Grit On The Rocks

About Grit On The Rocks

Grit On The Rocks is where real conversations create stronger men. Hosted by David, this podcast explores life, leadership, discipline, faith, relationships, fatherhood, personal growth, entrepreneurship, and purpose. Through powerful stories, practical wisdom, and a biblical perspective, each episode challenges you to become a better man, better husband, better father, and better human being. Pour a drink, light a cigar, and join the conversation.

Publisher

Grit On The Rocks

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

28 Aug 2024

Latest episode

13 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

85 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Aug 2026

   How to Be Happy Again: Stop Waiting for Something to Go Wrong

   Why is it so hard to be happy when life is finally going well? Sometimes the problem isn't that your life is bad. You've simply spent so much time dealing with stress, grief, anxiety, overthinking, uncertainty, and survival mode that you've forgotten how to enjoy peace. In this episode of Grit On The Rocks, David Diaz explores how to be happy again, stop worrying about the future, overcome fear and guilt, practice gratitude, live in the present, and find peace even when life isn't perfect. David shares the deeply personal story of moving from Puerto Rico to New York and beginning a new chapter of his life. He was newly married, starting a new job, living in a new city, and finally feeling hopeful about the future after experiencing tremendous grief. Then he learned that his mother had cancer. Suddenly, happiness and heartbreak existed at the same time. That experience taught him a lesson he carries to this day: Two things can be true at the same time. You can be grieving and grateful. You can be worried and hopeful. You can support someone who is hurting without destroying yourself in the process. You can experience pain and still recognize God's blessings. And you do not have to feel guilty for enjoying the good things happening in your life simply because something else hurts. Through personal storytelling, practical life lessons, personal growth, faith, biblical wisdom, emotional healing, gratitude, mindset, and self-improvement, this conversation challenges you to stop living as though something bad is always around the corner. Ecclesiastes reminds us that there is a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. Life doesn't always separate those seasons for us. Sometimes they happen at the same time. If you've been struggling with anxiety, overthinking, survival mode, fear of the future, grief, happiness, finding purpose, enjoying life, or simply learning how to live in the moment again, this conversation is for you. BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT I'm also excited to announce my upcoming book: THE WEIGHT WORTH CARRYING A Memoir of Resilience, Faith, and Rebuilding a Life Worth Leading Releasing August 28, 2026 on Amazon. This book is about pain, purpose, faith, fatherhood, responsibility, resilience, and rebuilding your life when things don't go according to plan. Because your past may explain you, but it does not get the final vote. Follow The Weight Worth Carrying on Facebook and Instagram for book updates, excerpts, behind-the-scenes content, launch announcements, and more as we count down to August 28. And remember: Don't spend so much time worrying about what could go wrong tomorrow that you completely miss what's going right today. Sometimes happiness isn't the absence of pain. Sometimes happiness is having the courage to recognize what is still good while something hurts. Grit On The Rocks explores life, faith, relationships, fatherhood, personal growth, leadership, discipline, purpose, resilience, and the uncomfortable truths that help us become better human beings.

2. 

   3 Aug 2026

   Dear Fathers, Your Children Still Have Questions:GRIT on The Rocks #83

   Children rarely stop loving an absent father. They simply stop asking their questions out loud. In this emotional episode of Grit On The Rocks, David shares his experience of growing up without his biological father and the questions that followed him into adulthood. He discusses how abandonment affects a child's sense of worth, why financial provision can never replace emotional presence, and how fathers can break destructive generational cycles. David also reflects on his own mistakes as a father, the importance of apologizing to our children, and the responsibility men have to remain present even when relationships, marriages, or life circumstances change. Through personal storytelling and biblical reflection, this conversation offers encouragement to fathers who want to do better, adult children healing from abandonment, and men determined to become the fathers they never had. You cannot change the past. But you can take responsibility for what happens next. Find us on : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GritontheRocksInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gritontherocks/

3. 

   28 Jul 2026

   Why You're Still Broke Even If You Make More Money:GRIT on the Rocks Ep 82

   Why do so many people stay broke even after getting a raise? In this episode of Grit On The Rocks, we expose the broke mindset, lifestyle inflation, bad money habits, and the psychology that keeps people living paycheck to paycheck. Learn how to build wealth, achieve financial freedom, invest wisely, stop emotional spending, and create generational wealth through discipline, stewardship, and intentional living. If you're serious about changing your financial future, this episode is for you.Like | Comment | Subscribe#FinancialFreedom #MoneyMindset #PersonalFinance #WealthBuilding #GritOnTheRocksFind us on : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GritontheRocksInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gritontherocks/

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

34,321

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

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Quality

94

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

32

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