Parenting the Prodigal Child (EP: 1057)
Christian Podcast for Men | Real Men Connect
Dr. Joe Martin
4.9 • 881 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Carl Stewart is a counselor, speaker, and coach who works with men and couples who have been devastated by pornography and sexual addiction. Carl is the author of Porn Antidote: God's Secret Weapon for Crushing Porn's Grip.
Carl has made multiple appearances on the Real Men Connect Podcast, and he can now boast having two of the most downloaded episodes on our podcast: episode #27 and #29 (The Porn Antidote, parts 1 & 2). And if you haven't listened to those yet, make sure you download them.
Carl also serves as a faculty member on our private social media page for men called Real Men University, where he teaches a weekly lesson on how to live a Lust-Free Life. If you want to check out our university, just go to http://www.RealMenUniversity.com and ask for permission to join.
To contact Carl, just visit his website at http://www.carlstewardlpc.org
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| 0:00.0 | What do you do as a parent when you do all the right things, but your child still ends up in the wrong place? |
| 0:06.2 | What do you do if you've trained them up in the way they should go and they still depart from it? |
| 0:10.7 | Or what do you do if you avoid provoking your children to anger, but their behavior provokes you to anger? |
| 0:16.1 | Well, check out my interview with licensed counselor, author, and life coach, Carl Stewart, |
| 0:19.9 | as he shares both his professional and personal experience on this very sensitive topic. Real Men Connect is next. |
| 0:26.7 | If you only had 24 hours to live and you had to teach your son or sons, everything you |
| 0:31.1 | learned about being a man, from life to love, money to marriage, people to porn, and everything in between, what lessons would you |
| 0:39.1 | teach him? Well, when my son was only 12 years old, I wrote a book for him I wanted to leave |
| 0:43.7 | behind as my legacy. It's called Are You the Man? Two hundred and one lessons I wish my dad |
| 0:49.0 | would have taught me. And I squeezed all of those lessons on manhood into just 124 pages. |
| 0:55.0 | The lessons I share in this book not only come from my successes in life, but many of them also come from my painful and even shameful failures, including divorce, abuse, addiction, adultery, and abandonment, just to name a few. |
| 1:08.0 | You can read and learn in less than two hours when it took me over 30 plus years to learn the hard way. |
| 1:14.7 | So just go over to are you the man.com and get your copy today. That's are you the man.com. |
| 1:20.2 | Trust me, your wife and children will thank you for it later. |
| 1:25.7 | Welcome to Real Men Connect. Are you ready to be the extraordinary man, husband, father, and leader God called and created you to be? Then get ready to receive wisdom and guidance from some of the country's most respected men of faith as you learn everything you need to know to go from good man to great man, God's way. |
| 1:45.4 | No judgment, no shame. |
| 1:47.7 | Just real men with real challenges seeking real change. |
| 1:51.6 | All for God's glory. |
| 1:54.9 | Hello, mighty men of God and welcome to the Real Men Connect podcast where we help good men become great men God's way. I'm your host Dr. Joe |
| 2:02.3 | Martin and every week we interview some of the nation's most respected and accomplishment of faith |
| 2:06.3 | to find out what it really takes to become the kind of husband, father, and spiritual leader God called |
| 2:11.0 | and created us to be. Each interview session is packed with practical proven biblical principles |
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