do you see

purpose? Well, purpose is everything, first of all.

So it's great that you asked me this question.

And it is something I speak about extensively.

But I liken it to this.

I did a keynote actually for one of my mentors, Mr. Les Brown.

Shout out to him.

What's the most important thing that they need to hear before they decide whether to take the next step to get a coach or to do something about it? Talk about that.

Yeah.

Um, so for myself, right, I, um, both my parents were married my whole life, and then they divorced when we got older.

So I, I was there for that.

I saw that.

I've been married before, and then I was divorced.

I have a child from my previous marriage, right? So, um, it meant the world to me to try to figure this whole relationship thing out, and not just relationships, um, as far as romantic relationships, but interpersonal relationships, right? I wanted to f- really put my finger on how this works.

You know what I mean? How, um...

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

When God created Marcus, God created a solution to a problem, right? When you're sent here, that's your purpose.

Your responsibility is to...

Like, you have different things.

You have your area, you have your purpose a- and your calling, and then you have, uh, your talents, right, and skills, and then you have areas of, of grace.

And it, a- all these things are supposed to work together.

Now, your purpose partner is who God has enabled to assist, to assist you on that journey of becoming who God called you to be and solve the problem that God called you to solve, right? So a lot of times we'll get into relationships, because if that's not the foundation of the relationship, well, we're just wasting everybody's time.

Mm.

What a, what a, what lie about masculinity almost cost you love?

Mm.

So, so in my, in my, in my book, Bulletproof Love, I talk about an experience I had with, I had with my pops, right? My pops that raised me.

And, um, based off his trauma, like he was trying to help me, but his trauma projecting, you know what I'm saying? Um, he was trying to help me, but, but, but it, it, it didn't work.

So basically he told me, "If you, if you wanna have a successful relationship," not verbatim, but this is what he was saying, "If you wanna have a successful relationship, you keep your woman out your business." And I took that with me, and I did that, and it almost cost me everything.

You know what I'm saying? It actually had me moving in silence, like that was a masculine thing to do.

And, you know, when I dove in and I really understood, when I dove in the scripture and I understood...

What does emotional safety look like from a man's perspective? How can women provide emotional safety for a man?