Brothers. I've been quiet in here. And I want to own that before I say anything else. I've been navigating a difficult season. Some things I believed deeply in haven't worked out the way I hoped. I couldn't fill the retreat and made the decision to cancel it. I've been working to build a local brotherhood, and the men I've invited haven't been able to make it. That's been discouraging. And alongside that, I've been doing my best to show up for my wife, my children, my clients, and the responsibilities God has entrusted to me. Some days I've done that well. Some days I've been carrying a lot more than I've let anybody see. Which brings me to something I've been sitting with. Being needed isn't the same thing as being known. You can be the man everybody depends on and still be carrying something nobody knows about. You can have friends, golf buddies, men at church, a group chat, and hundreds of contacts in your phone. But who actually knows what's happening with you? Who knows when you're not okay? Who has permission to tell you the truth? And whose life are you close enough to that you can do the same for him? I've spent years building spaces for men to answer those questions. I need those spaces, too. I'm not standing at the top of the mountain telling you how to get here. I'm climbing. And I'm trying to follow Christ as faithfully as I can along the way. So here's what I want you to do this week. Take an honest inventory. BODY: Have you stewarded your health and strength, or neglected them? WIFE / MARRIAGE: Have you loved her actively, or given her what's left of you? CHILDREN: Have you been present, or merely nearby? BROTHER: Is there another man who actually knows what you're carrying? GOD: Have you made room to listen, pray, and obey? WORK / MONEY: Where have you honored your responsibilities? Where have you avoided them? I'm not asking you to perform for this group. I'm asking you to tell the truth. You don't have to answer every question. But I want you to answer these three:

Patriarchs — I just finished tallying every PATRIARCH giveaway entry. Some of you stacked them. Jonathan — 17 Andy — 15 Dalton — 14 Jacob — 10 Grahame — 6 John Loyd — 4 Eric — 4 Jon Doran — 3 Steve — 2 Jimmy Martinez — 2 Nathan Harmon — 2 Andrew Story — 2 Jeff Hanawalt — 1 Scott — 1 Mike K — 1 That’s 84 total entries. And tomorrow, some of you are getting hooked up. We’ve got: 3 Komusōs. 250 lbs of Homegrown bumper plates. 1 year inside The Father’s Guild. Mike Salemi’s 30-Day Zen Savage Challenge. The drawings are done. I know who won. 😏 I’ll announce the winners tomorrow and get each of you connected with your prizes. For tonight — Who do you think cleaned house? // PATRIARCH x Rob

Brothers. Three days. Nine men. One mission. We opened this morning with Steph Allen breaking apart the stories many of us inherited around money. Being broke does not make you more spiritual. Money is not the root of all evil. What God entrusts to you is something to steward. Something to build with. Something to give with. Something to use in service of your family and the Kingdom. And faith isn't sitting around waiting for God to do it for you. FAITH + WORKS. The strength of your faith isn't demonstrated by what you say. It's demonstrated by what you do. THEN WE STOPPED TALKING. And we breathed. For 40 minutes, we put down the notebooks, got out of our heads, regulated the nervous system and practiced actually becoming capable of responding instead of reacting. Because none of this matters if stress takes the wheel the moment your WIFE is struggling your children test you, the bank account gets tight, or life gets heavy. This work isn't a luxury anymore. It's a necessity. Non-negotiable. And then Mike Salemi brought PATRIARCH home with ZEN SAVAGE. Not becoming softer. Not becoming harder. Becoming FULL RANGE. The capacity for intensity, discipline, courage and decisive action — AND the capacity for stillness, sensitivity, presence and awareness. Power without presence consumes you. Presence without action is passivity. Jesus was the pinnacle Zen-Savage. He served. And he rested in The Father. Why do we believe that we're above that? All gas and no breaks. And that, brothers, closes PATRIARCH. For three days, these men gave you everything they had. Ryan. Pat. Nate. Me. Daniel. Gabe. Steph. Mike. And Matt's special contribution is still coming. But now? This belongs to you. Don't let PATRIARCH become another weekend where you heard some powerful sh/t, took some notes, felt inspired — and went back to exactly the same life Monday morning. Pick something. One conversation. One practice. One decision. One thing you heard this weekend that you KNOW is yours.

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You found the room. This is where the men who registered for the Patriarch Summit — September 11-13, 2026 — gather before, during, and after the weekend. Connect with the men you'll be in the room with. Introduce yourself below. Tell us your name, where you're from, and one thing you're showing up to reclaim. You'll see this space come alive in August, leading up to the summit, to ensure you're fit for the work we're about to do. Your first move: Drop a comment below. Name. Location. One thing you're here to reclaim. That's it. The standard starts now. // Set the standard x Rob