Why His Darkest SECRET Saved His Life ft. Steven Shields
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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Steven Shields is a Counselor (ACMHC), recovery coach, and founder of Accepted and Unashamed Unafraid, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping those recovering from sexual addiction and their families. After beginning his own recovery journey in 2014, he launched a podcast sharing recovery stories and now serves on the executive board of Warrior Heart, hosting retreats for men to reconnect with God and live fully alive.
Today, Steven Shields shares his journey from leading a double life as a church leader struggling with addiction to creating a nonprofit that help others battle pornography and sex addiction. His organization provides judgment-free spaces where individuals can share their stories openly and begin their recovery journey.
Through his work and personal experience, Steven emphasizes that transformation doesn't require hitting rock bottom, but rather embracing hope and community support. His approach focuses on removing shame from the recovery process, allowing individuals to pursue authentic healing while building meaningful connections with others who understand their struggles.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. The Dad Edge Movement creates leaders of men, |
| 0:07.3 | leaders of families, and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this |
| 0:12.2 | generation of fathers, but the next generation as well. |
| 0:16.1 | The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of |
| 0:20.2 | the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them. |
| 0:23.4 | We are here to change the world. |
| 0:26.6 | We are here to change relationships. |
| 0:28.9 | We are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers |
| 0:32.3 | so no man goes to their grave with |
| 0:34.0 | regret. We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention |
| 0:39.8 | passion, purpose, and direction. |
| 0:43.0 | We are the Dad Edge, and we're here to change the game. Hey, what's going on guys? |
| 0:53.0 | Hey, I'm going on guys? Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner, your |
| 1:05.2 | host and founder of this podcast, this show and movement. I hope you guys are doing well. |
| 1:09.4 | Hope you guys are having a fantastic week. I've got a real treat for you guys today and it |
| 1:15.2 | was very very very unexpected how today's podcast went and I didn't expect to talk |
| 1:21.4 | about the topics that we did. I had, judging by all the homework I did on today's guest and all the things he talks about, I expected to talk about healing and porn and sexual addiction and recovery that which we did but you know we really talked about we really talked about the |
| 1:39.9 | psychology of self-sabbatage why we do it, why we behave the way we do, why when even we want |
| 1:47.7 | better in our lives and we start to like maybe inch towards that why we actually |
| 1:51.8 | retreat and fall back into old habits. |
| 1:56.0 | Like today's show it was fascinating and yours truly was the guinea pig. |
| 2:01.4 | I like really threw myself out there and really talked about a lot of different things that I kind of suck at and and my guest today |
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