Joe McConnell
However, now that his children are getting into golf and he is an avid player…AND He’s friends with a lot of professional golfers and other athletes: “They’re kind of impressed by him,” Wahlberg said on the April 10, 2022 episode of Sunday session podcast. “But I think they’re secretly impressed by my work ethic and my discipline. And I have to be an example to them, I have to show them that Dad will get up and do whatever he has to do. I could easily be complacent now that I’ve had success, but I’m more driven and determined than I’ve ever been.”
As for his faith, which is so central to his world, “I don’t impose it” on the kids, he said. Hoda Kotb ON Today that April. “But they know that Dad can’t start his day without praying, he can’t start his day without reading my Scripture or going to Mass. And hopefully, instead of forcing it on him, they’ll say, ‘Well, if it works for Dad, maybe it’ll work for us,’ and they’ll kind of figure it out for themselves.”
Meanwhile, he joked, “They think Dad is crazy and boring.”
