Because hard times come from so many different directions, it means you won’t always see them coming. So you must develop the skills and mindset to deal with hard times if you want to be a man who survives and thrives.

One way is to incorporate the Marine Corp way of dealing with hard times into your life. It’s just three words,

Blaming your parents or the neighborhood you grew up in only works for boys, not men. The truth is you have until age 25 to blame your behavior on your upbringing. After that, it’s on you.

Being a boss is a great job unless you have one of these 5 types of employees.  

An article written in 1899 has the secret of success in 2021 

Click to here to read the article  

This episode is all about how to coach your kid in sports. What do they need to hear from you, when do they need to hear it, and when should you focus on being a dad instead of a coach?

My guest is Louie LeBlanc, head coach at Westminster Christian Academy in Huntsville Alabama. Louie was a graduate assistant at the University of Alabama under Nick Saban and coached at the University of West Georgia.  

Conversation with multi-time country musician of the year, member of the Nashville song-writer hall of fame, and musical director for Jimmy Buffett Coral Reefer Band, Mac McAnally. A southern boy who became what he always dreamed of, a southern intellectual.

Interview with Brian Cain.
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Interview with Art Athens, Colonel USMC (ret)

Colonel Athens recently served as the Director of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership for and previously, as the Naval Academy’s first Distinguished Military Professor of Leadership.   

Colonel Athens is a retired Marine Corps officer with significant command and staff assignments in all four Marine Aircraft Wings and an instructor tour with Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (the Marine Corps’ equivalent to the Navy’s Top Gun school).  He also served as a White House Fellow under President Ronald Reagan, the Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator following the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, and the Commandant of the United States Merchant Marine Academy.  

Colonel Athens currently invests in leaders around the country through his speaking, writing, consulting and coaching.

Colonel Athens is a graduate of the Naval Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School and the Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies.  

He is married to the former Mistina Root of Williamsburg, Virginia and they have ten children.