Modern Man’s Ultimate Guide to Purpose, Passion and Power with David Wagner
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Modern life demands a modern perspective. In a world where the meaning masculinity is in flux, it’s more important than ever to step back from life and dig beneath our protective layers to find out what we’re really all about.
Who are we as men?
How did we get this way?
How can we use our relationships with our own fathers to inform the men we will become?
Today’s guest is David Wagner. He is a transformational teacher, a father, and the author of Backbone: Modern Man’s Ultimate Guide to Purpose, Passion and Power. David goes into several aspects of being a man, but most importantly he talks about the father wound. Even the best dads fall short in some way and create damage that follows their children into adulthood.
David teaches us how to get to know our fathers as men, to witness life through their eyes so that we can forgive them for their shortcomings and learn from their regrets. Don't miss this emotionally charged episode. It will forever alter the way you view your relationship with your father and and the way you show up for your children.
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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? |
| 0:29.0 | Gentlemen, what's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show honored you guys are here. So we are now into May 4th. May the 4th be with you for all of you Star Wars fans out there. |
| 0:45.0 | Kind of a side note, if you guys want to hear a very authentic and humbling story here, |
| 0:51.0 | back in 2005, I actually attended my first and only Star Wars conference. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes yes I've always been a fan of the movies. I'm a huge Star Wars fan. However, I didn't realize how much of an average fan I really was until I showed up to a Star Wars conference back in 2005. I went to a Star Wars celebration in LA and this was right |
| 1:16.4 | before Revenge of the Sith came out and everybody was just so stoked and |
| 1:19.7 | excited to hear how Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader. |
| 1:23.6 | So me and a few friends went out there |
| 1:26.0 | and we just went out there like in, yeah, normal clothes, |
| 1:30.1 | like jeans, t-shirts like normal people, right? |
| 1:33.4 | So we show up to this Star Wars celebration slash conference and out of the thousands of people there, |
| 1:41.8 | I guess we didn't get the memo or we didn't really |
| 1:44.4 | understand how amateur we really were when it came to the movies. We're like, yeah, |
| 1:48.2 | we're fans of the movies. We like it. We show up and everyone's in costume |
| 1:51.7 | except for like us and we were looked at like we were weirdos. |
| 1:57.0 | So it was crazy. It was crazy. I think we, the conference was like. crazy. |
| 2:03.0 | I think we, the conference was like three days, we stayed two. |
| 2:06.0 | We kind of got what we wanted out of it, but we were like, wow, we thought we were fans. |
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