Core4Life

Disclaimer: Ryan messed up and chose the wrong audio input... again. The audio quality isn't the best, but the content is awesome!

Bourbon: Yellowstone Limited Edition

On today's episode, we sit down with our good friend Aaron Garrett. He brought us some of the best bourbon that we've ever had as well as some of his homemade venison jerky. He also talks about his career in the military, his time as an army chaplain, his family's experiences with adoption, his gastric bypass surgery, and a small sampling of the things that he's done in his life. From bass fishing tournaments to starting his own gutter business (Premier Gutter Services), Aaron has done a little bit of everything. 

The gang has had some interesting experiences on the water. Some are great and some... not so much. Listen as we share some of our favorite nautical-themed stories. Our previous guest Jared Sylvester joins us. There's also a special cameo from one of the Core4Wives!

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

It's the most wonderful time of the year! In this special edition of the Core4Life Podcast, we sit down to talk through some of our favorite (and least favorite) things about Christmas. 

Bourbon: Woodinville Private Select

Laugh along as we discuss our favorite traditions, both old and new. We share our favorite Christmas movies... and our not-so-favorite Christmas movies. We ignite the debate between real and fake tree-ers. Then finally, we jump into the real meaning of Christmas and cover practical ways that we can make it meaningful and special for ourselves and our families.

Integrity, patience, forgiveness, listening skills... Those are all fantastic traits that we'd love to pass on to our kids. But how do we do that when we struggle with those things ourselves? We sit down with our great friend and past guest, Marc Benedict, to talk through some ideas on how to instill some of those traits in our children (and maybe work on them ourselves too).

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

Disclaimer: The audio on the Core4Life side is pretty bad for this episode. Someone (Ryan) didn't set up the audio input correctly, so our side of the conversation was recorded on the built-in microphone on our laptop instead of our mixer. Luckily, Matt's side was crystal clear and he's the one you want to hear anyway!

Bourbon: Western Reserve Small Batch

Today we welcome Matt Knabe to the show. Matt is a Licensed Professional Counselor with Emerge Counseling Ministries, a talented musician who has toured and played with some big names in the industry, a husband, and a father.

We all had big dreams coming out of college... well... most of us. In this episode, we sit down with our great friend and former guest, Matt Lee, to talk through what we had planned for our life coming out of college and what we actually ended up doing in our careers.

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

Bourbon - Technically not a bourbon... and we forgot to mention it during the recording. 🤦‍♂ However, we were enjoying some Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey for this episode.

beFIT

beDRIVEN

beNOBLE

beCHILL

It turns out that we, as a group, are pretty accident-prone. In this episode we sit down with one of our most popular guests, Dan LeMoine, to discuss some of the worst injuries that we've had in our sporting careers and how we worked to overcome them, or 'modify' our circumstances to work around them.

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

You do not get to hear stories this encouraging every day. Jared was diagnosed with osteosarcoma going into his Junior year of college. He shares his journey through his battle with cancer and how it has shaped him and his future.

Whiskey: Long Road Distillers (Grand Rapids, Michigan) – Straight American Whiskey

01:50 - Upbringing: Transition into college and radical spiritual growth leading up to diagnosis.

08:50 - Diagnosis: Pain in his knee to the point of crawling up the stairs. October 15th, 2010 diagnosis exactly 10 years from recording.

10:30 - Met with an orthopedic surgeon and receives devastating news.

12:00 – Drive back to school and campus support.

12:45 – Osteosarcoma is found in less than 1% of adults and most common in adolescence.

16:30 – Ryder Brown Update

18:00 – “You’re going to give a year of your life to us, and then hopefully we’ll give you the rest of your life back.”

18:30 - Cancer treatment plan and limb-salvage surgery.

22:00 - Processing the diagnosis. What will life look like after cancer?

25:45 – Family impact. It takes a village and family impact.

28:40 – “What the world saw as the most destructive diagnosis, proved to be the most life-giving in my life.”

33:00 – Gospel “Good news”.

35:00 - Cancer takes things from you and gives things to you.  Attitude change and perspective changed.

37:45 – beFit – Golfing and biking.

40:00 – beChill – Buckeye fan and book recommendation.

44:00 - Building a family and miracle baby Lucy Michelle.

51:00 – Parting advice.

In this first episode of Core4Life Quick Hits we discuss the importance of goals, what we're working toward right now in each of our core pillars and some of our best experiences with goals in the past.

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