What does it really mean to surrender to God? And why is it so hard for us as men to let go of control?

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Matt O’Hara from The Complete Man Blueprint and we get honest about our struggle with authority, our resistance to surrender, the ways pride can disguise itself as strength, and this idea that we actually have a significant “submission problem” as men.

Because it’s easy to talk about leadership, respect, and what we expect from others. But what happens when God asks us to lay down our own plans, admit we’re wrong, confront our sin, or trust Him with something we desperately want to control?Looking at Scripture and the example Jesus set for us, we’ll challenge the idea that surrender is weakness and explore what it actually means to live as men who are fully submitted to God.

In this week’s episode, punk-rock musician Nate Parrish and I get real about losing, rebuilding, the weight of providing for your family, the pain of misplaced trust, and learning to be honest about what’s happening beneath the surface.

Because at the end of the day, it’s not just about what you build, what you provide, or how well you hold it together. It’s about the man your wife and kids experience when life gets hard. The faith you cling to when things don’t go as planned. And who you become through it all.

This is a conversation about the things we carry, the people we carry them for, and the God who meets us in the middle of it all.

My friend Elijah grew up without a healthy picture of what it meant to be a man. Anger came early. Drinking started at 15. And eventually, the thing he thought was helping him escape became the thing controlling his life.

But his story didn’t end there.

Through the prayers of his wife, the grace of Jesus, and a heart that God began to soften, Elijah became a different man; and now he’s learning to be the husband, father, and man he never had growing up.

This is a conversation about addiction, marriage, fatherhood, breaking generational cycles, and what happens when Jesus finally gets ahold of a hardened heart.