A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

Unknown author for that quote, but perfectly applicable for today's podcast.

Today, my amazing guest shares what it means to be an intentional father and what intention cards are all about. Stay tuned for that one.

What to do when life gives you lumps as a father and how you can teach resilience to your kids even through humor and also what it means to never be a victim of life.

That's today's show and so much more.

Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, leaders of families and leaders of communities.

We will not only impact this generation of fathers, but the next generation as well.

The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them.

We are here to change the world. We are here to change relationships. We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their grave with regrets.

We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, passion, purpose and direction.

We are the Dad Edge and we're here to change the game.

What's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this podcast show and movement.

Today I've got a great featured guest for you guys today. She is Dr. Carrie Malawista. That is a mouthful, but she is absolutely amazing.

She is a writer. She is also a psychoanalyst. She lives in Maryland. She is also the co-chair of an organization called New Directions and Writing.

She is also the founder of a recent project called The Things They Carry and what she does is she offers virtual writing workshops for healthcare and frontline workers.

Her essays and her writings have appeared nationally in newspapers, magazines and journals.

Just a little things called The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, Zone 3, Washington Magazine, The Huffington Post and so many more.

She recently came out with a new book as well. Meet The Moon. Now, this is a novel. This is actually a fictional book, quote unquote, fictional book, but not really.

It's all about a father raising four daughters and one son and the family loses the wife and mom.

Fascinating story because Dr. Carrie also lost her mom at nine years old and what she claims and so beautifully and in story is her father was an amazing father and obviously faced with horrible tragedy losing his wife and obviously Carrie's mom.

He did the best job he possibly could and then some. So through this novel Carrie shares some amazing insights on how this father and this novel shows up.

And the reason I want to have her on the show is because some of the insights from this quote unquote fictional book, but not really really demonstrate what it means to be an intentional father.

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