The Warrior Kings Podcast : Men's Self Help Masculinity Podcast · Michael Riggs

We Chose a Different Life (Marriage, Faith & Risk) | Carli Riggs | The Warrior Kings Podcast Ep.93

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Carly answers the fear of failure with, 'What if it works?'

1. The Warrior Kings Podcast episode centers on Michael Riggs and Carly Riggs talking about marriage, faith, risk, and an unconventional life. 2. Michael Riggs hosts, and Carly Riggs joins as his wife and repeated creative partner in the episodes about bus life and family decisions. 3. The episode asks why Michael and Carly keep choosing "a different life" instead of the conventional checklist of house, job, and comfort. 4. Carly says she was told by her older sister Jen to "be realistic," but she kept dreaming about "something outside of the box." 5. Michael says their early bond came from tiny living ideas, including a sailboat home, school bus conversions, and a Schoolie festival. 6. They describe converting a school bus into a tiny home and living there for a year with two children. 7. Carly says the bus life later gave way to a new dream of "having a house in a neighborhood" and even suburbia. 8. Michael says their visions changed together without needing to negotiate the shift, which he connects to being on the same "spiritual wavelength." 9. The episode returns to a story about buying a bus on Facebook Marketplace after seeing a partially converted project with the windows down. 10. Carly says the bus was full of spiders, and Michael says the conversion required demo work before he could lay out the new design. 11. Michael argues that people often stop at the conventional checklist because it feels safe, even when they want something different. 12. Carly says a friend repeatedly asked "what if" the new business did not work, and she replied, "What if it works?" 13. Michael says believing in the dream mattered because they kept it in mind, researched it on YouTube, and bought materials for the bus from what was already inside it. 14. He describes the bus sale as happening about a week before the money was needed for the house, which he calls a case of "supernatural faith." 15. Michael says there was "no plan B" because they expected the bus to sell and refused to make a failure plan. 16. Carly describes bus life as a lesson in intentionality, resourcefulness, and making "core memories" in a loft bed with a projector screen. 17. The tone is conversational, familiar, and lightly self-aware, with both of them laughing about kids, birthdays, and their own "delusional optimism." 18. The format is a husband-and-wife interview with Michael leading the prompts and Carly answering with specific memories and examples. 19. Listeners who like marriage stories, faith talk, and unconventional living will likely stay with it. 20. Listeners wanting a formal, tightly edited business interview may skip it.

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A faith-heavy case for treating risk as part of the path.

This episode follows a marriage shaped by faith, risk, and a decision not to keep a backup plan close by. It keeps asking the same plain question: what happens when comfort stops being the standard for a good life?

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For when you want a no-plan-B faith talk that pushes comfort out of the room.

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