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Dropping Bombs

Larry Hagner. How to BECOME a BETTER DAD. Episode 400 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Bradlea, Success, Mentor, Coach, Advice, Money, Strategy, Training, Entrepreneurship, Therealbradlea, Entrepreneur, Comedy

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Larry Hagner is the creator of the The Good Dad Project Podcast, featured as one of the top podcasts on iTunes. A graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a background in Health, Wellness, and Nutrition, Larry went on to be the founder of The Good Dad Project, a successful organization that is dedicated to helping Dads through various resources. Larry is also a dynamic speaker who has spoken for several churches, men's groups, women's groups, and couples with outstanding reviews.

In this episode, Brad and Larry unpack how to become a better Dad and how to always be growing and learning how to be a good parent in general. This episode is packed with tips on how to be positive versus toxic. Tune in!

00:00 Intro

01:23 Larry’s story

07:00 12 years old and curious as ever!

10:13 “I gave up on life.”

11:00 Second interaction

12:42 “I am not going to be what I grew up with.”

14:50 Spanking your kids

17:02 Fast forward to Larry as a Dad to his son

19:35 How The Good Dad Project started

21:10 “I am not a Dad Guru, I am a Dad student.”

29:00 Screen time

31:35 “I’m bored”

35:00 Advice on feeling

39:00 Disconnection advice

44:00 The questions that create a learning moment

49:00 Fighting

53:00 Spouse respect

54:00 Apply for the Dad alliance and go to https://www.thedadedge.com/alliance

57:45 Why we get married

01:03:59 Advice for Moms: The Mama Wives Tribe

01:05:07 “Trying to execute parenting flawlessly is absolutely impossible.” - Larry Hagner

Transcript

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0:00.0

Listen up or run

0:23.1

What it is Brad Lee back again with another episode of drop bombs today folks in the studio

0:28.4

I got a real treat for you especially if you got kids and you know deep down

0:33.2

You ain't the best parent you can be or at least the best dad Larry Hagner from the good dad project. What's cracking?

0:39.8

What's going on man? It's good to be here dude. It's good to have you especially for me

0:43.9

I got a lot of questions for you. You got you know ultimately your your

0:49.2

stories

0:50.3

Goes back from you know youngster you didn't have a dad right?

0:55.2

Or you had one but you didn't have one around well. So I had I had several

1:00.3

Sort of float in and out over a time span of about you know 18 years

1:04.7

So any abuse oh, yeah, you know, do you know the craziest thing I learned the other day?

1:10.2

What's that the number one indicator of abuse in the in the house child abuse

1:17.0

there's a

1:19.2

Factor that if this factors present if there are a hundred times more likely to have child abuse

1:26.1

What's that step parent really what yeah, that is a right? It's it's mind blowing so like so if there's a step parent in the house

1:34.6

There's a high chance. There's abuse going on in that weird. I can believe that well

1:40.4

It's crazy. So you you had several step parents your dad was absent what happened when it like your mom and dad divorced

1:46.5

Yeah, so I was born in 75 my parents married in 71

1:51.8

From what I understand they were married that when I was born they only stayed together for about nine more months

1:57.8

And then I believe from what I understand their their divorce was pretty bad

2:02.6

So much so that they completely split I didn't know my father growing up and in fact kind of a funny story

2:09.4

I'm 40 so I just turned 46 and I remember this like it was yesterday when I was four

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