{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sword&Spade","title":"Stop Raising Your Kids to Leave Home w/ Javier Velazquez","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3652,"description":"Most people drive through a forgotten small town without a second look. Javier Velazquez, writer of the Substack Exiled Heart and founder of the consulting practice Townward, sees a deep America underneath it. He joins Jason Craig to talk about the local history developers and franchises keep plastering over, and why a man with real affection for a place may be what that place needs most.\nIn This Episode, We Cover:\nWhy small towns keep handing their story to developers and national franchises\nHow an outside YMCA push edged a thriving, dad-run youth sports league out of the local gyms\nWhy raising kids to think success means leaving kills Catholic culture\nSeeing a row of pine trees as lumber versus seeing the meaning a man planted there a generation ago\nWhy local wealth belongs in the local town\nResources Mentioned:\nFraternus\nExiled Heart by Javier Velazquez\nTownward\nFind Your Brothers:\n\nYou Need Brothers, And They Need You.\nDON’T GO ALONE\nFraternus gets men out from behind their screens and shoulder to shoulder, building a Catholic culture their sons can inherit.\nFind your brothers at https://fraternus.org/memberships/\nChapters:\n00:00: Homeless in the house you own\n05:44: The country beneath the country\n08:41: The forgotten spring behind the Verizon store\n15:04: A YMCA push and the dad-run rec league\n20:28: Vision 2020 and what “development” really means\n29:10: Raising children to leave everything that matters\n35:18: Seeing a place with affection instead of use\n39:38: Permission to recover what was lost\n47:41: The good King Wenceslas option\n54:31: Fatherhood and the fight for one small town\nProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1fxXTM8hCaOlZ1_SUD3cLJ3cmPKvLGnXHcYZar2Vno8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZTI1/ZjhjODE1ZGY4YTNj/OWQxNTMzMzA2Mzcx/MTg3NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}