The Pressure to Get It "Right" with Thomas Rhett

About this episode

Miles Adcox and Thomas Rhett discuss the pressures of balancing personal and professional life while striving for authenticity.

Have you ever stood in the middle of a life that looks great on paper and still felt like you were failing the people right in front of you? What if being hard on yourself isn't humility? It's just the long way around to never believing you're enough? And what happens when the same obsessive drive that makes you world-class at your craft is the exact thing that makes it hard to just sit down and watch your kid eat cereal slowly? Miles sits down with his longtime friend for one of the most honest and wide-open episodes yet. Thomas Rhett brings all of himself — the songwriter who goes all in on everything he loves, the dad of five learning to trade productivity for presence, and the man doing the real work to make sure who his family experiences every day is the same person the world admires from a distance. This one is full of laughter, hard-won wisdom, and the kind of honesty that only happens between two people who genuinely trust each other. This conversation is about the guy who flips on the bedroom lights at 6:30 AM, trying to get five kids out the door, and wonders on the drive home if he loved them well at all that morning. The man who told a new friend upfront, "I'm not a…

People in this episode

Host: Miles Adcox

Guest: Thomas Rhett

Topics covered

• personal growth
• parenting
• self-acceptance
• work-life balance
• creativity
• honesty

Keywords

• personal growth
• parenting
• self-improvement
• creativity
• honesty
• work-life balance
• Thomas Rhett

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Organizations: Onsite

Places: Nashville, San Diego

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