Episode Summary:

In this gripping episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, Suzanne welcomes Erin Lee, a mother of three, national speaker, and founder of Stop Gender Ideology. Erin shares the shocking story of rescuing her 12-year-old daughter from transgender grooming at her public school—an experience that propelled her into the fight for parental rights and the protection of children nationwide.Erin's courage has taken her story to major outlets like Fox News, The Daily Wire, The Blaze, and The Wall Street Journal, and her advocacy work continues through Protect Kids Colorado and her powerful documentary Art Club.This conversation exposes the dangers hiding in plain sight in schools, highlights recent legislation in Colorado with national implications, and equips parents to recognize threats, defend their rights, and protect their children.

Episode Highlights:

✔️ Erin's powerful story of protecting her daughter from school-based gender ideology

✔️ How Colorado's new transgender law impacts families—and why it's a warning for the nation

✔️ Why parents must actively exercise their rights instead of assuming protection

✔️ The positive momentum and exposure coming from parent advocates across the country

✔️ How Erin's journey has shaped her faith, values, and family life

✔️ The story behind Art Club and why every parent needs to see it

✔️ Words of wisdom and encouragement for parents navigating today's culture

🎥 Featured Resource: Art Club (Documentary)

Based on Erin's family's story, Art Club exposes how gender ideology infiltrates schools and equips parents to recognize the danger.

👉 Watch Free → www.ArtClubMovie.com

📣 Call-to-Actions (CTAs):

📲 Follow Erin Lee:

• Instagram: @erinforparentalrights
• Organization: Protect Kids Colorado
• Advocacy: Stop Gender Ideology

📲 Stay Connected with Beacon Parent:

• @suzannephillips_
• @beacon_parent
• Website: www.beaconparent.com

📚 Free Resource Hub:

Get access to parenting downloads, discipleship tools, and biblical worldview guides → The Hub

✨ Join the Parent Club (Monthly Membership):Exclusive resources, coaching, and community for faith-filled families → The Parent Club.

📥 Starting a Homeschool Pod?Download The Pod Packet—a step-by-step guide to launch and manage your own pod with confidence → www.beaconparent.com/podpacket

📖 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ When parents step into their God-given role, they safeguard their children from confusion and harm.

✅ Your vigilance and faith are the shield your children need in today's cultural battles.

🔔 Closing Call-to-Action (CTA):

Erin's story is a sobering reminder that no family is immune to cultural deception. But it's also a call to action—parents have both the right and the responsibility to protect their children.If this episode informed or encouraged you, share it with another parent or community leader. Subscribe for more conversations equipping families to stand firm in truth and raise the next generation with courage.

In this episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips is joined by Dr. Hutz Hertzberg and Jennifer Burns of Turning Point Education to explore the rising movement of classical education and why it's gaining momentum among parents, homeschoolers, and schools across the nation. For many parents, education is simply about curriculum and outcomes. But beneath every method lies a philosophy of education—Montessori, Charlotte Mason, Classical, and more—that shapes not just what students learn but how they think and live. Together, Hutz and Jennifer share their rich backgrounds in Christian education and explain how classical education, rooted in virtue and wisdom, is equipping students to lead with clarity, confidence, and truth. Whether you're a parent, educator, or school leader, this episode will inspire you to see education through a new lens—and offer practical next steps to get involved.

Episode Highlights:

✔️ Why education is more than just curriculum—it's about philosophy

✔️ An overview of classical education and how it works in practice

✔️ The mission of Turning Point Education and who it serves

✔️ How hybrid schools and homeschool programs are shaping a new model for families

✔️ Why restoring virtuous education is so critical in today's cultural moment

✔️ What trends are emerging in K-12 and higher education

✔️ How parents and educators can take part in this growing movement

🎧 Listen Now

📖 Featured Resource: Turning Point AcademyTurning Point Academy exists to restore virtuous, values-based education for families across America, offering classical curriculum and hybrid learning options.

👉 Learn More → Turning Point Education

📣 Call-to-Actions (CTAs):

📲 Follow Turning Point Education:

• Instagram: @tpusaacademy
• Website: www.turningpointed.com
• @suzannephillips_
• @beacon_parent
• Website: www.beaconparent.com

📲 Stay Connected with Beacon Parent:

📚 Free Resource Hub:Get access to parenting downloads, discipleship tools, and biblical worldview guides → The Hub

✨ Join the Parent Club (Monthly Membership):Exclusive resources, coaching, and community for faith-filled families → The Parent Club.

📥 Starting a Homeschool Pod?Download The Pod Packet—your free guide to launch and manage a homeschool pod with confidence → www.beaconparent.com/podpacket

📖 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ Education shapes identity. Classical education equips children not only with knowledge but with virtue, purpose, and wisdom rooted in truth.

🔔 Closing Call-to-Action (CTA): Education isn't neutral—it shapes how our children think, believe, and lead. Don't leave it to chance. Explore classical education and learn how you can give your children the tools they need to stand firm in truth and live with purpose.Share this episode, subscribe for weekly encouragement, and join us as we continue to equip families to parent with purpose and disciple with direction

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Episode Summary: In this critical episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips is joined by Karen England, President of the Capital Resource Institute and long-time advocate for parental rights, religious freedom, and education reform.

With more than 27 years of experience in policy and advocacy, Karen has been on the frontlines fighting for parents, children, and families at the local, state, and national levels. Today, she unpacks the real issues surrounding school libraries, surveys, and curriculum, and why the conversation around "book banning" is often misunderstood.

This episode equips parents with facts over fear, helping them understand what's at stake in schools and how to practically engage their local community to protect children.

Episode Highlights:

✔️ How Karen's journey from homeschooling mom to policy advocate began

✔️ Why more parents are "waking up" to dangers in culture and schools

✔️ The truth about books vs. curriculum—and why it matters

✔️ What parents need to know about age-inappropriate content in school libraries

✔️ The role of surveys in shaping children's beliefs

✔️ Breaking down the recent Supreme Court case in Maryland and what it means for parents

✔️ Why complacency around executive orders can be risky

✔️ Practical steps to engage with your school board and elected officials

✔️ Encouragement for parents who feel overwhelmed by the fight

📖 Featured Resource: Capital Resource Institute Toolkit

Karen and her team created a practical toolkit to help parents organize locally, engage school boards, and protect children.

👉 Explore Resources → Capital Resource Institute

📣 Call-to-Actions (CTAs):

📲 Follow Karen England:

• Instagram: @thekitchentableactivist
• Website: Capital Resource Institute

📲 Stay Connected with Beacon Parent:

• @suzannephillips_
• @beacon_parent
• Website: www.beaconparent.com

📚 Free Resource Hub:

Get parenting tools, downloads, and discipleship guides → The Hub

✨ Gain access to coaching, encouragement, and exclusive resources → The Parent Club

📥 Starting a Homeschool Pod?

Download The Pod Packet—a free step-by-step guide to launch your own homeschool pod with confidence → www.beaconparent.com/podpacket

📖 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ Parents are called to be the primary protectors and disciples of their children.

✅ When we engage with truth and vigilance, we model faith and courage to the next generation.

🔔 Closing Call-to-Action (CTA):

The classroom is one of the most important battlefields of our time. Don't assume someone else is protecting your children—you are their first line of defense.

Share this episode with another parent or community leader, subscribe for weekly encouragement, and let's continue raising families who are both informed and equipped.

🎧 Listen Now → https://youtu.be/svSWYlPT1mU

Episode Summary:

In this urgent and eye-opening episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips is joined by Landon Starbuck, national speaker, activist, and fierce advocate for protecting children from abuse, exploitation, and trafficking. Landon's recent documentary The War On Children has reached over 60 million viewers, igniting conversations around the cultural threats our children face—and how parents can respond with clarity and courage. From screen time and online predators to radical ideology and unsafe school environments, this episode gives practical insight and spiritual direction for today's Christian families. Parents, this is not just a political or cultural issue. It's a spiritual battle, and we're called to be informed and equipped. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the chaos of modern parenting—this episode will ground you in truth and action.

Episode Highlights:

✔️ Understanding the difference between abuse, exploitation, and trafficking

✔️ Shocking statistics every parent needs to know

✔️ How culture and tech are normalizing dangerous behavior

✔️ What to know about OnlyFans and "Sugar Baby" platforms

✔️ The rise of abuse inside school systems

✔️ The role of legislation and how Landon is helping shape it

✔️ What parents can do TODAY to protect and disciple their children

✔️ Behind-the-scenes of the War On Children documentary

🎧 Listen Now!

🎥 Featured Resource: The War On Children (Documentary)

With over 60M+ views, this groundbreaking film exposes the cultural crisis harming kids—and equips parents to protect their homes.

👉 Watch now → www.linktree.com/landonstarbuck

📣 Call-to-Actions (CTAs):

📲 Follow Landon Starbuck:

• Instagram: @landonstarbuck
• Twitter/X: @LandonStarbuck
• YouTube: Landon Starbuck Channel
• Website: www.LandonStarbuck.com
• Organization: FreedomForever.us

📲 Stay Connected with Beacon Parent:

• @suzannephillips_
• @beacon_parent
• Website: www.beaconparent.com

📚 Free Resource Hub:

Explore downloads, guides, and family discipleship tools → The Hub

✨ Join the Parent Club (Monthly Membership):

Ongoing coaching and Christ-centered parenting community → The Parent Club

📥 Thinking of Homeschooling?

Download The Pod Packet—a free step-by-step guide to launching your own homeschool pod →www.beaconparent.com/podpacket

📖 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ You are the first and most powerful protector of your child.

✅ We are not called to parent out of fear, but to parent with truth, vigilance, and biblical conviction.

🔔 Closing Call-to-Action (CTA):

You may not be able to fight every cultural battle—but you can start with your own home. Don't be passive. Don't be quiet. Get equipped and stay awake.

Share this episode with a fellow parent, teacher, or church leader who needs to hear the truth—and let's raise the standard for the next generation.

🎧 Listen Now → [https://youtu.be/kVmWA5gfnjU]

In this powerful and timely episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips is joined by long-time friend and national voice Laurie Krieg, Director of Parent Programs at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender.

Laurie brings years of wisdom and fresh insight into one of the biggest questions parents ask: "When should I talk to my kids about sex?" Spoiler: sooner than you think.

Together, they explore how to talk about sexuality, gender, singleness, and same-sex marriage with clarity, compassion, and biblical conviction. Laurie also shares behind-the-scenes insight into her new film and upcoming book—designed to help parents disciple their kids in a sexually broken world.

This episode is a must-listen for parents ready to trade silence and fear for courage and truth.

Episode Highlights:

✔️ Why waiting to talk about sex is a mistake—and what age to begin

✔️ Why gospel-centered sexuality starts with the purpose of life

✔️ How to talk to your kids about same-sex marriage and gender identity

✔️ Why singleness must be part of the discipleship conversation

✔️ How to prepare your kids to respond when—not if—they see pornography

✔️ What Laurie learned while writing her new parenting book and film

✔️ What it really looks like to parent from truth, not pop culture trends

✔️ Where and when you can access the new Christian Sexuality film series

📖 Featured Resource: Raising Kids Discipleship Film & Course

From the creators of Christian Sexuality, this new resource helps parents talk to their children with confidence about sex, gender, identity, and the gospel—all from a biblical worldview.

👉 Start learning → www.christian-sexuality.com

👉 Explore the course → Raising Kids Discipleship Series

📣 Call-to-Actions (CTAs):

📲 Follow Laurie Krieg and Christian Sexuality:

• Website: lauriekrieg.com

• Instagram: @laurie_krieg

• Ministry Hub: centerforfaith.com

📲 Stay Connected with Beacon Parent:

• @suzannephillips_

• @beacon_parent

📚 Free Resource Hub: Get instant access to printable downloads, discipleship tools, and Bible-based parenting guides → The Hub

✨ Join the Parent Club (Monthly Membership): Gain coaching, exclusive resources, and Christ-centered community → The Parent Club

📥 Starting a Homeschool Pod? Download The Pod Packet—a free guide to launch your own homeschool pod with confidence → www.beaconparent.com/podpacket

📖 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ Biblical sexuality begins with understanding your identity in Christ.

✅ Discipleship in your home is the most important defense against cultural confusion.

🔔 Closing Call-to-Action (CTA):

Talking to your kids about sexuality doesn't have to feel scary or awkward—it just needs to be biblical. If this conversation helped you or challenged your thinking, share it with a friend, a spouse, or your parenting group.

Subscribe, leave a review, and join us each week as we equip you to parent with purpose, disciple with direction, and leave an intentional legacy.

Listen Now → https://youtu.be/1krdG5oDPK4

In this timely solo episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, Suzanne Phillips tackles a crucial and often overlooked topic—Pop Culture Parenting. With a blend of personal stories, biblical truth, and cultural analysis, Suzanne challenges parents to examine who they're following, what philosophies are shaping their home, and whether their parenting is grounded in theories or truth. From gentle parenting trends to emotional intelligence buzzwords, this episode asks: Are we parenting based on popularity or precepts? If you've ever felt overwhelmed by conflicting parenting advice, this conversation will ground you in the Word and encourage you to lead your children intentionally, not reactively.

Episode Highlights:

✔️ A powerful story from the sidewalk: what one family taught Suzanne about discipline, design, and fatherhood ✔️ Why "children don't come with a manual" is a myth—and what the Bible actually says about parenting ✔️ A look into the rise of gentle parenting—where it comes from, who popularized it, and what's missing ✔️ How pop culture has influenced Christian parenting more than we realize ✔️ The difference between trends and truth—and why theories aren't enough ✔️ Key questions every parent should ask: Who am I following? What do they believe? ✔️ An invitation to stop parenting from theory and start parenting from biblical design 🎧 Listen Now!

📖 Featured Resource: Beacon Parent's Free Resource Hub

A curated collection of printable tools, parenting prayers, and discipleship downloads to help you raise Kingdom-minded kids—rooted in truth, not trends. 👉 Explore the Free Hub → The Hub

📣 Call-to-Actions (CTAs):

📲 Follow for biblical parenting encouragement and resources:

• Instagram: @suzannephillips_

• Instagram: @beacon_parent

✨ Join the Parent Club (Monthly Membership): Get exclusive content, coaching, and community to help you parent with purpose → The Parent Club 📥 Thinking About Starting a Homeschool Pod? The Pod Packet is your step-by-step guide to build, launch, and lead your own homeschool pod with confidence—from vision and curriculum to finances, communication, and life skills. 👉 Download now → www.beaconparent.com/podpacket 🌐 Explore More:

• www.suzannephillips.net

• www.lifetracklearning.com

📖 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ Your parenting is most powerful when it's aligned with God's design, not public opinion. ✅ To identify as a parent is to walk in sameness with the One who parents you—your Heavenly Father.

🔔 Closing Call-to-Action (CTA):

Trends change. Truth doesn't. If this episode challenged you to look deeper at your parenting foundation, share it with a friend or small group and start the conversation. Subscribe, leave a review, and let's keep raising families rooted in truth—not theory. 🎧 Listen Now → [YouTube]

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. ⸻ 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.

In this inspiring and purpose-packed episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips welcomes Jerrod Gunter, founder of Riotstarters—a national next-gen movement that is igniting faith, evangelism, and identity in students across the country. From the heart of Memphis, Tennessee, Jerrod is equipping an army of teenage disciple-makers to take the gospel boldly into their schools and communities. What started as a local response to tragedy has become a nationwide movement of students owning their faith, finding their identity, and walking in purpose. This episode is a wake-up call and a blueprint for parents to raise world-changers and disciple-makers in their own homes.

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Episode Highlights:

✔️ The story behind Riotstarters—how a single moment of bold faith sparked a movement

✔️ How identity in Christ shapes students' actions, responses, and direction

✔️ Why parents are also designed to lead through hard moments and cultural chaos

✔️ Helping students move from reaction to revival by owning their role as Christ-followers

✔️ What happens when students realize they're part of something bigger than themselves

✔️ How purpose reinforces identity in the next generation

✔️ Foundational truths Jerrod teaches to anchor kids in who they are

✔️ How to partner with Riotstarters and bring the movement to your city

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📖 Get The Featured Resource: Riotstarters Movement 👉 Join the mission to equip and mobilize students to start a righteous riot through prayer, purpose, and evangelism.

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📣 Follow Jerrod Gunter & Riotstarters for daily encouragement and movement updates:

1. Instagram: @jgunter5

2. Riotstarters: @riotstarter104

🌟 Follow Suzanne for More About Parenting with Purpose and Discipling with Direction:

1. Instagram: @suzannephillips_ | @beacon_parent

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🏆 Key Biblical Truths for Parents - Identity + Purpose:

✅ To identify is to become the same—students become like Christ as they walk with Him.

✅ Your response to life's challenges is rooted in who you believe you are.

✅ Purpose activates boldness—when students know why they're here, they live differently.

✅ Parents, your leadership in the home matters—it's your righteous riot too.

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🔔 Feeling inspired by what God is doing through this generation? Don't let it stop here—share this episode, rally your family, and get involved. Subscribe, leave a review, and join the movement to raise up strong, bold, purpose-driven kids who know who they are in Christ.