Brothers, Our November Order 1613 Muster centered on a question that I've been carrying into my own life. Where has something that began as devotion slowly become nothing more than duty? Your marriage. Fatherhood. Work. Prayer. Training. Service. Sometimes the things we once considered blessings become responsibilities we resent. That doesn't mean we abandon them. It means we examine the heart we're bringing to them. Three questions for you this week: 1. Where am I going through the motions? 2. What resentment, expectation, or wall is keeping me from showing up with love? 3. What would returning to devotion actually look like this week? I shared my thoughts in full in this week's podcast. 👈 Don't just think about it. Choose one responsibility and practice bringing your heart back into it. Share what comes up below. 👇 Strength. Love. Service.

Brothers. I've been quiet in here. And I want to own that before I say anything else. I've been navigating a difficult season. Some things I believed deeply in haven't worked out the way I hoped. I couldn't fill the retreat and made the decision to cancel it. I've been working to build a local brotherhood, and the men I've invited haven't been able to make it. That's been discouraging. And alongside that, I've been doing my best to show up for my wife, my children, my clients, and the responsibilities God has entrusted to me. Some days I've done that well. Some days I've been carrying a lot more than I've let anybody see. Which brings me to something I've been sitting with. Being needed isn't the same thing as being known. You can be the man everybody depends on and still be carrying something nobody knows about. You can have friends, golf buddies, men at church, a group chat, and hundreds of contacts in your phone. But who actually knows what's happening with you? Who knows when you're not okay? Who has permission to tell you the truth? And whose life are you close enough to that you can do the same for him? I've spent years building spaces for men to answer those questions. I need those spaces, too. I'm not standing at the top of the mountain telling you how to get here. I'm climbing. And I'm trying to follow Christ as faithfully as I can along the way. So here's what I want you to do this week. Take an honest inventory. BODY: Have you stewarded your health and strength, or neglected them? WIFE / MARRIAGE: Have you loved her actively, or given her what's left of you? CHILDREN: Have you been present, or merely nearby? BROTHER: Is there another man who actually knows what you're carrying? GOD: Have you made room to listen, pray, and obey? WORK / MONEY: Where have you honored your responsibilities? Where have you avoided them? I'm not asking you to perform for this group. I'm asking you to tell the truth. You don't have to answer every question. But I want you to answer these three:

Patriarchs — 84 entries over 9 hours. The drawings are done. And we’ve got our winners. 🏋️ HOMEGROWN BUMPER PLATES @Dalton Yeatman 250 lbs of Homegrown bumper plates headed your way. And Homegrown wanted to take care of the rest of you too: 10% OFF ALL HOMEGROWN EQUIPMENT Use code: NEWHGL10 🌬️ KOMUSŌ @Jacob Mokrycki @Jimmy Martinez @Andy Wyrosdick Each of you is getting a Komusō Shift. And again — they wanted to take care of the rest of the PATRIARCH crew: 20% OFF EVERYTHING KOMUSŌ No code needed. Use my link and the discount will be automatically applied: GET 20% OFF KOMUSŌ 🛡️ THE FATHER’S GUILD — 1 YEAR @Jonathon Yoppini A full year inside Pat Barber’s Father’s Guild. ⚔️ MIKE SALEMI — 30-DAY ZEN SAVAGE CHALLENGE Mike is postponing the Zen-Savage challenge as he, his beautiful wife, and his son Luca move to the Austin area. Keep an eye out, because he's hooking up the PATRIARCH crew with 30% off the challenge. I’ll be reaching out and connecting each winner directly with the men and companies who made these possible. And a huge thank you to Homegrown, Komusō, Pat Barber, @Mike Salemi , Daniel Grose, @Nate Feathers , Stephone Allen, and all the speakers for putting something real behind this Summit and taking care of these men. But more than that—thank YOU guys for showing up. For three days you sharpened. Asked questions. Took notes. Had conversations. Did the work. The prizes are cool. But what you do with what you took from PATRIARCH matters a whole lot more. // The Summit is over. The work isn’t. x Rob

Patriarchs — I just finished tallying every PATRIARCH giveaway entry. Some of you stacked them. Jonathan — 17 Andy — 15 Dalton — 14 Jacob — 10 Grahame — 6 John Loyd — 4 Eric — 4 Jon Doran — 3 Steve — 2 Jimmy Martinez — 2 Nathan Harmon — 2 Andrew Story — 2 Jeff Hanawalt — 1 Scott — 1 Mike K — 1 That’s 84 total entries. And tomorrow, some of you are getting hooked up. We’ve got: 3 Komusōs. 250 lbs of Homegrown bumper plates. 1 year inside The Father’s Guild. Mike Salemi’s 30-Day Zen Savage Challenge. The drawings are done. I know who won. 😏 I’ll announce the winners tomorrow and get each of you connected with your prizes. For tonight — Who do you think cleaned house? // PATRIARCH x Rob