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Ben Greenfield Life

How To Become A Strong Family, Turning Hard Hikes Into Teachable Moments, Raising Confident And Resilient Children & More With Joe And Mell Hashey

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Ever found yourself pondering the decisions you'd navigate if life orchestrated an unexpected turn and reshaped your family's journey?

My guests today, Joe and Mell Hashey, had their lives turned upside down in 2020, forcing them to bid farewell to their cherished "dream home" and embark on a 2,000-mile journey to an unfamiliar town, where they knew no one. This transformative experience became the catalyst for the creation of Strong Family Co. — a versatile framework any family can adopt to establish values and cultivate stress-free family leadership.

Joe Hashey earned his Master of Education from Colgate University, where he played football for a few years before four knee surgeries. He went on to become an award-winning high school social studies teacher for eight years and a local youth coach. Mell Hashey is a former social worker turned stay-at-home mom of three.

In college, Joe's father passed away due to preventable health issues. Fueled by a passion for promoting health and wellness, Joe launched a local personal training company dedicated to helping busy adults live longer and healthier lives. He has been a prominent leader in his community for 15 years and was honored as the Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Person of the Year in 2018.

Realizing he was dedicating more time to his business than to his family, Joe swiftly rebalanced. Now, as a business consultant for companies coast to coast, he applies those lessons to guide the most important organization in his life: his family.

Together, the Hasheys penned, Strong Family Guidebook: Your Guide to Raising Confident, Independent, and Resilient Children, a practical guide full of the wisdom that transformed their family into a resilient unit. Joe and Mell emphasize the irreplaceable role parents play in their children's lives, reminding you that amidst career and financial pursuits, parenthood is earned through daily commitment. From organizing family meetings to instilling lasting principles in your children, The Strong Family Guidebook offers an operating system for your family's unique values and dynamics, fostering a resilient family, where individual strengths contribute to the collective magic that binds you together.

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0:00.0

My name is Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.

0:04.0

Today, young man don't know when they become a man because it's just you kind of go through school or you

0:08.4

a man when you graduate high school is at college. There's no like right of passage and

0:11.6

then people are confused on their role in society.

0:13.6

We kind of took all that and said, hey, we want our kids to at least know who they are and the

0:17.4

contributions that they can have to their own personal lives. And so we created a right of

0:21.6

passage. The one that I did with my older two boys, this was a hard one. We did.

0:26.0

We climbed up Pike's Peak. The round trip, it's like a 26 mile hike from where we start.

0:30.0

And it's quite the climb. And at the top I give them the option of,

0:34.0

hey, do you want to take this cog railway down

0:36.0

or do you want this envelope, this gift from your mother and I,

0:39.0

and then we're going to have to hike down.

0:41.0

And they both quickly, they're like,

0:42.8

just give me the envelope.

0:44.2

I mean, this is a long hike.

0:45.2

They're a little tired.

0:46.5

And in the envelope was a gift for them.

0:49.8

What we gave them was a watch.

0:51.1

It's a Garmin outdoor watch like I have and it was to signify

0:56.3

and wrote a letter on it that now you are more in charge. You're at the age where you're more in

1:01.5

charge of your day. You have to decide what habits you need to do, what habits serve you,

1:06.3

you have to show up on time to things. We brought it all together like hey you can do these

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