What happens when the man everyone depends on has no one checking on him?
Greg Kirkland has spent his life serving others.
As a pastor, choir director, entrepreneur, filmmaker, husband, and father, he's dedicated himself to lifting people up. But behind every title is a man wrestling with the same question many men quietly carry:
When does someone take care of me?
In one of the most vulnerable conversations ever on Beauty in the Beast, Greg opens up about balancing ministry, marriage, fatherhood, entrepreneurship, emotional exhaustion, and the guilt many men feel when they finally choose themselves.
This isn't just a conversation about faith.
It's about responsibility. It's about identity.
And it's about discovering that being present for yourself may be the greatest gift you can give everyone else.
In this episode:
• Why Greg says balance doesn't exist
• The hidden emotional cost of leadership
• Why pastors need grace too
• Blended families and second chances
• Living with constant responsibility
• The guilt men carry
• Why "doing nothing" is actually doing something
• How quiet moments changed his life
This conversation is about burnout, identity, fatherhood, leadership and why taking care of yourself isn't selfish.
It's survival.
Chapters:
03:15 Growing Up Between Gospel and R&B
09:00 When Music Became a Calling
14:00 Building the See-It Choir
18:30 The Pastor Who Ran From Pastoring
22:00 The Truth About Megachurches
29:30 The Genuine Article
39:30 My Dope Blend and Blended Family Life
42:00 Why Balance Doesn't Exist
46:00 The Guilt Men Carry
49:00 Who Takes Care of You?
52:00 Why He Won't Pause Being a Husband or Father
58:00 Learning to Be Alone
1:05:00 The Truth about Feeling Loved?
1:07:00 The Irony of the Worldview of Black Men
1:10:00 Give Your Pastor Grace
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