Photo by Alex Smith on Pexels.com “Why is it that we want to be like our dad even though he is absent?” Because he is our dad. That’s the simple answer. We want to be like them because we are them. They created us so of course we are going to inherit some of their traits. …
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#006 I think a lot of us dads live passively because we didn’t have a high standard set by our dads. Not saying all of our dads were bums but some of our parents had the mindset of; you got the basics met, what more could you possibly need? What if we lived with a different …
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#005 - Part of our job as dad’s is to leave a legacy. Or I should say we leave a legacy regardless, so it’s up to us whether that legacy is good or bad. So how do we work on legacy especially if we have been handed down a not so great legacy or we …
Episode #004 "It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud (sorrows and suffering) he brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of …
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Episode #003 I talked about my dad wounds last episode but why? Because we are men. We don’t just open up and talk about our feelings. We are more likely to open up if someone else does first. No one wants to share their struggles to someone who comes off perfect. It takes a real …
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Episode #002 Episode #002 “Just because you may have come from a bad legacy doesn’t mean you have to stay in it. You don’t have to be the victim for the rest of your life...I refuse for my past to dictate my future.”JT Zahradnik If I play the victim and don’t have to take responsibility …
Episode #001 “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives …
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Intro Episode Welcome and thanks for taking time to check out my podcast, DADTalks! “You have heard of Ted Talks, right? Well these are DadTalks. Unlike TedTalks where experts talk about how they have it all figured out, these talks are with a dad who is just trying to figure it how to be a …
If you have not read my previous post HERE I AM then click to go read it now. If you have read it, here is a refresher of how I described what the phrase “Here I am” means when we see it used in the Bible: In Hebrew, it’s all one word. It’s the word …
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” -Isaiah 6:8b If you grew up in the Christian bubble then you have either heard the above phrase/verse or have said it yourself. You may have even put it on a mission trip tshirt so you could proclaim it to all who saw you set out on …