The Dad Edge Podcast

My guest today is John Cooper, lead vocalist of the band Skillet. You're going to love today's. I loved interviewing John, because as a band fan, I just enjoyed it so much. One of my favorite songs is Legendary, and I share with John how we had 175 men at the attended the live event scream Live Legendary! John is the father of 2, a husband for 22 years. He comes from a background of Christian rock. His faith is a huge part of his life and he pumps that into his music and song-writing. It's an epic show Show Notes:www.thedadedge.com/355

The timing of this episode is impeccable. I have a return guest with me today and we bring you some amazing health knowledge bombs He is Fraser Bayley, a butcher turned vegan and today we are talking about having a vegan lifestyle. The lies, the myths and everything that surrounds it, specifically for men. This man knows more about health and nutrition than anybody I've ever met on the planet. Is it really possible to grow and maintain muscle with a plant-based lifestyle? Are we going to feel hungry and tired? Listen to the episode and learn from this amazing nutritionist as we get into deep conversations Show Notes:www.thedadedge.com/friday36

This interview I did live. I flew out to Los Angeles and sat down with Bedros Keuilian. This individual has an amazing story. A self-made entrepreneur who escaped communism to come to the United States when he was just a kid. A true rags to riches story, no doubt. Bedros Keuilian is a best-selling author, speaker and business consultant. He's the founder and CEO of Fit Body Boot Camp, one of the nation's fastest growing franchises and an investor in over a dozen companies ranging from subscription software platforms, digital ad agencies as well as mastermind and coaching services. He's known as the hidden genius that entrepreneurs, best-selling authors and thought leaders turn to when they want to create high level mastermind and coaching programs, quickly scale their businesses and solve their most pressing bottlenecks so that they can make the quantum leap to massive success. Show Notes: www.thedadedge.com/354

Today we have a special guest, a repeat guest actually. Dave Anderson is the owner of a creative video production company. In this episode we talk a lot about his journey and what it took to get where he is. Family is what drives us, no doubt, but we tend to forget that very easily amidst the work duties. Dave and I both share proud moments when we learned to detach from our businesses, but also we talk about vulnerable times when we almost ran ourselves to the ground thinking that we were doing the right thing for our families. Spoiler alert, we weren't Show Notes: www.thedadedge.com/friday35

My guest today is Joe De Sena. Joe was one of my first guests when I first started this episode 6 years ago. If you are a Spartan Racer, you might know Joe. He is the CEO of Spartan Race. The basis of his company is the foundation that we as humans cannot reach our potential until we have gone through a struggle or a test. It's what he calls, purposeful suffering. Coming from a childhood where he had nowhere to learn, only his own, and had to figure out how to make it. Joe believes his success came from his purposeful suffering philosophy. This is one of my favorite episodes, no doubt. Joe shares about "Mental Toughness for Families - 10 Rules for Resilience", his new book and we talk about some of those rules on this episode. Show Notes:www.thedadedge.com/353

Craig Risoli is a good friend and Dad Edge Accelerator business matermind member. He is a husband of 10 years to Hailey, father of 3, veteran and the proud owner of High Speed Daddy, an epic backpack for dads company. He built his company around his family schedule as a stay at home dad, not the other way around. A lot of men choose to let life manage them. That is unfortunate, because that stresses and burns them out. Today we will be talking about taking initiative, making decisions and stop letting things hold us up and learn along the way. Many of us are stopped by analysis paralysis. Craig is an engineer, so I ask him all things about making decisions. Show Notes: http://www.thedadedge.com/friday34

When it comes to conflict, do you find yourself frustrated or lost? Relationships is not something that we are taught. We grow up and we are taught different skills, trigonometry, social studies, but rarely how to resolve conflict. And it's really unfortunate because think of what our marriages and relationships could look like if we knew how to resolve conflict and how we could actually do it from an objective standpoint to where when we try to resolve conflict just normally in day to day. My guest today, Jayson Gaddis, a licensed family therapist knows exactly how to do it. He wrote a book, How To Get to Zero and we talk about conflict resolution with those we love the most. It's a deep episode, so I encourage you to take notes. Show Notes:www.thedadedge.com/352