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You’re successful on paper — but somewhere along the way, you stopped recognizing yourself. The anger, the numbness, the sense that you’re going through the motions. You know something needs to change.
In Episode 1, Stephen Rodi introduces the framework at the heart of Course Correction: Recognize → Consider → Adjust. Today’s focus: the first step. Not how you got here. Not a plan to fix everything. Just the first small correction — the moment you stop pretending the pattern isn’t there and actually look at it.
For fathers, executives, veterans, and first responders navigating anger, emotional numbness, and disconnection.
yourcoretruths.com
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EPISODE 1 | SHOW NOTES
You’re successful by every measure that matters to the people around you. Good income. Devoted family. Respected at work. And yet something is off — and has been for a while.
The rage that comes out of nowhere. The emotional numbness you can’t shake. The sense that you’re going through the motions of a life that should feel like yours but doesn’t. You don’t recognize the man you’ve become. And you’re not sure when it happened.
This is the episode where we start.
In Episode 1 of Course Correction, Stephen Rodi — founder of Core Truths and a guide for high-functioning men navigating anger, emotional numbness, and disconnection — introduces the framework that makes real change possible:
Recognize → Consider → Adjust
Most men dealing with anger, depression, or emotional shutdown don’t lack motivation. They lack a starting point. That starting point is recognition — the moment you stop pretending the pattern isn’t there and actually look at it clearly.
In this episode:
- Why high-functioning men — fathers, executives, veterans, first responders — drift from their authentic selves without realizing it
- The “1° off course” principle: how small patterns compound over time into a life that feels completely wrong
- Why recognition alone is more powerful than most men realize
- The difference between intellectual awareness (“I know I have a problem”) and real-time recognition (“I can see it happening right now”)
- One specific action to take this week — no dramatic change required
This isn’t therapy. It isn’t a quick fix. It’s the beginning of the ongoing work of finding your way back to yourself.
If you’re a father struggling with anger and emotional shutdown, an executive feeling disconnected despite outward success, or a man who knows something needs to change but doesn’t know where to start — this episode is where that starts.
Find Stephen and learn more about working with Core Truths at yourcoretruths.com.
Highlights:
00:00 When Life Needs Change
00:30 My First Correction
03:06 A Client’s Breaking Point
05:34 What Course Correction Is
06:23 Understanding Drift
09:37 Three Step Framework
09:53 Recognize Consider Adjust
17:10 The Weekly Practice
19:27 Real Time Recognition
21:31 Next Steps And Closing
