Self-Compassion Instead of Self-Sacrifice

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

At the Dad Edge Alliance, we’re disrupting the default settings of fatherhood so that we can go from living ordinary to extraordinary lives. One of the reasons we men become frustrated and burned out is because we feel it’s our job to shoulder the load for everyone. But if we practice self-compassion instead of self-sacrifice, not only will we feel happier, but we’ll also find we have more to give to everyone in our lives.

Today we interview another dad in the trenches. John Culford is a recent Dad Edge Alliance member who’s been married for fourteen years and is the father of two sons, aged twelve and thirteen.

John shares his challenges with communication, understanding, and connection with his wife and kids. He reveals what strategies he’s implementing to make his family grow closer during quarantine and beyond. He also tells us how getting into the habit of being kind to himself, claiming space, and opening up about his struggles with his family his secret to staying grounded and moving forward.

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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?
0:28.0	Gentlemen, what's going on? Gentlemen, what's going on?
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast.
0:30.0	I'm Larry Hegner, your host and founder of this show.
0:33.0	Hope you guys are doing well, and here we are in the third week of May.
0:37.0	However, as we record this particular podcast, it's April 14th.
0:42.0	So this is, you know,
0:44.0	hit the rewind button as we're recording this right now.
0:48.0	So hopefully the Corona mess has alleviated just a little bit.
0:52.0	Maybe we can get outside our house just a little bit.
0:55.0	I don't know. It's crazy. I haven't had a haircut in like in like two months now. It's crazy like I just have like this full crazy head of hair
1:06.7	where like even when I wear a hat it's like hair sticks out the back. It's kind of crazy.
1:10.6	Hey if this is your first time here this is Thursday throw down and I'll explain what that is but this is our third show that we release every single week and the Monday show is where I'm usually interviewing some sort of elite
1:24.5	Epic guest in some way shape or form we've got we've got Tim Kennedy we just had Mike Mark Robears who's the lead singer of O-A-R
1:33.0	We had Aaron Walker who's a best-selling author of You From the Top.
1:36.9	We are also in the process of nailing down Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons.
1:41.3	What?
1:41.8	That's gonna be kind of cool. I like that dude a lot.
1:44.2	Wednesday we do a live Q&A. We treat it like a radio show. We stream live through our
1:49.1	community and we take questions. Men actually hop on the call and ask questions.
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