As a high-level bodyguard in California, Blake Crider had a front-row seat to the personal lives of CEO’s and A-list celebrities.

For Blake, it didn’t add up. “I’m seeing the most successful people in the world, and they’re miserable; why is that?”

Over time, he didn’t like the life he was living or the man he was becoming. So he committed himself to do the hard work needed to become a better father, husband, and friend - he moved out of California, joined a church, and began to raise his family. 

But, becoming the man he wanted to be would soon require a path he couldn’t bear to take.

Blake reflects on that season, “I think, sometimes, to find a genuine breakthrough, you need to be broken.”