Let me ask you something that might hurt. When you think about your father, what comes up first? Pride? Pain? Anger? Emptiness? That desperate need to prove something he never acknowledged?

In this episode, I'm going into territory that's sacred and raw—the father wound. After 27 years leading men in the Coast Guard, I learned something critical: almost every man I worked with was carrying something from his father. Most didn't even realize it until we started unpacking why they showed up the way they did.

Your relationship with your father—or the lack of one—is shaping how you show up as a man right now. It's in the way you lead. The way you love. The way you parent. The way you see yourself when no one's watching.

Here's what we're covering:

I break down the five types of father wounds I've seen repeated ...