00:07:13.520i think pissed off being an asshole but also like really creating some real problems financially
00:07:19.760relationally spiritually for yourself that is hard to overcome at times you know when you said
00:07:28.080your life has to be rooted in a value system that really struck that really uh stands out to me
00:07:33.180because um it some for some people i think it might be religion or spirituality for some people
00:07:40.660it might be a personal code of conduct, but I think that's the ultimate litmus test that we fail
00:07:45.860often is, you know, am I, for example, a virtue, am I being honest, a hundred percent honest and
00:07:52.340accurate? Um, am I being hardworking? Am I being an integrity? Am I being a man of my word? Am I
00:07:58.020following through on my commitments? Am I, um, you know, like hurting people? Am I, here's what I
00:08:06.200would say, am I treating people's, I have some emotion behind this, hold on, am I treating
00:08:22.100other people's hearts carelessly, right, like that's a thing, I'm emotional because I've
00:08:31.960I've done that right and for my own self-interest and then I forget that oh like fuck you're dealing
00:08:40.220with other people's hearts you're dealing with other people's lives and that sucks
00:08:47.280totally I think it's important to know you know like someone might be listening it's just like
00:08:56.460oh man, like I have all these areas of my life that I'm not this way, right? Where I'm out of
00:09:02.820integrity or I'm not showing up how I should be showing up. I think it's important to note that
00:09:08.400this is a choice over and over, right? Yeah. And yeah, for sure. In the next hour, I can be
00:09:17.360completely out of integrity and then be back in integrity the hour after, right? It's, I think
00:09:22.720it's more of a, you're not a man of integrity or you're not. I think it's, are you choosing to be
00:09:28.240over and over again, which I think gives some grace and some hope, right? Is if we are,
00:09:36.080if we've come up short, then make the change now and choose over and over again, you know,
00:09:43.720what that looks like for us. And after all, I mean, I think that's what's expected. And it's
00:09:49.160that hard that it's a constant choice over and over again it's it's it sounds like a lot you
00:09:55.120know oftentimes we talk about balance being a verb instead of a a place that you get to that
00:10:00.820you arrive to it's it's not balance you don't find balance you are constantly balancing that's
00:10:07.720the difference um but i think in you don't find integrity you are being in integrity i think is
00:10:16.620what i'm hearing you say so am i integrity now am i in integrity in 20 minutes i will to be
00:10:24.000determined we'll see uh but it's something that we do every single moment of every single day
00:10:29.520you know it's interesting i'd like to add this if you don't mind
00:10:32.880it also has to do with where you are for instance there's probably times of my life
00:10:39.700where I was in integrity. But looking back, based upon what I know now, I'm like, oh, no, I wasn't.
00:10:50.900But I was in the moment based upon where I was and who I was in the moment. So this is why so
00:10:57.200much of it has to do with a betrayal of self based upon where you are as an individual,
00:11:04.180based upon your understanding and based upon how you see the world. And that changes.
00:11:11.500And so something I've done 10 years ago where I felt like, man, this is the right thing. I may
00:11:16.220look back at it and go, actually, based upon where I was, I made the best choice. Yes. However,
00:11:22.120knowing what I know now, I see it different. And so, so much of this also has to do with where we
00:11:28.340are as an individual and how we see the world. I, you know, I, I wrestle with that though.
00:11:34.040Honestly, I wrestle with that because I mean, we talked, we talked about this a couple. Yeah. I mean,
00:11:38.260we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, like you did the best you could with the information
00:11:41.720you had. Right. And I do, I do think that kind of, but I think where it becomes dangerous is
00:11:50.180where we start to well here's here's what you see in modern society modern society says it's okay
00:11:59.900you did the best you could learn to forgive yourself give yourself some grace these are
00:12:07.800the things that you hear in modern society and i agree about 30 of the time or at least 30 of the
00:12:15.700meter like give yourself 30 grace and 70 fix your shit but i think what people do when they hear
00:12:23.540stuff like that is like give yourself some grace you did the best you could is they over index it
00:12:28.800they they they only look at that and they're like oh you know i was a mess up i screwed up i did
00:12:34.540this i did that i shouldn't have done that but but it was okay because i you know i did the best i
00:12:38.820could well hold on where is the learning in that where is the growth in that where is the pain in
00:12:44.600that, you know? And, and I was talking with some people over the weekend and we were talking about
00:12:49.000mistakes we've made and struggles we've had. And it's like, that just sucks, right? Like it sucks
00:12:53.920to go through that, but also, uh, you have, it has to hurt. It really has to hurt. If it doesn't
00:13:02.480hurt, you're either a psychopath or you're not going to learn from it. And those were the only
00:13:05.960two scenarios that I've decided. Totally. I agree. I totally agree with you. Like we're on the same
00:13:13.320page. Like, and this is why the self-awareness element of this is really important because are
00:13:17.620you, are you BSing yourself? But maybe here's a pulse. And I like what you said. So let me just
00:13:22.420reiterate it is if you can't identify your role in it, if you can't identify the responsibility,
00:13:29.820your responsibility in the upset, then you're not going to learn. Yeah. And so if it's surface level,
00:13:37.300like, oh, well, I did my best. It's like, well, no, no, no. Okay. Got it. You did your best,
00:13:41.600but what did you do wrong? What should you have done differently? If you can't say that,
00:13:47.180then now you're just making an excuse and you're not going to learn from this situation.
00:13:52.040Yeah, no, it's true. It's true. Well, all right. Good riff for, you know, 15 minutes before getting
00:13:59.060into the listener questions. So, all right. We have a question from a Daryl Hahn. He says,
00:14:04.240building on the conversation you all had about focusing on things you can control
00:14:08.680since we're about to do another preview call can you go about how you came up with the four
00:14:14.120quadrants of the battle plan and what makes them important it's a good refresher for the guys
00:14:19.120listening and an intro for the newbies yeah so the four quadrants just to go through that real
00:14:25.600quick are four aspects of life broadly real real generic and generally that men ought to focus on
00:14:31.820that if they focus on one objective per quarter in each of those quadrants, they'll thrive and
00:14:39.620succeed. And it's not easy. It's simple. It can be real challenging just to focus on four things
00:14:47.980because we're constantly pulled in so many different directions and so many different
00:14:52.000things that we could focus on. And so I thought about what are the most important things in my
00:14:57.520life and it's family and it's friends and it's my spirituality and it's my money and my career
00:15:03.040and giving back into the community and making sure I'm strong and capable and getting the sleep I
00:15:09.300need and feeling my body correctly so I feel good it's like all of these things but then
00:15:13.640one skill set that I have and I'm not ashamed to say this at all is taking complex theories and
00:15:19.780ideas and breaking them down into the most common basic simple easy to follow routine
00:15:27.620it's actually kind of interesting as i analyze that because modern society says if it's simple
00:15:34.400it won't work and many men will over complicate things to excuse themselves from the performance
00:15:44.360so i actually get some critique and pushback on what we do because you know it's not that simple
00:15:50.660it's not that easy well have you tried it no well okay then don't don't complain about it
00:15:55.920you know i look at a sports team for example and you could take a football team that has
00:16:01.280we've used this analogy before has a hundred different plays that kids are supposed to
00:16:06.740memorize and then flip it and go to the right side instead of the left or vice versa and all
00:16:11.460a sudden it turned 100 plays turns into 200 plays that every player is supposed to memorize their
00:16:16.460position what if you just had 20 plays and you just got flawless with those 20 everybody knew
00:16:23.940their assignment they were extremely efficient in each of those 20 which would be more effective
00:16:28.520i contend that 20 plays run perfectly will significantly outpace and outperform 100 plays
00:16:36.160or 200 running both sides of the field, executed at 70%. That's anecdotal. Like I can't give you
00:16:43.820the evidence behind it other than in my own life, if I focus on a few key things and let the rest
00:16:50.500kind of go away or become less relevant, it's always more productive than focusing on everything.
00:16:56.880So the four quadrants that Daryl's talking about is number one, calibration, which is mental,
00:17:04.360emotional and spiritual health number two is connection that's the relationships that you
00:17:09.840have with your family friends significant other colleagues clients etc number three is condition
00:17:16.560physical health so not just getting strong but getting sleep and getting recovery and uh feeling
00:17:22.940your body correctly and being mobile you know even in my own life i think do i need to focus
00:17:28.440on strength building sure but what do i need to focus on right now well for me currently in my
00:17:33.040current state of life, two things, uh, mobility. Cause I feel myself getting tight and sleeping
00:17:38.460better. That's what I'm focused on right now. And that will improve every aspect of my life.
00:17:43.220And the fourth is contribution, becoming a man of value, contributing back to your community,
00:17:48.860uh, building your career, figuring out how to wait, make weight, make opportunity for greater
00:17:55.680income and greater value to other people. And just giving back as, as a man. So that's a little
00:18:02.740bit about how we narrow it down. And I'm telling you, you know, when I went through all of the
00:18:07.560bull crap that I went through, much of which was self-imposed three and a half, three, three and
00:18:12.600a half years ago, it wasn't because the system doesn't work. It was because I deviated from the
00:18:17.480system, you know, to go back to that sports analogy. Um, if somebody, if, if let's say it's
00:18:25.220a pulling guard, you know, it's a sweep to the right, a running play, and it's a pulling guard
00:18:30.000he's supposed to pull and the running back runs his play the quarterback runs his play
00:18:34.460all the linemen run their play the receivers draw defensive back so we can get the sweep
00:18:39.660but the left guard who's supposed to pull to the right doesn't pull to the right
00:18:44.840is the play defunct no that player is right the play is not wrong the player just missed execution
00:18:55.180and that's what it is most of the time in life people will say like oh this workout doesn't
00:18:59.980work well hold on hold on hold on is it the workout that doesn't work like tell me about
00:19:05.360what you did and people are like i did about 60 okay well then you didn't work or at at work and
00:19:12.420in your career people say well my boss is a jerk and my client's this and the economy that i'm like
00:19:17.080well how come that guy's thriving under the same set of circumstances but that guy's not complaining
00:19:22.860about his boss that guy's not complaining about the economy that guy's bringing in the money
00:19:26.380what's up with that and you can't explain it you can't you can't figure it out because you're so
00:19:33.200concerned with the system not working instead of you not working and i think if more of us focused
00:19:42.020on what we can control and what we can do to make sure we're executing to the nth degree the system
00:19:48.740would become less relevant i mean i could do anything just about at a hundred percent and
00:19:54.040produce results so that's how it came down why is the balance so important ryan i mean over the
00:20:01.940years right you've you've seen guys in the ic that might be doubling down on their careers
00:20:07.020right but they're neglecting at home do you want to talk through the importance of
00:20:11.580focusing on all four versus just three or just two and what happens when you do that
00:20:16.520yeah i mean a lot of guys talk about work-life balance i don't like that term i understand where
00:20:21.880people are trying to go with that term, but I don't like it because to me, it connotates some
00:20:27.640sort of end state of being that we're supposed to arrive at. But the problem with that is that
00:20:32.420life is dynamic. I mean, you're going to get kicked in the proverbial balls sometimes here
00:20:37.720and there with things that you did not expect. And if you're so rigid in the way that you do things
00:20:43.560or your perfect idea of balance, you're going to find yourself in a really bad mental position.
00:20:49.960It's going to impact you mentally. So I think that having a broad, comprehensive approach to
00:20:59.860the way that you live your life is going to be significantly more valuable because you'll be
00:21:04.620able to ebb and flow as life happens. For example, my oldest son, he's 17. He's about ready to leave
00:21:13.900the house and I'm trying to get all the time that I can in with that kid right now. Um, so that I
00:21:21.100can, I can, you know, have that relationship with him. Like I want to have a relationship with him
00:21:27.920after he leaves the house. And then there's other times where I might be dealing with some sort of
00:21:32.300medical issue or struggle that I'm dealing with physically. And it's like, okay, I need to focus
00:21:36.120on that. Or maybe my relationship is struggling. And so I need to pour more time into that. So
00:21:42.060I'm not saying you're going to neglect one over the other at all times, but you need to be able
00:21:46.320to allocate your resources and your time and your energy and attention is finite. It is, it just is.
00:21:53.540And so we need to be able to adapt on the fly. To go back to that football analogy,
00:21:58.320if I run a sweep and everything's sealed up to the right, well, I'm going to cut it back in and
00:22:03.140see if I can create some more yards for us. And if you can't be intelligent and intuitive enough
00:22:08.580to do that, then you're too rigid in your thinking and you won't get very far.
00:22:12.060you'll get destroyed because life has a way of knowing what you're trying to do and it will
00:22:17.400figure it out and it will destroy you unless you can be intuitive about it. Yeah. And I think a
00:22:22.840lot of guys, probably not the guys in the IC, um, but men in general, they'll neglect one of these
00:22:28.340areas and it perpetuates and it destroys momentum across all areas. I mean, it's, it's easy. Just
00:22:36.280find someone that's been through a divorce and say, did that affect your work life? And they're
00:22:41.240like absolutely it is. Right. So it's like, you can't, there's some danger in neglecting some
00:22:47.920of these areas, right? If you're neglecting your health, it's going to show up in your
00:22:51.020productivity at work. If you're neglecting relationships, it's going to show up at
00:22:54.240productivity at work. Um, and, and so the, the balance in our term, in your term, uh, of the
00:23:01.080word balance, um, is really important as well. The, and they feed into each other and they create
00:23:06.560momentum across all four areas absolutely i mean how many guys do you know who are jacked but
00:23:11.340they're alcoholics or they're or they're divorced you know they're going through a brutal divorce
00:23:15.580or how many guys do you know who have millions and millions of dollars and they their family
00:23:22.220hates them like are you are you okay with that i'm not okay with that i'm not saying i don't
00:23:27.700fall into those temptations or or make those decisions but i'm not okay with it i'm not okay
00:23:33.800with being incredibly strong physically but being a mental midget that's not okay with me
00:23:39.440so you know do i look good on the surf that's probably where it lies it's like do i look good
00:23:46.640to other people yeah that's for the most part right it's like do i have the house do i have
00:23:52.420the boat do i have the toys do i have the clothes uh do i have the trophy wife uh do i have the
00:23:58.760biceps or the six-pack and if i have that then everybody else will think i have it figured out
00:24:02.440but you go to sleep and you cry yourself to sleep on your pillow at night every night because you're
00:24:06.080fucking miserable cool abs bro how does that help you sleep better but i'm i'm not saying don't have
00:24:13.520abs i'm saying have abs and have have the mindset too right yeah absolutely yeah yeah all right
00:24:24.220joshua collins he says this next quarter i'm looking to incorporate a boxing regiment into
00:24:30.220my workout i have all the necessary material or or or it's on its way but is there any advice you
00:24:36.780you would give to maximize results for clarification i'm doing it more for cardio
00:24:41.060and i have a hundred pound punching bag in my basement look i i'm not this is probably not
00:24:47.780something i'm qualified to talk about but i will say this i'll say this and i feel confident saying
00:24:53.200this when you start getting into striking i don't know how does he talk about how old he is
00:24:58.620no he doesn't okay as you get older and you start getting into striking the opportunity for injury
00:25:08.260at least from where i stand increases significantly so if you're doing it for cardio that's fine but
00:25:15.820you don't need to beat the shit out of the bag every single day and hurt your elbows or hurt
00:25:20.100your shoulder or hurt your wrists or your fingers or your knuckles like you don't need to do that
00:25:24.440so what i would say is just know why you're doing it are you doing it to be billy badass he's going
00:25:31.100to go fight you know a boxing thing with logan paul or whatever when his jaw recovers or are you
00:25:37.640doing it because you want to get some cardio and you want to learn how to throw a proper strike i
00:25:42.820think this is where guys get into trouble not just with martial arts but every aspect of life like
00:25:48.080are you going in to prove something to somebody or are you going in with a specific goal in mind
00:25:53.920in this case, cardio. And so I'm not going to injure myself. I wish I would have done that
00:25:59.020with jujitsu. I injured myself severely because I was trying to go hard without really knowing why
00:26:05.920I was doing it at 44, almost 45 years old. Now I would not train the same way as I did even
00:26:12.580eight or nine years ago. I, it's not a thing I would do because I have different goals and
00:26:19.080objectives and everything that i do whether it's martial arts or anything else is to support my
00:26:24.840lifelong objectives not be at odds with it so yeah do boxing for sure but learn how to throw the
00:26:33.640proper punch like don't just go out there and beat the shit out of your bag what what are you doing
00:26:37.440like you're gonna hurt yourself like get go jump on youtube get get an instructor there's so many
00:26:43.200free options out there how do you throw a strike how do you throw a punch how do you take care of
00:26:48.060your elbow or your shoulder or your knuckles when things are feeling bad use that stuff longevity to
00:26:53.840me is way more important than immediate intense results yeah yeah i totally agree i have a tie
00:27:03.900bag i mean my first instinct is to tell josh to cash in that boxing that heavy bag and actually
00:27:11.280get a tie bag instead but yeah but regardless the difference tell the guys what the difference is
00:27:17.060though so a tie bag is skinnier and you typically want it dragging on the ground so you have leg
00:27:24.380kicks you can practice leg kicks and most good gyms in my opinion tie bags are dragging so they
00:27:31.460don't move as much so you want the bottom almost dragging on the ground so it doesn't swing all
00:27:37.360over the place especially if you're training by yourself um so you get a hundred pound tie bag
00:27:42.320that's like six feet tall and then that way you get leg kicks and everything else all in play
00:27:48.540and knees but it's a little bit harder on a boxing bag but anyhow i digress so so josh a couple
00:27:54.800things or joshua a couple things that come to mind wrap up get wraps don't don't be lazy get
00:28:01.040wraps protect your knuckles in your hands i agree with ryan don't don't get crazy with like trying
00:28:07.520to kill the bag focus on technique and if you're doing this for cardio incorporate boxing movement
00:28:16.000into it right so get your stance right never get on stay on the balls of your feet the entire time
00:28:21.940work your angles the entire time and then and and keep active with your accommodation so learn
00:28:27.860combos go through the combos high reps incorporate some burpees in there so you go so many rounds of
00:28:36.180a certain combination and then five burpees and then get back at it. Another, you know, 20 rounds
00:28:43.220burpees, get back at it, dude, you'll get a great workout. But I agree with Ryan. The first thing
00:28:50.420that comes to my mind is do not throw your shoulder out, trying to kill the bag and getting
00:28:57.160hurt. So wear your wraps, get some good gloves, you know, and, um, and incorporate the cardio in
00:29:03.340there which is pretty much staying on the balls your feet the entire time like you're in a fight
00:29:06.640yeah i like the burpee idea you can really do that with anything and i would say i don't know
00:29:12.840what joshua's level of fitness is you said do five burpees yeah maybe five is good maybe one is good
00:29:17.980i don't really know his level of fitness but what i would do so i i saw this meme on instagram the
00:29:24.080other day and i can't exactly remember what it said but it was kind of poking fun at all the
00:29:29.440sophisticated workout things like workout routines and regimens and then next to it was like
00:29:35.760lifting heavier than you did last week and like that's it that's the key to fitness yeah
00:29:43.260just lift do the same workout just lift more than you did like add two and a half pound plates to
00:29:48.800your bench i promise you'll get stronger and everybody's like well you know you have to do
00:29:53.380no screw that you just gotta lift heavier than you did last week and the same is true with
00:29:59.020boxing and burpees so maybe you do one every two minutes every 60 seconds one burpee get up
00:30:05.780set a 60 second timer punch burpee but then next week you damn well better be doing two burpees
00:30:13.040every 60 seconds and the next week three and the next week four and the next week five so i would
00:30:17.940say the only the only minor issue i took with what you're saying is start where you can and then make
00:30:23.520sure you have room for development and growth that's that's the only thing i would say there
00:30:26.820yeah well and we miss the most common thing that most guys that most guys miss and it's just being
00:30:32.760consistent so joshua if you're going to do this if this is the workout every day now every day
00:30:40.380for 10 minutes every day for 20 minutes whatever that is but every day don't go all hot and heavy
00:30:46.520and you're like man i got a two-hour boxing session in and then you don't hit it for a week
00:30:52.000because you overdid it you know what i mean and then you that's not going to benefit you so figure
00:30:57.240out whatever you can do consistently that's where most of us fell to be honest with you
00:31:00.780yeah for sure all right derek um call a hand ryan you started order man because you grew
00:31:07.800up without a strong male role model how has that personally that personal wound
00:31:14.020shaped the direction of everything that you've built and has it changed
00:31:17.760i think this goes back to what we were talking about earlier you're you're shaped by everything
00:31:26.460that you have in life and what a lot of guys will do is they'll self-destruct
00:31:31.860or they'll be self-aware and they'll say okay this bad thing happened to me
00:31:37.380and and stuff does happen to you you know we talk a lot about victimhood don't be a victim
00:31:42.760no there's a difference between victimhood and being a victim or being victimized i've been
00:31:49.000victimized right i've been taken advantage of i've been manipulated i've been toyed with i've
00:31:53.620been victimized but i don't fall into victimhood mentality to me those are two different things
00:31:59.060and so there's a lot of men who have had similar experiences me or even worse than i have who have
00:32:08.000chosen just because they're victimized to play the victimhood mentality. And I have chosen not
00:32:13.460to do that. I can't say that I've always been that way, but I've chosen not to be a victim of
00:32:20.420victimization, if you will. And that's a huge, huge distinction. I know we're using very similar
00:32:26.460words, slightly different, but that distinction is crucial. So whatever happens to you in life,
00:32:33.820whether it's self-imposed or existential, you got to choose how you're going to look at it.
00:32:41.160You know, is this something that I'm going to blame on other people? I'm going to blame this
00:32:44.880on outside circumstances. Am I going to invest too much weight in things beyond what I can control?
00:32:51.380Or am I going to say, hey, you know, here's where I messed up or here's where I was dealt a crappy
00:32:57.000hand, but I can try to make the most of it. Here's how I can improve and get better.
00:33:01.020um i think the way that it's changed this is really important i want guys to hear this
00:33:05.940um i used to be really angry with my father like really angry about how he should have done this
00:33:12.800and how he should have done that and how he should have showed up this way and what he should have
00:33:16.000done differently and you know i still have some of those things sure it's hard to get over but as i
00:33:21.360began to claim authority over my own life my appreciation and respect for my father went up
00:33:30.120and my disdain and frustration with him went down and so what i've noticed as i've taken
00:33:36.380ownership and authority of my life is that i afford people a lot more grace than i did in the
00:33:43.500past i see the humanity in people that i didn't that i didn't see before um i i find ways to
00:33:51.880reconcile relationships when maybe 10 years ago i would have written them off i'm just more human
00:33:58.520just more empathetic more kind more gracious more understanding more grateful for the things
00:34:03.600they did rather than the things they didn't do and that's been liberating because I'm not bogged
00:34:11.840down with my disdain or frustrations towards my father or I'm not frustrated with this one person
00:34:17.860that did this one thing to me this one time like I don't have time for that I don't know why they
00:34:22.940did the things they did I don't know why they made the decisions they did but they did and so
00:34:26.980can I make amends? Can I, I mean, I, I spent, I went on a integrity tour the first quarter of
00:34:33.920this year, you know, that Kip, it's like being integrity. And I made a bunch of phone calls and
00:34:39.120sent a bunch of texts where I needed to apologize for behavior. And like, I went on an apology tour
00:34:45.180in a way. I don't like that. I say integrity tour because apology tour makes it sound as if I'm just
00:34:50.360apologizing randomly to people who don't deserve an apology from me. But I went on an integrity
00:34:55.060tour man that was liberating liberating and if more men would do that and not only would you
00:35:02.220feel better about yourself but you stop doing dumb things because of how painful it is to go
00:35:07.280on that integrity tour it's not fun it sucks actually yeah i mean the integrity tour is so
00:35:12.860important because well two things not only are you getting an integrity you're you're telling
00:35:18.400people where you messed up and you're taking ownership um but you would just stop doing dumb
00:35:23.140shit because it's painful like it's brutally painful to call somebody up or shoot them a text
00:35:28.480and say hey i wasn't good to you or i did this thing and that was wrong and i should have done
00:35:34.620differently and you're gonna get mixed fortunately for me overwhelming neutral to positive responses
00:35:42.460i would say nothing nothing super negative not actually nothing at all negative like oh yeah
00:35:48.760you're right you were an asshole no everybody's like you know what thank you that was that was
00:35:53.400good of you to say that was the most neutral thing i got is like thank you um and then the
00:35:59.000i actually sent a text to my ex the other day and because um i had a uh i had an interaction
00:36:09.080over the weekend with um with my son and his lacrosse team and the team didn't my son's team
00:36:16.980didn't play my oldest son his team didn't play real well and I was I was taking pictures for
00:36:22.520the team and I was walking back to the car after the game and I ran I just kind of bumped into the
00:36:26.100opposing team's coach and I said hey coach like good job you guys look good out there good team
00:36:32.400excited for your season like good luck with everything he's like oh thanks man like and he
00:36:36.500saw my hurricane hat and he's like are you a coach I said no I'm not a coach I'm just taking pictures
00:36:41.380for the team and but it gets me close to my boys and I like the game he's like oh that's really
00:36:46.060cool and he said you know he said i'm really i'm really proud of the way my boys played but man
00:36:51.540that number 40 kid was a menace out there and i said oh yeah that's that's my son and he's like
00:36:58.280that kid is unbelievable like the way that he plays he's leading the team like how hard he plays
00:37:04.360um our our halftime and our breaks revolved around how we were going to contain him
00:37:10.340and he said and as soon as we shut him down at the net he went the other way and scored the other
00:37:15.700and he did and then he one time he got hit brecken got hit in the back the goalie came out of the
00:37:21.020box and he got the ball on a breakaway and the goalie hit him in the back and he fell to his
00:37:26.880knees and still whipped around and made a shot like it was an incredibly accurate like it was a
00:37:32.260good shot and the whole sideline was laughing like don't body that kid because you're gonna get like
00:37:36.780it's not gonna work yeah and so anyways he had just really good things to say about my son
00:37:41.700and i want everybody to hear this in the past i probably wouldn't have communicated that with my
00:37:50.100ex um but i think she deserved that because a big part of the way he is is because of her
00:37:59.940like that's true that's reality like i don't care how she feels about me how i feel about her
00:38:06.340i don't that doesn't matter the reality is she deserved that compliment maybe more so than i did
00:38:12.040and so i just sent her a text and i said hey this is what happened and i just wanted to tell you
00:38:16.980like brecken is the way he is in large part to the way you are and how you show up you're a good mom
00:38:21.600that was hard that's hard shit to write man when you feel the way that you feel every other day
00:38:28.480and you still write stuff like that that's not enjoyable but i just kind of feel like that's
00:38:34.160what we should do as men. And I'm not here to tell you I'm doing it all right. I don't do that
00:38:39.140all the time. It was just a moment of clarity where I'm like, I got that one right. I did that
00:38:44.220one right. And I think that more people deserve that from us. Don't you feel there's a massive
00:38:51.840reduction of weight? Like when we, when we leave things unfinished, there's a weight to it. There's
00:38:59.700an energy suck to it. Like it, it, you're carrying it with you and there, and when you went on your
00:39:06.380integrity tour, if you want to use that term, wasn't there just this massive reduction of
00:39:13.400weight that you were carrying and you just felt more open with more energy. Can you talk through
00:39:20.600that? Or was that the case? Yeah. I mean, absolutely. You know, all of a sudden, all the
00:39:26.660things that i'd been fretting and i and i had like there was conversations that i had where i'm like
00:39:30.560ah i just felt like a jerk man in so many ways i really felt like i hurt other people i let other
00:39:37.600people down i did things that were self-interested at the expense of others and then when you just
00:39:43.240say sorry and you just own it like no excuses no like i never i didn't ever say to any of those
00:39:50.640people and there's probably half a dozen i didn't ever say to them hey here's the reason i did it
00:39:54.920i did not say that i just said hey i i've actually done this with you kip like there's been moments
00:40:03.780where i've actually mistreated you and i've called you up and there's like two or three that i can
00:40:10.000remember and i've called you up and i've said hey man that was not cool i took advantage or i didn't
00:40:17.460treat you the way that you deserve as a friend to be treated and i'm sorry but sorry's don't come
00:40:23.420with rationalizations or justifications in my mind yeah it doesn't matter why i did the thing
00:40:29.140i did i i can under i should get familiar with that right i should know why i did that so that
00:40:34.220i don't do it again but i don't need to tell you that because that's irrelevant to how you felt
00:40:39.620and how i treated you so when you do this i think the best way to lift that weight to your question
00:40:46.220is just to say hey yeah that was fucked i'm sorry i shouldn't have done that and i see now
00:40:55.200how it impacted you and i see now what i did wrong and you didn't deserve that and i'm sorry
00:41:02.460that's it not asking for anything from you i don't even say that i that's it i'm sorry period
00:41:11.240end and i don't in my mind i'm thinking hey you don't owe me anything you don't owe me a response
00:41:17.240you don't owe me your forgiveness you don't owe me anything i'm not asking i'm not telling them
00:41:21.140that i'm thinking that in my mind yeah but the last sentence is always i'm sorry you did not
00:41:25.580deserve that period the end and just let the chips fall where they may but yeah it's liberating to
00:41:31.940close loops yeah and and it's i just want to call this out man because like we've had this
00:41:37.480I've had this conversation with some guys in the IC over the years. Right. And the typical scenario is, well, I wish my dad was still alive so I can clean things up with him. And, and I, I could tell him these things and, and they're all, you know, and don't get me wrong. Right. There's some positive intent here, but they're all rooted in, I'm going to do X and then he's going to reply in this way. And then I feel better. That's not what Ryan's talking about. Right.
00:42:05.400This isn't a game of manipulation where I'm going to vomit my feelings on someone and with some premeditated resentment and expectation that they're going to respond a particular way.