Share The Struggle

An attempted assassination on a president should stop a nation in its tracks, not blend into the weekend like background noise. We sit with that chilling “new norm,” then ask the harder question: what are we doing to each other with the way we talk, post, mock, and accuse?

We trace how political violence, conspiracy theories, and media rhetoric collide in real time. When leaders and influencers pour gasoline on polarizatio...

A year can pass in a blur, and then one date cracks everything open. We sit down again, husband and wife, to revisit the phone call she dreaded for years: the one that told her the police needed her to identify her mother. What follows is an unfiltered conversation about addiction, homelessness, the overdose crisis, and the brutal reality of being the child left behind, still loving someone who couldn’t stop hurting themselves.

We juggle a sick kid, zero sleep, and a late-night recording, then land on the one story we promised: how Good Friday and Easter Sunday reshaped our faith. We talk about grief after suicide loss, the power of being prayed over, and why hope only works when it’s placed somewhere solid. 
• recording on fumes after a rough sick-day spiral 
• why we commit to Good Friday and Easter services 
• feeling drawn to church and fi...

Episode 300 hits on a day that feels bigger than a calendar date. I’m looking back at six years of the Share the Struggle Podcast, 300 consecutive weeks with no hiatus, no missed shows, and no hiding from the messy parts of building a life. If you’ve ever felt stuck, tired, or unsure, the core idea is the one that keeps me moving: everybody struggles, but you decide whether you go through it or grow through it. That choice shows up...

I didn’t expect a 24-hour lesson to smack me in the face, but it did: wake up in Maine and go to bed in Texarkana, Arkansas, and you realize how much life can fit inside one day. I’m running hot lately, riding deadlines, feeling the walls close in, and trying to claw my way back to solid ground. Then my wife says the simplest thing that changes everything: go. Take the break. Get out of the foxhole for a minute.

So we do s...

The fastest way to feel crazy as a small business owner is to do “everything right” and still watch people walk by with empty hands. We just got back from the Eastern Maine Sportsman Show at the University of Maine in Orono, and we’re giving you the unfiltered recap: booth cost, hotel, fuel, meals, the sales goal we set, and why landing at about half of what we hoped for still didn’t make the weekend a total loss.

We dig i...

Everybody loves the highlight reel of entrepreneurship. The booth photos, the road trips, the “we’re chasing a dream” energy. What people don’t see is who’s back home keeping the whole machine running when one of you leaves and the bills, chores, pets, and a one-year-old tornado don’t pause.

My wife joins me to tell the other side of the story: the chaos coordinator life, the extra responsibilities that land on one person’...

The dust hasn’t settled, and maybe that’s the point. We just wrapped Daytona Bike Week 2026 with a week that threw everything at us—flooded tents, leaky air mattresses, midnight engines, and a sales curve that swung from record pace to near freefall before a late rally. The numbers say we edged past last year; the story says we leveled up in ways a ledger can’t track.

We open with the campsite chaos and the mental game it ...

The engines are loud, the tent is louder. From a canvas floor pooling with rainwater to a sales board we feared wouldn’t budge, our Daytona Bike Week run at the Cabbage Patch starts rough and gets real. We gambled big on a new location—higher rent, bigger crowd, more risk—and immediately collided with delayed shipments, an all-night print sprint, and an opening weekend of rain that drove us to shut early and regroup over pizza and ...

Two truths can coexist: headlines can drown out the soul of sport, and honest stories can still cut through the noise. We open with a candid look at how the Olympics should feel—earned pride, shared sacrifice, and a country pulling together—then spotlight the moments that actually delivered. Alysa Liu’s gold, shaped by a father who fled repression for freedom. Team USA hockey honoring the Gaudreau brothers and lifting a grieving fa...

Eight people dead within days and two countries, and yet the first casualty was clarity. We open the mic on a hard truth: when mental distress goes unmanaged, when policy favors speed over stability, and when media framing outruns facts, families get left to carry the wreckage. We walk through two fresh tragedies and connect them to earlier cases, highlighting documented histories of instability, prior police calls, and a pattern o...

The biggest stages in sports are supposed to pull us together. This week we ask why the Super Bowl halftime and the Olympic spotlight feel more like battlegrounds than bonfires—and what it would take to get the joy back. We start with a straight-up reality check for New England fans: an improbable run deserves pride, even if the ending stung. Then we go deep on the halftime controversy, from a global-growth pitch that never met the...

A number on a license plate. The same number at checkout minutes later. That strange echo was the push we needed to move from doubt to a full-send commitment: we’re heading back to Daytona Bike Week for the 85th anniversary, this time posted up at the legendary Cabbage Patch. It’s not luck and it’s not magic. It’s a blend of faith, timing, and the kind of work you only do when the pressure is high and the mission matters.

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Ever feel like you’re doing everything “right” but one email, one comment, or one awkward moment wipes your motivation clean? We’ve been there. Today we flip the script with a simple, powerful playbook: change the question, choose meaning over motivation, and use the 10-10-10 rule to shrink regret and build momentum you can trust.

We start with a classic Roddy Piper line and turn it into a mindset tool: when you don’t have...

Ready for proof that letting go creates room for better? We open the new year by celebrating real momentum—Rising Star growth, marathon listening, and fan-favorite ratings—then move straight into a candid story about alignment. When a “forever job” turned toxic, we made the hard call to leave, and that decision sparked a cascade of healthier choices: a mission-driven remote role in cancer care, a routine that actually supports fami...

What if the real upgrade this year isn’t a new purchase, but a new pattern of thinking? We open the door to a raw, relatable conversation about why we obsess over stuff, set punishing deadlines, and then watch our motivation fade while anxiety grows. From a scratched-CD glitch to a stack of old vinyl and a French bulldog cameo, the setup is light—but the message lands heavy: we’ve been valuing things over thoughts, and it’s costing...

New Year, new kind of resolution: what if choosing patriotism—real, responsible, everyday patriotism—could lower the temperature, raise our standards, and bring some pride back into the room? We kick off 2026 by breaking down a high-stakes operation and the bigger story it tells about competence, courage, and common ground.

We walk through Operation Absolute Resolve with a focus on what made it extraordinary: months of joi...

Midnight won’t fix your life, but a decision might. We’re closing the year by doing the uncomfortable work most people avoid: naming what we will leave behind so we can walk lighter, clearer, and truer. Instead of stacking new goals on old baggage, we cut off the dead weight—labels we accepted, habits that stole our time, and stories that made our struggles feel like our names.

I share the line that stopped me in my tracks...

Snow outside, lights low, coffee at night, and a toddler determined to cameo—this Christmas special is equal parts cozy and chaotic. We leaned into it. From goofy elf names to heartfelt family memories, we explore how the holidays feel when traditions shift and real life spills across the wrapping paper.

We start with humor—Minty McCandy Cane, Happy Stocking Stuffer, and the legend of Jingle Pickle Pants—then move into the...