This is the Earn Your Title Podcast, episode one, take two. Hey, welcome to the Earn Your Title Podcast, episode one. This is the beginning of something that I think is going to be extremely exciting. My name is Danny Dumas, and I will be your host on this journey as we try to become better husbands, fathers, and leaders by earning that title. What do I mean by earning it? I believe that on a daily basis, we should be doing things that help us earn
those titles. And if you think about it, someone has to give us that title. They have to give you the title of leader. If nobody's following you, you're just managing people, you're not leading. Think about being a husband. Your wife has to give you that title every day. It has to be a decision she makes every day. Because at some point, 50% of marriage is in a divorce. So if someone in the marriage said, today I choose not to have you as my husband. as
my wife. We have to make that decision and I think that's important to keep in our mind. We should be earning this title. Now I don't think you can earn love, it's got to be given, but there's things we can do to make us better. Our kids need us to be great fathers. There is so much research out there that shows that an active, loving, caring father in the life of their kids leads them to success in everything, in health, in wealth, in careers, in relationships.
there for your kids is so important. So with this podcast, we will have three types of episodes. Some of the episodes will be me just sharing with what I've learned over the last 25 years or so. I have been in leadership positions. My career is a firefighter and in 2009, I became officially a leader where I was a lieutenant and promoted. I've been a husband for 18 years and a father for 15. So I feel like I've gathered
some knowledge and information. that I would love to share with you, put it in perspective, and give you my take on the world of how to do those three things and earn those titles. The second type of podcast we will have
is, I'm gonna bring in some experts. These people at the top of their game, everything from basketball coaches, life coaches, lawyers, attorneys, storytellers, adventurers, we are going to have just the top tier of people coming and speaking to us and giving us their knowledge so that we can... learn more and grow our minds and become a bigger community
through learning. And the third is I hope to have one on ones where we sit down to talk to another man that maybe is having some problems, maybe is having some issues and just converse. You know in the fire service in my station we call it sitting on the benches. What that is guys get together usually at the end of the day, we sit down, nobody is in charge, it's not formal and we talk. and some guys will have a problem. And then we go out to just go back and forth. Now,
I'm not a professional coach. I am, I'm not a professional counselor, don't take anything I say as medical advice, but we can pull the good things out of each other. They can express some doubts and concerns and you can reflect and I'm gonna reflect that back and maybe we'll come up with a solution. And I guarantee if one person has a problem, many people have the same problem. So those are the three types of podcasts we will have. We'll have experts.
will have just me sharing my ideas and then we'll have these like little coaching sessions. I like to call it sitting on the bench. We're going to sit on the bench with each other and I'm really excited for that. There's three reasons I want to do this podcast. Number one is to help you. I want you to have the tools and resources that you need to be a better husband, father and leader. Number two is I want to get those
same tools. I am excited about talking to these experts and learning and growing. And number three, and this is a little selfish for me, is I'm one ability. legacy for my family. I want my grandkids to be able to watch this and see this and go, hey, that's grandpa. He did this, he did that. He talked to these people that have my words that they can actually hear and see. So if you're one of my grandkids, I love you. I'm so proud of you. I hope I get to meet
all of you. If you're my great-great-grandkids, maybe you can still hear about me. Maybe your mom and dad are talking about me. that would make me excited that they could share this with you and you could learn some of the things that I've learned and you could learn to know who I am. So that makes me excited. If you listen to this in the future and you maybe you've listened to a bunch of my podcasts and we're years down the road, hopefully I am improving. Hopefully my sound quality is better.
Hopefully I'm a better interviewer. Hopefully I have more energy. Hopefully I have these things and I appreciate you coming back to see where it all started and where it's gone now. I'm excited to see what's going to happen. Expect to have a weekly episode. I hope to have a weekly episode. And expect this to be around drive time, you know, 30 to 45 minutes, maybe half on the way to work and half on the way back. I'm not gonna
have a hard time. These podcasts hopefully will be exactly as long as they need to be and not a second longer. So if you're excited about learning to become a better husband, father, and leader, please follow along, please subscribe, please review, whatever those things are, please watch some more. And I cannot wait to see. what happens in the future. I will talk to you later. Don't forget, earn your title every day. Bye.