Have you imagined yourself as a powerful influence on your community and culture around you? Are you ready to make the important decisions in your relationships to be an effective leader at home and everywhere you go? It starts at home and my guest Warren Mainard is going to walk us through that journey. Warren is the national director at Impact Players.To to connect with Warren Mainard visit:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wmainardLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warren-mainard/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wmainard/To learn more about Impact Players Visit:https://www.impactplayers.org/Special thanks to InGenius Prep for sponsoring The Fatherhood Challenge. To learn more about InGenius Prep or to claim your free consultation, visit: https://ingeniusprep.com/get-a-free-consultation/?utm_campaign=2024+Podcast+Email+Marketing&utm_content=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_medium=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_source=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_term=Fatherhood+PodcastSpecial thanks to Zencastr for sponsoring The Fatherhood Challenge. Use my special link https://zen.ai/CWHIjopqUnnp9xKhbWqscGp-61ATMClwZ1R8J5rm824WHQIJesasjKDm-vGxYtYJ to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan.Transcription - Saving Dads Saving Communities---Have you imagined yourself as a powerful influence on your community and culture around you?Are you ready to make important decisions in your relationships and to be an effective leader at home?And everywhere you go, it starts at home and my guest is going to walk us through that journeyin just a moment so don't go anywhere. Before we begin, I'd like to thank our proud sponsor ofthis episode and the Fatherhood Challenge in Genius Prep. In Genius Prep is the world's premieradmissions consulting firm, proud to be officially recognized as the country's top college admissionsconsultants, helping students prepare for admissions to top schools through individualizededucational programs that increase chances of admission by up to 10 times. In Genius Prepstudents work with former admission officers to differentiate themselves from other competitivestudents in three areas, colleges evaluate students. In academics, extra curricular activities,and personal characteristics. Just this past admission cycle,Genius Prep students have secured 110 offers from Ivy League schools, 268 offers from top 20 schools,and 904 offers from top 50 schools. In Genius Prep student success lies within the fact thatin Genius Prep is an all-in-one consulting firm offering every service of family needs,whether it be test prep, tailored candidacy, building mentorship, academic mentorships,the leadership and innovation lab, soft skills courses, writing courses, and othercustomized programs to develop their application persona to the most effective and authenticextent to share with colleges. Just click on the link in the episode description to book a freestrategy call with one of Genius Prep's college experts or you can visit ingeniousprep.com.That's ingeniousprep.com and let them know you came from the Fatherhood Challenge.Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire fathers everywhere,to take great pride in their role and to challenge society to understand how important fathers areto the stability and culture of their family's environment. Now here's your host, Jonathan Guerrero.We need everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. My guest is Warren Menard.Warren is the national director at Impact Players and we're going to learn more about it shortly.Warren, thank you so much for being on the Fatherhood Challenge.Oh hey Jonathan, it's so great to be with you and very excited to talk about being better dad.This is so important, such a great topic. Warren, this next question goes right in line withtradition. So I always like to start each episode with a dad joke. So Warren, what is your favoritedad joke? Oh man, we love dad jokes and impact players. We start every impact breakfastwith a series of dad jokes and I've got a handful but here's a quick one. So my son asked me the otherday, hey dad, have you seen my sunglasses? I said no son, have you seen my dad glasses?That's a great one. It's cheesy, is cheesy. I love it. I was talking with my wife. That's what makesthe dad joke. That's right. I was talking with my wife on the elevator the other day. We got intoan argument. Turns out I was wrong on so many levels. Oh wow, you're good at this. You have some practice.We have a lot of fun. In fact, we really believe that getting a group of men together and lettingthem laugh and just have that camaraderie with one another is absolutely critical to opening upmen's hearts and getting into really important things. What is the story behind impact players? What isit? How did it start and how did you become involved? Yeah, it's a powerful story. It started in 2004with a man named Matt Wimmer and a handful of other men who witnessed a dear friend of theirs really fallinto a series of devastating decisions ...
