Grow Up: Become the Parent Your Kids Deserve with Gary John Bishop
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Gary John Bishop is one of the leading Personal Development experts in the industry with a global reputation that has impacted tens of thousands of people worldwide. His “urban philosophy” approach represents a new wave of personal empowerment and life mastery that has caused miraculous results for people in the quality and performance of their lives. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life" and "Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back".
In this episode, Larry Hagner and Gary John Bishop reunite for the fifth time to catch up on each other's lives, including Gary's recent trip to Germany with his sons who are pursuing their dreams of becoming professional soccer players. They also discuss the upcoming data summit and how their experiences tie into the book they are working on.
One of the key themes explored in the podcast is the importance of understanding family dynamics. Larry Hagner and Gary John Bishop discuss how studying oneself and reflecting on their own upbringing is crucial for personal growth and effective parenting.
Gary John Bishop uses the metaphor of "biting your own teeth" to illustrate the difficulty of self-reflection. It is impossible to physically bite your own teeth, just as it can be challenging to objectively observe and analyze oneself. However, Gary John Bishop emphasizes that this introspection is necessary in order to gain a deeper understanding of one's own parenting style and the impact it has on their children.
Gary also shares their own realization from the book, highlighting the tendency to either repeat or reject aspects of their own childhood. He admit that he had not previously viewed his parents as individuals with their own experiences and challenges. Gary’s book helped the host recognize the importance of understanding their parents' stories and how they influenced their own upbringing.
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| 0:00.0 | No matter how we were raised, chances are we want to do better. |
| 0:04.3 | We want to have more patience, we want to have more connection, and most importantly we want to know |
| 0:08.4 | what to do and when to do it, so we can be more confident. |
| 0:12.2 | Listening to your podcast and what I heard on that podcast really spoke to me. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm always quick to anger, I'm always quick to discipline and I realized that a lot of that comes from how my parents were with me. |
| 0:22.0 | There was good, but I think there was a lot of |
| 0:23.7 | dysfunction as well. There was a lot of fear tactic and there was really no |
| 0:26.8 | communication. That kind of sparked an interest and I just decided hey what better |
| 0:30.9 | to invest than me trying to be a better father and a better |
| 0:33.8 | husband I got three boys and I got one girl and they're all teenagers you know what I mean? |
| 0:38.3 | What I've gotten out of it so far has been very |
| 0:45.0 | but more intentional going out on dates with them, taking them to their favorite spot and just picking their brain, having conversations that I wouldn't even know where to start, |
| 0:49.0 | but by having the suggestions that I've gotten through the dojo and on this platform I've been |
| 0:53.6 | definitely been able to prove that and be more patience and tolerant and think about what my |
| 0:58.1 | reaction is going to be when they're being teenagers I'm really grateful for this and I'm |
| 1:02.4 | really grateful for you Larry. |
| 1:03.6 | It's never too late to learn these skills. |
| 1:05.4 | Time is not on our side. |
| 1:07.4 | So if you still have kids and they're still under your roof, |
| 1:10.5 | the time is on your side and it's never too late to start. |
| 1:13.2 | Head on over to the Dad Edge.com. |
| 1:15.0 | forward to Alliance, fill it in an application, schedule a call with our team and join |
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