Showing Leadership to Your Kids by Going First
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Are you afraid to go first? We usually like to sit back and watch someone else go first, whether it's being the first to raise our hand, the first to try something we've never done before, or the first to speak up and say what everyone else is afraid to say. But when we become dads, what happens if we continue to let others go first? What does that show our kids?
One of the lessons we want to teach our kids is leadership. We are the leaders of the family and it is our duty to go first, even if we fail. Today we have Kyle Ferris on the show. He's one of our members from the Dad Edge Alliance and attended our Dad Edge Summit last month. He shares his insights on how to be a leader to your kids by going first.
For the show notes and links mentioned in this episode go to gooddadproject.com/thursday116.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.0 | 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 | What's up guys? What's up guys? |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to Thursday Throw Down, episode 116. |
| 0:32.0 | Hope you guys are having just an awesome, amazing, amazing week. |
| 0:36.4 | It's summertime, it's hot outside and I'm excited, very excited to bring you today's show. So question I have for you guys today is, are you |
| 0:47.3 | afraid to go first? So many of us are so afraid to do something for the first time or when we're with a |
| 0:54.6 | group of people to do that thing first. And if you think about it, some of the life |
| 0:58.8 | lessons that we want to teach our kids is what does it mean to be a leader? |
| 1:02.4 | Because at the end of the day we can talk about going first. kids is what does it mean to be a leader? |
| 1:03.1 | Because at the end of the day, when you talk about going first, |
| 1:05.1 | it really boils down to leadership. |
| 1:09.0 | And what do we teach in our kids if we don't, |
| 1:11.1 | if we're not the first to raise our hands and take that step and to be the one to go first. |
| 1:16.8 | So many of us, including me, at times, I just want to sit back and I want to see somebody else go first. I want to see how it shakes out for other people |
| 1:24.4 | or maybe it's because I have fear you know there's something may or may not work out in my |
| 1:29.1 | favor and I don't want to be the first one to screw up. But imagine the life lessons we teach our kids if we're |
| 1:35.3 | too afraid to take that chance, to lead, not only lead ourselves, but lead others, to lead our |
| 1:40.9 | kids, and to be the one to go first. So why is this important to us as dads? |
| 1:46.0 | Why is this important us for our kids, for our wives? If you think about it, we are the leaders in our family. We lead our family spiritually. We lead our |
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