Hello and welcome to another episode of The Family Business with the Alesssies. And today, Steve Alese is here with Mary Alese and Gabrielle Lese. So we've got all the Alessis or some of the Alesees around the table.
SPEAKER_02The oldest and the youngest here.
SPEAKER_01Oh boy. That represent our part of our family ministry business that we have. And what we do in our podcast booth is we are talking about things here that we don't get to talk about on Sunday. So the Family Business Podcast is all about that because family is everybody's business. We want to make sure we're touching some area of family life when we come together. Now, today I'm starting my timer one minute late. So I'm hoping to go 30 minutes. But here we are, and we're going to be looking at a subject matter that uh came up with um Gabby on the porch the other day, because a lot of our conversations that we have in the podcast booth with our podians are things that we discuss as a family. So you are responsible for our youth ministry here at the church, and you head up a Monday night and a Wednesday night, two different locations. And you wanted to talk about um the whole gender issues. Yeah. So let's put a title on this today. And we're gonna call it Jeans and Jeans. Yes. All right. J-E-A-N-S and G-E-N-E-S. And we're gonna go ahead and deal with the gender issues that our youth and parents are dealing with today. So uh to get going, you want to say anything to kick this off, Mayor?
SPEAKER_03I just want to notice what you're wearing.
SPEAKER_02Yes, we need to say something. I she did. Why didn't I say something? I just did. Welcome to my world, people.
SPEAKER_01So we have Gianna's Papa, which is a granddaughter. Yes, our granddaughter.
SPEAKER_04That by the time this is aired, she will be here.
SPEAKER_01She'll be here. Right. So we're representing. And what are you wearing, Mary?
SPEAKER_03I have Gianna's Mia, because I'm gonna be called Mia. Well, that's my goal. We'll see what she wants to call me. Hopefully, it's somewhere close in that, but we'll see. Yeah. So we uh some great friends of ours had these shirts made for us, which is so sweet.
SPEAKER_01Very sweet.
SPEAKER_03And so actually, I think we're wearing them in hopes that it will induce labor of some sort.
SPEAKER_01Thanks, Donnie. I like mine.
SPEAKER_03Thanks, Denise. I love mine.
SPEAKER_01And somebody did these for us who Yes, Adriana Roman made them.
SPEAKER_04Jonathan's daughter. That is Jonathan and Jackie Roman's daughter.
SPEAKER_01She's very talented. She's so very cool. Well, thank you for recognizing these and your comments to everybody as we get into these very deep issues, Mary.
SPEAKER_03Um, wow, this is, I have to be honest with you, I'm kind of shell-shocked that we're even having even having to have this conversation. Because, you know, how did we get here so fast and furiously that this is the turmoil our kids are in? This is the fight of of their generation, who they are as boys or girls.
You know, we struggled with who we are as people, yeah, you know, and they're actually struggling with who they are as gender. And that is just beyond me. And I had said to our kids years ago, we we've talked to them about being in the family business with us, that there would come a day when they were, we knew they were born for such a time to speak to their generation's issues and situations and have answers. I can honestly say I never projected that this would be the subject at hand, that it would be so prevalent even among kids whose parents really are involved, that this is something that they're fighting on the front lines of their of their kids' everyday existence. So it's imperative that we get in this podcast booth and have this conversation because there is resources for parents. Yeah. And um that's what we're trying to do with our family business in this podcast is to give them resources to know how to take it back and fight for their kids. Um, but again, it's just surreal. Yeah. This is even a thing.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'll tell you this it's not that we're gonna be combative here today. Yeah, and we don't hate anybody, we don't have a problem. What we want to try to do is help the parents who are having problems with this in their home.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And even some of the younger listeners. Now, we are in ministry, we are pastors, everything we do has a foundational Bible truth. Everything we build is on Bible truths from the Word of God, our Bibles. So if a listener is not accustomed to that, then you know, just kind of hold truth to some of these things we're sharing, because maybe having the truth of the Bible will bring more stability to your life. If you're not a churchgoer, you're you're not in that, you're not, you don't call yourself a Christian or you're not religious, um, spiritual. Uh, just give us some room throughout this podcast to use biblical uh scriptures because that's what we found or build our life upon. It's and it's definitely who we build or what we build our church upon. So that being said, Gabs, let's get into how this came about and some of the things that you were led to share just a week ago.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so when I spoke last Wednesday or a couple weeks ago, I shared with all of the students how I truly believe to this day the hardest things to fit into are genes. And not the genes of your blood, the jeans that you wear.
SPEAKER_05J-E-N-E.
SPEAKER_04J-E-A-N-E. Levi's Levi's. I think the hardest things truly to fit into are jeans because you can never have the right size. They either fit around your waist, but they don't fit around your legs. When I was younger, that was the hardest thing for me because I was much more chunkier and round. So finding the right pair of jeans that fit me was so difficult. And kids have that same, the same way and the same struggle that you have trying to fit into jeans is the same struggle that kids are going through right now fitting into the world. That's good. Fitting into their schools, fitting into the culture, fitting into social media, because now that's become a platform or a community to fit into. So kids are having this struggle where I even told them we will wear how sometimes we'll wear a pair of jeans that are too tight, but they look good on us. And so in the morning you feel good because you haven't eaten anything. Yeah. But you go all day and you're thinking, I look good. These are my jeans. Yeah, these fit me. And then by the end of the day, you're like, oh my gosh, I need to take off these pants. So at dinner, you just pop open the top button, you put your shirt over it. Because you are trying to fit a mold and an image that isn't you. And so just like we do that with genes, we do that with different personalities. We do that with different identities, different traits, different um parts of our character that we actually try to fit into an idea and a society that we know is not us. And part of that is because we are in this world, but we're not of this world. Kids need to know that they were made by God, they were set apart by God. So they're never going to fully fit into this world. But the biggest thing here, and what you said earlier, mom, that you can't believe it's we're talking about gender. At the root of it, we're talking about confusion.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And every teenager from right now to the beginning of time dealt with confusion. Absolutely. In one way or the other. In one way or another. It's the same tactics, it's the same old game that the devil's playing. But what he's doing is he's covering up to make parents afraid or to make siblings afraid, to make people fearful of what's going to happen when they're with their child. When at the root of it, they are confused. They're confused. And they need help. And what do you do as a parent? You help bring clarity. You help bring affirmation to the situation. You help bring confidence to your child. We know the enemy is a father of lies. So he's going to confuse your child. He's going to get in there. And now he's using confusion about their gender, about their personality, about their beliefs. It's it's kids are stepping into adult decisions way before they're even able to vote nowadays. They're they're being told make an opinion and have your opinion on all of these issues according to gender. Oh, but you don't have a say on who the president is. Right. So why are we getting kids involved in these issues if they can't even help make a decision for arbitrary?
SPEAKER_01Or they can't drive a car until they can't even drive a car. Why are we giving them all that confused information about the driving their life with their gender?
SPEAKER_04No, yeah. So it's at the root of it, it's confusion. Yeah. And kids are trying to fit into a society when they need to be uh informed and and spoken to about this isn't who you are. You are a child of God.
SPEAKER_01So good. Well, we gonna we'll we'll look at the Bible for for a minute here. And this
is Jeremiah, you uh a prophet over in the old testament, and it says, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart, I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. I just just that first phrase, before I formed you, I knew you. Now God, the all-knowing, all-powerful one, knows you. And if he knows you, then he made you a certain way coming out of the womb. Who is man that then should come along somewhere and try to tell you you're not who you were made to be?
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01That's that's a pain. I mean that that that that's like, and I I hope you're this word may not you know be the best word, but it's like mind rape.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You can't go tell a kid.
SPEAKER_03No, it is. That's the right word.
SPEAKER_01You have everything that says you're a certain gender because God knew exactly what he needed you to be to get on this earth. You can't tell that person then, don't. You're not that. That's right. You're something else. You're you're another sex.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You're another gender. That that's mind rape. It it messes a kid up with dramatic.
SPEAKER_04It is very traumatic.
SPEAKER_01Talk about gender confusion. You're confusing someone even more. So the all-knowing one who knows everything, knows how to put this whole world together, knows how this works in the world to keep a healthy world environment. You need a male, you need a female, you need them to be able to have children. Right. Now you're getting in there with the enemy that is the author of confusion to try to get there and confuse your kid.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01And a parent has to be at a position where they say, wait, son, daughter, don't, don't buy into that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We don't have to argue with them. No. We just need to make sure that our voice is more consistent than the voice of someone that's outside of their life trying to speak to them about gender and social media, which is the reason why you got to protect your kids with social media and the influence of television, what they're watching on television. And they, you got to protect them because those other voices right now do not play along by the same set of rules that God's word is playing by for you. It's very simple. It's black and white, it's male or female.
SPEAKER_03There's no question.
SPEAKER_01This is not about the alphabet who we are. We don't have to go down all of those paths. And if you watch individuals that are dealing with this, that is a male that's painting his fingers his fingernails, yeah, uh putting makeup on, you see a very confused and hear a very confused and hurt person. And that's why where we get into this, it's so confusing because we don't want to hurt anybody. But if we let them stay in that deception, they'll be hurt even more down the road.
SPEAKER_03I have to say this because I think it's a great analogy. I know for me, when I'm struggling with something, uh when I see a picture of the end result, it helps me. But I was listening to um a video of a pilot in Canada, and he was telling the story of years ago. It was one of the worst aviation accidents of all time, and it was two huge airliners that were on a jetway. You can look it up and read it and hear the story. In total, there was over 500 people on these
planes. And the two, because it was a very dense day, the two pilots just trusted what was in their ears. And instead of asking the normal question, it's so foggy, should we not take off? This is potentially dangerous to take off in this fog. They're both on the ground. They don't ask the questions because they just trust the other people around them that they would never do damage or harm. They didn't take that sense of urgency in their own hands. Meanwhile, they were having these thoughts like, This is so foggy, this is so dense. I know once we get above it, we'll be okay. But should I ask? No. And they just didn't, neither one of them did. Well, when they took off, they collided and almost 600,000 people, sorry, 600,000, 600 people were killed that day. And it is considered the worst tragic uh aviation uh in history. And you can look it up. Um, but he made this statement. He said, the problem that we have with a world that keeps uh burning and getting on fire is that we there's two phrases we don't say. He said, the first one is this is stupid. And the second one is this is dangerous. Wow. And because it's stupid, it's dangerous. And I was so struck by that because we are so caught up in, well, we don't want to hurt anybody and we love everybody, and we're not trying. When it comes to my children, I am going to be fierce. And that's not even a part of the conversation or the equation. Yeah. This is stupid. Yeah. This thought process to listen to somebody at school who's trying to tell you you're something you're not is stupid. I don't care if you're straight, gay, trans, too skinny, too fat, like a boy, like a whatever they're trying to label on you, that's stupid. The person may not be stupid, but what they're trying to propagate in your mind, this is stupid. And if you believe it, it's dangerous. And I think that's what we need to be thinking more and more as parents. We've been way too um overly empathetic to the people that aren't our kids and more sensitive to the words that are coming out, because I want to be politically correct and I don't want to hurt anybody. The only person you're hurting by not saying, son, that is stupid. Yeah. Those thoughts are stupid. And guess what? They're dangerous for you. Yeah. When you hear words like that, it shocks your system because your parent is not trying to, well, you know, now your friend means well, no, no, no. That's stupid. Yeah. And the truth is, if we don't do it, the end result is catastrophic. Yeah. There's no in-between, there's no happy ending in this scenario. No. Zero.
SPEAKER_04Well, mom, if there was a guy, suspicious guy running around our yard, yeah, and I thought he's gonna break into my house, my what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna call him out. I'm gonna say, hey guys, there's a robber in our home. You did it. Any per I did it. You did it. Any person, any parent, any child, if you sense that someone's about to come into your home or break into your car, you sound an alarm, you catch them, you make sure you're gonna do it. If you are sensing a spirit that's coming into your home and you feel like it's about to take something from you, if you're sensing something that is off, we don't just say, don't say anything, just let them come in. Let's let's see what happens. Because if I call him out, he's gonna be offended that I accuse him of being a robber, even though he's walking home with all of my watches. I don't want to call him a robber. But he could kill us. And he could kill me. That's right. No, call him out. Yeah. You're protecting your family. You don't need to protect the person that's stealing something from you. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Gabby. When I was growing up and I got caught doing something with a buddy, um, my parents would tell me, and this is where I I wish parents would get again, come back to this today. Be a parent instead of trying to be a friend to your kid. Yeah. And my I they'd say, Hey, why did you do that? I said, Well, David did it. Oh. And they'd make that stupid, or they'd make that comment that'd always make me feel stupid. Well, if David jumped off a bridge, would you? And I'm like, no. That's right, because we're not gonna let you jump off that bridge. Yeah, that's right. Well, parents are there, like, uh, go ahead, jump off the bridge with David. Follow David.
SPEAKER_04What was David's parenting? What was their their thought process behind this? That's right. But just go jump off the bridge. Don't worry.
SPEAKER_01Because you know, I want I I don't want you to be upset or confused, or you know, go just go do it. No, parents need to be a parent. Yeah. And quit trying to be a friend to your kid. And parenting during those young years are the most important. And here's one of the reasons why God gave you a child is for you to raise that kid. Yes, right. Bible tells us children are a heritage of the Lord, they're a gift that God gave you. They're not even yours, they're his that he gave you for a period of time to raise up properly. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Bible says raise up a child in the way that he should go, and when he's older, he won't depart from it. There's a way in which to do it.
SPEAKER_02That's right.
SPEAKER_01So that when they get older, they won't depart from it. Well, that means you only have them, they're on loan for about 18 years.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So you better take care of the gift that's been given to you as a parent and don't let somebody else get in there and mess up your gift that is yours. Right. Yeah. But you're going to stand accountable. All of us are going to stand up accountable and say what God's going to say, what'd you do with the gift? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's right.
SPEAKER_01What'd you do with the kid? And your kids tell on you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So if your kid's living a confused life, I hate to tell you, it's proof that something in the home isn't solid and very secure with teaching and values. If other people's values that are that are contrary to yours are being played out in your home, that may happen for a minute. Right. But continual uh addressing, the continuation continually addressing what is not the right kind of values in the home is strong parenting and it's going to root out that stuff.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_01In the long run.
SPEAKER_04Whenever, I mean, we have a friend that she pulled out her daughter, she's not even four years old, and they noticed that she would go to school. It was cute little Christian schools, more like a daycare. But even there, their daughter came home and she picked up little attitudes. Yeah. And they thought, she's three and a half, four. How is she already picking up something from outside? She's already letting at a as a four-year-old just little attitudes and not listening, not sharing with her sister, those little things, they were like, she's getting that from school. And they pulled her out because they said, This is not, we're not going to accept this. That's good. It should not change when your kids in high school, middle school. No. If you see an attitude or a mindset, if you're noticing when you gave them the phone and they've been on Instagram for too long, and now you're noticing ever since you gave them that phone, they're creating this attitude or this idea of protecting a now a group of people, take out the thing that is affecting them. If it's at school, figure out how to get them out of there. Because it's only a season of time, and you need to make sure, because this is the season where your kids are growing, they're proving themselves, they're, they're everything's gonna stick right now. So, as a parent, if it's a school that's the problem, take them out. I survived. I'm graduating in a week. I made it through through homeschooling. You can graduate from a great university, you can do it. You're doing great. Even if you're homeschooled. If it's the phone, take away the phone from them. They don't need a phone. My parents are a perfect example. Teenagers, we don't need phones when we are teenagers. You can make it, you can survive. If it's social media, it's just a season. Get them to that age where they're confident and secure of themselves, and then you can take a sigh of relief.
SPEAKER_03And that is so good because I think what happens with parents, especially nowadays, is the false teachers, as I like to call them, because that's what the word calls them, that have made parents believe that they have to submit to a process and a system, or somehow their kid fails. So if that's the system, and I don't allow my kid to live up to that system and participate in that system and get an A within that system, then I'm failing as a parent. Meanwhile, you go sit. I I I really challenge every parent, mom or dad, go sit one day in your student's classroom, just spend all day, take a day off, and just go sit and walk with them through the halls, walk, sit with them at lunch in the lunchroom, and just see what they experience and the spirit that's there. And is that really the environment you want your kids in? Because you have it's a short window. So when you, when you're really aware, and I know moms will say, oh, I did that before my kids started school. I went, I talked to the teacher, that's well and good. But in today's society, it's the kids that are more dynamic and uh outspoken than ever before because they're also they're ignorant, they don't mean any harm, but they're all just trying to find their place. Yeah. So it makes them feel good to tell your son, you know, all these girls, oh, if you don't have boys around you, or if you're not, if you're not if you're not around the boys playing sports and you like you're around the girls, well, you're gay. And it's okay, be gay. Well, who's who? Who are you to tell me who I am? Bottom line. Or, you know, you look, you would make a pretty girl. So maybe you're you should be one, or you would make a really good looking guy. And you're a tomboy and you like softball, you should be a boy. Who are you to tell me who I am? You don't have any a voice in my life. And that's really the posture parents can take. Don't let anybody tell you who you are. And you know what? That's never changed. No matter what the fruit is. I remember my mother telling me that, your mother telling you that. We told you that. Nobody gets to define you and tell you who you are. We do at home. Yeah. We're the ones who say who you are, who God's made you to be, and what your potential is. So don't leave it up to the circle of friends. And one last thing is catch it in seed form. If the seed you were talking about attitude, it's just started, jump on it right away. Do not wait for it to bear greater fruit in their lives.
SPEAKER_01Especially if if you have a kid that's a little rebellious
early on and you can see that. Start dealing with it young. Yeah. Immediately. Can I make a an announcement here that the church family doesn't even know about yet, but they'll get it. We're we have uh officially launched Somerset Metro Academy.
unknownWoo!
SPEAKER_02Audience Clap, Audience Glap.
SPEAKER_01Audience Clap. And uh it'll be starting in uh August of this year. And it's gonna be with kindergartners and first graders for the first couple of years as we go forward here. Um, small in number for right now, limited, and but we have partnered strategically with a great organization of charter schools and at our Daydeland campus. At our Daydeland campus. The reason we're doing it is, you know, quite frankly, I'm done arguing about this. And, you know, that we got to do something rather than just say something. And uh with parents, I hope they look they see the same thing here. Absolutely that I'm not gonna just get up on some stage and talk against something. I'm gonna get involved and do something about it. And so we're going to make it at the earliest age possible. We're gonna help these kids and eventually be at a place where for the first eight school years, nine school years of their lives, we are there with good principles, healthy principles, healthy teachers and environment, professional environment, clean environment, healthy, good educators. We're doing all of that because we're just not gonna argue anymore. We're gonna do something for our small part of the world and help people that want to come alongside of us and do it the way that is right. And if we can do that, by the time that child does graduate from their eighth grade experience and moves into a middle school, they'll be so solidly grounded in the right kind of principles. That's our goal anyway. Then they'll be able to face the challenges that are beyond that, middle school and in high school, or uh high school in itself in college. So that's where we're going to be taking the fight is to the young minds at the educational, youngest educational level, so that parents who do have to go out and fight the real battles of life with their career, they can find a good place of education that will align itself with the same kind of godly principles and values that we hold on to. So that should be uh something that we'll be hearing more about going forward. But uh help me do this, Gabs, because um parents parents feel like their hands are tied.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And what are you trying to encourage parents to do to help their kids see the the right of this?
Yeah. Well, number one, do not be afraid of it. I think that's that's the biggest thing. Don't fear an idea or an attitude that's coming out in your kid. Don't fear your kid. Don't be afraid that you don't know what to do in this situation. Um, yes, the struggles are different nowadays, but like we said, the root is the same. It is.
SPEAKER_03That's right.
SPEAKER_04All it is is an identity issue. Yeah. And every teenager goes through the same thing of an identity crisis. It's going to happen. It needs to happen to strengthen them so that when they're older, they're more confident in themselves. So they need to have this time. So, number one, don't be afraid of it. Number two, affirm your kid and sow in the seeds of who they are. You do it before anybody else does. I would say catch it early. Have the conversations with your kid. Hey, people are gonna tell you this about you, people are gonna try to share this with you, people are gonna try to whisper this in your ear. But you are this. You are who God says you are. You are like me and your mom. You are like me and your dad. Look at us, look at how we've lived our lives. It's worked for us because we've followed the Lord. It's going to work for you. And this is our family. This is our family, this is how we do it. Can I tell you, we have it above our door right now at our house, but even we've had it in our entire lives where it says, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And that statement, I swear, every time you guys reprimanded us, you brought that in there.
SPEAKER_01Don't swear.
SPEAKER_04Oh, sorry. Um, but every time you guys brought that, I promise.
SPEAKER_01You can cuss, you just can't swear.
unknownOh, okay.
SPEAKER_04I promise every single time we had a family discussion, it ended with, hey, and at the end of the day, as for this house, we serve the Lord. That's right. This is what we do. And so have those conversations with your kid. Yeah. Don't be afraid of it. Don't be afraid of their response. Don't be afraid of what they're gonna say, how they're gonna act, if they're gonna get mad at you, don't be afraid. You're the parent. You know what to do, you have the instincts for it. God has put you in that place for a reason, you can do it. If I am 22 and I have to sit in front of all of these students every Monday and Wednesday and speak to them, you can do it as a parent. That's right. It is it's it's difficult for me, but I know that the Lord has put me here for such a time as this. And I believe the same thing for every parent. The Lord has placed you as their parent for such a time as this. That's it. You are equipped for it. Don't be afraid, affirm your children, keep them around you, have the dinner conversations, and just love on them and keep them in church. Yes. Keep them in church. That's it. Homework, they can stay up late for homework. Honestly, keep them in church.
SPEAKER_01Mara, what do you want to say?
SPEAKER_03Everything she said, and then some with emphasis. And again, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Don't be a scared parent, no matter what the scenario is. Take charge of your home lovingly, kindly, but strategically and with confidence, because it is so easy. We get in the comparison trap, get out of that trap.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Don't there's a season in your life when your kids are in that incubation stage. They really truly are. And obviously that those those age brackets have kind of moved around a little bit as the culture's gotten crazy. But take confidence in who you are as a parent. They don't have another mom or another dad. You are it. So be strong, be courageous, don't be afraid of the scenarios that are out there. There's a lot of trouble that's lurking, but don't be afraid of it and take charge.
SPEAKER_01Um, do this before we close this out. I want you to uh take a minute and hit the whole thing of the parent who says, I don't want to force something on my kid. And whether it's this right here, oh, I can't, if this is, you know, if if it's a male and he's acting like a female, I don't want to tell him that he's not a female. I don't want to tell him that he's a male. Or if it's, hey, let's go to church this Sunday, or you know, no, I want to go to the beach, I want to go play in the pool. No, talk about that in comparison, Mary, because I think Gabby picked up your analogy about
the broccoli and celery.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. No, so someone tells you, I don't want to force church, or I don't want to force this idea on my kid. I want it to be, I want it to come from their heart. Well, my thought or my response is this. If you want your kid to leave, to live a healthy life and to live long and to be energized, you're gonna force broccoli, you're gonna force celery, you're gonna force healthy food on your child, you're not gonna give them McDonald's every single day. And I can tell you that your kid is not going to voluntarily say, Mom, I want broccoli for dinner. That's not just gonna happen. They have to be, their palate has to be trained. And so the same goes for church. You know what's good for them, you know what's gonna help them live a long, successful, blessed life. It's gonna help them, it's going to help train them. So just like you force broccoli and you tell them you're not leaving this table until you eat the broccoli. And math and science. And math and science, yes. The same thing goes for church. The same thing goes for teaching them these ideas. Don't let them get up from the table unless they have attended church, unless they have they have understood what you're saying.
SPEAKER_03And I I'll just paint this quick picture. Doing that, if you don't reinforce that, it's like telling your kids, let's just send you out to the world without a map. You're just allowing them to stay in a season of being lost. Yeah. And you cannot do that. You have to be the compass. You are the guide.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Nobody else is not the teacher, not the principal, not the best friend. Nobody but you. You are the guide and the compass of their life.
SPEAKER_01Well, welcome to another edition of the Family Business Podcast. It's like we sat out on the back porch, had a little glass of wine, or I did.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say.
SPEAKER_01And um, we just had a family chat.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01And that's how we do it to make sure our family stays on point and we don't get swayed by the different voices and the winds that are out there trying to pull us in the opposite direction. And I hope that that's what you will pick up out of this podcast today. Be a strong parent. Be a parent that knows what's right and wrong, and then teach it to your kids and don't have to depend on somebody else doing it for you, like a teacher that doesn't have that investment in your kids' life. All right, we said it. Can't talk about it on Sunday, but we did today in the podcast booth. And thanks again for joining the Alessie.
SPEAKER_04Family business.
SPEAKER_01Family business podcast with business with the Alesssies.
SPEAKER_04Why?
SPEAKER_01Because family's family is everybody's business.
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