Lewis Howes

And we both lost our fathers recently.

Yeah.

And we've both been through our own healing journeys and talking about what it means to be a man and deal with a lot of psychological and emotional wounds that we don't know how to navigate or we didn't know how to navigate until we started opening up.

So I want to acknowledge you first, Kevin, for being a voice of possibilities for so many people, specifically men, that us growing up, we didn't have a space

typically around our parents or around our peers to talk about our feelings or emotions, to talk about the confusion in our heart and our minds of why we're feeling something.

And so most of our childhood grew up being driven to prove people wrong.

driven to figure out how to overcome the anger emotion, because we didn't know how to communicate anything else, and driven to succeed to prove our value.

So I wanna acknowledge you for the last seven, eight years, opening up about your own mental and emotional challenges.

being public about it and creating a space for lots of not only young men, but also women to start to say, what can I do to start looking within myself about these emotions and mental challenges?

Start using them as a voice to my peers or getting help.

and improve my life.

So I want to acknowledge you for the journey you've been on.

Yeah, I appreciate it.

It's great, man.

It's very important work.

And I'm curious because, you know, it's a couple things that are fresh for you in your mind right now.

You just finished the season for yourself.

We were talking about this idea of athlete mortality.

Yes.

You know, you don't know how many more years you have left, if you're supposed to keep playing, if you're not supposed to keep playing.