I'm Alec lace. Welcome to First Class fatherhood. Welcome everybody to episode 231 of the podcast. I am happy as always to be here with you. Thank you for stopping by. If this is your first time listening to the podcast. Please get over there and bang that subscribe button. You do not want to miss all the action that is coming your way right here first class fatherhood. All right dad's it's time for another frog man Friday edition of first-class. Fatherhood joining me. Today is former Navy SEAL and entrepreneur Troy molesky. I am very excited to have Troy with me here today. So please stick around. For the interview and today will be my last episode for a while here is I shut it down to enjoy some summertime fun with the family. Please. Be sure to follow me over on Instagram at Alec underscore lace and on Twitter at Alan glaze for all the updates on upcoming guests and announcements. There are plenty of interviews available in the archives. So if you haven't yet had the chance to listen to All 231 episodes of the podcast now would be a good time for you to catch up. I cannot say thank you enough for all of the support from you listeners out there and has been very overwhelming to say the Least it has been an honor for me to share the celebration of fatherhood and family life with you. There is a fatherless crisis in our country. I put up a post on Facebook yesterday regarding some of the statistics as far as from 2017. There were nineteen point seven million children living in a home without a father figure and that is a disaster something needs to be done to lower that number. I'm doing what I can here to kind of shine the spotlight on fatherhood and try to change that negative outlook that so many young men have on fatherhood and family life. I understand that being Dad is not easy. I understand that it requires sacrifice, but I also understand just how awesome and rewarding it is and it is by far the greatest thing that has ever happened in my life and I am not asking anybody to take my word for it. I'd like to ask you to take the word of so many of the men that I've been honored to have on the podcast with me here. I truly believe that if the number of children growing up without a father figure which start to decrease so would the crime rate the teenage pregnancy rate the poverty rate and overtime society would benefit greatly all the way around as a Holt so if you know a dad in your life, please introduce them to this podcast and help me spread the message that fatherhood rocks Family Values Rule and every day is Father's Day right here with me and I'm going to jump into the action right now would form a Navy SEAL Troy molesky. I'm Ali lace and you're listening to First Class fatherhood. Thank you for listening to First Class fatherhood. You were going to hear a word from my sponsors in the middle of today's interview. If you would like to consider becoming a sponsor of first-class fatherhood. Please hit me up with an email first class fatherhood at gmail.com. All right, and joining me now is a first-class father. He is a combat veteran who served with the elite United States Navy SEAL Teams. He is also an entrepreneur it is a big honor for me to say Troy molesky. Welcome to First Class fatherhood. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right. Let's start right here. How many kids do you have? And how old are they? I have three of my own kids and then we actually adopted two of our nieces. So we range from range from 18 years. Hold down to just turn one. Wow. Okay, that's a full boat there. What type of sports or activities is everybody into everybody. We just moved to Denver, Colorado. So everybody's into skiing as first year. We all got out there on the mound together. So it's great kids are also in the soccer gymnastics there in in a whole slew of sports right now. Very cool. Now do you get involved with coaching at all? If you like to enjoy all that from the sidelines I have evolved. Tiered did a lot of the coaching for my son played baseball. I got in coaching soccer tried to actually take a few seasons off but kind of always give rope back into it. Yeah, I hear you on that. Okay, Troy, please take a minute here just to hit my listeners with a little bit about your background and what you do? Yes. I know. I actually just transitioned out of the Navy of the seal for just shy of nine years just transition now going to school full-time. And I'm also running a an apparel company patriotic themes barrel company here out of Denver. Okay, awesome and Troy. How old were you when you first became a father and how to becoming a dad kind of change your perspective on life. Yeah. This was 28 when I came dad and it absolutely changed. Everything is eye-opening for me. Once you have a kid you realize how selfish you are prior to that so You know, it was a it was a big reason of me transitioning out of the military as well was once I had all the kids. I realized, you know, I want to be around them more and the hundred percent best father. I could be so definitely definitely changed my perspective on the world and really put my priorities in order. Yeah, that's one of the things I always wonder about the Navy Seals just because of the nature of your work. I mean, I can understand it from that single guys perspective who is unattached. But to be a father and a family man, I mean that is got to add a layer of difficulty to a job that is already so challenging. I mean you guys are on the tip of the military spear. What was it like for you to be a dad while serving with the SEAL Teams? It's really tough, you know because you got a some point something has to give so you get a in for me. I was very scared very aware of, you know, I can't neglect my family even though I have this service, you know the duty to for my country. And the serve my country and really just finding that balance. It was definitely a struggle but like I said, it's something I was aware of. So I never neglected the family and really just paid attention to both career in the family. Yeah. What was the biggest challenge for you Troy as far as leaving the teams and no longer serving with the Navy Seals was you know something I deal with every day because it's you know, if I if it weren't for having the family. You know, I would have stayed out of been a lifer of a state in for life and you know, enjoy the community enjoy the guys and so that was one of the toughest decisions I had to make was to walk away from that and that's been something I deal with every single day, but it's a you know, I know it's the right decision and it was for the right reason. So yeah, I can't begin to imagine what that must be like for you but I'm pretty sure that your family is very happy to have you home. And I know you mentioned that your oldest is eighteen to one of your children show any interest in following you into the military. Yeah, so my my son is five and he is infatuated with seals already and not from not for me pushing it on him either he kind of started putting, you know around age four or five is when he started putting two and two together about you know what Dad did and so he's all into it now running around Nerf gun saying he wants to be a seal. So yeah, that's all. All right as a Navy SEAL. I know that you're a very disciplined individual. But how are you as far as being a disciplinarian when it comes to being a father? You know, I would say I take a lot of that disciplinary and bring it into the house too, you know, like like being structured like everybody, you know, obviously listening and obeying. So I am the disciplinary at home and definitely run a tight ship. So we you know always say goes and there's consequences for not listening. Alright, it's time to get an important word from our sponsors and back with more with Troy molesky. I'm Ally lease and you listening to First Class fatherhood. All right, guys, many of you have hit me up saying that you would like to start your own podcast and I am telling you right now anchor is the easiest way to get this done. Number one. It's free. I have never paid a dime to publish any of my podcasts and their creation tools allow you to record and edit right from your phone or your computer anchored those all the distribution as well. So it can be heard on Spotify Apple podcast and many more also you can make money with no minimum. Listen to Ship. It's everything. You need to make a podcast in one place. What are you waiting for it down? Load the free anchor act today or go to Anchored on FM to get started. 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And you know, everything is kind of you know, Hollywood when it comes to some certain aspects of it, but you know, a lot of the a lot of the documentaries that come out I believe or more more true to what are you know, what our teams consist of so, you know, I think it is. I think a lot of times that there is good information to put out and so I See that as a negative aspect or a lot of people do so. Yeah, I think it's I think it's good for your overall. Okay, and I know that many of you frogmen come out with books. Is there any type of a book or anything like that and to make you for you know, that'll be that'll be off the radar for me. I like like flying below the radar. So I'm not looking at pursuing that right now. Okay. And what is your bedtime routine look like Troy with the little ones. Are you a Storyteller a book reader you sing them lullabies? Do you kind of get them down to sleep? Yeah, we usually do we definitely do books and then like to open up for story time if the kids want to tell stories at night and it's really great bonding time, you know at the end of the night and of the last no matter how the day went you can begin reset and have a good bedtime and really show the kids that they're loved at that point. All right. And what was the Genesis of your clothing company here the American brand apparel? Honey, when did you come out with that in 2015? We had a teammate passed away a few years prior to that and just kind of realize you know, we're about that two-year Mark Reed passed away and biting are sitting around where like a how do we continue? You know, Matt the Legacy and how do we get back to the family? So that's really where it started was just you know, we did a t-shirt run give the money back to his family and then just kind of evolved and into that into something. Bigger and you know created a few custom collections across the u.s. For military museums and so it's been a really cool Journey. Yeah, that's awesome Troy. And are you guys all done here as far as having kids or you guys in the market for more? My wife says she's done. I would have one more so we'll see. All right, well good luck with that. And how about as far as having the kids Troy? Did you guys do any type of gender reveal like troll grenade and see if it blows up pink or blue or or wait until the end to find out? So with our our last daughter is born is actually cool. We did we waited till so delivery to you and find out what we were having. So we found out with the the first two and then the third is really cool experience. Wait until the end to find out. Yeah, I have four kids myself and we did sort of agenda revealed with three of them and we waited until the end with one of them. So it was great to have both experiences, but I really enjoyed waiting until the end to find out it's so cool to get that surprise. Yeah, absolutely. All right, and what type of our goals our plans do you have here for yourself in the future? So like I said, I'm full-time MBA student right now. So, you know the next year I'll have that finished up and that's the that's the biggest goal right now and then hopefully taking a few Strokes off my golf game. Yeah, that's cool. Alright last thing. I want to hit you were here Troy. I'd love to ask all the dads that I get on the podcast. What type of advice do you have for that new dad or That about to be father who's out there listening. Yeah, I think like I said, and we when you have kids that kind of changes your world change your perspective. So I think for the new dads just know that although it seems like kids are taking a lot of your time at the beginning just know that it's a hundred worth it and you know, there's there's nothing greater in this world than being a father and you know watching your kids learn from you and grow from what you teach them and and the role model you are to them. So it's so valuable and cherish your time with your kids and just really strive to be the best father. You can well said I love the message. This has been a big honor for me. I got to say Troy malesky. Thank you for your service. You are a first-class father all the way and thank you so much for giving me a few minutes of your time on First Class fatherhood. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Alright, I'm back with some closing thoughts in just a second here. Back to wrap things up here on first last fatherhood. I got to give a special. Thank you. Once again to Troy molesky for giving me a few minutes of his time here. 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Episode 231 Troy Malesky is a First Class Father and combat veteran who served with the elite United States Navy SEALs. He is now a full time student and entrepreneur who has an awesome apparel company American Tribute Brand. In this episode Troy shares his Fatherhood journey and talks about the difficulties of serving with the SEALs while being a Dad. He talks about his transition out of the Teams and shares his plans for the future. Visit AMERICAN TRIBUTE BRAND - https://www.americantributebrand.com   First Class Fatherhood is sponsored by  Game-Time Decision Making by David Meltzer is Now Available for Pre-Order- https://www.amazon.com/Game-Time-Decision-Making-High-Scoring-Strategies/dp/1260452611  SeatGeek SAVE $20 OFF Tickets by Visiting seatgeek.com Use Promo Code: FIRSTCLASS  Get Paid To Listen To First Class Fatherhood on Podcoin - https://podcoin.app.link/01oVbtv9VV   Visit my instagram - https://instagram.com/alec_lace?igshid=ebfecg0yvbap  For information about becoming a Sponsor of First Class Fatherhood please hit me with an email: FirstClassFatherhood@gmail.com   ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 