136： Lewis Howes ｜ The Mask of Masculinity
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New York Times bestselling author Lewis Howes joins me to talk about why men are failing on so many benchmarks, how to recognize and confront what is holding you and I back as men, and why the masks we wear hinder our personal growth.
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Recognizing that we as men wear masks might just be one of the most difficult self-evaluation
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processes that we can go through. It's difficult because sometimes we've been wearing the mask for
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so long that it actually becomes part of who we are and how we define ourselves. My guest today,
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New York Times bestselling author Lewis Howes, joins me to talk about why men are failing on
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so many benchmarks, how to recognize and confront what is holding you and I back as men,
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why the masks we wear hinder our personal growth and the nine masks of masculinity.
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart your
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own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time you are not easily
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deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are. This is
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who you will become at the end of the day. And after all is said and done, you can call yourself
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a man. Men, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler and I am the host and the founder of
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this podcast, The Order of Man. I am sure that you are aware by now that we have had a killer,
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a killer lineup over the past couple of weeks. First, Gary John Bishop. Last week we had Jocko
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Willink and this week we've got Lewis Howes. It's like the perfect trifecta or hat trick,
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if you will, of podcast guests. I'm glad you're tuning in and catching all of this. It's what we're all
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the men and how these podcasts are impacting their lives. Guys, I want to jump just right into this
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show today since it's such a good and an interesting topic. I'll admit when Lewis sent me a copy of his
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book, I resisted. I resisted the first chapter too. I talk about it a little bit in the podcast and the
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interview itself. But the more that I read through it, the more that I was fascinated with this idea
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and notion of the masks that we wear. If you don't already know, my guest today, Lewis Howes,
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is a New York Times bestselling author. I know a ton of you are already familiar with his work and
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what he's up to with his own company and podcast, which is listened to millions, millions of times
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per month. And it's called the School of Greatness. We had Lewis on the show a while back. I don't
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remember right off hand how long ago it was, but he has released his newest book, The Mask of
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Masculinity. What I enjoyed about this book is that Lewis really pulled back the curtain in his own life.
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And you can tell by the way that he's analyzed who he is and what makes him tick, that this is a
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process that he doesn't just talk about. This is a process that he's actually been through and
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uncovered for himself. He had a lot of success as a professional athlete, which hints at the mask
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that he was used to wearing, only to find himself injured and wondering how he could redefine himself
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and tap into who he really was. So gentlemen, get ready, prepare to challenge some of the thoughts
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about who you are. And let's unpack this idea of The Mask of Masculinity.
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Lewis, what's going on, man? Thanks for joining me on the show.
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Round number two. I'm really looking forward to this one, man. I got to tell you, and I told you
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this a minute ago, this one pushed me outside of my comfort zone. I got to tell you, as I was reading
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through the book, The Mask of Masculinity, I caught myself saying, no, that's not right. No, this is not
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true. No, that can't be how it is. And I resisted this book, but I almost wonder if it's like,
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this is my mask speaking. You know what I mean?
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Some type of Stoic mask. They're hiding behind a literal mask of facial hair.
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That's right. That's right. Yeah. I know we talk about nine different masks, and of course,
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we're going to break this down a little bit better. But yeah, I went through all of these masks,
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and yeah, I've got some in all of them, I'm sure. But out of all nine of them, the Stoic mask is
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definitely the most prevalent for sure. Do you feel like you are sensitive or show emotions or
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share your feelings when something comes up? Or do you kind of just act like you've got it all
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That's a good question. And this is why the book challenged me so much is because
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I caught myself saying, no, guys, don't do that. And so as I started thinking about why
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that was the case, I don't know. I feel like we've got this certain role as men that we need
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to adhere to. And for me, showing emotion in a way detracts from that role. And so that's why
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this was so challenging for me in a good way, in a good way.
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Yeah. I mean, listen, I think it's life's a dance and it's an art. It's not this like paint by
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numbers thing where you're like, OK, in this situation, I have to be strong and never show
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emotion. And then when I'm alone by myself, when no one can see me, then I can, you know,
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be upset or scream out loud or cry or whatever I want to feel. I think it's a dance and it
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evolves over our entire life. When we're kids, are we suppressing our tears and emotions or
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are we allowing them to flow through us and on to the next moment because we express them?
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And I think as we become conditioned as young boys that are told not to cry and to suck it up
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and to be a man and don't be a pussy, don't be a little girl, all these things. When we hear these
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things over and over again, we start to wear this mask of, OK, if I express myself, I'm going to be
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wronged and shamed and made fun of and looked less than a man. And so therefore, let me never show
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emotion. Even when I'm super freaking hurt, even when I'm pissed, even when I want to kill someone,
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even when I feel like they're bullying me, even when I feel like my girlfriend just screwed me over,
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I'm going to feel like I have it all put together and just put on this armor and weight of suppression.
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How does that support men? That's what I want to know is how does that? I think there's a time and
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a place to express ourselves and share our emotions. But I want to know is how does that support a man
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who isn't capable of expressing themselves over the long haul when it continues to build up
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this wall of inability to just relate to people? You know, I'm talking about extreme cases when men
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don't share themselves or express themselves in any sensitive way. And it's just from rage and anger.
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That's how they tend in general to express what the stoic mask is like, okay, at some point it's all
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going to build up inside where you've got to let something out and then you go kill someone or you
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go get, you go get a bar fight because you just like, can't hold back the emotional breakdown or
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whatever it may be. It's like, that's the one you like are afraid is going to go get a gun and shoot
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people in a movie theater because they've been bullied and picked on and they've been suppressing
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their emotions for so long and they look stoic, like they got it all figured out and there's
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no emotion, but then something snaps and all the rage comes out. So this is extreme obviously,
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but I'm just thinking about what are the things that those masks that hold us back from actually
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feeling clear in our hearts. And that's what I feel like it is. It's all the emotions that we feel
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from every moment. And men feel just as many emotions as women from my experience. I don't
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remember crying less than a girl when I was three, four, five, seven years old. I probably cried
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more. You know what I mean? I was scared. I was always insecure. I was always felt alone. Didn't
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feel like anyone loved me. I didn't feel like anyone had any friends. I felt like I was the dumbest
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person in school and I just like was always sad. And I learned to not express that, you know,
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late in elementary school because it wasn't cool. And I learned to stuff down those emotions.
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And I remember I was so driven to prove all the boys and girls and whoever wrong about me from my
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childhood, from them making fun of me, then them saying I was stupid, then saying I wasn't good
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looking. Whatever it was, I was like, I'm going to prove the world wrong. I'm going to become the
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biggest, fastest, strongest human that I can be, the best athlete I can be. So I'm the most desired
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man in the world because of my sports experience, because of my achievements, because of my,
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the money that I make. And I use those things to build up my self-worth. And when I would achieve
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these things, what I would achieve all American status and pro football, it was like, I was
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miserable and angry within moments after achieving these lifelong goals and dreams. And what I realized
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about four or five years ago is that these achievements didn't bring me the fulfillment
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and the intimacy and the love and the connections and the relationships that I wanted. It just made me
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feel like it still wasn't enough. And I had to go for more. And that's why at 30, I finally realized
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like, okay, Lewis, something isn't working. Like I'm constantly achieving things at the highest levels,
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everything I write down on my goals and circle and hang on my wall and, you know, train for decades
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and make come true. They aren't enough. Something isn't working. And at 30, I finally woke up to the
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fact that, huh, maybe all these things I've been doing and maybe these lies I've been told my whole
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life about what it means to be manly or a man or whatever, isn't really true. And let me look into
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this more. And, and that's really kind of how the journey started for me. Yeah. I love it. So would
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you say that your, your prevalent mask then, and I'm sure, like I said, you have elements of all of
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these things is the, uh, the athlete mask. Yeah. The athlete mask for sure. You know,
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the aggression mask, I would say I had, and, you know, still have for moments and, uh, the alpha
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mask, the invincible mask at some times. And even though like, it's funny, the know-it-all mask,
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I used to think I knew it all, all the time, even though I was probably like the dumbest kid in school,
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I put on this persona of like, no, I know this. I know what I'm talking about. And, um, to kind of
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prove my worth. The thing is I've worn all these masks. There's nine different masks that men wear
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and, or have worn, and I've worn them all at different stages of my life. And I'm going to
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wear them all probably for the rest of my life at different stages as well. I think it's going to be
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impossible to remove the mask fully. But what I have done is been so aware of them that I'm able to
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notice when they show up or when I feel like I'm triggered in a situation that when I put it on,
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I'm able to breathe, take a deep breath and ground myself. And I think the, you know, a true man is a
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man who can be so self-aware and be aware of everything around him, everything and everyone
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around them. He can assess the situation. He can see what's happening. He can see the fears in other
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people. He can see the insecurities in other people. He can see the, the, the struggle that may
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happen in the future. He can assess it with so much calm, poise and grace because he sees it in
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himself. And he is aware of his own masks and the things that hold him back in his own insecurities,
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in his fears. He doesn't try to hide them. He doesn't try to say they're not there. He embraces him.
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He's like a Batman that it says, I embrace the bats of my life and I'm going to conquer them
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by embracing them and putting them in the forefront of my life, not hiding behind it,
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but actually I'm going to put a bat suit on and say, this is my biggest fear. So let me live in
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this fear. And that's what I think is powerful. When a man is able to assess any situation, when he's
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able to connect with all types of human beings, it doesn't matter what age, what gender, gender
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non-conforming, he is able to come from a place of love and acceptance and, and just be able to
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assess things with grace and then move through that experience and that moment with a level of
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service. And I think that's what it means to be a man. I think you bring up a really good distinction
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here because you're talking about noticing the masks. You're talking about recognizing when you're
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wearing that mask. I think in reading the book and just understanding who you are and a little bit
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about you that, that these masks aren't necessarily bad. Like for example, I think about the stoic mask
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and I think about a first responder or a firefighter, a soldier who yes, can recognize the fear, but still
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has to run into the burning building. And so that mask, I think, and I don't want to put words in your
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mouth, but from my perspective is appropriate at times. How do you find the balance between wearing
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the appropriate mask and then setting the mask down and, and, and getting a little deeper?
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Absolutely. I mean, like, listen, these masks drove me to be where I'm at today.
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They, they helped me get to where I am, but they also held me back from having inner fulfillment and
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inner peace. It drove me to be a great athlete. So I wore this mask. However, I was just unable to
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take it off in so many situations. So I wasn't able to connect or listen to other people and hear where
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they were coming from throughout life because I was so focused on my needs, my vision, my goals,
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and projecting that I'm going to be the best athlete in the world. A hundred percent of the
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time. When I was broke, I put on the material mask. I was like, okay, I'm going to focus on the car.
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I'm going to focus on the big house. I'm going to focus on the fancy watch. I'm going to focus on
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the private jets. I'm going to focus on like, this is what I want. I want to achieve these things.
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I want to have millions of dollars and it drove me to make a lot of money. Like I was, you know,
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in a few years I made my first million dollars after being broke on my sister's couch and it
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drove me, but it also drove me to getting no sleep. It drove me to getting 60 pound, gaining 60 pounds
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and people calling me fat Lewis when I was always an athlete and healthy. It drove me to missing out
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on having true intimate connections because I was so focused on money and making more money at all
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costs. And it hurt my brand because I did things that weren't in alignment to who I was, but just
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to make the money. And it made me feel very unfulfilled at the end of the day. The money in my bank account
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was nice and the mask drove me to actually make more money. But what else was I missing out on
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in life? And that's what I think it is. It's being aware and saying, okay, I'm going to put on this mask
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right now and I'm going to get in the gym and train because this is my vision to be a greater athlete
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or lose the weight. But if I'm living in that mask a hundred percent of my days and I'm unable to relate
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to other human beings and I'm unable to connect and I make it all about me and it's a selfish needs that I
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feel like we missed the point and we're never going to be fully fulfilled and have inner peace. And that's really
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what this is about. It's like, how can we feel like there's not this huge weight on our shoulders
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as men that we're carrying this burden all the time and we've got to be strong for everyone else
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around us? Why can't we learn to allow the burden to just fall off our shoulders and gracefully move
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through our experiences in life with a loving demeanor, with an open heart, with the ability to take
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slow, deep breaths as opposed to be tight and tense. There's so many men that I see, stoic men,
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that are just like so tight and tense. It's like when we are in this place of wearing a mask,
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we're never ever able to get in fully flow state because we're doing something that isn't
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We're forcing. We're forcing. And therefore there's always going to be tightness and tension
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through forcing and putting on a mask because we're projecting something that isn't our authentic
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selves. Anytime we try to do something that isn't us, we will never be able to get into full flow
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state. And the only way to achieve at the highest levels and to feel the ultimate rush is to be in
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flow. You know this. And so it's like, why do anything else except for be in flow the majority
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amount of time that we can? And that's what it's all about.
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I think in hearing you and of course going through the book and doing the research,
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like I think that guys run into trouble and you, you bring up a lot of really good case studies of
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men that from what I can tell you still admire, but you can recognize their mask that they're
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wearing is that you get into trouble when you define yourself by the mask that you wear rather
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than it just being a temporary action or way that you behave in a certain environment or
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Yeah. That's makes sense. One of the things you talk about is that men aren't fundamentally flawed or
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broken. I really appreciate you saying that because I think there is this misconception and
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a lot of times I think people will either think that, that they're the, you know, the alpha,
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for example, the alpha mask, or they're broken and flawed. And yet you talk about being somewhere
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in the middle of that. We're not flawed or broken. We just have some things that we need to work on.
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Yeah. And I think we're conditioned to be someone we're not. We're conditioned to show up in a way
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that society, peers, friends, parents, whatever coaches condition us to be a something they want
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us to be. And therefore we start to step into a different way of being that isn't truly authentically
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who we are. And it may please other people. It may meet their needs, but it hurts our needs and it hurts
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us. And I believe it's hurting the world in a big way when men aren't willing to say, you know what,
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this is who I am. I know who I am. I know my, the things I need to work on. I know what I'm really
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great at and it's okay. This is who I am. And I'm going to live in this place and I'm going to
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constantly learn, develop and grow. How does it hurt the world? You talk about hurting the world.
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How do you, how do you see that playing out? Oh man. I mean, look at all of the negative news on
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Facebook constantly that's happening. All of these things that are happening, wars, violence,
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racial issues, gender issues, they all happen from a place of fear and people being afraid and
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wanting other people to conform to their ways, to their, their, their viewpoint of the world,
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as opposed to being an acceptance of who someone is. Now, if someone's physically hurting something
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or, you know, breaking the laws and things like that, I get it. But when someone's just being
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themselves and believing in what they want to believe in, and they're not hurting anyone,
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but someone just says, no, that's not right. That's not, that's, that's not good. I don't
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want you to do that. I don't want you to have that community because it's bad. It's not what we
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believe in or something. And then they start wars and they start freaking marching across the country
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with torches or whatever the people are doing. And they're, you know, there's so many, so much
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conflict, so much conflict right now, as opposed to acceptance. And I think a real man is able to be
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graceful and accept others for who they are, as long as they're not hurting someone or attacking
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physically harming, you know, their tribe, their home, their family. But if people just are being
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themselves in the world, why attack them? Why, why go after them? It's usually because we're insecure
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about something where we feel unsafe because someone doesn't believe the same thing we believe.
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Yeah. I mean, you talk about the common thread in all nine masks that you go through is being
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weakness and fear. And I think that's what you're alluding to now.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think a real man is confident in who he is and is confident that
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not everyone's going to think the same way he does and it's okay.
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How do you recognize what mask you're wearing? It's hard because we are in this own box. And I talk
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about the stoic mask, just to go back to the first question you asked me about which one I wore.
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And I'm thinking about this just through our conversation. My dad was out of the picture by the time I was
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three years old. I was raised by my mom and my sister was around. And so I was raised by women. So I almost
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in a way, look at this and think, okay, am I overcompensating? Because I only see from the
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outside what a man looks like. And I can only see that stoic side versus it being engaged with a man
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on a daily basis, right? My father on a daily basis and understanding the pain and struggle
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Yeah. I have a lot of the stoic mask in me as well because I just, my brother went to prison when I
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was eight and I was sexually abused when I was five. And my father, even though he would cry at
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certain times, like during movies or certain moments in life, I would see him tear up.
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But then other times he was so angry and aggressive and, you know, he'd be loud and scream and fight
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with my mom. And so I was just constantly confused. I was just like, uh, I see the soft tender side of
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my dad and he told me he loved me and tuck me in a bed at night. But then he would just like snap
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and scream at me and like beat me and, you know, do other stuff that I was just like,
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what, you know, there's these two sides. It was like almost bipolar in some sense where he was
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like so loving until he got divorced. He and my mom got divorced. And then he was like the most
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loving human being in the world. There was never a moment of him being upset, yelling, angry,
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passive aggressive. He came from such a place of acceptance, love, and service from the age of
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14 to 22 until he got into a car accident and was in a coma for three months. He's still,
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he's still alive today, but he is a shell of himself. He doesn't, he can't have an emotional
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conversation and, and connect. And he's like a 14 year old brain now. So it's kind of, so it's like
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my dad is still alive, but he's, I don't have a relationship with him where there's, it's like,
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I'm there to support him type of thing. And so for me, it's just kind of a journey of like,
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how do you fucking live life? You know, how do you like, how are we supposed to live this life
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based on, you know, you grew up without a father in your life and had to kind of be the man of that
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household, I'm assuming, and, and be tough and, you know, be okay when everyone else is stressed out
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or things are hitting the wall. You had to be, you know, stoic to make sure that someone had a rock
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to lean on. And that's probably what conditioned you for a lot of your experiences in your life.
00:22:59.760
And it's, it's just a challenge, man, because there's no easy answer to this. The way to
00:23:04.600
understand the mask is, you know, look at the nine masks and say, okay, which one of me resonates the
00:23:10.140
most? You know, in each chapter, I talk about a different example of a man who kind of personifies
00:23:15.900
or has personified that mask at one point. And I think you kind of know when you look at it and
00:23:21.100
you see these, you kind of know what mask you're going to know. I mean, yeah, you're going to know
00:23:24.620
if you're, if you're a comedian, who's always like coming from a place of humor, every, every
00:23:29.860
situation in your life, you have to say a joke, you have to dismiss it. And you're always the funny
00:23:36.180
guy or the class clown. You're, you probably have the Joker mask on because you, um, you know,
00:23:42.100
you want to, you're, which means you're probably suffering and have a deep pain inside. And that's why
00:23:48.180
you're using humor to deflect a lot of these things because you don't want to address the
00:23:52.440
pain or the, the feelings that you have. These are all things to not feel. They're all things
00:23:59.680
to use to not address our fears, our insecurities, the things that we feel we're ashamed of or
00:24:06.800
guilty of the unforgivable things that we've done or haven't done. That's what it is. We lean,
00:24:13.340
you know, the sexual mask is the man who's defined by constantly conquering any woman that he can.
00:24:19.540
You know, maybe he, you know, I'm just making an example here, but maybe he never had a girl like
00:24:24.800
him before. And so it became his goal to just constantly conquer women subconsciously. You
00:24:29.700
know, it's just like, I'm going to conquer women. I'm going to keep, it's never going to be enough.
00:24:32.880
And why settle for one when I can have them all? And why get intimate when someone's going to break
00:24:38.300
my heart? Like they did when I was 16. So I'm never going to fully commit. And I'm just going
00:24:43.680
to keep having fun. I'm going to seduce every woman. So they all desire me and then I'm going
00:24:47.680
to leave them. So they can't leave me and hurt me. You know, it's just these things, these patterns
00:24:52.260
that we go through. There's the invincible mask, which is a man who does not feel fear. A man that
00:24:58.320
takes all the risks in the world, whether that's, you know, uh, betting as a life savings on a company
00:25:03.940
or cliff diving or skydiving constantly, uh, smoking and drinking excessive amounts, whatever
00:25:10.140
it may be, he feels invincible. Like nothing can take him down. And he's just, he's just
00:25:16.060
constantly doing, he's in the doing constantly as opposed to feeling, being, interacting, having
00:25:22.600
conversations with people, learning. And it's all about just, I'm going to take on the world
00:25:27.420
and nothing can take me down until his parachute doesn't open and he dies.
00:25:33.940
Gentlemen, I could talk with you until I'm blue in the face about the iron council, which
00:25:37.920
I have in the past and how powerful it is. But rather than do that today, I'm going to
00:25:42.280
have one of our members, Joshua Laycock, share his experience of the brotherhood with you.
00:25:46.900
When I joined the iron council, I gained access to all the things I'd expected would be there.
00:25:50.780
You know, the brotherhood, the discussions, the video calls, it was great. The thing that
00:25:54.500
was wild was what happened when I stepped away from the computer. It was the way I started
00:25:59.120
to speak with myself. I don't know. I started to see myself for who I really was and who
00:26:03.000
I wanted to be as a man. That was the unexpected part of being in the iron council. And it really
00:26:08.640
is very hard to put a price tag on that. I don't know. It was, it was the self-reflection
00:26:12.020
that it stirred up in me. I started to see myself in a different light. I didn't always
00:26:16.860
like what I saw. It can be hugely uncomfortable when you start to peel away those layers.
00:26:21.360
But out of that, I don't know. I also started to see and then realize the potential I knew
00:26:25.440
I had for the first time in a very long time to reach my life's goals. I think the experience
00:26:30.740
is different for everyone and that's what makes it such a powerful thing. For me, the
00:26:34.460
iron council was not only about working towards becoming a better man, but also discovering
00:26:39.180
the kind of man I already was. And I just didn't realize was there all along.
00:26:43.320
So there it is guys, straight from the mouth of one of our members. If you are interested
00:26:47.400
in learning more about the iron council and what we're all about, head to orderofman.com
00:26:52.400
slash iron council. Now let's get back to my conversation with Lewis.
00:26:58.280
Why is this so difficult for guys? I mean, it's difficult for me. I'll, I'll be straight
00:27:02.560
up with that, but it seems like for men in particular, it's very difficult for us to share,
00:27:07.800
to feel, to open up, to expose our weaknesses or the word that we hear a lot is vulnerability.
00:27:13.380
Why do you think this is so difficult for guys?
00:27:15.680
You know, here's the thing. I don't want to say that men have it harder than women.
00:27:19.980
We, both men and women have our own difficulties. And this is just kind of like the, the pressure
00:27:26.780
that men face with the gender, the, the roles, the, the, the expectations of men and the expectations
00:27:36.600
from peers, what they say to them, the coaches mentality from locker rooms, parents expecting
00:27:41.720
young boys to turn into something, uh, girlfriends saying they want someone sensitive and open
00:27:47.580
and vulnerable. But then when they are, they're like, why don't you just man up? Yeah. And no,
00:27:52.540
you need to be strong for me. You need to, I need to feel comfortable that I can be invulnerable in
00:27:56.420
your arms. And so I need you to man up right now. And so when a man hears this over and over and over
00:28:02.200
again, and when someone's not happy with who they are by being sensitive, someone, you know,
00:28:07.760
pushes them aside and is uncomfortable having those conversations with a man when they're
00:28:11.980
showing emotion or having a vulnerable, tender moment and the man doesn't feel accepted,
00:28:17.660
of course, we're going to put on this mask. Like we've got things figured out because
00:28:22.300
we want to feel loved and accepted just like women or, uh, humans, uh, non-gender conforming
00:28:29.140
human beings. We all want to feel accepted for who we are. And when we're not accepted for who we
00:28:35.220
are, we project through a mask to be something we're not so that we're accepted by other people
00:28:41.000
with that mask. And then we just started living with that math. That becomes our identity.
00:28:45.700
The men in general wear an identity that is not authentically who they are. And I think that's
00:28:52.200
where the challenge of inner suffering and unfulfillment and this feeling of like never
00:28:57.980
feeling good enough comes into play. If our inner world is suffering, it doesn't matter how much we
00:29:03.400
achieve on the outer world. I look at, uh, Robin Williams, probably the, one of the top comedian
00:29:09.220
actors of all time who everyone made everybody laugh, who brought a smile, a tear, happiness to
00:29:17.500
every human being who watched a film to show, uh, interacting with him in person. And yet he was
00:29:24.600
unable to find inner peace and inner fulfillment. Right. Why, why was he unable? And he took his life.
00:29:31.920
Why was someone who makes the whole world happy, unable to find inner happiness himself? I don't know,
00:29:38.260
but maybe I can guess that he probably didn't address a lot of the things he was feeling inside
00:29:43.660
because he used his Joker mask to project certain things. And he was accepted by wearing that Joker
00:29:50.760
mask. People loved him for wearing it. So why would he ever want to not experience that love when everyone
00:29:56.480
loved him for that projection that he was putting out there? Why change it? It's working. It's working
00:30:02.620
for him. He's a celebrity. He's making tons of money. Any door he wants to open, he can have it.
00:30:07.280
Everyone wants a piece of him for wearing the mask, but it wasn't his a hundred percent authentic
00:30:12.680
self. I'm assuming I'm guessing. And therefore he was unable to just share his feelings because
00:30:19.820
maybe, maybe we're like, Oh, I don't know this side of you. And I'm just guessing here. And I,
00:30:24.000
and I may be completely wrong, but I'm guessing that maybe he wanted to share his feelings at some
00:30:28.480
point. And people were like, I just want the funny Robin back. Like, where's the funny guy?
00:30:32.360
It's almost as if taking off the mask becomes more of a risk than just continuing to wear the mask
00:30:38.640
that's proven to, in his case, work. And a lot of our cases to work to some degree.
00:30:42.980
It's the biggest risk in the world to take off the mask and to look at ourselves and say,
00:30:46.900
who am I? Who am I really? I've been defined as a man by wearing this mask for however many years.
00:30:54.020
And it's worked. It's worked. I got the supermodel girlfriend because I was driven by money and
00:31:01.620
materialism. I, or I was a great athlete or whatever. I got the girl. It worked. I built a
00:31:09.300
billion dollar business. It worked. I, uh, you know, won a Superbowl. It worked. But why do some
00:31:17.260
of the greatest athletes, greatest musicians commit suicide when they retire? You know?
00:31:22.640
Right. And we say things like, well, they threw it all away. We were on top of the world and yet
00:31:26.940
they probably weren't inside. It's a sad example of the lead singer on Lincoln Park, which recently
00:31:32.740
happened. It's like, what's his name? Chester. Um, I'm not sure his last name, but I think it's
00:31:37.020
Chester's first name, but it's just like the saddest thing in the world to me that, and I don't know
00:31:42.060
all the details. I don't know really what happened, but from things I've heard, it's just like,
00:31:46.480
this guy was on top of the world. This guy sold out stadiums and people love their music and they've
00:31:53.000
been performing for, I don't know, over a decade. Oh yeah. At least at the top of the world, all the
00:31:57.240
money in the world had four, I think four kids, amazing wife, like had great friends. Like if you
00:32:04.180
look at his life, he had it all, but what was missing inside that drove him to feel unfulfilled,
00:32:12.000
that drove him to feel like it's still not enough. It's still not enough or I'm not good enough or I
00:32:18.220
need to do this. Like, I don't know what he was feeling and I don't want to try to assume like I
00:32:23.020
have any clue, but it's just, you know, the pressures that men feel. And then we get caught
00:32:30.280
up wearing the mask and then when we are accepted for it and people love us for that mask, it's hard
00:32:35.820
to say, huh, but that's not really who I am inside to yourself. And if they only knew the amount
00:32:41.980
of insecurities that I did have, and if they only knew the shame that I do feel, and if they only
00:32:47.140
knew what I've really been through, would they love me still? Would they accept me still? Would
00:32:52.720
they be my friend? Would I lose all the money? This is the thing that I faced four years ago when I
00:32:58.840
finally, for 25 years, I didn't tell anyone that I was sexually abused because I was so shameful,
00:33:05.640
guilty, insecure, embarrassed, all these things I was feeling. And I was like, if anyone
00:33:11.960
ever knew this about me, that this happened when I was five, that I was taken to a bathroom and raped
00:33:17.700
by a man that I didn't know. If anyone ever knew that, my life would be over. My business would
00:33:25.000
crumble. My girlfriend would break up with me. My parents would disown me. My friends would think I
00:33:32.580
was a weak man because I was abused. Like, this is the conversation I had for 25 years.
00:33:39.280
And these are cognitive distortions. Have you heard of that term or looked at that at all?
00:33:43.180
Yeah. It's unreal. The conclusions that we jump to that are just absolutely not founded in any
00:33:48.840
reality. That's it. And here's the thing. At 30 years old, I was going through a dark, dark time.
00:33:56.700
Like, listen, now I'm a white male in America and I had money and all these other things,
00:34:01.860
but my inner world was going through a dark time. It was like, why do I feel so like I was suffering
00:34:08.720
inside? There was zero peace in my heart, in my mind. I was going through a bad breakup that was
00:34:15.220
just super emotional, up and down, back and forth. And I was taking all this anger that was built up,
00:34:21.140
that I was like, I felt like I had to be patient and loving and kind all the time. And I just like,
00:34:25.440
had this anger because I couldn't express myself to my girlfriend or anyone. I feel like I couldn't
00:34:29.700
express my feelings. And so I would go play pickup basketball and just, it was kind of like an outlet
00:34:35.080
for all this built up emotion to take it out on people in the basketball court. And every time I'd
00:34:40.140
go out there, I would scream at people. I would shove people. I would step to people. It's like,
00:34:44.720
I wanted to fight. I wanted them to like touch me so that I could just find a way to unleash as much
00:34:51.100
anger as possible and show how powerful of a man I was against these other lesser men.
00:34:58.360
And one day we were in a heated basketball game and I ended up fouling this guy back and forth.
00:35:06.480
We were trash talking. He was bigger than me, older than me. And we get to a point during this game
00:35:12.860
where kind of enough was enough for him, I guess. And we were just kind of hard fouling each other and
00:35:17.500
this and that. He ended up heads butting me. And it was like the, all the triggers came out and it
00:35:23.280
was like the ultimate alpha aggression male. I've seen that red too, man. I know what that looks like.
00:35:29.500
It was like, I was another human being. And I stepped into this raging person and just pummeled
00:35:36.740
this guy to the point where finally it was broken up by a couple of people got us off each other.
00:35:42.100
And I looked at the guy's face and I was like shaking, trembling, shaking of the fear of what
00:35:47.580
I just did to this person's face. And I remember running back to my place like a scared little boy
00:35:53.420
and like shaking, looking in the mirror. And I was like, who the fuck are you? Like, who are you?
00:36:00.440
Why did you do this? What is wrong with you? And that's when things started to open up for me to be
00:36:05.840
like, okay, I need to look within. This is not okay. I could lose everything by getting into some stupid
00:36:11.500
pickup fight. I could one, someone could stab me, shoot me, break a bone. You know, they could
00:36:17.960
arrest me. I could be, you know, my whole reputation could be gone because I wasn't able to
00:36:24.020
express myself in a more loving way. And I allowed myself to wear this mask and build it up for 25 years
00:36:32.660
and start unleashing it on people because I was angry at what had happened to me.
00:36:36.460
What were some of the first steps that you took? I mean, you came to that conclusion,
00:36:39.280
you're sitting there looking in the mirror and you're like, this has got to change. What does that
00:36:45.740
Luckily, I went to a workshop, an emotional intelligence leadership workshop, probably kind of,
00:36:50.480
you know, similar environment to the stuff you guys do at a order of man where you guys do your
00:36:56.300
intimate kind of three day workshops. This was a workshop that was a five day experience.
00:37:01.960
It was one of the greatest things I've ever done for myself. It was, and I almost left after the
00:37:07.000
second day because I was just like, it was confronting my ego. Everything was confronting
00:37:12.060
my ego. And I was kind of like, I already know all this stuff. This is all, you know,
00:37:16.820
I teach this person. The same thing I went through as I, as I started to read your book,
00:37:20.680
it sounds like. Exactly. Yeah, I get it. And I was like, I know this stuff. I teach this shit,
00:37:24.720
right? And, um, there were, it was a bunch of exercises, games, real life scenarios. And you're with
00:37:31.600
a group of, I don't know, 50 or 70 people and you're partnering up with strangers. You're doing
00:37:37.380
small group exercises and it's all designed to confront things that don't work for you that hold
00:37:44.900
you back in your life and that have been holding you back your whole life. So a lot of it is
00:37:49.780
addressing like your childhood, your parents, like addressing things that you've never said to your
00:37:54.560
parents that you want to say. It's just like communicating these feelings or these experiences
00:37:58.580
that we've never been able to let go and that have been holding us back or that have been weighing
00:38:02.760
us down and that have been building these masks up on us. And there was a few instances of this
00:38:09.500
experience that just finally got me to open up a little bit. Like I was so guarded and so like,
00:38:14.660
nah, these people don't know me and I've got it all figured out. And who are the other people in
00:38:19.580
this group? It's kind of weird. We played a game. The premise of the game at the end of it,
00:38:25.080
the lesson, the moral of the story was there was two teams and both teams ended up losing the game
00:38:30.720
and the object of the game was to win. And so for me, when I heard this rule that the object was to
00:38:36.100
win, I went into my mode of, I need to win at all costs, whatever it takes. That's the rule of the
00:38:41.840
game. That's the objective. That's what we want to do. That's it. It's to win. At the end of the game,
00:38:46.220
it was like total chaos. Both teams lost. And the lesson was you guys, this is how you live in your
00:38:53.560
life. You guys are constantly coming from a place of, I need to win and the other team needs to
00:38:57.500
lose. Or I need to win in my relationship and that means my girlfriend needs to lose. Or I need to
00:39:01.880
win in my, you know, the company needs to win. And they were like, you can both win. You know,
00:39:07.960
there was a way for both teams to win this game. And yet we were so in our heads of like, oh no,
00:39:13.040
only one winner. Then it woke me up like I'd heard the concept of win-win before, but for whatever
00:39:18.560
reason, it didn't make sense to me until this moment when I experienced it. And I was in my bed
00:39:24.180
at night after this day of the workshop. And I remember being like, wow, where in my life have I
00:39:30.900
always come from this place of I need to be right. I need to win. And that means someone else needs to
00:39:35.700
be wrong and they need to lose. And how has that shown up pretty much in every situation in my life?
00:39:41.780
The loneliness that I felt by like me being right and me winning, that mean everyone else had to be
00:39:48.820
second place. I was like, no longer am I going to come from this place. I'm going to come from a
00:39:54.460
place of win-win in every situation and business, making sure that any deal that I get what I need
00:40:01.300
and they get what they need, but I'm not trying to screw anyone over in my relationship, working on
00:40:06.280
place of, okay, hearing the other person, them hearing me and saying, where can we both feel good in
00:40:11.220
this conversation, in business and relationships, in sports where I'm the most competitive, I can
00:40:18.080
still win. And the other person can, even if I went on the scoreboard and they lose, can I do it
00:40:24.360
with grace? Can I do it so that I'm a good sport and a good, as opposed to rubbing it in their face
00:40:29.980
and being aggressive the whole time and making them feel like a piece of crap. And can I lose from a
00:40:34.160
place of, oh, what's the lesson? What did I learn where I still won something?
00:40:38.120
Even sports. I mean, you take a look at sports and this is a thought that has crossed my mind
00:40:42.020
recently is that it is a competition. Yes, but it's also cooperation because if you look at on
00:40:47.200
the football field, we all, both teams adhere to a set of rules. That's cooperation in order for
00:40:52.780
everybody to get better. That's it, man. That's it. There was a moment also in this workshop, which
00:40:58.380
was getting to my, my moment of the tactical stuff. There was a moment where we'd gone through a few
00:41:04.160
days of exercises and kind of going through stuff in the past that doesn't work for us.
00:41:09.580
And the facilitator of the workshop was like, okay, we're moving forward. We've addressed
00:41:13.840
everything in your past that has hurt you or upset you or made you this way or made you guarded or
00:41:19.620
whatever it may be. And we're going to move forward. We're going to move forward in creating a new vision
00:41:24.620
for your life in the future of who you want to be and what do you want to create in the world?
00:41:28.620
And he said, if there's anything you have not addressed yet, and we went over a lot of crap.
00:41:34.460
So like people were, you know, in tears, people are like going through all this stuff, like
00:41:38.000
constantly. It was like, it was emotional. It was a, you know, there's different exercises where
00:41:42.680
you're just like screaming. It was like kind of out there, but it was like super effective.
00:41:46.920
And he goes, if there's anything at all in the past that you have not addressed,
00:41:52.020
now is the time to address it or you'll never get to talk about it again.
00:41:55.160
In front of everybody you have to bring in front of everyone. He was like, now's the time. He's
00:41:58.820
like, now's the time to let it like to share. Otherwise we're moving forward. So you better
00:42:02.880
clear everything in the past. Otherwise it's going to hold you back still. And I was like, okay,
00:42:06.980
thinking about it, I was like, oh, you know, my brother went to prison for four years. Yeah,
00:42:11.260
that sucked. My parents got divorced, you know, bullied, being in the special needs classes,
00:42:15.360
like all these things I addressed. And I was like, oh, that time I was raped in the bathroom by a man.
00:42:20.040
And I was kind of like, oh, why have I never talked about this? Yeah. Why have I always like
00:42:25.320
just put it to the side? And I was like, if I don't share this now, I'll probably never share it.
00:42:30.520
So I, I like just, my body stood up. I stood up in front of the room. I couldn't look anyone in
00:42:35.700
the eyes. I looked down the entire time because I was so ashamed and terrified at what I was going to
00:42:39.700
say. And I walked through for the first time, moment by moment, every detail of what happened to me
00:42:46.420
when I was five. And then I sat down afterwards and just kind of like my body, I had zero control.
00:42:53.240
I was just bawling. My body was like shaking. And luckily there were these two women on either side
00:42:59.400
of me that were like hugging me and holding me and they were crying. And it was just like,
00:43:04.060
I felt so ashamed and I felt so scared of what people were going to think about me that I ran out
00:43:10.600
of the room and outside. Like it was in like a hotel ballroom and I ran outside of the hotel
00:43:17.300
into kind of like this back alley. And there was like a fence and I, I just put my head against
00:43:22.320
the fence and my arms, like in my, in my head. And I was just like looking down, like just crying.
00:43:26.840
Cause I was just like so terrified of, you know, sharing this and having people see this is who I am.
00:43:34.200
And one of the most beautiful things happened to me that still gives me chills when I think about
00:43:38.960
it. One by one, men came up to me from that room that came outside and they hugged me. They looked
00:43:46.440
me in the eyes and they were like, you are my hero. I was sexually abused and I've never been able to
00:43:52.220
talk about it. And I've judged you this whole workshop as this like jock egotistical man.
00:44:00.220
Yeah. They were like, I've just been judging you. And for you to do that is like one of the most
00:44:05.860
amazing things. And it makes me think completely different about you. I respect you. I trust you
00:44:11.780
now. I like, you're my hero. And one by one they said things, you know, similar to that. And it was
00:44:18.720
just like, wow, you mean by actually sharing who I am or experiences I've been through and revealing
00:44:25.400
these things about me and taking off the mask and saying, this is who I am.
00:44:30.220
Take it or leave it. It actually built deeper trust, deeper connection, deeper intimacy,
00:44:36.840
um, and deeper levels of leadership. Like people were like, I will follow you anywhere. And I was
00:44:44.180
like, really? Like, like, yeah, the exact opposite of what you thought happened. I was like knowing my
00:44:49.280
deepest, darkest secrets and knowing my, my biggest fears and my biggest insecurities. Now you want to
00:44:54.580
follow me. I was like, not that I was looking for people to follow me, but they were like, I just trust
00:44:58.980
you. And whatever you do, I'm behind. And I was like, wow. And as I started to go down and this
00:45:03.800
was four years ago. And as I started to, I started to share one by one with my family members, which
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was terrifying. Then one by one with friends. Then I started sharing more and more openly. And I,
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and I eventually shared on my podcast publicly about seven, eight months later. And just like the
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amount of impact it has made by doing one simple thing, being authentically myself, it has changed
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the course of my relationships. It has changed the course of my business. It changed the results of my
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accomplishments that I achieve. I feel so much more fulfilled when I achieve these things that I've
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always wanted. And it's just been the biggest game changer by taking off the masks or being aware
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of them when I, cause I still wear them. It's not like I'm this perfect human being, but being aware
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of it and saying, you know what? You're right. I'm, I'm, I'm being like an arrogant asshole right
00:45:56.460
now, or I'm, I'm like focused on this and you know, let me take a moment. Let me own this. You know,
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let me take responsibility and apologize. And here's what I'm committed to moving forward. And it's just
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been like this. Again, it's a dance. It's an art. There's a lot of pressures for men. I get it.
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But when we start to just take off the mask a little bit, I'm telling you, your relationships
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are going to transform. And the key to success in life is relationships. And the key to successful
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relationships is being authentically you. I love it, man. I love it. And obviously we didn't,
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we're only able to break down the specific tactics for each one of these masks, which you do put in
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the book. And I appreciate that. But I think at the end of the day, a lot of what you talked about,
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as far as what you can do comes down to being real with yourself and then figuring out a way to be
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real with others. So I definitely appreciate that. Well, Lewis, we're bumping up against time,
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man. I want to ask you just a couple of questions as we wrap things up here today. The first one,
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and we've been talking about this for the last 45 minutes or so, is what does it mean to be a man?
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To be in service, to be authentically and fully yourself, to strip off the masks and to live a life
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of service. Powerful, man. Powerful. How do we connect with you? How do we buy the book? How do we
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connect with you? How do we learn about everything that you've got going on? And it is a lot. I
00:47:12.280
follow you. It is a lot that you have going on. How do we figure this stuff out, man?
00:47:15.600
Yeah. I mean, you can get the book anywhere, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or go to maskofmasculinity.com
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and they'll send you to all the places that get the book. And I share more on my podcast as well
00:47:27.740
Right on. We'll link that all up. And we got some exciting things you and I planned for some Facebook
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lives and some other stuff. So stay tuned into that and then we'll make sure that happens.
00:47:37.100
Lewis, I got to tell you, man, I've been following you for years. I've followed you when you shared
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your story and when you inspired me to share a lot of my personal demons and stories as
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well. So you have been personally impactful in my life. I want to tell you, I appreciate
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Thanks, my man. And you've got an opportunity to really impact a lot of men with your group.
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And just to talk about the stoic mask, you have really, you're from a place of leadership
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because you're running these groups and these groups of men and this Facebook group
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and the site that the more you continue to take off that mask, you're going to give other
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men permission to be the man they've always wanted to be. So I encourage you to, when you
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recognize that, is to dive in a little deeper and say, you know, let me do the most uncomfortable
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thing right now. And obviously know when to dance and when the right timing is and things
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like that. But I think the more you do that, the more you're going to make a bigger impact
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on your community and you're going to see your community grow in a tremendous way.
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Right on, man. I appreciate that. And I appreciate you. Thanks for coming on.
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There it is, guys. I told you it would be a good one. I think you'd agree that it was.
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I hope you're challenging some of the things that you think about the way that this world
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works and the way that you operate in it. That's the point of the show to get us all thinking
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differently about our lives. If you're listening to this the day this podcast is being released,
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Lewis's book is available right now. Today, you can head to order of man.com slash one
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three six to get a link to the book along with everything else that you might want from this
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episode. And again, if you would make sure to shoot me and Lewis a message on Facebook
00:49:12.220
or Twitter, Instagram, wherever you do the social media thing, and let us know what you
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thought about this show in his book. And as I sign out today, remember what our member of
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the iron council Joshua had to say about his experience in the brotherhood. If you are interested
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in learning more, claiming your seat at the table, head to order of man.com slash iron council
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order of man.com slash iron council. I will look forward to talking to you on Friday for our Friday
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