05/18/2025
First of all I want to acknowledge the hundreds of messages of support that I have received from people over the past few days after sharing the my latest podcast with Vylana and Alana. Thank you, truly.
Second of all, I want to acknowledge all of the projected enmity, anger, or concern cloaked in righteousness and some imagined omniscience…Thank you, truly.
The first time I got really publicly attacked was after I announced my partnership with Joe Rogan for Onnit in 2011. It really shook me then.
But over the years I have come to learn that if you don’t get this reaction, you aren’t trying hard enough to speak your truth. Because the reality is, whether it is va 💉 ines, politics, religion or relationship, there are dogmas that are woven into people’s identity.
I have made a vow with God to live my life in truth, and if there are to be arrows let them come at me in the daylight, in the sunshine of my authenticity. And as the lieutenant said to Leonidas “If the arrows blot out the sun, we will fight in the shade.”
Almost every one of my dear friends and people I admire have been attacked. That’s why I admire them. Joe, Bode, Bobby, Jake, Andrew, Tim, Marc, Fr. Sean…I could go on.
And yet even if these attacks are unjust, as Joe once told me, listen to them and see if there is something to learn. Often there is! Sometimes there isn’t.
What I have learned over the years, is that your truth, your honesty with yourself, your relationship with God, all of that is your shield. 🛡️ But even still, sometimes the arrows find a home in the soft flesh. They need sunlight and love to heal, which is where you can come together broken and wounded back to your ‘Ohana and just say “help me family.”
I never really thought much about the tradition of the talismans used to ward off the ‘evil eye’ in cultures stretching back to Mesopotamia- but I get it! The attacks come in all dimensions.
And yet with a roar I say “Nake nula waung! Hoka hey!” Today is a good day.
I love you all - thank you lending me a moment of your precious attention 🐉❤️🔥🏔️