The Strong, Mindful Father with Navy SEAL Jon Macaskill
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The next generation is our responsibility. Our kids are watching us. What kind of world do we want them to build?
Today, The Dad Edge celebrates episode 300! Thank you to all of our listeners for being part of this community of men who want to Live Legendary. When we invest in ourselves, when we join together, when we level up, it changes the world. If you've been enjoying the show, please take a few seconds to leave us a review and let us know your thoughts.
Our guest for this milestone show is Jon Macaskill. He is a Retired Navy SEAL Commander, a husband, and the father of two. He is also the Executive Deputy Director of Veteran's PATH, a nonprofit helping veterans rediscover meaning, purpose & joy through mindfulness, meditation and a safe community.
Jon talks about how he uses his training and experience in the SEAL teams to achieve seemingly impossible goals. He tells us how to respectfully cherish our spouses and parent as a cohesive team. He also teaches us how to become strong, mindful fathers by overcoming selfishness and practicing compassion.
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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? |
| 0:29.0 | Gentlemen, what's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show. |
| 0:35.0 | Been waiting a long time for this show. |
| 0:37.0 | Do you know why? |
| 0:38.0 | Not to mention the fact that we have a great guest for you today, |
| 0:41.0 | but because this is episode 300. This is episode 300 and I figure |
| 0:47.4 | this is a really good time for me to share why our logo is a Spartan shield. |
| 0:55.7 | Okay, now I am not necessarily a certified history buff. |
| 1:02.0 | I know enough to be dangerous. Okay. So let me just share real quickly |
| 1:05.9 | since we have we are on episode 300 and our logo is a Spartan shield. Let me give you some context as to why. Okay. So 300 is one of my most favorite movies and actually that story the Battle of Thermopyli, is one of my favorite stories in history. |
| 1:26.8 | And I love that movie and I love the fact that it was this fight 300 against thousands in the Persian army and the |
| 1:38.5 | Spartans did a heck of a job over I think it was a three day period of basically fending off the Persians and they |
| 1:46.5 | put up a heck of a fight before they at the very end they lost. Now however the Spartans were literally the most elite warriors on the planet in their time. |
| 1:58.6 | And the reason that they were like the Navy SEALs of warriors out there. They were much much different than the |
| 2:06.8 | surrounding countries and their armies and their warriors and all that good stuff. |
| 2:11.6 | Now what did they do different? |
| 2:13.2 | They did a lot of things different. |
| 2:14.8 | They were raised. |
| 2:15.8 | Men were, little boys were raised from basically birth to be warriors. |
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