Why I Left a 500K per Year Job to Help Men With Porn Addiction with Emmanuel Guarino
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Emmanuel Guarino is the Founder of Team Vulnerable. Their mission is to help other married couples overcome porn addiction and have a relationship and life filled with vulnerability and freedom.
In this episode, Larry Hagner interviews Emmanuel Guarino who shares his personal story of struggling with a porn addiction. Emmanuel talks about his lack of sex education growing up and how he started watching porn at a young age. He reveals that his addiction escalated in college and caused problems in his relationship, including erectile dysfunction on his wedding night.
Emmanuel Guarino describes the negative impact porn had on his life and how it took a toll on his mental health. He then shares a pivotal moment during COVID when he realized he needed help and reached out to God for guidance.
His addiction escalated to the point where it interfered with his wedding night. Despite his intentions to quit watching porn before marrying Becca, he found himself unable to perform sexually due to porn-induced erectile dysfunction. This revelation was a devastating blow to both Emmanuel and Becca, as he had to explain that his inability was not a reflection of her desirability or attractiveness. It was a consequence of his addiction and the distorted mindset it had created.
Emmanuel's story serves as a poignant example of how porn addiction can ruin relationships and lives. It highlights the detrimental effects it can have on intimacy, trust, and emotional well-being. Porn addiction not only distorts an individual's perception of sex and relationships but also leads to a breakdown in communication and emotional connection.
It is essential to recognize the seriousness of porn addiction and the need for support and treatment. Emmanuel's story emphasizes the importance of open and honest conversations about sex education and the impact of pornography. Education should focus on healthy relationships, consent, and the potential consequences of excessive porn consumption.
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| 0:00.0 | a 95% success rate to achieve our goals. |
| 0:06.6 | Pretty interesting. |
| 0:07.4 | So a study recently done by the American Society |
| 0:10.4 | of Coaching and Development |
| 0:12.0 | did a study on accountability and they found that |
| 0:14.9 | having a weekly touch point a weekly group or person to hold people accountable |
| 0:21.4 | to their goals to their dreams their aspirations |
| 0:23.8 | had a 95% success rate compared to 10% of people who just had an idea to just be |
| 0:31.6 | better. It actually isn't just a number but studies have also shown that |
| 0:35.8 | 67% of individuals found that being a part of a certain group that shared in a line vision |
| 0:42.4 | also improved their well-being. |
| 0:45.2 | And finally, research also reveals that 82% of people feel more confident in their decisions |
| 0:50.3 | when they are supported by their peers and they're able to bounce things off of each other. |
| 0:55.0 | So gentlemen, you know we've been running the Daddage Alliance for quite some time. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'd like for you to hear from one of our most recent graduates on his experience and something that he learned |
| 1:05.0 | going through the first three months of our program. |
| 1:08.0 | There are two things that really jump out to me. |
| 1:10.0 | The more pinpointed one was one that actually Jordan Kaufman had said that he does with his kids at night. |
| 1:15.2 | He sits down and he asks them basically to give them a descriptive word or an adjective almost of themselves, |
| 1:20.6 | are you brave, are you kind, are you this or that? You know, and it's something that I've tried with |
| 1:25.3 | my kids and you know, at first they were kind of like, well, I don't know. I don't know. And so we work through it a little bit and |
| 1:30.3 | it's kind of cool because I like that small exercise to kind of let them identify I guess you know who they are who they want to be it lets me know what's powerful for them to I guess to kind of gives me some insight into their. And the other part of the dojo and the group as a whole that I noticed and I think I appreciated was |
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