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The Dad Edge Podcast

Navy SEAL Tactics for Parents with Chris Sajnog

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

Project, Self-improvement, Stevenson, Podcast, Edge, Education, Kids, Shawn, Family, Kids & Family, Fathers, Fatherhood, Community, Advice, Dad, Good, Health & Fitness, Children

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Retired Navy SEAL, Chris Sajnog, is one of our most popular guests. He is the premier firearms instructor in America, a bestselling author, and the host of the SEAL Training Podcast.

The Dad Edge went to his studio in San Diego for a live, in-person discussion about fatherhood, and we really went deep. Chris was abandoned by his father and carries the wound with him to this day. He vowed not to be like his estranged dad and gave up his accomplished military life to be there for his teenage boys.

Sadly, his sons don’t want to spend time with him. Chris opens up about dealing with the painful lack of connection with his sons, and how he maintains his fatherly presence in their lives.

Chris Sajnog also shares Navy SEAL tactics for parents to help us to learn anything quickly and effectively. He goes over the hard and soft traits we need to cultivate to be balanced men, and how we can apply the warrior mindset to everyday life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. 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.

0:30.0

I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show and welcome.

0:35.0

Welcome, glad you guys are here.

0:37.0

Got a great guest for you guys today, a return guest for you guys today, and one that we share,

0:42.0

eh, quite a story, quite a... guys today I am interviewing a return guest by the name of Chris Synog who is one of the most elite Navy SEAL snipers on the planet.

0:57.5

He is also the best-selling author of How to Shoot Like a Navy SEAL and Navy SEAL shooting. He's been on the show to talk about the 12

1:06.8

traits of a warrior, the hard traits, and the soft traits. So you might have heard his show in the past. He is also one that came

1:15.9

up with the acronym Teams as it pertains to our families. So go check out those shows as well. Today I actually did an interview in San Diego in

1:28.0

Chris's studio. So I got to meet him face to face. We then broke bread after the interview with a group of our guys who are in the dad of the alliance mastermind community. I think there was 12 of us there at dinner, but Chris, he's just an amazing individual and today he gets extremely authentic with some of the ways

1:48.1

he was brought up as a kid and some of the strained relationships relationship that he had with his own father and that

1:55.8

father wound that he has carried. Like all of us, so many of us have carried this father

2:01.6

wound and just some of the typical challenges

2:05.6

that he faces now raising two boys that are that are in their teen years and I

2:10.3

think everybody can relate to that I'm right there well. And the teen years are a bit more complex.

2:16.6

And Chris goes into several different ways that he's trying to navigate those waters and connect on a higher level, a better level with his boys.

2:26.5

And if you're out there and you have teens or you have preteens or even if you got like a seven, eight year old year old man these years dude they are right

2:35.5

around the corner so this show is dedicated for you also before we jump into today's iTunes review, I've got a couple quick

2:46.0

announcements for you guys here. Number one, our Dad Edge Summit is going to be

2:51.9

the first weekend in June, June 4th, 5th, and the 6th.

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