Staring Down the Wolf with former Navy SEAL Mark Divine
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Each day, we have a choice to do things the way we’ve always done them, or to stare down the wolf of fear until he backs off.
Even if we’re not a former Navy SEAL Commander like today’s guest, as fathers, we are the heads of our families. We need to learn how to operate like an elite leader for them, and more importantly, ourselves.
This means we need to be strong enough to face our insecurities, confront our shadows, admit where we’re wrong, adopt a learning mindset, and be willing to ask help.
We are truly honored to have ex-Navy SEAL, Mark Divine, on the show for his fourth time. Among his many accomplishments, he is the creator of SEALFIT and the author of Unbeatable Mind. His new book is Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams.
Today Mark talks about how becoming an elite leader starts with a deep understanding of who we are and why we behave the way we do. He reveals that elite leadership is not about pretending we’re perfect and indestructible. It's about being honest about our weaknesses and failures.
Mark also teaches us how to get a team to commit to one cause and align communication on an intuitive level so that we can better our lives as well as generate a positive change in the world.
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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? |
| 0:25.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:29.0 | What's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to the Monday show. |
| 0:34.8 | This is one of three shows that I do per week. |
| 0:37.5 | Monday, I'm always interviewing some sort of elite level, top level guest. |
| 0:41.8 | Today is no different. |
| 0:43.0 | Wednesday, we actually stream a podcast recording right through our community and we take questions |
| 0:49.8 | from you, the listeners. |
| 0:52.0 | So we have no idea what questions are coming. |
| 0:54.0 | We just know the questions are coming |
| 0:55.4 | and we answer those to the best of our ability. |
| 0:58.0 | It's just two imperfect fathers |
| 1:00.6 | who are sharing some wisdom and some lessons we've learned through our community and |
| 1:04.7 | through doing this through through doing this show. |
| 1:07.6 | Thursday Throwdown is dedicated to the everyday dad where I am interviewing what we |
| 1:11.8 | call just a man in the trenches. |
| 1:14.0 | Interviewing one of our men who is one of our mastermind members who have been doing life |
| 1:18.6 | with us for either a handful of months or a handful of years and just to share their |
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