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130+ episodes worth of honest conversation. Practical writing for BizDads and the men who are becoming one.

Marriage

I Told My Wife We Would Lose Thirty Thousand Dollars... Someday

We were sitting in our living room in Japan. I told her that one day I was going to walk in and say we had lost thirty thousand dollars, and that I needed her to be okay with it right then, while it was still a sentence and not a fact. Years later we lost more than that, and there was never a conversation.

September 14, 2026

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Business

The Hard Conversation Happens Years Before the Deal

I expected to have to sell my wife on buying Game Over. A spreadsheet, a pitch, three nights of cold silence. Instead she was excited, and it took me a while to understand that the reason had almost nothing to do with the deal and almost everything to do with conversations we had years before it.

August 31, 2026

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Fatherhood

What 138 Conversations With Entrepreneur Dads Taught Me About Winning at Home

I spent years sitting across from some of the most driven, successful, faith-filled men I have ever met. Business owners, veterans, real estate investors, coaches. And almost every single one of them was wrestling with the same things. Here is what I learned.

June 22, 2026

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Faith

86 Days

I kissed my daughter on the forehead and sent her down for a nap, and then I hit record, and the man on the other end opened by telling me about his daughter, who lived eighty six days. I had not read his story beforehand. It arrived cold.

December 18, 2023

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Fatherhood

The Behaviors You Praise Are the Child You Raise

Most parents are accidentally training the wrong things in their kids. Martial arts coach and child psychology expert Antony Graf breaks down the four phases of parenting and why most dads blow the most important one.

September 4, 2023

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Business

What Are You Accidentally Teaching Your Kids About Money?

Jon Huber's mom played Tony Robbins cassette tapes on every car ride and accidentally shaped his entire entrepreneurial brain. Nobody planned it. It just happened. The question is what is happening in your house right now that nobody planned either.

July 10, 2023

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Fatherhood

Hold On and Don't Let Go

Most dads quit too early. On their kids, on their marriages, on their businesses. Dave Aheimer fought a year-long custody battle for a 4-month-old he almost lost. What he learned applies to every area of your life.

July 3, 2023

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Fatherhood

They're Carrying Little Mirrors

You cannot control what your kids become. But you can control what they see every single day. And what they see is what they carry. Sergio Altomare stopped drinking because of what he wanted his daughter to remember. What are your kids going to remember about you?

June 26, 2023

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Fatherhood

The Dad Who Never Had a Dad

Tim La Barr grew up without a father, survived an abusive stepfather, and built a family without a blueprint. What he gave his son Adam wasn't perfect. But it was everything he had. And that turned out to be enough.

June 19, 2023

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