E141 You Can't Pick Your Family
15 Minutes to Freedom
Ryan Niddel
3.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
It’s no secret to anyone that’s been listening to the podcast. My family history growing up was a bit dicey. Fortunately or unfortunately, we don’t have the choice of picking our family. However, we do have a choice how we react and relate to them. The interesting thing is how our perception of our family can change as we get older.
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| 0:00.0 | The I'm Ryan Naidel, host of 15 minutes to freedom, your daily action guide on how to get shit done. |
| 0:30.0 | Today's episode is You can't pick your family. |
| 0:35.4 | So in today's listener requested episode, |
| 0:37.3 | I'm gonna dive into a topic that's near and dear to my heart, |
| 0:40.4 | which is not being able to control the people in your life that share the same DNA. |
| 0:47.0 | So as many of you know, if you've been a long time listener, I had a little bit of a unique |
| 0:55.2 | childhood. |
| 0:56.2 | When I say unique, I think we all had a unique way that we were brought up. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean, no two of us listening right now had the same upbringing even if we were |
| 1:04.9 | twins and grew up in the same household the things that emotionally would have |
| 1:09.1 | scarred me would be different than the things that emotionally scarred you. |
| 1:13.0 | And I say that with love for our parents, |
| 1:15.1 | the people that raised us. |
| 1:16.4 | Whether there's our siblings or our grandparents or our parents, |
| 1:19.2 | you've probably heard me refer to it multiple times |
| 1:21.6 | and it's something I lived my life by where if you |
| 1:23.6 | look at the development on ages from 4 to 12 maybe as late as 14 in your life there is |
| 1:28.7 | some sort of impactful event that has happened that will eventually dictate the way you live your life as an adult. |
| 1:36.0 | Now for me it could have been my father coming home from work one day, |
| 1:40.0 | seeing that I threw walnuts at our freshly painted garage in Easter or New York |
| 1:43.6 | Seeing that I had thrown rocks from our backyard trying to hit a neighborhood girl and they were smashing on top of the car |
| 1:48.9 | And he was very upset and justifiably so and for that he beat me harder than I can ever |
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