Faith, Identity, and Football Real Talk with Cole Earlewine
Cole Earlewine, a college football player entering his third year at a Division 1 school, brings a refreshing honesty to conversations about faith, sports, and growing up. As the oldest son of Daron and Julie Earlewine, Cole has navigated the transition from small-town high school football to the demanding world of collegiate athletics while maintaining his faith foundation. His perspective challenges common assumptions about Christian education, athletic dreams, and the reality of college sports that many families idealize.
During this candid conversation, Cole addresses the pressure parents feel to shelter their children in Christian environments versus preparing them for real-world faith encounters. He emphasizes that Christ meets people wherever they are, whether in a chapel or a bar, and criticizes the tendency of Christians to judge others while neglecting their own witness. His insights about college sports are particularly striking, describing how the business nature of athletics differs drastically from the community-centered high school experience, requiring extraordinary commitment and sacrifice that many families don’t fully understand.
Perhaps most valuable is Cole’s advice about embracing failure as a pathway to growth, drawing parallels to biblical figures who failed yet found grace. His encouragement to his younger brothers reflects a mature understanding that authentic relationships and personal character matter more than social status or athletic achievements. For parents navigating decisions about their children’s education, sports involvement, or faith development, Cole’s message is clear: trust in God’s ability to work in any environment while preparing young people to be authentic witnesses wherever they land.
Ready to discover your own purpose and navigate life’s transitions with faith and community? Whether you’re facing your own rock bottom moment or helping someone else through theirs, remember that God creates beauty from our broken places. Connect with us at daron@daronearlewine.com to continue the conversation about finding your identity in Christ during life’s biggest changes.
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Episode Summary:
Get ready for raw, honest conversations about faith, failure, and finding your way in college. Cole Earlewine shares the unfiltered truth about D1 sports and what it really means to live out your faith in the real world. This is part two of our conversation with Cole, continuing “The Earlewine Podcast” family series where we dive deep into growing up, faith, and finding purpose with all three Earlewine sons!
Key Takeaways:
- Christ meets you where you are, whether in a dorm room, chapel, or bar
- College sports is a business, not the glamorous experience social media portrays
- Your kid must love their sport and work incredibly hard to make it
- Be ready to fail in college – it’s how you grow stronger
- You’re the only Bible someone might ever read through your actions
- Fit in with people who want to see you win
- Back up everything you say with scripture
Notable Quotes:
- “Do you know of God or do you know God? That’s a big thing for me.”
- “College sports is not that cool… your kid has to love what they do.”
- “Be ready to fail for the first time in your life by yourself.”
- “You’re the only Bible that someone may ever read.”
- “Fit in with people who want to fit in with you and want to see you win.”
- “Where am I going to fail? But who’s that going to make me?”
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EPISODE 179 TRANSCRIPT
Cole: Just be yourself, but I think also just remember who you are in a different sense of like, there’s gonna be a lot of distractions in front of you. There’s gonna be the parties, gonna be the whatever. There’s gonna be probably plenty of beautiful women in Arizona. But it’s like, you will, like, at the end of the day, it’s just things don’t matter.
Daron: Hey, welcome back to the Daron Earlewine Podcast. Thanks so much for downloading this episode. Listen, if you haven’t subscribed to the YouTube channel, please do so. It continues to grow and we’re always glad when people join us on the journey to find purpose and meaning in their life here on the podcast. But as you may or may not know, we’re in the middle of a long series called the Earlewine Podcast where we’re sitting down with our three boys, Cole, Ty and Knox, and just getting to hear about them stepping into becoming who they were born to be. And we’re gonna jump into the second half of the conversation we had with my oldest son, Julie and I’s oldest son, Cole, and excited that you’re back and hope you enjoy the second half of this conversation.
So one of the things that we’ve tried to do more and more in our parenting is do our best to not make fear-based decisions. We’re like, we’re afraid of this and so we’re gonna protect you from what we’re afraid of because I really do feel strongly that like if you’re a fear motivated person to make fear based response, it’s almost impossible for you to walk a life of faith. I don’t think they can coexist. So, but I will say when we sent you off to a big D1 school to play college football, like all of the cliches, all the things you see, all the rumors you hear, like we had a decent amount of fear of like, is this going to be okay?
Now you know, we sent you to a 4000 person public high school. Like we’ve always been, you know, did our best to be a light in the world and not, you know, try to hide away from that or shelter you. So, you know, you were somewhat prepped, but like now, you know, going into your third year, we’re talking to people who maybe they’re getting ready to send their kid away or their kids trying to decide like, I don’t know. We need to probably send them to a small Christian school and protect them. That’s never been our playbook. So I guess question is like, looking back like did we have reason to be kind of concerned and are you glad you got the opportunity to figure it out?
Cole: Um, I guess in high school no, um, not until like my senior year there’s kind of a little bit of a rough patch where I kind of found some trouble which still wasn’t that much trouble but just stuff I’m not super proud of but no. Um, in my opinion, I’m pretty strongly opinion on this, uh, like Christ is gonna meet you where you’re at.
So he can meet you at a dorm room. He could meet you in the chapel of your Christian school, or he could meet you in a bar. Like it doesn’t, that’s not how it works. So I think there’s a lot of time people like you got to come to face reality because at the end of the day, like you’re gonna get a job. Like even if you work in ministry, you got to go work with people that like, I think another thing for me that bothers me a lot is when Christians condemn other Christians for the same things they do. So it’s like, Oh, you don’t go to a Christian school. Like you must not know Jesus. It’s like, No, it’s like I’m in the word all the time. Like you don’t like you don’t know. It’s like once they’re like, Oh, you don’t go to church. Sometimes I miss it. Yeah. But when was the last time you told somebody who Christ was? Like, when was the last time you went and reached out to somebody about coming to your Bible study and invited them? Like when was the last time you told somebody your testimony? You know what I’m saying? And those people that look at you like, I don’t know, but I go to church. Great. Church is a building. Sort of what it is like.
How many times did Christ speak in a temple? I know, like they spoke on a sermon on the Mount. So it’s like, it’s not where the building is, not who it is. It’s who you are. Um, so that is something I’m pretty strong opinion about of like, like Jesus walked the streets with people. Like that’s what he did. Like, and we all show up all the time, like Jesus got to just hung out with people. So it’s like, well, if I’m hanging out with this guy that’s from like the inner city and we hit it off and now we’re friends, we walked down the street and he dressed a certain type of way and I dressed a certain type of way, it’s like, how are those two guys together? We just love God. It’s like, these kids go out and do bad things. Yes, so do the kids that go everywhere else. Like, just, you know I’m saying, just because you go to a dry campus, just because you go to a school that has Christian affiliation, that’s wonderful. Like, I’m not saying that’s wrong at all. And I think there’s a ton of value in that. But like, you can do that and still not know who Christ is. You know I’m saying?
You go back in the Bible and you talk about religious leaders, they knew every scripture in the book. They didn’t know who Christ was. Like, and I think it just comes down to it’s like, do you know of God or do you know God? And I think that’s a big thing for me. So don’t get me wrong. There was definitely plenty of things in that life. Like you can get into it pretty quickly. And I would, I’m not going to lie to people on the podcast. I did it. Like there were some things I went, I went to parties, stuff like that. I’m not going to sit here and lie to people. Like that’s not how I am. Like that’s just what I did.
But when I look back in my life of like, what are the two most fulfilling moments of my life? None of those things cracked the list. It’s like, man, I probably shouldn’t have done that. Like that’s something I wasn’t proud of something. I said that made me feel empty. And I think the problem is, is everyone is trying to chase fulfillment. That’s what it is. Like because there’s a God sized hole in everyone’s heart and because there’s that separation from Christ from the beginning of the book of Genesis, like you, you’re probably going to fall into those things. And I think the biggest thing is can you give people grace and then can you give yourself grace and then can you understand God’s grace? Um, and if you do those things and it’s like, Oh, well sure. I went to this Christian school, but I didn’t learn that until I was 28. Like, well I learned that at 18 when I was out doing something stupid. Then I got up the next day and I was like, why do I feel off? Like, why does someone feels weird? Like, why do I feel guilty for doing that? Um, so yeah, I’m pretty strong opinion. I think it’s, he’s going to meet you where you’re at. Um, if you’re willing to meet him. So I would say, yes, I went and did some of those things, but I think I didn’t let it consume who I was. Um, and it’s not something I would like to keep doing.
Daron: That makes sense. Yeah. What, um, let’s talk a little bit. I know in our community, at least like, I would say people have an unhealthy obsession with the idea of like, we’re gonna raise the next D1 athlete like sports is, and I don’t think it’s just here, I think sports becomes a god everywhere.
Cole: Yeah, it’s the United States of America now. Yeah, it might be the world. It’s not just here. So I think it’s everywhere, I think it’s the whole multi-million dollar business that we’re running to try to get our kid to be an athlete.
Daron: So shine some more light, like what, like for somebody maybe like, you would say this is what, if you are trying to be a collegiate athlete or you know, you have that dream for your kid like what’s something they that they really need to know?
Cole: Mm-hmm. This thing really hurts people’s feelings: college sports is not that cool. Like it is like it’s super cool like what the stuff I do like when we go to Auburn this year and it’s 7:30 and I’m getting chills thinking about and they kick it off and they’re gonna be playing the songs and there’s gonna be 90,000 people cheering and like you can’t get that anywhere else so don’t get me wrong that part is worth it, but like I think you gotta ask your kid, like, what do you wanna do? Like, do you love football? Do you love baseball? Do you love soccer? Do you love lacrosse? Is that what you love to do? Because that’s what your life’s gonna be the next four years. Like, if you wanna go out and you wanna see your friends on a Thursday night, no you’re not. Sorry, you’re not going out. You’re not doing that. It’s like, well, you wanna go and get in that part of your life? Nope, that’s not for you. Like, you’re not gonna do that, because you have something the next day.
And I think so many people get so wrapped up in college sports and high school, because recruiting is really cool. You go take the pictures, they tell you how great you are, whatever. Oh, I’m a four star, I’m a whatever. That’s great. But like, I got buddies that were three stars and four stars that are now on FCS teams and took no snaps. And I’m a walk on with no stars. And I’ve played more snaps than a lot of them. So it’s like, and like my buddy Eli, like he was the same as me. He’s a walk on, I started playing 12 games as a redshirt freshman sophomore. So it’s like, it happens.
But I people like they over glamify it because of social media and everything. And it’s really great. And like, I think it teaches you life lessons, your kids got to really love your sport. They have to be able to work really, really hard. And then I think another thing is it’s not everything. And that’s hard now where people are getting paid and all this stuff and whatever. But it’s not everything because college sports are great, but you’re part of a business. You’re no longer just playing your sport. Like in high school, like it was my favorite moments of my life. Like my senior year of high school and we kept winning all those games. Like it was first, like we always joke, felt untouchable, but like you kind of feel like that because like your whole community is around you. These are my buddies since I was literally in the second grade playing with like, that’s amazing.
But you get to college and it’s like, well, here’s a bunch of dudes from all over the country that are playing for money or playing to get their family out of a terrible situation or whatever. There’s all these different motives. And then these coaches, like this is their job. Like you don’t have any volunteer coaches. Like if my coach doesn’t produce good players, he gets fired and then his kids don’t eat. So it’s like, that’s, it’s a different shift. So I think people just make it, make it look so great because of the way social media portrays it, which is awesome for a fan, but being inside of it’s really hard.
Like you like can your kid wake up every day in the winter time at 5:30? Be there at 6 be there from 6 to noon go to class from 12:30 to 3:30 if they’re freshmen go to study tables from 5:30 to 7:30 and still eat and get all the stuff the right way plus learn to play book plus go to rehab plus make sure your body is healthy plus still find friends plus then try to have their faith like plus if you have a girlfriend that adds to it like can your kid do that?
And not play any games on the weekend because it’s not season. So you’re doing that’s in the off season. They’re not playing any games. And then can you do that during the season and then watch a 23 year old man play your position when he’s 19? No, you can’t just you know, like your kid, if they do not love football and work incredibly hard. They will not make it, I promise. I’ve seen kids with the most talent you could imagine. They don’t make it and like. So I think for parents, they need to enjoy what they have when they have it because it goes away quickly. And some parents don’t want to hear that, and I hate that for them, but they don’t.
And like we said, like I said earlier in the podcast, like it’s all fleeting. Like I’m never like, I’m going to remember those places I played. Like we got killed at James Madison and in Miami, we got destroyed, but I’ll never forget going cause they were cool places. And it’s like, but I’m not going to remember the other stuff. So it’s like, the experiences are amazing. The users, people are amazing, but they’re amazing because of the really hard stuff you have to do. So if your kid’s soft, like I like they’re in for a rude awakening. It’s just how it is like they I was a pretty decently tough kid my whole life and I got to college and I got told I was soft and then you become a man quickly so you just have to be really really committed and you have to love what you do.
Daron: Yeah, you almost have to have an obsession with it.
Cole: Yeah, and a healthy obsession something that you’re willing to work for. Yeah and yeah, so it’s it’s great, but it’s a lot.
Daron: So switch gears a little bit. You have been gone for coming up in your third year here. Ty’s about to leave. You leave home and go to college. You guys, all you as brothers have had phenomenal friendships and connections all growing up. What’s maybe a great piece of advice you’ve already given Ty or maybe you would give him as you know he’s literally weeks away from, and for him it’s not gonna be the college sports but he is moving 2,000 miles away from home to live in the greatest place on earth, Phoenix, Arizona.
Cole: I mean, I’m trying to think. Advice for Ty I would say for Ty it’s this specifically and then I can go like go overarchingly for a kid going into college. For Ty specifically, it’s him just being himself like Ty’s one of those people that like it’s like an infectious person to be around. So like you you meet him and you’re like there’s something about that guy. Like he’s just he’s a cool dude. Like you meet me and you’re like, yeah that guy that guy’s gonna figure it out. Like he’s whatever he’s personal or whatever you meet Ty and you’re like that guy’s just cool. Like it’s just it’s always always been he just has a little bit of he walks kind of a certain way, walks just kind of like a little whimsy and just how he is. But I think for him, it’s just like, just be yourself. But I think also just remember who you are in a different sense of like, there’s going to be a lot of distractions in front of you. There’s going to be, there’s going to be the parties. There’s going to be the whatever. There’s going to be probably plenty of beautiful women out in Arizona. But it’s like, it’s like, will be like at the end of the day, so things don’t matter.
I saw something in my Bible yesterday. There’s like a hundred, like 160 total references between talking about money and women that are the biggest struggles for men in life and in college. That’s the forefront of everything. You’re going to college to get a job, to make money. You’re going to college and you’re just surrounded by you living with women for the first time in your whole life, unless you have sisters. But even then it’s not, you know what I mean? It’s not the same. Um, so I think just remember who you are. Um, but just for him, just be himself.
I would say for a college or a college freshmen, um, I guess I would say, be ready to give yourself some grace. Because you’re going to fail a lot. You may fail a test. Your high school relationship may fail. If you’re a college athlete, your first season may fail. If you’re a college kid, you may not get into the fraternity or sorority you want, or you may get in trouble at one of those things, or it may not be the group of people you want, or all those things. So I would say just be ready to fail for the first time in your life by yourself.
But just remember that when you fail, there’s someone that gives an immense amount of grace, but you also have to remember not to abuse that grace, which I think is something I really have been not struggling with, but like thinking about a lot often of like, how do I use God’s grace in the correct way? Um, because I make mistakes, you’ve said that I don’t even mean to and do in sin in ways that I don’t even mean to unintentionally, but it’s like, how do I, you have to ask yourself like, how do I use God’s grace? But how do I understand it myself? Because I know that I didn’t and that cause a lot of pain and drama and all that stuff. So just be ready to fail. And remember that failing makes you better. It’s how you get stronger. It’s how you become someone better. like remember that the people that followed Jesus forever failed. Every disciple failed. you think about Peter, denied him three times when he was being crucified. Like he denied Jesus and he knew him. Like Judas gave him up for money. So it’s like, those things happen. You’re going to fail. But just remember that there’s a grace that you don’t deserve, but are given freely and to use that in the correct manner. Because if not, you’re abusing it. And there’s plenty of scripture that will tell you that’s not the right way to do it. And in my whole life now, my big motto is how do you back you got to back things up you say with scripture. So that’s a big thing should be ready to fail.
Daron: Back it up a few years, so Knox is about right ahead into high school. So you’ve done that, you look back, what’s maybe a word of advice you’ve given Knox or that you would give to him now or maybe a kid going into the freshman year of high school?
Cole: I would say for Knox, for Knox… I don’t think he’ll struggle with this, but it’s a piece of advice is just, just be you. Like at the same time, but like in a different manner of like, I hold Knox in high regard because I, I feel like I like built Knox from the ground up. Oh my gosh. We weren’t involved. We weren’t. I mean you guys were, but like it’s, it’s a different type of thing. Like, I mean, you were kind of, there’s like, it’s just like a different type of thing of like a lot of Knox’s like life trajectory things have been from stuff that I’ve done. You guys put them in there, obviously, but like, I kind of started them. then like, whether it comes to football, baseball, being a part of young life, being a part of like the clubs, all the teachers know who he is, like all the coaches know him because of me. So I think for me, it’s like, kind of pay. Yeah, but I started the whole thing.
Whatever you get the point. You get the whole point. But what only get to my point is what I’m saying is he like just for him just to carve out his own way and just to be Knox. Because a lot of things Knox says that I did not do very well. But I think for him just to keep working hard because I know he has dreams and things that he really, really wants to do. But I think for me it’s just like he can be so much better than I ever was. And I really do think that and as competitive I am, it’s like, Oh man, he’s going to be, but like, think I, I, I have pride in that because he now knows the stuff that I didn’t know. Um, so I just, I just really hope he succeeds selfishly. Um, cause I think it’s cool to like have little brothers to succeed. Like I know with my buddy Eli who has five brothers, like he looks at his older brothers and talks about them all the time and like has so much like pride in who they were. And like, I remember his older brother, Trevor played at Ball State and he had so much pride in what he did.
So I think for Knox, just being himself, but keep chasing what he does, because he does have a drive and a way to relate to people and the lead. And I think for him also just keeping his faith strong is huge, because he’s doing that really well. But I think the final thing is don’t try to fit in with what everyone else does all the time. Because I try to do that, and it ended up being like, it’s not even who I am. What am I doing this? I try to fit in with people that I don’t want to be a part of anymore. And it’s like the people that I fit in with now are the people I love the most and will probably be in my wedding. And they talk to every day and they know all the good and the bad and the ugly in my life. And like just fit in with the people that want to fit in with you and that want to see you win. Um, and then just, but then be your own self and kind of trailblazing. I’m going do what I want to do. Who cares about things like it doesn’t matter in high school. You think it does cause you’re like, Oh, I got to have this social status. Got to do whatever. It’s like, no, don’t, you’re going to do whatever you want to do. Um,
I would say that for all freshmen going high school. I think also another thing is just like to enjoy, kind of enjoy the immaturity a little bit, which sounds kind of dumb, but like me and my buddies did some really fun stuff. Just being us, like we did fun stuff. Like we carved pumpkins and had a pumpkin photo head photo shoot. Like we put pumpkins in our head and had a photo shoot of us in pumpkin heads. Like we just did stuff like that. It’s like stupid stuff, but I think just to enjoy it, cause like I would go back. I would trade anything to have one more day of our high school. It’s not so cliche, but like what, what those group of guys, like it was some of my favorite is my whole life. And then I got so caught up in like trying to get recruited and that other stuff that like, I think there’s some things I kind of missed, but also didn’t cause I was really present in that moment. Um, and another thing is just like,
It is a great time to learn how to work hard also and separate yourself from people. And but I think also knowing how you impact people, because like one of my favorite stories ever is we were talking about a good friend of Ty’s and mine, who was a kid I mentored as a sophomore. He you may have this story. He went to it was his naval questioning Brennan’s naval questioning. Yeah, he had to answer. Yes, did. And what was the question they asked him?
It was, no, it was. It was the most influential person in your life? I think it was like outside of your family. Yeah, outside of your correct. And his answer was me. Because we worked out together and like I like really took him under my wing. And now he’s going on to a school to hopefully get into a Naval Academy. And he’s just been a killer this year with how tough their Ty’s year has been, which I bet you guys will touch on that in the other episodes. Just with the loss of their teammates and their friends this year with the passing of our good friend Mason and just like the man that he is and just to know that he looked up to me makes me feel like, all right, that was worth it. Like I remember the thing that cut me the most in high school is that I wasn’t a captain my senior year. It wasn’t about anything else. I wasn’t a captain and I wanted to be that so bad because like the guys before me thought I was gonna be one and I took so much pride in like taking care of people and like leading our team. When I didn’t get that title, it really hurt because I was like, man, like I did everything for this and like I really wanted it.
I think that’s the most important thing is how do you impact people in high school? Because there’s a lot of people that are going to see you. But like one of my favorite things that Mike Fowler, our young life leader in high school said, like, you’re the only Bible that someone may ever read. So your actions and your thoughts, like it’s like, like, like there’s no fruit, you have to have the fruits of your labor. Like you have to go out and work and do these things to show who you are. And Christ’s words are great, but his actions are better.
So just remembering that and being like, man, like this is who this guy is. Like when I, like I see when I know Knox really wine, like dude, that guy is a guy that is rock solid. Like that’s the guy that he cares for the kid that no one else sees. He’s friends with the kids that maybe have a harder time being social or don’t know where they are, have a tough situation, but he’s like, you’re my friend. Like where does it be friends? Like, like I had tons of school friends in high school that I was like, I wouldn’t probably never hang out with. But it’s like, we were boys. Like if I saw him today, I’d still talk to him.
So I think like that portion of it too of just like who can you impact? Because a lot of, saying that, that’s who you’ll remember you by, not by anything else.
Daron: I have one last question, Julie, if you have a follow up one that you had.
Julie: No, I think so.
Daron: So you potentially, the end of college is at least on the horizon. As you start thinking about maybe being halfway done, like, what are you excited about as you look into what this next chapter would be like? Where does your brain, your dreams go as far as the next chapter?
Cole: I’d like to find a girlfriend. Please. Sorry, I had to land that joke. If you’re watching podcasts and you’re single, I mean. My number is you can just call. I just got deja vu. I think I’ve had a dream. I think I had a dream about this. I’m not kidding. This will be the moment. You want to put your snap? Cole loves to give out a snap at all of his public events. Yeah, no. If you’re a beautiful blonde haired Christian woman, come come holler at me. but ages 21 to 25. That’d help. But taller than five seven. Yeah. Anyway, back to what I was saying.
Things I’m most excited for moving forward. Honestly, like, I usually have something to say for most things, but honestly, I don’t really know. I think like so much of college is a lot of like just kind of dropped in places and seeing what happens. And so I think I’m just decided to just keep getting dropped in random places and seeing what happens. But I think another thing I’m really excited about is where our team can move spiritually these next couple of years. And I think once the Jacks, that was something I said earlier, once they graduate, the Bible studies going to me and my buddy Tristan. It’s like, how can we grow that? How can we make that better? And then getting some of the guys in my small group to be leaders and like trying their own thing and doing that. so I think those are things I’d be excited for. Um, I think, I don’t know. I think it will be exciting when I’m done to figure out what life looks like without football. Cause when you’ve been, when you always have a crutch to hold yourself up on like, and it’s now gone, it’s like, all right, why don’t I got to walk without any training wheels? Like there’s no one making my schedule. There’s no one doing my stuff. Like, it’s just me. Um, so I think that part I’d be excited about a little bit of like, I’ll be sad. Like I’m going to miss it a ton. But it’s also like, you know what? Like now I’m just me. Now I’m just Cole. Like I don’t play football anymore. I don’t, I’m not a part of anything. Like I don’t got steps. I got a job to go to probably, but like, well yeah, that’s what saying. I’m thinking that sense of like, I have something to go to that way, but it’s like, it’s a job. Like, it’s not like a commitment where it’s consumes your whole life. I feel like it’s just a different environment. So I’d say that.
I don’t know. I mean, if I had a girlfriend, I’d say like maybe having a family, but I’m not close to that. So I don’t know. I don’t know. Chillin’, I guess. I’m excited to see where Ty Knox go for sure. That’ll be exciting for me. I probably will end up moving back around Indianapolis as my guest right now. I don’t have any other plans. watching him do stuff will be fun and exciting. And then I think the thing that’ll be, I’m excited, but also difficult is like, Where will I go once the ball’s over? Like what does God have next for me? Is an exciting thing, scary thing. But yeah, I think it’s just like real life’s upon you. Like I think college is kind of like the intro chapter to what real life looks like living on your own, having a schedule, whatever. But now it’s like, you know what, I’m here and I’ve arrived in this stage of my life. And I think I guess my last piece is I’m also.
Your good friend and my good friend Scott Wolfram talked a lot about the process of failing and taking risk. And I think for me, and if anyone knows me, I really like to take risks. Like I just kind of jump off the diving board. Like I just try random stuff. Like I take random zoom calls. I talk to random people. I just try stuff. It’s just kind of how I’ve been. I always tell mom, she asks me like, what you going to do? I always answer, I’ll figure it out. Mom gets super pissed cause she wants to know. And I never actually know.
But I think for me it’s like, you know what, like where am I going to fail? But who’s that going to make me? And then how can I make it better? Yeah. Um, so yeah.
Daron: Awesome, man. We’re really proud of you.
Cole: Thanks. I try my best.
Daron: It’s been phenomenal. Watch you take these steps and, uh, you’ve been a phenomenal leader for your brothers and it’s been awesome to watch you step into that. And can’t wait to see what this year and years ahead, uh, hold.
Cole: Yeah. Be a crazy one. Stay tuned.
Daron: Any closing words, Jules?
Julie: I feel the same as dad. Very proud of you.
Cole: Thank you.
Julie: Thanks for doing this for your dad today.
Cole: Well, I appreciate you guys. Love you both. Very lucky to have you guys. And everyone that watches that knows that if they know you guys.
Daron: Awesome. Hey, thanks for downloading this episode. Until the next episode, we’ll be sitting down with our son Ty, talk about what it looks like to be a middle child, what it looks like to be taking the step from high school into college and excited for you to join us for that one. Until then, remember these three things. God’s for you. He’s not against you. He’s near you. He’s not far away. And He’s created you on purpose and for purpose. Thanks for downloading this episode of the Daron Earlewine Podcast.