Drugs, Alcohol, and Fatherhood with Omar Pinto

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Today we have Omar Pinto, host and founder of the wildly popular SHAIR Podcast. SHAIR stands for Sharing Helps Addicts in Recovery. He’s part of our Dad Edge Alliance and he’s also a friend. Today he shares the heart-wrenching story of the son he had to give up. He also takes us through his insane addiction to cocaine and alcohol, and how he not only survived, but transformed into one of the most well-known voices in recovery today. This is a special episode you will not forget!

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0:00.0	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.
0:14.0	We have one shot in life to be a dad.
0:20.0	Why not make it epic?
0:29.0	What is going on guys? What is going on guys?
0:32.0	Welcome to the Good Dad Project Podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I am your host and
0:36.9	founder of the GDP. And I'm honored, honored that you hear, listening to this show, listening to this show listening to this particular
0:44.0	episode because this story that you're going to hear today.
0:48.0	Whoo, man, it is going to blow your hair back and probably shock you because it did me.
0:55.0	But today's topic is we're talking about a few things addiction related,
1:01.0	alcohol, drugs, that kind of thing. It's been a fun journey, you know, doing this
1:07.6	podcast and working with the audience and interacting with the audience and
1:11.7	working with the guys over the Dad Edge private Facebook group and also the Alliance because I've really gotten to understand what you guys really enjoy hearing about and this is probably going to make you guys laugh. But I always do this because
1:26.5	you know we grew the show grew in 2016 in April of 2016. This show was one year old so I started in April of 2016, this show was one year old, so I started in April of 2015.
1:35.8	The show was one year old and in that one year I generated I think 50 to 60,000 downloads. So not the type of reach that you want to have, right?
1:48.0	So for the following year I was like, man, I hope I, you know, April of 2016 or 17 I hope the downloads reach like 250,000 you know that was my goal
1:58.4	Well the beginning of 2017 we hit one million downloads. We went from 50,000 downloads to 1 million
2:06.0	downloads in a matter of about nine months. It was crazy. I've never seen growth like
2:10.4	that but I did one thing. I paid attention. I paid attention to the topics
2:16.5	that I could tell you guys like the most and the topics that you guys really enjoy hearing about that are really important to us.
2:26.7	It's really important to me too, is sex, that's a big one.
2:31.8	You guys love the Navy SEAL shows that I've had.
2:34.6	I've had several Navy SEALs on.
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