We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others.

We have one shot in life to be a dad.

Why not make it epic?

What's up, guys? What's up, guys? Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I am your host and

founder of this show. Happy holidays to you. We are just gearing up here for the Christmas season, the holiday season, whatever that means to you.

And let's just call it like it is.

This time of year creates a tremendous amount of stress and I know that you guys are very very used to me doing a live

Q&A on Wednesdays, but not this week.

This week I wanted to do something just a little bit different.

In light of a lot of what I've been seeing on our Dad Edge group on Facebook,

a lot of questions around gift giving and a lot of questions around how do we handle

stress around the holidays. Lots of questions around what do we, what kind of gifts do we buy I want to make sure I get the right gift for my wife

right gifts for my kids all this stuff right all the all the things that we want to do to make the holidays magical, right?

So I just wanted, I wanted to do this because I've seen so many comments and posts on our

Facebook group.

I've been emailed a lot of

different questions lately about what do you guys do for the holidays? What are the

traditions look like? What do you what do you get for the kids? You know, is it get

them something that they need, something that they read and something that they want?

What themes do you go with? So I wanted to address that instead of doing a live Q&A, I want to address

just a realization that we had not too terribly long ago as it pertains to Christmas

and the holiday season and gift giving and presents and all this other stuff. So my wife and I

...