Check-In - Stop Wasting Your Time (EP:1020)
Christian Podcast for Men | Real Men Connect
Dr. Joe Martin
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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The Real Men Check In is a quick way to help you start your week off on the right foot, in the right way - as a husband, father, and leader. Every Monday, Joe Martin shares personal insights, encouragement, and support that will move you beyond "church" to "real change." And to make sure you don't miss a Check-In or interview episode, as well as contest give-a-ways, special announcements, and much more, make sure you "Stay Connected" by visiting us at https://station.page/realmen to join our online community of podcast listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey bro, why keep putting off until tomorrow what you know you need to do today? |
| 0:05.4 | Go ahead and book a free breakthrough call with us so we can connect you to a community of godly |
| 0:09.0 | men who can understand your challenges and do life with you as a husband, father, leader, |
| 0:14.3 | or just as a man without judgment, shame, or rejection. |
| 0:18.0 | Just go to realmenconnect.com forward slash call. |
| 0:22.6 | Available times are limited each week, |
| 0:28.1 | so book your free call today. That's realmenconnect.com forward slash call. Again, that's realmenconnect.com forward slash C-A-L. Help us here if you're ready to receive it. Welcome to the |
| 0:35.7 | Real Men Connect podcast, where we help good men become great men God's way. |
| 0:40.6 | Every Wednesday we interview some of the nation's most respected and accomplished men of faith |
| 0:44.3 | to find out what it really takes to become the kind of husband, father, and spiritual |
| 0:47.9 | leader God called and created us to be. |
| 0:50.2 | Today is the Real Men Check In. |
| 0:51.9 | The Real Men Check In is just a quick way to help you start your week on the right foot in the right way. |
| 0:56.8 | Every Monday, I share personal insights, encouragement, and support that will move you beyond church to real change. |
| 1:02.9 | I keep it short, I make it fun, and then I'm done. So let's get started. |
| 1:08.0 | Real men are time users, not time abusers. I want to say that one again. Real men are |
| 1:14.1 | time users, not time abusers. I'm just going to be honest with you. There's a lot of things about |
| 1:20.2 | my life that I don't think is fair. And before you judge me or elects me on God's sovereignty |
| 1:25.4 | and how everything happens with a reason, I understand all of that. But allow me to vent for just a minute or two, because I can't be the only man who's ever thought some of these things. Now, I look back on my life and I have a lot of questions about the cards I've been dealt. Some serious, some not so serious. Like, how come I never grew taller than 5'4'6? How come I wasn't born a lefty, a South |
| 1:45.6 | Paul? Why wasn't I born with the privilege of being Caucasian instead of African American? |
| 1:50.7 | Why did I have to grow up poor and in the ghetto? How come all the schools I attended were the |
| 1:55.3 | worst in the city? How come I didn't grow up in a two-parent household? How come my only |
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