Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again and this time more intelligently that is a quote from Henry Ford and I love that quote and it's perfectly applicable for today's podcast today's topic is resilience and restarting an emotional intelligence and my guest today is one of the world's experts on the topic he shares his own raw and unapologetic authentic story of coming from the ashes of darkness and pivoting his life he shares ways that we

can increase our emotional IQ and how we can be a rock for those who depend on us welcome to the dad edge podcast the dad edge movement creates leaders of men leaders of families and leaders of communities we will not only impact this generation of fathers but the next generation as well the kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them we are here to change

the world we are here to change relationships we are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their grave with regrets we disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention passion purpose and direction we are the dad edge and we're here to change the game

gentlemen welcome to the dad edge podcast I'm Larry Hagner your host and founder of this podcast show and movement hope you guys are doing well embrace yourself for an incredibly authentic raw real and unapologetically authentic show today

today I have Josh Connelly on the podcast he is one of the UK's most influential mental health advocates he regularly speaks on BBC and ITV and he is even spoken in the House of Commons and contributed to the mental health policy in the UK

he also runs resilience workshops for village schools and global brands additionally he is an ambassador for Nikoa a national charity supporting people affected by a parents drinking today Josh speaks openly on the importance of emotional intelligence as a way to optimize our relationships he also shares his incredibly authentic story

story and going through dark times in his life where he actually considered ending at all and how we can use our humility as a superpower to inspire others gentlemen what I'll tell you about this podcast is I was connected to Josh from another influencer that I'm connected to on Instagram and I am so glad that I was connected to him because this man is an absolute beast

and he is such a voice for these topics and I love loved having him on the podcast his story is going to hitch in the heart without a doubt also his authenticity you can hear it in this man's voice how authentically real this man is he also shares all kinds of different ways that we can increase our emotional IQ as well as becoming more resilient so we can be stronger and better for ourselves

in the people around us I know you guys will get a ton out of today's podcast had a whole lot of fun and not to mention go check out this interview over on YouTube

I don't think I recorded it at the end but at the very end of the podcast I was like dude I was like has anybody ever tell you look like somebody famous and what I want you guys to do is head on over to my YouTube channel

the dad edge and I want you to comment who you think he looks like and I'm going to comment back I'm going to let you know who I think he looks like but it probably will take you all about three seconds to realize who he looks like especially if you're a Star Wars fan I'll leave it at that

all right guys no more talk for me let's get right to the podcast today Josh what is up man welcome to that edge

thanks man thanks good to be here and very very excited about the conversation that we're about to have me too and I'm really excited my wife is not a part of this

because like I've known my wife for 26 years and she's got this thing for like this UK accent skies action Irish action so like you know she would be in here she'd be like

oh who's that like if so if she could hear you it's funny right because I think the opposite is normally true as well right over here in in in the UK everybody seems to be taken in by the American accent so which is

maybe go ahead go ahead I was just going to say I think it's probably a lot to do with all you know wanting things that you feel like you can't have right yeah maybe I guess like I always

whenever I hear somebody with like a really cool accent right whether they're they're Irish or from the UK or whatever else right it's like

it's like man we must sound like a bunch of idiots over here like you know what I mean like we just sound like we're dumb like because you guys sound like very sophisticated you know what I'm saying right

you know what you know what you know what you sound like to me actually not so much now that you know I've grown into my adult

but when I was a kid American accents made you sound famous to me because when I when I was a kid when we first got like satellite TV

we're I used to watch Nickelodeon so all of the things I watched on TV yeah we're American right so I sort of connected being American with being like a famous actor on the TV so Americans always sound like famous actors to me

that is I never thought of it like that you know I think I think of the UK accent as as celebrity not as you mentioned it because like you know there's a lot of really big

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