Are You Using Work to Avoid Home Life?
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Being a father and husband is full of challenges. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed and unsure of how to handle problems at home. We have the urge to get away. It's easier to keep busy with work and focus on providing rather than wrestling with the day to day issues of family life.
Today's guest is everyday dad, Jeremy Bennett. He has been married for nineteen years and is the father of two teenage boys. Jeremy is a firefighter who is passionate about his career. Jeremy traveled frequently and became involved in the world of firefighting as a leader. He lived for the adrenaline and action in his life.
As his sons grew up, Jeremy knew he wasn't present in his role as a father. His way of dealing with tough times was to leave. One day had a wake up call and realized he needed to find a way to balance work and family life. Now he tries to help other young firefighters do the same.
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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? |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, what's up guys? |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, what's up guys? Hope you're having an amazing week. |
| 0:31.0 | We are one week post of Thanksgiving and I don't know if you guys have |
| 0:36.9 | recovered. I don't know if you still have the turkey hangover or what's going |
| 0:42.0 | on but hopefully you guys enjoyed Thanksgiving week. |
| 0:47.3 | One thing that we've been talking about all week, I'm sorry all month in the month of November |
| 0:52.0 | is the holidays and how much pressure that puts on us and |
| 0:55.8 | all these things that are wrapped up between November and December. |
| 0:59.8 | And I just did a podcast on it last week and the week before about how this time a year we see more suicides with men between the ages of 30 and 50 then combined throughout the entire year. |
| 1:14.3 | So this is not an easy time for most people. |
| 1:16.9 | Yes, it's supposed to be celebratory and yes, |
| 1:19.0 | we're supposed to enjoy it, but the holidays can wreak havoc on our confidence, on our self-development, on we can |
| 1:28.4 | really be self-destructive in this period of time. |
| 1:32.0 | We put a lot of financial stress on ourselves a lot of |
| 1:35.2 | stress on ourselves as far as expectations go even the holidays you know getting around people |
| 1:40.1 | that you know with their family but maybe we don't like being around those people too much |
| 1:45.8 | so I know everybody has probably one overly critical person or maybe a person in their |
| 1:52.2 | family that has a drinking problem or |
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