The Power of Humor Through Hard Times with Mirthell Onyx
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
When life gets tough, we tend to take things too seriously. We get discouraged and bitter. We might even lose faith.
In this episode, we get a chance to speak with Mirthell Onyx. He has been an ordained minister and marriage and family therapist for over twenty years. Mirthell is also a dad who writes, directs, produces, and acts in his family’s viral YouTube channel. There they depict how they rose from “the struggle life” to “the Onyx life” as a self-made, millionaire family utilizing social media as their primary entertainment platform.
Also the host of The Onyx Life podcast, Mirthell seeks to inspire and educate families on how to simultaneously build happy homes and financial empires. Today he teaches us how to use the power of humor through hard times and keep the faith to get through anything.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men, we are warriors, we are dads, dads with a purpose, dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.6 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.8 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.6 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:25.1 | Hey, what's up guys? |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the dad edge podcast on Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome to Thursday Throwdown. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm going to start you guys out with a quote today and that quote is this, tell the story, |
| 0:40.9 | feed the soul, make them laugh and heal the heart. |
| 0:44.8 | That is a quote from my guest today, Mertzel Onyx. |
| 0:48.5 | You guys might know who he is because the Onyx family is America's first African American |
| 0:53.8 | family of entertainers, authors, entrepreneurs, consists of parents, Mertzel and Rita and |
| 1:00.6 | their four children. |
| 1:02.4 | With a subscriber following of over six million subscribers and over three billion views |
| 1:10.0 | on their YouTube channel and again, their mission, tell the story, feed the soul, make |
| 1:17.0 | them laugh, heal the heart and that message reaches around the world. |
| 1:23.5 | So who is Mertzel? |
| 1:25.1 | Mertzel is the author of several inspirational books that show his passion for his faith, |
| 1:30.1 | his family and having been ordained a minister and marriage and family therapist for the |
| 1:35.6 | past 20 years. |
| 1:37.1 | He also writes, directs and acts in many of the Onyx shows by bringing the family story to |
| 1:42.8 | life depicting how they rose from the struggle of life to the Onyx life. |
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