Karl Sherrill

And then how do I embrace my success and get more success?

And then the secret became that chasing those two different things was more stressful and challenging than just being really clear about who I was and what I wanted to be.

And then let that just carry over into how I lead.

I think more than anything, being a father, right?

And my fatherhood and leading at home had lots of ups and downs over the years as you grow and you have kids and nobody tells you how to do it.

And then you look around and you see people that are doing it well and it all looks like success.

And obviously with social media and other things that puts that in front of people, you just kind of wonder sometimes, you know,

When it's not what you see, that everything else is defined by the world as success, you start to question how are you leading at home.

And so as my children grew, I began to see things like, I mean, silly examples of like just being so caught up in how they did in school at an early age and how important that I thought that was during that time.

and going through middle school, and then as they reach high school, and then the whole, everything in middle school is about getting into the right spot for high school, and how high school is all about college, and there's really, I've got a whole other tangent we could go on about higher education to today's environment, but how all of that pushes you to lead differently than maybe how your heart feels.

What my heart was saying when I had young children was, I want them to be healthy, I want them to be happy, I want to enjoy that time with them.

And I certainly did.

But every once in a while, you would let the world creep in to say, well, yeah, but they need to be doing this, and they ought to be doing this, and they need to be playing more of this, and they should be doing.

And so the world began to dictate how I thought about the way I wanted to define success as a father, as a family for my children.

And as we got into the middle school years, I have three children.

I've got a 24, 22-year-old, and a 19-year-old, my two boys and my daughter at the end.

As we got into middle school, I had especially one of my sons who began to have some health issues that we couldn't figure out, and they were impacting him significantly.

There's no playbook for that as a dad.

That's not what you talk about with other dads.

You talk about what travel team they're on.