Growing up in Detroit as an immigrant🌆🇺🇸🇵🇭, forgiveness after divorce, depression, fatherhood - EPISODE 3 ft. MY DAD

<p>“It was the most darkest moments of my life, I was in a deep depression, suicidal thoughts to the point where I had to get some psychological help...#forward I can’t stand still anymore” find out how my dad battled & grew through this</p><p>🎙YOU GUYS, THE NEW EPISODE IS HERE & it features none other than the man, the myth, the legend, the birthday dude (yes , today is his birthday) - PAPA LAPA aka DAD aka GIL LAPASTORA 👨🏽🕴🏼</p><p>Real talk with pops on my parent's divorce, forgiveness, growing up in the inner city of Detroit, lessons he learned from his marriage that can be applied to your relationship, fatherhood, depression, battling pornography, how to man up... ALSO - Duck embryos, garlic mashed potatoes, all the genres of music, bouncing eyes, the Detroit Lions winning the Super Bowl, and Mother Theresa?! You’re gonna want to listen to this.</p><p>0:00 Papa Lapa’s walkout song / the intro of gil lapastora</p><p>1:29 Congrats on the podcast / hoping to help some of the dads out there, sons, men</p><p>2:24 why I started this AUTHENTICALLY podcast</p><p>2:44 example of how pops has been there for me in the ups and downs of life,</p><p>4:30 leveling up, growing through seasons of life, not just getting through it</p><p>5:50 what drives you? When you wake up in the morning, what drives you to keep going?</p><p>7:13 #2 enneagram personality traits .. “my propensity is to help”</p><p>7:52 “that’s my mojo…before I act and think about something I would go to prayer about it..that would help give me focus as to how to approach the situation...selfishly I want to do my own thing…when I do that things go sideways”</p><p>8:44 Fatherhood…“Especially my children…I want to be a part of their lives” .. the joys and challenges of fatherhood, wanting us to follow in Christ’s footsteps</p><p>Life’s challenges:</p><p>10:30 moving from the Philippines to America when dad was 8 years old…the challenges of growing up in the inner city of Detroit as an immigrant…having low self-esteem, not feeling value from his dad and as a memb