This episode is a little different.
Instead of hosting, I sat down with my good friends Brennon Poynor and Josh Hissong for their podcast If Not Now, When?—and what came out of that conversation surprised even me.
We talk about growing up in Spokane, what martial arts taught me about failure, and how rejection shaped some of the biggest pivots in my life. I also open up about things I haven’t shared publicly—stories about identity, fatherhood, and the pressure to perform that I’ve carried for a long time.
Josh and Brennon created the kind of space that pulled these stories out of me,