We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others.

We have one shot in life to be a dad.

Why not make it epic?

Guys, what is going on? It's Larry Hagner with the Good Dad Project podcast. Welcome to Five Minute Thursdays. Man, today, I'm just gonna dive right in.

And I gotta be honest, today is gonna be a bit of a tough story

for me to tell you guys, but I want to share this because I honestly

think that it'll help other people. I think it'll help other people that maybe deal with this type of thing

from time to time, but I wanted to share this with you guys as well.

And really today's theme, today's show theme is having great intention, but when it's time to show up, when it's time to show up when it's time to do something when it's time to be

purposeful and present sometimes we can fall short and we can have all the great intentions

in the world but if we don't execute at the time that we need

to execute and do the things that we have intentions to do then our intentions really mean

nothing absolutely nothing.

And I've got a very humbling story to tell you guys today.

So I think you guys saw a blog that I posted a few weeks back and it was the top 10 most manly mentors

that have ever been on the Good Dad Project Podcast.

And it's really been just a reflection

of the best lessons we've learned from our top guests.

And I worked on this blog for literally probably a week and a half because I wanted it to be perfect to be honest with you.

I mean I was calling attention to some pretty big names who have been on our show and I obviously wanted those people that I was calling out to

to really enjoy what we wrote about them.

And so I worked on this blog quite a bit and so a few Saturdays ago I got up really early I got up at about

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