that's who I am, and I'm putting that

725
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: I'm kind of you know, that's what I pour into

726
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: my kids because I am I'm very passionate, I'm very

727
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: intentional about a lot of things. I'm very I'm very persistent,

728
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: and you know that I see that in a lot

729
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: of my kids. And you know what's hilarious about this, Okay,

730
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: I've got I'm reading a book right now, you me

731
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: and our ADHD family for an upcoming episode, and I'm

732
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: kind of clueless. Three of my kids have been formally

733
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: diagnosed with issues. Dealing with ADHD is primarily issues with

734
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: focus as am I. I'm reading the book and I'm like,

735
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: how did I get to be as old as I am?

736
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: And I didn't realize the reason why they struggle with

737
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: this is because I do. But what we struggle with

738
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: time and time again is focusing on the stuff that

739
00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: we're not so interested in remedial math, phonic laundry and

740
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: leaning the kitchen and many things like that. And so

741
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: I struggle with focus in a lot of areas. But

742
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: when it comes to those important things, those things I'm

743
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: passionate about and intentional about and persistent with, I am

744
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: hyper focused. Like rome can be burning around me and

745
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm working on something in terms of something I'm writing

746
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: or whatever, and I'm like zoned, and people laugh at

747
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: me and the family They're like, I'm so stinking focused.

748
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: And I've noticed that in my kids too. And I

749
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: had one kid, Okay, get this, she's also diagnosed with ADHD,

750
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: and and she just didn't seem to have a passion

751
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: for anything, and I was praying, like, God, help her

752
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 1: to find that thing, and she did. Civil Air Patrol

753
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 1: never imagined my husband and I were not. We didn't

754
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: do our OTC or any of that kind of stuff.

755
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: Civil Air Patrol is kind of like the arm of

756
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: the Air Force for younger kids to get into. And

757
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: she's gotten into that, and she's already flown a plane.

758
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: She gets promoted every two months, and she is like

759
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: so intentional and focused on that. I've got one kid

760
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: who's so focused on baseball. So I totally see this

761
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: in our family and in our family dynamic and our personality.

762
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: I am so excited to learn how do I then

763
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: parlay that over into family intentionality, family focused because I

764
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: don't think we cracked that nut yet, and I'm pretty

765
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: sure as we go through that free online curriculum that

766
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: you have that we're going to be able to discover

767
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: how to hone down exactly what our values are so

768
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: we can fully live that out. So, now, what age

769
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: and up would you recommend doing that assessment for the family?

770
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 3: Great question we have On the assessment there are questions

771
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 3: for adults and then questions for teens or preteens. So

772
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 3: I would say, you know, nine, ten, okay or older

773
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 3: for the assessment and the masterclass are great, But I

774
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,439
Speaker 3: want to touch on something real quick that you said,

775
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 3: because I think what you're saying is so key for

776
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 3: so many families, and that is, hey, i've got a

777
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 3: kid or myself, I'm just not they don't have discipline,

778
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 3: or they don't have passion, or they're just not focused,

779
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 3: or like, how do I motivate them? And here's something

780
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 3: that I'll steal from Greg who said it for a

781
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 3: dozen years, is the key is you show me somebody

782
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 3: who has a passion problem. And they don't have a

783
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 3: passion problem or a focus problem, they don't have a

784
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 3: focused problem, they have a vision problem. Because vision creates passion,

785
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 3: and then passion creates discipline for us as a family.

786
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 3: Like for families, most families that I talk to, the

787
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 3: thing they have the greatest vision for and the most

788
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 3: passion and discipline is like a family vacation. I mean

789
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 3: they can get laser focused on a family vacation because

790
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: they know exactly where they're going, when they're going, what

791
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 3: they're going to do there, what they're going to wear,

792
00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 3: and they get so so clear on that vision that

793
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 3: it's all they focus on. And then they spend hours

794
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 3: searching airbnbs and rental cars and all this stuff. Right,

795
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 3: they're laser focused and they're disciplined about it. But if

796
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 3: we can convert that into hey, whoa A vacation is

797
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 3: incredibly important. Family should go on vacation and make memories

798
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 3: and build relationships. But if we can steer that energy

799
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,280
Speaker 3: into having a vision for the family as a whole, Hey, guys,

800
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 3: what is our where's our family really going? Let's figure

801
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 3: out where we're going, when we're going, how we're going

802
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,959
Speaker 3: to get there, what we're going to do when we're there.

803
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 3: Now we have a vision for the future. Your daughter

804
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 3: is passionate about the Civil Air Service or Civil Air

805
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 3: Patrol because she has a vision for her in that.

806
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 3: Or your son he has a vision for himself of

807
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 3: playing baseball at whatever the next level is. Oh mom,

808
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 3: I want a fastball with a twenty six twenty six

809
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 3: hundred spin rate like they metric everything, and so there's

810
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 3: a clear vision on exactly what the targets are that

811
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 3: he needs to hit. And vision creates passion. Passion creates discipline.

812
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 3: Discipline allows us to completely sell out.

813
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, and we don't have that for one

814
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: of the most important things in life, that is the family.

815
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: I love your example of the vacation. I could have

816
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: probably been a travel agent in another life, because I

817
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: love to plan out stuff like that. I can get

818
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: very laser for. I mean, I will spend like just

819
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: hours and hours in comparing, Okay, what's the best place

820
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: to go and the best price, and what are we

821
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: going to do when we get there? And yet we

822
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: don't do this with our family. And I love what

823
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: you mentioned. Yeah, that was seriously, it was my kid

824
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: that just didn't seem to get into anything, and then

825
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: she found this, and it was it's so foreign to

826
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: me because it's so opposite of anything myself, or that's

827
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: what we were talking about, getting that having that branch there,

828
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: pouring into what that branch is supposed to be, not

829
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: what I envisioned it to be. You know. I named

830
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: her Avonlea after Anne of Green Gables, and she doesn't

831
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: really even like to read. All of my kids have

832
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: literary names, and this one is she's not really passionate

833
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: about literature.

834
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh my gosh, seriously.

835
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: I gave you the best name, and you know that's

836
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: not what you're Okay, we're gonna do. But I love

837
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: watching her in Civil Air Patrol because she's become more

838
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: disciplined as a person, like if she has to have

839
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: a room clean to go to Civil Air Patrol, she

840
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: gets it done. She gets it done. And then my son,

841
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: you mentioned baseball, he already knows. He's nine years old.

842
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: He wants to play for LSU, he wears, and we

843
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: don't even live in Louisiana, and I've tried to tell

844
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: him how hot and sticky it is there, and no,

845
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: he wants to. I don't know why, but he he's

846
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: like he knows so much baseball trivia and he knows

847
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,439
Speaker 1: everything so much about the game, like incredible focus. When

848
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: I look at this, I'm like, you're right. We are

849
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 1: a very focused family. And we are a harmonious family.

850
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: We have We live near my in laws, and there's

851
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: like when we all get together, there's like twenty plus

852
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: of us, and we do it all the time, like

853
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: all the time work because everybody's always got a birthday

854
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: or some sort of celebration. We've got a baptism coming up.

855
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 1: I'm so excited next weekend. My youngest is getting bad tied,

856
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: and so families coming in town. And it's like we

857
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: are a harmonious family as well. We have those elements

858
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: so what you're saying is you have everybody in the

859
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: family take it, and then you will assess the family

860
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: as a whole to see, Okay, this is what you

861
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: most likely are.

862
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Speaker 3: So inside the system, you'll have one parent take it

863
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 3: or one person take it, and on the results page

864
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 3: there's an invite button and they can invite everybody in

865
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 3: the family and it puts all of their scores into

866
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 3: one family unit, and it combines it and spits out

867
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Speaker 3: and you can see everybody's individual results and then you

868
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 3: can see the collective average results at the very end.

869
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Speaker 3: So one person lead take the assessment, click the invite

870
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 3: button and email it to everybody, and then as they

871
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 3: take it, the system will combine the scores and give

872
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 3: a collective response.

873
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: That's really cool. I've got my husband and myself have

874
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: done ours, and so we could have some different results

875
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: from different kids, right, that's right, yep.

876
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:09,919
Speaker 3: So go into you should be able to go back

877
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 3: into your results. There should be a link in one

878
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 3: of the emails. Click on it, click invite, send it

879
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 3: to your kids and let them participate in it and

880
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 3: see what they because it will answer some of the

881
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 3: questions of how they view the family. I mean personal

882
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 3: identity is a combination of just hardwiring. My kids a

883
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,959
Speaker 3: daughter who's fifteen, a son who's fourteen. They were born

884
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 3: thirteen months apart, and they were the exact same size,

885
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 3: I mean exact same size, you know, seven pounds fifteen ounces,

886
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 3: twenty and a half inches long. But today their personalities

887
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 3: are vastly different. They've grown up in the same environment

888
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 3: they I mean, we Tina and I make clones as

889
00:50:54,200 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 3: much as possible, but they're hardwired differently. And so identity

890
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 3: is a combination of the way that we're hardwired and

891
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 3: the environment that we're in and the way that we

892
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:12,399
Speaker 3: perceive things. And so for that assessment, yeah, invite them

893
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 3: and you'll get us a snapshot or a peek behind

894
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 3: the curtain about the way that your kids or children

895
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 3: view the family, because there are questions on there like, hey,

896
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 3: we meet regularly as a family, or we have traditions

897
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 3: that are important as well as I feel like I

898
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 3: belong in my family, you know. And you can't see

899
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 3: individual answers, but you can see the scores and it

900
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 3: will provide some insight as to hey, what are we doing,

901
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 3: where are we going, and give a collective answer and

902
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,879
Speaker 3: then you can move together into that masterclass that again

903
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 3: is totally free and will walk a family from zero

904
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 3: to walking out with core values, mission statement, vision statement

905
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 3: and understanding. This is what we need and I'll take

906
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 3: the pressure off. It won't be perfect at the end,

907
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 3: it won't, I promise. It took Gina and I a

908
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 3: couple years to nail down and clearly identify exactly who

909
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 3: God created us to be, because we know today and

910
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 3: my kids know today that as in England, we are

911
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 3: called to be a beacon of light and a pillar

912
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 3: of strengths to a dark and grumbling world. That's what

913
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 3: we're called to be, a beacon of light and a

914
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 3: pillar of strength. But we didn't land on that on

915
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 3: day one. That took some time to develop. We had

916
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 3: an idea of what God was calling us to do

917
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 3: and who but it doesn't have to be figured out today,

918
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 3: but it is important to start today. I was telling

919
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 3: you earlier I heard a quote from I originally heard

920
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 3: it from Dave Ramsey. I don't know if it's his

921
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,240
Speaker 3: or not, but he said, the best time to plant

922
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 3: a tree is ten years ago. The second best time

923
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 3: is today. And that's the way I feel about this family.

924
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 3: Stuff is. Hey, sure, we all wish that we could

925
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 3: have invested in relationships previously, you know, three, four, five, six,

926
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 3: seven years ago, but the best time to start is today.

927
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 3: It's never too late. It's never too late as an

928
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 3: adult to reach out to an adult child, you know,

929
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 3: as somebody in my forties hearing from my parents today

930
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,359
Speaker 3: that they love me and are proud of me. It's

931
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 3: not lost. It is appreciated. It is incredibly appreciated. My

932
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 3: father in law is one of the best at just

933
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 3: simply saying, Derek, you're a good dad. You do a

934
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 3: good job. Sometimes you just need to hear it. And

935
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 3: it's never too late to start that today and start

936
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 3: those encouraging words.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. That's beautiful. I think I had

938
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Speaker 1: this vision of God when you were talking earlier, just

939
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 1: like you guys, this is you know, I just I've

940
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 1: created this purpose for you, created I discover it. You know,

941
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: so much of what we have to do in the

942
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: walk of faith with God is it's a journey of discovery,

943
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: of discovering who God created us to be, discovering who

944
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: he created the family to be. And this and and

945
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: it is daunting to think about because you know, you

946
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: listen to that, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I

947
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: don't have those five values yet, and I'm not exactly sure.

948
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: I don't have that exact mission, you know, a concrete

949
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: mission statement. I probably you know here, I have a

950
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: pairing podcast, and you asked me that question. I'm going

951
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: to be your deer in headlight response a little bit.

952
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: You know, I'll give you some kind of generic nebulous things,

953
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 1: but not it's not focused, it's not intentional. And where

954
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: there is a lack of vision, we all know the

955
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: verse the people right, there's a lack of vision for

956
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: your family. Maybe your family won't perish altogether, but it

957
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: won't thrive. It's not going to be all that God

958
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: intended for it to be. And so this these are

959
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: tools I'm I'm so so excited to be using. I'm

960
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: really excited to get this assessment. And like I said,

961
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: I was so impressed with the assessment. I'm reading through that.

962
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is really a lot of great information.

963
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: You've got positive outcomes for my family of what can

964
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: happen with my passion, persistence and intentionality. And then hey,

965
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: look out here, you could be a little you know,

966
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 1: have limited perspective. Dogmatism can be a part of that

967
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: kind of family type or commitment can become legalism, prudence

968
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: can become a judgmental attitude. So here's some places you

969
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 1: need to make sure you're cautious. And then I love

970
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: the impactful action you give all of these amazing ideas

971
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: of things that you could do. Let's do a financial

972
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: planning game. Okay, because we're focused family, let's try that,

973
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: and a trivia nighte a cause worth cooking for. Like

974
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't like to cook, but we have to.

975
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 1: My husband actually loves to. But yeah, let's try this

976
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: and it's you know, cook with a purpose.

977
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 3: You know.

978
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: We did this actually during COVID. My husband came up

979
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: with this really great idea. He's like, okay, pick a

980
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: meal from a country, another country, something that you'd like

981
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 1: to try that you've never tried before. And one of

982
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: the kids came up with snitzel, and one of the

983
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: kids came up with Vietnamese fa that was really cool,

984
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: and I can't remember there were a few other ones,

985
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 1: and I think I came up with at least five

986
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: extra pounds from all of these wonderful tests. But we

987
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: did that as a family and explored other countries. You know,

988
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: it was very, very focused and intentional on that a

989
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: nature scavenger hunt. That's another thing you got there. So

990
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: all of this is amazing. I'm really excited and I

991
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: can't wait to go through that with our family devotionals

992
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,439
Speaker 1: to to do those videos. So why don't you tell

993
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: our families again where they can learn more about you

994
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Speaker 1: and about family ID.

995
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Speaker 3: Yep, greatest place is the website family dashed dot com

996
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Speaker 3: Family dashid dot com. The assessment. There's a big blue button.

997
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Speaker 3: You can click on it on the web page. Take

998
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Speaker 3: the assessment. That will lead you through the resource of

999
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 3: the free video master classes. There you click on that

1000
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 3: sign up for that again. The assessment and master class

1001
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 3: are totally free. We want to minister to families. We

1002
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 3: want families to be changed and to lead intentional lives together.

1003
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 3: You can find us on Facebook. Do you find us

1004
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 3: on Instagram? We have a pretty strong Pinterest game. I'm

1005
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:29,959
Speaker 3: just saying because of course, hey, resources, So let's we've

1006
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 3: created a ton of resources. One of the greatest things.

1007
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 3: And I'll leave you with this. Don't make this daunting

1008
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 3: like this is not some gigantic mountain that you have

1009
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 3: to climb and get it right and if you miss

1010
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 3: your foot, you're going to fall. This is all about

1011
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 3: you and your family, So take it one question at

1012
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 3: a time, one night at a time. Around dinner, Hey,

1013
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 3: what are we about? Hey? At dinner what Turn to

1014
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 3: your left and say one of your favorite things about

1015
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 3: your brother or sister, your mom or dad, whoever sit

1016
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 3: next to you, say an encouraging thing about that. Hey, guys,

1017
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 3: I've been thinking, we really need to be blank fill

1018
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 3: in the blank, and then just start having a conversation

1019
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 3: about it. I love the idea of your husband picking

1020
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 3: meals from other countries. You know what, I would be

1021
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 3: willing to bet that those are some of your kid's

1022
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 3: greatest memories because it was time spent together working on something,

1023
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 3: and it was relationship building. So it doesn't have to

1024
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 3: be some super duper ultra something. Just have conversations and

1025
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 3: lead live more intentionally today and don't come home flop

1026
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 3: on the couch, but instead I'd go, Okay, home is

1027
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 3: my greatest priority. How do I make it my greatest priority?

1028
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 3: And these people in the home, how do I love them?

1029
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 3: And how do I serve them and be the greatest servant,

1030
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 3: I can possibly be inside my.

1031
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: Home as you were saying that, I just saw this, Like,

1032
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: I bet a lot of healing takes place in this,

1033
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: doesn't it so much?

1034
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 3: So much?

1035
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: I know we've talked for a while, but do you

1036
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: have any stories of the healing that's taken place?

1037
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, there's I mean yes, Like there are kids

1038
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 3: that this is the first time that they feel like

1039
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 3: their voice is heard. We've gone into churches. Well, we

1040
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 3: do seminars and the kids sitting around the table and

1041
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 3: they're participating, and they get to choose their core values

1042
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 3: and a parent will look and go, I had no

1043
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 3: idea you valued that. Well, yeah, I know, I don't

1044
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 3: show it. I don't do it a whole lot, but

1045
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 3: this is incredibly important to me. Or we ask them

1046
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 3: to write down some wins of the year. You know, hey,

1047
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 3: in the last thirty days and the last ninety days,

1048
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 3: what are some greatest wins things you want to celebrate.

1049
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 3: Let's make those milestones and Ebenezer stones so the future

1050
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 3: generations can see them as they pass, right, Like, what

1051
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 3: are the greatest wins? And kids will write it down,

1052
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 3: our parents will write it down, and in the seminar

1053
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 3: in the masterclass, we talk about hey, his needs, her needs,

1054
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 3: And there are some simple statements that if you've ever

1055
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 3: heard the phrase, and I might not get it perfect here,

1056
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 3: but a unspoken appreciation or unspoken encouragement comes across as unappreciation. Right.

1057
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 3: If you don't say that you appreciate somebody, you're thankful

1058
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 3: for them, they take it as though you are not.

1059
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 3: And so we give couples or families the opportunity to

1060
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 3: say that because we want the home to be the

1061
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 3: greatest place of encouragement and support and love that it

1062
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 3: can possibly be. And if we're not intentional about that,

1063
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,920
Speaker 3: we'll miss the market. And so it's not crazy, daunting,

1064
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 3: it's just simple stuff. It's just a reminder of Hey, families,

1065
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 3: our greatest priority. Family is what God intended ministry to

1066
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 3: happen on a core basis. So let's live that out.

1067
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: And this is our biggest, our greatest ministry. You know,

1068
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: I think most parents recognize that if we if we

1069
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 1: fail here, then there's a whole ball wax Man. That's everything.

1070
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: That is everything. I confess. Yeah, I wish I'd started

1071
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 1: this ten years ago, but the next best time to

1072
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: start that is now.

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Speaker 3: That's right today, Just one more quick question.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can pick your brain all day. But

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Speaker 1: so in those videos, do you offer all those kind

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Speaker 1: of suggestions of hey, try this at dinner and things,

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Speaker 1: or is that somewhere else on the website.

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Speaker 3: Nope, those are downloadable resources in the Masterclass perfect. It's full,

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Speaker 3: it's full of activities to do together. And then on

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Speaker 3: our social media we often share a bunch of resources

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Speaker 3: and tools. We're about to launch just a doubt, a

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Speaker 3: free downloadable ebook. He questions that every daughter needs answered,

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Speaker 3: questions that every son needs answered, and how we answer

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Speaker 3: those questions inside the home because every dog, I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is something she found an article a few years ago.

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Speaker 3: Is that out? The teenage girl questions for body image

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Speaker 3: fourteen times a day, fourteen times on average, and so

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Speaker 3: hey we inside the home, we need to answer that

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Speaker 3: question for her fifteen times a day. Yep, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so it's questions like these that kids need answered,

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Speaker 3: and so we're constantly putting out resources like that on

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Speaker 3: social media. But it's all in the Masterclass downloadable pdf.

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Speaker 3: You can print it at home. Still in the blanks,

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Speaker 3: go through it. You talked about the core values earlier, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it is hard to come up with core values on

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Speaker 3: a blank slate. I mean that's hard. But we give

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Speaker 3: like sixty or seventy questions on the page and all

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Speaker 3: you have to do is circle them. Hey, I like

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Speaker 3: these ten or fifteen, and now let's narrow it down.

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Speaker 1: And now let's narrow it down as a family.

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Speaker 3: As a family. Yep, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: See. And then your kids buy into it. You know,

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Speaker 1: they've got they've got skin in the game. They're like,

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Speaker 1: I'm heard. You know this is important to me, and

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Speaker 1: this this is who we are as a family. It's

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Speaker 1: not just important to me, but you know that they

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Speaker 1: get to contribute to that process. I think it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. So it's family dashid

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Speaker 1: dot com right correct, Okay, I'm gonna link all of

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Speaker 1: that in the show notes. Moms and dads take the

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Speaker 1: free assessment for your family and go through these pre corps.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, seriously, why would you not do that? Okay?

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Speaker 1: If your family is important to you, this is such

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Speaker 1: an incredible resource. And I come back to that thing

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Speaker 1: we were talking about earlier. There's so many things for

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Speaker 1: the individual and the church, and yet we're really not

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Speaker 1: looking at this, especially knowing how much the family is

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Speaker 1: under attack. This is just one of those perfect ways

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Speaker 1: to just re establish, really make sure we've got a

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Speaker 1: strong foundation in the family. And so I know we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do it and the seekers household, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: figure out what our core values are. I honestly, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait. I'm so excited, so excited. I cannot thank

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Speaker 1: you enough for making us aware of our need for

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Speaker 1: a family identity and showing us how to find it. Man,

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Speaker 1: You've made it so easy for us. It seems like

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Speaker 1: a daunting task, but I know that you're just gonna

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Speaker 1: lead us. You've got the bread comes right in front

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Speaker 1: of us.

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Speaker 3: We just have to keep up follow It's it one

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Speaker 3: step at a time, one step of time.

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Speaker 1: Ah. Thank you so much, Derek. I think this is

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Speaker 1: just really going to impact so many lives and transform

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Speaker 1: so many lives. I love the work you're doing. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us to share with us your heart

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Speaker 1: for the family, which is God's heart for the family,

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Speaker 1: which is all of our hearts for the family. Thank you, Derek,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having us.

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Speaker 4: And as always, remember God gave you your kids, your

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Speaker 4: specific kids for a reason. That's because you hold the

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Speaker 4: key to unlocking God created them to be well.

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Speaker 2: See you next time.

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