Full transparency. As of June 16th, 2026, my day job is delivering food via a delivery service in 97 degree St. Louis heat and fucking humidity so thick that you don’t even need to iron your clothes before you step out into the day.

With this podcast, or the site, or anything that Sharon and I are building, there is no advertising revenue. No team. No YouTube money. Just Sharon and me and a microphone and whatever this is.

And what does that mean? It means that we don’t have anyone telling us to “chill out” or “that’s a bit too much.” It means that the way that this started, from the heart and genuinely real, is how it still is. It’s imperfect because the two of us are imperfect.

But it’s fucking real.

Sharon rang the bell twice for her two cancers. For those of you that know what that means and the significance, then you know and it’s something that is a living and permanent part of the rest of our lives.

That particular storm is over.

What's left is rent, groceries at prices that have no business being what they are, and the ongoing work of building something real without a safety net.

What’s left is a deepening love and respect for one another that neither of us knew existed. And again, this isn’t about perfection, rather, it’s about living and loving and learning.

This morning I went face to face with someone we owe rent money to. Could have been a short conversation. Perhaps “should have been” a short-ass conversation.

But it wasn’t.

They turned it into an opinion session about how we should be living our lives.

Everyone has a fucking opinion, right? I shut it down.

We had an agreement. Everything else was none of their purview.

That's not arrogance.

That's knowing the difference between what belongs to someone else and what belongs to you.

This episode is about that difference.

Everyone. Has. An. Opinion.

About your finances, your relationships, your choices, the word they use to try to diminish you.

None of it defines you unless you hand it that authority. And you've been handing it that authority your whole life without realizing that's what you were doing.

What's your opinion of you?

That's the only one that actually runs the show.