Why We Share Our Story?
Our family of five all grown up. From L to R: Andrea, Taiya, Jerrod, Dreana, and Trey
After a year of learning, laughs, mistakes, memories, smiles, tears, and above all, love, we thought it might be a great time to share why we chose to tell our story in the first place.
Story telling brings people together like few other things in our world.
Jerrod giving an award speech at the Rocky Mountain Country Music Awards. Part of our law enforcement community L to R: Justin, Kelly, Matt, Tara, Jerrod, Erin and Andrea
Whether it’s through our music, books, movies, podcasts, or a good blog we can lose or find ourselves in a good story.
You can travel across the universe to see yourself in the battle of good vs evil, go back in time as David vs Goliath, or become everyone’s favorite underdog Rocky Balboa.
It allows us to find common ground with people we have never met, yet can relate to based on their struggles, perseverance, and the fact they chose to share a story.
We choose to tell our story because by doing so it allows us to heal from our past, while learning from our present and creating a new future.
It is our hope that you will read OUR story and find the value in YOUR story.
Finding the space to allow yourself the grace for past mistakes, while embracing the power you have to write a new chapter for your future.
There is a saying we fully believe in, and I’ll paraphrase:
You die twice. Once when you physically die, and again when someone says your name for the last time.
By sharing our story we hope to extend the time between our two deaths and maximize the impact we can have in our short time here.
Part of our TRIALS MMA community attending our book launch in January 2019.
From L to R standing: Wintson, Rhasheed, Giovanni, Rustin, me, Ryan and Ali
kneeling: Andrew and Tiabria
Between our book, podcast, this blog, and our social media, we believe sharing our story is important, just as we believe everyone has a story worth sharing.
Someone, somewhere, is looking for your story today and it may be the few words they need to change their life.
What if they can’t find them because we chose not to share, or did not believe ourselves worthy enough to share?
What void would that leave in our world?
Storytelling is connection. It is therapy. It is healing. It is love.
That is why we choose to tell our story so loudly and we would love to have you come along with us sharing your story!