You keep telling yourself the good part is coming. After the move. After

the next deal. After you figure out what's next. But your kid is ten

months old and about to walk, and you're going to blink and miss it...

There's a song I can't stop playing this summer — Judah & the Lion's

"Maybe the Best Is Now." I heard it while my wife and I were sitting in

the middle of a lot of uncertainty: where we're going to move, two jobs, a

nonprofit getting off the ground, nothing settled. And that one line

undid me. Because I've spent most of my life identifying myself with what

I could produce. Work harder, take on more, prove I'm worth something.

Then look up and realize the things I say matter most are getting the

leftovers.

This episode is about the gap between what you say is important and what

your calendar actually says. If Charlotte and Jack are the most important

thing in my life — show me the evidence. That question doesn't let me off

the hook, and it shouldn't.

In Psalm 46, it says, "be still, and know that I am God." It doesn't mean to just sit quietly

and meditate. It means: stop fighting. Stop trying to control every outcome. Stop

needing the whole thing figured out before you'll let yourself "be here now."

I'm not telling you to quit your job. I'm asking you to look around — what is important to you? What do you see?

The advice I am taking in all of this: Take the trip. Go to the ice cream stand. Watch your kid at the

playground on a Tuesday. Make the memory now, because there's no rewind

button and you don't get these years back.

Wow. Maybe the best is now.

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Mentioned in this episode: Judah & the Lion, Psalm 46:10, and Ashton's

Story — go back and listen to that one.

Themes: living in the present, being still, Psalm 46:10, fatherhood and

presence, work identity and workaholism, anxiety and control, gratitude,

what matters most, trusting God with the unknown, becoming who you were

made to be.

The Yellow Coat Club is a podcast about identity, courage, and becoming who God created you to be.

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Be well. Be still. Maybe the best is now.

We often pick our role models by what they hold — wealth, power, status. We want what they have. But have you stopped to ever ask: do I want to be like them?

I'll say this directly, there's only one worth modeling your life after: Jesus. All of the characteristics you would ever need to embody can be found in this one man — courage, certainty, humility, compassion, to name a few.

It would be easy to write Jesus off as the soft-eyed, ultra-perm Jesus that was often portrayed to us. But that is not Jesus. There is no way you could have a warrior like David, or an uncivilized John, and think Jesus would be compliant. And of the many things Jesus was, in this episode, we look at His courage.

Courage doesn't start with fearlessness. It starts with a heart — and a standard that draws the line and refuses to bend.

In our culture today, masculinity has been portrayed as the enemy. And who would blame anyone for this, given the toxic version that has been praised for so long? Strength and courage doesn't mean loud and aggressive. It often doesn't need to be. But we also can't just throw out men — we need to realign ourselves to the standard, which includes having one.

There is a story in the Bible where Jesus braids cords into a whip and clears the temple in broad daylight. But this wasn't Him losing control. While those before Him tolerated what was happening, Jesus refused to stand aside and witness injustice happening, and barriers created for others to stand in the presence of the Father. In complete control, aimed at the right target, for the right reason, He drives everyone out. His courage came from the love.

The question is: are you willing to stand alone when you stand for what is right? For far too long, we have allowed bad behavior of imposter men and we must take a stand. Our "yes" be "yes," and our "no" be "no." Now is the time to stop being silent. For even in your silence, you are complicit. Stop making excuses for yourself and others, refusing to be a victim, and become who you were created to be.

You weren't made to be small. You weren't made to be safe. You were made to be dangerous. — We dig into the courage of Jesus in John 2 and John 8 — fear of man versus trusting God — plus the difference between peace and quiet, and why the real enemy was never the people.

Themes: courage, standing alone, holding the line, fear of man, biblical manhood, and trusting God in the wreckage.

From The Yellow Coat Club — stop hiding, start becoming.

He was thirteen when he started stealing his dying mother's pain pills so he wouldn't have to feel her leaving.

By the time Ashton met me, he'd buried his mom at her funeral and buried himself in everything that would numb it — pills, cocaine, anything to sedate. He'd cheated on the mother of his daughter and told her he didn't want to be with her anymore. He was angry at the world and angrier at God. In his words: "I told myself I hate God."

That was three years ago.

On this episode, Ashton is 22. Married to Emma — the girl he's loved since he was 14. Two kids, one on the way. Sober. And when I asked him what life is like now, he said: "It's pretty beautiful, actually."

This is a conversation about the long road between those two sentences. About a young man who was so close to losing his whole family — and didn't. About what it costs to stop running, and who has to be in your corner when you finally do. He said it plainer than I could: "That's not who I am anymore."

This is the work. This is why we do it. And this is why we are building something beyond The Yellow Coat Club.

There are young men out there in need of formation, in need of brotherhood. For 3 years, Ashton has stayed in the fold, committed, and I have watched his life radically change. It is the fruit in his life that INVICTUS is being built from... Stay tuned for the next podcast to learn more.

Nobody has it figured out. Not your parents. Not the person in the room who looks like they do. Not you — and that's okay.

In this episode, Sean gets honest about what becoming a parent revealed: that the weight of decision-making never goes away, it just changes with time and perspective. The goal was never a life without problems. It was always about who you become in the middle of them — and who you choose to walk through them with.

Sean unpacks why isolation is the enemy of wisdom, why you cannot not decide, and what it actually means to have a compass when life gets heavy. This one is for the person who has been quietly white-knuckling it — carrying the pressure of figuring everything out alone.

It's time to exhale — If you want to go far, go together.

In this episode: personal growth | identity | decision-making | faith and life | overcoming fear | courage | community | self-discovery | parenting and purpose | becoming who you were made to be

What's your why? We ask it about the big things—purpose, calling, meaning. But what's the real motivation behind your everyday life? The text you sent. The prayer you prayed. The favor you did. This episode is an honest look at the motives we hide, even from ourselves.

Sean sits in the mirror with rigorous self-examination and asks the question most of us avoid: what's actually driving me—not the answer that sounds good, but the one underneath it. The why behind the why.

It started with his boss. Sean said his motivation was greatness. His boss asked him, in love, to look closer: was it greatness, or fear?

From there the episode pulls the thread through four mirrors.

Work: love of the craft, or fear of not being enough.

Leadership: do you want the title without the responsibility of actually carrying people? (A nod to Patrick Lencioni's The Motive.)

Faith: do you follow God out of reverence, or for what He'll do for you?

Relationships: do you love people, or leverage them for what you might gain?

None of these motives are automatically evil. But they expose where you are—and who you're becoming.

This isn't an awe-inspiring moment. It's a doorway. An honest look at the life you're actually living. Because when Sean is most at peace, he isn't performing or protecting himself—he's moving toward another person in love, because he's surrendered to what love actually means.

A few questions to sit with:

If people knew you were motivated by obligation, how would they feel?

If you felt fully secure, would you still do the things you do out of fear?

If you knew you were loved for who you are and not what you do—who would you be?

This is a podcast about identity, authenticity, faith, and becoming who you were created to be. If you've ever wondered whether the reasons you give yourself are the real ones, start here.

What is your motivation?

Becoming who God created you to be doesn't happen in one decision.

It happens in the decision you make today, tomorrow's today, and so on. And sometimes it's just the next fifteen minutes when you've already stumbled and you have to choose again.

In this episode, Sean unpacks the principle that changed how he sees everything — just for today. Learned not from a stage, but from a circle of people who had no choice but to change if they ever wanted to be free.

This is an episode about the daily choice. The courage to name what needs to change. The image of the person you want to become — someone free from ___, someone who is ___. And the road between here and there, which is made up entirely of days. One at a time.

The Serenity Prayer. Daily bread. Manna in the desert. And the question that will meet you every single morning for the rest of your life — who are you choosing to become today?

The becoming is daily. What do you need to start today?

I used to beg God to just take it away. The eating disorder, alcoholism, the void my parents left. I believed He could — and that's what made me so angry. Why wouldn't He just fix it?

Here's what I've learned: God will never take away the fight you need to go through to become the person He created you to be.

In this episode, I'm talking about why we've become a culture addicted to shortcuts — the quick fixes, the pills, the easy way out — and what it's actually costing us. I'm talking about the difference between white-knuckling and transcending. And I'm talking about the God who absolutely CAN remove the hard thing — and chooses not to. Because He sees who you're becoming.

Suffering doesn't end with the pain. It ends with the purpose.

Let's get into it.

As I was packing up my life in Phoenix, I was caught up in all the memories of our home, and that's when it hit me.

I could see the thread. Every leap I didn't feel ready for. Every step I took without a plan. Every moment the call was louder than the fear.

And here's what I know now: the faith it took to do the last hard thing won't carry you into the next one. Faith is a muscle. And muscles atrophy when you stop using them.

In this episode, I walk through my own "Hall of Faith" — the moments that built the man I am today. Admitting I was an alcoholic and getting sober. Answering a call to Mexico. Moving to Phoenix without a job or a house. Writing The Yellow Coat Club. And now — stepping into something I've felt called to since 2022 that I finally stopped running from.

In this episode, we talk about Hebrews 11 — and the part nobody preaches: some of those people never saw the promise, but they stepped anyway.

We talk about Joshua, Jericho, and what it looks like to walk around your house seven times in prayer and move forward even if the walls don't come down.

And we land on one question that I think will follow you long after this episode ends:

Where are you putting your foot?

Yesterday's faith is today's obedience. But it's not sufficient for tomorrow's calling. It's time to step.

SCRIPTURE IN THIS EPISODE

Habakkuk 1:5 (The Living Bible) — "Look and be amazed. For I am doing something in your lifetime that you would not believe even if I told you."

Joshua 1:3 — "I will give you every place where you set your foot."

QUOTES IN THIS EPISODE

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives." — William Wallace, Braveheart

"There is a force that will stop you. It will tell you the timing isn't right. That you're not ready. That someone else should do it. That's Resistance. And Resistance is not your friend." — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." — Martin Luther King Jr.

"Get busy living, or get busy dying." — The Shawshank Redemption

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