Letters from a Father with Allen Carter
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Allen Carter is a husband, father, and author of the book Letters from a Father. For years, Allen has written a monthly letter to his children during their teenage years. The letters cover an amazing array of life lessons and show an intimate glimpse of one family's life journey. All families have the same challenges and connection that makes this book endearing and relevant to all who read it. There is a Christian faith and foundation throughout the book with stories that are brought to life through Allen's letters.
Today, we are going to be talking about Allen's life as he has recently become an empty nester. He is also going to dive into his marriage and how he and his wife keep God at the forefront of their relationship. Lastly, Allen dives into his book and the purpose behind it.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men, we are warriors, we are dads, dads with a purpose, dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.6 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.8 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.6 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.0 | Hey gentlemen, what's going on? Welcome to the dad edge podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show mission movement. All of it. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to the dad edge fierce Friday, where I am interviewing epic men in our |
| 0:41.8 | dad edge alliance mastermind community. Sometimes I'm doing what I did today, |
| 0:45.2 | which is I'm interviewing someone outside of the alliance but has a killer |
| 0:48.4 | message for you guys. |
| 0:49.4 | And I wanted to get it to you as quickly as possible. |
| 0:52.9 | So a question that I have for you guys today is if you could reflect and write |
| 0:58.2 | a letter to your kids on a regular basis, how often would you do it? |
| 1:02.1 | Not only that, but what would you say? What type of template would you use? |
| 1:06.4 | And the reason for this of writing letters and reflecting to our kids is, |
| 1:11.1 | I think we can all agree with you've been a father for a year or you've been a |
| 1:14.3 | father for 20 years or 30 years that you know the time absolutely flies by. |
| 1:20.4 | Most of us will say, man, I can't even believe that my son or daughter |
| 1:25.0 | is whatever age they're at, call it 18. I feel like just yesterday they were six. |
| 1:30.0 | Where did that time go? But what if we actually took a productive pause? |
| 1:34.4 | It could be on a monthly basis, it could be on a quarterly basis, but some way |
| 1:38.6 | shape or form when we took time to write our kids a letter no matter how old |
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