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I went to high school with a kid named Joe.
He was two years older. Tough, positive, friendly.
We crossed paths on the football field a couple times.
I didn’t know Joe well, but I think about him every Memorial Day.
Joe joined the Army after graduating in 2005.
By the spring of ‘07, he was in Iraq. Joe was a gunner, doing military stuff outside Baghdad.
A false report of his death rippled through our school that spring. Nobody could believe it.
“Joe!? That wouldn’t happen to him.”
Strong, positive, brave guys like Joe don’t die at 20 years old.
But a month later, it did.
Joe’s unit was ambushed and captured. They found his body in the Euphrates River.
I’ll never forget when Joe came home.
The town filled our football stadium, and they brought Joe’s casket in on a horse-drawn carriage.
I was a couple weeks away from graduating and moving into the next season of life. Everything felt ahead of me.
And here was Joe, his last season complete.
There have been hundreds of thousands of Joes over the generations.
Thank you, Joe, and every other service member who’s given their life so we can enjoy ours.
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“There’s no fear when you’re prepared.
- Michael Jordan”
- @CoachForbes_UNC 🎙️
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One of the best conversations I’ve heard in a while.
If you’ve ever been curious about faith and what it looks like to build your life on Jesus, this is a great place to start.
Today’s episode is titled “A Message For Men”.
I sit down with my friend Todd Peterson to unpack some of the most meaningful conversations we have had over the years about faith, leadership, marriage, and the hidden risks that come with success. We talk candidly about why so many men fall at the peak of their influence and how isolation, pride, and lack of accountability quietly take hold. Todd shares hard-earned perspective from his own life, including lessons from his NFL career, his walk with Jesus, and decades of mentoring men through seasons of growth and unraveling. This conversation is deeply personal, reflective, and grounded in the practical realities of what it means to live with humility, conviction, and purpose.
We discuss:
- Why isolation and unchecked success often lead great men to fall
- The role of humility, confession, and accountability in long-term leadership
- How marriage and trusted relationships shape a man’s character and decisions
- The difference between being saved and actively walking in the Spirit
- Why meaningful impact is always built through collaboration, not independence
This episode is for anyone wrestling with ambition, faith, leadership, or the desire to build a life that holds up over time.
Todd Peterson is the interim CEO and Chairman Emeritus of Seed Company, a world leader in accelerated Scripture translation. Seed Company has partnered with more than 900 other agencies to cumulatively impact more than 1,100 language groups over the last 20 years.
Peterson was drafted in 1993 by the NY Giants, leading to a 13-year career in the NFL where he also played for Seattle, Kansas City, San Francisco and Atlanta. He set a number of team records and two NFL records – one of which is since broken (most 40-plus-yard field goals in a season). He was named NFL True Value Man of the Year for the Seahawks in 1996 and twice received the NFL Players Association Byron “Whizzer” White award for excellence in character and leadership on his teams. He was twice nominated for the NFL’s Bart Starr Award. Peterson retired in 2006 as one of only 34 players to score over 1,000 points. He is the only player in NFL history to make game-winning field goals for five or more different teams.
4:04 - Why great men “fall”
08:51 - Success-induced isolation
14:42 - Sin
21:50 - Salvation
24:01 - A day in Todd’s life
31:00 - Living in a biblically illiterate world
36:22 - The importance of marriage
50:27 - Having a close group of men in your life
56:01 - Having a relationship with Jesus is hard
1:09:40 - Undeserved favor
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I'm weeks late to this, but the "Fear of Man" section at the beginning of this letter by @BrentBeshore is a must read. We all "fear man" in ways known and unknown. The good news? There's a cure.
permanentequity.com/content/…
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Great message. Be where your feet are!
Merry Christmas, y’all
Christmas Eve.
My kids are home.
Not "kids" anymore. They're adults with their own lives, their own apartments, their own problems I can't fix.
But for the next few weeks, they're here.
Arguing about what movie to watch. Raiding the fridge. Taking over the living room like they never left.
And I'm trying to soak in every second of it.
Because I know this doesn't last forever.
Eventually they'll pack up and head back to their lives. The house will get quiet again.
But right now, tonight, I get to be their dad in the same house where I taught them to ride bikes and helped with homework and worried if I was doing any of it right.
Here's what I've learned after years of helping people plan their retirement:
You can't get this back.
You can recover from a bad investment.
You can adjust your withdrawal rate.
You can always make more money.
But you can't get back the Christmas Eve when your kids came home.
So tonight, I'm not checking my phone.
I'm not thinking about work.
I'm just here.
With my kids. Under my roof. For a few more weeks.
Merry Christmas Eve.
Whatever you're doing tonight, be all the way there.
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I keep thinking about this line about teachers from Ryan Holiday’s new book, “Wisdom Takes Work.”
Think about great teachers, or great coaches, you’ve had in your life.
What did they do that made them great?
For me, I think back to my college baseball days. I had several great coaches during those years. Sure, they “taught” me stuff. They instructed me. They “coached” me.
But what made them great was they believed in me.
They believed in what was inside me. They believed there was more there. They believed I was capable of finding it, even when I didn’t fully believe it.
Their belief was the breaching tool for me.
What great teachers do, though, beyond open doors for us is they give us a precious gift we can pay forward to others.
As we benefit from great teachers, coaches, mentors in our lives, the question then becomes:
Who are we teaching?
Who are we sharing knowledge with? Who are we infusing belief in? Who are we investing some of our time into so that their life may be better?
Presidents establish libraries. Entrepreneurs publish books. Athletes appear at camps and clinics.
Why? To teach. To serve. To give something back.
We all can be–no, are required to be– teachers and leaders to someone.
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
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Perfectly said 🇺🇸
There are those who criticize and there are those who do. In a world of critics, our veterans are doers.
To all who have served, thank you. There is no greater calling than defending this country. And remember, despite what the critics may say, you were the man in the arena.
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The other night, my wife and I sat down to watch the film “In Waves and War.”
It documents three former Navy SEALs–Marcus Capone, DJ Shipley and Matty Roberts–and a few other veterans as they go through alternative approaches to mental health care.
The film is gut wrenching in various ways.
Us civilians tend to glamorize warfighters–myself included, I hate to admit–but we can’t even begin to understand their lives.
We can’t begin to understand what it’s like to be a military spouse, who operates as a solo parent only to then have to play bodyguard between the kids and Dad when he gets home.
We can’t begin to understand what it’s like to be a child whose father is gone 300 days a year, may never come home again, and if he does, is an angry and shattered shell of himself.
Unless you are or were one, you have no idea. I have no idea.
When the film ended, I sat there in silence. My wife looked at me and just said, “Freedom isn’t free.”
It’s a cliche and also the truest words that could have been spoken.
On Memorial Day, the “cost” of our freedom is more palpable.
We honor those who died in service. We see the gravestones and the unfathomable amount of American flags lining Arlington National Cemetery. We see footage of a memorial service. We hear Taps being played.
On Veterans Day, it’s not as obvious.
We honor anyone who served. Thankfully, and by the grace of God, not all veterans battle severe mental health issues. But so many do, and so many in silence. The “cost” of our freedom is still steep among the living.
The very least we can do on Veterans Day is say “thank you.”
But I would urge everyone to watch this film.
Set aside any judgment of these men or the alternative treatments they undergo, and just realize: they suffered, and suffer, for you and I.
God bless our veterans and their families.
Every last one deserves every last ounce of respect.
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Lane Kiffin has officially graduated from the School of Saban. Cool to see his transformation.
Lane Kiffin on why real competitors don’t need the spotlight to bring their best.
"What is your standard? Is the standard the standard regardless of who the team is, what network is on, how many people show up in the crowd?
Do you need that stuff to play really well? Or are you an elite competitor that none of that matters?"
If your standard changes with the setting, it’s not a standard. It’s a mood.
📹: Ole Miss Rebels
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An idea to consider:
Wisdom comes with age, but wisdom knows no age. It’s on us to seek it, develop it, nurture it, embrace it, and savor it.
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