The 318 Brotherhood: Rebuilding Men, Restoring Families, Advancing God’s Kingdom

How do you put God first when work, money, distractions, and the desire for approval keep competing for your attention?
Author Drew Reitzel joins me for an honest conversation about spiritual drift, divided priorities, and his book, You Can’t Serve Two Masters: Undivided Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Cultural Compromise.
Drew shares a powerful story about getting out of the ocean and discovering he had drifted a mile from where he started. His question, “How did I get here?” becomes a picture of how small choices can gradually pull us away from God.
But those choices can also lead us back.
In this conversation, we explore:• Recognizing what is competing with God for first place• How good things can become misplaced priorities• Following Christ when obedience feels uncomfortable• Speaking truth with love and kindness• Repentance without living in shame• Taking your next faithful step, one day at a time
Whether you’ve walked with God for years, feel distant from your faith, or have questions about returning, this episode invites you to examine your priorities and begin where you are today.
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What is one thing competing for your attention that you need to bring before God today?
#PuttingGodFirst #ChristianFaith #SpiritualGrowth

How can you hear God’s voice through Scripture, prayer, and reflection when you’re unsure what comes next? Episode 143 introduces an eight-week Bible study for personal use, small groups, churches, and ministries.
If you’re facing a life transition, rebuilding after loss, or looking for a meaningful Bible study for your group, this conversation offers a place to begin.
Drawing from my book, Ascension of the Warrior, we explore eight steps:
What’s God saying?
Divine Appointment
Healing through hindsight
Trust the process
Divine provision
Deny yourself
Master’s Blueprint
Embrace your call
We discuss listening to God through His Word, testing what we’re considering against Scripture, seeking wise counsel, and choosing practical steps of faith.
You’ll also hear how the study can support personal reflection or conversations in men’s groups, women’s groups, churches, and ministries.
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Are you a pastor, minister, small-group leader, or someone interested in starting a Bible study? Request information so we can discuss your group, your goals, and available study and support options.
Which of the eight steps needs your attention right now? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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#BibleStudy #SpiritualGrowth #HearingGod

How do you find purpose in your next season when you’re unsure what comes next?
Maybe you’re over 50 and facing a transition. Maybe you want to become a better father, husband, or leader. Or maybe you’re grieving and your next intentional step is simply letting someone walk beside you.
In this episode, we explore John Maxwell’s Law of Intentionality and what choosing to grow can look like in your home, relationships, work, and faith. I share three questions to help you identify what needs your attention and choose one practical step forward.
Explore our work:https://www.318men.com
Join our FREE 15-week mastermind based on John Maxwell’s The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth:https://www.318men.com/15-laws-growth-mastermind-page
We begin Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 7 p.m. Eastern on Zoom. We’ll explore one law each week and discuss how to apply it in everyday life.
Open to men and women, inside and outside the Brotherhood. No participation fee or paid membership required. Bring your questions, your experience, and a willingness to give your time and attention to your growth.
Know someone who could benefit? Share this invitation with them.

How do you deal with grief after losing someone you love, especially when there is no answer to “why”?
After learning that Bobby, a young member of our Brotherhood, passed away unexpectedly, I set aside the episode I had planned. His death brought me back to the loss of my daughter, Kelsey, and to the days when I was numb, the funeral ended, and everyone else’s life seemed to return to normal.
In this episode, I share what grief felt like as a father: the loneliness, the anger at well-meant words that brought no comfort, and the need to hear from someone who understood. I also speak to men who have been taught to keep their pain to themselves, and to anyone wondering how to show up for a grieving friend.
I don’t know the circumstances of Bobby’s death, and I won’t speculate. I simply want to honor him, hold his family in prayer, and make room for an honest conversation about loss.
If someone you know is grieving, reach out. Use their loved one’s name. Listen to their story, and remember to check in after the first few weeks have passed.
I’m Rick Kauffman, host of the 318 Brotherhood Podcast. Learn more about our work at https://318men.com.
If grief has brought you to a point where you may hurt yourself, please tell someone now. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 for support at any time: https://988lifeline.org/
#GriefAndLoss #MensGrief #318Brotherhood

You can have the right message, the right mission, and the right heart...
and still lose people because you don't understand how they're wired.
In Episode 140 of the 318 Brotherhood Podcast, Coach Rick Kauffman introduces the power of DISC and why understanding yourself may be one of the first steps toward becoming a better leader of others.
Whether you're a pastor, business owner, entrepreneur, coach, speaker, podcaster, ministry leader, or simply a man responsible for leading others, this conversation is for you.
One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is assuming everyone communicates, processes information, makes decisions, and responds the same way they do.
They don't.
In this episode, you'll discover:
• Why self-awareness matters in leadership• The basics of D, I, S, and C behavioral styles• How different personalities receive the same message differently• Why your natural strengths can also create leadership blind spots• How to adjust your communication without changing who you are• Why the way YOU want to be led may not work for someone else• How DISC connects to your Kingdom Balance Sheet• How understanding people can make you a better coach, pastor, business owner, speaker, husband, and leader
I've recently completed certification as a Maxwell Leadership Certified DISC Trainer and DISC Consultant, and I'm excited to begin incorporating these tools into the leadership and personal-development work we're doing.
But DISC isn't about putting people into boxes.
It's about developing greater awareness of yourself and the person standing in front of you.
Here's the question I want you to consider:
Are you communicating with people the way THEY need to hear you, or the way YOU prefer to communicate?
Don't lead everyone the way you want to be led.
Learn to lead the person in front of you.
318, Brother.

Two Men Who Were There Share What They Saw, What They Survived, and Why We Must Remember
A few alternate titles that could also work:
25 Years Later: The 9/11 Stories We Cannot Let Die
They Were There: Remembering September 11, 25 Years Later
Where Were You on 9/11? Stories From Ground Zero and Lower Manhattan
Never Forget: Two Survivors Remember 9/11, 25 Years Later
The Day America Changed: 25 Years Later, Their Stories Still Matter
Podcast Description
Twenty-five years later, the question still stops many of us in our tracks:
Where were you on September 11, 2001?
In this special episode of the 318 Brotherhood Podcast, Coach Rick Kauffman shares powerful conversations from our Patriot Day gathering with men whose lives were directly shaped by that day.
You’ll hear from Joseph Grimaldi, a former law-enforcement officer and K9 handler who deployed to Ground Zero beginning September 12 and spent months working in the aftermath. Decades later, he continues to live with serious health consequences connected to that service, but his message remains focused on the men and women who never came home.
You’ll also hear from John, who was working with New York City Parks Enforcement near Battery Park when the towers were struck. He witnessed the second plane hit and was close enough to the destruction that decisions made in those moments helped save his life.
Other veterans and brothers also share where they were, how September 11 changed the course of their lives, and why remembering these stories matters.
This conversation is not about politics.
It is about memory, sacrifice, service, loss, courage, faith, and responsibility.
An entire generation has now grown up without personally remembering that morning.
That means those of us who were there, who served, who witnessed it, or who lived through it carry a responsibility:
Tell the story.
Because when stories disappear, history becomes easier to forget.
And these stories matter.
To every first responder, service member, survivor, family member, and every person still carrying the physical and emotional consequences of September 11:
We remember you.
We honor you.
And we will not forget.
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No Man Left Behind.
318, Brother.

EPISODE 138
WHAT LIES AHEAD: FROM PURPOSE TO POWER
We've talked about the pain.
We've looked at what we've survived.
We've uncovered lessons from our past.
We've begun taking inventory of the assets God has already placed in our hands.
Now it's time to ask a different question:
What lies ahead?
In Episode 138 of the 318 Brotherhood Podcast, Coach Rick Kauffman shares where the Brotherhood is heading as we enter the final stretch of 2026 and why this next season is about moving from Purpose → Power.
Not our power.
His.
This episode is about taking everything God has taught us and beginning to LIVE it.
IN THIS EPISODE
🔥 Pain → Purpose → Power
Why our pain can teach us without becoming the place we continue living.
📊 The Kingdom Balance Sheet
We're going deeper into discovering the experience, knowledge, skills, relationships, reputation, stories, lessons, and opportunities God has already entrusted to us.
Instead of continually asking God for more, perhaps the next question is:
What am I doing with what He's already placed in my hands?
📚 A New Leadership Chapter
I'm also excited to share the next step in my journey with Maxwell Leadership as I expand the coaching, speaking, training, leadership, and DISC tools we're able to bring into the work we're already doing.
These aren't replacements for what we've built.
They're additional tools that can help us better understand how we're wired, how we communicate, how we lead, and how we serve others.
🇺🇸 PATRIOT DAY: WHERE WERE YOU THAT DAY?
On Friday, September 11 at 7:00 PM Eastern, we're having a special conversation inside the Brotherhood.
Where were you on September 11, 2001?
What do you remember?
What did that day teach you about sacrifice, service, courage, unity, freedom, and responsibility?
An entire generation has now grown up without personally remembering that day.
Those of us who remember have something we've been entrusted to steward:
the story.
And maybe that's the thread connecting everything we're building.
Your experiences matter.
Your lessons matter.
Your story matters.
What God has placed in your hands matters.
The question is:
What are you going to do with it now?
Yesterday gave us lessons.
Tomorrow gives us direction.
Today gives us the opportunity to live what we've learned.
318, Brother.
No Man Left Behind.
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You’ve thought about writing the book.
You’ve thought about starting the podcast.
You’ve thought about sharing what you’ve learned.
But something keeps stopping you.
Maybe you don’t think your story is important enough.
Maybe you don’t know where to begin.
Maybe you’re waiting until everything is figured out.
But what if the story you keep calling your past is actually preparation for your future?
In this episode of the 318 Brotherhood Podcast, Coach Rick speaks directly to the man who knows there is something inside him that needs to be shared.
A story.
A lesson.
A message.
A book.
A podcast.
A mission.
The failures you wish you could erase may have taught you something another man desperately needs.
The pain you survived may have given you a perspective somebody else doesn’t have yet.
And the experience you’ve accumulated over 30, 40, or 50 years may be far more valuable than you realize.
There are men who will leave this earth with books never written, messages never spoken, lessons never shared, and wisdom never passed on.
Don’t let that be you.
You don’t need to know how to write the whole book today.
You don’t need the perfect podcast.
You don’t need a business plan.
You simply need to start digging.
Look at the victories.
Look at the failures.
Look at the pain.
Look at the people.
Look at the expensive lessons.
Then ask God:
“What did You build in me through what I’ve lived, and who needs what You taught me?”
Because somewhere inside what you’ve lived is a story.
Inside that story is a lesson.
Inside that lesson is a message.
And somewhere out there is a person who may need to hear it.
Your story was never meant to stop with you.
Turn what you’ve lived into what you’re called to give.
318, Brother.

If I Lost Everything Tomorrow: Here's Exactly What I'd Do in the Next 7 Days
What if tomorrow morning you woke up and everything was gone?
Your money.
Your business.
Your customers.
Your website.
Your possessions.
Everything you spent years building.
And you had seven days to start over.
What would you do?
That's the challenge behind Episode 136 of the 318 Brotherhood Podcast.
Because here's what I've discovered:
Starting over doesn't mean starting from zero.
Even if the money disappeared, you would still possess decades of accumulated assets:
Your knowledge.Your experiences.Your lessons.Your skills.Your story.Your reputation.Your relationships.Your intellectual property.Your ability to solve problems.And most importantly, what God has already entrusted to you.
That's your Kingdom Balance Sheet.
In this episode, I walk through exactly what I would do during my first seven days:
DAY 1: MINE ITInventory what God has already placed in your hands.
DAY 2: REFINE ITDetermine which assets solve real problems for real people.
DAY 3: TEST ITPut what you've discovered into somebody else's hands and find out whether the gold is real.
DAYS 4–5: DEVELOP ITTurn the refined asset into something useful that creates value.
DAY 6: DEPLOY ITTake it into the marketplace. Have conversations. Make offers. Stop hiding behind preparation.
DAY 7: STEWARD ITStudy the evidence. What worked? What created value? What should you refine, multiply, or abandon?
If I had seven days to rebuild, I wouldn't start with a website.
I wouldn't start with a logo.
I wouldn't start with business cards, funnels, expensive software, or the perfect product.
I'd start with one question:
What problem can I solve with what God has already entrusted to me?
Then I'd find somebody with that problem and start serving them.
Your assignment this week:
Take out your journal and write:
MY KINGDOM BALANCE SHEET
Then begin taking inventory.
Because you may discover something extraordinary:
You aren't starting over. You're starting with everything you've learned.
And you may already have enough gold sitting inside your life to build again.
318, Brother.

Episode 135
The Kingdom Balance Sheet: You're Richer Than You Think
Why Most People Don't Have a Money Problem. They Have a Stewardship Problem.
Most people measure their wealth by one thing:
How much money is sitting in the bank.
But what if that's the wrong balance sheet?
In this episode of the 318 Brotherhood Podcast, Rick Kauffman introduces what he calls the Kingdom Balance Sheet, a completely different way of measuring wealth through the eyes of God.
Instead of focusing only on cash, investments, and debt, you'll discover the assets God has already entrusted to you that may be worth far more than you realize.
Inside this episode you'll discover:
• Why most men don't have a money problem• The difference between financial wealth and Kingdom wealth• The five Kingdom assets God has already entrusted to you• Why your story may be your greatest financial asset• Hidden assets you've been overlooking• How stewardship unlocks God's provision• Three questions that can completely change how you view your life
The world asks:
"How much do you own?"
God asks:
"What have I entrusted to you?"
You may already be far richer than you think.
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No Man Left Behind.