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Chapter 1: How do I approach my Jewish parents about converting to Catholicism?
How do I approach my Jewish parents about converting to Catholicism without ruining our relationship?
Ooh, I don't know if you have that kind of power. Tell me about it.
Recently, I've kind of separated myself from the synagogue I was a part of for many different reasons.
What's going on? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney Show. So grateful that you're with us. I hope your new year is off to a great start. And whatever grand ideas you had this year, I hope you are still working through the systems you set in place, whether it's I'm going to meet every Sunday night with a friend or with a partner, with my spouse, and we're going to
Go over our budget for the week and go over our calendar for the week, and we're going to meal prep together. Or you're just taking a few minutes each morning to get out and get some early morning sunlight, like Brother Huberman tells us. Or I'm going to journal. I'm going to write. I'm going to use my red lights. I'm going to eat. Whatever things you're doing.
I hope they're making your life more whole and more full. I hope you're sticking with it. If you want to be on this show, the show's about real people going through real challenges. And we talk through real hard stuff.
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Hi, Dr. John. How are you?
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Chapter 2: What challenges come with discussing faith conversions with family?
I was pushing back on a video she wanted to post. Like, I looked like this and she stopped me and she said, my job is to make you look good. Let me do my job. And I went, whew, okay. So when I don't believe it, I trust them. I outsource it. Kelly, all the time, I'm like, I didn't think I handled that call well. Kelly will say, no, you did that call, that call was great.
All right, I didn't feel it, but I trust her, okay? That's number one. Number two, you have to do the work in those areas where you know you have lack. Do you need to lose 30 pounds? Do you need to go to graduate school? Do you need to slow down and not quit your job yet even though it quote unquote doesn't feel fulfilling?
Do you need to put in six months or 10 months or a year of hard work at a job just doing everything they ask plus more and then deciding a year from now is grad school and Christian ministry the thing to go do right this second? Or, hey, honey, let's read a book. I've never been married. You've never been married. We just took on this big responsibility. We don't even know how to do it.
And now we're just staring at each other 10 months in. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, no, I do. There's some outsourcing and then there's some metrics. And then for you, brother, you've got a number. What's your number? What's your, oh, then I'll be okay number? In savings.
I don't, it changes constantly. What was the last one? Oh, boy. The thing is, it's gotten to the point where I've just kind of resigned myself to, well, I'll know when I find it. And then that doesn't do anything.
Yeah, you don't want to go down that road. Here's the math problem I want you to solve. Six months of you get fired and your wife gets fired. Can you all maintain your house, your vehicles, food, and your utilities? You wouldn't go out to eat anymore. You'd probably have to cut your subscriptions, but could y'all make it for six months? Yeah. And I want you to write down that number.
And then I want you, anything beyond that, I want you to put, begin to spend it. I want you to begin to save it. I want y'all to start working towards a house, working towards kids. You have a 529 plan. I want you to begin thinking about your kids' future 529 plans. I want you to say, we've got this number. Beyond that is my body trying to protect me from something else.
I'm going to go solve that something else because it's not about math. And here's what you have to do. You have to practice. Be uncomfortable. Some people, it sounds crazy, have to put, I will buy myself a thing in their budget because they struggle with scarcity. Others like me have to say, I won't buy all these things because I... try to soothe myself with purchases.
Some people have to put in there, I will be reckless with the way I tip today. That would be probably the place I would recommend you start is finding one person a day that you can bless financially once you've reached that six-month mark. And what you're doing is you're practicing a muscle of giving away. And you're going to do it $10 at a time, $30 at a time.
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Chapter 3: How can I navigate my parents' emotional responses to my faith choice?
Well... My major is sports management, but I'm also getting prerequisites to go to PT school, so I kind of have to give a disclaimer whenever I answer that.
Do you not want to do sports management? You want to do physical therapy?
As of right now, yeah, that's the goal, physical therapy.
I had a physical therapist with a PhD in my house this weekend working on my shoulder and my arm. I screwed my arm up. Yeah. She's magic. Magic. Changed my life. Makes me a better dad because I'm not in pain all the time. Quit being sports management. And go full into PT if that's what you want to do.
And work really hard so you don't get out like some of my friends in PT and they owe $190,000 and they're going to make $65,000 right out of school. And start working part-time in a physical therapist's office. Helping people like me with their rehab. You see what I'm saying? Like, go and do the thing that you want to do. Instead of having to, like, kind of duck your head and kind of laugh.
Like, I'm managing this, but I kind of want to do this. You see what I'm saying? And here's all this. I'm pointing to you. Stand up on your two feet tall. Don't get jealous about petty things. Put your flag in the ground on the things that matter. Start reaching towards a future purpose.
By the way, if you want to become a physical therapist because you're going to get rich, you're going to have a miserable life. If you want to be a physical therapist because you want to help people become better dads and wives and mothers and sisters and brothers and daughters, help people move.
By the way, if you get into geriatric PT right now, the next 15 to 25 years, you're going to have a billion dollars because of our aging population. If you want to get in there and help people, I'm telling you right now, your head's going to start to lift up. Yeah. And you're going to let your 16-year-old girlfriend off the hook for something she did three years ago, two and a half years ago.
But do you get what I'm saying when I say become a marriable man? Not a man worthy of being loved. You're already that. But become somebody that you can feel confident looking at somebody else and saying, you can anchor into me. Because that's where that insecurity originates from. You don't believe that. Is that fair? Yeah, absolutely. I think you're on the path.
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