You’re tired. You worked all day. You feel the tension as soon as you walk in the door. You are walking on eggshells in your own house. In Episode 2 of The Resurrection Podcast, we break down the Lighthouse Protocol, the specific tactical framework to stop acting like a Thermometer (reacting to her chaos) and start leading like a Thermostat (setting the temperature).

You walk in the door and feel the tension immediately. You tighten up. You are walking on eggshells in your own home. Most men react by fighting back or folding; both make you look weak. Discover the Lighthouse Protocol to stop catching your partner's chaos, uninstall the Thermometer mindset, and start setting the emotional temperature of your life.

You are not having a mid-life crisis. You are experiencing a System Failure. And it is the most important tactical advantage you will ever be given. In this inaugural deep dive of The Resurrection Podcast, we deconstruct the mechanics of the Poly-Crisis, expose the Integrity Gap that caused it, and lay out the exact first step to move from spiritual bankruptcy to absolute Sovereignty.

Most men think acting from fear makes them strong and acting from love makes them weak. They are wrong. Fear is a cheap reaction; Love is an expensive discipline. This is the tactical breakdown of the two Operating Systems running in your brain, and the 3-step protocol to switch from Reaction to Sovereignty when the world attacks.

For the man at rock bottom, Thanksgiving isn't a celebration; it's a minefield. You are expected to answer the suffocating question "So, how are you?" while your life is secretly collapsing. The world says "fake it," but that only destroys your soul. This is your 4-step tactical protocol to survive the holiday chaos, protect your integrity, and navigate the battlefield of family expectations without becoming a casualty.

This month is Movember. As a 2025 Movember Ambassador, this mission is personal. Movember's mission is to stop men from dying too young. My mission is to give men a protocol for what to do when their life feels like it's already over. It is the same war. This isn't awareness. This is a data-driven crisis. 4 in 5 suicides are men. 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. This is the tactical protocol to fight back.

It’s not just "stress." It’s a poly-crisis—a war on two or more catastrophic fronts at the exact same time. I know this war because I am a veteran of it. I was fighting a war on two fronts, and I was losing on both. The paralysis you feel is not a weakness; it is a predictable outcome. But you cannot "focus on one thing." You must have a protocol. This is that protocol.

When your "shield wall" breaks—when the people you trusted most betray you or vanish in your darkest hour—the pain is profound. It's a crisis of trust and identity. But you cannot let their failure define you. The answer isn't to never trust again; it's to forge yourself into a man who is no longer dependent on a weak and untested shield wall. This is The Shield Wall Protocol, a 4-step tactical plan for rebuilding your life after a brotherhood betrayal.

It was November 1st... She sat up, moved to the far corner of the couch, and said the words that would detonate my entire world. "I don't know if I love you anymore." ... That was the day the woman I loved died, and a ghost began to haunt me.

The phone call wasn't just about a lost business opportunity. It was an execution. The man I thought I was—the successful coach, the guy on a winning team—died in that moment. What was left was a hollowed-out shell, staring at the ceiling at 3 AM, asking a single, terrifying question: "If I'm not that, then what the hell am I?"

When your life falls apart, most advice is useless. "Think positive" doesn't work when you're on the kitchen floor. This isn't a list of tips. This is The Rock Bottom Protocol: a set of five non-negotiable, strategic actions to get you through the first 48 hours of a crisis. This is how you survive the impact so you can begin to fight back.

The "start tomorrow" cycle isn't a time management problem; it's a spiritual crisis. You've broken so many promises to yourself that your self-trust is bankrupt. This is the theology of rock bottom: your breakdown is not your end. It is the sacred ground where your resurrection begins. This is the manual for the fight back.

You're sitting in your car in the gym parking lot. But you're not going in. For a man in a crisis, a gym is not a sanctuary; it's a monument to your own failure. Every machine and every mirror is just another piece of evidence that you are falling apart. The gym sells you a location, but what a man in your position really needs is a resurrection.

For a man at rock bottom, the heaviest weight is the belief that he is permanently broken. But what if that's not a character flaw? What if it's a system failure? I ran a test to find out. The results were undeniable: 100% completion rate. 10/10 average rating. Here is the proof that you are not broken.

As men, we are wired to provide. We build careers, businesses, and families. But a dangerous paradox emerges: in our relentless pursuit of providing, we neglect the very vessel required to protect. We become great providers but poor protectors, sitting on the sidelines of our own lives. This is the first sign of a coming collapse.

It was November 12th, 2023. A Sunday night. And I was on my kitchen floor. Not stretching, not cleaning, but completely broken. The man in the mirror was a stranger, and my life felt like a bad dream. That moment of surrender was my rock bottom. It was also the beginning of my resurrection. This is the raw, true story of how it happened.