Episode 885: Forgiveness is a Gift with Larry Hagner
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dennis speaks with Founder of The Dad Edge and Author, Larry Hagner.
Larry's BIO:
Hey guys, I’m Larry, founder of The Dad Edge.
Half of my childhood without a father figure in my life and the other half with toxic father figures that came and went. I made one decision as a young boy, and it was that my kids would know who their father was. I knew firsthand, the devastating effects of growing up without a positive father figure in my life.
When I became a father for the first time in 2006, it became clear that I didn’t have the skills to be the best for my sons. I was short on patience. I was quick to anger. My marriage was mediocre at best.
I learned quickly that the desire to be a legendary father, man, and husband wasn’t enough. I had to learn the skills to actually do it.
Our children are not born with manuals and the Journey of Fatherhood doesn’t necessarily come with a “map.”
There are challenges, twists, and turns along the way.
As much as we truly enjoy our children and being a father, we tend to internalize our struggles. When we do that, we get distracted and stressed out. As a result, we do not enjoy the journey of being a dad and husband as much as we would really like to.
I finally decided in 2015, to start The Dad Edge Podcast and learn the skills from experts to live a legendary life as a husband, father, and man.
Over the past 6 years, I have interviewed over 700 experts on: parenting, mindset, patience, communication, intimacy, optimizing health, and the power of community.
I am the proud father of 4 energetic boys. The husband of my soul mate, Jessica for the past 18 years. Life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows every day. However, I learned skills to optimize my life as a man, husband, and father. If you are a lifelong learner and you don’t have this thing figured out…join me and let’s continue to learn together!
Live Legendary!
Today, Dennis and Larry discuss his mission behind "The Dad Edge" brand, his story and core values as a father and as a husband, learning how to connect with your partner, the strengths you need to have a successful relationship, the truth about love, his relationship with his dad who left his family when he was only 10 years old, finding closer and grace and why forgiveness is a gift.
Find out more about Larry and "The Dad Edge" here: https://thedadedge.com/
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| 0:00.0 | I give my dad grace and forgiveness because I think as a human being when he was 35 years old and he was trying to start his life over and had a two year old son and another one on the way he was probably like holy shit like what have I got myself into here? Maybe that was his line of thinking. |
| 0:15.2 | But six months after we were reunited, |
| 0:18.5 | I asked him to dinner, and I think he knew why. And so we're sitting there exchanging just pleasantries at dinner and he's like, and he knew. |
| 0:27.0 | He goes, so why are we here? |
| 0:30.0 | He goes, I think I know why we're here, but why are we here? |
| 0:33.3 | And I go, |
| 0:37.0 | sorry, I, uh, I told him I said listen I have a son now because of the time Ethan was born and I said I |
| 0:50.3 | want to have this conversation one time and then I don't want to have it again. |
| 0:57.3 | And I said, I'm going to be very blunt with you with some questions, and I just want you to be honest. |
| 1:04.0 | And then let's not talk about it again. And I remember asking him, I was like, |
| 1:07.0 | can you please explain to me |
| 1:09.0 | why in God's name you left when I was a kid, |
| 1:12.0 | when I was a baby, and then did it again when I was 12 like why how why? And he was very humble about the whole thing. |
| 1:22.8 | He was like, I was a kid pretty much when I had you |
| 1:26.2 | and that's no excuse. |
| 1:27.1 | He's like, that's zero excuse. |
| 1:29.4 | He goes, before I explain all this, he goes, you know, I need to ask for forgiveness. He's like, and it was the worst thing I've ever done and I did it twice. |
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