What if the hardest things you've been through weren't holding you back, but are instead shaping your strength?

Author and Advocate Misty Carson joins us to kick off season 12, by challenging one of the most common beliefs around trauma: that it's something to "get over." Instead, she shares how trauma, adversity, and early instability can become the foundation for resilience, perspective, and purpose.

Misty defines the moment when one decides whether your past will define you or drive you. We go through the steps of how it takes intention, accountability, and sometimes creating distance from the patterns and people that shaped you, even if they love you. Even if they mean well.

This is an inspirational conversation about how we turn pain into purpose when we realize that the difficulties we go through can be the very things that moves us forward…on The Back 9.

Pre-order your copy of Misty's book, The Unbreakable Advantage, here.

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We have spent years learning what it really takes to rebuild our lives —and find love again—after divorce.

As Season 12 of The Back 9 begins, we reflect on why these conversations matter. After more than 100 episodes exploring all aspects of midlife transitions, one theme that keeps resurfacing is that divorce can shake a man's identity to the core.

It's also the question shaping the book we're currently writing—about how men heal, rebuild, and eventually find love again.

We talk about the real work behind that process: learning to be alone, facing disappointment, and doing the personal work before stepping into a healthy second relationship.

Because love after divorce is less about the comeback story, than it is about becoming the man who's ready for it…on The Back 9.

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Have you noticed the moment when the Back 9 of life stops being a metaphor and starts feeling real?

As Season 11 of The Back 9 wraps, we reflect on the shifts that come with midlife. Our daughters are grown. Our health and longevity feel personal. Time carries more weight.

This season we explored fatherhood, friendship, identity, reinvention, and building the next chapter. In this 19th Hole, we turn the conversation inward.

We talk about mortality, letting go of roles that no longer fit, and the clarity that comes when we realize time matters more than ever.

Because while none of us knows how many holes are left—but we can choose how we play them…on The Back 9.

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