When Being 'Too Busy' Almost Cost Me My Family
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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Let me ask you something—when was the last time you truly looked in the mirror and faced the truth about your life? Not the highlight reel you post online, but the cracks, the pressure, and the pain you're stuffing down just to keep moving. If you’re like most men, you’re stretched thin—busy as hell, managing work, kids, marriage, and the unrelenting chaos of life. But here's the kicker: that busyness? It’s a silent killer. It destroys connection, patience, and peace in ways you don’t even see until the damage is done.
Today, in this week's Friday Fatherly Fumbles, First Downs, and Field Goals, I’m not here to sugarcoat anything. I’m going to share a story—a raw, unfiltered account of how my own life hit a breaking point. A season of overwhelm left me yelling at my kids, disconnected from my wife, and questioning if I even deserve to do this work. If you’ve ever felt guilt, shame, or the weight of trying to be everything to everyone, this episode is for you. Because let’s face it, if we don’t course-correct, it’s not just us who suffer; it’s the people we love most.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, |
| 0:07.7 | leaders of families, and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this generation of |
| 0:12.9 | fathers, but the next generation as well. The kids we are raising will have better chances and |
| 0:18.4 | 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 |
| 0:27.5 | 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 |
| 0:39.1 | intention, passion, |
| 0:41.4 | purpose, and direction. |
| 0:43.7 | We are the Dad Edge, |
| 0:45.8 | and we're here to change the game. |
| 0:47.8 | We're here to change the game. Let me ask you something. |
| 1:03.4 | When was the last time you took a good look in the mirror and faced the truth of things that were going on in your life that you weren't proud of? |
| 1:10.8 | And I'm not talking about the highlight reel that you post on social media. I'm talking about |
| 1:14.4 | the cracks and the potholes in your life, the things that you're not even paying attention to, |
| 1:20.2 | but you keep tripping on. Not to mention the fact that you're probably stuffing it down. |
| 1:23.8 | And if you're like most men, you are stretched thin as hell. You are very, very busy. |
| 1:29.3 | You're busy in your marriage. You're busy in your business. You're busy with the kids, |
| 1:33.9 | their activities. It's mad chaos at times. But here's the kicker. That busyness, it's a silent killer. |
| 1:41.2 | It destroys connection, peace, and patience, and we have no idea until |
| 1:45.5 | the damage is done. Today, I'm here to tell you guys a story, and I'm not going to sugarcoat it. |
| 1:51.4 | I'm going to share a story about myself and about my experience, and it's an account and it's |
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