Ludwina's Blog: Red Tent Radio Ep #25 featuring Daniel Prokop Author of 'Leaving Neverland'

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Red Tent Radio Ep #25 featuring Daniel Prokop Author of 'Leaving Neverland'

I'm your host - Ludwina Dautovic and I'd like to invite you to access our FREE weekly Business Podcast Show for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs at www.RedTentRadio.com. Each week we feature a successful business owner who will share their experiences and insights and show you how you, too, can create a successful business. We have a business coaching segment where we create solutions to small business problems and a techy segment teaching you technology tips to make your business experience easier. You can download all past episodes including this week's show at Red Tent Radio

Daniel Prokop | Red Tent Radio | Leaving Neverland

Red Tent Radio Ep #25 Featuring Daniel Prokop Author of 'Leaving Neverland'
Available for download this Friday 2nd September
Daniel Prokop is a script writer, comedy show radio host, an inventor, a parent educator, keynote speaker, Rites of Passage leader, high school basketball coach, MC and a stand-up comedian.

In this paragraph Daniel describes himself: “I’ve been around the block a few times, nearly fifty times if you call one year a block. I have studied little boys in their “natural” corporate environment, as a boy myself within the belly of an oily beast”

The beast was the biggest corporation in the world at the time. It was a vast, big budget sandpit where Daniel played at a senior level for 13 years, which still surprises him. Daniel owned a franchised business in a major shopping centre and employed twelve staff for 9 years and also worked for a harm prevention charity. Three vastly different sandpits all linked by similar childish behaviour, some of it his own.

Daniel’s family migrated to Australia from the US in 1973. He had been a labourer at the Port Kembla Steelworks, made pizzas, cleaned pub toilets, washed dishes, shovelled turkey poo, picked kiwi fruit in NZ and put himself through University.

On the topic of personal development Daniel says “been there, still doing that”. He is also a devoted father of two children and a husband.

Daniel has been a leader on many Rites of Passage programs and has also had the privilege of taking his son through his Rite of Passage. Daniel’s experience as a Dad was quite different to his experiences as a leader. Daniel’s son came back a few years after our camp, as a returning young man and he then helped his father run a Rites of Passage program. When asked how it has been having his son on board Daniel says “It has been such a gift to watch how much he has grown as a result of participating in this work and it has helped me grow up too”.

“In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth…But the
most certain signals for lighting the fires of destruction are sent when the old people of a
group lose their memories, consume like youths, and neglect the rites of grieving and burial.”
(Meade, Michael. 1993. Men and the Water of Life…Initiation and the Tempering of Men. Harper San Francisco USA)

“Too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families [and our communities] are weaker because of it…. any fool can have a child... It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.” President Barrack Obama, New York Times, June 16, 2008)

Business Coaching Tip with Ludwina Dautovic: This week we have two mini interviews I recorded at the Tesltra awards with Melanie Summer from Flash Fotos who won the Tesltra Myob Small Busienss Award and Ravi Mahajani from Darwin Day Surgery who won the News Limited Micro Business Owner award.

Social Media Matters with special guest Aaron James Lee: 'How to create lists in twitter'. We talk about Streamlining Your Twitter Streams (and WHY to do it).

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Posted by Ludwina Dautovic on 31st August, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks
Tags: 'Leaving Neverland', Daniel Prokop, The Red Tent Woman, Red Tent Radio, Women's Business, Small Business Podcast, Ludwina Dautovic

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