EFR 512: The Great Unlearn - How to Give Yourself Grace When Creating New Belief Systems with Cal Callahan

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Chase Chewning

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5 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Cal Callahan is the host of The Great Unlearn podcast, on which he dives into unlearning and questioning what the world taught us, and—in the process—how to be the truest version of yourself, minus the bullshit.

Chase and Cal kick things off with a discussion on parenting, with Cal disavowing the oft-quoted saying, “There’s no such thing as a bad kid; just a bad parent.” There was a time he believed it, but not anymore.

He now insists that parenting is about showing up for your kids while allowing them to experience the fullness of life. It’s about setting appropriate boundaries but never beating yourself up when your children stray on occasion.

“I’m not doing this because I want to be a cool dad,” says Cal. “I’m doing it because I want this kid to have his own experience. And I want to show him that I trust him and I trust his judgement.”

And just as Cal had to unlearn everything he thought he knew about raising kids, so too did he have to forgo many of his beliefs about how to live his own life.

Listen in as Cal dares us to question our belief system, to figure out whether our beliefs are really ours or someone else’s, or to simply discover whether or not we’ve been BSing ourselves all our lives. He invites us on a journey back into our body, where we’re able to put our trust in our hearts over our minds.

Finally, he challenges us to continue loving our wounded selves even as we unlearn our old paradigms and step into a new phase of knowing.

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Key Highlights

Cal reflects on how he was forced to reevaluate his “picture-perfect” existence when he found himself fearing for his life during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Most people never experience a radical come-to-Jesus moment as Cal did in 2017. How can the average person find their own unique path to healing and making big changes in their life?
How can you continue to love the past version of yourself and glean valuable lessons from that “previous” life as you step into a new phase of knowing.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey all this is Calahan from the Great Un Learned Podcast on Ever Forward radio.
0:06.4	Today, Chase and I talked about giving yourself grace. Think about that. It's not easy
0:12.3	but there's a lot of medicine in that and how our society has
0:16.2	given us different tools and it's my intention to share my tools with others.
0:20.9	So I hope you enjoy the show. It was an amazing conversation.
0:25.0	Welcome back everyone. This is your number one source for inspiring content from people
0:31.6	who are putting a purpose to their passion and truly
0:34.8	living a life ever forward. Conversations and messages that will take your
0:40.0	fitness, nutrition, and mindset to the next level. I am your host Chase Tuning. This is
0:47.5	Ever Forward Radio. The great unlearn and unlearning what does that really make. The Great Un Learn.
1:05.0	And unlearning, what does that really mean? Well, today's guest, Calahan, is going to break this down for us
1:10.0	and one of the most real, present, honest conversations that I personally think I've had in a long time.
1:20.0	Cal opened up his home for me when I was on a little visit in Austin, Texas a couple months ago,
1:25.7	and his story is going to just, well it's going to blow you away.
1:29.7	You're going to hear this traumatic experience that he went through just a few years ago and how in a
1:36.5	moment his entire reason for existing changed. He radically transformed his life, radically transformed his belief systems,
1:47.2	and now all of us, maybe we don't have a significant life event like this that causes these things to kind of unfold quickly before our eyes and give us so much to think about and ponder about and want to change.
1:59.0	But I'm here to tell you that we are going through a time in our world history, American history, human history, where I think we all need to do a little unlearning.
2:12.0	I think we all have been given the opportunity, the opportunity
2:17.4	of the same human experience and correct me if I'm wrong, I wasn't a history major in college but I don't know of
2:25.4	another time in human history where we all have been going through the exact
2:31.4	same scenario.
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