“Our breakthrough is in our blind spot.”
“I want to know you. Do you want to know who you are?”
“There’s a rawness and there’s a beauty in the rawness.”
“Jesus is my hope ... I felt like a fake, a fraud.”
“Most men pre-reject themselves before they even get engaged.”
Guest Name: Chris Gifford
Company: Thread Pull
Title: Founder, Video Strategist & Men’s Coach
Industry: Video Production / Business & Personal Coaching
Power Words: Stubborn. Unflinching. Tender. Challenging. Relentless. Hopeful.
1. Your breakthrough is hiding in your blind spot. Chris built his entire coaching practice around one conviction: people can’t see the thing that’s holding them back, which is exactly why they need someone willing to ask about it. The question nobody wants to ask is usually the one that matters most.
2. Real help disables; it does not enable. Chris draws a hard line between comfort and contribution. He doesn’t rescue people from the cost of their own growth — he asks them to bring something to the table, because a man who hasn’t paid a price isn’t ready to receive what’s being offered.
3. Clarity in communication starts with clarity of identity. Long before Chris picks up a camera, he’s helping a business or a person answer a much older question: who are you, really? Everything else; the video, the brand, the pitch; is downstream of that.
Chris works primarily with men: entrepreneurs, husbands, and fathers who look like they have it together but are quietly carrying shame, isolation, and depression. He can spot them by the way they avoid eye contact. What he offers isn’t a pep talk; it’s a refusal to look away.
Chris envisions a hundred-plus-acre retreat property with tiny homes, built for one-on-one healing experiences, marriage intensives, and family encounters with God. Alongside that, he wants to produce original content. He wants feature films, TV shows, and training resources that speaks directly to men, marriages, and families instead of treating faith as a Sunday-only topic. Underneath both is the same mission: helping men move from fragmentation to wholeness, and then equipping them to do the same for someone else.
Website: https://wearethreadpull.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegiffchris/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wearethreadpull/
Upcoming Book: Brothers in the Storm: Serve to Heal, releasing late August!
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