4 Strategies to Keep Calm Through the Chaos
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, life throws us a curveball. We might be cruising along, meeting all our goals, right on track for the future. Our family is thriving. Life is good, then suddenly we are launched into chaos.
That is what happened to our guest today, Gene Villeneuve. Gene is a Canadian who moved with his wife and kids to work in Paris, France. They were living the dream until two years ago when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Gene was on The Dad Edge previously to talk about how to love a spouse with cancer. He did the best he could to be a good husband and dad as his wife went through grueling treatments and surgeries. But just when his wife was recovering from her last surgery, Gene found out that his status with his job in France had changed and he would have 6 weeks to move his family back to Canada.
Gene tells us about how coped with this huge upheaval in his life and four of his personal strategies to keep calm through the chaos.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.0 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.3 | Hey, what is going on guys? Hey, what is going on guys? |
| 0:30.3 | Welcome to Thursday throwdown this is episode 135 which means we are going |
| 0:36.8 | on wow three years since we've launched Thursday throwdown if this is your first |
| 0:41.4 | time here this is our shorter show and this is where I am interviewing a man who is in the trenches, who does life with us in the Alliance, and the feedback I've gotten on this show has been that you guys really enjoy this. |
| 0:55.0 | You guys enjoy this episode because it's someone you can relate to. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean on Mondays on that show I'm always |
| 1:03.7 | interviewing somebody you know like a former athlete or a author or somebody |
| 1:09.4 | somebody who's operating in an elite level and while those interviews are fine and they're they're |
| 1:13.8 | chock full of content it's hard for us to always relate to someone who's |
| 1:20.5 | operating at such an elite level. |
| 1:22.8 | So the cool thing about Thursday throw down |
| 1:25.0 | is I'm always interviewing somebody |
| 1:26.3 | who's in our alliance who, if you look at the average dad, |
| 1:29.5 | these guys are operating at more of an elite level. |
| 1:32.3 | However, their story is way more relatable to us |
| 1:35.6 | than somebody who's maybe in the limelight |
| 1:37.7 | or a pro athlete or whatever else. |
| 1:40.1 | But, so this is episode 135, and you can find everything that we're doing, everything that I mentioned here. |
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