🎧 This Week: Receiving Your Kids vs. Raising Them & The Guilt You've Been Calling Loyalty
Two brand new episodes for you
Hey friends 👋
Thanks as always for being here — hope you’ve got a great weekend ahead. Details on the episodes we put out this week are below!
🎧 Receive Your Kids — Don’t Just Shape Them (w/ Christina Watka)
Christina Watka is an installation artist and mother of three who has built her life around a practice she calls “noticing” — meeting life as it actually is, without judgment or agenda.
In this Raise series conversation, she brings that artist’s sensibility to parenting, and the reframe is immediate: what if your job isn’t to shape your children, but to receive them?
This episode’s for you if:
You’re ready to bring more presence and openness to how you show up as a parent — to let the art project lead, instead of constantly pulling it back toward your original vision.
You’ve been so focused on shaping your kids into who you think they should be that you haven’t stopped to notice who they actually are — and some part of you knows it.
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🎧 You Don’t Owe Your Past More Than You Owe Your Future
A Chase Club member named Mike asks whether he should switch gyms. It’s a question about gyms the way Good Will Hunting is a movie about a janitor.
We use it to unpack the difference between loyalty (a choice) and guilt (a feeling), the three pillars that make any community worth staying in, and the line that keeps echoing: “We don’t owe our past more than we owe our future.”
This episode’s for you if:
You’re ready to make the move — toward the gym, the job, the community that’s actually pushing you toward who you’re trying to become — and you want a framework for doing it with integrity.
You’ve been staying in something past its expiration date, telling yourself it’s loyalty, and you’re starting to wonder if that’s really the honest word for it.
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Until next week.
🤙🏼 Patrick