Welcome to the rewire podcast.

I'm your host, Ryan Stumann,

and I'm here to rewire your mind for success.

You were put on this planet for success.

You were created to succeed,

but the force of average is after you every single day,

my brothers and sisters,

and this podcast is the one thing that's designed

to help you fight the force of average and excel in every area of your life.

We're glad that you're here.

So I'm going to let you on a little something that I've been doing for the last two weeks on this show is I have a 13 year old son.

And as a father of four, but my oldest being 13, it's been one of my life goals that I always,

let me say it this way. I always heard when I was in my 20s like, when you have kids and

they're teenagers, they're going to be hell. That's when they rebel against you. And so I proactively

started thinking before I become a parent, how could I prevent that from happening? And I definitely rebelled against my parents because my parents were full of shit. They lied to me all the time. They didn't handle their business right. They weren't people that had one in life or something that I could really respect as a young person. And I felt frustrated with them. So I rebelled against them. And so I didn't want that to be the case with my kids when I am. So it's been my goal that, hey, I've got to get my kids through the teenage years. And without them rebelling, without them smoking cigarettes, without them getting on drugs like I did, that's the most important time. You know, the teens, when you keep your daughter off, pull your kid's out of prison, your son's out of prison. So for 13 years, obviously, I've been pouring into this young man, Jackson Stumann. And for the last two weeks, I've been asking him what I should make this podcast about. And so he'll give me a list of topics, and that's what you've experienced over the last 10 episodes here, is Jackson wanting to know what's going on and Jackson having these

ideas because you know as a proud father of four but my oldest to see that you know we get along

better now that he's 13 than we did when he was eight and not that we've never not got along but he's

he understands how to carry himself every time he meets somebody somebody, shakes their hand, yes or no, sir, well-spoken, sharp as a rock, you know, just a all-around good kid. And that's important to me because I see so many parents that have money and then their kids, just they have money so they don't care they become a waste they don't run at their

potential and you know i've got a son who's convinced he's going to go and and become a sniper

um for the military and and travel the world and become a hero that's his goal and then to come back

and start a business like this is a kid that at 13's got a pretty good life plan and thinking about

him listening to this which he's obviously going to hear this episode, it's important to me that he get this mindset at this age. And I can tell you the key that it's been to rebellion, it's not being the cool dad. I haven't had rebellion or pushback from any of my kids. It's not from being the cool dad. That's not because I'm potentially mean and, you know, have a criminal record or anything like that. It's that I've never lied to him. Never lied to them. They ask anything and everything. I may give them a PG version of something versus an R version of something, but I always just been real with them. Therefore, there's no need for them to rebel against me because a dad's winning. Dad puts his time with us and he's winning in life. Annie doesn't shoot us wrong. He always shoots us straight. He wants the best for us. Who's going to rebel against that? What kids rebel against is parents send them, you shouldn't smoke when they smoke cigarettes. What kids rebel against is when you hide shit from them.

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