I have really struggled in a lot of ways with my daughter.

And that's why I, about six months ago, picked up a copy of this book, Strong Father's,

Strong Daughters.

In it, Meghker talks about the importance of a male role model in a young woman's life, a stable,

centralized, emotionally intelligent, rational, level-headed kind, disciplined male role model in the life of a young lady, a young girl, is crucial to their development and sense of self-worth.

Gentlemen, you know how important fatherhood is, whether you grew up as a young boy with an engaged,

present, loving, committed, disciplined father, or the complete opposite. Maybe your father was not

physically around, or maybe he was, and he was verbally or emotionally or even physically abusive.

Regardless, whether you had a present loving father in your

life or not, I think it's safe to say that all of us understand the importance of having that

type of father in our lives. A father who's engaged, who loves his children, who works hard on

himself, who stands as a beacon and a pillar of an example to his young boys and girls. I know I'm a little bit

late in getting this one to you for Father's Day. That was last weekend. I've been pretty busy with

some traveling with my oldest son. This is becoming a family tradition each summer where we spend

a week on the island of Molokai hunting together,

Axis deer and goats and everything else that we can hunt and feed our families with.

In fact, a couple of years ago, speaking of Father's Day, I almost died hunting goats on the Big island in Hawaii in front of my son.

It was on Father's Day and I had made a miscalculation, we'll say, and was very close to my death.

And I'm not exaggerating and that is not hyperbole.

But we made it through and here I am and as of the release

of this podcast, hopefully I'm back from Hawaii with my son after a successful hunt. But it got

me thinking a lot about how important the role as fathers that we play in the lives of our

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