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Walking With Us Across Nine Years.

Ten weeks. That was the plan. Nine years ago I asked about twenty dads from my local church to try a fatherhood experiment with me. We just passed week 460, and I'm in awe. When I look back, what I feel most is gratitude. I think of the dads who said yes. I think of the friends who volunteered, prayed, and encouraged me along the way. I have never carried this alone. Our community has carried it with me. God took a small experiment and multiplied it in ways that have blown me away. And now, nine years in, our Board of Directors has more vision and more clarity than ever about where God is leading us. We are leaning in with our full hearts and praying into the future, all the way out to January 2038, when we will celebrate twenty years as a fatherhood ministry. Thanks for watching this short video and scrolling through some of the milestones we are celebrating.

Jeff Zaugg Founder & Executive Director

Meet 2026's milestones.

2,963

Dads reached in the past 12 months. Each one completed a DadAwesome resource, received a copy of the book, or sat in a room where Jeff was speaking. No digital reach is counted in this number.

Dads Reached

571 direct · 628 in rooms · 1,764 books

126,987

Digital impressions in the past 12 months across the podcast, YouTube, Instagram and guest podcast appearances. We count these separately from dads reached.

Digital Reach

Podcast · YouTube · Instagram · Guest spots

114

Accelerator graduates over the past 3 years. Six weeks, real homework, most of it done with their own kids — across fourteen cohorts, four of them new in 2026.

Accelerator

14 cohorts · 6-week format

$51,081

The largest single fundraising day in our history — 57 riders and 339 supporters at the Minneapolis Cycling Challenge in August.

Minneapolis Ride

57 riders · 339 supporters

1,835

Copies of DADAWESOME placed in dads' homes — through the store, Amazon, churches, coffee shops, and hand-delivered at speaking events.

The Book

A seed we'll find rooted for years

460+

Podcast episodes recorded — nine years of weekly conversations with dads, counselors, grandfathers, and authors.

The Podcast

Nine years of weekly conversations

3

TEAM DADAWESOME took the start line three times this year — Jacksonville Spartan, Minneapolis Ride, Dallas Spartan.

Team Start Lines

Jax · Minneapolis · Dallas

27

Rooms and microphones — seven rooms of dads in a single three-month stretch, plus 20+ guest podcast appearances.

Speaking + Guest Spots

Our fastest-growing channel

4

Lunch and Learns — a brand-new offering. Fractional coaching over a lunch hour, hosted by four men in their own cities. Jeff does not present.

Lunch & Learn

The room is the curriculum

2

Film series completed — Core Discovery flyover as seven short films, plus the full coaching series. Fourteen videos in total.

Film Series

14 videos produced

Small group curriculum launched

A six-session study built to sit alongside the book, so a dad who finishes it has somewhere to take four friends. Turns a book sale into a room — and rooms are the only place the turning actually happens.

Small Groups

6 sessions · book companion

9 years of real impact

Numbers are hard, because it's difficult to grasp the impact of reaching a father. Instead of downloads or views, we focus on dads who completed one of our ministry offerings.

We're so thankful for the broad reach of DadAwesome — nearly 300,000 podcast downloads across nine years — but they're tough to quantify. These are the numbers we celebrate. 8.1% of the 75,000 goal by December 31, 2037.

Conversations

Reached through conversation

Books placed, activation journeys, virtual multi-day activations, and Lunch & Learns.

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Challenges

TEAM DADAWESOME

Dads who stepped into a shared challenge as part of TEAM DADAWESOME.

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Coaching

Accelerator graduates

Dads who completed the DadAwesome Accelerator coaching cohort.

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Community

DadAwesome Daily

Our new community for dads walking together — launching soon.

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Total · nine years

Dads walking with us

8.1% of our 75,000 goal by December 31, 2037.

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6,085 / 75,000 8.1% to 2037 goal

Partners & supporters

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Financial overview.

Covering Q4 2025 through Q3 2026. We report on this cycle so the numbers reach you in the fall, while there is still a full year in front of us.

$269K

Total Expenses

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Monthly Partners · $9,513/mo

$90

Cost Per Dad Reached

$2.12

Cost Per Digital Impression

78% Ministry work · 14% Essential operations · 8% Community growth
Based on ministry costs for the period divided by dads reached under our narrow count — men we journeyed with, not downloads.

"He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers."

— Malachi 4:6