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Core4Life episodes

  • Jamie Borchik - Ministry through Athletes in Action

    Whisky – Alberta Premium Cast Strength Rye

    Jamie is the local team leader with Athletes in Action in the Chicago Area. His mission is to make it impossible for someone to come to Chicago to play a college sport and not meet Jesus along the way. We sit down with Jamie to learn more about his ministry and heart for reaching student athletes.

    Highlights

    • Grew up a gym rat and still loves to play basketball and working out.
    • Journey to Athletes in Action.
    • Christ-followers on every team, in every sport and in every nation and Jamie’s mission in Chicago.
    • Stories of how God is moving on campus and the challenges with reaching the current generation of students.
    • Equipping today’s students to carry out their mission in their future careers.
    • Accountability and bullpen philosophy towards mentorship.

      • Book recommendations & Resources

      • Deep Work – Cal Newport
      • Reason for God – Tim Keller
      • Questioning Christianity Series – Tim Keller
      • The Tech-Wise Family - Andy Crouch
      • The Warmth of Other Sons – Isabel Wilkerson
      • Lord of the Rings – J.R. Tolkien
      • Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry

        • Connect with Jamie’s Ministry Link

        1 hr 15 min
      • Quick Hits - Community

        How do we build community? How do we have an impact within our community? These are the topics that we discuss on today's Quick Hits with special guest, Michael Robertson. Michael is a long-time friend of ours and also one of our most consistent attendees for working out.

        We'll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick Hits episodes every other week! Stay tuned for more great content!

        18 min
      • Core4Life on The Triune Podcast

        We have a special episode today. We're re-airing our appearance on The Triune Podcast.

        We recently got the opportunity to appear on George's podcast to talk in-depth about our Core 4 pillars, how our podcast and platform came to be, some of our favorite things, and... aliens. Yep, we went there. 

        Give it a listen. We hope you'll enjoy it!

        1 hr 36 min
      • Quick Hits - Losses

        You win some, you lose some... but today, we talk about the losses. We got to sit down with our fantastic guest, Dave Pyper, again and he shared some great insight on how to handle loss. In this episode, we specifically talk about losses in sports, but then we get into how to apply those lessons to other areas of our lives. It's a great discussion and you'll really lose out if you don't listen.

        We'll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick Hits episodes every other week! Stay tuned for more great content!

        19 min
      • Jeff Lathrop – Infectious Enthusiasm for Life in God’s Economy

        Bourbon – Rebel Distillers Collection

        Jeff started his career in ministry as a campus pastor then transitioned into financial services. Although his job changed, Jeff has never stopped doing ministry. For anyone thinking about how to use their career to make an impact, beyond bringing home a paycheck, this episode is for you.

        beFIT

        - Jeff’s history as an athlete, how he stays fit and his journey to receiving a kidney transplant.

        beDRIVEN

        - Jeff shares how he worked in ministry for 9 years and then transitioned into his career as a financial coach.

        - Teaching people how to gain freedom in their finances and what the rules are to achieve in the money game.

        beNOBLE

        - Family background

        - Advice on how to balance being a parent and growing a business.

        - The role transition of a parent from instructing to inspiring and the importance of living life with infectious enthusiasm.

        - The importance of apologizing to your kids and how failure frees us from the tyranny of perfection.

        beCHILL

        - Working out, being outside, reading and travel.

        Book Recommendations

        - Success is not an Accident – Tony Newberry

        - Beyond Positive Thinking – Dr. Robert Anthony

        - Visions of Vocation – Steve Garber

        1 hr 23 min
      • Quick Hits - Fitness Challenge Update

        We brought 3 of our friends that are competing with us in this year's Fitness Challenge on the podcast. We talked about the history of the challenge, what's happening this year, as well as bigger and better stuff that is yet to come!

        Bourbon: Amador Double Barrel

        Check out our video version of this podcast!

        We'll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick Hits episodes every other week! Stay tuned for more great content!

        34 min
      • Core4Life - Meet the Core4 - Matt

        Bourbon: Middle West Spirits

        beFIT 

        • Played sports growing up and loved the lessons learned through sports
        • Experience with CrossFit
        • Transition to working out at home 

          • beDRIVEN 

          • Education background 
          • First job working at a local Church. 
          • Transitioned into sales for a local packaging company and moved into an account executive role 
          • Love building relationships. 

            • beNOBLE 

            • Faith journey 
            • Family hardship 
            • Church life 

              • beCHILL 

              • Cooking, bourbon, guns, fitness and sports, thrift shopping, prepper. Most of my time is spending time with my family and three kids. 
              • Podcasts – Ben Greenfield Fitness, Reasonable Faith with William Lane Craig, The Art of Manliness
              • Books 
                • Wild at Heart – John Eldridge; Ragamuffin Gospel – Brennan Manning; Love Does, Everybody Always, Live in Grace, Walk in Love: A 365-Day Journey – Bob Goff; The Gospel Comes with a House Key – Rosaria Butterfield; Amazing Grace – Eric Metaxas; The Captain Class – Sam Walker; The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis; The Millionaire Next Door & The Millionaire Mind – Thomas Stanley; 4 Hour Work Week, 4 Hour Body, 4 Hour Chef – Tim Ferris; What’s Best Next – Matt Perman; Moneyball – Michael Lewis; The Hobbit – Tolkien
                  • 1 hr 15 min
                • Quick Hits - Parenting Teens

                  None of the Core4 have the joy of parenting teenagers, yet. Luckily, our good friend Matt Lee is in the midst of parenting teen boys and is willing to share some great tips and fantastic insight. In today's episode, we talk through some of the great... and not-so-great things that come along with having teenaged children. 

                  We'll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick Hits episodes every other week! Stay tuned for more great content!

                  23 min
                • Core4Life with Dave Pyper: What makes you come alive?

                  Dave is a teacher, coach for over 35 years, and the man who gave me a love for history. Married for 35 years with 4 sons and 4 grandkids.

                  Bourbon – No bourbon this week as we kick off our fitness 2021 challenge

                  beFIT

                  • Dave was a wrestler in high school and fell in love with the sport in 9thgrade. There is a chosen suffering in wrestling and it takes a high level of discipline to succeed. 
                  • Chosen Suffering is a book he recommended by Ohio State coach Tom Ryan, who lost a child. Dave recently had one of his wrestlers pass away this year that rocked his team and community.  As a coach, he was able to help the team through the loss of a teammate and friend. Being able to steer them to something greater than themselves was key in giving hope to the kids suffering.
                  • One of his favorite quotes is, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive because the world needs someone who is alive”
                  • Dave is very self-motivated when it comes to fitness and finds ways to challenge himself all the time. He set a challenge to do 20 pushups before leaving a room. Atomic Habits is a book he learned about setting systems in place to reach your goals. He took 3rd place against his team of wrestlers with 1300 pushups in 24 hours. He did 104 pushups in a row one day while on a jog.

                    • beDRIVEN

                    • Dave is a teacher but is really a coach at heart. 
                    • He loved the defensive side of basketball coaching. His philosophy was “who’s mom do we want to disappoint tonight?” with the goal of shutting them down.
                    • He has coached against LeBron James and John Wall. He was up at half against St. Vincent St. Marry but ended up losing the game. He has been to the final 8 in 4 different varsity sports. He has several former athletes playing professional sports now. 
                    • As a coach, he had a unique opportunity to be involved in students’ lives and families. He once took a student home and a man was shot on the side of the road. No matter what a student’s background is by caring about them and being involved in their lives can lead to lifelong friendships. Life is about what you give to others and seeing how that comes back to you in relationships. 
                    • Many times, people will come to you and want to know if they are ok and you have an opportunity to pour into their lives. 
                    • Dave is a life coach. Life coaching is looking forward while counseling is looking back. Most people he is working with are from former relationships that wanted to interact and seek advice from him. Dave took courses from John Maxwell to get a certification in life coaching. You can see more about him at MB life coaching 3.0.

                      • beNOBLE

                      •  “Be each other’s biggest fan” is his recommendation for a healthy marriage. Never take a shot at your wife when your kids are watching. Honor her above anything else. Never allow your children to dishonor her either. 
                      • Kids are resilient and many times don’t remember all the things you don’t do right. Focus on loving them and training them in the way they should go. 
                      • As friends, sometimes it’s easier to have someone else speak into your kid’s life.
                        • 1 hr 12 min
                      • Quick Hits - Flexibility vs. Conviction

                        What convictions do you stand firm on, and when do you exhibit flexibility? This can apply to politics, parenting, social interactions, and tons of other situations. One of our favorite guests, Marc Benedict, brings that very timely topic to the table.  We talk it out on today's podcast.

                        We'll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick Hits episodes every other week! Stay tuned for more great content!

                        14 min

                      About Core4Life

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                      Core4Life is a podcast for men hosted by 4 average dudes. We're on a quest to improve and balance the 4 core pillars in our lives - beFIT, beDRIVEN, beNOBLE, and beCHILL. We'll publish and discuss…