312. The Difference Between Having Identity and an Idea of Yourself

312. The Difference Between Having Identity and an Idea of Yourself

From The Impossible Life by Nick Surface & Garrett Unclebach

June 1, 2026 · 47 min · Season 4 · Episode 312

About this episode

Nick Surface and Garrett Unclebach discuss the importance of living from the inside out and the challenges of maintaining identity under pressure.

What happens when life hits you hard? In this episode of The Impossible Life Podcast, Nick Surface and Garrett Unclebach unpack what it means to live from the inside out. This is a conversation about identity, pressure, truth, endurance, and the kind of faith that makes Christian men immovable when the world around them is trying to shape them. Garrett explains that the real test of identity is not what you say about yourself when things are easy. The real test is what happens when pressure hits. Is what’s inside of you stronger than what’s outside of you? Are you influencing your environment, or is your environment influencing you? That is the heart of inside out living. Nick and Garrett use the picture of osmosis to explain how men are constantly being shaped by the environments around them. If what is outside of you is stronger than what is inside of you, it will change you. But if what God has built inside of you is stronger, you begin to change the environment instead. This episode challenges Christian men to stop living from external validation, pressure, feelings, and circumstances. Instead, men are called to live from truth, identity, faith, and the purpose God placed…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nick Surface, Garrett Unclebach

Topics covered

  • identity
  • pressure
  • faith
  • endurance
  • Christianity
  • truth

Keywords

  • identity
  • pressure
  • Christian men
  • truth
  • faith
  • endurance
  • inside out living

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