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My grandfather died at home.

He had cancer. He was physically deteriorating, but mentally he was still sharp.

I remember visiting him toward the end and asking how he was doing.

“Apparently not so great,” he told me.

Then he asked me to have a beer with him.

It was ten in the morning.

So we had a beer.

I got to spend that time with him and eventually say goodbye.

My grandmother's experience was very different. She had dementia, and watching her slowly lose the ability to recognize the people around her was incredibly difficult.

Those experiences stayed with me.

And they came back during my conversation with Jamie Towey, who leads Aging with Dignity.

We talked about something families often avoid until they're forced to confront it:

How do we want to live when we're approaching the end of our lives?

Jamie shares the work behind Five Wishes, an advance-care planning document that helps families make difficult decisions before a crisis.

We also discuss assisted suicide, dementia, loneliness, caregiving, and the growing role of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

But underneath those conversations is a bigger question.

Are we becoming so focused on treating people that we're forgetting how to care for them?

Jamie said something that stuck with me:

“There's nothing efficient about loving a person.”

And he's right about that.

We can improve healthcare systems, develop new technologies, and find ways to extend life. But none of those things replace the importance of human connection.

Because eventually every family faces these decisions. And when that day comes, the most important thing may not be having every answer.

It may be having already had the conversation.

A person's value doesn't disappear when their independence does. And caring for someone means remembering that until the very end.

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Young H the Great lost his mother when he was ten years old.

A few years later, shortly after graduating high school, he lost his father too.

And suddenly, the future he'd been planning looked very different.

College was supposed to be the next step. His father had been helping him financially, and Young H had plans to study fashion marketing. But when that support disappeared, he found himself trying to figure out how to build a future while dealing with the kind of loss that changes you.

He eventually found his way into music, production, clothing, and entrepreneurship.

And somewhere along the way, his creativity became more than something he enjoyed doing.

It became something he needed.

In this episode, I sit down with Young H to talk about his new album, Made in Annapolis, and the experiences that shaped both the music and the man behind it.

We get into growing up in Annapolis, building a clothing business, producing music, navigating the industry, raising children, and what it takes to keep pursuing something when life doesn't unfold the way you expected.

But the conversation takes a different turn when Young H talks about losing people close to him.

He shares the story of a fellow artist and friend, Tre' Da Kid, who experienced tremendous personal loss before his own death. During those difficult years, Young H encouraged him to stay connected to his music.

Keep creating.

Keep working.

Give yourself something meaningful to focus on.

Young H understood that advice because he'd lived it himself.

At one point, he says something that stayed with me:

"If you dive deep into your passions, you forget your pain."

I don't think that means the pain disappears. Losing someone you love isn't something you simply work your way out of.

But I do think there's something powerful about finding work that gives you a reason to get up, build something, and keep moving forward.

I also get into the business side of music, the importance of relationships, the limitations of trying to do everything yourself, and why being capable of working independently doesn't necessarily mean you should.

Young H is producing his own music, helping develop his son's career, working in the studio, and raising his family.

He's still building.

And that's another part of this conversation I appreciate.

We often talk about success as though it's a destination. But for people who create things, build businesses, and raise families, the work doesn't stop just because life gets difficult.

Sometimes the work itself becomes part of how you get through it.

You can't always choose what life takes from you. But you can still choose what you build with what remains.

Check out Young H the Great’s new album, MADE IN ANNAPOLIS, and experience the music behind his story: https://open.spotify.com/track/6mOhh1WdOfS9aK21jjby91?si=2930dd368f184e9e

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Years ago, after my grandmother passed away, I came across something in a box of notes she left behind.

It was a poem by Marianne Williamson called Our Deepest Fear.

The idea behind it has stuck with me ever since.

What if our greatest fear isn't that we're inadequate? What if we're afraid of discovering just how capable we actually are?

Think about that for a minute.

How many things have you talked yourself out of because you didn't believe you belonged in the room? How many opportunities have you passed up because somebody else seemed smarter, more experienced, better connected or further along than you?

I've been building businesses for a long time, and I can tell you there have been plenty of situations where I had no idea whether something was going to work.

But I've always tried to ask myself two questions.

What's the best thing that could happen?

And what's the worst?

When we started working on The Construction Games, I could envision something much bigger than a single event. Something that could grow nationally and bring recognition to people working in the skilled trades.

Could it fail? Absolutely.

Could we lose money? Sure.

But what if it works?

That's the part people sometimes forget to consider.

Maurice and I get into that question in this episode, along with the fear of success, the fear of rejection, the assumptions we make about other people's abilities and why we sometimes convince ourselves we're not qualified to pursue the things we want.

Maurice also talks about his own creative ambitions and what it feels like when you accomplish something you've never done before. There's an interesting discomfort that can come with stepping into unfamiliar territory, even when it's something you've been working toward.

We talk about The Alchemist, parenting, athletics, business, self-talk and the importance of actually taking action instead of endlessly discussing what you intend to do.

Because there's another part to this that matters just as much as believing in yourself.

You have to do the work.

You can dream about becoming a millionaire, building a company, writing a book or changing your life. But staring at the size of the goal isn't going to get you there.

Break it down.

What needs to happen this year? This month? This week?

What can you do today?

Sometimes the difference between someone who accomplishes something extraordinary and someone who doesn't is simply that one person was willing to start, make mistakes, learn and keep going.

My dad has a saying I've always liked.

Deeds, not words.

You don't have to know exactly how everything is going to work out.

You do have to be willing to find out.

The question isn't whether you're guaranteed to succeed. It's whether you're willing to discover what you're capable of.

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