The Undivided Life Blog

Last week my daughter and I drove by our old house, the one we left back in June as we downsized our lives and removed the wasted spaces in between. We drove extra slowly as we approached the section ...

In our hyper-connected world, men are yearning for real connection.
We’ve got group chats but no group. More followers but less friends. Hundreds of contacts and almost no one to call when the heavy l...

When naysayers explain why something I’m passionate about will never happen, I am fueled to persevere with prayer, patience, and persistence. I then move forward to conquer each challenge ahead with h...

Just before the doors opened, as I finished my visualization exercises and prayers, the cast and crew would meet in the center of the theater for a tradition called Circle. Each Circle started with a ...

After successfully selling First Choice Power to one of our competitors in 2011, I knew that I’d get one more opportunity to push the flywheel of hope and purpose for the teammates that I’d led for se...

Last week, the school nurse called to tell us that Ambrose cut his head open and needed stitches. We were out of town and started making calls to engage the home team support crew. Soon Ambrose was at...

Only official student organizations were allowed to advertise in the Memorial Student Center at Texas A&M, but we found a bona fide way to hang multiple banners promoting our comedy band's upcoming co...

We were just about to press record in The BeatiDudes studio with our guest, Kyle Washut, President of Wyoming Catholic College, when we asked him if there was a story he could share that would make fo...

“What’s the vision for Undivided Life, and how does the construction company you own fit in with all of your other mission-oriented brands like Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, The Catholic Gentleman, and th...

It's the final week of 2025 and I look back at the past 12 months with a big smile and an ice cream mustache to match.  I started this year having only heard about Tom Landis, the legendary Founder of...

Thanks to Make-A-Wish North Texas, my family was able to spend a week together in Orlando this summer visiting theme parks and making new core memories. Flights, car rental, passes to the parks, a foo...

Everyone deserves the chance to engage in dignified work where their skills, energy, and effort can be applied to the co-creation of a greater good.  We see examples of this truth in every aspect of t...

It feels strange to say that I am the cofounder and “former Chief Culture Officer” of the Best Place to Work in America.

When I heard the news that 5, the energy advisory firm that I co-founded in 20...

I was leaving a successful company that I had launched with a group of friends twelve years earlier, but I couldn’t discuss it openly with the employees since many critical details were still being de...

Last week, we traveled to Orlando, Florida, with seven kids and three adults for my son’s Make-A-Wish experience. The entire adventure was a whirlwind of activity that began the moment we entered Love...

“Nice Shirt. Happy Father’s Day.”

“Same to you.”

“Hey, nice shirt. Happy… Wait! What?!”

This exact exchange between men occurred over one hundred times at St. Ann Catholic Church in Coppell, Texas,...

“Our company does not exist to hit an earnings per share target.”

We were emerging from a terrible 2008, and I was skeptical about the outside CEO the board had hired to run the company. First Choice...

Before tasting our first scoops of Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, we already knew these cold, creamy treats were sure to warm our souls. While their unique flavors and fresh ingredients never disappoint, i...