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What Will They Become?
When you have kids, you can’t help but wonder. You wonder about nearly anything and everything under the sun with regards to the beautiful lives that you helped to bring into this world. Of the billions of thoughts racing through your mind, however, one seems to stand out among the rest, and that is the…
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These Days Are Fleeting
In my most recent blog post, I alluded to the growth that my young family was anticipating. Since then, my wife and I have welcomed our second child into the world. Now a couple of weeks removed, I felt it necessary to spend some time charting out some of the many reflections that have cast…
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From Three To Four
For the past two years, I’ve lived alongside my wife and our precious daughter. As a family of three, we have grown and evolved in nearly every facet of our lives. As I reflect back on these years, I sit back in “awe-struck” fashion, marveling over the beautiful things that have transpired right before my…
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Losing Your Father
This is a topic that I’ve intentionally strayed away from. Though I’ve alluded to it a time or two, never have I expounded upon my own experiences within the matter. Recently, however, I was gifted a book by a colleague of mine titled “Fatherloss” by Neal Chetnik. The 312 page piece dives head-first into the…
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How Lucky Are We?
You know, it can be awfully easy to get bogged down by the weight of it all, can’t it? The pressures, the demands, the expectations. The tough choices, the hard conversations, the moments of heartache and despair. The peaks and valleys of the life that we aim to carry out to the very best of…
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Where Is Your Mind?
Just this week, I was listening to a podcast episode between Insurance Tycoon turned Investment Mogul, Patrick Bet David and one of the greatest Public Speakers and Life-Coaches the world has ever known, Tony Robbins. Listen to it here. Within the multi-hour discussion, there once was one specific question posed by Robbins that caught my…
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Winter Is Here, Revisited
About a year ago, I put together a short and concise written summary of the many struggles that accompany the winter season here in the state of Iowa. The first of which: it’s cold. Bitterly cold. Additionally, of course, it’s dark, dreary, and increasingly difficult to drum up any sort of motivation amidst the elements…
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A Million Different Ways
I’m a fairly introspective and self-reflecting person by nature. But, I believe it’s fair to say that I’ve only increased this characteristic in recent years. I’ve experienced many significant “life-events” within the previous three-or-so years. Engaged. College Graduation. Purchase of first house. Married. Birth of first child. Kickstart of this platform. Career change. Expecting child…
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Life In A Day
Several years ago, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, I was recently removed from what had been nearly two decades dedicated to the sport of wrestling. This period of my life has been well-covered through previous pieces of mine – feel free to go back and read up on “Believe In Yourself” or “Saved…
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What If Good Men Do Nothing?
There is this quote that has been incredibly heavy on my heart and mind recently. With all of the noise in the world around us, these words have brought about a sense of calm, whilst simultaneously provoking so much introspective thought and consideration. It goes like this: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of…
Forged in Fire 