Playbook Optional with Daniel Gotera
Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min · 3 segments
Sometimes moving forward is harder than it sounds. In this special edition of *Playbook Optional*, I share a few thoughts from my morning walk about losing a job I loved, dealing with resentment, and…
Daniel GoteraHost
You know, over the last 18 months, it's been kind of difficult living life without resentment.
Um, given all the things that happened to me, some of you guys know, fired on my birthday, had a bunch of health issues, but mostly losing a job that I really liked, uh, for reasons that were out of my control.
Um, so it's hard to live without resentment, and I, I think I've been doing a decent job of that, but this week, some of that stuff kind of crept up on me again, uh, because of things that were happening with that organization that let me go and, uh, an event that I used to run, um, for about 18 months.
It wasn't very long, but hell, I, I ran it, and I, I was proud of it, and I enjoyed my job, and I thought we did a good job, but it was taken away from me for reasons that I, I don't think I could control.
Like, I recorded a podcast yesterday that I was gonna post today to talk about my experience, uh, running the Houston Sports Hall of Fame, and I didn't end up posting it because I didn't want to give those people the satisfaction.
I was still thinking about it, but truthfully, I still am, especially on weeks like this, and it's hard not to resent those people that, uh, took it away from me and kind of stabbed me in the back, you know? Um, but you just gotta push on.
And one of the things that I've told myself is that, you know, God put me in this position for a particular reason.
I lost my other job that I liked, and now I'm working from home, running my own company, trying to figure out things on my own, right? So you kind of question how all this happened, why it all happened, and you can get upset all you want, but, um, at the end of the day, shoot, God has a plan for you, right? And you have to keep telling yourself that.
But sometimes it's a little hard to do that, and it's a little hard to go through, uh, through life wondering what could have been, what ifs things went a little differently.
But you can't do that, and, uh, I'm sure you guys have dealt with this as well.
Like, I, I could be mad all the time at those people that, you know, did things for their own personal greed and ego and didn't care about former friendships and stuff like that.
It's hard to grapple with the fact that things were taken from you that you appreciated a- and that you liked.
And, uh, living re- without resentment is really hard, and that's one of those things that I've had a hard time with over the past 18 months or so, uh, really the last two years.
That's kind of what I'm doing, kind of pushing through, walking every morning, trying to do the best I can, being here for my kids and my wife and my parents, because that's all that really matters to me.
Um, it's tough to break through some of those feelings and some of that anger and kind of let that go.
You know, over the last 18 months, it's been kind of difficult living life without resentment.
Um, given all the things that happened to me, some of you guys know, fired on my birthday, had a bunch of health issues, but mostly losing a job that I really liked, uh, for reasons that were out of my control.
Um, so it's hard to live without resentment, and I, I think I've been doing a decent job of that, but this week, some of that stuff kind of crept up on me again, uh, because of things that were happening with that organization that let me go and, uh, an event that I used to run, um, for about 18 months.
It wasn't very long, but hell, I, I ran it, and I, I was proud of it, and I enjoyed my job, and I thought we did a good job, but it was taken away from me for reasons that I, I don't think I could control.
Like, I recorded a podcast yesterday that I was gonna post today to talk about my experience, uh, running the Houston Sports Hall of Fame, and I didn't end up posting it because I didn't want to give those people the satisfaction.
I was still thinking about it, but truthfully, I still am, especially on weeks like this, and it's hard not to resent those people that, uh, took it away from me and kind of stabbed me in the back, you know? Um, but you just gotta push on.
And one of the things that I've told myself is that, you know, God put me in this position for a particular reason.
I lost my other job that I liked, and now I'm working from home, running my own company, trying to figure out things on my own, right? So you kind of question how all this happened, why it all happened, and you can get upset all you want, but, um, at the end of the day, shoot, God has a plan for you, right? And you have to keep telling yourself that.
But sometimes it's a little hard to do that, and it's a little hard to go through, uh, through life wondering what could have been, what ifs things went a little differently.
But you can't do that, and, uh, I'm sure you guys have dealt with this as well.
Like, I, I could be mad all the time at those people that, you know, did things for their own personal greed and ego and didn't care about former friendships and stuff like that.
It's hard to grapple with the fact that things were taken from you that you appreciated a- and that you liked.
And, uh, living re- without resentment is really hard, and that's one of those things that I've had a hard time with over the past 18 months or so, uh, really the last two years.
That's kind of what I'm doing, kind of pushing through, walking every morning, trying to do the best I can, being here for my kids and my wife and my parents, because that's all that really matters to me.
Um, it's tough to break through some of those feelings and some of that anger and kind of let that go.
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