What's the Secret to Raising Young Men Who Lead? ft. Nick Koumalatsos

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Nick Koumalatsos is a former Marine Raider, entrepreneur, and author dedicated to helping others grow through physical fitness, mental resilience, and personal development. He leads Agoge, a coaching company that empowers individuals to pursue their potential by developing strength, confidence, and leadership.

Today, Nick Koumalatsos shares the powerful impact of in-person connections through activities like jiu-jitsu, training sessions, and shared meals. He discussed the Squire program, a transformative rite of passage for young men that Nick personally embraced by guiding his nephew through it, highlighting the crucial need for positive male role models in young boys' lives.

The conversation evolved to address the challenges of modern parenting, particularly the tendency to overprotect children at the expense of their personal growth and resilience. This led to a broader discussion about the importance of generational wisdom transfer and traditional rites of passage, with both hosts emphasizing the need for parents to create environments where children can develop both physically and emotionally through facing and overcoming challenges.

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0:00.0	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
0:21.2	that their fathers emulated for them. We are here to change the world. We are here to change
0:27.6	relationships. We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their
0:33.5	grave with regret. We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, passion,
0:41.3	purpose, and direction.
0:43.3	We are the Dad Edge, and we welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this podcast, this show, and movement. I hope you guys are doing well. I've got a great guest for you guys today.
1:13.0	I'm interviewing for the second time.
1:15.9	He came on a couple years ago, Nick Cumulados.
1:19.5	And many of you guys know who Nick is.
1:21.7	He's got a very large following, and he is an absolutely incredible, incredible man. He's a former Marine Raider. He's an
1:30.2	entrepreneur. He's an author dedicated to helping others grow through physical fitness,
1:35.9	mental resilience, and personal development. He leads an organization called the
1:40.5	goge, which is a coaching company that empowers individuals to pursue their potential
1:44.8	by developing strength, confidence, and leadership. If you know anything about Nick, I mean,
1:50.7	this guy is like the real, real deal. He has seen a few things. He's done a few things.
1:56.7	And this guy really, really knows what he's talking about. I met Nick almost three years ago now in January of 2022, which we're going to be talking
2:05.8	about today at the Squire, the right of passage for fathers and sons.
2:11.0	And I'm sure you guys have heard me talk about the Squire over the years, but literally one of
2:16.2	the best 15 hours I have ever spent in my entire
2:20.7	life as a man, but also as a dad, doing that with my son. For the past three years, my son and I
2:27.9	have always pointed to that experience and those teaching moments and those lessons and those leadership skills
2:36.0	and avoiding things like drugs and alcohol and peer pressure and all kinds of other crazy
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