One of the first things any successful team needs is to feel like they belong and they feel like you're safe here.

Yeah, totally.

Now what's interesting is, you know, I don't think that's all the team needs, but you'll never find successful teams who don't have that.

Right. That's like the baseline of success.

Hey guys, welcome to the real life podcast where we talk about exactly that every single week, real life, which means some

episodes might be about a fight we just had, some episodes might be about potty

training since we have two toddlers, and some might be about eschatological realism because I love

thinking and talking about deep theological things and maybe we'll talk about all three of those

in one episode but we hope the show feels like hanging out in our living room with us drinking a cup of coffee as we discuss

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Me and my lovely wife, Alyssa, are your host and don't hesitate to hit us up or reach out on social media to say

hi or comment on this week's episode. Enjoy. How's it going on, I'm Jeff? Welcome back to the real life podcast. We're talking about faith, culture, and answer your questions. We haven't answered your questions in a long time.

Well, I actually, yeah, I answered your guys questions last week by myself.

We have answered your questions together in a while. By the way, you know,

Did you get any love on that? Yeah, people gave me a better rating than I thought.

I was a little insecure, you know, I'm missing you.

And I think most people, I asked people to give me like a school type grade.

Most people give me a B-plus without you.

You know?

And I, and you know, especially like I I said because my motto is

C's get degrees I'll take a B plus any day I won't take a B plus any day I was

actually watching well I needed a break but I was watching Sweet Magnolia is the new show

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