1. What To Do First a. Introduce yourself. Share your name, business, how many kids you have, and the biggest tension you feel between work and fatherhood. GA gents! My name is Mark George. I am a father of 4 (from 8 years old to newborn). I work a 9-5 in the lumber industry, and I run Thousand Generations Print Company. Biggest tension: Balancing time while doing everything with excellence. Working my 9-5, while trying to grow Thousand Generations, and still having time for my wife and kiddos, and sleep/exercise, is a challenge. Looking forward to getting to know you guys 🫡

Hey kings, Just wanted to give you a heads up that you can access the course in this group entirely free. Just go to the classroom tab. Blessings!

Gentlemen, pleasure to meet you all virtually. Andrew Smith - my business is LandSmith Engineering & Consulting Ltd. (landsmithec.com) - small Civil Engineering and consulting firm servicing the land development industry in Hamilton, Niagara and surrounding areas. Been married 18 years, and we have three kids, 13, 9 and 5 - biggest tension around work and fatherhood - I would like to think about this some more, but for now I would say - shutting down the work stress /pressures when at home and not letting the tension seep into the family interactions.

GM all! I am happy to be here. My name is Chris, and I am 35, have been married six years and have two children. We are hoping for more. My life is a testimony to God's mercy through life and death times, provision, disciplining and patience. Psalm 118:18: "The Lord has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death." I was a firefighter and a paramedic in my first career. It was the most intense and insane time of my life, and my life has been filled with insane and intense times. I have overcome a career ending back injury and multiple other major injuries. More importantly, I have overcome post traumatic of the level that for most is crippling for life, and I did so without meds. All by God's grace. Since 2020 I have built a strong network with solid Christian brothers, many of whom are entrepreneurs. After the fire service, I transferred my skills and was briefly a nurse. God closed that door in my face by the end of 2022. Truly it was the worst job I have ever had. So, I flipped a house and quit nursing and took a year to figure things out, network and work with a carpenter. Within three months of working with the carpenter I was estimating and bidding jobs more effectively than him, which blessed him. Then I worked 14 months for a roofer as his catch all right hand man: marketing, estimating, project management, repairs, material runs, etc. I talked business with him as much as I could (and also with the carpenter), and learned over 14 months twenty years of insider information. I also learned from the roofer what not to do, and he did most things wrong. I am going to write a book next year titled What not to do as a Roofing Contractor, and What to do Instead. Next winter I am also going to write a book titled Weaponized Recovery: Turning Systemic Betrayal and Personal Hardship into Unstoppable Entrepreneurial Fuel. In it I am going to describe the corruption and treachery I faced in the fire service and in nursing, the post traumatic, the major injuries I sustained, and how I overcame it all and have used it to fuel fatherhood, and entrepreneurialism. I have drafted both books, but I cannot in good conscience write them yet because I do not feel successful yet. I don't want to write these without proving my systems more thoroughly, though I have made some useful PTSD management strategies that are solid, and provide objective positive results.

Hi All, my name is Kris. I own Empire Countertops in St.Catharines. I have 5 kids. Biggest hurdle I fond with being a business owner and family man is having the energy to engage with the family in the evenings, as well as leaving the stress at work