Work will take everything you give it. Give it enough and it will be the black hole that swallows your prayer, peace, and your marriage.   Today we discuss Ora et Labora, the ancient rhythm of prayer and work that St. Benedict modeled his life after. We explain why work can feel like a curse, the difference between your occupation and your vocation, why good men get addicted to the office, and what St. Gregory the Great named as the hardest labor of all.

The Culture of Death is not random. There’s an intelligence behind it and your home is the first target. We dive deep with philosophy professor, Dr. John Cuddeback, into why you are so busy it hurts, and why you try so hard to “keep work at work” without realizing this could be hurting your family. Being pulled in different directions and looking for one simple solution is not the answer. The devil slowly seeps into the ordinary life of a family’s home, and we show how to prevent it.

The Culture of Death is not random. There’s an intelligence behind it and your home is the first target. We dive deep with philosophy professor, Dr. John Cuddeback, into why you are so busy it hurts, and why you try so hard to “keep work at work” without realizing this could be hurting your family. Being pulled in different directions and looking for one simple solution is not the answer. The devil slowly seeps into the ordinary life of a family’s home, and we show how to prevent it.

We don't say it out loud, but we hand our identity to the things we own. The house, the car, the title in the email signature, the number in the account. We see a man who is thirty seven and retired and decide he must have life figured out, and we measure ourselves against a pile we know nothing about. Underneath a lot of it is fear, the fear of losing what we have and the fear of who we would be without it. Devin and I sat down to talk about money, and we ended up talking about that fear, and about a truth we work hard to dodge: none of it belongs to us. Our bodies, our homes, every part of our lives, all of it on loan.

The world is stripping three things away from every Catholic man. Not in ways you'd recognize as an attack but disguised as a busy evening, a competing priority, or a reasonable excuse. Then one day you wake up and realize something essential is gone. In this episode, we sit down to name three things the world, the flesh, and the devil are working together to take from you: your role as Kustos, what it means to be the guardian and protector of your family, and why the enemy targets this first. Why original sin was an assault on fatherhood itself, and what it looks like to choose your children the way God the Father chooses you. This is the story of how a man hits the absolute bottom and finds out it was never the end of his story. Today we sit down with John to talk about what actually drives addiction, why isolation is the devil's first move on a man, and how the wound of "am I enough" sends so many men looking for affirmation in all the wrong places.

Salesman of the year. Devoted husband. Faithful Catholic father and a 17-year addiction no one knew about. John Edwards spent nearly two decades living two lives at once. He closed deals by day, chased down his dealer by afternoon, and kept the mask on at home so well that his own wife never saw it. It held together right up until the morning he sat in a jail cell on Good Friday with nothing left to control. This is the story of how a man hits the absolute bottom and finds out it was never the end of his story. Today we sit down with John to talk about what actually drives addiction, why isolation is the devil's first move on a man, and how the wound of "am I enough" sends so many men looking for affirmation in all the wrong places.

The Church calls Saint Joseph the Terror of Demons. A carpenter. A foster father. A man who speaks not a single word in Scripture. And hell is terrified of him. In this episode, John Heinen sits down with Devin Schadt, executive director of the Fathers of Saint Joseph, to unpack the four reasons Satan hates Saint Joseph. These are the virtues that send demons running. The same virtues every Catholic man is called to build.

Most men feel it before they can name it. That slow, quiet sense that life is just happening to you. Work has become a treadmill, marriage a parallel operation, faith something rote and obligatory. John Heinen and Devin Schadt go deep on what's actually behind male drift and why the standard diagnosis misses the real problem entirely. They trace how the invention of adolescence quietly dismantled the rite of passage from boyhood to manhood, why 59% of men between 24 and 29 don't actually feel like adults, and how men have been inheriting that deficit ever since. Today we unpack the distinction between vocation and occupation and why a man who has traded the first for the second will always feel like something is missing, no matter how much he achieves. We discuss Aquinas on the order of charity, what it means to have solid convictions versus just ambition, why hope requires something genuinely difficult to be real, and what St. Ambrose meant when he said the man rightly called a king is the one who makes his own body an obedient subject.