A Dad's Guide to Healing Relationships, Embracing Forgiveness, and Asking the Hard Questions with JC Batista
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
JC Batista is a father and a husband. He shares his powerful and heartbreaking story of losing his 25-year-old son to substance abuse and gun violence. Despite facing unimaginable pain and grief, JC and his wife have shown incredible resilience and strength in navigating through this tragedy.
In this Dad Edge Podcast episode, Larry Hagner is joined by JC Batista and heard about JC's poignant tale of losing his 25-year-old son and the profound impact it had on him and his wife. Their journey, steeped in sorrow, is also a narrative of resilience and shared purpose. The episode explores crucial themes like personal growth in the face of adversity, the effects on marital and family bonds, and discovering strength amidst tragedy.
JC Batista places a strong emphasis on personal growth, underscoring the necessity of mental, emotional, and physical preparedness for life's challenges. He advocates for continuous self-improvement as a tool for building resilience, enabling individuals to more effectively overcome difficult periods.
The strength of JC's marriage shines through as he recounts the various hurdles they've encountered. Their united vision of nurturing a robust family unit has consistently guided them. They've learned the importance of mutual support during times of grief, becoming each other's pillars of strength. This unwavering commitment to their union has significantly contributed to their collective resilience.
Addressing the inevitable anger and unanswered questions that follow tragedy, JC Batista admits to grappling with these emotions himself. He stresses the importance of redirecting anger into constructive paths like personal growth and solution-finding. Rather than dwelling on the unanswerable "why," he advocates for focusing on the "how" – how to grow, how to help others.
In conclusion, JC's story is a powerful illustration of the resilience possible in the face of personal tragedy. Through their harrowing experience of losing a child, JC Batista and his wife have confronted their grief together, offering unwavering support to each other and their family. Their story is not just one of enduring pain but also of finding purpose and strength in each other, highlighting the value of self-improvement, open communication, and helping others navigate their struggles.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. The Dad Edge Movement creates leaders of men, |
| 0:07.3 | leaders of families, and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this |
| 0:12.2 | generation of fathers, but the next generation as well. |
| 0:16.1 | The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the |
| 0:20.3 | amazing example that their fathers emulated for them. |
| 0:23.4 | We are here to change the world. |
| 0:26.6 | We are here to change relationships. |
| 0:28.9 | We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers |
| 0:32.3 | so no man goes to their grave with |
| 0:34.0 | regret. We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention |
| 0:39.8 | passion, purpose, and direction. |
| 0:43.0 | We are the Dad Edge, and we're here to change the game. Gentlemen what's going on welcome to what I would call a special episode of the |
| 1:06.0 | Dad Edge podcast with a remarkable individual I am Larry Hagner I'm your |
| 1:10.7 | host and founder of this podcast show and Movement and the remarkable guest that I have for you today is J.C. |
| 1:17.0 | Batista. He's a devoted father and husband, but he has faced life's darkest challenges and has emerged with a mission to bring |
| 1:25.9 | awareness to substance abuse and inspire others to overcome tragedy through |
| 1:30.2 | unwavering mental toughness. And unfortunately, in June of |
| 1:34.5 | 2022, JC's oldest son was shot and killed. And obviously this is a father's |
| 1:41.4 | worst nightmare. |
| 1:44.0 | But during our conversation he opens up about the profound lessons he's learned |
| 1:48.4 | and the wisdom he's gained from his own journey. |
| 1:51.2 | We explore the depths of the human experience and touching on themes that will |
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