Episode description
Rodney and I were born the same year, both had absent fathers, both only got confirmed out of a sense of peer pressure, both have young kids and are both finding our way back to a spiritual way of life after spending many years trying to go it alone. We talk about Jesus (and our discomfort with even uttering his name!), how we're going to bring spirituality to our kids, what sports have to do with spirituality and religion, and so so many other things.
I literally could not stop talking to Rodney on all things spirituality and religion. So much so that we made a decision part way through to make this into a two-parter.
RODNEY’S FULL BIO
Rodney Mueller is an entrepreneur, advisor and mentor that has reinvented the antiquated way of setting and achieving goals. His mentorship and advisory of startup and mid-size CEOs has led to exponential growth through his Perfect Aim Method™.
A high-performance leadership advisor, Rodney believes that humans are the greatest untapped asset in any culture. His proprietary method teaches leaders how to grow into exceptional human beings, grow their companies at record rates, create a culture of visionary employees, and obtain deep fulfillment and meaning in their lives.
A former drill sergeant, Rodney has served in the U.S. Army Reserve for the last 22 years, and became one of the youngest to attain E-6 Staff Sergeant. He was assigned to the world’s first joint biological point detection unit (the only one of its kind in the world), and has most recently served at U.S. Africa and U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.
In 2017, Rodney kicked off the Absent Father Podcast, after being featured on Oprah’s Life Class (2013), about fatherless sons and having a desire to help others overcome the impact of growing up with an absent father. Rodney believes in, and derives the most meaning in his life from being a father and husband. He considers St. Louis home, and loves traveling with his wife, two daughter and two dogs Porter and Bruno in their vintage Airstream.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
An Interpretation by Rodney
To the eternal spirit who is within us,
And in communion with all that is beautiful.
We honor our collective divinity,
Knowing that the divine order shall always overcome.
In this knowing, we surrender to you.
As the division between earth and heaven diminish,
we bow to the divine source, knowing that you provide all that we need and want.
We ask that you Love the parts that we cannot
love about ourselves, as we practice loving those who are unloving toward us.
Release us from our fears of not being enough,
and return us to our higher purpose.
And so it is, that our heart, our soul and our mind
are eternally loved.
Resources Rodney Mentions
A Return To Love by Marianne Williamson
Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
WHERE TO FIND RODNEY
Absent Father Podcast (all major podcast outlets)
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