Aggression is one of the last dirty words in our culture.

You can be crass, you can be rude, you can even be profane, but, oh,

aggressive, don't be aggressive, except it's wrong, dead wrong.

I promise you nothing of meaning and transcendence will come into your life passively.

It's time for you to get into the arena to push back against a passive, mediocre existence.

I'm Brian Tome. This is the aggressive life.

My name is Brian Tom, and boy, we've got some good stuff going on today.

Today, we're going to come against one of those lies that everyone seems to believe here in our culture.

I'll just call it out for what it is. You're not going to like it, but I'm going to say it anyway. The lie is this. Follow your

passion. Please do not. You better understand what that means. You better understand our

guest today is going to help us understand what it mean let me tell you

something i've been passionate about a lot of things in my life i i grew up watching the brady bunch and

because i watched the brady bunch i was passionate about being an architect i thought that's

if that's what papa brady did that i'm going to be an architect i love the pittsburgh

steelers growing in pittsburgh and i thought man i'm passionate football. I'm going to be a professional football player. I could give you one

thing after another that I was passionate about. Motorcycles. Oh my gosh, I'm going to get on

the professional motorcycle tour, at least have enough followers of my Instagram account. I'll get

free stuff from BMW. Oh. Let me tell you something.

Let me tell you something. Simply having passion does not make for a great life. So with me today is an

old-time friend and actually old-time colleague. His name is Todd Henry. Todd Henry has started a successful podcast called

Accidental Creative. Todd Henry used to actually work for me and with me and has gone out

and exceeded me. It's always awesome when someone leaves and exceeds you. He's getting speaking

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