Confronting My Dad About The Day He Almost Ended Us
Video | 2 months ago
When I was 9, my dad drove drunk with me and my siblings in the car. We crashed that night...I didn't bring it up for years. But once I had my first daughter, I knew I had to ask him why. This video is that conversation. How I forgave him before I even conf...
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9 Brutally Honest Truths About Being a Good Man
Video | 3 months ago
For the last 10 years, I’ve been learning what it actually means to be a husband. Not just providing, protecting, or checking the boxes, but becoming someone my wife can lean on and my daughters can count on. A lot of the things I’m sharing in this video ca...
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My Daughters' First Video Audition for Theatre.
Guide | 4 months ago
My oldest has expressed interest in pursuing performing arts for as long as she could walk, and the time came for her to have her first audition and she got to experience intense nerves for the first time. When I captured this, it was only because we had to...
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The NFL Sent Me A Letter... (Part 2)
Short | 5 months ago
The NFL sent me a letter saying I didn’t have what it took to be drafted. I laminated it. Made 10 copies. Put them everywhere in my apartment. Every morning I woke up and saw it as a reminder that the people I wanted to believe in me… didn’t. That fuel chan...
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The NFL Sent Me A Letter... (Part 1)
Short | 5 months ago
The @nfl sent me a letter saying I didn’t have what it took to be drafted. I laminated it. Made 10 copies. Put them everywhere in my apartment. Every morning I woke up and saw it as a reminder that the people I wanted to believe in me… didn’t. That fuel cha...
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How I Messed Up My NFL Career
Short | 6 months ago
This one still stings in a way I wish it didn’t. I spent a long time blaming everyone but myself when my NFL career ended. It took years of real processing to finally accept the truth: my rookie year was my fault. Not entirely, there were other factors, per...
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The 7:30 PM Problem Destroying Marriages
Guide | 6 months ago
If this video hit home, come join us inside The Household. This is the work. Learning how to show up for your partner when you are exhausted. Staying present when it would be easier to shut down. Choosing connection over comfort, over and over again, in the...
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I Stopped Playing by Rules That Were Never Mine
Short | 6 months ago
I don't do the house chores because I'm trying to be a hero. I do them because I care about tightness and cleanliness. That's just how I'm wired. And the moment I stopped measuring myself against what a husband is "supposed" to do, I got a lot happier. Beca...
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Clean With Me While We Talk About Why I Do All The Laundry In My House
Video | 6 months ago
Today we are folding laundry and having a real conversation about what it means to be fully in at home. Not as a helper. As a partner. I took over all the laundry in our house because our family needed it and I had the skills to do it. Simple as that. But w...
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You Can Be Right and Still Lose the Argument
Short | 6 months ago
Being right won't save you if you fight wrong. Most arguments are lost not because you ran out of good points, but because of the volume, the old wounds you dragged back in, and the silence you left after that felt like peace but was really just resentment ...
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10 Years Married and Nobody Warned Me About This
Short | 6 months ago
10 years in and nobody warned me about any of this. Not one person. TO ALL THE VETS. AM I MISSING ANYTHING!?
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I Built A Flower Shrine Of Our 14 Year Love Story
Short | 7 months ago
Every flower couldn't make it on the shrine and we have boxes and tubs full of flowers in our basement, but every flower that we hung has significant meaning. 14 years of love, preserved in petals. Every flower on this shrine tells a story. The first Valent...
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