Reversing Generations of Bad Parenting with 6-Time Muay Thai Champion Chris Romulo

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How do you become an incredible dad and husband when you grew up with a neglectful father? How do you break the dysfunctional pattern of your family and reverse generations of bad parenting? Chris Romulo is a 6-time Muay Thai Champion and author of Champions Uprising: Fall 7 Times, Stand Up 8. He tells us what it was like growing up with a gambling addict and how he uses his past experiences to be a better husband, father, and community member. For the show notes and special links mentioned in this episode CLICK HERE.

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0:00.0	How do you become an incredible father and an incredible husband if you had an upbringing with a parent who had a severe addiction?
0:09.0	How do you get through that? How do you break the pattern?
0:12.0	That is today's podcast. We are men. We are warriors. We are dads.
0:19.2	We are dads with a purpose. dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. We have one shot in life to be a dad. Why not make it epic.
0:37.0	Hey what's up guys, Larry Hagner here with the Good Dad Project Podcast. I'm your
0:46.1	founder and host. Welcome to the show and as you guys know if you've been around
0:51.1	long enough I thoroughly enjoy interviewing professional fighters.
0:56.4	I just love it.
0:57.6	I have a martial arts background as well.
0:59.6	I did seven years of Taekwondo, also did another five years of a traditional
1:04.5	traditional Korean martial art called Kuksuwan which is a combination of
1:08.2	Taekwondo and Habkido and I just I love martial arts I mean you can probably tell because I've interviewed a lot of you
1:14.8	have see fighters and today's guest I have former movie tie champion Chris Romulo and we have just I mean Chris is a tough dude right he's North American champion and mooitai
1:29.2	and this guy is about as humble as you could possibly imagine.
1:33.7	He's just so humble, so nice.
1:36.1	And we just have this really great conversation.
1:38.1	We had really good chemistry in this show.
1:40.5	So I wanted to bring him on because number one he came from a very challenging background.
1:47.0	He really did he he's Filipino and his mother was a Filipino immigrant and so is his father.
1:57.0	And what happened with Chris as he grew up is his dad
2:01.0	really wasn't there.
2:02.8	He was there physically, but emotionally and mentally
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