A Key Aspect of Mentorship is Availability with Garret Barbush (EP. 264)

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This week we begin The Restoration Series with Garret Barbush, sharing stories of lives changed. For 12 years Garret was the CEO of Men of Iron, leading the organization and building a strong foundation for where Men of Iron is today. Garret grew up in the church and accepted Christ at an early age. At the age of 9, at a Royal Rangers camp, Garret felt the presence of the Holy Spirit for the first time. Responding to an altar call, he heard God say to him, "I'm going to use you in a big way." Despite decades of turmoil and counseling working through the trauma of sexual abuse and molestation at an early age, Garret looks back at this moment at Royal Rangers as instrumental in his faith journey.

As a younger sibling, Garret always struggled with feeling like he had to "measure up" to what his siblings had done.

"That became my mentality with my faith, I have to earn God's respect, I have to earn God's love. I had this warped reality of who God was, that God wasn't my Father, I just had to impress Him."

In college is when Garret started to take on his faith as his own. Garret credits a college professor, Doctor Shane Johnson as the first man in his life who showed him what it meant to be a man. "He was harsh, he was firm but it was always the truth." This was a major turning point in Garret's life, that woke him up to the fact that he wasn't living the right way.

Mentorship isn't that hard, it's just making yourself available to others, Doc Johnson made himself available to Garret. In 2011, on his honeymoon, Garret felt an overwhelming sense from God that something was going to change. Later in 2011 the Founder of Men of Iron, Garret's brother-in-law Bryan, approached Garret to lead Men of Iron as the CEO. As soon as Garret made this move God anointed him with this passion for men getting it right, and leading their families well.

Mentorship changed Garret's life and he wants to provide that to as many men as possible. He believes that mentorship is so vital, because as men we screw it up on our own. "You can find someone that has more knowledge and experience, they've been there and done that." There is so much we can glean from mentorship, but we have to take a posture of humility and say I don't have it figured out but I'm willing to do what it takes. Mentors see something in us that we don't see them in ourselves.

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