Welcome to the Season 4 finale of The InFormed Parent Podcast! In this heartfelt and powerful solo episode, Suzanne Phillips wraps up a rich season on identity with a deeply personal and practical conversation about the identity of the family unit.

She unpacks a truth she wishes someone had shared earlier in her parenting journey—the importance of forming a clear, intentional Family Identity rooted in God’s design. With wisdom drawn from her own experience as a parent, grandparent, and leader of the organization Beacon Parent, Suzanne invites you to become a Beacon for your children, shaping their core values, rhythms, and direction.

This episode will inspire, equip, and challenge you to parent with renewed purpose—because your family already has an identity. The goal is to define it on purpose and for a purpose.

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Episode Highlights:

✔️ One parenting insight Suzanne wishes she had known early on

✔️ What it means to be discipled as a parent, not just in parenting

✔️ Defining your Family Identity: Who you are, what you value, and why it matters

✔️ The role of time, tradition, values, and victories in shaping identity

✔️ Biblical insight into the mantle of parenthood as God’s chosen design

✔️ The dangers of letting culture define your child’s “chosen family”

✔️ Practical examples of “We” statements that shape family culture

✔️ Why discipleship is the mission, and why it starts at home

✔️ Encouragement for parents: It’s never too late to begin

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📖 Featured Resource: Become a Beacon Parent!

Want to be a more intentional parent? Beacon Parent offers courses, coaching, and content to help you disciple your children with confidence.

👉 Join Our Free Resource Hub and Receive Parent Coaching at Beacon Parent → www.beaconparent.com

👉 Follow on Instagram → @beacon_parent

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📣 Know and Go:

✅ Define Your Family Identity: Take time to answer, “Who are we?”

✅ Start a new tradition or rhythm—small steps create lasting impact

✅ Create We Statements like: “We love God,” “We serve others,” “We speak truth”

✅ Be a Beacon for your children—shine both direction and warning

📲 Follow for More Encouragement and Tools:

1. @suzannephillips_

2. @beacon_parent

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🏆 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ Identity is not just individual—it is communal.

Family identity is rooted in sameness: shared faith, shared values, shared purpose.

“Our ‘We’ becomes their foundation for ‘Me.’”

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🔔 Thank you for joining us for this incredible season of The InFormed Parent Podcast. We pray these episodes have helped you parent with purpose, disciple with direction, and leave an intentional legacy.

If this season has encouraged or impacted you, share it with a friend—and don’t forget to subscribe so you’re the first to know when Season 5 launches!

Parents, your children need you. The world is loud—but your voice of truth, love, and leadership matters more.

Until next time—stay anchored, stay informed, and keep building Kingdom families.

In this week’s episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips welcomes Santosh Swamidass, founder of Launching Ground and Launch Network, for a powerful and practical conversation on discipling your children in everyday family life.

With a background in aerospace engineering, church planting, and family leadership, Santosh brings a unique blend of innovation and faith to the conversation around family discipleship. Whether you’re a parent feeling under-equipped or a church leader looking for scalable tools, this episode provides vision, strategy, and encouragement for weaving faith and character into your family rhythms.

You’ll walk away with practical insight, powerful stories, and a renewed sense of calling to raise disciples—right at home.

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Episode Highlights:

✔️ The mission behind Launching Ground—equipping families to disciple at home

✔️ Statistics that reveal a growing discipleship gap in families

✔️ Understanding the mantle of responsibility on the family unit

✔️ The powerful legacy of Jonathan Edwards and what we can learn from it

✔️ Why so many parents don’t understand discipleship—and how to change that

✔️ What to say to the parent who feels unequipped or unsure

✔️ Defining discipleship in practical, life-giving terms

✔️ A look into the stages of discipleship and how they apply to parenting

✔️ How Launching Ground’s tools and subscription boxes work

✔️ Feedback from families and churches using the tools—and the fruit it’s producing

✔️ How churches, schools, and families can get started and plug in

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📖 Featured Resource: Launching Ground Family Discipleship Tools

Explore hands-on resources designed to equip parents to disciple their children with confidence.

👉 Subscribe to the Family Discipleship Box: Faith + Fun + Formation, delivered to your home → www.LaunchingGround.com

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📣 Follow and Connect

📲 Follow Santosh & Launching Ground for more tools and stories:

• Suzanne Phillips & Beacon Parent: @suzannephillips_ | @beacon_parent

• Santosh & Launching Ground: @launchingground | @santoshswamidass

🎥 YouTube Channel: Launching Ground

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🏆 Identity & Discipleship Truths:

✅ To disciple your children is to lead them in becoming more like Christ—to identify as His.

✅ You don’t have to be perfect, just faithful. Discipleship starts with showing up.

✅ The family is God’s first design for discipleship—and that mantle is still yours to carry.

✅ When you disciple your children, you build a legacy of faith and purpose.

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🔔 Ready to take family discipleship from theory to practice? You’re not alone—resources exist, and help is available.

Subscribe, share this episode, and join the movement of parents discipling the next generation—right where they are.

In this episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips sits down with Kent Evans, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Manhood Journey, for a compelling conversation about biblical fatherhood, identity, and discipleship.

After a successful 20-year career in the business world, Kent turned his focus toward equipping fathers to become confident, present, and purposeful disciple-makers in their homes. From real-world struggles to encouraging trends, this conversation will inform and inspire you—whether you’re a dad, you're raising a dad, or you're mentoring a dad.

Get ready to explore what it means to walk in identity as a father, how to overcome the hurdles of modern parenting, and how to start leading your children spiritually—right where you are.

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Episode Highlights:

✔️ The mission of Manhood Journey—equipping fathers to lead with purpose

✔️ Eye-opening statistics about the state of fatherhood in today’s culture

✔️ What identity as a father really means and how it shapes your influence

✔️ The top personal struggles men face today—and how to walk through them

✔️ Common hurdles dads experience when trying to lead their families spiritually

✔️ Encouraging trends emerging among men committed to growth and discipleship

✔️ What’s ahead for Manhood Journey and how men can get started today

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📖 Featured Resource: Don’t Bench Yourself by Kent Evans

Kent’s latest book encourages men to stay in the game of fatherhood and faith, even when they feel unqualified.

👉 Get the Book → Amazon

👉 Explore Manhood Journey → www.ManhoodJourney.org

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📣 Follow and Connect with Kent Evans and all that Manhood Journey has to offer you:

1. LinkedIn

2. @manhoodjourney

📲 Follow for More Parenting and Discipleship Insights:

• Instagram: @suzannephillips_ | @beacon_parent

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🏆 Identity & Discipleship Truths for Dads:

✅ As a father, to identify is to become the same—to reflect the heart and character of our Heavenly Father.

✅ Fathers are not benchwarmers—they’re called to lead, disciple, and protect.

✅ Manhood isn’t passive. Biblical manhood is active, servant-hearted, and Spirit-led.

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🔔 Whether you’re a father yourself or walking alongside one, this episode is a must-listen. Let’s champion a generation of dads who are spiritually awake, emotionally available, and anchored in identity.

Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with a dad who’s ready to get back in the game.