Exciting News: From Fatherhood to Grandfatherhood

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Teevee
All right. So this is an emergency podcast. I am putting this together because I kind of have fallen off the map on the podcasting this year. I had some podcasts scheduled early in the year. Everything was going great. And then all of a sudden I had a situation with, a guest who asked me to pretty much remove his podcast and not post it, but became really challenging.

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obviously he has a right to decide that. The problem was I had put so much effort into it and really wanted to do well. I it was a great conversation. He's a great human, a great man, but he wanted to take it down, and there was so much time invested into it that it really derailed me. I felt, and just a great sense of sadness around it.

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Teevee
Resentment, if you're watching this, by the way, Mr. Guest, I apologize to you. I'm just sharing this because it was just the truth. That's how I felt. so that derailed me. And then on top of that, life has been very interesting. This year has been a year of change, a year of big decisions. And I'm looking forward to sharing a lot of those with you.

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Teevee
as my podcast audience, make sure to like, subscribe and leave a review. A positive one, not a negative one. Having said that, there's a lot going on. I had these visions for the podcast in which I would obviously talk to my friend Chris, talk to other men, talk to other humans, and trying to figure out what this podcast is about.

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Teevee
At its core, it's a personal development self-improvement podcast. I really believe that if you want to become a better human and a better father and a better parent, a better mother, a better father, whatever you name it, a better manager, you have to become a better human. It comes from inside. If you fix those things, if you improve those things 1% or half, 1% at a time, over the course of your life, you will become a very different version of yourself and also show up in every other space as that very same thing and everything that I work on to have become this man that I truly am proud of being comes from that place.

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Personal develop. Knowing that there is things in my personality and my background that have created me, and not all of them actually serve me. Conversations, negotiations, persuasion, parenting. Management, leadership, coaching all of these things revolve on the person becoming a better version of themselves. So business marketing, all of that needs you to become a better version of yourself so you can do good work and show up as just a better human.

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Teevee
So one of the taglines that I'm thinking about using right now is fatherhood, manhood and human. It. So if you're a human, you can benefit from these conversations, these raw, sincere, stories of our lives, that could benefit you. Having said that, my daughter, my oldest daughter, became a mother last year. she, the baby is one year old.

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I have a grandson. I have a grandson. And it is incredibly crazy to think that I know am a grandfather. I am a widow. But it is become a beautiful thing. I was always a beautiful thing. But it's it's just started to really, I started to identify as a grandfather, and that's crazy. But anyways, the reason I bring that up, my daughter is going to be on the show again.

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Teevee
You actually have seen her. She's she's participated, and has been a great guest. People have enjoyed the conversations because I talk about my kids a lot, so why not talk to them? They are now young adults. I have a 22 year old and a 20 year old. Well, slightly 20 to almost 22, almost 20. They're both about to age up here in the next few months.

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I now have adults for kids and I now have a grandchild. My partner, my girlfriend is is somebody that's also going to be joining me, my young kid here, she's actually driving over. if all goes well, we will record a podcast here in a little bit, which will go live after this one sometime in the future. I want to bring them on because I feel like it's important that they share their stories, and if they're willing to, they still are.

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They they have grown up in front of the camera. not so much, I think shared too much on social media, but they have grown up with the camera in their face and comfortable speaking. So that makes me really happy that they're willing to share it. Maybe there's some value for you as a parent that you could benefit from in the future.

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Teevee
What else? My partner will be coming on and she we will be having conversations about our relationship, how we manage it, and how we've cultivated some of the beautiful things that we've done and just tell our stories. I don't pretend to be a relationship expert. I'm not going to market it as such, but I just want to share the stories of how we found ourselves in how we navigate the day to day stuff, the negotiations that arguments, the the good stuff, the bad stuff, you name it.

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I want to actually shine light on those situations. I share those conversations. If you don't have something tomorrow, then it can be really difficult. I feel like that's probably the most challenging thing growing up is if you don't have a positive role model, a model of what you want to attain in the future, it's going to be difficult.

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What a model of what you want. Like, oh, I want to be like that and then try to aim towards that. If you don't have that, if you don't go positive stories of possibility, then you're you're going to be challenged and you're going to you're going to actually probably give up a lot of times and feel like it's impossible.

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And I have a firm belief that if you can imagine it, it can. You probably make it happen. If it's something that you truly want and you truly committed to it, you can probably make it happen. It may take time. It may take effort, it may take money, may take it may take a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

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But it's possible now if you see somebody do it, that's a lot easier. So that's my goal with all of this is just I it's hard for me to say this because it sounds really pompous and arrogant. I've come to a place in my life where I really feel like I've, I've I've learned a lot of things about life, about relationships, conversations and managing my my daughters and being a good father, a good person, a good, coach and life coach.

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Now for them, but that came through actual work, and I feel like if others could watch and listen to those conversations, they could benefit from them as well. That there is hope even when you have teenagers that are rebelling. why are they rebelling? I want to share those as well as my relationship. It took a while to find my person that, I imagine I'm going to die with, and I will die in her arms.

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And I want to talk about it. Like, if you can, if you want to partake in that conversation, I'm going to share it. So there's a lot coming. I look forward to sharing. I look forward, in including you and, giving you a sneak peek as to what's going on. and I look forward to actually sharing these things, and hopefully you take some value from it and you share with others.

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Unknown
And for me, that's always about the long term goal with this, is that I have stories that my grandchildren and great grandchildren will will get to see and hear. they were going to get to witness their grandfather when they're when he was younger, the great grandfather when he was younger, and understand who he was. Because for me, one of the things that I really struggle with is I don't know my father very well because he didn't talk normal mother.

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They didn't share. They're really private individuals. That connection, which I can respect. But as their son, I would have liked to have known them better. And I definitely didn't know my grandparents much less than my great grandparents. What would it have been like to really understand who they were, why they were who they were? yeah, that makes any sense.

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Teevee
So that's the the long of it, the long tail of this entire idea. and if you're into that kind of thing, stick along for the ride. My name is Teevee, from The Teevee Show Podcast. Obviously. I look forward to talking to you some more. Bye bye.