Lead from the front, guys. We hear it all the time. Lead from the front. Lead by example.

But I want you to stop and actually ponder and consider and contemplate whether or not you truly are leading from the front.

How can you tell your son to get strong? How can you tell your child that it's important that you build wealth so you can serve people if all the things that you're doing in your life are producing poverty. How can you tell your children not to slip into temptations if you're

slipping in those temptations? You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your

fears and boldly chart your own path. When life knocks you down,

you get back up one more time, every time. You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient,

strong. This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day,

and after all is said and done you can call yourself a man

i had a really great opportunity this afternoon before i hit record on this podcast and i wanted

to share it with you because it conjured up some thoughts and ideas in my mind about how i have

been showing up for my children and how I

want to show up and how I think all of us as men ought to contribute to the lives of our children

and the lives of the children in our communities. There's a great quote. It's very short. It's by

Douglas Wilson. It's one of my favorite quotes. He says, if boys don't learn,

men won't know. I was having a conversation at the barbershop this morning and they were asking

me what I do for work. And I shared a little bit about what this organization is all about and how we

try to help men and give them the tools and

resources they need. And they had asked me if that's something that's needed. And obviously,

the answer is yes. If you look around, it's very evident that the work that we do here is

just as important as it's ever been, maybe even more so than when I started doing this 10 years ago.

There are so many men, literally millions of men across the planet who did not have male

father figures in their lives, did not learn the lessons that they should have learned, did not

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