A Father's Legacy, Asking Better Questions, and Dealing with Negative Family Members | ASK ME ANYTHING
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about how to ask good questions and how to be a better question asker. We also talk about a guy who got kicked out of our group and how we dealt with it. We also discuss how we handle dumb questions and why you should ask better questions.
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart
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your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.
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You are not easily deterred or defeated. Rugged. Resilient. Strong. This is your life. This is who
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you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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you can call yourself a man. Kemp, what's up brother? Glad to be joining you again.
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Mr. Mitchler. Mitchler. Mitchler. Don't say that anymore because guys are going to start
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using that actually. I don't want them to. I told you what happened, right? We joked around
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about having a different persona of you. Yes. Yes. That dude got kicked out of the Facebook
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group. Oh, did somebody create it? Yes. Someone created one. And, uh, and then someone like,
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and I can't remember who it was. I wish I could give them credit. Cause they're, they're like,
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Hey, should I create one? I'm like, yeah, that's awesome. And, and, and it was, uh,
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they used a different photo. It was a Brian Mitchler, I believe. And then someone made a comment
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and then his reply to the comment was super negative. And then one of the moderators of
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our Facebook group, I kicked him out. Awesome. Perfect. So it's working. The moderation is
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working correctly. My alter ego would not last in our Facebook group. Yeah, exactly. I never saw it.
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I wish I would have seen it. I know in hindsight at what I should have done is talk to the moderators
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and just say, Hey, just so you know, this is more of a joke. So leave this guy, let this guy live in
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here a little bit. So we can all, but heaven forbid, I mean, people, people, uh, they don't
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like jokes. So anyways, well, good. I'm glad he got kicked out. Sounds like he deserved it.
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We've been trying to tighten that Facebook group up a little bit. Cause you know, sometimes I think
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we're at 60, almost 6,000 members in there. And sometimes when you have that many people, it just,
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it has a tendency of getting off course. If you don't a course correct along the way. And I feel like
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we, we went too long without course correcting and, and we ran into some problems and we're
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dealing with it. So yeah. Yeah. Cool, man. Well, we got some great questions. I think speaking of
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the Facebook group from the Facebook group, uh, you sent them over to me earlier, took a look through
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them, um, scrub the dumb questions out. Cause contrary to popular belief, there are dumb questions.
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And, uh, if your question didn't make the cut, well then, you know, we're talking about you.
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Yeah. And, uh, if we do answer your question, then you know that yours was a good question.
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Yours was a smart question as opposed to a dumb question.
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And let's clarify, you are capable of good questions. So it's not an attack on you. It's
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an attack on your question. So just change your question and create a better one.
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One of my favorite quotes is the quality of your life will be determined by the quality
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of the questions that you ask. And look, sometimes it's easy to say, well, I don't know what a good
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question is. If you don't know, you don't know. But if you think about it, you know, right?
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Like ask deep questions, ask profound questions, ask questions that have real implications towards
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real things in your life. And I'm not saying ask us real questions. I'm saying ask questions
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in your life, you know, like ask bosses and mentors and people who are further down the
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path than you, uh, ask them genuine questions, not questions to hear yourself talk. A lot of
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people do that. Uh, not where they just, they'd rather appear smart. Like, you know, those people
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where they ask a question and they're only asking it because they want to appear like they're
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intelligent, except for everybody knows and can see right through their crap. Cause it's like,
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why in the world would that person ask that question? Or my favorite question asker is
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the guy at the end of the meeting when the guy hosting the meeting is like, Hey, we're going to be
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all done unless anybody has a question. And there's always that guy. Like everybody wants
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to get out of the meeting. And there's always the guy who's like, well, I have a question about
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And everybody's like, Oh, we just want to go. Or what's worse
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one guy or what's worse is like, well, it's not really questions. It's more of a thought. And
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you're like, Oh no. Yep. Here we go. Here we go. But anyways, a couple of qualifiers again,
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not for this, but just like to help you in life is ask genuine questions. Like have sincere motives.
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Like you want the answer. You don't want to just appear smart. Uh, ask open ended questions,
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right? So not yes or no questions. And yeah, I mean, that's, and just think about it. Like just
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think about your question before you ask it. Yeah. And would you add Ryan, ask yourself those
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questions? Like totally. If they're really deep, deep questions, like having that conversation with
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yourself, like how would I address this? Or what's the correct answer? If someone else was asking me
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this, how would I respond? And you know, like work through that thought process on your own.
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There's huge value there. Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with that. It's like, sometimes we just have to
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work that out and always propose your own solutions. Right? So if you're going to ask a
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question, it's bet it's stronger, it's a stronger position to say, okay, so I was thinking about this
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and here was my thought. Is that right? Is there something that I'm missing? That's a way more
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powerful question than like, I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. Will you help me? There's a huge
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difference. One is accepting some burden of responsibility, meaning I've worked through this and
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here's the best conclusion I've come to. Are there any blind spots I need to be aware of? That's
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accepting some burden of responsibility versus help me. I'm helpless. I'm clueless. I don't know
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what to do. And I'm desperate. That's a significantly inferior position. Totally. Totally. And I think you
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use this analogy. It's like, it's hard to see the label when you're inside the bottle. Was it,
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was it you that shared that with me? I like that. Um, but I wish I could take credit, but no,
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no, but, but that does exist for people, but, but you can actually get a really good
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grasp of, of the label. When you start asking yourself, yourself those questions and, and
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having some thought provoking thought process around what are possible solutions. And if
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you at least do those, then this conversation at least, or other conversations they might
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have ended up becoming way more valuable because now we know that you've put the, the legwork
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in that we've, you've already addressed or worked through some aspects of it. Now we can
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kind of narrow our responses to something more specific. So that's true. But again,
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I want to reiterate, this is, I'm not saying this for the sake of this podcast. I'm saying
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this for the sake of life. Yeah. And, and I, I like the analogy about, you can't see the
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label if you're in the bottle where that analogy falls short or metaphor, whatever it is fall
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short is that human beings have our conscious beings, which means that we can extract ourselves
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from the bottle because we want to, right? So we can, we can literally take ourself, maybe
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not literally, but figuratively take ourselves, our consciousness out of the environment, out
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of the circumstances and look at it from a perspective different than the one that we're currently
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in. And, and that exercise in consciousness, like, for example, here's a great conscious question.
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What would the ideal version of myself do in this circumstance? Yeah. Like what would the better,
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more intelligent, tougher, more mature version of Ryan do if he met himself in these set of
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circumstances? That's a, that's a conscious thought process. And it's a very powerful way of
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projecting yourself into some future date and place that doesn't exist. And then working backwards
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into making that a reality. Yeah. All right. Cool. Well, let's get into it. All right. Our first
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question, like Ryan mentioned earlier, let me just say this really quick, facebook.com slash group
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slash order of man. That's where we filled these questions. Join us there, join the order, join the
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movement, participate as well as contribute to other men like minded men in that Facebook group. Our first
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question, Tony DePaul Atano, how to deal with hate within family. My sister blames my wife and I
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for the death of my father. And after many attempts to be civil, she continues to speak and act horrible
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to my wife and I, my father was very sick for many years. And because we could not reverse the damage
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in his body, it is our fault. He died in her eyes. Uh, the answer is just distance yourself.
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I mean, that sucks. Cause you've got a sister that you, you love and you, you want to have her as
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part of your life. Uh, objectively like too bad. I mean, that sucks, but you've got to distance
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yourself. Like if she's going to be toxic and she's talking bad about you and your wife and
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potentially undermining you with, with your kids, if there are kids in the picture or, or that carrying
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and pouring over into other facets of your life. I mean, what can you do? What can you do live your
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life? Sounds like you don't feel like this was your responsibility, your fault. So that's it.
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Look, sometimes the answers I give and the answers that you and I kept, we talk about it, it's, it
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doesn't make it like good or easy or comfortable. Sometimes the answer is the answer, but it still
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sucks. And that this is one of those situations. You know, the answer is you've got to distance
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yourself. That's not a good thought. You love your sister, I'm sure, but that's still
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the answer. And that's why it's so powerful to get input from other people is they're not
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emotionally attached to your decision making process. And they're not attached to the outcome
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of, of that and the emotional baggage that comes with it, which actually gives you a different
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level of clarity that you can't get yourself because you are emotionally vested in your decision
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making process as you should be. You should use your feelings as a metric, not the only,
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but a metric for what you should be doing. But look, if you've done all you can and you've
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talked with her and you've communicated with her and you've set these expectations and boundaries,
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and she's still being negative about what you're doing and undermining your relationship and your
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wife and you, the answer is you got to limit yourself and distance yourself. And it's unfortunate
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and it's too bad, but that is the answer. That is the solution.
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Yeah. Can't change people. Right. I would bet too, that, that her frustration and her acting out
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probably has more to do with her loss and probably her own personal regret than it does really blaming
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you. Not that that changes the circumstance, but maybe at least gives you some power to have some
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empathy and realize there's probably more going on there. And it's not as personal as it may seem,
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even, even though she may even say the words that it's personal, if there's probably more going on
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there and that she's dealing with some regret and she's not facing her demons and looking to blame
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it on you guys. So it just gives you maybe some empathy to be able to look past that and not take
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it so personal. That's the key. I mean, it gives you empathy in understanding what she may be dealing
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with, but then it helps you in that this is probably not a thing. This is a thing that she's dealing
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with some guilt or remorse and you are, you happen to be the scapegoat of it based on the limited
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information we have. This is what it sounds like. Yeah. And you, and you mentioning kids being
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involved, man, like imagine that, like, it's one thing if it's like your sister and she's only seen
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that in front of you, but she starts having that kind of mentality around your kids. Oh man. Like
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you got to, you got to get them out of your life. Like the impact could be horrible. So yeah.
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Yep. Definitely. Boundaries. Boundaries. Yeah. Jonathan Rose, how do you balance time between
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family work and personal? Uh, we talked about this in depth last week, so I don't think I'm
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gonna hit on it. You know, just look, I, I realize it's a legitimate question and I appreciate the
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question cause I know this is a tough one. Uh, but go back and listen to last week's AMA. We talked
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about it. I think I used the analogy of a, of a surfer trying to ride a surfboard on a wave,
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go back, listen to it, and you're going to get some good input. I'd rather get to a question that
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we didn't just previously address. Okay. Rudy Chapman. We've all heard the old adage,
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Jack of all trades, master of none. Is this a point at which this approach becomes problematic,
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or is this always a flawed way of approaching things? I am one who finds myself interested in
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wanting to learn about many things, but I also recognize that many of my skills are far more
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mastered at this point. Some of these skills and hobbies are complimentary to one another
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while others are not. Does this change the answer? Thank you guys. Uh, I'm a little bit
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lost on this, but I, but I will say based on what I understand about this question is,
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you know, we have these clever little, little, uh, phrases that we use. The problem is they don't
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apply universally. They just don't like, right. There's nuances, there's exceptions, there's
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different, you know, circumstances where something else would apply. So be careful of, of, of taking
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this like one phrase and then thinking that, Oh, this is the way it's done or that other way is wrong.
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Just learn from it and apply. This is why this is one of the downfalls of social media is everybody
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takes things so literally, right? Like, like absolutely literally. And then if anything is
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counter to that literal interpretation of a metaphor and analogy, then they don't know how
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to handle it in life because it's conflicting with their thoughts. Like there's nuance guys,
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there's exceptions, there's situations where this doesn't apply. Not everything is so black and
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white. A lot is, and a lot isn't. So use a little critical thinking, uh, look for the solutions and
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the answers in life. If something's working, look, I know there's circumstances where you need to know
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a lot. Like you need to know a little, a little about a lot of stuff. Give you a great example. Um,
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I had Bruce Pettit, uh, CEO and president of Leupold optics on, and look, the guy is,
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he's a CEO of a big company doing great things. He's got a lot of, uh, practical application and
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information and wisdom. Obviously he's very successful. And he said like, I need to know
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certain things, but I can't know everything at an in-depth level. Like I need to know enough in
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order to make an informed decision and trust that the guys that I have working guys and gals working
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for me, uh, are, are the right people in the right places. And they're going to make those decisions.
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So some things, yeah, you just need to know enough and other things you need to know deeply.
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Other times you need to know broadly and you just look at your circumstance and figure out what's
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going to work best for you and in your situation. That's it. You know, I even like to go to,
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we can take jujitsu as an analogy. If all you know is one guard or one sweep, like you're super
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good at that one sweep, people are going to learn that and they're going to adapt their game and
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they're going to destroy you because you're, you're like so good at this one sweep. And yet
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there's a way to, to, to defend against that sweep. And now all of a sudden you're stuck.
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So you need to have a broad game and in certain areas you need to have a deep game too. Same thing
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with life. Yeah. To quote you, is it serving you? Right. Is it, is it doing what it needs to be
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done? And if it's not, then adjust and get focused in. Right. Right. Yep. All right. Dylan Morehouse,
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how do you begin to live again while your father, your greatest role model has passed away?
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Well, first my condolences. I, I, uh, I know that's a hard thing. My, my dad passed away
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about a year and a half ago and, uh, wasn't necessarily the role model that maybe it sounds
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like your father was, but still that's hard. You know, that's a, that's a difficult thing.
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Uh, you live a life worthy of, of his commitment and dedication to you as his son. And that's it.
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You know, you, you, you implement his teachings, you carry on his legacy, you carry on his name,
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you carry on his character and his work ethic and everything that he brought into his life.
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And it sounds like imparted upon you. Uh, and that's how you honor him. And that's how you help
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him live on, frankly, because you want him to, like, you want him to live in your heart and soul
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and, and in your work. And, and you want to recognize him and the work that you're doing
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and recognize his hand and his effort in your marriage and in your family and the way you show
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up in your career. And you do that by implementing everything that you possibly can, that he taught
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you that he showed you. That's one component of it. The other component of it is find other men
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who can teach you things that maybe your father didn't teach you or can continue teaching you things
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that maybe, uh, never, he never had the chance to share with you or show you. So live, help his legacy
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live on by the way you're, you're working and living your life. And also find other men who are going to
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guide you, support you, mentor and coach you. And I won't say replace him as a father, but that will
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fill in some of those gaps that he leaves behind as he's, as he's left us. So yeah, that's, that's a
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tough situation, but let, let them live through you. Yeah, totally. I have the perfect example of this.
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If you don't mind me sharing, um, my wife's grandmother, uh, she was, she was actually, uh,
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an immigrant from France and the, the, her nickname is Mimi, which means grandma. I believe in, in French
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and the way by which my wife has kept her in our life is amazing. So much that I was talking to my
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eight year old, just like earlier this week. And she was like, Oh, I miss Mimi. And it's funny
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because I'm, I'm like, you never met her. She died before you. Like, I didn't say this, but in my
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mind, I was like, how interesting that my eight year old has a relationship with her great grandmother
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due to, because due to my wife, holding onto her in a very positive way, sharing, sharing what
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Mimi taught us, sharing photos of Mimi during Christmas, they sing a song that Mimi had them
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seeing for every Christmas, ever since their little kids, right? Like it is very, she's still
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very much part of our life. And, and my, my wife has ensured that her, how she's, how, who she is as a
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mother is being driven by what was taught to her from, from Mimi. And it's, and it's amazing.
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Awesome. Yeah. And we have this amazing relationship with someone that has passed
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away years and years ago. That is so cool. Yeah. I love that. I love that. It's a great
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example for sure. I don't tell Asia, I gave her any credit for anything. I just, no, no,
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you don't want to, you don't want to go to her head and right. Us and the millions of other
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people who will listen to this. We're the only ones who are going to know. Yeah. I had it figured
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out. All right. Nahal, uh, Muhammad Khan. I am a 20 year old guy. My younger brother
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who is in his teens is obsessed with beatboxing, but I hate it. So does my parents. And apparently
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it does not secure any career for him. P.S. I live in Bangladesh and beatboxing is not
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a major thing here. Like in the U S I don't think it's a major, is it a major thing here
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in the U S I don't know. Tell your brother, it's not a big thing here either. Uh, how
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do I explain to him like a responsible older brother that whatever he is doing, it is bothering
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a lot of people, myself included, and apparently it's not going to help him in the long run.
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IE no career in beatboxing. Now for everyone that can't relate to beatboxing brother, just
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change beatboxing to, uh, video games, video. Yeah. Being a video game tester when I get older
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or, you know, other career opportunities that may be very difficult to secure or, um, or a musician
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or whatever, or artist of some sort. Totally. Dude, like maybe there's, maybe there's a language
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barrier here. Maybe there's a cultural thing here. The kid likes to beatbox. So what?
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Yeah. So what? Like, do you, are you even convinced that this guy, that your brother wants to make
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this his career? And even if he does, like, why wouldn't you support him in that? Yeah. Why? I
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don't understand what the problem is here. Like you say it bothers you. Why does it bother you? Like,
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why does it bother you that he's found something that he likes to do? Like, I don't relate with that
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necessarily. And maybe I'm like, that's interesting, strange, interesting. But like, what right do I have
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to say that he shouldn't do that or that it's stupid or like, I don't see this at all? I mean,
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he's a teenager, he's young, he's probably just doing it because he likes to have fun or it's
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something. But how do you know it won't turn into a career? How do you know it won't turn into something?
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How do you know it doesn't translate into, uh, maybe eventually becoming some sort of a musician
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or an artist? Like you don't know. So why not, instead of like worrying about how this,
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this is stupid and he shouldn't pursue it. Instead, you work with him and say, Hey, you know,
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like I ran across this resource on YouTube and they teach you these new beats or whatever.
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I'm showing my ignorance here. And, and you like help him, like you actually support him.
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And in the meantime, you can also coach him and say, Hey, you know, like, what are your plans? Are you
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going to go to college? Or what are your career aspirations? Like you can, you can do both. You can coach
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him as a big brother to do things that are going to be practical and serve him. And you can also
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support him in something he likes. I don't think there's, I see nothing wrong with this whatsoever.
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And, uh, I, I think that there's a big problem with the way that it sounds like you might be
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approaching it and your parents and you actually, if, if your parents are approaching this way,
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they might be some contention and stress within the relationship. You can actually be the bridge.
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You, you understand your parents cause you lean more towards your parents, but you're also more
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connected with your brother. Cause you wouldn't be asking this question if you didn't care about
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him. So it's obvious that you care about him. So be the bridge, like be the practical one,
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but also the one that supports him and edifies him and uplifts him. That's a way more powerful
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position than undermining something that might just be a hobby that the kid likes to do. Like
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let him do his thing. He's not, he's not doing drugs. He's not running in a gang. You know,
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he's, he's, he's could be worse. Yeah. It could be way worse. Like it's not bad at all. Like he's
00:23:08.720
doing something that's a talent. That's a skill. He's, he's probably exercising some level of
00:23:13.360
discipline and mastery. Like right on all the power to you, man. Go beat box. Like never before
00:23:20.460
tell him when there's a tournament and a competition, drive them to one. Say, Hey,
00:23:26.380
there's a competition over here. Like you should, you should join. Like I'll drive you down there.
00:23:31.180
Like support the guy, man, support him. Yeah. What's the flip side to it's like, okay. Flip side
00:23:38.780
to this is younger brother goes and decides to be a lawyer because mom and dad suggested that's the
00:23:45.300
best career. He hates it. He lives a life of regret of constantly doing what mom and dad
00:23:50.300
always suggested he do. He never pursued anything that caused interest in his own life. And that's
00:23:55.680
better. Right. Right. Like, and you know what, maybe he on his own will become a lawyer and he'll
00:24:02.660
be the beatboxing lawyer. Okay. Cool. Yeah. But at that point it will be his, it'll be his decision.
00:24:09.520
And that is different than just doing it because you told him to do it or that you were annoyed by it
00:24:15.140
or something else. So, yeah, yeah, I don't, I don't get that. But again, I'll reiterate, I believe
00:24:22.900
based on your question that you care about your brother, I just think there may be a better way to
00:24:28.300
go about doing this. Yeah. And, and, and so I can, so Khan doesn't feel like completely like
00:24:33.720
abandoned here. I can relate to this. I actually can. My, my oldest son is, he has Usher syndrome,
00:24:42.140
right? He had a hearing loss, severe hearing loss at, at, at birth and he's losing his vision
00:24:47.100
and his vision has gotten really, really bad of late. And, and originally when he went to college,
00:24:54.680
he wanted to do music therapy, right? Or he wants to do like certain things. And I'm, and as a parent,
00:25:01.500
I'm thinking, all right, you, you losing your vision, like, Hey bud, why don't we focus on like,
00:25:07.240
why don't we get the list of the careers that you can do while blind? Right. And we focus on those
00:25:13.080
items, but in the same breath, it's like, or you could pursue something you love as long as you can,
00:25:19.660
you know, it's like, who am I to also even say like, don't go for something that you can do right
00:25:24.580
now that you may not be able to do later. Right. It's like, you know, so, so I, I understand it.
00:25:30.400
Cause as a parent, I'm, I'm trying to like, you know, a little bit of a guidance and direction of
00:25:35.280
like, go after these things to do, do the sure thing that you can provide for your family. And,
00:25:39.620
and, and part of that is me saying, you know, crush your dreams a little bit. Don't do,
00:25:44.640
I mean, he could be amazing at it. Right. And even if it's very difficult for him to get into,
00:25:49.340
like, who am I to be shutting that down? So, so I, I understand the dichotomy there because you want
00:25:55.180
what's best for your brother. And that's a good thing. Um, but I get it. I don't know, man,
00:26:00.360
like I'm not in that situation, of course, with you and your son. And, and I see what you're saying,
00:26:04.700
but at the same time, it's like, okay, so like, so he won't be able to see. Okay. So he'll be the
00:26:13.660
first blind guy to do this. Yeah. That's awesome. Right. That like, that is awesome. We live in the
00:26:22.340
most amazing time in human history where the opportunities are abound. Like the risk is very
00:26:29.620
minimal and I, man, life's just too short to just do what other people think you should do,
00:26:40.680
or be limited by some sort of, uh, uh, medical condition. Like, God, I just think what an amazing
00:26:48.980
opportunity. Like I just feel, and I'm sure you do kit, but like, you'll be the first blind person
00:26:54.120
to ever do this. How cool is that? Yeah. I'm not saying you don't do that. I'm just saying like,
00:26:59.960
man, if we supported each other that way, whether it's your brother or your son or your friend or a
00:27:04.140
colleague or a coworker or a neighbor, your wife, man, life would be drastically different instead
00:27:09.540
of saying, well, you know, let's play it safe and let's be practical. Screw practicality, man.
00:27:14.760
Like you can be practical at any time. Like you'll, you'll be able to make the mortgage payment.
00:27:18.500
You'll be able to make the car pay. All that stuff will work out, but like, let's stop being so
00:27:22.980
practical and let's start thinking about something that maybe is impractical or a seemingly impossible
00:27:28.500
task is way better, way better. Yeah. A little bit more on the area of inspiring. Yeah. I like,
00:27:37.300
yeah, that's your job. Not only is it, not only is this gentleman's job to inspire, but it's his job to
00:27:45.460
facilitate and foster. So yes, encourage him and then drive him to the beatbox competition.
00:27:54.120
Like you're, you're so busy, like, Oh, it won't work that maybe there's opportunities that you could
00:28:00.500
actually help him make it work. Yeah. Or, or, and we've talked about this is like what opportunities
00:28:05.860
present themselves through beatboxing. Like maybe he'll be beatboxing and then he gets this huge
00:28:11.860
interest in working a recording studio because of it. And he would have never known about that if he
00:28:17.620
didn't do the whole beatboxing thing, right? Like opportunities will just naturally present
00:28:21.100
themselves too. If, if you, if you take the, the, the course, the path, like they'll present
00:28:28.140
themselves. They won't present themselves from a distance. They'll be there. You just won't see them.
00:28:33.400
You have to get closer to recognize them and you get closer by taking the steps and putting yourself
00:28:38.100
in the position to acknowledge the opportunities. Yeah. Cool. Barry loftus, how to successfully exit
00:28:46.420
a marriage. I asked this because it seems the majority of the posts are on cheating spouses and
00:28:54.240
et cetera. While we're all, while we are only reading one side of the story, I think it would be helpful
00:29:00.100
for men to understand that a woman should never complete you. It's a kind of all over the place.
00:29:08.420
Yeah. A little bit. Um, I don't, I don't like my wife is an integral part of my life. I don't know
00:29:16.660
that she completes me. Like, I think that's kind of a, I think that's kind of a weird thought. It's
00:29:21.980
kind of falls into the camp of like happy wife, happy life thing. You know, like you don't, don't,
00:29:26.960
don't make a woman the center of your universe. Like it just doesn't go well. Um, but that being
00:29:33.020
said, just because I believe that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be in a relationship, right?
00:29:38.080
Cause she is an integral part of what I'm doing and, uh, a big help and a support. And she keeps
00:29:43.400
me on track and holds me accountable. Like there's so much more that comes with it than you complete me.
00:29:49.080
And I want to make, I want to make my, my life circle around you. So I'm not sure how that ties
00:29:56.480
in with the first component of how to exit a marriage, exiting in a marriage. What I would
00:30:00.960
say, go ahead, Kip, if you have some, maybe I'm, I'm, I'm wondering if what he's asking is,
00:30:06.600
cause he made a point here about the majority of posts about cheating spouses that, that sometimes
00:30:11.120
in Facebook, we have these guys that are, their marriages are falling apart and they're falling
00:30:15.320
apart. And, and maybe he's, he's looking for, Hey, why don't we have this conversation around
00:30:20.400
a proper way to exit? Meaning I can be a complete man, even though my marriage fell apart, even
00:30:25.820
though someone cheated on me. And how do I move on beyond that? That that's what I'm asking.
00:30:32.060
Yeah, that's a good, I'm glad you clarified. The answer is to fix yourself. Like go, go into
00:30:36.740
Google and type in order of man, fix yourself. And you'll find two podcasts. One is fix your
00:30:45.300
marriage by fixing yourself. And the other one is fix yourself first. That's the answer.
00:30:50.360
Fix yourself, find new hobbies, develop new skills, build a band of brothers, go to the gym,
00:30:57.000
get your finances in order, work on yourself. It's always work on eat. By the way, even if you're in a
00:31:03.200
thriving marriage, the answer is work on yourself, work on yourself, work on yourself, work on yourself.
00:31:09.860
Your marriage will get better. If you work on yourself. And if your marriage is not doing well
00:31:15.240
for one reason or the other, it will either improve or it won't work, but you'll still position
00:31:21.320
yourself in a better position because you're worrying about fixing yourself, fix yourself,
00:31:25.880
fix yourself, fix yourself. All those posts in the Facebook group, the answer is fix yourself.
00:31:30.460
So go into Google, type order of man, fix yourself, and you'll find those two resources there. That's
00:31:38.740
it guys. Just work on yourself always and in all ways, and you'll be better. Everything around you
00:31:46.240
will be better. As far as exiting a marriage, there's some other considerations. I like Dave Ramsey's
00:31:52.840
input when he says that once you have made the decision to leave a marriage, it now becomes a
00:31:58.780
business transaction. It's very hard to do when you're emotionally invested and there's kids
00:32:03.820
involved and assets and businesses. But at that point, it's a business negotiation. You're worrying
00:32:11.180
about money, you're worrying about visitation, you're worrying about custody. I think it's business at that
00:32:15.820
point, which means that you need to try to extract the emotion and make practical, pragmatic business
00:32:23.720
and financial decisions. Yeah. Do us a favor. Hashtag fix yourself. Hashtag order of man. Some of you
00:32:34.720
guys on Instagram or Facebook, go ahead and find those posts and let's do some reposting. So guys
00:32:40.300
see that more often in the Facebook group or whatever social media you're using. And Ryan, I'm assuming you
00:32:46.460
would also say, Hey, this is also the answer for anything. So you're at work and your boss doesn't
00:32:54.140
do a good job and you're frustrated with how the team works. What do you do? Fix yourself, do your job
00:33:00.680
well, right? Do it amazing. Focus on what you do have control over, get your house in order, do your
00:33:06.740
part before bitching and moaning about how, you know, everyone else is not doing their, their part.
00:33:12.400
Yeah. It'll solve the, it'll solve your problems. Look, if you take about, if you take it in the
00:33:18.280
context of business, one of two things will happen. If you focus on yourself, the environment will get
00:33:22.920
better. Your boss will improve. Your employees will be more efficient. Or if you're an employee,
00:33:28.040
you'll get a new job. That's better than the one you're at right now because you've made yourself
00:33:32.760
more capable and people acknowledge and recognize that and they want to hire you. Yeah. Like, like,
00:33:37.840
tell me, here's a great way to look at it. If, if you've got a boss, who's, who's a dick or,
00:33:45.140
you know, he's, he's, he's doesn't want to help or support you, whatever. If you try to go correct
00:33:51.960
his behavior, it could, it could actually work or it could not work and you can find yourself out of a
00:33:58.500
job. Right. So there's downside. There is no downside to improving yourself.
00:34:06.420
Like there is zero risk at all whatsoever about focusing on being the best employee,
00:34:14.080
the best communicator, the best delegator, the best fill in the blank, no downside whatsoever,
00:34:20.760
no risk, no downside, only upside potential. So if we're talking about taking paths, like what
00:34:28.580
should my decision be? I would go with the high probability decision of correcting and fixing
00:34:34.460
yourself and working on yourself before I tried anything else. Now, then I can move into some of
00:34:40.620
these other tangents and some of these other strategies, but that should be the foundational
00:34:44.800
strategy because there's no possible downside or risk to it whatsoever. Yeah. And, and why don't we do
00:34:50.540
it? Cause it's work and we'd all, and we'd all much rather point the finger and be a victim and
00:34:57.180
not have to put the legwork in then, then actually say, Oh, okay. I just need to work. I need to do
00:35:03.000
my part. And so I think it's a natural tendency too. Yeah. It's ego, right? Because Kip, if you and
00:35:08.920
I are working together and the, the reason the project failed, if I can pin it on you, then I don't
00:35:15.160
risk any sell anything to myself. Right. So like, Oh, it's Kip's fault. I didn't, I didn't, I couldn't
00:35:20.400
complete my thing. Cause I was waiting on Kip the entire time. And therefore I, I, there's no
00:35:25.820
perceived risk except for everybody sees right through it. Everybody knows the reality of it.
00:35:30.520
And you end up just looking like a punk instead of a good employee or a good advisor or a good
00:35:37.260
manager or whatever, whatever it is you're trying to do or spouse spouse. Right. Exactly. Yep.
00:35:43.360
Cool. Trenton Alexander. If you didn't have a male mentor, where would you be? Where would be a good
00:35:49.800
place to learn and become a man books, podcasts, where, where it's a good place to find a mentor
00:35:55.940
order of man? Yeah. Iron council, iron council, sovereignty, this podcast.
00:36:06.120
And, and I think you have core spying communities around books around that, right? Like, you know,
00:36:12.900
a lot of the people that you interview on the Tuesday show, a lot of those guys have Facebook groups
00:36:18.060
that are tied to that book, right? No more Mr. Nice guy. And yeah. Yeah. So just look at our
00:36:27.140
podcast. And, uh, this week we had John level warrior poet society. He's running an awesome
00:36:33.540
organization. That conversation was bound to happen and inevitable because him and I are so much in
00:36:38.780
alignment with our philosophies about what it means to be a man and how a man shows up. He tends to lean
00:36:44.360
more towards the tactical training side of things. So if that's something that is appealing to you,
00:36:52.120
or you feel like is, is a deficiency or something you need to shore up, then that would be a good
00:36:56.340
angle. If you're like, well, I just, I need to be a better leader and I need to, to manage my team
00:37:00.800
better. Okay. Well, we've had Jocko on the podcast four times and he just came out with the new book,
00:37:07.120
leadership strategy and tactics field manual. So like, that would be a good avenue. And if you're like,
00:37:10.760
well, I want to, I want to learn how to like run an organization and start a business and,
00:37:16.580
and, and make things and build a business, then Pete Roberts with origin with, you know,
00:37:22.620
American manufacturing hands in daylight is hit his podcast. Like find something that sounds
00:37:28.800
intriguing to you and just like start exploring these paths and look at what we've, the guests
00:37:34.020
that we've had on the podcast, look at the conversations that we're having. One thing I hear a lot
00:37:38.500
is about mentors. Like, how do you find a mentor? It was so wrapped up in like, I have to have this
00:37:43.360
one official mentor who helps me with everything. That's not how this works. Right. Correct mentor.
00:37:48.460
Yeah. Right. That's not how this works. The way that it works is you figure out what you want,
00:37:53.600
right? So you want to get physically stronger. Okay. Well then you need to hire a strength and
00:38:00.880
conditioning coach. That is your mentor. Well, we'll like, how do you get them to mentor you?
00:38:07.140
You buy a shit. Like you buy his training, you go to his course, you go to his conference,
00:38:14.780
you buy a stuff. Oh, I was, I don't want to pay anything. Well then you're not, you don't care
00:38:20.420
about it then. Like you got to put some skin in the game. Like I hear this all the time. Well,
00:38:25.920
like, are there any free resources? No. Well, that's not true. The podcasts, it's all free.
00:38:33.220
There's YouTube channels. Those are all free. Oh yeah. But I'm looking for something more. Yeah.
00:38:36.840
Then invest in yourself. Like pay 20 bucks to buy one of these guys's books,
00:38:41.940
pay $500 to go to a course by two or three months worth of, if we're talking about strength and
00:38:47.600
conditioning by two or three months worth of, of coaching, you know, cost you a grand, maybe,
00:38:53.640
maybe less 500, 700, a thousand dollars. Okay. Well, if that's what you want, then that's what
00:38:58.060
you have to do. You have to invest in yourself. You know, you'll, you'll buy UFC fight package.
00:39:03.620
You'll buy the greasy burger at Burger King. You'll buy all the other crap that you don't
00:39:07.580
need on Amazon, but you won't invest in yourself. So yeah, you're not going to find those mentors,
00:39:13.960
find somebody who's doing what you want to do and then pay them to teach you how to do
00:39:18.720
it. You want to build up social media, find somebody who, who has a good social media following
00:39:24.160
and that teaches people how to build social media. You want to get, get better at jujitsu,
00:39:28.720
find a gym in your area and go there and buy a three month membership. If you want to be better
00:39:38.140
in your relationship, then maybe there's a guy in your neighborhood who has a killer marriage
00:39:43.340
and family and he's like, got it going on. Cool. Reach out to him and buy him dinner or buy him lunch
00:39:48.060
or invite him over for fight nights or invite him golfing or whatever. Like invest, just invest.
00:39:54.600
That's how you find mentors. There isn't like one life coach who's, and why should somebody give you
00:40:00.360
all of their time and attention anyways, without you giving anything in return? And I'm not putting
00:40:06.400
this guy on blast here, but there's so many people who think that like, like I'll get this all the time.
00:40:11.480
Hey Ryan, you know, like you're doing great things. Can, can I pick your brain? No,
00:40:15.960
you can't pick my brain. And if you want to, you can listen to the podcast. You can buy my book.
00:40:21.700
You can join the iron council. Oh, but you know what? Yeah. I was really just like hoping I could
00:40:26.940
talk to you for half an hour. Why in the hell would I do that? Why would I do that? I have other
00:40:34.600
people who are vested in, in growing and expanding who, who have committed to me. So I'm committed to
00:40:42.560
them. Like we built up a friendship and relationship and you just want to pick my
00:40:46.720
brain. Like how arrogant do you need to be to like, think that I don't have anything better to do.
00:40:54.180
If you want to, if you want to pick somebody's brain, pay them. Hey, and that look, I'm not
00:41:00.420
speaking out of my ass here. This is exactly what I did when I had my financial planning practice. So I,
00:41:04.680
I owned the practice for about nine, almost 10 years. And about, I want to say roughly seven years ago,
00:41:11.640
I wanted to start a financial planning podcast and a blog. Like I was doing it the, like traditional
00:41:17.580
financial planning way to build a practice. And I thought that this new digital media would be the
00:41:22.280
way to go. So I found this guy, his name's Jeff Rose, good financial sense. And he had a killer
00:41:27.540
podcast. I don't know if he had a podcast at this point, but he had a blog and he had a YouTube channel.
00:41:32.060
He was entertaining. He was fun. He was teaching about money. He was very, very successful.
00:41:35.660
So I reached out to him and I said, Hey Jeff, look, I love what you're doing. I'm trying to
00:41:41.360
build something similar in my practice. I have no idea where to start. Do you do any coaching?
00:41:46.000
And he's like, yeah, I do coaching. It costs this much. I think it was like,
00:41:49.980
I don't know. It was like $200 to talk to him for an hour. And I'm like, cool. Can I PayPal you? He's
00:41:54.640
like, yeah. PayPal him a couple hundred bucks, talk to him for an hour. And man, he set me on the,
00:41:59.720
on the path like that. $200 has turned into almost seven figures at this point, probably seven figures.
00:42:07.140
If I add up all of the income over the past, you know, seven years, it's invaluable when you invest
00:42:13.540
in yourself. So find people who are doing what you want to do, reach out to them. It's never been
00:42:18.700
easier to connect with these people and pay them, whether it's buying their products or paying for
00:42:23.340
coaching to teach them what it is you want to do. And they will, because that's how the economy works.
00:42:29.720
Tyler Cross, what is one habit that you have implemented in your life that has drastically
00:42:37.440
changed life? And what is one skill you're really going to hone in on and focus on this year?
00:42:45.960
Um, jujitsu. I mean, that's, I'm so focused on that right now. Like I'm all in on jujitsu. And that's
00:42:55.000
the one thing that I've done in the past eight months that has produced significantly better
00:43:00.580
results than anything else in my life. So I go three to four times a week now. Um, I watched
00:43:08.340
videos. I listened to instruction. Like I watched fights and I like analyze, like, I'm just like you,
00:43:14.900
Kip. I've geeked out on it, you know, like my, my wife and kids were gone for the last couple of days.
00:43:21.000
And at night I would just get on YouTube and I'm like, okay, like, how do you escape
00:43:26.520
side control? You know? And I'd watch all the little tech, step one, step two, step three.
00:43:32.100
And then I'd watch what he was doing with his pinky toe. Cause I'm like, well, if we put his pink,
00:43:36.040
like, you know what I'm saying? Like you get like really deep into it. And that's, that's where I'm at
00:43:41.060
right now. So that's it. That's the answer. And being disciplined of going to jujitsu.
00:43:46.540
What habit have you implemented in your life that maybe has had the most drastic change
00:43:52.980
overall? Um, that's it. Like just going, being disciplined and committed to going
00:44:01.560
because it's not easy. You know, like I go three days in the morning and two at night. So sometimes
00:44:09.060
I miss one of those for travel purposes or whatever else. Um, so, you know, three to four days a week,
00:44:14.500
it's not easy. Like I've got a busy schedule. I've got four kids. My wife needs my attention.
00:44:18.500
I've got this business to run, but that the habit of just being committed and disciplined and saying
00:44:24.340
yes to the things I've already committed to doing drastically improves my life. And you know what?
00:44:29.260
It's a very good correlation to everything else I'm doing in life. If I uphold my word to the things
00:44:33.780
that I say I want to do, whether it's jujitsu or archery or some of these other practices that I enjoy
00:44:38.400
doing, then it makes it easier for me to uphold my word in other areas like business and
00:44:44.180
uh, like I had, I'll give you an example. I had, uh, I had three or four podcasts over the past,
00:44:51.160
I would say year or so that I initially told the person I would have them on. And for one reason
00:44:56.320
or the other, it didn't work out or like, I wasn't super excited about the conversation,
00:45:00.520
but I thought in my head, I'm like, like I told these people, yes. Right. I, I, I accepted their
00:45:07.820
request to come on the podcast and, and I'm beating around the bush and not having them on. Cause I
00:45:12.720
wasn't super excited. I'm like, that's my fault. Like I shouldn't have said yes, maybe. But since
00:45:17.300
I did, like I already committed and said yes. So I reached out to every one of these individuals
00:45:21.600
and I said, Hey man, we never scheduled this podcast. Like let's get it done. And I did in
00:45:26.440
the past, over the past six months, I've done these, these four podcasts and they actually ended
00:45:33.360
up turning out really well because I put a lot of effort and research into making sure that it was a
00:45:38.460
good conversation. And I honored my word that was far better than any other benefit of having those
00:45:45.920
podcasts is I honored my word and I honored myself and those individuals because I made that commitment.
00:45:51.160
And when you do the things that you say you're going to do, that is a huge victory that spills over
00:45:59.260
into every single facet of your life. You just proved yourself, frankly, a man because you've lived up to
00:46:06.880
your word and you'll feel it in every part of you, how good you'll feel about yourself because you
00:46:13.120
honored your word. Love it. Mitchell Morshry. I would like some information on how to stop a bad habit
00:46:22.660
like chewing tobacco. I think a lot of us could help, uh, could use the help with stopping a habit
00:46:28.400
or an addiction of some sort. So there's a couple of good resources. Uh, one is atomic habits by James
00:46:36.080
clear. And we just had James on the podcast about maybe four or six weeks ago, somewhere in there.
00:46:42.260
So I would definitely look into his stuff. Uh, Charles Duhigg, the power of habit, or yeah,
00:46:47.000
I think it's called the power of habit, uh, is a really good resource. A couple of tips I would
00:46:51.480
give you right off, right off hand. In addition to what these guys will share with you, which is
00:46:55.640
significantly more than I can. Those are the two best resources in my experience. Anyways, is, uh,
00:47:01.600
number one, eliminate the temptation, right? So if you know, uh, that, that you, you want to stop
00:47:10.440
smoking, for example, and you know, that's a temptation of yours, just don't go to the gas
00:47:14.420
station because that's where you get cigarettes. So like, just stay away from the gas station.
00:47:17.980
Like, don't have it in your house. Stay away from the gas station. If that's where you buy cigarettes,
00:47:21.420
don't go into that store. Just change the store. Or, or if you do like you're driving to work and you
00:47:27.260
drive by that one convenience store and that's where you get your pack of cigarettes, like pick a new
00:47:31.120
route, pick a new route. And then in addition to that, I would say, uh, replace your habits. So
00:47:37.000
every time you have the temptation to smoke or to drink or whatever it is that you want to do,
00:47:40.740
just replace it with something more intentional that that is in line with your goal. That'll
00:47:45.160
move you in the right direction. Right? So if it's smoking, maybe it's, you know, you have a snack,
00:47:50.640
like you have some beef jerky or something, you know? So there's things you can do, but again,
00:47:54.940
I want to reiterate, and this goes back to the mentor thing and finding people who can teach you what
00:47:59.860
you want to know, James Clear, Charles Duhigg, the power of habit and, uh, atomic habits will help
00:48:06.420
you get on the path and significantly deeper than what I can share with you. Cool. Greg Murphy,
00:48:14.380
what do you do when your boss won't support you? Lost an employee due to a long-term sickness.
00:48:20.380
I've been able to keep things going, but now my boss decides not to fill the position because he
00:48:25.560
thinks everything is going fine. So workload has doubled and no additional compensation.
00:48:31.840
Yeah. I mean, look, let's think about it this way. Why would he like if everything's rocking and
00:48:40.780
rolling and nothing's hit any, and anything's come up, like, why would he do that? Cause
00:48:46.160
obviously he's like, Oh, this is actually better. Cause I just cut out $50,000 of payroll by having
00:48:50.560
this extra person. And now I don't have to pay this guy. So, I mean, you can understand, certainly
00:48:55.300
we can understand that, right? Like I, even though I don't like it, I can understand. Makes sense.
00:49:00.920
Yeah. Now that being said, I'm not going to undermine that. Like I'm not going to deliberately
00:49:07.320
sabotage my own efforts in order for him to understand that we need somebody else. But what
00:49:12.340
I would do is very, be very assertive in my communication with my employer. So Kip, you're my
00:49:18.360
boss. All right. And we just let somebody go. And I picked up this guy slack and I come to you.
00:49:23.220
Here's, here's a conversation I would have something along these lines. Hey Kip, you know, I've, I've
00:49:27.580
needed to talk with you about this. We let John go and I've been picking up his slack and I got to tell
00:49:32.080
you, I'm feeling a little bit of pressure. Um, things are still rocking and rolling, still doing
00:49:35.660
well, but I feel like with the added effort that I've put forth and the added effort that I will
00:49:41.640
continue to put forth, like I believe in what we're doing and I want this to work and I want this to be
00:49:46.080
as efficient as possible. Um, I feel like it's time to evaluate, uh, how I'm being compensated.
00:49:53.440
So I would like to talk with you about that. Are you open to having a conversation about that?
00:50:00.520
that is leadership material right there, young man. Yeah. I wish it would go like that.
00:50:06.560
I wish it would go like, what you'd probably say is, well, you know, we're, we're, we got a budget
00:50:11.420
figured out and we got this and that and say, Hey, you know, that's, that's understandable.
00:50:15.060
What can I do to prove to you that this is a conversation worth having?
00:50:20.260
Yeah. And you're going to say, well, I'd really need to see X, Y, and Z. Okay. Well, so let me
00:50:25.080
understand if, if we can hit these benchmarks and do these, these things over the next 60 days,
00:50:31.180
are you willing to circle around with me and have the conversation about, uh, looking at my
00:50:37.040
compensation package? Like put them on the spot, man. Not like a dick, but like tell him, Hey,
00:50:44.920
I'm doing a lot here now. Hopefully he's going to get the idea that he either needs to hire somebody
00:50:49.500
or that he needs to look at your compensation package. This is assertive communication. This
00:50:54.820
is the way men behave and communicate with each other. Now he might take that negatively. Okay. Well,
00:51:01.980
that goes back to what we were saying earlier about fixing yourself. You should be networking at
00:51:06.820
all times. You should be working on your communication skills. You should be, uh, uh,
00:51:11.760
getting involved in courses and, and, and looking at credentials and degrees and designations and all
00:51:18.920
these other things. So that if something goes South in the business, you're never going to be at a loss
00:51:22.940
for work. Cause if the guy's not going to work with you, like you need to probably consider going
00:51:28.500
to work with an organization that will, but you can't just do that on a whim. And I think it's only
00:51:33.680
right and fair to give him an opportunity. But if we're not willing to communicate this to an
00:51:38.880
employer, then yeah, like it is in his best interest not to give you a raise. It is in his
00:51:45.840
best interest based on the facts that he has to not hire somebody else. So make it, make it
00:51:55.520
difficult for him to say, for him, not to acknowledge that you need a raise by communicating
00:52:04.260
with him, like opening your mouth and sharing. That's hard. It's very hard, especially for
00:52:09.940
somebody who's never been a great communicator, never grew up around great communicators,
00:52:14.180
always kind of like put converse. A lot of parents are this way. Like, Oh, we don't talk about that.
00:52:18.660
This is difficult. I don't want to talk about that. And so you never learned how to confront
00:52:22.860
people. There's great resources, crucial conversations or crucial confrontations.
00:52:27.880
I think conversations, conversations, um, is a great book. Like there's so much information
00:52:34.120
out here, but you need to have a conversation with them and don't let them off the hook.
00:52:38.240
Cause what, what an employer will do is they'll try to kick it down the road,
00:52:42.200
kick the can down the road, right? Like, Oh yeah, man. Yeah. Kip, you're right. I know
00:52:46.220
next quarter we're working on this project. Let's talk about it in, in February or in, uh, in April.
00:52:51.700
Okay. Like we're just gotta get this done. Let's talk about it in April. Okay. That's fair. Hey Kip.
00:52:56.840
So, okay. So I'm hearing in April, let me ask you this. Uh, we're in February right now. So we have
00:53:01.500
February, March, April. So we have three months in the next 90 days. What would you need to see from
00:53:07.240
me? So that in April you feel confident with, uh, reevaluating my compensation package.
00:53:13.140
Totally. Like don't let him kick it down the road without you holding his feet to the fire.
00:53:19.020
Totally. Got to do it. And you're creating possibility for me, right? You're saying,
00:53:23.300
Hey, what would, what would need to be present for you to feel good about it? That's right. That's a
00:53:28.320
fair question. That's not threatening. I'd see that as like, okay, yeah. Awesome. If I saw these things,
00:53:34.100
I'd feel great about it. Like that's perfect. It's clear, concise. You're, you're creating a
00:53:38.500
possibility for me to like feel excited and feel good about that decision versus like strong arming.
00:53:44.340
Or we've talked about this in the past. It's like, well, I'm going to have to quit then. I mean,
00:53:47.720
don't, don't pull that number. Cause he may call your bluff. Right. So, um, I love this and I've
00:53:54.100
used this even in the IC. I've told guys the same thing. It's like, even in your personal life,
00:53:58.320
you really want to go to the origin jujitsu camp later this year, but you're afraid that your wife
00:54:05.180
would be upset about it. This is what you do. You come home and you say, honey, there's this Brazilian
00:54:09.940
jujitsu emerging camp. Jocko's going to be there. Ryan's going to be there. Kip's going to be
00:54:13.160
there. I really want to go. I think it'll be great for me. What would I need to do between
00:54:18.120
now and then for you to feel good about me going? That's a fair conversation. Yeah. And she's going
00:54:26.760
to say, well, this is what I expect. I'd want to see these things from you. And then you can look
00:54:30.860
at it and go done. I can do that. Yeah. But then you have to actually do it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Of
00:54:37.900
course. We're assuming to all have integrity. Yeah. And, and also you might have to fill in
00:54:42.960
the blanks too. Right. So whether it's your wife or your boss, you have to go back and say,
00:54:47.140
right, well, clear expectations, but then backfilling what has happened. So I'd come to
00:54:52.060
you as my boss and I'd say, Hey, Kip, you remember, uh, I reached out to you in the middle of February,
00:54:58.300
uh, because John had left and, and I was carrying his workload. And I asked you what three things you
00:55:03.440
needed me to do. And you said, I need to do this, this, and this. And we'd evaluate our compensation
00:55:07.460
package in April. Believe it or not, it's April. Um, I just, can we schedule a meeting to sit down
00:55:12.620
and I can show you, uh, the metrics and how the department has improved and how this, this has
00:55:20.120
been good for you as the owner of the company. When would you like to do that? So you like actually go
00:55:25.300
back and you back fill what had happened and you hold them to it. Cause Hey, you said we'd talk
00:55:32.100
here. I am following up and here's what we've done. You got to backfill that conversation.
00:55:36.620
Don't just assume that, Oh, okay, cool. Like in April, he's going to reach out. No, he's not.
00:55:41.120
He's not. He's going to forget about it. Yeah. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. All right.
00:55:47.000
DeShel Rocha, my wife and I started my own business. Our, our own business.
00:55:53.380
Start over Kip. Cause you cut out there a little bit.
00:55:56.040
Yeah. Well, and I, I, I was kind of slaughtering it anyway. So DeShel Rocha, my wife and I,
00:56:01.440
he's, this is all, uh, typed wrong. Okay. My wife and I would like to start our own business
00:56:09.460
or should we continue working for my boss, making an average salary and her making an
00:56:14.760
average salary together. We can make a decent living, but should I take the risk and not
00:56:19.660
work for someone else anymore? Thank you, Ryan Mickler. And I only giggle guys like mid question,
00:56:24.680
just because I've talked to Ryan so many times and I've heard he talks so many times that I hear
00:56:29.960
these certain phrases and I immediately like you're in my head and I go, Oh, I know how I was going to
00:56:34.280
respond to these. So go ahead. Sorry. Can you hear that? That banging out there? A ton of snow just
00:56:41.520
felt like a ton of snow just fell off the roof. Um, all right. Well, there's risk in everything.
00:56:48.900
Everything carries a certain amount of risk. There's risk in maintaining the status quo. There's a risk
00:56:55.080
that you'll be fired. There's a risk that you'll have some lost opportunity costs because you're
00:57:00.980
leaving income and money and upward mobility on the table. So you have to evaluate what risk are
00:57:07.080
you willing to take? Are you willing to trade, uh, income mobility, for example, uh, for a little
00:57:14.060
perceived and I use perceived intentionally a little perceived security and safety. Are you willing to do
00:57:19.120
that? If the answer is yes, then you should say you definitely should stay. If the answer is no upward
00:57:27.180
mobility control, freedom, flexibility of my time is worth the risk. Cause there is risk in stepping out
00:57:32.620
of this business that we want to start not working out, but it's worth it. Then you should leave.
00:57:38.540
Then you should start that side business. But I would actually also suggest that there's probably a way
00:57:43.260
where you can have your cake and eat it too. In this situation now, and I don't know what business you
00:57:47.620
guys are looking at starting, but I started order of man, which is a business, uh, when I was fully
00:57:54.480
vested in the financial planning practice, I was, I was full time. I was busting my butt in the
00:57:59.120
financial planning practice. And for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, I was
00:58:03.100
doing order of man. And I did that for about seven or eight months before I made my first dollar
00:58:07.540
with, with order of man. I made about 15, no, $1,200 in November of 2015, uh, with order of man.
00:58:15.160
But for seven months I was doing both and, and you can do both. That's the beauty. Now,
00:58:20.000
depending on the business you're looking at starting, you know, that, that may vary a little
00:58:24.040
bit, but there's probably a way where you can do both. But look at the end of the day, here's the
00:58:29.360
thing. Why in the world would you settle? Why would you settle? I don't understand why people set.
00:58:38.740
Well, I understand why people settle for a mediocre life. Cause they're scared. They're
00:58:45.500
scared. You know what I'm scared of? I'm scared of sitting on my deathbed, whether it's tomorrow
00:58:52.080
or tonight or the next 40 years. And looking back at all of these opportunities that I could
00:59:00.520
have taken, but I didn't because I was scared. Be, be truthful with yourself. You're afraid.
00:59:10.640
You have to acknowledge that because you don't want to be afraid. You want to be courageous.
00:59:15.400
Most men want to be courageous. So what they'll do is they'll say, I'm not afraid, right? So they'll
00:59:20.440
lie to themselves. No, you're afraid. Understandably so. But if you acknowledge that the truth that you're,
00:59:28.440
you're, you're, you're operating in fear, maybe you'll do the right thing, which is to exhibit
00:59:34.000
some level of courage towards the thing that you want to have. Fear is getting in your way.
00:59:41.320
And I'm not saying be reckless. You have obligations and responsibilities. So I'm not saying just throw
00:59:48.380
caution to the wind. I'm just saying be bold, be assertive, be courageous, acknowledge the fear,
00:59:55.180
recognize that it's there, be truthful about it. Don't bury your head in the sand.
00:59:58.440
And then act in spite of the fear, put some plans in place to mitigate the potential risk and the
01:00:05.360
fear that you're dealing with and live your life the way that it's meant to be lived, which is doing
01:00:10.560
the things that you want to do. By the way, I'm not saying that living the life the way it's meant
01:00:14.460
to be lived is starting a business. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that if you think that's the way
01:00:20.000
your life is supposed to be meant, then you should do that. And your life should be lived by
01:00:26.700
working with an organization because there's some values and some things there that then you should
01:00:31.360
do that. You should find a way to live your life the way that you best see fit. Stop second guessing
01:00:37.220
yourself. Stop operating in fear and do what you know you should be doing. Make a plan to make it
01:00:41.660
happen and then make it happen. Robbie Porter, what kind of daily routine do you and your wife keep?
01:00:50.720
Does your family have a daily morning nightly routine? Have you found a good group of people
01:00:55.560
in your new city to connect with and build community? Do your boys go to public school?
01:01:00.360
If so, are they adjusting well? Thanks for your willingness to share your life with us.
01:01:05.080
Ryan Mickler. Robbie, that's like eight questions, dude.
01:01:08.620
So this is, I was going to say, this is ask me anything, not ask me everything.
01:01:14.520
No, it's cool. We can, we can, we can handle as many of these as possible. What's the first one?
01:01:21.140
Uh, routines. You and your wife. Yes. Yeah. We have a morning routine. So I get up, I exercise,
01:01:28.340
she gets up, she exercises, whether it's training or jujitsu. Uh, we come home, we do a family meeting,
01:01:34.140
we have some scripture study, we do a family prayer, and then we all get on the same page.
01:01:38.740
Generally, that's what we do. Not every day because it is what it is, but that's generally
01:01:43.120
what we do. Do you do a nightly routine as well? Um, not typically. I mean, I, I personally wind my
01:01:50.660
day down. Yeah. Um, but you know, we do, we play with our kids, we read them books. Uh, I, we put them
01:01:58.740
down. I sing them some songs. They know the star spangled banner, Gilligan's Island, the theme song
01:02:05.020
to fresh Prince of Bel Air. There's a few others that I can sing to them that I know. Um, and some
01:02:10.860
beat boxing in there. Um, take me out to the ball game. They know really well, like the classics,
01:02:16.620
right? The important ones. Uh, and then, okay. So that's what we do as far as routine building
01:02:22.800
community in the new city. Uh, yeah, I, you know, I actually, surprisingly, I've done a better job at
01:02:30.060
that than, than she has. Uh, but I'm, I'm very involved with, like, I get involved with, with
01:02:36.820
origin. I go to training. So I've met a lot of people there. Um, we've met some great people.
01:02:42.540
Uh, in fact, I had, it was funny cause the other day I had, um, uh, main, uh, warden service,
01:02:49.980
the fish and wildlife department. One of the, one of my buddies, Chris McCabe came over. Like
01:02:53.780
he just by, he was on a snowmobile patrolling and he stopped by to say hello. And then yesterday I
01:02:58.640
was out blowing snow. And, uh, one of my friends, he's a police officer. He stopped by. And so like
01:03:04.460
all these people are thinking like, who's this guy? Like a couple of months ago I had border patrol
01:03:10.520
over and there was three border patrol vehicles in my driveway for the entire day. Cause we had lunch
01:03:16.920
and we invited him over. We did some podcasting and I went down to the convenience store, uh,
01:03:21.500
the, the following day and the gal there, she's one of our neighbors. She's like, so like, what was
01:03:26.860
border patrol doing at your house? Like trying to figure out what's going on. But yeah, I try to
01:03:31.460
like, I'm in these people's community, you know? So I'm, it's my, it's on me to, to put myself in,
01:03:39.280
in this community to find friends, to support and give help and resources wherever I can and however I
01:03:46.220
can. And so I feel like we've done a pretty, pretty good job at that. Uh, so that's, that's
01:03:50.980
what I'd say for embedding ourselves in the community. Last question was, uh, public school,
01:03:55.400
uh, kids going to public school and if so adjusting well or not. Uh, we do homeschooling. This is our
01:04:01.140
first year of homeschooling. They are adjusting to homeschooling. Well, uh, yeah, we just made a
01:04:05.120
decision. You can go back and listen to a podcast about why I made that decision, but we made the
01:04:09.920
decision not to put them in public school. Um, in fact, right now they're driving back from a,
01:04:13.860
from a, uh, a homeschooling trip. They were gone for three days at this great wolf lodge somewhere
01:04:22.140
down in Massachusetts and they swam and they had a dance and they had a pizza party like with all
01:04:27.600
the homeschoolers. It's really cool. Um, but yeah, we've actually been liking the homeschooling a lot.
01:04:33.060
It's way better. It's way better. It's way more efficient, way more effective individual attention.
01:04:40.040
I spend more time with my kids. We do fun stuff. They learn better things. They're not learning all
01:04:45.180
this bullshit from, from these ideologies that I don't agree with. It's just way better on every
01:04:51.740
metric. So if you're listening and you're thinking or like it's ever crossed your mind, you ought to
01:04:59.180
seriously consider, think long and hard and do research about homeschooling. I'm just telling you,
01:05:04.380
it's going to become more and more viable as we continue to see culture and media and the
01:05:09.280
government and everything else get involved in our lives the way it has. Totally. Or just reach
01:05:13.620
out to Ryan and ask to pick his brain for an hour or so regarding the homeschooling. Yeah. And I'll
01:05:19.720
tell you how much it costs and we'll get it done. Hey, look, I'm happy to have a conversation with
01:05:25.020
everybody. I'm just not willing. I just don't know if you're willing to pay the price or not.
01:05:29.240
That's the question. Nathan Hutzel, do you view, I know, do you view family as a springboard for
01:05:39.180
individual success of each member or as a multi-generational story to be lived in under
01:05:45.840
a shared mission? Um, I would lean more towards, I like, this is an interesting question. Uh, I would
01:05:53.620
lean more towards individual success. It's not my job to dictate how my sons and daughter live their
01:06:00.180
life when they become adults. It is now like I, that's my job by definition to give them the
01:06:05.880
foundation and the knowledge and give them a mission and a purpose and tell them how we behave and what
01:06:09.600
morality looks like and, and how, how we live our lives. That is my job at its core. But ultimately
01:06:16.700
when they go out on their own, you know, they're going to have to make their own decisions. They're
01:06:20.820
going to have to decide what's important and what isn't important. Uh, hopefully I give them a
01:06:25.000
foundation of knowledge and truth and, uh, principles that they can build a successful life
01:06:29.380
and a successful marriage and career upon, but ultimately that's on them and they have no obligation
01:06:35.500
whatsoever to assume some sort of Mickler, uh, vision for, for life. You know, I hope they carry on my
01:06:44.800
legacy. I hope they remember me when I'm dead and gone as, as somebody who, you know,
01:06:50.820
did what he said he was going to do. He was willing to take some risks and try the things
01:06:54.360
that came to his mind that he worked hard. He cared about people. Uh, he attempted to do the
01:06:58.600
right things as often as he could. Um, in many ways he fell short. And when he did, he, he apologized
01:07:04.380
and he tried to write the situation. I hope that's how they remember me. Um, but as, as, as some sort of
01:07:11.060
like shared family, like Rockefeller type thing where we carry on this like generational, eh,
01:07:18.600
that's, that's on them. They can decide. And, um, hopefully I have empowered them with the tools
01:07:23.340
to be able to make good decisions for themselves and their families. Yeah. One, I can't help but
01:07:27.320
think, but by focusing on an individual success, that's what makes that general multi-generational
01:07:32.960
story possible is because you were someone honorable enough that they would want to be like,
01:07:38.120
versus being forced upon them. So. Right. I mean, it's funny because a lot of people talk about this
01:07:43.660
is like indoctrinating our children, which I've used that term, especially when it comes to the
01:07:47.840
previous question, public schooling, like it's indoctrination and other, other people have called
01:07:51.960
me on it and they've said, well, aren't you indoctrinating your children by sharing your
01:07:55.060
beliefs? Yes, but I'm the parent. So I should be doing that. Like I shouldn't be letting them be
01:08:02.400
indoctrinated by something else. So could you say it's indoctrination to take your kids to church?
01:08:07.640
Yeah, you could. Totally. That's the point. Like I, I am trying to indoctrinate them to
01:08:15.400
principles and beliefs and values and morality and principles that I think I said principles
01:08:20.320
twice that will serve them well. So yes, I am indoctrinating them. That's my job. I'm so sick
01:08:27.900
of this thing where it's like, let the kids do whatever they want. Let them decide and think for
01:08:32.020
themselves and let them determine if they're a boy or a girl. And let's, let's take hormone blockers
01:08:37.620
and let's let them make the decision. Kids are stupid. They're naive. They're innocent. They're
01:08:42.240
ignorant because they don't have life experience. You do. So it's your job to be able to teach them,
01:08:48.260
to guide them. And dare I say, if you want to use this term, indoctrinate them. It's not a bad thing.
01:08:54.220
Totally. All right, let's take one more. All right. Um, I'm going to jump over to,
01:09:00.800
well, I thought this would be a good one. Maybe you tell me it or not. Ragnar Virchis,
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how would you describe a good, valuable post for the Facebook group? What are some things that men
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could work on to improve the quality of their posts? I like that. Um, this, this applies to
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life as we were talking about earlier in this podcast as well. Uh, I would say, well, there's
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a lot of different things. One thing is you could share your, your wins, like share what's working
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well. You know, a lot of people go in there and ask for feedback, like, Hey, I'm struggling with this.
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What feedback do you have for me? I don't have any problem with that. I think that's good. That's
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why we're doing it. But I would say you should have to share just as many wins as you ask for
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feedback. Like, why would you take deposits if you're not going to put in withdrawals or excuse
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me? Why, why would you take withdrawals if you're not going to make deposits, right? Like you need to
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deposit just as much. And here's the beauty of that. The more you deposit, the more equity you have to
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withdraw. So if you're in a Facebook group or you're in a conversation or you're in employment or
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you're in relationship and you're making deposit, deposit, the deposit by sharing and adding value
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and enhancing when it does come time to make a withdrawal, all the capital's there and you won't
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have any problem with that. You'll get as much feedback as you need. But if all you ever do is
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withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, people are going to get sick of that. And you're
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going to overdraw your account, your human capital. So add value. Hey, this is working. And,
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and I had this victory and here we are camping with my kids and I didn't used to do this,
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but here's a couple of tips that I've been using to, to be more connected with my kids or,
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Hey, I got a promotion at work. Again, this is not about bragging. It's about sharing what works.
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I got a promotion at work and all I did was ask. Like I was so, uh, I was so afraid and,
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but I just went and I asked my boss or I had a conversation with him and he gave me a raise,
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a 20% raise, like share this stuff. So that that's one thing that can really change the culture of the
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group. The other thing is if you are going to ask for feedback, instead of just asking also share
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what you've already done to correct your own problems, right? So, Hey guys, I'm really struggling
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in my relationship. My wife and I haven't been very intimate over the past, you know, six or seven
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months. And I don't know what's happening, but here's some things that I did to initiate it. Uh,
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I took her on a date and we've been doing regular date nights and, um, and I've been a little bit more
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spontaneously. Like I just took her on a vacation last weekend. We went, we're gone for two days,
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but I don't know, for some reason, she just doesn't seem to be all that connected. I'm wondering
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if there's something I'm missing. That's different and significantly more impactful because you're,
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you're depositing annual withdrawing than saying, Hey, my, my marriage is in trouble and I'm just so
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lost and I'm, I'm frustrated and I'm scared and I don't know what to do. What should I do?
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Now you just sound desperate. So solve your own problems, at least attempt to. And whenever I say
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that, here's what people say. Some people they'll say, well, if he knew how to solve his own problem,
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he wouldn't be answering the question, would he? Well, no, that's not necessarily true. Like you can
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attempt to solve your own problems without knowing the answer. You can try things. You can see what
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works. Maybe you had an idea or maybe you saw somebody as an example, but men attempt to solve
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their own problems. I'm not saying go at it alone. I'm not saying be so arrogant that you don't accept
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feedback, but at least like try at least. And you know what? I think more often than not, you'd be
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surprised how you end up solving your own problems by just trying things. So that, that is a pet peeve of
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mine would say, well, you know, like if you knew how to solve it, cause here's what I do. When people
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say they have problems, I go in there and you'd probably see me do this. I say, well, what are
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you going to do about it? Oh, what's your plan? How are you going to fix it? Like, that's my response.
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Most guys like rush in to give advice. Like, I don't know anything about this guy. What, what are you
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going to do to fix it? And a lot of times they hear crickets cause they don't want to solve their
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own problems. They just want to complain. But the guys who answer me back, they're like, oh yeah,
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that's a good question. I've, well, I've tried this and this and this. Those are the guys who actually end up
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solving their problems. Cause you can tell they're assertive about it. Yeah. And then you'll have
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the guy who comes back and says, well, if you, you know, don't you think if you knew what he was going
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to do, or he had a plan that you'd already do it and you wouldn't need to ask the question. No, I don't.
01:13:22.140
Not necessarily. Yeah. Sometimes just be a little prod or a little poke, you know, and somebody calling
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them out and saying, Hey, fix your shit. Uh, it might just actually be the thing that that individual
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needs. So those are the two things I would give is, is share your victories and, uh, propose solutions
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to your own problems when asking for feedback and advice. Cool. All right. We'll wrap up, um,
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Got her. Well done, man. Appreciate the, uh, the feedback and the input kit. We had some really
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good questions. We didn't get through all of them, but man, I really liked those questions today. So
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appreciate you guys asking those questions, being engaged. It's really important that you engage.
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Um, not because like it helps us, although it certainly does when you engage and you ask questions
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I really appreciate you. And Kip's, uh, asked me any things because there was a couple of things that I
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That's important to us. So appreciate that. Um, but that's all I got. Anything else that you'd add,
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Kip? No, sir. Okay. We'll be back on, uh, let's see Friday, right? Friday for Friday field notes.
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I'm going to be talking about the difference between accepting fault and accepting responsibility.
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