This week's small step
Take fifteen minutes. Write down your Up, your Out, and your Down. If a name's missing in any category, that's your assignment for the week. Pursue an up. Initiate with an out. Pour into a down.
Most people have friends but not true covenant relationship. Joey Odom and Chris Hart spend this week unpacking the difference — and why it matters more than almost anything else in your life.
It starts with two stories. A five-hour drive to a men's conference where one guy looked around the truck and said, "I've never felt invincible until this car ride." And a phone call from a friend's wife — the one she'd been carrying alone for a year and a half because her husband wasn't right and she didn't know who to call.
Joey and Chris use those two moments as bookends for what real friendship actually looks like. Not the surface-level version. The kind where your wife knows exactly which three men to call if you're not your best self. The kind where, when life caves in, somebody's already in the truck.
In this episode
- The two questions that reveal whether your friendships are real
- Why your wife should know exactly who to call when you're not right
- The Up, Out, Down framework for the friendships every man needs
- The One, Three, Twelve model (and why naming it changes everything)
- The PID Loop: how proximity becomes interaction becomes dependence
- Story, Silly, Secret: the ten-minute weekly call that built this show
- Why a brother is born for adversity
- and why asking for help isn't a burden
- How to give and receive rebuke without being a baby about it
