Tell me about your vision. I tell you what one of the things that I've been kind of growing
Growing Lee. How about that for a word really excited about and passionate about lately is fatherhood and I started writing a book
Really back in 2022 called the guardians of grit for fathers and I've done a lot of work
Kind of behind the scenes with a clinical psychologist friend of mine to to help dads raise
Uncrushable sons and that's pretty excited about that lately
Wow, tell me more about that why
You said uncrushable sons and the use of the word growing Lee
Yeah, so great question I
You know the word uncrushable to me, of course is really tied to the title of the book, right?
The guardians of grit and so I'd like to explain it this way grit, you know in a sentence could be kind of
defined as
Doing hard things over a long period of time
Because what's on the other side of that hill as it were is really worth fighting for and of course if you're wanting to build
A life for yourself and those you love
You're gonna have to do hard things, you know, you're gonna have to have some grit
You're gonna have to have some traction and when that place, you know comes from you know in your in your soul, right in your heart
It's amazing how much you can do and of course, I like this word uncrushable just because it means hey
We're gonna get we're gonna we're gonna take some blows. That's all there is to it. And
So really the question is is how fast are you getting up and why?
I'm ready to I'm excited as well to get to know about this a little more
So David where did this vision?
Come from exactly
You know, I've been really really passionate about being a father
so I'm a father of two teenagers one in college actually just started his second year my son and my daughter is a senior in high school and
I I take that really really seriously. I'm a really passionate
person in general and of course, you know, most people would say right your your wife and your children, you know
most men would say your wife and your children come first and
And what I'm seeing of course is you know
a lot of a lot of people suffering because they're just not able to do hard things and they seem to
You know to lack some horsepower. So I met a clinical psychologist in a mastermind group that I'm a part of
About six years ago. Dr. Eddie Garrett and I went through his course. We actually now work together
But his course is called the true north blueprint and it really helps one establish that
intrinsic, you know motivation and you know to live a life with
you know passion and
Moxie and gusto and and so on as opposed to living a life where you kind of hand the keys to somebody else, right?
You're you're wanting the applause of other people you're wanting
Maybe you don't want the displeasure of someone right?
You don't want to be, you know teased or mocked or you know thought of in a bad light
But what's fascinating though is is again that's extrinsic versus intrinsic
and what we do is to help people establish that clear plumb line inside of themselves
What is your goal for being on the show?
You know, I tell you like I said, I'm really really passionate about dads
I think that you know, and of course, I'm a bit biased, but I think that largely
You know, well I'll back into it this way. You're never going to hear, you know a mom or a wife say
Gee, I wish my husband didn't lead so well
You know, gee, I wish my husband wasn't so you know filled with clarity and kindness and courage
You know, and there's there's not a son or a daughter alive who would say those words. Gee. I wish my dad wasn't so awesome
I wish my dad didn't lead so well
I wish my dad didn't set the pace in our home or set the temperature. It's just the opposite, right?
Most wives are just longing
For their husbands to take the lead and to step up and to set the temperature and in fact the word man
You know means one who turns chaos into order
You know, so it's it's this idea that not that I have some weird overpowering agenda, but you know, I'm well
You know well equipped to step in and set the temperature if there's something that I need to speak into or some wisdom
That needs to be brought or some clarity around something or laughter for that
Matter, you know, I'm just the guy to do that and I I'm really hoping of course through the book and we're starting an online community
at guardians of grit.com
You know where we have
We can empower fathers and I'm really niching down to sons
I might do a guardians of grit for daughters at some point too. But right now I
I'm hoping that you know, we can basically I can look at men and say let me introduce you to yourself
So that you can do the same thing for your sons on a very clinical level
As well as heart right? I mean the the basis or the undergirding of grit, of course is love
But yeah, my my mission is to help dads become self-aware to become you know, father rock stars
So that they can raise uncrushable sons
Wow, that is so powerful if I hope that you're able to
Get that
And I'll love to make some introductions for you. Thank you
I know that would I mean if you want to be on their show or they have a show
Yeah, I'm actually gonna be well, I will be launching a podcast later this year, but i'd love some yeah
I'd love some some help. Yeah, that'd be great
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