E261 Down For The Cause
15 Minutes to Freedom
Ryan Niddel
3.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Lessons can come when you least expect it, even at a child’s Christmas concert. At some point in all our lives, we learn how to judge other people. Why or how this happens is somewhat difficult to understand. While attending Gianna’s concert a couple weeks ago, I was taught a powerful lesson in the importance of withholding judgement. This lesson was so powerful that it forced me to investigate some areas of my life where I’m unconsciously judging others. Where are you falsely judging people in your life?
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| 0:00.0 | The This is down for the |
| 0:15.0 | 15 minutes of freedom. I'm your host Ryan Nidell and today's episode is down for the cause. |
| 0:21.0 | Today's episode I'm going to share with you |
| 0:25.0 | one of the craziest lessons |
| 0:28.0 | that I've ever seen |
| 0:30.0 | given to me |
| 0:31.0 | by my daughter, |
| 0:36.2 | so for those of you that have kids around the holiday season |
| 0:41.6 | most schools at least elementary schools, seem to have some sort of play, right? |
| 0:45.9 | Some sort of concert, some sort of children's event. |
| 0:49.3 | And they want all the parents to come in for this night of singing or activities and bliss and all this crazy stuff. |
| 0:58.0 | Now I don't say I'm new to being a father, right? |
| 1:01.0 | Gianna is not my biological daughter. She got an incredibly active father in her life, but I don't like the term stepdad or even bonus dad really. When she's with us, I feel as much like a father as I know how to feel. |
| 1:16.0 | So I share with you very openly I look at her as my daughter. That is not in a way |
| 1:21.0 | to diminish what her actual father does for her and the role he plays in her life. |
| 1:28.6 | But we have this concert that is a few weeks ago now |
| 1:36.1 | that really one of the last things that I want to do |
| 1:40.0 | being honest is leave work, fight rush hour traffic, deal with a crowded auditorium |
| 1:47.2 | full of parents that also probably don't really want to be there, and then listen to kids sing. I love my daughter completely. I want to |
| 1:59.8 | support her. But that's just not the thing I want to do. |
| 2:04.0 | And maybe you yourself don't have kids and |
| 2:08.0 | we'll have not experience this yet. |
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