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What relationships are you fostering around your family? Do other men have enough access to your parenting to encourage or challenge you? What prayers are you constantly praying over your kids? Join Matt Keller as he inspires dads to lead and parent from a full and vibrant heart. In this interview: Leading from a full heart Examined experience is the best teacher Who you do life with shapes who you become Parenting out of past pain Winning the first hour The 0-6, 6-12, and 12-18 parenting zones Matt Keller is a people builder at his core. With more than twenty years in the people business, he is an authority on what it takes to build great teams and a great organization. Matt Keller is a Pastor, Author, Speaker and Leadership Coach. His insight on organizational and personal leadership helps businesses, nonprofits, and churches take their organizations to the next level. http://dadawesome.org/episode42/ Follow dadAWESOME on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dadawesome/

We're on our second week (here's the link for week 1) of looking back over the past 40 weeks of dadAWESOME. We'll once again highlight six short clips from the fathers that we interviewed. These are the 12 takeaways for this second round of Forty Weeks Of AWESOMENESS: Challenging Our Kids To Do Hard Things (025 Patei Iyegha) Loving People Through Action as a Family (025 Patei Iyegha) In Life People Are Leaders and Followers… Becoming A Leader Gives You a Greater Place of Influence (023 Tim Burt) I'm Not Going to be a Dad That Raises my Kids Between the Commercials (023 Tim Burt) We Are Called to be Faithful, Not Successful (focus on character, not outward appearance) (030 Dave Adamson) Unplug from Technology and Connect as a Family (030 Dave Adamson) When you're Faithful, it Trickles Down to Your Grandkids and You Grandkids Grandkids (024 Shane Long) Tell You Kids Stories that Inspire Courage, Strength and Faith In God (You have Something Better than a 300 foot Robot… you have a Heavenly Father who Created you and Loves You) (024 Shane Long) You're Safe with Me. You're Loved no Matter What. You're Called and Capable. You're Responsible. (028 Jim Jackson) My Surrender & The Peace of God that Transcends Understanding are Very Closely Connected (028 Jim Jackson) Honoring is Not for Your Dad, It's For You. You Reap What You Sow. (022 Peter Haas) Seeing our Kids Become Fully Alive to the Call of God on their Life. (022 Peter Haas)

This week we're looking back over the past 40 weeks of dadAWESOME and highlighting six short clips from the fathers that we interviewed. These are the 12 takeaways for this first edition of Forty Weeks Of AWESOMENESS. 1) The Powerful Voice Of Dad - Speaking Truth, Identity and Value (014 Nick Foulks) 2) Your Kids Real Father Is God - You Are Entrusted To Raise Therm For A Season (014 Nick Foulks) 3) What's Your Kids Job? (014 Nick Foulks) * My Job Is To Protect * My Job Is To Be Kind * My Job Is To Tell The Truth * My Job Is To Listen And Obey The First Time 4) Courageous Love - Let's Be The Fuel Pumps That Fill Others With Love (013 Ross Manders) 5) Never Give Up // Cheer For Each Other // Stay In The Fight (016 Danny Gutierrez) 6) Stay Amazed - with your wife, your kids, your church, you life (019 John Burns) 7) There Are Some "Only You" Roles. Only You Can Be There Daddy. Only You Can Be Her Husband (019 John Burns) 8) Get A Calendar And Put The Most Important Things On It - (and the most important things have NAMES) (019 John Burns) 9) Repeat After Me Truth Statements Of Identity (020 Mario Gonzalez-Mitchell) 10) Instilling Thankfulness Right Before Bedtime With Your Kids (020 Mario Gonzalez-Mitchell) 11) Seeing His Dad Reading His Bible & Praying Early In The Morning (021 Nate Gustafson) 12) Ask More Questions // Help Your Kids Discover Wisdom // Label The Behavior and Not the Child (021 Nate Gustafson)

Eric Iverson joins dadAWESOME for a vulnerable conversation about leading his family in Bible reading, the importance of paying attention to his wife, and the tendency to focus on behavior-change instead of dealing with heart issues. What rhythms can you set up to connect to the heart of your family? Are you facilitating a heart connection with your kids and wife? Are your words building up and bringing life or unintentionally causing destruction and death? In this interview: Navigating transitions as a family Letting God give us a new heart connection Being a servant leader to our wives Prayer themes over our children Ways to help our kids grow in leadership Family rhythms for impact and connection Eric Iverson is the husband (16 yrs) to Judy, father of Hope (13) and Isaiah (10). He serves as the Executive Director at Youth Leadership, a non-profit leader resourcing and training organization that serves leaders and churches around themes of youth and family ministry. Recommended Resources: Jesus the Hero - family devotional (David E. Prince) The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place (Andy Crouch) War of Words: Getting to the Heart of Your Communication Struggles (Paul David Tripp) Strong and Courageous: 365 Daily Devotions for Fathers (Ken Caster and BroadStreet Publishing Team) Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection (Edward T. Welch)

Paul Hurckman is our first-ever repeat guest on the dadAWESOME Podcast. If you missed his first time joining us, please click here to listen to Episode 15. Paul and his wife, Candace, have 4 children (2 bigs and 2 littles) and they live in Minneapolis where they love to bike, run and host popsicle extravaganza gatherings for their neighborhood. Paul is the Executive Director at Venture Expeditions. In This Episode: -- Shifting mentality to being an ALL-on-DAD -- What messages do you want regularly communicate to your kids? -- Our truest version of our dreams are birthed in God's design -- Harold and the Purple Crayon - Drawing a better picture for our family and the Kingdom -- Raising kids that will cross the street for the sake of the Gospel -- Becoming less comfortable for the sake of other people -- Shalom - being in right relationship with your maker, with each other, and with creation RESOURCES: -- dadAWESOME Podcast -- The Bible Project -- Book: Wonder -- Book: Big Hair, Don't Care: Other Mentioned Podcasts: - Bart Scharrer Episode 17

Introducing our first ever dadAWESOME Book Summary Episode! Fearless Parenting: How to Raise Faithful Kids in a Secular Culture (George Barna & Jimmy Myers)… Jeremy Brookins joins dadAWESOME to share his book summary along with processing how he's working to implement these challenging take-aways in his parenting.