Speaker 1: You can't change the past, you can't do anything about
Speaker 1: the future. But what you could do is live right
Speaker 1: now in this moment. And you go, well, what's this moment?
Speaker 1: I would say aim low start at the foundation of
Speaker 1: this moment is heartbeat and breathing. And sometimes that's all
Speaker 1: you have. Sometimes the moment, the present moment you're in
Speaker 1: is only a heartbeat and a breath, And so what
Speaker 1: do you do there? Breathe the next one. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to the granger Smith Podcast. Thank you for coming
Speaker 1: from wherever you figured out that we had a podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. We do this every single Monday.
Speaker 1: I answer your questions. Could be about anything in life,
Speaker 1: whatever it throws at you. We'll talk about it as
Speaker 1: though we're sitting around a campfire and you come up
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, man, I go to ask you
Speaker 1: a question, something that's been kicking around with me for
Speaker 1: a long time, or whatever. We will talk about it
Speaker 1: is like we're old friends, and I hope you feel
Speaker 1: that way. I'm not always right, but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: my friend advice to you, and so if you have
Speaker 1: a question for me, email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. What's in the inbox today? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna randomly go through these. I do not prepare and
Speaker 1: I'm not ready for what I'm about to read, so
Speaker 1: bear with me. We'll start with this one. The subject
Speaker 1: line says podcast question of the week, Hey Grangeer, what
Speaker 1: camera do you use for your podcast? My family and
Speaker 1: I have watched all your episodes of The Smiths and
Speaker 1: your podcast, and I appreciate you so much. Thank you
Speaker 1: and yegee, this comes from Max and Hudson, North Carolina. Buddy,
Speaker 1: thanks for emailing. That's a different question I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: in a while. I use Sony cameras. In fact, I'm
Speaker 1: using two of them right now. I'm looking at them.
Speaker 1: One of them is the A seven three and one
Speaker 1: of them is the A seven C. So A seven
Speaker 1: three and A seven C. I use Sony lenses, Sony cameras.
Speaker 1: They are the best. If you talk to any any vlogger,
Speaker 1: most videographers that use a DSLR camera will use Sony
Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, that's me. Next question says podcast question,
Speaker 1: Hey Granger, can you give a twenty year old advice
Speaker 1: about getting married, your first home, and getting starting getting
Speaker 1: started in life? Whatever you would give thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1: This comes from Chandler. Chandler man, I can't totally relate
Speaker 1: to you. I got married at thirty, so it might
Speaker 1: have been thirty one, thirty or thirty one some more
Speaker 1: so I was about ten years past you in this journey.
Speaker 1: I would my advice to you would be focus on
Speaker 1: your new wife and not on your new home. I
Speaker 1: think you could live anywhere and focus on her. And
Speaker 1: you don't want that financial burden of stepping into something.
Speaker 1: Stepping into a house that hasn't a little bit extra
Speaker 1: payment that you're not sure you could make. It puts
Speaker 1: pressure on you and her both to make sure that
Speaker 1: you're bringing home the kind of income that you need.
Speaker 1: And that's a pressure that you don't want. Early in
Speaker 1: your twenties, early in any marriage, you don't want a
Speaker 1: financial pressure. So make sure that wherever you go. And
Speaker 1: I would not also not recommend living in the basement
Speaker 1: at your mom's house. Don't do that either, So find
Speaker 1: the compromise. Maybe it's a it's a decently priced apartment
Speaker 1: and a good location where you could walk to get
Speaker 1: some food or get easily to work. But I wouldn't
Speaker 1: I wouldn't start thinking about dream homes. I don't like
Speaker 1: the term dream homes. It's good to dream, and it's
Speaker 1: good to dream about a home, but don't put a
Speaker 1: specific picture to it. That's just my opinion. A lot
Speaker 1: of people will tell you should manifest what you want
Speaker 1: in life and man, you know, hang a picture of
Speaker 1: your dream house on your wall and look at it
Speaker 1: every day and eventually it'll come to you. I just
Speaker 1: I'm not of that school of thinking. I'm more about
Speaker 1: pouring into your wife, because there's going to be days
Speaker 1: ahead when you're not able to pour in as well
Speaker 1: as you can now as a newlywed, and so I
Speaker 1: would focus on her and not on the house, and
Speaker 1: not worry about the three kids that are coming in,
Speaker 1: the dog in the yard, and the fence for the
Speaker 1: dog in the yard, and the you know. I would
Speaker 1: think as present as you can, and remember that you're
Speaker 1: married to your wife, not to the place that y'all live.
Speaker 1: For instance, you could move into an apartment and when
Speaker 1: your leases up in six to twelve months, you can
Speaker 1: get out of that apartment, and more than likely you
Speaker 1: will amber and I moved several times, so you're not
Speaker 1: making a commitment to your life right now. Eventually the
Speaker 1: kids are here, you're ten years down the road, you're
Speaker 1: going to start thinking more long term, and you're going
Speaker 1: to think about the schools and the high school that
Speaker 1: they're going to go to, and the education that they're
Speaker 1: going to get in the friends that are around them
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. But right now, they're not here. So
Speaker 1: you're as present as possible, and you pick the place
Speaker 1: that takes the least financial burden but still is nice
Speaker 1: and safe for your small family. Focus on her. I
Speaker 1: think that the question could end there, but thank you, brother.
Speaker 1: Flipping around here, no idea, what's coming up the subject,
Speaker 1: client says, trying to move on. Hey, Granger Smith, I
Speaker 1: just started to listening to your podcast, but I've been
Speaker 1: a longtime fan. I'm twenty five years old. I lost
Speaker 1: my dad a little over three years ago, and I've
Speaker 1: been struggling with this loss greatly since then. But about
Speaker 1: two months ago I dealt with another thing, a big heartbreak.
Speaker 1: We met after I lost my dad and dated for
Speaker 1: about a year and a half and we talked about
Speaker 1: marriage and a future together. We began to grow apart
Speaker 1: after I lost my job to COVID. I'm struggling with
Speaker 1: what now feels like another big loss. Because we were
Speaker 1: best friends. It seems so easy for him to move on,
Speaker 1: but for me, I don't know how to move on.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping you could give me some guidance from you
Speaker 1: and maybe finding my way back to God after these losses.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Marissa. Marissa, You've got a lot going
Speaker 1: on at twenty five. You're dealing with grief, you're dealing
Speaker 1: with heartbreak, and you're dealing with the loss of a
Speaker 1: job to COVID. That's the trifecta and you're right in
Speaker 1: the middle of it. So first of all, I just
Speaker 1: want to acknowledge the pain that you're having in the
Speaker 1: struggle you're having is real and it's okay. So whatever
Speaker 1: you're feeling right now is okay to feel that way.
Speaker 1: You're not abnormal to think this. You're not abnormal to
Speaker 1: think because of three years that you should be good
Speaker 1: past your dad. You're not abnormal to think that after
Speaker 1: two months of a heartbreak you should be good. Same
Speaker 1: thing with losing a job to COVID. That's another loss,
Speaker 1: and grief and heartbreak are close brothers, and you have
Speaker 1: a little bit of both of those. With losing your job.
Speaker 1: So don't minimize any of this, but do realize it's
Speaker 1: a season, and this whole season will pass. And anytime
Speaker 1: we go through these hard seasons, we realize that we're
Speaker 1: getting better because of the season. We come out the
Speaker 1: other side better because of it. And I use this
Speaker 1: analogy all the time, but if you think about football,
Speaker 1: you think about a team that wins the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and they hold up the trophy at the end, and
Speaker 1: some of the guys are crying when they're holding up
Speaker 1: the trophy, and you think, why are these grown men
Speaker 1: crying over a stupid trophy. Well, it's not because of
Speaker 1: the trophy, and it's really not because of the win either.
Speaker 1: They're crying because of the struggle that they overcame, the
Speaker 1: adversity that they got passed to get to this moment,
Speaker 1: to the victory moment. That's what makes any victory sweeter
Speaker 1: is because of the struggle. We are always better because
Speaker 1: of the struggle. And you will be better because of
Speaker 1: this struggle. You will learn, you will overcome, you will
Speaker 1: endure this hardship in this adversity. Because how do I
Speaker 1: know that, Because that's what humans do. We have a
Speaker 1: history of doing this, going through the darkest times and
Speaker 1: piecing things back together one puzzle piece at a time,
Speaker 1: and we rebuild, and we rebuild stronger. That's hard to
Speaker 1: hear right now. You hear that and you go, great,
Speaker 1: those are great words. But I'm in the valley. I
Speaker 1: can't see the peak right now. Well, life is never
Speaker 1: only in the valley or only on the peak. Most
Speaker 1: of it is in the trees right in between. And
Speaker 1: we just need to keep our eyes up moving forward.
Speaker 1: That's what we do. So if you have that kind
Speaker 1: of mentality, like, man, I'm in pain today, I'm really
Speaker 1: sad today, I'm really grieving today, I'm really insecure today.
Speaker 1: The no, that's just today. You got to know this
Speaker 1: is the moment I'm in. But tomorrow the sun's gonna
Speaker 1: come up and I'm gonna have new opportunities and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be able to use what happened to me for
Speaker 1: my advance. Say you're interviewing for a job and the
Speaker 1: boss is saying, tell me about your life. What he's
Speaker 1: getting at is what he wants to know really through
Speaker 1: that question is what struggles have you gone through that
Speaker 1: you overcame? Because that's what I want for this company.
Speaker 1: The answer is that he doesn't want to hear is man.
Speaker 1: I just everything in my life just falls into place.
Speaker 1: Everything's been good. I mean, everything I've ever done just
Speaker 1: works out, and I just keep growing. That's just no
Speaker 1: one really wants to hear that story. No one writes
Speaker 1: a book like that, no one makes a movie like that.
Speaker 1: People want to hear that you struggled, you had adversity,
Speaker 1: you overcame, and you became better because of it. That's
Speaker 1: what the world wants to hear, because that is that's
Speaker 1: the human story. So you're making yours right now. You're
Speaker 1: in the story. You're in your future story that you
Speaker 1: will tell one day and somebody goes, hey, Marissa, I'm
Speaker 1: having problems and you can go let me hear them,
Speaker 1: let me see if I could help work through these
Speaker 1: problems with you. And they're gonna say, Marissa, but do
Speaker 1: you even know what I'm going through? And you go,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about twenty twenty when I lost
Speaker 1: my job, I lost a close relationship, and I lost
Speaker 1: my dad, all within a four year period. And let
Speaker 1: me tell you that I'm not the person, I'm not
Speaker 1: the woman I am today without those hardships think of
Speaker 1: yourself in that situation, but to dig a little bit
Speaker 1: deeper in the heartbreak. This heartbreak is tougher for you
Speaker 1: because you bonded after you lost your dad. This guy,
Speaker 1: whoever he was, he helped you understand all these these
Speaker 1: crazy thoughts and feelings and grief that you had. He
Speaker 1: helped walk through that and decompress it with you. So
Speaker 1: when you lost him, you lost a piece of your
Speaker 1: dad again. So that's why this heartbreaks a little bit tougher,
Speaker 1: and knowing that helps you understand it more so when
Speaker 1: you're laying there late at night and you go, I
Speaker 1: miss him, I miss my boyfriend. I miss him, and
Speaker 1: then the other side of your brain goes, let me
Speaker 1: tell you a little bit more about why you do.
Speaker 1: And that's the voice of reason that you can go, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand why I miss him. It's not just random,
Speaker 1: it's not just a piece of pain that's different than
Speaker 1: anything else I've ever gone through. It makes sense, It matters, Okay.
Speaker 1: I wish you the best. Thank you for emailing. This
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Speaker 1: Hey grangdeer. I messaged you on Instagram, but I know
Speaker 1: you got a lot. I know that was a long shot,
Speaker 1: and I thought I would have a better chance sending
Speaker 1: you this email. I lost my sweet baby boy, Lane
Speaker 1: Evans Wallace on Friday. He just turned four months old.
Speaker 1: I want to give up, but I know that he
Speaker 1: wouldn't want that. I know he's in a better place,
Speaker 1: but I still don't know how to move forward. He
Speaker 1: was my world. I know you've been through this and
Speaker 1: I know it doesn't get any harder than this, but
Speaker 1: I just need to know when will it ever get
Speaker 1: easier and when will I be okay again? Question comes
Speaker 1: from Billy Wallace. Billy, I'm so sorry, brother. This email
Speaker 1: came in March, so you are at the end of March,
Speaker 1: so you're about a month separated from when this happened,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine that you have a better understanding
Speaker 1: now after the month that's gone by when you hear
Speaker 1: this podcast. But the answer it's not going to be
Speaker 1: that different than the last question I just read for
Speaker 1: because the only thing you can do, Billy is stay
Speaker 1: as present as you can. You can't change the past,
Speaker 1: you can't do anything about the future. But what you
Speaker 1: could do is live right now in this moment. And
Speaker 1: you go, well, what's this moment? I would say, aim
Speaker 1: low start at the foundation of this moment is heartbeat
Speaker 1: and breathing, and sometimes that's all you have. Sometimes the moment,
Speaker 1: the present moment you're in, is only a heartbeat and
Speaker 1: a breath, and so what do you do there? Breathe
Speaker 1: the next one and you go, Granger, that's just too simple.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I've been through this, and sometimes the
Speaker 1: most present moment you could be in has the most
Speaker 1: peace in it. I believe that God lives presently with
Speaker 1: us because God is outside of space and time. So God,
Speaker 1: God doesn't live only in the past, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: only live in the future. He lives with us right now.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says, I am tell them my
Speaker 1: name as I am, meaning I am presently with you.
Speaker 1: I'm right here in this moment. I think I believe
Speaker 1: that's where God exists, and I believe once we get
Speaker 1: to that moment, that's where in constant chaos around us,
Speaker 1: the chaos of what's coming, the chaos of what just happened.
Speaker 1: The most peace is right here. Sometimes that means, to
Speaker 1: be more specific, I could be driving in my truck
Speaker 1: and I need to be present, so I want to
Speaker 1: feel the steering will in my hands. I want to
Speaker 1: feel what does that leather feel like under my palms. Literally,
Speaker 1: that's how present you can get. I'm not gonna worry.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna worry. I got this thing coming up,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna worry about it. I got this thing
Speaker 1: that just happened. I'm not gonna think about it because
Speaker 1: I'm not there in either of those situations. I'm right here.
Speaker 1: I got my hands clapped around this steeringwhell. I'm holding
Speaker 1: this steeringwhell. That's what I'm doing. I feel my foot
Speaker 1: on the accelerator pedal. I am so present. There's the
Speaker 1: next breath. That's how present I am. There's another breath,
Speaker 1: and live there as long as you can. Don't allow
Speaker 1: yourself to go in the past, don't allow yourself to
Speaker 1: worry about the future. Stay in the present. You can't
Speaker 1: live here because then you couldn't plan, and you couldn't
Speaker 1: learn from the past, and you couldn't plan for the future.
Speaker 1: But when things are tough when the world is closing in,
Speaker 1: as you said, when you just don't want to be
Speaker 1: here anymore, be in the present and feel the calm
Speaker 1: of that, feel the peace of that. There's a lot
Speaker 1: more to this answer, but right now I feel like
Speaker 1: that's the one you need to hear, and then we'll
Speaker 1: touch base on where to go from there. Okay, subject
Speaker 1: line here says stay or dump. Hey, Grangeer, my name
Speaker 1: is Ellie. I'm fourteen years old. Oh excuse me, this
Speaker 1: is Eli. My name is Eli and I'm fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: I'm from Nicholsville, Kentucky, and I have a really big
Speaker 1: hobby sport that I attend. I'm on the high school
Speaker 1: trap shooting team in Kentucky, and my best friends I've
Speaker 1: known forever have stopped supporting me because the sport has
Speaker 1: shotguns in it. I'm at a loss if I should
Speaker 1: just ignore them and still be friends or get rid
Speaker 1: of them and welcome new friends into my life. That's
Speaker 1: not what I was expecting from the subject line saying
Speaker 1: stay or dump, Eli. Thanks for emailing buddy, Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast. Fourteen Man, you got a lot
Speaker 1: a lot changing right now at age fourteen, a lot.
Speaker 1: A lot of things are going to change over the
Speaker 1: next six months, A lot of things are going to
Speaker 1: change in two years when you're sixteen. A whole lot's
Speaker 1: going to change by the time you turn eighteen, and
Speaker 1: you're fourteen. You're fourteen now, and by the time you
Speaker 1: turn eighteen. So this shotgun thing that's so interesting to me,
Speaker 1: I think I would lead with this, Eli. I would
Speaker 1: lead by the friends that you've known for a long time.
Speaker 1: I would ask you to help explain how you love
Speaker 1: trap shooting on this team, and how passionate about it
Speaker 1: you are. Explain to them the purpose of the shotgun
Speaker 1: in this activity and the joy and happiness you get
Speaker 1: out of it. And you're kind of good at it, right,
Speaker 1: You wouldn't be doing this unless you're pretty good at it,
Speaker 1: So explain to them too, Like, man, I'm actually pretty
Speaker 1: good at it and I love it. And I would
Speaker 1: love for you guys to come and visit me one
Speaker 1: day and watch me shoot. And I think if you
Speaker 1: watched me, the whole idea that you're having problems with
Speaker 1: would slowly go away because you would see, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is a sport and you guys are my friends. I
Speaker 1: love you guys, Man, I love hanging out with you.
Speaker 1: You guys have been there for me. I've been there
Speaker 1: for you. I feel a bond with you, guys, And
Speaker 1: because I love this sport, I want you guys to
Speaker 1: enjoy it with me. So can you just come and
Speaker 1: watch now? Eli? If those guys say absolutely not, you
Speaker 1: do that, we're not friends? Okay, good, Well there's your answer.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like, really like, I love this and
Speaker 1: there's nothing technically wrong with it and this is a
Speaker 1: passion of mine. If you don't, then maybe we're growing
Speaker 1: a part as friends, which happens at fourteen, Like maybe
Speaker 1: we're not as close as I thought we were. Maybe
Speaker 1: our ideas are not as aligned as I thought they were.
Speaker 1: So at that point, guess where you're gonna find friends?
Speaker 1: At trapshooting? That's pretty easy. You're gonna see guys out
Speaker 1: there that love what you love and you're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm Eli, you love this, and they're gonna go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. You go. We should do this more often.
Speaker 1: We should go and grab some pizza tonight. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love pizza. Let's do it. Let's grab a movie. Boom,
Speaker 1: you got new friends and slowly day by day those
Speaker 1: will become good friends. Now, I'm not telling you have
Speaker 1: to give up on the other guys, but you just
Speaker 1: need to understand it. If they don't want to be
Speaker 1: friends with you because of this thing that you do,
Speaker 1: which I believe is not a bad thing, maybe they
Speaker 1: weren't friends to begin with. Sometimes think about Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all of
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