Seun Adeyemi

I’m a Christian, a husband and a father.

My wife and I have been married fourteen years. We have three children.

What I’ve learned, and where

Most of what I understand about faithfulness I learned in moments when nobody was watching. In studying God’s Word. In watching men a few steps ahead of me walk with God faithfully for decades. And in the men Scripture itself holds up, none of whom had a perfect stride, all of them forgetting what lay behind and straining forward to what lay ahead.

Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.

That’s Philippians 3:13, and it’s the closest thing I have to a key verse.

I’ve been blessed. I grew up in a home where I watched my father model faithfulness. I belong to a community where I’ve seen many men live out the gospel. I’m learning and growing in spite of my mistakes, and I am not yet a finished work.

The work

I’ve spent seventeen years in financial planning in Canada. I hold the CFP® and CKA® designations and I co-run a planning firm, Odyssey Wealth, where most of my days are spent helping people think clearly about money and what it’s for.

That work taught me something I didn’t go looking for. The number is almost never the real question. A man asking whether he has enough is usually asking something underneath it: whether he has been present, whether he has been faithful, whether the life he has built is the one he actually meant to build. You can model a retirement to the dollar and never touch that question.

So this site isn’t about money, and it isn’t about my firm. It’s about the question underneath.

Why I write

Every Wednesday I send a short letter to men. Faith, family, money, and mostly the things we carry quietly and rarely say out loud. Every letter I have written is in the archive here, from the first one on. Every other Monday I record an episode of The Next Chapter, a conversation for men who want the rest of their lives to count.

I don’t write as a man who has this settled. I’ve drifted. I’ve been passive in seasons that asked me to be present, and I have failed in ways I’m not proud of. Those failures aren’t a footnote to what I write. They are most of where it comes from. They are also what drew me closer to God, which is the only reason I think any of it is worth saying out loud.

We don’t usually drift by being idle. We drift by being busy. Life gets the better of us, we go with the flow, and we work hard at everything except the things that matter most. A man can pour himself into providing and still be absent from the rooms God assigned him.

Plenty of us believe, quietly, that as long as we work and provide, that’s enough. But providing is the floor. It is where the responsibility starts, not where it ends. God has called us to more than one thing, and He will hold us accountable for each one:

• Husband — the priest in his home, to lead his wife
• Father — the shepherd, to guide his children
• Son — to honour his father and mother, and care for them as they age
• Brother — a co-labourer, to serve others in the body of Christ

So my hope is simple. To challenge and encourage men to think honestly about every role they have been given, and to walk faithfully in all of them, at home and in his church, locally and globally.

To be faithful. To be intentional.

Where to start

If you’re new, start with whichever letter title is already following you around. Or start at the beginning and read forward. The archive is free, the letter is free, and neither will ever be anything else.