Surviving a Full to Empty Nest Transition with Matt Meline
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
We only have 18 summers with our kids, and then they're gone. As much as we don't wanna think about it. Our kids will not be under our own roof forever. Today, my guest and I talk about ways we can embrace moments, be a hundred percent present with our kids, create a relationship with our wives, where it feels like we're always newly dating, no matter how long we've been together and how we can save for the future.
Father of 4 graduates and loving husband, Matt Meline is the founder and CEO of PrairieFire, a company dedicated to helping financial planning and advice.
Matt is committed to improving his clients' quality of life through better money planning and investments by building the components to help families prepare so that when their children go to college it is not an issue of stress or conflict, and helping them plan for an exciting empty nest lifestyle along with a financial plan for the second half of their lives.
A graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Matt traveled the Midwest primarily as senior manager for various banking organizations but in the mid 1990s decided to become a full time financial planner.
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| 0:00.0 | We only have 18 summers with our kids, and then they're gone. |
| 0:03.9 | As much as we don't want to think about it, our kids will not be under our own roof forever. |
| 0:08.8 | Today, my guests and I talk about ways we can embrace moments, be 100% present with our kids, |
| 0:14.4 | create a relationship with our wives where it feels like we're always |
| 0:17.9 | newly dating, no matter how long we've been together, and how we can save for the future. |
| 0:23.7 | Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, |
| 0:31.1 | leaders of families, and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this generation of fathers, |
| 0:36.9 | but the next generation as well. The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked |
| 0:42.8 | in their favor because of the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them. |
| 0:47.9 | We are here to change the world. We are here to change relationships. We are here to |
| 0:53.2 | positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their grave with regrets. |
| 0:59.0 | We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, |
| 1:03.9 | passion, purpose, and direction. We are the Dad Edge, and we're here to change the game. |
| 1:23.6 | When our kids start to pull away and become independent as teenagers, that's when we know we |
| 1:31.5 | have done a good job. What's going on, gentlemen? My name is Larry Hagner. I am the host and founder |
| 1:36.4 | of this podcast show and movement. Welcome to the Dad Edge. Gentlemen, today, my guest |
| 1:42.0 | have a bit of a different flavor for you. It's all about getting ready for the teenage years, |
| 1:50.0 | getting ready for when our kids are older, not just from an emotional standpoint, |
| 1:56.9 | or from a connection standpoint, but even a financial standpoint. My guest today, his name is Matt |
| 2:05.0 | Malene. He is the best-selling author of his brand new book called Emptiness Full Pockets. |
| 2:12.7 | How to emotionally and financially prepare you and for your children's future. |
| 2:18.4 | Today, Matt and I discuss several different topics. One of them being, hey, make sure |
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