Grand Rising. Well, by the time you guys watch this, it might not be grand rising. It might be good afternoon. It could be good evening, but I have been up since 4 a.m. because I've been up since 4 a.m., I figured I would come and record. I am going to be utilizing my mornings differently. If I am up and the kids are still in bed and peaches is still in bed and I have an hour or two before my house starts stirring. I'm going to come back here and record content, whether it's Voices of the Broken or lectures because I have a whole lot of things I want to get into. I'm contemplating doing a whole series on the seven hermetic principles. But I'm going to do voice of broken content because I have three emails that are sitting in there that are all between five and six pages and I'm just going to read them and give you guys a little bit of extra voice

of the broken stuff today. Maybe this will become the normal voice of the broken episode recording

time and I can bang out one of these every morning. This is an update from a Patreon member

that has also written into the voice of the broken. He starts by saying now this may be short, but I felt the need to share an update. I'm sorry for the typos. When they happen, English is a pain in the ass to me, L.O.L. Same. It's my only language. That's a lie. I'm learning Spanish. I'm actually learning Spanish enough that when I see like small sentences in movies, I can normally put together what they're talking about, which is like, yes, yes. It's when. Can't speak it very well, but I can fucking listen to you motherfuckers. It's now September and I'm looking forward to a short weekend at Bike Week and Ocean City with the wifie. When I was challenged to write my story, I was in the beginning of my wife and I separation.

The challenge to write my story was a very much needed challenge. Thank you, Chris, for that.

Then this morning, I get to work, clock in, put my earbuds in, open Spotify, and catch up on podcast.

I noticed that there was a new VOTB uploaded, so I instantly turned it on. VOTB is a godsend to

makes men's mental health come closer

to service of being fully recognizable in society. Started listening and within the second sentence,

I instantly teared up, holy fuck, that's my story. So thankful to have it out there and called

out on things even though it wasn't much, even working, still having a tear or to sneak out.

Here I am three months after writing that story during that time.

I finally was able to join Patreon and the Discord community.

It's amazing and feels like home.

I've shared some of the recent victories that we've had, that we've had, here and there

and love the hype, along with hyping up others.

Wifey and I had a separation for nearly two months at the beginning of August and decided to move forward with fixing and saving our marriage. She said she had noticed a huge change in me and mindset and all, which is all from the tools that you have both given us. Well, shortly before I move back into our home, she said, the youngest bonus son wants to come back. He's tired of living

with a roommate and started to see the full picture of adulting and how some people aren't always

what they say. We all sat and talked about it, agreed that he can live here until he's able to save up

for his own place. I'm actually, I'm going to pause there. I have never been, like literally

have never been the guy who wanted my kids to stay in the house past like 20. I was always, you know, when they turn 15, 16, they need to go to the job. They need to start saving. I'll help them save so that when they turn 18, 19, 20. And like, maybe if they don't, if they go to college, obviously the years change. But, you know, when they're decided that they're adults and they're grown, they can fucking move out because, like, I don't want to support another human being for the rest of my life. And that's changed for me over the last few years. I don't necessarily want to kick the kids out. Like, I don't care if they stay.

There's got to be rules and they got to adhere to the house rules. Like, we can't have people coming in and out of here. Like, there's a whole lot of things that would be implemented to keep them here. But we are blessed with enough space on our property and, you know, a unit next door because we have an in-law suite. and if the fruit

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