Joe Halsell runs a construction company, and drank hard to handle life. Then Exodus 90 forced him to face what was actually enslaving him.

AA made it real by dropping him into a “barrier free” room of men offering unconditional help — “24-7, here’s my cell phone number.” It taught him to shut off the spotlight, strip away ego, and live by a hard rule: “Your very life depends upon the degree to which you serve others.”

Now he’s turning that arc into a book and a practice — daily prayer, examen, and Friday bed deliveries instead of the bar — aimed at the man who thinks his life’s over, because “it’s not… it’s just beginning.”

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — Joe Hallsell

02:39 — Exodus 90 cracked everything open

04:05 — The addiction he couldn’t outrun

05:27 — The phone call that forced the truth

08:23 — AA and a room full of brothers

09:52 — When his son got leukemia

10:54 — “This couldn’t be for nothing”

14:45 — Generational sin and stopping the cycle

25:49 — Masculinity without the spotlight

27:45 — “Your life depends on serving others”

35:33 — Trading the bar for service

39:04 — The man he’s trying to reach