Goodlad Unscripted

On October 26th Crystal Ellis, the biological mother of our foster son Jesse, joined me on the podcast to talk about her decision to walk away from a life of gangs, drugs, crime, and violence. It was candid, honest and raw and while the decision has been months in the making, going public for the first time was a huge step for her but a step she is proud of making.

Ten days later she joins me on the podcast again to talk about her week and the setbacks she had. While setbacks and bad decisions are often seen as failures, Crystal is processing what happened very differently than she would have in the past. What she is drawing from the experience is proof that she is moving in the right direction.

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I've been a glamour photographer for twenty years now but I took a two-year break from shooting models other than Ana and a couple close friends. I'm about to start publishing my Digital Magazine again and I am excited about getting back into working with models just for the fun of creating my best images again.

Ana and I haven't talked about it yet so I decided to ask her how she felt about me working with glamour models again.

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In the past 24 hours Ana and I have stepped away from everything so we could focus on our business, marriage and our lives and we it all from the ground up.  Not because it's broken, we are doing it so it can be so much better and have the life of our dreams. In business and life if you are standing still you are sliding backward so if we allow ourselves to be comfortable and stop looking for ways to be better at all of it, we start down the road to failure.

It may sound a little radical, driven maybe, but it's been the secret to rising from nothing to where we are, and it will propel us to where we want to be.

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We kick this podcast off talking about our workouts and training together, and what Ana is feeding me then somehow we end up talking about Christmas and how I feel about my in-laws.  

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Ana is my favorite model, not because she is my wife, it's because she is the best and most versatile model I have had the pleasure of working with.  We stopped creating pictures together when we became foster parents but it's time to get back into it again and we can't wait.  Ana and I talk about modeling, what it means to us and why I often prefer to work with older women as a general rule.

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We started with one foster child, then we had three, and now we are back to one.  While we told each other we wanted to focus all of our energy and attention on Jesse, two weeks after the girls went to live with their forever family we are considering a second child.  When Ana brought it up I thought she was crazy but after talking about it on this podcast, maybe it's not so crazy after all.  We will see.

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Crystal Ellis is the mother of my foster son.  He is still in our care and she still wants to get him back.  I first met her three weeks after she was released from jail and to say there were some issues between us would be like saying the Empire State Building was tall.  A year and a half later we sit down to talk, openly and honestly, about where she was at and why and the ground we have covered since that first time we met.  This interview is honest, straightforward, and to the point.  It's raw.  And it's just the beginning.

 

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It's been almost a month since I retired and I still haven't done any of the things I wanted to do because the days just run into each other taking care of "little" things.  Ana and I sat down to talk about all the things we could do that would be fun, sort of a mini-bucket list of things I want to start doing right away.  Things like riding my skateboard more.

 

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I retired from professional...everything I was doing, at the end of September this year.  I had big plans and dreams, but three weeks into it I haven't done anything I said I would.  Sitting on top of a mountain this past Saturday, waiting for the sunrise, it dawned on me that it wasn't the million and one distractions I was blaming that was keeping me from doing what I wanted to do, it was my expectations that I had to adjust.  Not to expect less of myself, but to expect more and hold myself to the promises I made by adjusting my priorities.  This week is a whole new week, and you can expect to see a new podcast each day from Monday to Friday.  Ana and I bat this one around covering work, relationships, and realizing your dreams.  I hope you enjoy it and I hope it helps someone.

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A couple weeks ago we did a podcast about how having kids and running our own business has had a negative impact on our marriage.  The love is still there but we are so busy and so tired at the end of the day that there has been no time for romance.  After we recorded that podcast we took a step back, looked at ourselves, and made changes.  Not huge ones, just little ones that will add up and that we can do every day.  It's working so well so we wanted to share what we did.  Our sincere purpose for doing that is to help others that may be in the same spot we were.

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