A Father's Journey Inward
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Thursdays we like to interview every day dads. Today we talk to Dad Edge Alliance member, Ben. His mission was to become the best father he could be to his 6 year old son and a 4 year old daughter. He knew that they were picking up on what he did, not what he said, but sometimes he had a hard time being calm. After struggling with anxiety most of his life, he realized he needed to find a way to stay patient, especially when the kids were crying and things were stressful with work.
Ben had to go inward to face his flaws, to confront the truth about who he was and who he wanted to be. This unlocked the journey to living his life according to his values, to staying calm through the storm by accepting others as they are and letting go of the need to control.
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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? |
| 0:28.0 | Hey, what's up guys? Hey, what's up guys? |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, welcome to Thursday Throwdown episode 154. And here we are, Thursday Throwdown episode 154 and here we are Thursday Throwdown is three years old and it's |
| 0:38.4 | been a minute it's been a few episodes since I have been had the opportunity to interview one of our alliance members and again if this is your first time here |
| 0:47.6 | Thursday throwdown is where I'm just kind of doing a dad riff or doing a series or interviewing one of our members over at the alliance. |
| 0:57.2 | And the piece of feedback that I've gotten over and over and over again is that as much as men like the guests that we have on Mondays, it's hard to relate to them sometimes, right? |
| 1:09.6 | Because these are guys who are like writing books and they're like maybe SEALs and they're all these other you know they're operating at these levels that it's very very hard for most of us to relate to and I don't know about you guys but I relate to the everyday dad you know the everyday man who is |
| 1:26.0 | trying to navigate through life through marriage through kids through providing all |
| 1:30.8 | those things right and it's really you know the story the story is really where |
| 1:36.7 | we've learned and I heard this quote a long time ago at a speaking event and |
| 1:40.8 | that's tell me the truth and I'll believe tell me a fact and I'll |
| 1:46.2 | listen but tell me your story and I'll never forget and that's really how we |
| 1:51.5 | learn is through other people's perspective and other people's stories and that's why I'm excited to bring to you guys today's guest. |
| 1:59.0 | He's actually not only an alliance member but also a good friend he's actually here in the local |
| 2:05.2 | area in St. Louis Missouri which is really really cool because the the |
| 2:10.3 | alliance is now worldwide we have we have guys literally from all over the place |
| 2:15.0 | and it's been fascinating, right? |
| 2:18.1 | But it's really cool to interview someone |
| 2:19.8 | who's been a part of our crew here for the past year. |
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