What's up guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. Our setup here, if you're watching on YouTube, it's a little different. It's awesome, though, in the same room. We're in the room where it happened. Hamilton reference right there. But we're excited. Yeah, the next six, seven episodes will be like this. So usually people can't even tell if we're in the same room, but typically in these. I'm in Cincinnati. Jeff's

We're 5,000 miles away.

So it looks a little like we even tell if we're in the same room, but typically in these, I'm in Cincinnati.

Jeff's, we're 5,000 miles away.

Yeah.

So it looks a little like we're, but we're actually now. We're not, this is not special effects. This is CGI. There's that CGI. Jeff just flew into Cincinnati this morning. They're having an awesome time coming up from Savannah. So we want to talk to you guys about a topic that is really important for especially young dads.

Ken in our Facebook group, he asked, he, So we want to talk to you guys about a topic that is really important for especially young dads.

Ken in our Facebook group, he asked, he talked about the tension between providing and being

present. And I like the way that he describes us. He says, the gap or dichotomy between working

harder to bring in more money to set up your multi-generational team, long-term business planning,

maybe starting a family business, et cetera, versus the exhaustion that it takes to do that, which will naturally wear

on you as you take away the energy to be an intentional husband, father, et cetera. For instance,

I can work harder, maybe pick up a second source of income, but I always find that when I do,

I'm so exhausted. I just want to sleep when I get home. That's not being a father. Oh, man. Yeah. I don't know how it was funny. We were talking about this even last week. I was telling you, I think my way that I struggle with it is similar, but different in that. But maybe the answers are the same. It was Ken, right? Yeah. Yeah. Is for me, I wrestle with how much do I want to try to build systems and passive income at some level, but just also like certain circumstances so that I can be with the family and how versus how much do I want to take that the family, not that like that one, as if there's other ones, that the family, right?

On mission with me in the work. That's a tough tension I wrestle with, right? Because at some level, if you're doing too much of like, oh, just create all these streams of income and passive rate, you know, generating income, et cetera, then like what I think sometimes people don't realize in that lifestyle is then that creates almost a missionless home. You're just kind of like, oh, I'm just home hanging.

You're almost like doing that pseudo-American retirement thing.

You know, I'm just like, we're just home.

Like, we don't realize in that lifestyle is then that creates almost a missionless home. You're just kind of like, oh, I'm just home hanging. You're almost like doing that pseudo American retirement thing.

You know, I'm just like, we're just home. Like, we don't do anything. So I think that that balance is interesting. One thing I've tried to do is it doesn't need to be one forever. And so I've tried to say, Like, what is the season need?

Does the season need me at home more?

Well, then I want to try to create some things that can run on their own, right?

Does the season need me at home more? Well, then I want to try to create some things

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