Humorous Ways To Not Suck As A Dad with Cory Jenks
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Cory Jenks is the founder of ImprovRx and is a Clinical Pharmacist in Ambulatory Care at Optum. He's a convention-breaking pharmacist, comedian, author, and speaker who combines his healthcare expertise with improv comedy skills to help others adapt to uncertainty and create meaningful connections. Through his innovative approach, books, and performances, he inspires audiences to break free from limiting prescriptions both medical and metaphorical–while finding humor in life's challenges.
Today, Cory Jenks shares his unique journey of integrating humor and improv into his roles as a dad and healthcare professional. The conversation explores how a sense of humor can transform parenting challenges into cherished memories and teach resilience through laughter. Cory discusses his background in improv comedy, which he initially pursued to cope with the unpredictability of healthcare, and how it became a vital part of his life.
Cory explains key improv principles, such as the "yes, and" technique, demonstrating their application beyond comedy to enhance listening, empathy, and adaptability in daily life. The episode features interactive improv exercises showcasing how these skills can improve interactions with patients, strengthen marriages, and enrich parenting experiences. Listeners will gain insights on incorporating humor and improv techniques to become more present and resilient in their roles as fathers and husbands. Cory's new book, "I Guess I'm a Dad Now," is highlighted as a resource offering practical and hilarious tips for new dads, complementing the episode's engaging and lighthearted discussion.
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| 0:00.0 | Having a sense of humor as a dad is vital. It transforms challenges into cherish memories. |
| 0:05.2 | It fosters strong connections with our kids and it teaches our kids resilience through laughter. |
| 0:11.4 | Embrace humor to lead with joy and authenticity. That quote, |
| 0:16.0 | couldn't find a better quote for today's podcast and today's guest. Today's guest is so |
| 0:21.3 | unexpected, so light-hearted, |
| 0:23.1 | adds such a comedic relief to his journey as a father, |
| 0:27.3 | husband, as well as even a pharmacist. |
| 0:30.7 | All that and so much more in today's show. You guys will love it. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, |
| 0:41.0 | leaders of families, and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this generation of fathers, but the |
| 0:47.6 | next generation as well. 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. |
| 0:58.0 | We are here to change the world. |
| 1:00.0 | We are here to change relationships. |
| 1:02.0 | We are here to change relationships. |
| 1:03.0 | We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers, |
| 1:06.0 | so no man goes to their grave with regret. |
| 1:09.0 | We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, passion, purpose, and direction. |
| 1:17.7 | We are the Dad Edge and we're here to change the game. Oh my gosh if there's anything that's underrated in our journey as husbands and |
| 1:41.6 | especially dads like man it's a sense of humor and I know that I've |
| 1:49.7 | had to leverage my sense of humor to help raise my four crazy energetic lots of moving parts lots of |
| 1:57.5 | lots of absolute craziness with my kids and having a sense of humor has been a game changer because I'm definitely one of those people guys that I used to take life so seriously still do to this day. I still want to take a lot of things way too seriously and I sometimes that steals my joy and I definitely don't want to compromise, you know, just connections and love and laughter and that kind of thing there's a time |
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