It got so bad at one point. My mom said, my mom, she's like,

Michael, what in the world? How is it? You're kind of a jerk, like why is that?

How my name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is Essentially presents.

Relatively recently, I was on a panel with two other men and the last question of the night

was by woman sitting in the front row next to her husband who I assume is what's her husband and she

apparently was a mom she said okay here you three men are and you three men are

Catholic and you're practicing your faith and you're striving to bring the faith to others.

What did your mom do to lead you to this place. And I just heard in her heart this beautiful question

of a mom who's just like, here's three guys.

It seems to have worked.

What did your moms do?

The first man's name is Jamie. He's one of the co-founder of Exodus 90 gave an awesome answer where he just talked about how much his mom and dad loved him

How much he loves both of them back and just I like, wow, that's amazing.

Incredible, really beautiful.

The next man, his name is Alex, he's the one of the co-founders of Hallo.

And he gave a great answer about how he's very close to his parents

and just here's what my mom did and just really really beautiful.

I just was wondering if behind all of this in this motherly heart here asking this

question was something deeper and if this wasn't what she was asking,

then I'm just projecting.

I apologize for that.

But I thought,

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