Saved from Being Fatherless, with Lionel Joham

When Lionel was a little boy, home became unsafe, and his mother made the decision to leave from home with him. and he hasn’t seen his father since.

A few years later, an Austrian man married her and raised Lionel as his own son. Never once a difference.

In this episode of Wisdom of Men, Lionel and I talk about growing up without your father and being saved by another man. What it does to a boy, and later to a man. The anger he carried for years. The patterns he inherited, and the ones that end with him. What a father actually is. And why becoming a father should be a decision, not something that just happens.

If you grew up with an absent father, or you’re a father yourself, this one is for you.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:07 Quick-fire round
04:53 Born in India
08:18 How his mum met his dad
11:24 The day his brother was born
19:10 “We come as a package”
22:02 What a father is
26:08 Becoming a father consciously
33:10 Growing up without a father: the nice guy and the angry man
40:04 Looking for his biological father
42:33 Learning to speak about it
49:16 The patterns that end with him
55:27 Can a man become his own man without making peace with his father?
57:55 Role models and mentors
63:21 To the teenager growing up without a father
67:41 Close

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