For all of our outward success, Bruce and I both agree that the most important anchor

over the years has been our families.

We were lucky enough to find remarkable, strong, independent women to push us and challenges

and ground us and call us out on our BS.

Women who helped us become better versions of ourselves and forced us to continually

re-examine our priorities.

Michelle and Patty also gave us the single greatest gift of our lives, the chance to be fathers.

To experience the joys and trials and profound humility of being husbands and dads.

We spent some time trading notes about what wives and kids continue to teach us.

What values we want to pass on, what examples we want to set, and what kind of country

we want to leave behind for them to inherit.

We're now dads.

And how did that change you, how much on the job training did you still have to do?

Was there still a lot of stuff you had to work out before you kind of got to the point

where you said, all right, this is the kind of dad I want to be?

The problem that I had was I didn't trust myself for a long, long, long time with someone

else's feelings.

All you have is faith to go on.

If you take a baby step, you'll be able to take another one.

Where did that faith come from?

Comes out of the love in your life.

My case, Patty was an enormous source in love in my life and a deep well of faith for

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