How to Use Problems as Opportunities
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Life is full of challenges. We all will go through times of adversity. If we're going through them alone, we might feel hopeless and cope in negative ways. How can we get away from a fearful victim mentality, and instead, use problems as opportunities?
Thursday Throwdown is our short show where we feature regular dads. Today we have Jason Palmer as our guest. He has faced adversity and loss, including the death of a child.
At first, he reached for alcohol to ease the pain, often drinking a whole bottle of whiskey just to be able to sleep at night. But deep down inside, he knew that he was meant for more. Life didn't have to be this way.
Then Jason discovered our episode about giving up alcohol. It inspired him to give up drinking and join the Dad Edge Alliance.
He tells us how he took ownership of his life and trained himself to look at his problems as opportunities and to move from fear-based to solution-based thinking.
For the show notes and links mentioned in this episode go to gooddadproject.com/thursday117.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.0 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:29.2 | What's up guys? Welcome to Thursday throwdown, episode 117. |
| 0:33.3 | This is the Dad Edge podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Larry Hagner. |
| 0:35.7 | I am your host and founder of the Dad Edge, |
| 0:38.4 | formerly known as the Good Dad Project podcast. |
| 0:41.5 | Also, the Good Dad Project. If also The Good Dad Project. |
| 0:43.7 | If this is your first time here, |
| 0:46.0 | this is Thursday, throwdown, this is our shorter show. |
| 0:48.6 | This is where we are interviewing a man |
| 0:51.0 | in the trenches, the everyday dad. The guys that are doing it, the guys who are executing |
| 0:55.6 | in their life, the guys who are living purposely and intentionally, and it's just really |
| 1:00.0 | cool to hear from the everyday father. |
| 1:03.6 | So what's the big show on Monday? |
| 1:05.4 | If you haven't heard the big show on Monday, |
| 1:07.2 | that's where I'm interviewing. |
| 1:08.9 | Someone obviously more well known, |
| 1:11.4 | we've had on Navy SEALs, we've had on Pro Athletes, New York Times |
| 1:14.1 | best-selling authors, all kinds of amazing people on the big show on Monday. Part of the feedback |
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