In this episode of The Missing Conversation, host Steve Evans sits down with Warren — the son of Chinese immigrants who built a life and a successful business through grit, sacrifice, and an unrelenting drive to succeed.

Warren traces the crucible moments that shaped his identity as a man: leaving home at eighteen, grinding through 60-hour work weeks to put himself through college at McGill, and the painful conversation with his father that he carried for the rest of his life.

He speaks honestly about immigrant pressure and the cost of success, the unspoken emotions of a traditional upbringing, losing his father to cancer, and becoming a father himself — including the moment that forced him to look inward and become a calmer, more present man for his family.

This is a raw, honest conversation about fatherhood, resilience, identity, marriage, mental health, and the relationships that, in the end, mattered more than any measure of money or achievement.

There used to be a moment — before the wedding, before the first child, before the weight of it all settled in — when an older man would pull you aside and tell you something true. Something he'd learned the hard way. Something that would save you time.

For most of us, that moment never came.

The Missing Conversation is a podcast for men who are somewhere in the middle of a life they built — and wondering, quietly, if they're doing it right. Every episode, host Steve Evans sits down with a man who's been through one of the passages that define a life: leaving home, entering the world, building a family, watching it leave, or facing the end. And he asks him what he knows now that he wishes someone had handed him.

Not advice. Not therapy. The kind of honest conversation that used to happen around fires and on front porches, before men stopped gathering.

If you've ever lost yourself in the grind of providing. If you've ever watched a season of your life end and not known who you were on the other side of it. If you've ever carried something you couldn't quite name and had no one to say it to — this is the circle that should have existed.

It does now.