In a couple of weeks, we'll be releasing an episode that we did with Gary Chapman. He's the author who wrote The Five Love Languages. One of the Five Love Languages is Gifts, and this particular love language I do not have at all. I am a terrible gift giver, which is why I love Batgate prayers. They are the sponsor of two days episode. If you're watching on youtube or on spotify you can see

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with you man i feel like i'm sitting down with a sage so i just feel like uh i'm honored to sit with you

and pick your brain um i have all kinds of things that i want to start off by picking your brain

but before we get into all that for those guys who maybe have missed our conversations in the past

just give us an update on who you are and what you're up to these days.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I'm a father who fell in love with fatherhood in an unusual way. So I was not excited about having kids. I was, I saw this sort of role as a father, just something that was kind of broken. I grew up in the Seattle area. I just

saw so much divorce, so much brokenness. I had a profound, like, transformation my understanding

of fatherhood by spending time in the Middle East around Jewish and Arab fathers. And they were so

inspired by the example of Abraham. And so I came back to the states, got married to my wife, who we actually met in

Jerusalem, and we started having kids. And I had this epiphany, which is I could build a

multi-generational team, like the kinds of families that I saw happening in Jewish families and

Arab families and that were kind of common throughout all of

history. We have this really new way of thinking about family. I think of as like a springboard for

individual success. Like we just launch our kids out. We don't live multi-generationally. We don't think

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