I hope you had an incredible Holiday, and I was going to hold off until next week to send this, but I need you to know this now. I want to share something with you that can make 2026 your most impactful year. And also help you bring a few people along with you. I shared this inside our private groups, but I wanted to make sure you saw it too, because not everyone is in those rooms. Right now, especially the week after Christmas, is one of the best opportunities we have to inspire people into...
3 days ago • 2 min read
I want to follow up on something I shared earlier this week. Because here’s the other side of that list.. and this part matters. Some of those people did move. Not all at once. Not perfectly. Not without fear. But they changed something fundamental: The conversations they were having… and who they were having them with. And no, their lives didn’t suddenly become easy. They have new problems now. More responsibility. More visibility. More decisions. But they’re problems the old version of them...
5 days ago • 1 min read
I want to share something that’s been sitting with me for a few days. Last week, I came across an old follow-up list from 2022.Names of people I had real conversations with back then. Good people. Thoughtful people. People who wanted more for their life. What stopped me wasn’t me revisiting the past... it was noticing how many of those names are people I’ve talked to again recently. Same questions. Same limitations. Same feeling of being stuck. Different year. And I don’t say that with...
8 days ago • 1 min read
There’s a version of growth most people don’t know how to recognize. It’s not the big wins. It’s not the confidence spikes. It’s not the moments that look good from the outside. It’s the quiet ones. This week, someone in our Dad Edge community shared something that stopped me in my tracks. He was practicing what we teach. Not just as a skill, either. That's step one. Step 2 is when it changes your identity. And I wanted to share it with you today because you too, are just as powerful when you...
12 days ago • 1 min read
Hey friends, Quick note this morning. Have you ever done 75 HARD before? This might sound random, but Teresa and I were sitting in a coffee shop yesterday and I said out loud, “I always feel my best when I’m doing 75 HARD.” She looked at me like I was a little nuts. Which… fair. With this recent autoimmune flare, I’ve put on some weight from not being able to train and from prednisone. That part is annoying, but honestly, the bigger thing for me has been the dip in energy. That’s what messes...
14 days ago • 1 min read
This week was harder than I wanted it to be. My autoimmune stuff flared up again, and the prednisone messes with my mood more than I like to admit. My doctor told me something that, on the surface, sounded reasonable. “Just let your family know. It’s going to affect how you show up.” I understood what he meant. And I still wasn’t willing to do that. Not because I wanted to be tough. But because I’ve worked too hard to become someone who leads himself through hard moments instead of handing...
15 days ago • 1 min read
I didn’t feel great the morning of our first ELEVATE call. My body was fighting me a little. My energy wasn’t where I wanted it to be. And for a split second, my brain offered me the easy way out: “Just push the call. No one will care.” But here’s the thing... I wasn’t showing up for the easy moments. I was showing up for the people fighting for something in their life. And when I looked at the names of everyone in that room, I remembered exactly why I do this. So I chose my identity, not my...
19 days ago • 1 min read
I was thinking about a moment from our first ELEVATE call. It hit me harder than I expected, and I want to share it with you because I think you’ll see yourself in it too. We were talking about why certain challenges in life never seem to move, no matter how many strategies we try. More planning. More learning. More forcing. And it finally clicked in real time: Most people are trying to solve an identity problem with a tactical solution. They’re changing the steps, but they’re bringing the...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Morning Reader, Marc here! I want to share something that happened recently with my son Andrew (he's 16). It was a proud Dad moment, but I also know you've had these moments too recently... You just might not be giving yourself credit for it... At least not until you read this email. So we were out walking, just talking like we always do. Nothing heavy. Just dad-and-son time. And then he asked me a question that stopped me. Not because it was complicated. Not because it caught me off guard....
25 days ago • 1 min read