The Dad Edge Podcast

Nick joined the Marine Corps at 19 but not without a fight. Because of his troubled youth, Nick had to seek legal counsel just to be accepted. Nick went on to become a 12 year Special Operations Marine Corps veteran with Marine Reconnaissance and Marine Special Operations Command. His military career prepared him for successful leadership and strategic operational planning. Nick is the founder and CEO of Alexander Industries as well as a successful adventure + informational YOUTUBE channel with his partner and wife Alison Capra. He's a self published author, an entrepreneur and a coach and he is a father of two beautiful daughters and a brand new son. Show Notes: www.thedadedge.com/358

My guest today, Dr. Roger Parrot, a scholar, a husband for 45 years, is with me today and we talk about education, and paving the way not only for college, but in life as a whole. So today we will talk about picking the best college for your kids. A lot of the things that are shared on this show will probably surprise you. Dr. Parrot is the President of Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. He was named among the top 10 most visionary education leaders of 2021 by the education magazine. Dr. Parrot is one of the longest serving university presidents in America. He's been serving there now for over 30 years, but over the past two decades, Belhaven has become one of the leading Christian colleges and arts as one of the 35 schools in the world, earning accreditation in all four of the primary arts theater, music, visual art, and dance. With his wealth of experience, he can provide insight on helping a child follow their dreams and pursue a career while also being extremely cognizant of the high cost of higher education. Show Notes: thedadedge.com/friday39

Joe Towne is best known as the founder and CEO of his training company, The Performance Mindset. He offers workshops designed to help people perform at their highest level, whether it's preparing for an audition, shifting their mindset for a script screenwriting for a healthier work-life balance, or even helping athletes prepare for a performance on a worldwide stage. He's been featured on Dr. Oz, On the Air with Ryan Seacrest, Good Day LA, Bravo's Million Dollar Listing. He has brought his a claim to workshops to other high profile clients like Verizon AOL, Lulu Lemon, Showtime networks, L'Oreal, IT cosmetics. He's also trained colleagues over at the universities like UCS, UCLA, George Brown college, and more. He's also the father to a five-year old son by the name of Lucas. He has also been married for the past 10 years. This is a very authentic show and I know that what you are about to hear today will help many men. Show Notes: thedadedge.com/357

Yeadon Smith is my guest on this episode and he has been a husband for 15 years. A father of four, marathon runner and a business owner. He is a recovering youth minister, now working full time in real estate. He is co-founder of Live Oak Capital which has grown since its inception to $36 million in assets under management. He has been in the business of building relationships. As part of that, he is now focused on mentoring students in an online education platform he co-founded. He mentors students on buying apartment complexes. We talk about a few topics like relationship capital, the most valuable investment is you and a few others. Show Notes: thedadedge.com/friday38

I know you guys will get a lot out of today's interview because we cover proven performance and the principles to be more mentally tough, to avoid self-sabotage, to become literally the best and most resilient version of ourselves that we could possibly be. My guest, Eric Davis, father of 3, served our country as a U.S. Navy SEAL and decorated veteran of the Global War on Terror. Eric has been recognized as one of the premier sniper instructors in the U.S. military and has served as a Master Training Specialist at the SEAL sniper school in Coronado, CA. Since departing from the SEAL teams, Eric has worked in corporate performance, sales and leadership training bringing an unprecedented amount of innovation, efficiency and structure to the domain of business and personal performance. Eric is the author of "Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs learned from their training and taught to their sons". Show Notes: www.thedadedge.com/356

Today I am talking to Frank Schwartz. He is the current president of F3. He is also an entrepreneur, but he started this journey by joining F3 with the intent of "not being fat anymore". The complete trajectory of his life would change, however, from that point. He caught the vision of Sua Sponte leadership and in not too long a time, he found himself being asked to help with things at the Nation level. At the beginning of 2020, he began serving as the first ever President of F3 Nation, under the re-organized F3 structure. Because of the dramatic effect of F3 on his life, he founded a leadership training consultancy in December of 2019, called G3L Leadership. G3L takes all the learnings from F3, as well as the training in communication, leadership, and Psychology that Frank has taken in his undergraduate and Graduate studies and puts it all together to help organizations create leaders. Frank has been a successful entrepreneur prior to his starting of G3L, founding LEC Media in 2007, a corporate communications and video firm in Charlotte, NC which served clients like, Bank of America, Electrolux, Honeywell, and others. He also serves in leadership in his church and community, is the husband of his far better half Tracy for the past 20 years and is the father of three wonderful red-headed daughters (ages 16, 14, and 10). Show Notes: www.thedadedge.com/friday37