In this episode, we discuss joy and celebration. We talk about how those of us who grew up with absent or distant father have a very reasonable relationship to joy and celebration.

The idea is that when we "make it" or when we actually do something good enough, then we will have time to enjoy it and it will be worth celebrating. The problem for us is that whatever we do is never good enough and being that whatever we do is never good enough, there is also not much reason to celebrate.

The problem is that joy and celebration are crucial to creating sustainable success and a life without joy and celebration just plain sucks.

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Theme song written and performed by Scott Ginsberg.

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This is a wide ranging conversation about forgiveness, pain and healing. We talk about the number one access point to forgiving our fathers and others who we feel have caused us great pain. 

We wade into deeper issues in the world today and how it's an opportunity to start a real conversation about true forgiveness, with empathy as the key access point.

We also discuss what it looks when we don't forgive, when we operate on top of our pain versus lovingly addressing it.

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Theme song written and performed by Scott Ginsberg.

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In this episode we talk about money and how those of us who grew up with an absent or distant father quickly learn to equate money with our safety. We talk about the devastating impact of relating to money in this way, some of the ways it looks, the strategies we employ to protect ourselves and the possibility of creating a new relationship to money.

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Theme song written and performed by Scott Ginsberg.

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In this week's episode we talk building community and creating healthy relationships.

You've got to be in community in order to have community. In this episode, we look at healthy relationships and community, how to have them, how we sabotage it and what's possible on the other side.

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Theme song written and performed by Scott Ginsberg.

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In this week's episode we talk about pressure and more specifically how to not "choke" under pressure. Where does pressure come from and how does it relate to performance and growing up with an absent father.

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In this episode, we talk about procrastination. We all say it, might even identify as one, but what is it really?
Why do we procrastinate and how is it related to growing up with an absent father?

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What qualifies as absent father? There's the classical sense of an absent father which is one that is not present physically, but their are a whole host of other instances of absent fathers whether it's due to work, death, alcoholism, divorce and many more. The commonality and the shared experience is what binds the people who grew up with an absent or distant father.

My story and why I created this podcast. Be sure to check out www.absentfatherproject.com for more info and articles.