i went from a world where my cousins were my tribe, and they had my back unconditionally, without question, until we dared to rattle the paradime and question authority. And then s suddenly they all disowned us. And so i went from having this blood buzz around me all the time to suddenly is gone. I'm not almost seven feet tall. This was something that you stepped into. Like, what are the new rules here? Where is my place? So i'm curious whether basket ball was purely a passion for your whether it was a place to belong, or whether it was acopim mechanism, or just all of the above, or something else.
Lance Allred was born legally deaf in a polygamist commune in rural Montana. When he was 13, his family escaped and eventually came out of hiding in Utah, where for the first time, he had to step into a world that he had no experience navigating. Lance had always loved writing, but at nearly 6’4” in middle school, and looking for a new way to belong, his height caught the eye of the basketball coach. The game became his life and he'd eventually become a star athlete that led to college, then years playing all over the world in the pros, including a stint in the NBA. But, underneath it all, Lance never left his love of writing, and he began to share his inner life in print, authoring a number of books and eventually leaving the game to speak to and train leaders. In his newest book, The New Alpha Male, (https://amzn.to/2Ub4d6W) Lance turns his deeply reflective, insightful, and honest lens on the role of masculinity, how his experience of it has changed dramatically since becoming a dad and what he leads with now. In today’s conversation, we explore all of this, including a really beautiful moment where the truer, deeper reason for this book, and who it’s really written for, comes out.
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