If God is really first in your life, what does your calendar say?

In this episode of Getting Real with Real, Coach Real steps into the pulpit solo for a message straight out of Matthew 6:33 — "seek first the kingdom of God." He breaks down the Greek behind "seek" and "first," and makes the case that Jesus isn't asking for whatever room is left on your schedule. He's asking to be first, before anything else gets a vote.

Then Real gets real about a moment two years ago when he was called to pastor a new campus and said yes before he even finished processing it — quoting Isaiah 6:8 on the spot. His wife said no. Real walks through the anger, the frustration, and the hard lesson God had to teach him about what "first" was actually supposed to mean — and why his wife wasn't standing between him and his calling. She was part of it.

He closes the episode by running the math on your average week — work, sleep, and the hours nobody's accounting for — and makes the case that if God isn't first, that's not a scheduling problem. That's a priority problem.

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What happens when the pulpit stops being enough?

In this episode, Coach Real sits down with Preston Woody — former pastor, now founder of the men's coaching ministry Saints Crown — for a conversation that doesn't stay comfortable for long. Preston opens up about the ten years he spent building a church, the anxiety attacks he hid from his own leadership, and the night in his kitchen when he knew that if something didn't change in six months, his wife would be gone.

He walked away from the only career he'd ever wanted. Signed a non-compete. Went three days into the woods with no phone to hear from the Holy Spirit. And came back to a text message that changed everything.

Real and Preston get into the cost of obedience, the difference between a wound you survive and a wound you actually heal, and the line that anchors this whole episode: you are the delegated priest of your home. Not your pastor. Not your wife. You.

If you've been outsourcing the spiritual climate of your house to anyone else, champions, this is the episode that puts it back in your hands.

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Getting Real with Real — Episode 4: "Put God First" (ft. Carl Spellman)

What does discipline actually cost you — and what does it cost you not to have it?

In this episode of Getting Real with Real, Coach Real sits down with Shredfast coach and former professional footballer Carl Spellman for a raw conversation about faith, identity, and the discipline it takes to put God first — on the mat and off it.

Carl opens up about walking away from professional soccer, finding purpose (and God) through Shredfast, and what three days off training taught him about where his real identity is built. Real shares one of the most powerful stories from his own life — how his father, deep into a battle with Parkinson's, could still sit down and play piano or finish a set at the gym on muscle memory alone, long after the disease had taken almost everything else.

Together they get into the difference between believers and followers, why suffering has a purpose, and why the only question that really matters is: can you do it when no one's watching?

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