DA350 | Leading With Wonder, Investing Time With Your Kids, and Lightening Your Load (Jeff Zaugg)

DadAwesome

Mic flip! Listen as Jeff Zaugg sits down with Kent Evans and Lawson Brown on the Father on Purpose Podcast to discuss his own parenting journey. He shares fresh ideas to help you live an awesome dad life, invest time with your kids, and model joy, faith, and wonder.

Key Takeaways

• You’re not being DadAwesome if you’re just pursuing the heart of your wife and kids; being DadAwesome requires brotherhood.
• Never wait until you think you’ve “arrived” before you take the initiative to lead.
• Help your kids remember God’s provision by prompting them with this phrase: “Look at what God did.”
• There’s no better way to spend your time as a dad than by intentionally connecting with your kids.
• If you’re a discouraged father, it’s time to throw off weight from the past, receive God’s love, and walk in your sonship.

Jeff Zaugg

Jeff Zaugg is the founder of DadAwesome and Fathers for the Fatherless, two ministries that resource and rally dads through engaging podcasts and 100-mile bike rides. Jeff and his wife, Michelle, have been married for eighteen years and are parents to four daughters.

Key Quotes

• 23:25 - "We say at DadAwesome, you are not being DadAwesome, if you're just pursuing the heart of your wife and your kids. If it's just about you in the home front, you actually have missed half the mission because it's all shortsighted. If you don't have brothers, if you don't have a few other guys that are after this mission together, you will not make it the distance. You will not be able to hold that arm, hold that strength. It's the only way to be DadAwesome is to do it in brotherhood."
• 33:36 - "If we think about the longevity of investment of time, we only have this limited amount of time with our kids before they leave the house. It's tiny, fractional moments versus deep, rich opportunity when they're on the home front. Dads, [spending intentional time with our kids] is just the easiest and best investment with compounding interest than we can ever imagine."

Links from Today’s Conversation

• Manhood Journey
• Anger-Free Dad
• Father on Purpose Podcast
• The Forge Movie

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