Roots To The Fruits · Ep 7 · December 14, 2020 · 25:01
Fatherhood & Family
with The Legend of Lee →
A young Tyzen opens the episode with the news that he's going to be a father — Promise is pregnant, the Tahoe year unfolded exactly as he'd visioned it, and the Lion King moment lands him in tears. From there he and Lee deep-dive the roots beneath the fruits: how each of them was raised, conditional versus unconditional love, and the conscious work of becoming a parent. What starts as a fatherhood reveal turns into a wide-ranging talk on the analytical mind married to the heart, the conscious mirror between strangers, and the magic of a soul choosing its way into a body.
Chapters
I say source, to me, to her, to then our kids — and then to our friends, our family, our teams, our community, the rest of the world. It's a ripple effect from there.
The power of being an active mirror, a conscious mirror. I approach you with that energy of: I don't know who you are, stranger, but you have a story to tell.
I didn't create an analytical pathway from my heart. I was disconnected from how I felt about it.
This is the episode where the news breaks. A young Tyzen sits down with Lee — Grayson nearby — and inside the first minute the saga lands: Promise is pregnant, due in December, found out on Mother’s Day. What follows is not a logistics conversation but a heārt one. Tyzen names the whole range of it — the idea of being a father comes easy, but the reality of shepherding a soul is vast and deep in emotion. He maps fatherhood as concentric circles rippling out from source, recounts the Lion King vision that moved him to tears a year before any of it came true, and holds the honest truth that he and Promise went through real contrast — a separation, a year that felt like a decade — and came back into alignment anyway. Underneath it all is a single conviction: a soul chooses its incarnation, and this one chose to come now.
Then the questioner becomes the questioned. Lee turns the lens on both of their roots — Tyzen raised by a cheerleader mother and an engineer father with a bias toward unconditional love, Lee shaped by losing his mother at four and learning, mostly indirectly, from a father who chose fear. From that contrast the talk opens wide: the children that arrive as creation and life’s work rather than as bodies, an airplane epiphany of missing a family from a parallel life, and Lee’s central teaching — the conscious mirror, the way two strangers on a plane can each walk off having become a little more of who they want to be. It closes on integration: the analytical mind married to the heart, and the willingness to do your own scientific method on reality until you find the magic. Roots, and the fruits they were always going to grow.
Moments
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“What I feel is an entire range — it is all over the map. The idea of being a father is very easy for me. I wasn’t surprised when she told me. But the reality of shepherding a soul is really simple in understanding, but it’s vast and deep in emotion.” — Tyzen Drake
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“It was very Lion King-esque. I was here holding the staff, like Mufasa holding up Simba. We watched Lion King not too long ago and I was crying like a little baby. That was kind of at the core of it — and we got pregnant plus or minus a week of that exact date.” — Tyzen Drake
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“Then boom — you’re a family man. Papa Drake.” — Grayson
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“I was raised with a bias towards unconditional love.” — Tyzen Drake
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“Your life’s work can become your child, can become your children.” — Lee
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“Consciousness comes from two cells, a sperm and an egg, a zygote. That’s magic.” — Tyzen Drake
Recorded 2020 under Roots To The Fruits — the origin series. Co-created with The Legend of Lee & Grayson.