Sometimes surrender doesn't mean the situation changes.

It means you change how you walk through it.

In Part 3 of my conversation with George Bryan, we continue talking about faith, personal responsibility, relationships, fatherhood, healing, and what it means to trust God when life doesn't go according to our plans.

George opens up about navigating divorce, co-parenting, a long-distance relationship, and the uncomfortable process of realizing how his own wounds were affecting the people he loved.

We talk about learning to take responsibility without living in shame, choosing patience over control, understanding our own values, and recognizing when we're asking other people to fill wounds that only God can heal.

We also have a powerful conversation about real brotherhood, vulnerability, biblical relationships, and why the right people in our lives can reveal things about ourselves that we can't see on our own.

This isn't about having everything figured out.

It's about continuing to grow, taking responsibility, trusting God, and taking the next step.

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

If you're navigating relationships, fatherhood, divorce, faith, emotional healing, or simply trying to become a better man, I hope this conversation reminds you that you don't have to do it alone.

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Brad

• Surrender doesn't mean giving up. It means releasing control while still doing your part.
• Pain can become a diagnostic tool. Our reactions can reveal wounds that still need attention.
• Take responsibility without taking on shame. We can't change the past, but we can choose how we show up next time.
• Know what you value. Healthy relationships become possible when you stop living from someone else's vision.
• God is the only one who can fill certain wounds. We can't expect other people to carry what they were never meant to carry.
• Real brotherhood reveals what we can't see in ourselves. The right people challenge us, support us, and call us higher.
• Knowledge means nothing without action. Change begins when we actually take the next step.

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Sometimes healing means realizing that your story is not your identity.

In Part 2 of my conversation with George Bryan, we go deeper into trauma, addiction, faith, surrender, fatherhood, emotional healing, and the difference between understanding your past and actually healing from it.

George shares what happened when he walked away from his successful business and social media, spent years doing deep therapeutic work, and eventually realized that understanding his trauma wasn't enough. He had to learn how to actually feel, surrender control, and trust God.

We also talk about vulnerability without trauma dumping, emotional regulation, authentic connection, social media, what we consume, and how the people and environments around us shape who we become.

If you've ever felt stuck in old patterns, struggled with your identity, or wondered what it really means to surrender and trust God, this conversation will give you a lot to think about.

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

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• Your trauma is part of your story, but it doesn't have to become your identity.
• Vulnerability means being honest without making others responsible for carrying your pain.
• What you consume and who you surround yourself with shapes who you become.
• Sometimes we're not waiting for an answer. We're waiting for permission to change.
• Faith means trusting God even when you can't see the outcome.
• Real healing requires moving from awareness into action.

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In Part 1 of my conversation with George Bryan, we go deep into identity, childhood trauma, emotional healing, faith, surrender, and the patterns that can keep us stuck even when we're aware of them.

George opens up about the experiences that shaped him, including childhood trauma, abuse, body image struggles, eating disorders, his time in the Marine Corps, and the ways achievement and suffering became connected to his sense of worth.

We talk about why some of us become more comfortable with chaos than peace, why we can use achievement to avoid feeling, and how unresolved emotions can continue influencing our relationships, health, business, and faith.

We also have a powerful conversation about surrender.

Not surrender as giving up, but surrender as releasing our need to control the outcome while still taking action. George shares how his relationship with God has challenged his ideas about success, performance, identity, and what it means to truly trust.

Together, we explore emotional regulation, co-regulation, perfectionism, people-pleasing, boundaries, personal growth, faith, and the difference between simply becoming aware of our patterns and actually changing them.

This conversation reminded me that healing isn't about becoming someone who never struggles.

It's about becoming someone who no longer needs the struggle to prove their worth.

This is not just a conversation about trauma.

It's a conversation about identity.

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

If you've ever felt like you have to earn your worth, struggled with perfectionism, used achievement to avoid your emotions, or found yourself trying to control every outcome, I hope this conversation helps you slow down, reflect, and recognize that you don't have to carry everything alone.

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Brad

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There are moments when forgiveness feels impossible.

The hurt runs too deep.

The words were never spoken.

The years can never be given back.

So how do you move forward when the people who hurt you are the same people you still love?

In Part 2 of my conversation with my dad, we continue our journey through forgiveness, healing, and redemption. We talk about discovering hidden family secrets, growing up feeling rejected, reconciling with my grandfather after decades of pain, navigating heartbreak after a 32-year relationship, finding peace through faith, and learning that healing doesn't come from changing your past. It comes from choosing what you'll carry into your future.

Together, we explore forgiveness, generational trauma, father wounds, reconciliation, faith, family relationships, grief, healing after divorce, identity, personal growth, and the power of choosing love over resentment.

This isn't just a conversation about family.

It's about breaking generational cycles.

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

If you've ever struggled to forgive a parent, wrestled with family conflict, questioned your identity, or wondered if reconciliation is still possible, I hope this conversation reminds you that healing begins the moment we choose compassion over bitterness.

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Brad

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There are moments in life when we realize our parents were carrying battles we never saw.

As children, we often interpret silence as rejection.

Distance as a lack of love.

Absence as abandonment.

But sometimes the people who hurt us the most are simply passing on wounds they never healed themselves.

In Part 1 of this deeply personal conversation, I sit down with my dad for the first time to talk openly about our relationship, the pain we both carried, and the journey toward forgiveness.

Together, we unpack the childhood wounds that shaped us, the resentment we held for years, and the difficult conversations that ultimately led to reconciliation. My dad shares his own story of growing up in poverty, surviving abuse, discovering his identity as a gay man during a time of intense rejection, chasing success through the horse industry, and the painful choices that unintentionally left me feeling abandoned.

This conversation explores fatherhood, forgiveness, generational trauma, abandonment, broken families, identity, faith, reconciliation, healing, and the courage it takes to tell the truth after decades of silence.

This isn't about blaming our parents.

It's about understanding them.

Because healing often begins the moment we stop asking, "Why did this happen to me?" and start asking, "What happened to them?"

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

If you've ever struggled with your relationship with a parent, carried childhood wounds into adulthood, or longed for reconciliation, I hope this conversation reminds you that it's never too late for honest conversations, forgiveness, and healing.

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Brad

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There comes a point when you realize changing your circumstances isn't enough.

A new city.

A new job.

A new relationship.

A new beginning.

If the wounds inside remain unhealed, the cycle continues.

In Part 2 of my conversation with Brandon McNaughton, we follow the next chapter of his incredible journey through military rejection, addiction, overdose, rehabilitation, toxic relationships, plant medicine, fatherhood, and ultimately discovering lasting freedom through Jesus Christ.

Brandon shares how every attempt to reinvent himself through bodybuilding, dangerous careers, relationships, and success only led him back to the same unresolved childhood wounds. It wasn't until he confronted his trauma, embraced recovery, became a father, and surrendered his life to God that everything began to change.

Together, we explore addiction recovery, men's mental health, childhood trauma, forgiveness, fatherhood, ibogaine, Bufo, healing, faith, the 12 Steps, and why true freedom comes from accepting God's grace instead of trying to earn your worth.

This isn't just a story about overcoming addiction.

It's about discovering who you were created to be.

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

If you've ever felt trapped in destructive cycles, struggled to forgive yourself, questioned your purpose, or wondered if lasting healing is possible, I hope this conversation reminds you that redemption is available to every one of us.

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Brad

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There are moments in childhood that quietly shape the rest of your life.

A broken home.

Feeling abandoned.

Being bullied.

Searching for love in all the wrong places.

Long before addiction begins, there's usually a story that no one sees.

In Part 1 of my conversation with Brandon McNaughton, we go back to where it all started. Brandon shares the painful childhood experiences that shaped his identity, including his parents' divorce, feeling abandoned by his mother, moving in with his emotionally unavailable father, being hospitalized after threatening suicide in sixth grade, relentless bullying, and the search for acceptance through drugs, sex, violence, and belonging.

Together, we explore childhood trauma, abandonment wounds, bullying, addiction, emotional pain, broken families, self-worth, father wounds, mental health, and how unresolved childhood experiences can influence every decision we make as adults.

This isn't just a conversation about addiction.

It's about understanding where the pain began.

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

If you've ever struggled with abandonment, questioned your worth, carried childhood wounds into adulthood, or found yourself looking for validation in unhealthy places, I hope this conversation reminds you that healing begins when we're willing to face our story.

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Brad

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what do you do when you've changed, but you're still carrying the weight of your past?

In Part 2 of my conversation with Dan ("Dillo"), we pick up where his incredible story left off. After surviving addiction, prison, and the fight for sobriety, Dan shares what happened next, and why some of his hardest battles began after he got clean.

From rebuilding his life one day at a time to surviving multiple strokes, living with disability, navigating the heartbreak of estranged children, and learning to trust God through ongoing suffering, this conversation is a raw look at what recovery really looks like.

Together, we explore men's mental health, addiction recovery, self-forgiveness, faith in Jesus, brotherhood, baptism, purpose, and why God's grace is greater than the mistakes we continue to hold against ourselves.

This conversation isn't about having all the answers.

It's about learning to keep showing up.

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

If you've ever struggled to forgive yourself, felt like your past still defines you, questioned your purpose after suffering, or wondered whether God could still use your story, I hope this conversation reminds you that redemption isn't just possible. It's already being written.

If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, I encourage you to start there to hear Dan's remarkable journey through addiction, overdose, prison, and the beginning of his recovery.

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Brad

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There are moments in life when you wonder if you've gone too far to ever come back.

The addiction. The broken relationships. The shame. The mistakes you can't undo.

And then life keeps testing you.

In this deeply emotional conversation, I sit down with my close friend Dan Cardillo to talk about addiction, recovery, fatherhood, forgiveness, faith, identity, and the daily battle to believe you're still worthy of love.

Dan shares his incredible journey from chasing his dream of professional baseball to bodybuilding, prescription drug addiction, life on tour with the Dropkick Murphys, losing his marriage and children, surviving an overdose, serving time in prison, suffering multiple strokes, and fighting suicidal thoughts.

But beneath every chapter of pain is a man who refuses to give up.

This conversation explores addiction recovery, men's mental health, childhood identity, shame, forgiveness, prison, sobriety, fatherhood, grief, faith in Jesus, healing after trauma, purpose, and learning to accept God's grace when you still struggle to forgive yourself.

This is not just a story.

This is a safe space.

If you've ever battled addiction, carried regret, questioned your worth, or wondered if redemption is still possible, I hope this conversation reminds you that your past does not have to define your future.

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Brad

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There are wounds we carry long after the moment has passed.

The belief that we're not enough.

The pressure to prove ourselves.

The fear of failing the people we love most.

And sometimes, it takes loss, fatherhood, grief, and life's hardest seasons to finally uncover what has been driving us all along.

In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with my close friend TJ Fry to talk about identity, masculinity, fatherhood, addiction, grief, family expectations, self-worth, faith, and the lifelong pursuit of peace.

TJ shares his incredible journey from professional skiing, race cars, and adrenaline-fueled pursuits to becoming a husband, father, coach, and man learning to navigate loss after the passing of his father. We explore how childhood experiences shape our beliefs, why so many men struggle with feeling enough, the burden of expectations, marriage during difficult seasons, and what it means to lead a family while carrying your own pain.

This is a conversation about grief.

About vulnerability.

About healing.

If you've ever felt like you're carrying the weight of the world, struggling to live up to expectations, battling addiction, questioning your worth, or trying to become the father, husband, or man you were called to be, this episode will remind you that you're not alone.

This is not just a story.

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