Chad Brignac had a 3 decade career working on multi-million dollar projects in construction. He's led teams as big as 150 people. As a business owner, he's had a lot of success on professional projects, but he was a failure outside of work.

Chad was very unapproachable. Nobody from work wanted to be around him. He had strained family relationships. The worst part was, as bad as things got, Chad still didn't understand he was the primary cause of the dysfunction in his life. He was completely closed up, and he couldn't recognize his own faults.

Chad finally had a wake up call, and he finally became self-aware. He realized he needed to become vulnerable in order to have a pathway to success. Before, there was too much fear in Chad's life to be vulnerable, and he viewed vulnerability as a weakness. But after Chad had insight into who he was in Christ, chad was able to be broken down, so he could be built up, in the right way.

Now, instead of fear dictating Chad's life and causing destruction, his confidence in his identity in Christ has made him much more unshakeable. Not only has Chad's family life greatly improved as he's rebuilt great relationships with his children, but he's carried much of this into his purpose and calling in life and business.

Chad has written the book "Visionary Storm," where he helps business owners and leaders become more self-aware and vulnerable, so they can become better leaders and more fulfilled people. He teaches leaders the fruitfulness of maximizing influence and minimizing authority to have greater impact.

Listen to Brett and Chad discuss how to become better leaders at work and at home.

CHAD'S WEBSITE: https://chadmbrignac.com/

BLEND DON'T BREAK: https://a.co/d/9FPKpni

VISIONARY STORM: https://chadmbrignac.com/the-author

Before marriage, men pursue their future wives with great focus, persistence and tenacity. But after the wedding day and the honey moon, things can start to cool off. Not to mention a few years passing by and throwing a couple kids in the picture.

Chris Chandler joins Brett to let men know why dating your wife matters. It's drastically important to continue a pursuit of intimacy with your wife throughout your marriage.

Life can get busy with work, ministry and responsibilities. One situation that commonly happens is spouses prioritizing all of their focus on their kids that they stop focusing on each other. Sadly, this leads to many marital problems.

Parents should love their kids and give them lots of focus and attention, but spouses need to make sure to prioritize each other in the same way, with even more emphasis. If you know your kids better than your wife, that might be an issue. As men, we need to make sure our marriage stays as the primary relationship in the family.

Listen as Chris and Brett discuss excuses men make to avoid dating their wives, and how to get past them. As well as how men can lead their wives spiritually with tangible high-impact date ideas.

When we run important businesses or even constantly work in ministry, we can easily find excuses for not resting as we should. But if we continue to ignore our need for a weekly rhythm of rest, it will eventually catch up to us.

God created the Sabbath with great purposes. One of those purposes being for us to find a weekly time to stop working, so we can refresh and reenergize. When we continually work non-stop, it will cause great burn-out and bring us to some dark places.

Josh & Michael share about the importance of taking a weekly Sabbath, along with some strategies they've used an employed for them and their families. Listen as Michael and Josh share about there struggles and victories and how Sabbath rest has played a role.