Jeff Zaugg joins us to talk about fatherhood, but we end up talking about something deeper first. What if the pressure you feel as a dad is coming from a scoreboard God never set up? Jeff shares the story of the clipboard, the bridge, and the moment he realized he was trying to earn a love that was already his. This conversation is honest about the whispers that say you are not enough and clear about the truth that changes everything. If you have ever felt like you are behind, blowing it, or just tired, this one might feel like a deep breath.

If you want to know more about Jeff Zaugg, his work, and DadAwesome, visit https://dadawesome.org.

Grab a copy of his book, DadAwesome: https://www.dadawesome.org/store/p/dadawesome-dad-discoveries-to-activate-awesomeness-jeff-zaugg-pre-order

Listen to DadAwesome Podcast:
Apple Podcast: DadAwesome
Spotify: DadAwesome
YouTube: @DadAwesome

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
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• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

Discipline sounds simple until you realize how much of it is actually about you. In this episode, Jesse French and Cody Buriff get honest about the moments they got big, shut down, or simply forgot their kid in the hallway. They explore what is really happening underneath our anger, why something in us feels threatened, and how that spills onto our sons and daughters. This is not about perfect behavior or perfect dads, but about repair, humility, and becoming the kind of man who can keep the slowest heart rate in the room. If you have ever wondered whether you already messed your kids up, this conversation might feel like oxygen. 

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://www.grovecollective.net

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

Ash Wednesday is almost here, and for a lot of us Lent used to mean one thing: fish sandwiches and people with ashes on their foreheads. In this episode, Cody and Jesse unpack how Lent is actually an invitation to face suffering instead of numbing it, powering through it, or pretending we are fine. They wrestle with the idea of an “all-suffering God” and what it means to follow a Christ who meets us in grief, hunger, and weakness. From giving up sugar and coffee to choosing the slow lane on purpose, this conversation gets painfully practical about how fasting creates space for something deeper. If you have ever avoided pain or wondered why it matters, this one might change how you walk toward Easter. 

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

What if the most dangerous men are not the loud ones, but the ones who quietly stopped showing up. This episode wrestles with a different kind of threat, the man who abdicates his place in his own life, marriage, friendships, and story. Through a simple gift and an unexpected phrase, Jesse and Nic explore how passivity can wound just as deeply as aggression, and why presence is a form of courage. They talk about the subtle, daily risks of asking one more honest question, turning off your phone, saying I need help, and staying true to who you actually are. If being good has felt small or safe, this conversation might mess with that in the best way. 

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

In this episode, Jesse French sits down with Greg Ehlert for an unhurried conversation about noticing God’s activity in everyday life. They explore spiritual direction as the practice of holy listening and what it means to pay attention without rushing toward answers. Greg shares how contemplative practices reshaped his understanding of God from performance to presence. The conversation makes room for questions, silence, and the full range of human experience that often gets overlooked in faith spaces. This episode invites listeners to slow down and consider where God might already be at work in their story.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Direction by Gordon T. Smith
• Grafted Life and the Christ-Centered Spiritual Directors Association (CSDA): https://www.graftedlife.org/csda/home/

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

Young sons have a fire within them. But how is that fire channeled and not extinguished? In this episode, Beth Bruno joins Chris for an insightful conversation about the reality of mothering sons. Beth generously shares her own experience of navigating the emotions and shifts during her son's teenage years.  She unpacks the importance of mothers adopting a posture of space and delight with their sons. While risky and new, this offering of space must be paired with the intentional engagement of the father, so the son can continue to grow. This conversation is a wise invitation for both parents to partner together in the becoming process of their children. 

If this conversation stirred something in you and you want to go deeper with Beth’s work, here are a few places to start: 

• Resources for Raising Fierce and Lovely Women: https://www.bethbruno.org/fierceandlovely
• A Voice Becoming book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1478974672
• Follow Beth: https://www.bethbruno.org/

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

One of the shaping but not well-known voices of Restoration Project is Beth Bruno. This episode tells some of the origin story of Beth's creation of the feminine categories of Fierce and Lovely. Beth shares her desire to create language that was exploratory rather than prescriptive for her own daughters and for women across the world. She graciously shared this framework with Restoration Project almost ten years ago, and it continues to be the cornerstone of how we engage the dad-daughter space. This is a ground-level, hopeful conversation about the creation of Fierce & Lovely and its continued relevance and impact on daughters, mothers, and dads throughout the world.

 If this conversation stirred something in you and you want to go deeper with Beth’s work, here are a few places to start: 

• Resources for Raising Fierce and Lovely Women: https://www.bethbruno.org/fierceandlovely
• A Voice Becoming book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1478974672
• Follow Beth: https://www.bethbruno.org/

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

This is part two of our conversation with Michael Krommendyk, and it goes even deeper into the places many men quietly carry. We talk about church hurt, belonging, and what it feels like when your faith still matters but the structures around it no longer fit. Michael shares what it looks like to step away without walking away from God, and how community can hold you when certainty is gone. If you have ever wondered whether your questions mean you are losing your faith, this episode gently pushes back on that fear. This one feels like sitting across the table with someone who understands and is willing to stay. 

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

What happens when the place that shaped your faith is also the place that wounds you? In this first part of a 2-part episode, Michael Krommendyk takes us through his journey from growing up in church to stepping into ministry and eventually stepping away from it all. He opens up about the weight of expectations, the quiet moments of doubt, and the small discoveries of grace that reshaped his story. This episode isn’t about answers, it’s about noticing the questions that hit hardest and the spaces where healing actually begins. Listen if you’re curious about what it looks like to wrestle honestly with faith, identity, and the messy middle of life. 

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast

This episode starts with punctuation, of all things, and somehow lands on one of the most grounded ways to close out a year. Jesse and Chris talk about how many of us end December with a question mark, an exclamation point, or a long, tired comma that never gives us a real pause. What if this time you ended with a period instead. The kind that lets the year be exactly what it was and lets you name who you have actually become. It is a simple idea with surprising weight, and the guys invite you into it with tenderness, honesty, and a pretty unforgettable image of God’s hands cupped around your becoming. 

If you want to grow alongside other intentional men, you can jump into the Grove Collective at 

https://www.restorationproject.net/grovecollective

Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/

To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:

• Website: www.restorationproject.net
• Instagram: @restorationprojectco
• Facebook: Restoration Project
• LinkedIn: Restoration Project

Men, are you ready to reclaim who you were created to be? The Grove East Coast isn’t just a retreat—it’s a transformative experience designed to help you explore your story, reconnect with your purpose, and step fully into the man you were meant to be.

Over four powerful days, you’ll dive deep into authenticity, brotherhood, and leadership, equipping you to live and lead from a place of restoration. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, be challenged, and return home changed.

Date: April 23-26, 2026
Reserve Your Spot Now: www.restorationproject.net/mens-experiences/grove-east-coast