{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dadversity Podcast","title":"Round 13: Becoming a Father ft Scotty Cardle","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2011,"description":"Former British lightweight champion Scotty Cardle spent most of his life preparing for fights - the discipline, the training camps, the walkouts, the pressure, the lights.\nBut when the final bell rang on his boxing career, a very different fight began.\nIn this episode of Dadversity, Scotty opens up about life after boxing, the depression that followed retirement, becoming a dad during lockdown, supporting his wife through postnatal depression, selling the family home, travelling with his daughter, separation, co-parenting, and the lessons he hopes his daughter Darcy carries with her.\nThis is not just a conversation about boxing.\nIt is a conversation about identity, regret, love, fatherhood, and what happens when the life you planned starts to change. \n00:00 — What is harder: boxing or fatherhood?\nScotty compares the hidden work behind fight night with the unseen work of being a dad.\n01:38 — Boxing teaches control. Fatherhood takes it away.\nScotty reflects on frustration, patience and why parenting is nothing like a one-man sport.\n03:28 — Growing up in Blackpool and finding boxing\nHow Scotty’s dad first took him to the boxing gym and why the sport captured him.\n04:39 — Losing his first fight\nScotty remembers his first defeat and why love for boxing kept him going.\n07:32 — The final walkout: “One More Time”\nWhy Scotty walked out to Daft Punk before the Ricky Burns fight and felt it could be his last dance.\n11:27 — Life after boxing\nThe transition from elite professional fighter to life after retirement.\n12:07 — The dark hole after retirement\nScotty opens up about depression, isolation and losing his sense of self after boxing.\n13:35 — The doctor’s diagnosis\nWhy Scotty feared the damage may have been physical - and the moment he realised he was depressed.\n17:00 — Becoming a dad in lockdown\nDarcy’s birth, no support, FaceTime midwives and first-time fatherhood during the pandemic.\n17:40 — Postnatal depression and supporting his wife\nScotty talks about his wife’s...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JIfVTDLq_iY7flfEH3CQqZZyAgbdgHzyxwtktmAQy30/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMTU5/ODU2NTEwMDJkOGZk/OGIxNDBiZjdiMmM5/MDJkNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}