Jeff Zaugg

DadAwesome

Religion EN ↓ 438 episodes

ACTIVATING DADS TO LEAD WITH WONDERWalking with dads as they lead and love their kids toward God's awesomeness. We're on a mission to see dads fully alive and fully activated in their roles—leading with wonder to build intentional connection with their kids while experiencing God's awesomeness together. We partner with dads at every stage of the journey by providing practical fatherhood resources to catalyze connection with their kids, and also with other dads.

Author

Jeff Zaugg

Category

Religion

Podcast website

dadawesome.org

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

242 | Brainwash Your Kids That They Are A Masterpiece (Tom Bell) 08.09.2022

Key Takeaways   Our kids have their own rescue stories and songs of gratitude. Remember Him and never forgetting Him. Loving our spouse and children, when they're hardest to love, allows them to experience love of Jesus. When we walk in obedience, our kids benefit from our story. Let your kids see your need for God and recognize when you need to ask for forgiveness.   dadAWESOME   We're on a missi...

241 | Nothing to Prove, Nobody to Impress (Jeremiah Curran) 01.09.2022

Key Takeaways   Presence, with our children, is so much bigger than we realize. We will do our absolute best, in parenting, and leave the rest to God. Our story is their story. Life is a gift, not owed to us. Your legacy IS your spouse and your kids.   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's...

240 | Raising Respectful Kids Through a Relationship of Trust and Love (John Odom) 25.08.2022

Key Takeaways   Choose your wife well. We can do things differently than our parents, not out of spite, but desiring to want what Jesus wants. Bring real faith into your home and around your children. The Holy Spirit and your parenting should allow your children to feel confident in their faith. Rules without relationship equals rebellion. -Josh McDowell   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LI...

239 | Being Still and Letting God Love You (Ken Helser: Part 2) 18.08.2022

Key Takeaways   You have to believe God wants to speak to you more than you even want to listen. When you journal you are stirring up a prophetic gift. Every time we hurry, we break things. Be Still. God wants us to live life well. When you journal you write down you history with the Father that you will have forever.   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate...

238 | A Place for the Heart (Ken Helser: Part 1) 11.08.2022

Key Takeaways   Vision doesn't become reality on the mountaintops but rather in the valleys. When God promises he follows through, just not always on our timeline. When it's built by faith it moves from information to revelation. When you love your spouse in front of your children they will trust and believe you. The key to communication is identification.   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add...

237 | Forgiving Fathers Foster Freedom (Jason Romano: Part 2) 04.08.2022

Key Takeaways   Empathy is a game changer. Forgiveness causes ripple effects that we may never see. Our emotions can be an enter sign for the internal work that we need to do or an exit sign for a situation that we need to get out of. Sacrificial decisions are courageous decisions even if they don't make sense to others.   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passiona...

236 | Saying NO to ESPN to Say YES to Being a Dad (Jason Romano: Part 1) 28.07.2022

Key Takeaways   There is much value and importance in keeping your spouse as your number 1. Time spent with your children is something that you can never get back. Be intentional with your time and prayer for and over your children.   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  | Yo...

235 | Confront reality. Grow capacity. Fuel curiosity. Create change. (Mark Miller) 21.07.2022

Key Takeaways   Doing something stretching and challenging with your child can bring a closeness and bond that can only grow for years to come. Repetition and patience in fatherhood shows intention and presence. The window of time we get with our children is slowly closing. Be mindful of the trade-offs. The Four Smart Choices: Confront reality Grow capacity Fuel curiosity Create change   dadAWESOM...

234 | How to Be a Family On Mission (Seth Barnes) 14.07.2022

"People are looking for purpose, but because their own needs seem so stark and so great, they don't get to it. It's a paradox that by focusing on other people's needs, you are going to find that your own needs will be met -- So, sometimes as parents it is important (wherever we are at) to say, 'Hey, let's go find a place to serve'"   Key Takeaways   Pray with your kids and teach them to pray Serve...

233 | Simple Money, Rich Life: Achieve Financial Freedom and Eternal Impact (Bob Lotich) 07.07.2022

Key Takeaways     Acts of obedience can result in miracles, adventures, and boldness they've experienced as a family. Transparent money management can be the best instruction for kids. What children learn from their parents is more "caught than taught." The importance of being transparent with your children about finances far exceeds putting up a wall and believing it isn't beneficial. It's benefi...

232 | Being a Dad Your Kids Want to be (Tim and Ryan Skoog Part 2) 30.06.2022

Key Takeaways:   When the Skoogs were met with resistance preparing for a trip to China, they chose to continue to walk in God's calling for them. How one choice, of going to church to serve, turned into a legacy of leading people to Jesus. The impact that Tim left his kids as he modeled Kingdom prayer and adventure. The five principles/practices that the global church implements.   dadAWESOME   W...

231 | How One Decision Creates Legacy (Tim and Ryan Skoog Part1) 23.06.2022

"One of the greatest gifts that my parents and then my dad was able to give me was he wanted to expose me early on to the world, to the needs of the world, to the challenges of the world." "....he did that by taking us to some of the most difficult places in the world."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead...

230 | Resilience, Servanthood & Showing Up For Others (Jason Vallotton REPLAY) 16.06.2022

"Servanthood is the way to the top. You will never outgrow serving…the more you have the more you're required to give."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   Jason Vallotton   Recovering mental health, Cultivating spiritual fathers, a...

229 | Becoming Wholehearted (Morgan Snyder REPLAY) 09.06.2022

"God is very interested and motivated in the initiation of our children. It's what makes Him come alive. He has their best interests in mind. And when I put down my agenda, I got curious. I got responsive. The path that my children have chosen and the God has chosen for them is not what I would have chosen in so many ways, but being a student and being attentive and participating has changed every...

228 | Raising Kids Who Change The World (Mark Foreman REPLAY) 02.06.2022

How do I feel about God? Am I satisfied? Comfortable? Cynical? Disappointed? Indifferent? Am I on fire? That torch in my hand will be passed to my children more substantially than any religious education. If I want my children to grow spiritually, I must stay alive."   dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their...

227 | Intentional Fatherhood & Creating the Primal Path (Jon Tyson REPLAY) 26.05.2022

"I wanted him in this liminal space. My goal was to irreparably break his heart for the poor of the world so he'd never just be a spoiled, complacent American ever – He'd always be haunted, because those years are so formative… I just wanted to get in there, God's heart for the poor."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully aliv...

226 | Dads Who Dare To Dream (Banning Liebscher REPLAY) 19.05.2022

"I think that we are called to pour our life into what will be left behind…I'm convinced that what will be left behind is not structures we built, not things we implemented, but just people that we fathered – that's what's going to be left behind."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's aw...

225 | Fatherhood insights from the life of Abraham (Jeremy Pryor REPLAY) 12.05.2022

"If your kids don't see the sabbath day as their favorite day of the week, then you're doing it wrong"   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   Jeremy Pryor   Jeremy Pryor is a business owner, creative entrepreneur, author, podcaster and...

224 | Slowing Down & Recovering Your Heart (John Eldredge REPLAY) 05.05.2022

"Human beings were not meant to live in isolation and we weren't meant to live in a constant unknown. Learning to let it go (benevolent detachment)… is step one."   dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   John Eldredge John Eldredge is an a...

223 | The Tech-Wise Family (Andy Crouch REPLAY) 28.04.2022

"I think that our best moments as families, our best moments as parents but also kids' best moments, are when we are given the capacity for meaningful action in some way. That is, we have some ability to have something matter that we do, AND we are exposed to meaningful risk – that is, it could go wrong and we could lose something."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We...

222 | Funny How Dad Life Works (Michael Jr. REPLAY) 21.04.2022

"So you're going to make some sort of mistakes. But fellas, I want you to know for sure you are absolutely dadAWESOME, because I got an awesome dad and I know I'm going to be an awesome dad because I'm a give it my all. Even if we're going the wrong way, I'm going the wrong way all the way, because I'm doing it because I love my kids and they're going to know that."   dadAWESOME We're on a mission...

221 | The Love of a Father (Pierre du Plessis REPLAY) 14.04.2022

You can't take out a pair of pliers and change wires and go, there you go, I told you, this is how we can fix you. We've got to cultivate what we want, and I think part of us as people looking back at our lives, I think if we don't get over ourselves early enough, then we take up all the energy to fix ourselves and we ignore to sow what we want in our children. It's amazing when the kid starts dri...

220 | Fathering Like a Boy vs. Fathering Like a Man (Gary Black) 07.04.2022

"We have to break the spirit, disciple these kids and send them on risky, crazy adventures so that they can get their own stories so they can keep telling the miraculous amazingness of how good and amazing our Father is."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |  ...

219 | Up Daddy, Spiritual Fatherhood & Stepping Out in Faith (Dick Foth PART2) 30.03.2022

"the best way that I can be a strong father is to be the the most profound loving husband I can be... Children need to know to the degree that they're able that those two people. Love each other deeply"   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Face...

218 | The Stance of a Learner & The Relationship Baseball Dimond (Dick Foth PART1) 24.03.2022

"Why is it that people, you give your prime time to people you hardly know? And the kids and I get the leftovers?"   dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   Dick Foth   Dick Foth is an author, storyteller, and popular speaker. He holds a ma...

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