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What do you do when life hands you a season you never signed up for?
Steve Moser was a single father raising two toddlers alone, working midnight shifts so he could spend his days with his kids. No plan beyond the next week. No mother figure in the house. Just survival, grocery runs that drew judgmental looks, and a quiet decision to keep showing up.
A decade later, Steve is married, has adopted three children, runs a successful business, and describes his life as an abundance he couldn't have predicted if you'd told him back then. In this episode, we talk about what actually changed and why joy, in his words, was never about circumstances being easier. It was a choice he had to keep making.
🔹 CHOOSING JOY IN THE HARD SEASONS — Why Steve separates joy from happiness, and what that distinction meant while working nights and solo parenting two toddlers
🔹 A GLOBAL WAKE-UP CALL — Time spent in Thailand, Jordan, the West Bank, and Baghdad, and how witnessing extreme poverty and conflict reshaped his perspective on his own struggles
🔹 REBUILDING THROUGH COMMUNITY — How committing to a local church, mowing a lawn when he had nothing else to offer, and his father's humility about his own parenting mistakes became the turning point
🔹 THE LEAP INTO BUSINESS — Getting laid off, a government adjudicator telling him his side hustle was too well run to collect benefits, and the partnership that turned into the business he runs today
This is a conversation about fatherhood, faith, and what it actually looks like to choose joy when life doesn't go according to plan.
⏱️ What's Inside:
00:00 – Choosing joy when life gets harder
— Becoming a solo father overnight
— The stigma of being a single dad
— His father's humility and what it taught him about parenting
— What Thailand, Jordan, the West Bank, and Baghdad taught him about perspective
— The church, the lawn mower, and finding his value
— Getting laid off and the call that pushed him into business
— Rapid fire: the book, the quote, and his definition of happiness
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