Sal Di Stefano | Why Men NEVER Grow Up: The Biggest Lie Ever Sold About Fatherhood + How Society Glorifies Staying Single By Shaming Mothers
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest lies ever sold to men: getting married means the fun is over, life is over… Men who believe that lie never grow up... They’re consumers. They’re easily manipulated and they don’t care. They don’t care about a lot of stuff…
When you become a dad, and you have a family, and you’re devoted to your family, everything changes including your consuming habits. - Sal Di Stefano
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Wellness + Wisdom Episode 494
Creator of MAPS Fitness Programs, and Mind Pump Podcast host and co-founder, Sal Di Stefano, joins Josh Trent for the first time on Wellness + Wisdom Podcast to discuss his journey from fitness to podcasting, his growth from divorcing his first wife, and how it brought him closer with his children.
Are you ready to discover how the idea of fatherhood has changed for Sal, and what lies our society is telling men about being a father and husband?
Join Sal and Josh to find out what it means to become a man, why we don't truly know our children and why we should be more present with them, and how to grow through discomfort.
Listen To Episode 494 As Sal Di Stefano Uncovers:
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- Sal Di Stefano
- Mind Pump Media
- Mind Pump Podcast: Josh Trent Of Wellness Force On The Future Of Tech In Fitness & Beyond
- 437 Josh Trent | Death & Rebirth: Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Wellness Force…
- The things that happen to us vs the things that happen for us.
- Why Sal sees his journey as a blessing, even though it was difficult and painful.
- What it was like being raised in a traditional Italian family that immigrated to the USA and didn’t have much money. The sense of responsibility: Being t
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| 0:00.0 | One of the biggest lies ever sold is the following. To men, getting married means the fun is over, life is over. |
| 0:08.0 | Really what you need to do is go bang as many chicks as possible, buy and drive fast cars, go make money, go enjoy yourself. |
| 0:15.2 | Hugh Hefner, Dan Bilzarian, they're the happy fun ones. |
| 0:18.4 | You know, being a dad, you're dumb, you get a dad baud, right? |
| 0:22.1 | That's a disparaging comment, right? You wake up, you go to work, go to bed, like, everything sucks. |
| 0:28.0 | Okay? That's the lie that's told to men. Men who believe that lie never grow up. What does that person do a lot of? |
| 0:34.0 | Buy shit. They're consumers. They're easily manipulated and they don't care. |
| 0:38.5 | When you become a dad and you have a family and you're devoted, |
| 0:41.0 | everything changes including your consuming |
| 0:43.4 | habit. You're less monetizable from an unconscious standpoint. Completely. They sell |
| 0:48.1 | it to women too. What do they tell women? Having children is oppressive. You're |
| 0:51.5 | going to find fulfillment and happiness by building your |
| 0:54.0 | career. You want to keep your body because that's what's most important looking |
| 0:57.2 | sexy. Don't have kids. Kids will ruin your body and that means life is over. |
| 1:00.8 | That's Sal de Stefano and this is episode 494 of the Wellness and Wisdom |
| 1:05.8 | Podcast. Wellness and Wisdom will be explored the physical and emotional intelligence to live life well. |
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