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27:46Nick Bare:goal and writing it down and calling your shot and then spending weeks, months, years chasing them down. It's such a valuable resource of a platform and collection of content that I get to hand off to my kids to watch. It's not me just telling them stories. It's showing them it all happening. I'm really grateful to have done that because it's not only this great collection of home videos I get to share with my kids, but it's why I'm doing what I'm doing today. It's why I'm where I'm at, but I'll be really honest.

28:35Nick Bare:In this current season of life, I don't have the same drive and passion to document everything as I once did. It's one of the reasons I prefer the podcast platform over YouTube in this current season of life.

29:02Nick Bare:Because life for me just looks different now. I'm married, I have two young kids. When I'm home, I want to be present and active with my family. before having kids and filming and documenting everything, it wasn't just setting up a camera and living life. It was setting up the tripod, getting the shot right, the lighting right, the audio right, moving the camera around for certain shots. If I were to do that now at home, I wouldn't be the present father and husband that I want to be in this season and chapter of life.

29:43now maybe I'll have a new approach to YouTube that I'll discover in these next couple of weeks and months and years. And I'm not sharing this to say that I'm going to stop uploading on YouTube because I'm still uploading videos on YouTube, but just not as frequently as I used to. It used to be one, two, sometimes even three videos a week. Film, edit, publish, film, edit, publish, film, edit, publish for years and years and years and years. And like I said, it built the business, it built the brand, it got us and me to where we are today.

30:31But I don't know,

30:34Nick Bare:I'm still trying to figure out what I wanna share with the world on YouTube moving forward and how I want to share it.

30:45Especially being a more committed husband in this chapter of life,

30:54Nick Bare:a committed and present father in this chapter of life. And I'm trying to figure out how YouTube and filming and documenting fits into that equation if it does.

31:14so I don't really have like a, this is what I'm doing.

31:17Nick Bare:This is why, this is how, but I'm just sharing, you know, what's been on my mind in terms of the YouTube platform and how it's been a huge part of my life these last 11 to 12 years.

31:33And I'm sure it will in a meaningful way now and into the future, but it's definitely gonna look different because I don't know what and how I wanna share parts of my more personal, intimate life like I did years ago. I mean, me and Steph and the team here, we'd film and share everything. And now the last thing I wanna do when I'm home with my kids is pick up a camera. But I love creating content. I love sharing behind the scenes of what this team is working on and why and taking people

32:16Nick Bare:along for the journey. So I'm in this, just like the energy drink, I'm in this exploration discovery phase with what my content on YouTube looks like moving forward because it's been such a meaningful part of my life for the last decade plus. It's a long time to be doing something. 11 to 12 years of spending a lot of time, energy, money, documenting your life. But that consistency got me to where I am right now.

32:56but I like the platform of the podcast.

33:00Nick Bare:I like the conversation style. I like the length. I've always been a fan of long format content. That's why I've been drawn to creating and sharing on the podcast even more so now than these YouTube vlogs. So that's where I'm planning on spending more of my time and intentional energy is the podcast. But we'll see. Things may change. What I'm learning, I'm learning a lot in this season of life right now. Again, which I'm very grateful for. And as I was kind of making some notes of things I wanted to talk about and just in reflection, of what I believe I'm learning in this season of life right now.

33:58One, what it truly means to be a man in today's age, society, and world. We were sitting in church two weeks ago and our pastor, who's Pastor Joe Champion of Celebration Church, he made a comment that I had to write down and it's been in the back of my mind since. And he said, the world is constantly, especially right now, trying to deconstruct men. And it's our job, and he's talking in terms of the church, but I believe I have a responsibility to build men back up. while the world is trying to deconstruct them, deconstruct us. You can build men back up physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.

35:05I feel that calling. I feel that responsibility. I can also feel the enemy working against it and against us. like the enemy is attempting to distract men to deconstruct men to make this world a more dark, dangerous, evil place. So what's it truly mean to be a man? There's a book that I recommend by Pastor Joby Martin titled Stand Firm and Act Like Men. It's a great book. Highly recommend it to all men. What's it mean to me to be a man? A man is rooted in values, values and beliefs that he personally believes in,

36:10Nick Bare:not the values and beliefs of the world or the values and beliefs of people he follows or values and beliefs of his boss or the people in his inner circle. Now, like, what do you, this is applicable to men and women, but what do you believe in? What are your values? And are you rooted in those values and beliefs? Or are you a chameleon and your values and beliefs evolve, transform, and change based off who you're around. That's a dangerous person. That's a dangerous man. A man is stable, has stability, emotionally consistent. Steph said something to me the other day that she heard from a friend and it was never trust a moody man.

37:11I was like, yeah, that's fair. Moody men are inconsistent and unstable men, emotionally inconsistent. Nah, nah. A man is a provider and a protector. A man is a leader, values leadership. A man is a servant, a selfless servant. That's something that I've really learned as a leader

37:48Nick Bare:and as a father and a husband these last couple of years. My job as a father, my job as a husband, my job as a leader is to serve other people, to make myself smaller and put other people in front of me and sacrifice for the betterment of other people. It's much easier said than done. But when I wake up in the morning, that's what comes to mind. I have to be a servant today. I die to myself, take my cross, follow him being Jesus Christ and then serve other people.

38:31A man is responsible, has ownership of responsibility. I mean, there's men out there who have children and then they abandon those children and their families and they go live a new life. That is lack of responsibility of ownership. And that's not a man. That's a boy. As Pastor Joby Martin would say, that's a dude. but a dude is not a man. A man takes responsibility and ownership of what he is responsible for.

39:20Going back to the first characteristic

39:24Nick Bare:that I mentioned rooted in value and belief, there's this thing that I talked about in my book, Go On More. it's called the value action gap that I find really interesting and I think a lot of people struggle with. The value action gap and I'll be honest in previous seasons of my life I have struggled with this as well. So I'm not standing on top of this tower saying I've never missed or failed and I still don't make mistakes. I still make mistakes. I still fail. I still sin. I'm human. But the value action gap is the inconsistency between a person's stated values or beliefs and their actual behaviors.

40:11Nick Bare:We want to close the value action gap. People say they value one thing, they believe in one thing, and then their actions reflect otherwise.

40:26That's a problem.

40:31It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. If you say you believe in one thing and you value one thing, but then your actions say otherwise, you can't be trusted with anything because you don't even know what you believe in. You don't even know what you value because your actions say the complete opposite.

40:54Nick Bare:I think for many of us, our goal should be to close the value action gap so that our actions reflect what we actually believe in and what we value. Another thing that I'm learning right now in terms of parenting is you can't control everything. Like obvious, right? But it's perhaps the most humbling and profound lesson that I have experienced as a parent so far. to two young kids, two toddlers. Steph and I recently recorded a podcast. And if you listened to that episode, we talked about how we're trying for our third this spring. Who knows if we're going to have three kids or we're going to have four kids, how big the Bear family is going to be.

41:48Nick Bare:But I've learned and I'm learning still every single day that as a parent, you can't control everything as much as you want to. And that influence and or teaching is much greater to embrace than control.

42:11So here's an example of what I'm learning through control

42:18Nick Bare:and the difference between influence and or teaching and control. I am a neat freak in some situations in my life. I don't like clutter. The team here knows at BPN that if I'm walking around and there's empty boxes sitting on the floor next to someone's desk or there's a pair of shoes that were sitting in the locker room for a few days unclaimed, or there's a weight out of place in the gym, I'm either going to put it back to where it belongs or I'm going to throw it away. There have been many instances over the years, the many years where people's personal belongings have gotten thrown away because they left them out, uncleaned, unorganized, unclaimed.

43:18Nick Bare:So I pick it up, I throw it away. Boxes that are just empty, scattered throughout the office, I pick up, I throw away. I don't like clutter. I like when things have a place and once they are used, they're put back in that place. I just like organized stuff.

43:42Nick Bare:Our home used to be the same way. and we'd finish a day, Steph and I, before we had kids. And at night, we'd clean everything up. And then next morning, we would wake up and it looked like a brand new house. No dishes in the sink, everything put away, counters cleaned, bags stored in closets, papers on the table, shuffled, organized, folded, put in drawers. I like waking up to a clean, organized home. I always have. I've always kept my things in places clean and organized. As our kids started getting older and they would make messes, I would find myself running around behind them, picking things up, putting them back.

44:37Nick Bare:and it was exhausting. When my daughter was young, she'd get toys out, play with them, make a mess. I'd pick them up, organize them, put them away. And as I'm doing that, she's in the kitchen cabinets pulling Tupperware out. And I found myself just running around, exhausting myself, picking things up for no reason because they were gonna get pulled back out five minutes later. my son right now, Nico, he's one and a half. He's wild. I mean, today he was in the laundry room pulling all the towels out of the cabinets. He was in the kitchen turning the gas stove burners on, opening the oven, pulling the trash out.

45:30Nick Bare:We've had to put locks on all of our cabinets and drawers because the kid is chaotic and a mess. And this drove me wild for the longest time because I wanted control. I wanted cleanliness. I wanted organization. And I eventually learned the hard way that you can't control everything in the moment. And sometimes you just have to embrace the chaos and allow yourself to live in the chaos and teach and influence your children how to clean up, what to do and what not to do, but not follow them around and clean it up for them.

46:19Nick Bare:That's, like I said, perhaps the most humbling and profound lesson that is applicable, not just to emptying cabinets and drawers and trash and all of those things, but realizing that you can't control everything, especially as young parents. And that you have to teach them the way of living and life and right versus wrong and hard versus easy. but it's been humbling to learn, but I'm learning it now that chaos is going to happen. Messiness is going to happen, but it just has to be embraced. What I'm loving, I'm loving my training right now, specifically because I'm not in a prep. I'm training for the love of training, which feels really good.

47:22Nick Bare:Especially coming out of an Ironman prep that was so structured and high volume and high intensity and just a ton of training. Not being in a prep right now feels really great. And that fitness isn't my entire life and controlling my entire day and weekends. And then I'm trying to build my schedule and my energy around fitness, but fitness is facilitating just a healthier lifestyle. That feels really good, especially not having done that for a long time. So what I actually just did yesterday

48:06that we'll see how this ends up working out.

48:10Nick Bare:You know, for forever, I've been wearing a Garmin watch. I've been wearing a Garmin watch since probably 2018. So maybe for the last eight years, I've been wearing a Garmin, tracking all my stats. Every time I go for a run, I log that run. Right now, every time I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is I turn on my watch and I look at my sleep score. and my sleep stats. I look at how long I slept, how much awake time, my REM sleep, my deep sleep, my steps at the end of the day, calories burned. I use my Garmin for a lot of performance stats that really just, in my opinion, at this point in my life, consume unnecessary energy.

49:13Truthfully. Like when I wake up in the morning, I look at my sleep score, my sleep stats. Is that going to change anything I do the next night? No, probably not. But I do it and I obsess over it. And I obsess over the amount of steps that I get at the end of the day and how many calories my watch says I burned. And if I go for a run, I'm not running 6.87 miles

49:44Nick Bare:I'm running seven miles, not running 9.42 miles. Now I'm running 10 miles. I got to finish the run on the mile, obsessing over these things. And I want to shake up my routine. Really, for the main reason, which we'll get into towards the end of this episode, I want to unlock some new levels of growth. I want to challenge myself. And I feel that being so rigid and structured with some of my routine, even though it facilitates consistency and discipline, it can actually work in the opposite way of holding you back from exploring new creative outlets of life. All that to say, I'm leaving the Garmin family.

50:42Nick Bare:I bought a new watch yesterday. This vision came to me. I acted on the vision right away. I ordered a G-Shock. Now the G-Shock watch is what I wore when I was in the army. And back then I'd go for a run. I didn't track any of my mileage on a run or my pace. I'd go run for an hour. I looked down my watch. All right, it's 1 p.m. I'm going to go run till 2 p.m. And I know my average pace is roughly 730 minutes per mile. So I'll probably get roughly eight miles in. When I was in the army, we all wore G-Shock watches. We had Garmins, but it wasn't a Garmin watch. We wore a Garmin GPS wrist mount on our kits.

51:36Nick Bare:and the only reason we wore those Garmins was to pull a 10-digit grid coordinate so we could pinpoint where we were on a map. When I was in the army, that's what a Garmin was for. It was to pull a 10-digit grid coordinate to triangulate yourself on a map to figure out where you were at and then how to get to where you're going.

52:01Nick Bare:And the G-Shock watch I wore in the army did everything I needed to do. I never had to charge it, told me the time, didn't affect any of my runs. And I'm going back to G-Shock. I ordered a G-Shock. I don't have to charge it. It tells me the time. You know, when I run in my neighborhood every morning, I know my five-mile route. I know my seven-mile route. I know my nine-mile route. I know my 10-mile route. I know my 12-mile route. I don't have to clock it every morning. I don't have to track all the stats. I'm still going to run, but I'm going to run for the love of running, all based off feel.

52:48So we're going back in time. This G-Shock doesn't give me the sleep data

52:57Nick Bare:that I'm going to be wanting and needing every morning. It's not going to tell me my heart rate and my pace and my distance after a run. Nope. That's a change I'm making. So it shipped, the watch shipped, should be here in the next couple of days. And when it does, I'll turn my Garmin off. I'll take it off. I'll put it in the drawer. I'll put the G-Shock on and we'll start rocking that moving forward. So when I take a picture of my watch after my run in the morning, it will probably just be a picture of the time. And maybe a little caption that says, you know, run complete, run check. But I'm excited about that.

53:46Nick Bare:So that's what I'm loving right now in terms of training and running. Right now I'm running roughly 45 miles a week. I've ramped up running mileage a little bit in preparation for this Pittsburgh half marathon with my dad in May. So right now I'm running seven miles Monday, nine miles Tuesday, nine miles Wednesday, off Thursday, seven miles Friday, and then I have a long run Saturdays, which is 10 plus miles. Sunday off and been repeating that. So that's my current run structured training. I'm also loving cooking right now. And I go through seasons where I love to cook and I go through seasons where I don't love to cook.

54:46Nick Bare:Like when I was in Ironman prep, I wasn't loving cooking because I just wanted to get the nutrients into my body for what I needed to fuel that day and recover from the workouts. And my dinners were pretty much the same thing every single night during Ironman prep. Chicken or beef, rice, veggies. That was pretty much it, all of Ironman prep. I didn't experiment much outside of that just because I was extremely dialed and meticulous during that prep. Now being outside of Ironman prep and not really in any sort of training prep, I've been loving cooking again and experimenting. I get a lot of recipes online, whether that's Instagram, social media.

55:45Nick Bare:I really don't use social media for much other than, to be honest, cooking content. That's where I get a lot of my recipes. I've also recently subscribed to the New York Times app and they have a recipe section that's really good. So our family's current favorite recipe. All right, let me break this down. This was, I saw an Instagram post by this guy who's making the New York Times top rated recipes of 2025. And this was one of them grabbed my attention. So we tried it and Steph and I have made this probably 10 times in the last month and a half. So we buy, we love chicken thighs, nothing against chicken breast.

56:34Nick Bare:I think if you cook a chicken breast right, it's beautiful. But so many people don't cook a chicken breast right. The way that I like to cook a chicken breast, you get a meat tenderizer. So you take the breast out, you tenderize it until it's about, I'd say three quarters of an inch thick. You tenderize it, season it. The seasoning we use for our chicken breast is the Hardcore Carnivore red seasoning. Throw it on the Traeger and then I cook it until it's an internal temperature. I use a meat probe thermometer, 165 degrees. As soon as it hits 165 degrees, I take it off the Traeger. I let it rest for 10 to 15 minutes, slice it up.

57:22Perfect.

57:23Nick Bare:It's not chewy. It's not dry. Perfect. But I think you got to tenderize it. You got to season it. Cook it to 165 internal. Now, this is a separate recipe. Chicken thighs. Chicken thighs will always beat chicken breast, in my opinion. We like to get the bone-in skin on. You get that skin nice and crispy. But I like to cut the bones out. So we get our bone-in, skin-on-chicken thighs. I cut the bones out. I'm very deliberate with this to make sure not to lose a lot of meat in that process. And then in a cast iron skillet, I put olive oil. I let it get really hot. As it's heating up, I season the chicken with salt, pepper, garlic powder.

58:21Nick Bare:and then I add, once that pan and that oil is hot, really hot, I put the chicken thighs skin down in that skillet and let them get a nice crisp. I want that skin to be crispy. And then flip them over, cook the other side for a little bit, take them out, put them on a pan. as they're resting for a little bit, I'll start making the sauce. Now, at the end of all of this, I will put the chicken thighs back in the oven. So I'll put them in the oven, 400 degrees until they're an internal temperature of like 175 to 185. You can get your chicken thighs a little bit hotter than a chicken breast because there's more fat, so they're not going to dry out.

59:15Nick Bare:but I'll finish them off in the oven. In that cast iron skillet that has the residual olive oil and renderings of just chicken fat, we add garlic, minced garlic, butter, chicken bone broth or chicken stock and lime juice. And we'll let that sizzle and boil a little bit and deglaze the skillet. and then when it's all said and done, we got our bowls, put a nice layer of fluffy, freshly cooked jasmine rice, white jasmine rice. I slice up the chicken thighs, lay the chicken thighs on top of the rice and then I pour that sauce on top of all of it. On the side, we'll do some roasted broccolini. That meal, incredible.

1:00:13Incredible. So that's been one of our go-tos recently. Been loving it. Also shared it with Steph's mom. We made it for Steph's mom when she was in town this last time. Also loved it.

1:00:27Nick Bare:And as well as I made it for Preston and his wife Val a few weeks ago, and they loved it. You got to try it. It was one of New York Times top rated recipes. Something else that I've been loving, nostalgia. I've had a nostalgia for more in real life, connected lifestyle moments. Now I'm 35, I'm going to be 36 this summer. I grew up in the 90s, early 2000s. Life was much different then compared to today. We were more disconnected from technology and social media, but we are more connected with people. I think it's hard to argue against.

1:01:22And I came across this article in the New York Times, which again, I've been really enjoying being a subscriber to the New York Times.

1:01:34Nick Bare:I get updates to my email. I log into the app. I logged into the app a few weeks ago and there was this article about the old Pizza Hutts. I grew up going to Pizza Hut with my family. It was all these images and photos of the old Pizza Hutts. It was the red and white checkered tablecloths. It was the stained glass lights and windows. They had a salad bar. Ours in Hershey, Pennsylvania. had a jukebox, dimly lit. It was the best. They pizza hut on a weekday night while I was in school or a weekend evening, jam-packed, every table filled with families. Busy, loud, energetic. I remember we would show up and there was this program in our school, I believe it was called Book It.

1:02:40Nick Bare:So if you read a book either that week or month in school, you would get a Pizza Hut book it coupon and you could redeem it for a personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut. So when we would get these tickets, our family would take us to Pizza Hut and we'd get our own personal pan pizzas. So we go to Pizza Hut and it was in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It's no longer there. It's now a bank, I believe. We'd walk in and just families everywhere, dim lit. And I'd walk over to the jukebox as my family was going to our table that we got assigned to, seated at. And I would put money in the jukebox and I'd play two songs every time.

1:03:28Nick Bare:I would play Creed, My Sacrifice, and I'd play Will Smith, Getting Jiggy With It. those are the two songs that I would play every time we went to Pizza Hut my family would sit down if we had bookie coupons me and Preston would get our own personal pan pizzas and then my mom and dad would get a big a big pizza and we'd go to a salad bar and get breadsticks the best breadsticks just remember the salad bar just loading my salad up with, I don't know why I remember this, ranch dressing and sunflower seeds. I don't remember what else I added to it, but just a bunch of ranch dressing and sunflower seeds on just iceberg lettuce.

1:04:22Nick Bare:It was so good. It was such a good time. And my memories of the old Pizza Hut just represent to me slower times like dining with friends and family, community, not being distracted by a phone, like settling in for the evening there, knowing it was gonna be a long dinner of just enjoying each other's company. Those are the best. Pizza was the best growing up. Now you might disagree. Like Steph, for example, her family wasn't a Pizza Hut family. I believe they were a Little Caesars family. We were a Pizza Hut family. And there's so many memories of my childhood that just take me back to that restaurant in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

1:05:20And I truly believe that if Pizza Hut wanted to crush it

1:05:25Nick Bare:in these next couple of years, I'm not sure of their financial stability or status. but I believe if Pizza Hut brought back the old Pizza Huts, because now it's these new in-and-out, convenient, fast, pick up your pizza, go home type options. It's not the same. I think if Pizza Hut brought back the old Pizza Huts, salad bar, dining in, pan pizzas, jukebox, the stained glass, lights and red and white checkered tables, man, they would crush. I would love to take my family with my two young kids to an old pizza hut. Like that nostalgia of just slower, more personally connected times, less distraction.

1:06:25That nostalgia has been pulling me in recently. but I'm telling you, Pizza Hut could crush bringing back the old style restaurants. What I'm not loving, this was actually a hard one to come up with and I had to really sit and think on this and I was having a conversation with Steph about this last night. What I'm not loving

1:06:56is the pressure we put on ourselves to constantly entertain the seriousness of life and the stress, the unnecessary stress or stressors that we add on to life when they're really not that big of deals. And I believe, and I want my kids to see this as they grow up and I teach them and mentor and disciple them, that you can work really, really hard. You can be ruthlessly ambitious towards your goals, but still have fun and still joke around and not take things or yourself too serious. And I want my kids to see that from me. And I'm very aware and conscious of that. What I don't want my kids to see for me growing up is this dad who was always serious, who was always on, who was always working, who was always stressed.

1:08:04Because I don't think that benefits anyone, especially not yourself or the people in your life. But I think we put this unnecessary pressure on ourself

1:08:17Nick Bare:to take things too serious, everything too serious. when in the grand scheme of things, there's a lot that we entertain and manage and have to address on a daily basis that isn't that serious, that isn't the end of the world, that isn't going to be life or death or even lose money or security or financial status and stability. but we unnecessarily stress over dumb stuff a lot. I do it myself. And then sometimes I have to sit back and truly ask myself, why am I stressed? Why am I so serious about this? Why am I making this a bigger deal than it actually is and ruining my day and the day of the people around me as well?

1:09:12So I think that's something I can always improve on. I think a lot of us could probably improve upon

1:09:23is be ambitious, be ruthlessly ambitious towards our goals. Work really hard. I believe in hard work. I always will. I want my kids to know what hard work looks and feels like. That is a priority for me. That is a goal of mine. But at the same time, and know when to let loose and be easy and have fun and laugh and rest. And the last thing I want to share, what's been on my mind as of recently.

1:10:02So I thought about this yesterday or a few days ago. I was going back through all my old photos on my iPhone, which I have 20 ,000 photos on my iPhone. I don't know if that's good or bad. Some of them are screenshots and just random things.

1:10:24Half of them are probably, when I park in the parking garage at the Austin airport, take a photo of where I parked in like 2K or 2E, the row and the floor to make sure that I can find my car when I get back. it's like half the photos on my iPhone probably exaggeration but for real I was going back through all these photos in my iPhone and picture of these big

1:10:54Nick Bare:life milestones and I posted all these on Instagram in a carousel came across a photo of me graduating ranger school in 2014 and running my lifetime PR marathon at the 2023 California International Marathon, two hours and 39 minutes of running my first ultra marathon, Leadville 100, finishing the speed project, the race from LA to Vegas, relay race that we did. The last man standing race in Pineland Farms, Maine, 2023, where I was first introduced to the last man standing style, building BPN, being in the manufacturing facility. There's a lot of life milestones reached and accomplished. And when you go back through your iPhone photos, you realize all the work that went into this stuff.

1:11:56And you can almost re-celebrate some of these wins and victories that you experience. But I've come to realize it's not what you have accomplished in your life that matters, but who you are becoming and have become along the way. That's been on my mind a lot recently. I don't want to live this life to just have a portfolio of all of my accomplishments,

1:12:31Nick Bare:a resume of all of the things I've done, a LinkedIn profile to say where I've worked and how long and what positions I held and what we achieved within that organization during my time there. That's not the intent. The intent is who are you becoming? Who have you become in that process throughout that journey, that transformation that we experience? the man, the woman, the leader, the father, the husband, the follower throughout that journey.

1:13:16That's what I'm most proud of throughout this journey of not what has been accomplished and what I've done, but who I've become along the way. and like I previously mentioned earlier, what's been on my mind is, I feel like I want and need to be challenged in a new way in life,

1:13:49and the old me would have said,

1:13:51Nick Bare:okay, it's time for a new race or competition. In order for me to experience unlock and breakthrough and transformation, I need a new physical challenge to test and challenge me to grow in this next season of life. But I'm pretty confident in knowing that I want and need to be challenged in a new way. I don't know what that is right now, but I'm patiently waiting for it. Not even necessarily searching for it. I'm patiently waiting for it to be presented to me in front of me. I know, I'm pretty confident I know it's not another race. It's not a competition. I've experienced, in my opinion, all of the perspective and breakthrough and unlock through these races, through these preps, through these competitions that I've wanted to achieve.

1:14:58doing another one is not going to provide me with the breakthrough that I'm wanting next. So I'm patiently waiting for that new challenge

1:15:12Nick Bare:to be presented in front of me. I've shared this concept before and people were like, well, you should try Jiu-Jitsu or MMA. No, it's like, it's the same vein of a different physical challenge. I think I'm being called to a new challenge that is not physical fitness related. And I don't know what that is right now. And I'm learning to be patient in a season of waiting for that to be placed in front of me.

1:15:46Within God's timing and God's will. And that obedience in itself is a challenge.

1:15:54Nick Bare:Maybe that is a challenge. Maybe the obedience and faithfulness in the waiting, in the patience is the challenge that I'm hoping and looking for. I haven't thought about that until now. That could be it. Well, those are some of the things that I wanted to share in this episode. What I'm working on, what I'm learning, what I'm loving, what I'm not loving, what's been on my mind. Thanks guys. Appreciate you. Love you. Go one more. Thank you.