Firstly, I am horrible with consistency with blogging, posting, etc. But I wanted to take just a minute for my first blog post, and give a little bit of info as to why I started NAH Brother.
Back at the end of May, I had just gotten fired from my job as Plant Manager of 5.5 years. Fired for "Safety and Performance Issues". Yet I was never written up, no performance improvement plans...my sites had zero safety incidents over 5 years...yet I was being fired. Being as close to my team as I was...they let me know my replacement started 3 days later.
Now most would say, big deal...get another job...move on. Me, though...shit like this triggers me to my core. My anxiety...my fear of abandonment...I just didn't understand what I could have done differently to avoid this loss. That's a lie...I didn't want to ask for help. That's a huge part of it. I was drowning...I was stressed and overworked. But damn if I was going to show weakness and ask for help.
Now I have always wanted to be an entrepreneur...I just never had a good product or idea to sell. Between some things I had been dealing with (we'll get into that another time)...and now being fired...I had to do something for the betterment of men everywhere.
NAH stands for need a hand. We as men are fixers. We fix things. But we never fix ourselves. And we never ask for help. So how can we do anything for ourselves...if we cant fix it...and neither can anyone else. NAH Brother was started to show men that its okay to ask for help. That might require massive cultural change...changes to thought patterns. But NAH Brother will be here to see it through. To make men stronger together than as individuals.