From Victim, to Content Zombie, to EXECUTOR with Richard Ziegler
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Richard Ziegler, a 47-year-old entrepreneur and father of 10 children joined Larry today and shared some lessons he learned from his first long-term relationship of 20 years and his second relationship with his current wife and their 10 children.
Richard shared that he has had to learn to focus on what he can control, rather than getting caught up in what he can't control. He believes that this is the key to success and has been using it to make progress in his own life.
Richard's advice is to focus on what you can control. This means taking action and doing the things that you know need to be done, even if you don't feel like it. He also suggests using your time wisely. Instead of getting frustrated when you're stuck in traffic, use that time to consume content that will help you grow.
Taking action is the key to growth and progress, and it is important to remember this as you work to reach your goals.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In life, there's three types of people. |
| 0:03.0 | There's the victim, the content zombie, and the executor. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, my amazing guest shares insights on how we can identify where we're at in those three camps. |
| 0:14.0 | Also, how we can focus on what we can control, how we can avoid the emotional resentment loop in our relationships, |
| 0:23.0 | and the importance of being proactive in learning skills for relationship excellence. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, leaders of families, and leaders of communities. |
| 0:39.0 | We will not only impact this generation of fathers, but the next generation as well. |
| 0:44.0 | The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them. |
| 0:52.0 | We are here to change the world. We are here to change relationships. |
| 0:57.0 | We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their grave with regrets. |
| 1:03.0 | We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, passion, purpose, and direction. |
| 1:11.0 | We are the Dad Edge, and we're here to change the game. |
| 1:27.0 | What's up, gentlemen? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this podcast show and movement. |
| 1:36.0 | And hey, happy St. Patrick's Day. It is Friday, March 17th. Got a great podcast for you guys today. |
| 1:42.0 | And something I haven't done for quite some time. I haven't done an interview with one of our Alliance guys to share their stories and their journeys. |
| 1:53.0 | And I haven't done this for a while just because I used to do this every Friday about probably nine months a year ago. |
| 2:00.0 | Just feature the Everyday Dad who does life with us in the Alliance. |
| 2:04.0 | And the feedback we've gotten from that particular segment and show was you guys really, really loved it because it's like, hey, I love Jocco, but it's kind of hard for me to relate to him. |
| 2:14.0 | I love Matthew McConaughey or Nikki Sixx, but it's hard for me to relate to men like that. |
| 2:19.0 | Doing interviews like this, which the guests I have for you today, doing life with us in the Alliance, is this gives you a glimpse of the Everyday Dad and their story, their struggles and how they've overcome and the work that they've done and the things that they've learned. |
| 2:31.0 | And the feedback I've gotten in the past is like, man, you guys have, you love that show. |
| 2:36.0 | And you know, shame on me that I haven't featured one of our guys for quite some time because we've just been bombarded with people who want to come on the show. |
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