Order of Man - April 09, 2024


BEDROS KEUILIAN | Adversity Introduces a Man to Himself


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 6 minutes

Words per Minute

197.3182

Word Count

13,131

Sentence Count

142

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

45


Summary

Bedros Koulian makes the case that only in adversity is a man revealed to himself, and why it s so crucial every man learns to develop the mental fortitude required to succeed in life. We also discuss how the work we do in private shows itself in public, how to avoid the destructive drift of life, where vulnerability fits into the equation with men, and what one question every man is attempting to answer for himself.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Most men live soft, sedated lifestyles.
00:00:02.940 Then they expect themselves to perform
00:00:04.660 at the highest possible standard when life gets real.
00:00:08.080 At best, they wonder why they can't seem to get ahead
00:00:10.600 in their personal and professional lives
00:00:12.560 and often just chalk it up to luck
00:00:14.660 or poor external circumstances beyond their control.
00:00:18.800 My guest today, Bedros Koulian,
00:00:20.240 makes the case that only in adversity
00:00:22.260 is a man revealed to himself
00:00:24.040 and why it's so crucial every man learns
00:00:26.320 to develop the mental fortitude
00:00:27.920 required to succeed in life.
00:00:30.000 We also discuss how the work we do in private
00:00:32.660 shows itself in public,
00:00:34.340 how to avoid the destructive drift of life,
00:00:37.260 where vulnerability fits into the equation with men,
00:00:40.180 what one question every man is attempting
00:00:42.280 to answer for himself,
00:00:44.280 Bedros' idea of the quote-unquote karmic bank account,
00:00:47.620 and why the covenant of the blood
00:00:49.300 is greater than the water of the womb.
00:00:51.920 You're a man of action.
00:00:53.440 You live life to the fullest,
00:00:54.880 embrace your fears,
00:00:56.080 and boldly chart your own path.
00:00:57.820 When life knocks you down,
00:00:58.840 you get back up one more time,
00:01:01.220 every time.
00:01:02.260 You are not easily deterred or defeated,
00:01:04.560 rugged, resilient, strong.
00:01:07.360 This is your life.
00:01:08.440 This is who you are.
00:01:09.860 This is who you will become.
00:01:11.580 At the end of the day,
00:01:12.720 and after all is said and done,
00:01:14.620 you can call yourself a man.
00:01:17.500 Gentlemen, welcome to the Order of Man podcast.
00:01:20.200 Thank you for tuning in.
00:01:21.540 Whether this is your first time joining us
00:01:23.700 or you've listened to a thousand episodes
00:01:27.120 that we've done at this point,
00:01:28.580 I am really, really glad that you're here.
00:01:30.500 We need more men in this fight.
00:01:32.260 And it is a fight.
00:01:33.380 It's a fight to reclaim and restore masculinity
00:01:36.000 in this society that is increasingly dismissive of it.
00:01:40.180 And part of what we do here
00:01:41.260 is the mission of Order of Man
00:01:42.480 is to bring on incredible guests
00:01:44.420 like Bedros Koulian.
00:01:46.020 We've also had Chris Williamson,
00:01:48.200 David Goggins,
00:01:49.740 Jocko Willink,
00:01:50.880 Dave Ramsey,
00:01:51.840 Ben Shapiro,
00:01:52.640 Matthew McConaughey,
00:01:53.640 Tim Tebow,
00:01:54.600 Tim Kennedy.
00:01:55.920 As I say every single week,
00:01:57.540 the men who have banded with us
00:01:59.040 in this conversation
00:02:00.700 and in this movement
00:02:01.540 to reclaim and restore masculinity
00:02:03.240 is phenomenal.
00:02:04.500 And it's a testament to the power of men
00:02:07.200 getting together,
00:02:08.700 learning from each other,
00:02:09.760 holding each other accountable,
00:02:11.260 and then succeeding
00:02:12.480 in our own personal lives.
00:02:14.520 Now I'm going to get into
00:02:15.180 the introduction here
00:02:16.020 in just a minute.
00:02:16.680 Before I do,
00:02:17.320 I want to mention my friends
00:02:18.260 and a couple of show sponsors.
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00:02:33.000 I was doing a little inventory
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00:02:41.020 and I use all of these knives.
00:02:42.560 I use them in the kitchen.
00:02:44.300 In fact,
00:02:44.960 I don't think I even counted
00:02:46.040 that in my inventory,
00:02:46.900 so it might be 14
00:02:48.000 because I've got three
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00:02:49.580 but I use them in the kitchen.
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00:03:07.220 The other mention
00:03:08.160 I want to throw out there
00:03:09.600 is a new venture
00:03:11.000 that I'm starting
00:03:11.620 called M42 Adventures,
00:03:13.780 M and the number 42 Adventures.
00:03:16.120 We've got a couple
00:03:16.880 of African hunts coming up,
00:03:18.400 but not only are we going to hunt,
00:03:20.100 we're going to go to an orphanage,
00:03:22.640 we're doing an African safari,
00:03:24.500 we've got a helicopter tour included,
00:03:26.720 it's a five-star lodging
00:03:28.200 and resort facility,
00:03:29.860 so we're going to do it all
00:03:31.140 while we're in Africa.
00:03:32.260 I'm very,
00:03:32.700 very excited about that,
00:03:33.760 and then we do other events
00:03:35.600 with M42 Adventures,
00:03:37.660 culinary events,
00:03:38.700 survival events,
00:03:40.860 ATV events,
00:03:41.860 fly fishing,
00:03:42.860 anything that we can do
00:03:43.800 to introduce men
00:03:44.720 into the outdoors
00:03:45.580 the way that I was
00:03:46.640 and form bonds
00:03:47.600 and connections,
00:03:48.340 but do it while learning.
00:03:49.780 This is how men learn best.
00:03:51.420 We're doing that
00:03:51.960 at M42 Adventures,
00:03:53.720 so please,
00:03:54.740 we've got some spots
00:03:55.600 for Africa.
00:03:56.180 If you want to join us there
00:03:57.180 later in the summer,
00:03:58.360 please do that again
00:03:59.440 at M42 Adventures
00:04:01.180 and hopefully we'll see you
00:04:03.580 in Africa.
00:04:04.640 All right, guys,
00:04:05.320 let me get to my guest.
00:04:06.480 His name again is Bedros Koulian.
00:04:08.080 He's a good friend.
00:04:08.980 He's a serial entrepreneur,
00:04:10.320 author, speaker.
00:04:11.280 He's a leader of men,
00:04:12.880 and it's not often
00:04:13.820 that I have someone
00:04:14.760 on the podcast
00:04:15.300 that I know so well,
00:04:17.360 but Bedros and I
00:04:18.280 have spent time together.
00:04:19.660 He taught me
00:04:20.220 and my oldest son
00:04:20.900 how to surf.
00:04:21.580 We've broken bread together
00:04:22.520 with our sons.
00:04:23.640 He's even helped walk me
00:04:24.820 through some of the most
00:04:25.640 challenging times
00:04:26.620 of my life.
00:04:27.960 He's the founder
00:04:28.680 of the world's largest
00:04:29.600 fitness franchise,
00:04:30.640 Fit Body Bootcamp,
00:04:31.980 the founder of
00:04:33.040 the Modern Day Knight
00:04:34.000 and Squire programs,
00:04:35.180 which are programs
00:04:35.940 dedicated to giving men
00:04:38.040 experiences that are going
00:04:39.320 to push them
00:04:40.040 beyond their comfort zone.
00:04:41.460 He's also the author
00:04:42.500 of Man Up,
00:04:43.480 How to Cut the BS
00:04:44.460 and Kick Ass
00:04:45.420 in Life and Business.
00:04:47.180 Enjoy this one, fellas.
00:04:50.500 Bedros, what's up, man?
00:04:51.580 So great to see you.
00:04:52.420 Glad to have you back
00:04:53.000 on the podcast.
00:04:54.480 Thanks, man.
00:04:55.040 Appreciate the opportunity.
00:04:56.200 Again, man,
00:04:56.700 good seeing you, Ryan.
00:04:57.380 Always good.
00:04:59.600 Hey, I told you
00:05:00.940 I was going to start
00:05:01.480 with something.
00:05:02.100 I've got to throw
00:05:02.820 an audible here.
00:05:04.120 I want to say this
00:05:05.120 to you
00:05:05.760 and I want to say this
00:05:06.760 to everybody
00:05:07.180 who might be listening.
00:05:08.700 You are one of the
00:05:10.160 few people
00:05:11.200 who stood by me
00:05:13.100 and supported me
00:05:14.460 and believed in me
00:05:15.660 when I was going
00:05:16.640 through all the bullshit
00:05:17.400 I was going through
00:05:18.180 a year and a half ago
00:05:19.200 and I want to start
00:05:20.300 this conversation off
00:05:21.280 by saying
00:05:21.820 I appreciate that.
00:05:23.200 That means a lot.
00:05:24.080 You didn't have to do that
00:05:25.120 but you did it anyways
00:05:26.040 and that means a lot to me
00:05:27.720 more than you might know.
00:05:29.500 Well, first off,
00:05:30.920 that means a lot
00:05:31.680 that you're acknowledging it
00:05:32.760 and I think as friends,
00:05:34.540 as brothers,
00:05:35.140 it's not what we do
00:05:36.140 or say publicly.
00:05:37.240 It's how we support
00:05:38.280 each other privately
00:05:39.080 and I know you would have
00:05:40.980 been there for me
00:05:41.680 in a similar situation
00:05:42.800 and it's just the least
00:05:44.060 I could do for someone
00:05:44.980 who's a friend
00:05:45.520 and a brother.
00:05:47.360 Yeah, like I said,
00:05:48.260 that means a lot.
00:05:49.280 I wanted to kick
00:05:50.060 this conversation off.
00:05:51.300 I've seen some things
00:05:52.260 on social media
00:05:53.020 over the past several weeks.
00:05:54.740 Steve,
00:05:55.120 who is obviously,
00:05:56.600 you know,
00:05:57.340 he's within your organization.
00:05:58.940 He's somebody
00:05:59.320 I know very well.
00:06:00.880 He's such an interesting personality.
00:06:02.680 He's such a hard ass
00:06:03.600 but I think deep down inside
00:06:05.100 he really cares about people
00:06:06.460 but there's been
00:06:07.600 some viral stuff
00:06:08.700 going on
00:06:09.440 about what you guys
00:06:11.080 are doing with men
00:06:12.820 and how you're training men
00:06:14.040 and how you're leading them
00:06:14.980 and calling them up
00:06:15.900 and there's a lot
00:06:17.060 of controversy around that.
00:06:18.260 Would you mind
00:06:18.560 explaining that?
00:06:20.420 Yeah, yeah.
00:06:21.080 So, as you know,
00:06:22.700 a couple weeks ago
00:06:23.400 we had our 19th class
00:06:25.400 of the project,
00:06:26.560 the Modern Day Night Project
00:06:27.580 and for anyone
00:06:29.200 who doesn't know
00:06:29.760 what the project is,
00:06:30.560 it's a 75-hour straight
00:06:32.020 experience for men
00:06:33.580 who are
00:06:34.600 and some of these men
00:06:35.600 are former military,
00:06:37.120 some are first responders,
00:06:38.700 some are entrepreneurs,
00:06:40.480 some are people
00:06:41.160 that are executives
00:06:42.120 and companies
00:06:43.500 and so what they have
00:06:45.280 in common
00:06:45.840 is they're men
00:06:46.680 and they lost
00:06:47.920 their sense of
00:06:48.980 or have never discovered
00:06:50.580 their sense of
00:06:51.480 meaning, purpose
00:06:52.960 and team
00:06:53.660 and as you know,
00:06:55.220 when a man doesn't have
00:06:56.080 a sense of meaning,
00:06:57.060 purpose and team,
00:06:58.340 he is going to start
00:06:59.340 drifting in life
00:07:00.320 and that's where the
00:07:01.400 vices and escapes
00:07:03.640 typically come in
00:07:04.600 whether it's infidelity,
00:07:06.140 pornography,
00:07:07.060 alcohol, drugs,
00:07:08.780 you name it,
00:07:09.580 gambling
00:07:09.900 and so these men
00:07:11.400 when they come to us
00:07:12.340 to go through the project,
00:07:13.800 it's not like they're
00:07:14.460 going through a mud run
00:07:15.360 or a Spartan race,
00:07:16.440 nothing wrong with that,
00:07:17.500 it's not like they're
00:07:18.020 going through a 75-hour challenge,
00:07:20.020 they're there
00:07:20.500 because they are looking
00:07:21.540 for that community,
00:07:23.760 meaning, purpose
00:07:24.480 and team
00:07:24.940 and they understand
00:07:26.620 that they are
00:07:27.980 having some kind
00:07:29.360 of self-sabotaging behavior
00:07:31.840 that's showing up
00:07:32.620 as a pattern in their life
00:07:33.680 that is constantly
00:07:35.300 limiting their human experience
00:07:37.380 in their marriage,
00:07:38.480 in their business,
00:07:39.520 in their finances,
00:07:40.600 in their health and fitness,
00:07:41.540 in their mental
00:07:42.520 and emotional fitness
00:07:43.680 and so anyway,
00:07:46.160 we ran the project
00:07:47.040 and as you know,
00:07:48.840 if you want things
00:07:50.000 to go viral,
00:07:50.820 you want to take your iPhone
00:07:52.000 and take the most sensational
00:07:53.460 clips of a 75-hour experience
00:07:57.020 and so in total,
00:07:59.220 during the 75 hours,
00:08:00.700 it starts at Tuesday at 1 p.m.,
00:08:02.160 goes till Friday at 5 p.m.,
00:08:04.160 in total,
00:08:05.140 we probably put up
00:08:05.780 about 16 minutes
00:08:07.460 of content
00:08:08.460 on our social media stories
00:08:11.120 from a 75-hour experience
00:08:13.420 and the content
00:08:13.980 we put up
00:08:14.580 is Steve
00:08:15.260 mostly dragging
00:08:17.360 these guys around
00:08:18.200 by their rucksacks
00:08:19.160 is Steve
00:08:20.140 where he takes the K-bar
00:08:21.160 and, you know,
00:08:21.780 Steve's a Marine
00:08:22.460 and he takes the K-bar
00:08:24.840 out of his side
00:08:27.380 and he goes,
00:08:27.960 if any one of you
00:08:29.200 who don't belong
00:08:30.120 at the graduation dinner
00:08:31.800 think you're going
00:08:32.680 to make it somehow
00:08:33.520 to the graduation dinner
00:08:34.480 on Friday
00:08:34.960 and we all have
00:08:35.920 this project tattoo,
00:08:37.280 us instructors
00:08:37.900 and actually
00:08:38.800 half the graduates
00:08:39.640 now have this tattoo
00:08:40.780 on their hand
00:08:41.460 or body somewhere
00:08:42.280 because it's so meaningful
00:08:43.280 to us.
00:08:44.180 Steve goes,
00:08:44.660 I will take this
00:08:45.380 effing knife
00:08:46.040 and I'll carve
00:08:46.600 this tattoo
00:08:47.160 off my hand
00:08:48.120 and so,
00:08:49.020 of course,
00:08:49.760 I know he's going
00:08:50.540 to do that.
00:08:51.080 He does that
00:08:51.700 for every class.
00:08:52.540 When I say,
00:08:53.100 hey guys,
00:08:53.460 now I'm going
00:08:53.720 to introduce
00:08:54.080 my instructors,
00:08:55.300 it always goes
00:08:56.040 to the Navy SEAL,
00:08:57.880 the Com Marine,
00:08:59.060 Nick,
00:08:59.500 and then Steve.
00:09:00.920 So I conveniently
00:09:02.380 bring up my iPhone
00:09:03.360 and just start recording
00:09:04.360 and kind of show
00:09:05.700 the expression
00:09:07.120 of all the candidates
00:09:08.000 going through it.
00:09:08.740 So to us,
00:09:09.480 it's standard practice.
00:09:10.580 We want to immediately
00:09:11.340 show them that now
00:09:12.200 we've got dominance
00:09:13.140 over you,
00:09:14.200 that you are now ours
00:09:15.600 for the next 75 hours.
00:09:16.840 We're going to control
00:09:17.300 your thoughts,
00:09:17.840 your emotions,
00:09:18.440 your feelings.
00:09:19.000 We're going to trigger you
00:09:19.780 and we want to see
00:09:20.720 how they react
00:09:21.540 or respond.
00:09:23.760 Obviously,
00:09:24.160 when a man responds
00:09:25.200 to a situation,
00:09:26.080 he's thought it through.
00:09:27.020 If they react,
00:09:28.160 it's from a place
00:09:29.120 of emotion
00:09:29.660 and feelings.
00:09:31.220 Typically,
00:09:31.700 when a fist goes
00:09:32.420 through a wall
00:09:32.940 in front of your wife
00:09:33.780 and she's scared
00:09:34.900 or your kids see that,
00:09:36.080 that's a reaction,
00:09:37.080 an emotional reaction.
00:09:38.540 And then we will
00:09:39.000 stop those moments
00:09:39.880 and go,
00:09:40.200 hey,
00:09:40.400 where else is it
00:09:40.980 showing up in your life?
00:09:41.860 So the project,
00:09:43.100 the entire 75 hours
00:09:44.120 is a metaphor for life.
00:09:45.440 But of course,
00:09:46.540 those clips in my stories
00:09:47.900 and on the MDK project stories
00:09:50.540 went viral.
00:09:51.740 First,
00:09:52.020 Fox News picked it up
00:09:53.000 and then Barstool Sports
00:09:54.600 picked it up
00:09:55.200 and then some big
00:09:56.840 content creators
00:09:58.040 on YouTube,
00:09:58.840 like a big,
00:10:00.220 I think there's one
00:10:00.920 called the Angry Cop
00:10:02.160 or Angry Officer
00:10:03.120 or whatever
00:10:03.940 his account is.
00:10:05.300 Seems like a really,
00:10:06.000 yeah,
00:10:06.620 really solid guy.
00:10:07.920 Seems like a solid guy.
00:10:09.380 But what's funny is
00:10:10.400 Fox News,
00:10:11.280 Barstool Sports,
00:10:12.640 the Angry Cop,
00:10:14.400 there's another big
00:10:15.720 like 7 million subscriber
00:10:17.120 account on YouTube,
00:10:18.420 cool dude with long hair,
00:10:19.720 funny as heck,
00:10:20.560 man.
00:10:20.700 I love his videos.
00:10:22.140 The first time
00:10:23.020 he made a video on us,
00:10:23.960 he goes,
00:10:24.220 look at these guys,
00:10:24.760 they're running
00:10:25.080 a Navy SEAL Buds program
00:10:26.320 in the back of a Walmart,
00:10:27.940 which is actually not true.
00:10:29.440 It's my compound
00:10:30.560 and my gym
00:10:31.100 that you've been to.
00:10:32.880 But I get it.
00:10:34.020 I get it.
00:10:34.660 But they're literally
00:10:36.040 taking clips
00:10:36.980 that we have intentionally
00:10:38.780 taken out of proportion
00:10:41.000 and put out there.
00:10:42.740 What they don't see
00:10:43.540 is the journaling.
00:10:44.380 They don't see
00:10:44.880 the deep work
00:10:45.700 of, you know,
00:10:46.860 talking about the traumas
00:10:48.220 that these men
00:10:48.700 have gone through.
00:10:49.440 They don't see
00:10:50.380 the conversations
00:10:51.120 and we'll never record
00:10:52.100 the conversations
00:10:52.800 of these men
00:10:53.760 talking about
00:10:54.260 sitting in their car
00:10:55.040 with a pistol
00:10:55.560 in their lap
00:10:56.180 ready to blow
00:10:57.020 their brains out.
00:10:57.780 Or one gentleman
00:10:58.420 two classes ago
00:11:00.300 said,
00:11:00.920 I found myself
00:11:01.600 at one in the morning
00:11:02.400 sitting at a park
00:11:03.940 by my house
00:11:04.560 with the pistol
00:11:05.140 in my hand
00:11:05.700 wondering,
00:11:07.220 you know,
00:11:07.700 what the fastest way
00:11:08.680 it is to kill myself.
00:11:10.180 These are the guys
00:11:10.900 that come to the project
00:11:11.900 and I say to you,
00:11:13.780 man,
00:11:13.880 they come from
00:11:14.520 former military,
00:11:15.820 first responders.
00:11:17.340 We've had guys
00:11:18.240 that have been
00:11:18.760 congressmen and senators
00:11:20.200 from Mexico
00:11:21.940 to America,
00:11:23.420 men from
00:11:24.360 every walk of life.
00:11:25.480 And it's not like
00:11:26.900 they're looking
00:11:27.340 for a beatdown.
00:11:28.820 They understand
00:11:29.460 that they're about
00:11:30.060 to go through
00:11:30.640 a rebirth
00:11:31.400 and a complete
00:11:32.560 cleansing,
00:11:33.340 emotional purging
00:11:34.240 and an opportunity
00:11:35.660 to connect
00:11:36.300 with the brotherhood.
00:11:37.180 But nevertheless,
00:11:38.720 social media
00:11:39.400 does what it does best
00:11:40.660 and Fox News,
00:11:42.680 Barstool Sports
00:11:43.360 and a few content
00:11:44.100 creators picked it up
00:11:45.060 and really shit on us,
00:11:47.080 which I don't mind
00:11:48.200 because I know
00:11:48.880 the work we do.
00:11:49.940 I hear from the men
00:11:51.060 after the project
00:11:52.040 and certainly
00:11:53.740 not every guy
00:11:54.320 graduates.
00:11:54.940 Some get injured
00:11:55.940 and have to medically
00:11:56.640 roll to the next class
00:11:57.720 and others decide
00:11:59.140 this is not for them
00:12:00.120 and they could
00:12:00.780 at free will
00:12:01.660 ring the bell
00:12:02.260 and quit anytime
00:12:03.060 they want.
00:12:04.720 But we did get
00:12:05.600 a lot of negative press
00:12:06.700 but I'm okay with that
00:12:08.300 because none of that
00:12:10.720 is going to stop me
00:12:11.820 from the mission
00:12:12.340 that we're on
00:12:12.860 which is serving men
00:12:13.900 and helping them
00:12:14.720 rise to their higher
00:12:15.540 potential and purpose
00:12:16.420 in life.
00:12:17.440 And, you know,
00:12:18.140 oftentimes we'll hear
00:12:19.120 on social media,
00:12:21.220 why are you paying
00:12:21.800 $18,000
00:12:22.580 for the 75-hour course?
00:12:24.800 You know,
00:12:25.000 you can go to the Marine Corps
00:12:26.060 and they'll pay you
00:12:27.040 to go through
00:12:28.160 a boot camp type experience.
00:12:29.680 Well, again,
00:12:30.380 all they see is
00:12:31.200 16, 17 minutes
00:12:32.980 out of 75 hours.
00:12:34.580 They don't see
00:12:35.140 where we're coaching them
00:12:36.120 on their relationships
00:12:37.180 with their kids,
00:12:38.820 with their spouses.
00:12:39.580 They don't see
00:12:40.320 where we're referring them
00:12:41.440 to therapists
00:12:42.060 who can help them
00:12:42.760 overcome
00:12:43.240 sexual trauma
00:12:44.980 that they've experienced
00:12:46.000 or physical trauma
00:12:47.080 that they've experienced
00:12:48.080 or limiting beliefs.
00:12:49.420 They don't see
00:12:49.860 where we're coaching them
00:12:50.620 on their business
00:12:51.200 to help them,
00:12:52.160 you know,
00:12:52.500 5X and 10X
00:12:53.480 their business
00:12:53.920 over the next few years.
00:12:55.180 And I don't know,
00:12:56.020 I've never been a Marine.
00:12:57.000 I'm a civilian.
00:12:57.720 I've never been
00:12:58.100 in the military.
00:12:59.280 But I don't think
00:13:00.060 they teach entrepreneurship,
00:13:01.960 how to deal
00:13:02.480 with relationships
00:13:03.380 and any of those things,
00:13:05.260 how to deal
00:13:05.820 with trauma.
00:13:07.340 And so those are
00:13:08.240 the things
00:13:08.600 that we work with
00:13:09.600 and I'm massively proud
00:13:10.800 of the work we do.
00:13:11.880 But it is very misunderstood.
00:13:15.100 It is.
00:13:15.880 Well,
00:13:16.100 and I've had the luxury
00:13:17.180 of spending a lot of time
00:13:18.200 with you
00:13:18.480 and breaking bread
00:13:19.240 and, you know,
00:13:20.380 we went surfing together
00:13:21.380 and you taught
00:13:22.140 my oldest son
00:13:22.780 how to surf.
00:13:23.460 And then I remember
00:13:24.140 a vivid moment
00:13:24.920 in Mexico.
00:13:26.300 You and me
00:13:26.860 and a couple other guys
00:13:27.700 were down there
00:13:28.380 thinking about
00:13:29.580 how we could bring
00:13:30.480 some of these messages
00:13:31.300 to the market
00:13:31.960 and you were talking
00:13:33.740 about trauma
00:13:34.420 and I'm like,
00:13:34.880 oh man,
00:13:35.320 I'm so sick
00:13:36.000 of hearing about
00:13:36.560 like trauma,
00:13:37.440 like trauma,
00:13:37.980 trauma,
00:13:38.280 trauma,
00:13:38.560 trauma.
00:13:39.440 And you said,
00:13:40.580 well, Ryan,
00:13:41.060 I vividly remember this.
00:13:43.120 Well,
00:13:43.320 what else would you call it?
00:13:44.840 You know,
00:13:45.080 somebody who's
00:13:45.900 sexually molested,
00:13:47.440 somebody who's gone
00:13:48.460 through some serious
00:13:49.380 hardships,
00:13:50.100 some challenges
00:13:50.680 and you're talking
00:13:51.280 about men exclusively
00:13:52.300 and I was looking
00:13:53.720 at it from like,
00:13:54.520 I'm so tired
00:13:55.140 of hearing this
00:13:55.720 but there's this
00:13:56.340 other side
00:13:57.100 and I don't want
00:13:57.560 to call it
00:13:58.080 a softer side
00:13:59.700 but there's more
00:14:00.920 context
00:14:01.800 when you're actually
00:14:02.980 sitting down
00:14:03.820 being part
00:14:04.580 of this organization,
00:14:07.640 participating
00:14:08.040 in these events
00:14:09.060 but everybody
00:14:09.720 wants to look at it
00:14:10.800 and just bash on it
00:14:12.020 versus seeing it
00:14:13.060 for what it is
00:14:13.880 and like I said,
00:14:14.860 you're talking
00:14:15.220 about trauma
00:14:15.940 and emotional
00:14:17.440 mental abuse
00:14:18.980 and how to overcome
00:14:19.960 that and those
00:14:20.960 hardships
00:14:21.340 and that's something
00:14:22.020 that I think
00:14:22.440 is a little bit
00:14:22.940 taboo
00:14:23.500 specifically for men
00:14:25.580 in today's society.
00:14:27.860 Yeah,
00:14:28.560 yeah,
00:14:28.960 it is taboo
00:14:29.980 because there is
00:14:30.720 no place
00:14:31.480 that men can go
00:14:32.420 and speak
00:14:34.080 about this stuff
00:14:34.940 and heal
00:14:35.880 with other men
00:14:36.640 and yeah,
00:14:38.060 I suppose you can
00:14:38.640 go get a therapist.
00:14:39.440 I certainly worked
00:14:40.080 with a therapist
00:14:40.620 10 years ago
00:14:41.460 and I worked
00:14:41.940 with them
00:14:42.160 for 15 months
00:14:43.120 to get over
00:14:43.620 my shit
00:14:44.300 however
00:14:45.740 just like me
00:14:47.000 most men think
00:14:47.740 that well
00:14:48.260 therapy is for
00:14:49.380 broken people
00:14:49.920 and I'm not broken
00:14:50.620 or I don't know
00:14:51.160 that guy
00:14:51.620 I'm not going
00:14:52.600 to go talk
00:14:52.940 to that guy
00:14:53.420 or gal
00:14:53.800 about what
00:14:54.260 happened to me
00:14:54.780 as a kid
00:14:55.160 I'd rather
00:14:55.500 just put it
00:14:55.980 away in my head
00:14:56.680 and move forward
00:14:58.340 in life
00:14:58.780 but we could
00:14:59.660 never put anything
00:15:00.460 fully away
00:15:01.220 in our head
00:15:01.780 the reason is
00:15:02.740 that's called
00:15:03.740 compartmentalizing
00:15:04.720 and yes
00:15:06.120 you think
00:15:06.520 you put it away
00:15:07.060 you put it in a box
00:15:07.720 and you put it away
00:15:08.320 and then you put
00:15:08.720 other boxes
00:15:09.140 in front of it
00:15:09.680 and on top of it
00:15:10.300 so you don't see it
00:15:11.120 but it's still
00:15:12.280 showing up
00:15:13.100 in areas in your life
00:15:14.100 in your relationship
00:15:14.980 in your business
00:15:15.880 in your
00:15:16.540 with how you interact
00:15:18.200 with your kids
00:15:19.000 how you feel
00:15:20.840 about yourself
00:15:21.440 and I'm not the most
00:15:22.840 tree hugging
00:15:23.520 woo woo type of guy
00:15:24.580 that's going to play
00:15:25.200 a sound bowl
00:15:25.880 and go hug a tree
00:15:27.220 but I can tell you
00:15:28.040 if there's not a lot
00:15:29.100 of self respect
00:15:29.880 and self love
00:15:30.740 you're going to
00:15:31.520 constantly self sabotage
00:15:33.220 through some kind
00:15:33.980 of vice
00:15:34.500 or escape
00:15:35.240 and it's going to
00:15:36.540 ruin your relationships
00:15:37.600 it's going to ruin
00:15:38.540 your human experience
00:15:39.540 and since we only
00:15:40.500 get one chance
00:15:41.320 at this
00:15:41.760 at this thing
00:15:42.740 they call life
00:15:43.320 on this rock
00:15:43.960 like why not have
00:15:44.820 the most fulfilling
00:15:45.600 human experience
00:15:46.500 with your spouse
00:15:47.340 with your kids
00:15:48.160 with your friends
00:15:50.420 with a business
00:15:51.140 that you can build
00:15:52.140 and give a lot
00:15:53.200 of that money
00:15:53.620 to charities
00:15:54.220 and causes
00:15:54.720 that you believe in
00:15:55.620 and to do that
00:15:57.200 we have to
00:15:57.900 unfuck ourselves
00:15:59.400 that's there's no
00:16:00.220 other way to say it
00:16:01.280 and men have no
00:16:02.560 outlet for that
00:16:03.500 and I wanted to
00:16:04.360 create the outlet
00:16:05.000 and that's why
00:16:05.540 we created the project
00:16:06.520 do you think
00:16:09.140 the the level
00:16:10.060 of I mean
00:16:10.620 obviously there's
00:16:11.440 this other side
00:16:12.120 that a lot of
00:16:12.540 people don't see
00:16:13.200 but clearly
00:16:14.280 there's a level
00:16:15.960 of intensity
00:16:17.860 to your programs
00:16:19.260 to put it mildly
00:16:20.260 do you think
00:16:21.740 that this is
00:16:22.420 a requirement
00:16:23.440 do you think
00:16:24.240 this is something
00:16:24.920 that is is
00:16:25.880 necessary
00:16:26.600 or and I'm
00:16:29.320 just trying to
00:16:29.840 look at it
00:16:30.240 from anybody
00:16:30.860 who might be
00:16:31.460 listening
00:16:31.800 I know you
00:16:32.660 but I'm also
00:16:33.260 trying to figure
00:16:33.900 out what people
00:16:34.540 might see
00:16:35.240 is that necessary
00:16:36.500 for a man
00:16:38.220 or is there
00:16:38.940 another approach
00:16:39.680 that doesn't
00:16:40.260 require that
00:16:41.100 same sense
00:16:42.020 of in your face
00:16:43.660 or attitude
00:16:44.320 or confrontational
00:16:46.860 element to it
00:16:48.560 yeah that's a good
00:16:49.860 question and no
00:16:50.600 it's absolutely
00:16:51.080 not necessary
00:16:52.000 it is necessary
00:16:52.840 for the project
00:16:53.520 the way we run it
00:16:54.340 and we certainly
00:16:55.400 don't don't hide
00:16:56.520 the fact that we
00:16:57.320 are very much
00:16:58.160 in their face
00:16:58.720 that we are
00:16:59.160 very confrontational
00:17:00.280 and that's on
00:17:01.920 purpose because
00:17:02.940 look I worked
00:17:04.000 with the therapist
00:17:04.520 for 15 months
00:17:05.480 I put myself
00:17:06.560 through all these
00:17:06.980 physical challenges
00:17:07.880 because I just love
00:17:08.840 trying new things
00:17:09.700 and hiring a coach
00:17:10.580 and going through
00:17:11.120 a physical challenge
00:17:11.900 whether it's
00:17:12.200 running a training
00:17:12.960 training for and
00:17:14.100 running a marathon
00:17:14.680 in six weeks
00:17:15.380 rock climbing
00:17:16.080 jujitsu
00:17:16.840 MMA fighting
00:17:17.720 I put myself
00:17:19.640 through hard
00:17:20.480 adversity
00:17:21.140 intentionally
00:17:22.480 because adversity
00:17:23.380 does introduce
00:17:24.280 a man to him
00:17:25.000 to his highest self
00:17:26.080 however we also
00:17:27.840 know that many
00:17:28.400 of these men
00:17:28.900 won't go out
00:17:29.680 there and do it
00:17:30.380 so we're saying
00:17:31.680 look pay for the
00:17:32.720 experience
00:17:33.280 and not only
00:17:34.400 are we going to
00:17:34.820 have the healing
00:17:35.520 conversations
00:17:36.220 and the deep
00:17:37.780 meaningful work
00:17:38.540 but we're also
00:17:40.020 going to test you
00:17:41.680 because John Eldridge's
00:17:44.080 book he talks about
00:17:46.100 every man wants to
00:17:47.300 know if he has
00:17:48.120 what it takes
00:17:48.920 and most men
00:17:50.660 have never really
00:17:51.960 figured out if they
00:17:52.740 have what it takes
00:17:53.480 maybe dad was absent
00:17:54.640 maybe they had no
00:17:55.460 older male figure
00:17:56.740 in their life
00:17:57.180 to show them
00:17:58.000 the way of men
00:17:58.700 as our friend
00:18:00.100 Jack Donovan
00:18:00.700 would say in his
00:18:01.400 book and so
00:18:02.700 at the project
00:18:03.840 we also teach
00:18:04.640 them our Navy
00:18:06.660 SEAL he's a
00:18:07.600 he's a combatives
00:18:09.160 pistol combatives
00:18:10.920 expert and he'll
00:18:12.320 teach them room
00:18:12.960 clearing with the
00:18:13.600 pistol and we
00:18:14.920 have jujitsu
00:18:15.560 instructors come in
00:18:16.520 and teach them
00:18:17.260 you know combatives
00:18:18.960 in terms of
00:18:19.560 grappling and what
00:18:20.580 happens if you're
00:18:21.320 attacked we teach
00:18:22.740 them we've got a
00:18:23.620 seer instructor who
00:18:24.500 comes in and
00:18:25.560 teaches them how
00:18:26.280 to you know have
00:18:27.140 situational awareness
00:18:28.220 and be able to
00:18:29.300 talk your way out
00:18:30.220 of a kidnapping
00:18:31.200 situation or be
00:18:32.840 able to break out
00:18:33.480 of zip cuffs and
00:18:34.420 duct tape and
00:18:35.060 handcuffs and all
00:18:36.400 these things that
00:18:37.240 are cool guy skills
00:18:38.940 that I went out and
00:18:40.160 just did because I
00:18:41.080 wanted to learn you
00:18:42.180 know I love my dad
00:18:43.260 he brought us to the
00:18:43.940 United States he
00:18:45.220 freed us from from
00:18:46.620 communist rule but
00:18:48.160 my dad never taught
00:18:49.260 me this stuff so I
00:18:50.400 went out seeking it
00:18:51.460 out and paid for it
00:18:52.740 and got that not
00:18:54.000 every guy is going to
00:18:54.660 do that so we
00:18:55.360 decided that we're
00:18:56.100 going to make this a
00:18:57.960 fully immersive
00:18:58.860 experience that includes
00:19:00.040 combatives pugil
00:19:01.160 sticks that includes
00:19:03.280 like we asked these
00:19:04.520 guys when was the
00:19:05.000 last time you've been
00:19:05.760 in a fight or been
00:19:06.600 hit by a man or
00:19:07.400 you've hit another
00:19:07.920 man and hands maybe
00:19:10.060 one hand will go up
00:19:11.060 out of 35 guys that
00:19:12.260 start a class and we
00:19:13.900 go well guess what
00:19:14.880 you're going to
00:19:15.220 experience that in a
00:19:15.980 controlled environment
00:19:16.820 and we're going to
00:19:17.860 try and mentally and
00:19:18.780 emotionally trigger you
00:19:19.920 to get you fully
00:19:21.340 distracted to go
00:19:22.200 tunnel vision and
00:19:23.360 when you go tunnel
00:19:24.080 vision you're going to
00:19:24.800 use the skills you
00:19:25.640 learned yesterday to
00:19:27.260 use today in this
00:19:28.640 combative two-on-one
00:19:30.200 or one-on-one
00:19:31.380 situation and so to
00:19:33.520 get these men
00:19:34.380 emotionally worked up
00:19:35.880 to get them to shut
00:19:37.280 down to get them to
00:19:38.600 bond how about this
00:19:39.620 Ryan you know we
00:19:41.260 hear about the phrase
00:19:42.300 blood is thicker than
00:19:43.820 water but it's taken
00:19:47.020 out of context the
00:19:47.940 actual phrase is the
00:19:49.340 covenant of the blood
00:19:50.320 is thicker than the
00:19:51.380 water of the womb in
00:19:52.460 other words men that
00:19:53.320 have gone through
00:19:53.880 adversity men that
00:19:54.900 have spilled blood
00:19:55.560 together have a
00:19:56.800 greater bond than
00:19:58.040 siblings that have
00:19:58.820 been born from the
00:19:59.640 same womb the
00:20:00.920 covenant of the blood
00:20:01.820 is thicker than the
00:20:02.560 water of the womb and
00:20:04.080 so dude you imagine
00:20:05.460 35 guys come to the
00:20:07.060 project hour number
00:20:08.280 one and they're all
00:20:09.800 strangers for them to
00:20:11.340 open up and talk
00:20:12.660 about physical abuse
00:20:14.220 sexual abuse mental
00:20:15.260 abuse what what
00:20:16.560 happens in their life
00:20:17.580 that created these
00:20:18.620 limiting beliefs and
00:20:19.520 these shitty
00:20:20.040 experiences and
00:20:20.860 self-sabotaging
00:20:21.580 behaviors and
00:20:22.560 addictions and vices
00:20:23.560 that they can't talk
00:20:24.400 about at work because
00:20:25.640 they might lose their
00:20:26.400 career we need these
00:20:28.040 guys to bond and
00:20:29.060 connect to feel safe
00:20:30.460 around each other and
00:20:32.040 no better way to get
00:20:33.120 them to bond and
00:20:33.720 connect than for my
00:20:35.240 instructors to
00:20:36.400 basically become the
00:20:37.600 enemy so it's
00:20:39.080 basically my four
00:20:40.060 instructors it's
00:20:40.700 myself and four
00:20:41.480 instructors two
00:20:42.200 marines let me see
00:20:44.720 two marines a navy
00:20:46.700 seal and an air force
00:20:48.120 seer guy and myself
00:20:50.100 and I teach
00:20:50.700 entrepreneurship and
00:20:51.720 emotional discipline
00:20:52.540 and time management
00:20:54.400 productivity all that
00:20:55.360 stuff but for my
00:20:56.920 instructors to become
00:20:57.900 the enemy forces them
00:20:59.740 to become a unified
00:21:00.800 force together I love
00:21:02.600 seeing an hour number
00:21:03.440 two three four and five
00:21:04.780 they're by themselves
00:21:05.600 they're just focused on
00:21:06.580 themselves hour number
00:21:07.820 nine ten eleven twelve
00:21:09.120 when they're going
00:21:10.840 through the mud pit
00:21:11.720 they're hiking with
00:21:13.260 logs they're pulling a
00:21:14.560 truck now they're
00:21:15.340 referring to each other
00:21:16.160 as brother you got this
00:21:17.380 brother let me help you
00:21:18.340 out let me grab your
00:21:19.300 rucksack let me grab
00:21:20.360 your sledgehammer go
00:21:21.820 up the hill and I'll
00:21:22.580 give you a rucksack
00:21:23.280 back we want these
00:21:24.520 guys to bond because
00:21:26.260 at hour number thirty
00:21:27.380 six that's where we
00:21:28.940 have what I consider
00:21:30.060 the most difficult
00:21:31.380 evolution of all it's
00:21:32.760 not an ice bath it's
00:21:33.740 not a truck pull it's
00:21:34.740 not the beach torture
00:21:35.700 that will puts them
00:21:36.580 through it is sitting
00:21:38.020 down in a classroom
00:21:39.200 environment opening up
00:21:40.980 their journals and
00:21:42.700 literally me walking
00:21:44.080 them through the worst
00:21:45.580 experience of their
00:21:46.320 life and I talk about
00:21:47.260 mine I go hey between
00:21:48.120 the ages of four and
00:21:48.940 six I was molested by
00:21:50.180 two older boys and
00:21:51.580 here's how that showed
00:21:52.420 up in my life in my
00:21:53.780 relationship with my
00:21:55.440 kids in business with
00:21:57.160 the way I led my
00:21:58.320 company in the
00:21:59.300 addictions that I
00:22:00.160 had and that's the
00:22:01.880 only evolution of
00:22:03.200 nineteen evolutions that
00:22:04.420 we have the only
00:22:06.120 evolution that has
00:22:06.960 boxes of Kleenex every
00:22:09.060 other guy there's a
00:22:09.800 box of Kleenex sitting
00:22:10.640 on the table because
00:22:11.860 myself included grown
00:22:13.360 men were just falling
00:22:14.180 apart crying because for
00:22:15.620 the first time ever we're
00:22:16.700 purging we're talking
00:22:17.800 about the thing that we
00:22:18.800 hid and never talked
00:22:20.160 about that's been
00:22:22.180 haunting us forever and
00:22:23.620 these are the things I'll
00:22:24.320 never show on social
00:22:25.360 media because it's so
00:22:26.460 private to them I will
00:22:28.540 take this to my grave I
00:22:29.840 don't share it with
00:22:30.420 anyone I'll never write a
00:22:31.500 book about it but we hear
00:22:33.080 some horrible stuff man
00:22:34.320 and these men feel free
00:22:36.300 and for them to have that
00:22:37.420 freedom to talk like that
00:22:38.800 we need them to bond best
00:22:40.360 way for them to bond is
00:22:41.440 for us to beat them down
00:22:42.760 physically mentally
00:22:43.500 emotionally to see that us
00:22:46.000 as the enemy for them to
00:22:47.240 become a strong unified
00:22:48.220 front so during our
00:22:49.900 number 36 and beyond it's
00:22:51.900 now us against them and
00:22:54.280 what again people don't
00:22:55.140 see is the final 12 hours
00:22:56.680 we become their friends and
00:22:58.800 now it's positive
00:22:59.540 reinforcement and we let
00:23:00.960 down our character now
00:23:03.020 we're fist bumping now
00:23:04.240 we're saying congratulations
00:23:05.300 now we're saying hey I
00:23:07.460 can't wait to have dinner
00:23:08.380 with you Friday night and
00:23:10.260 see how you look cleaned up
00:23:11.400 in a black suit but we we
00:23:13.240 drop that wall too but we
00:23:14.880 have to come out with fire
00:23:16.200 in the beginning to be
00:23:17.260 able to get them to bond
00:23:18.180 yeah I remember years ago
00:23:21.700 I did a Spartan event it
00:23:23.540 was it was the Spartan
00:23:24.580 Agogi it was a 50-hour
00:23:26.280 endurance event and and
00:23:28.640 what was interesting is
00:23:29.960 there was a lot of to put
00:23:32.940 it mildly bullshit you
00:23:34.180 know physical bullshit that
00:23:35.660 we just had to go through
00:23:36.620 and you saw guys dropping
00:23:39.020 like flies left and right
00:23:40.300 and then Joe DeSena the
00:23:41.520 founder of Spartan came out
00:23:42.540 and said hey I'm gonna give
00:23:43.860 you an ultimatum and he
00:23:45.180 said if you want to be
00:23:46.200 done leave now if you
00:23:47.320 don't you're in that sort
00:23:48.320 of thing and we had a
00:23:49.820 bunch of guys leave and we
00:23:51.360 were probably 10 hours into
00:23:52.700 this thing but I decided
00:23:54.660 before I even attended
00:23:56.040 you're gonna have to drag me
00:23:57.240 out on a stretcher or or a
00:23:59.440 casket if you want me to you
00:24:01.440 know be done with this before
00:24:03.060 my 50 hours and so I had this
00:24:05.860 like thought in my mind of
00:24:07.340 like I'm gonna quit I'm gonna
00:24:08.240 quit I'm like nope you
00:24:09.240 already made a commitment
00:24:09.940 you're not you can't quit
00:24:10.720 now and it got easier from a
00:24:14.720 physical perspective because
00:24:17.280 from from where I sat and I
00:24:20.800 think this is what you're
00:24:21.500 saying they needed to weed out
00:24:24.480 all the bullshit and they
00:24:26.300 needed to weed out the guys
00:24:27.360 who didn't deserve to be
00:24:28.360 there and they needed to weed
00:24:29.540 out the the chaos and the
00:24:31.040 nonsense and the clutter and
00:24:32.220 the and the softness to get to
00:24:34.460 the root of those who actually
00:24:36.280 wanted to be there for the
00:24:38.040 right reason and when he made
00:24:39.820 that ultimatum and a bunch of
00:24:41.060 guys left everything got
00:24:43.220 easier from a physical
00:24:44.500 perspective mentally and
00:24:45.600 emotionally was still
00:24:46.220 challenging but the physical
00:24:47.220 stuff was over at that point
00:24:48.720 10 hours into a 50 hour event
00:24:50.780 yeah yeah that well said and
00:24:53.820 that's what you want because
00:24:55.100 you don't want people there
00:24:56.260 who aren't going to be fully
00:24:58.560 committed to the experience to
00:25:00.080 the transformation to not
00:25:02.460 sharing we've had this happen
00:25:03.660 before where we get to the
00:25:04.720 toxic cognitions evolution
00:25:06.080 where they're supposed to talk
00:25:07.460 about the worst thing that
00:25:08.180 ever happened to them or at
00:25:09.000 least journal about it and
00:25:10.400 they'll start writing like
00:25:11.280 lies right and then later on
00:25:13.100 they'll pull me aside and go
00:25:14.060 hey I didn't really want to
00:25:15.080 talk about it or journal about
00:25:16.300 it but that's not what really
00:25:17.980 happened to me this is what
00:25:19.080 really happened to me well
00:25:20.580 fine but listen if you want a
00:25:22.840 brotherhood if you want to
00:25:23.740 bond with these guys if you
00:25:24.820 want to know that you have
00:25:25.680 peers that you can reach out
00:25:27.120 to for a lifetime because
00:25:29.260 remember the project now is
00:25:30.100 five years in and guys from
00:25:31.500 class one two three four five
00:25:32.880 and beyond are super bonded
00:25:34.600 then you got to be
00:25:36.580 forthcoming and so there is a
00:25:38.140 weeding out a thinning of the
00:25:39.380 herd that must happen and for
00:25:40.900 us during the project because
00:25:42.000 it's 75 hours long it is that
00:25:43.920 first 24 hours like we give
00:25:45.820 them plenty of opportunities and
00:25:47.720 plenty of reasons to drop out
00:25:50.240 ring the bell and quit
00:25:51.120 what is your take on the word
00:25:54.520 vulnerability because when I hear
00:25:56.180 that word it's a little bit
00:25:57.500 cringy it's a lot cringy for me I
00:25:59.380 don't like the word itself I can
00:26:01.240 see the value of the sentiment
00:26:02.500 but I'm curious about your take
00:26:04.260 on vulnerability especially
00:26:05.420 amongst men you know I I tell
00:26:10.860 these guys all the time so when
00:26:12.100 the project is about to come to
00:26:13.400 an end the final hour we do
00:26:15.060 something called the last or the
00:26:16.700 next 90 days in other words hey
00:26:18.100 how should your next 90 days look
00:26:19.520 and I have them open their
00:26:20.240 battle book and we talk about the
00:26:22.400 next 90 days like how are you
00:26:23.880 going to be when you go home like
00:26:25.260 don't expect your wife or your
00:26:26.620 kids all of a sudden to expect
00:26:27.780 this to to accept this new 2.0
00:26:31.340 version of you ease them into
00:26:32.860 who you are and we have to learn
00:26:34.760 that stuff so we talk about the
00:26:36.960 next 90 days and in there I talk
00:26:38.720 about look it's okay to be
00:26:40.280 vulnerable and it's okay to be
00:26:41.360 emotional it is not you know to
00:26:43.160 show emotions but it is not okay to
00:26:45.140 become emotionally reckless because
00:26:48.360 I've heard Andrew Andrew Tate say
00:26:50.400 this one time he says when a woman
00:26:51.960 is emotional she might cry drink a
00:26:55.880 bottle of wine and talk to her
00:26:58.020 friends about it and that's that
00:26:59.720 when a man is emotionally kind of
00:27:02.580 unhinged he might go on a killing
00:27:04.660 spree we start seeing red and so
00:27:07.260 you know vulnerability good
00:27:09.520 emotionally reckless not good I
00:27:13.660 think there's nothing wrong with
00:27:14.620 vulnerability you and I are
00:27:15.720 friends I might sit there with you
00:27:17.260 and be like hey man you know I want
00:27:19.740 to have this like vulnerable
00:27:20.560 conversation where I'm just going to
00:27:21.940 kind of vomit out all the things
00:27:23.840 that you know the things that keep
00:27:25.240 me awake at night and you're going
00:27:26.900 to be like all right B I get it
00:27:28.080 but vulnerability to the point of
00:27:31.080 emotional reckless I think that
00:27:33.520 makes men dangerous because they are
00:27:36.240 unpredictable and I don't want a
00:27:38.580 unpredictable man around me there's
00:27:40.300 too much too many things that can go
00:27:42.040 wrong
00:27:42.360 yeah that's fair that's fair I mean if
00:27:46.700 I'm being honest or vulnerable here
00:27:49.020 on this podcast I've been that way
00:27:51.260 with you man you've heard me I've
00:27:52.620 had phone calls with you where I'm
00:27:53.800 literally crying yeah you know so I
00:27:56.760 think we ought to be aware of when
00:27:58.560 we're expressing vulnerability and I
00:28:01.420 like what you're saying about Andrew
00:28:02.700 Tate where he talks about when when
00:28:04.360 women are emotionally vulnerable
00:28:06.120 they're a little reckless maybe
00:28:07.960 they're they're drinking or whatever
00:28:09.240 it may be but not only are men
00:28:11.240 dangerous but also there's a real
00:28:13.520 threat to men when we are emotionally
00:28:16.600 reckless your employers will fire you
00:28:20.580 your people will think less of you we
00:28:23.880 don't expect it from men to the degree
00:28:26.800 that we expect it from women so
00:28:28.240 there's a real world consequence to
00:28:30.840 being emotionally vulnerable and
00:28:32.800 reckless with the way that you're
00:28:35.500 expressing it and experiencing your
00:28:36.980 emotions for men I would say more so
00:28:39.060 than for women
00:28:39.660 agreed agreed it is not a level playing
00:28:42.420 field and nor nor should it be
00:28:44.440 man let me step away from the
00:28:47.620 conversation very quickly good news
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00:29:35.380 do that right after the conversation
00:29:37.020 let's get back to it with Bedros
00:29:38.620 yeah well so I wanted to ask you about
00:29:44.300 and talk a little bit more about this
00:29:46.320 controversial issue and one thing that
00:29:49.180 was funny and this is just a little
00:29:50.380 story from an experience that I came
00:29:53.020 out you were gracious enough to invite
00:29:54.520 us to one of your events and it wasn't
00:29:56.020 it wasn't this event the MDK project
00:29:58.080 that you're talking about but we came
00:30:00.960 out and I brought my two boys to this
00:30:02.520 event and I believe they were probably
00:30:04.880 for Blacksite they were 14 and 12 or
00:30:09.140 14 and 11 at the time and Wes Watson
00:30:12.240 spoke and we know Wes and it was like
00:30:17.860 f-bomb every other word 10 years in the
00:30:20.680 California State Penitentiary obviously
00:30:22.720 a rough figure tatted up very imposing
00:30:25.300 intimidating figure and my boy I asked
00:30:28.360 my boys I'm like what'd you think about
00:30:29.580 that they're like we were scared we were
00:30:33.660 scared I'm like yeah he's a scary dude
00:30:35.320 for sure like he's a scary intimidating
00:30:37.760 person and I said but what did you think
00:30:40.200 about what he had to say and they said
00:30:42.340 well once we kind of got over being
00:30:43.860 afraid like it was kind of interesting
00:30:45.480 what he said and I think one thing that
00:30:47.180 I love about polarizing figures
00:30:49.060 intimidating figures obsessive type
00:30:52.760 figures is they cause us to think
00:30:55.600 differently than we normally would and
00:30:57.860 wake us up from our our slumber that
00:31:01.780 most of us all pray to yeah well said
00:31:05.880 I think it's Napoleon Hill in his book
00:31:08.820 outwitting the devil he calls it most
00:31:12.320 people are in a hypnotic trance and
00:31:15.060 they're in this hypnotic rhythm of just
00:31:16.780 wake up you know brush your teeth get
00:31:20.960 dressed go to work do your work get in
00:31:22.980 the car come back home rinse and repeat
00:31:24.660 hypnotic rhythm there's no meaning
00:31:26.480 there's no purpose behind any of their
00:31:28.000 thoughts or their actions at best they
00:31:30.520 might have water cooler conversations
00:31:32.400 that are built around gossip and rumor
00:31:35.200 there's there's no depth to the
00:31:36.860 conversations and that is a very shallow
00:31:39.720 existence and I think there needs to be
00:31:42.740 figures in life like Jesus like Mother
00:31:45.420 Teresa like Gandhi and many others that
00:31:48.640 are willing to wake up the people I think
00:31:51.800 Andrew Tate does a great job of that I
00:31:53.800 think Wes Watson does a great job of that
00:31:56.260 now does that mean does that mean that
00:31:59.040 they are exceptional in every category of
00:32:01.860 life absolutely not you know I would
00:32:04.780 certainly not have my kids go and get
00:32:06.840 mentored by these individuals that is my
00:32:08.920 responsibility but can I take a valuable
00:32:11.140 nugget from these polarizing individuals
00:32:13.140 that are not just drifting through life
00:32:16.080 but have experienced hardship have other
00:32:18.720 experiences that maybe others haven't
00:32:20.500 seen and they're willing to bestow that
00:32:22.300 upon us and let us know that it's okay to
00:32:24.020 be obsessive it's okay to be relentless
00:32:26.060 it's okay to want more it's okay to do
00:32:28.440 more it's okay to expect more of yourself
00:32:30.720 and others around you and it's not okay
00:32:32.740 to let them off the hook but to actually
00:32:35.100 tell people like I'm not going to let you
00:32:37.060 off the hook like everyone else around you
00:32:38.540 has because if I do that is not me loving
00:32:40.780 you that is me crippling you further
00:32:42.880 there's not enough people saying that to
00:32:44.820 humanity which is why we become this
00:32:47.360 bubble-wrapped society that leaves the
00:32:50.200 training wheels on too long for their kids
00:32:52.460 and I think we need to fix that and that
00:32:54.460 is what the squire program is meant to do
00:32:56.880 yeah and look I you know even with my own
00:33:01.200 work I don't try to be offensive but I
00:33:03.420 don't really care if I am you know if I if
00:33:06.260 there's something I feel like I need to
00:33:07.840 share I'm going to share it in a in a
00:33:09.840 deliberate clear concise way that a lot
00:33:13.880 of people take issue with and I'm not out
00:33:16.600 every day to figure out who I can offend
00:33:18.520 today I don't set out to do that but I'm
00:33:21.240 also not phased by it and I think you to
00:33:23.800 maybe a greater degree and somebody like
00:33:25.760 Wes maybe even to the nth degree but we
00:33:29.980 need people like that to cause us to think
00:33:32.840 about things differently I just I don't
00:33:35.740 want to live in the slumber I don't want a
00:33:38.100 bunch of bobbleheads around me saying yes
00:33:40.160 Ryan you're great you're wonderful and I've
00:33:42.500 had some level of success and I can find
00:33:44.500 plenty of people who are willing to you
00:33:47.340 know proverbially you know jack me off and
00:33:49.860 and make me feel better about myself but I
00:33:52.340 really need somebody like you who's willing
00:33:54.100 to say hey bro you're effing up and and you
00:33:57.400 need to be called out for it and let's see if
00:33:59.360 we can help you figure it out and get better
00:34:01.100 that's what I wish I would have had when I
00:34:04.260 was growing up what I wish I would have had
00:34:05.820 two years ago and I what I wish I will have
00:34:07.880 now with the people in my corner yeah and
00:34:11.220 and accountability by people that you love
00:34:13.500 respect and admire is the highest form of
00:34:16.080 love a man can get accountability not letting
00:34:19.500 us off the hook not absolving us of of our
00:34:21.980 misdoings but accountability like I I respect
00:34:26.440 you I look up to you I I love you Ryan and I
00:34:29.720 see what a good human you are what a great
00:34:31.620 message you're trying to put out there and
00:34:33.820 I'm human and when the time comes that I'm
00:34:36.680 I'm off the rails I don't want you to be
00:34:38.780 like well you know life was hard I can see
00:34:40.920 how that happened hold me accountable to get
00:34:42.980 back on the rails because I'm a man on a
00:34:45.580 mission and every day that I'm might I'm
00:34:47.500 off the rails is is a day that I'm not
00:34:49.920 being an example to my kids I'm not leading
00:34:52.740 my organization and I'm not donating or
00:34:55.020 giving to the causes and charities that I
00:34:56.680 believe in and the greatest form of love
00:34:58.900 any man can give another man is
00:35:00.680 accountability and not necessarily absolving
00:35:03.200 them of their misdoings I think one of the
00:35:07.980 dangers in society though be is that there's
00:35:10.120 so many people and probably a lot of guys
00:35:12.180 frankly listening to this podcast who are
00:35:14.100 looking for ways to be victims and you
00:35:16.280 could you could do that you know you grew
00:35:18.260 up in this environment where there was war
00:35:20.360 and hostility and and real possibility of
00:35:23.420 death for you and your family and you came
00:35:26.120 to a country where you didn't speak the
00:35:27.620 language you grew up in poverty I mean you
00:35:30.120 told me a story about having your hair
00:35:31.880 washed out with gasoline to get rid of the
00:35:34.320 lice that had infested your head you know
00:35:36.500 it's like you could be a victim and
00:35:38.860 everybody would say yeah I get that but
00:35:41.480 you've chosen not to go that route
00:35:43.120 unfortunately too many men love to play
00:35:45.800 that card these days yeah well I think
00:35:49.220 social media has amplified that as well
00:35:52.040 because let's face it and I hate I hate to
00:35:55.660 say this but if there's ever a platform to
00:35:57.680 say this on it's going to be on your
00:35:58.860 platform because we're friends but about a
00:36:02.160 couple months ago man I decided to do a
00:36:03.680 little experiment on my Instagram account
00:36:05.500 and at first I said you know I wrote up a
00:36:08.960 little message and I said I have a high
00:36:11.780 level of respect and admiration for
00:36:13.620 people that have seen adversity that have
00:36:15.460 gone through the shit that have been beat
00:36:17.100 up abused and and and and left to die you
00:36:21.260 guys are the most special type of people
00:36:22.820 and I have a lot of respect for you I
00:36:24.840 believe in you and then I posted it up man
00:36:27.340 that thing went viral it had like 20 times
00:36:30.040 20x the engagement that most posts because
00:36:33.900 basically I said hey I know you've gone
00:36:36.180 through hardship and I think you you
00:36:38.700 people are the greatest type of people
00:36:40.160 people like us that have gone through
00:36:41.360 hardship and I do believe that but I also
00:36:43.620 knew that's kind of allowing them to go
00:36:46.700 yeah you know what I have had a hard
00:36:48.100 life things have been bad for me I should
00:36:50.440 be recognized for that and then literally
00:36:53.080 the following week I wrote there are two
00:36:55.840 types of people oh in my 49 years I figured
00:36:58.400 out there's two types of people the type
00:37:00.400 that will take extreme accountability and
00:37:03.300 the type type that are extremely good at
00:37:06.500 being victims and depending on the type
00:37:09.100 of person that you are determines the
00:37:10.640 outcome of your life man let me tell you
00:37:13.080 not only was engagement low but what
00:37:15.440 comments I got was like well you don't
00:37:17.640 know the stuff I'm going through you can't
00:37:19.760 say that you know these factors can't
00:37:22.800 influence my life and I was like holy crap
00:37:25.600 when you try and tell people like give
00:37:27.400 them accountability like they will shit on
00:37:29.740 you when you go hey it's okay that you
00:37:31.440 were a victim and I think you're still a
00:37:32.780 good human they're like yeah I'm going to
00:37:34.520 share your content and so that's how
00:37:36.580 fragile we have become as a society man
00:37:38.860 but nevertheless I believe it's my job the
00:37:41.140 creator has put me on this planet to hold
00:37:44.200 myself first accountable to my core
00:37:46.820 values and then secondly to expect that of
00:37:49.480 every man and woman around me and you know
00:37:54.060 sometimes to my detriment to death threats
00:37:56.160 but that's okay it's worth it
00:37:57.600 well one thing I often think about is is
00:38:02.440 this idea of victim it is okay to be a
00:38:05.040 victim you know when when you were a boy
00:38:07.180 what what control did you have over your
00:38:09.920 life none you you didn't get to decide
00:38:13.520 where you were born you didn't get to
00:38:15.040 decide where your folks wanted to move
00:38:16.640 you whether it was within country or
00:38:18.300 across the planet you didn't get to decide
00:38:21.160 how other people treated you that's Vic
00:38:23.200 you were a victim that's true that's the
00:38:25.100 reality it's okay to be a victim but it's
00:38:28.200 not okay to continue to be a victim and
00:38:30.340 there came a point in your life where you
00:38:31.880 had to make a decision like okay this is
00:38:34.680 reality and now I'm a grown-ass man and I'm
00:38:38.260 gonna decide to do something different with
00:38:39.740 my life and use that as fuel to be better
00:38:41.680 for myself and other people yeah yeah well
00:38:45.480 said well said and you're right like I
00:38:48.220 I remember growing up and my mom and dad
00:38:50.660 saying well you've always been thick
00:38:52.140 you've always been chunky right and so it's
00:38:54.320 like oh okay I guess I'm the victim of
00:38:55.600 being fat and oh you've never been good at
00:38:58.200 school oh I guess I'm the victim of being
00:38:59.720 dumb and so I do remember that and I
00:39:02.900 always when I do my keynote talks I always
00:39:06.240 talk about that in your first you know 10
00:39:09.800 15 years of life your parents your
00:39:12.560 grandparents school teachers it's like
00:39:14.880 God or the creator says hey Ryan here's
00:39:17.120 your blank pages of your book of life
00:39:19.180 but we're going to give the pen not to
00:39:21.420 you because you don't know best we're
00:39:23.300 going to give it to your parents
00:39:24.300 grandparents aunts uncles teachers and
00:39:27.080 all of them by the way they have their
00:39:28.260 own trauma they've had their own life
00:39:29.680 adversity they've had their own life
00:39:31.020 experiences so they see life through
00:39:32.980 their own weird lenses anyway and then
00:39:35.520 we give them the pen the first 10 to 15
00:39:37.540 years and they start writing the story
00:39:39.480 of Bedros Koulian oh you know he's
00:39:41.700 clumsy he's not that smart he's got two
00:39:43.800 left feet he's chunky you know he's not
00:39:46.780 that clean he keeps his room a mess and
00:39:49.280 so then you know I literally remember
00:39:51.040 having a friend in one of the section
00:39:52.540 eight housings that I lived in when we
00:39:54.240 came to America the complex his parents
00:39:57.160 and his siblings called him gordito he
00:39:59.440 was a little Mexican kid gordito and I
00:40:01.460 was like hey what is gordito he goes oh
00:40:03.740 like it means like little fatty little
00:40:05.360 fat kid and he answered to gordito
00:40:07.820 because apparently his parents fed him
00:40:10.700 high sugar high fat foods and he's
00:40:13.680 chunky he probably is an endomorph like I
00:40:15.680 am I could walk by a donut shop and get
00:40:17.500 fat which is why I have to like work out
00:40:20.060 like a savage and eat clean but anyway
00:40:22.680 all that said his story that he told
00:40:25.620 himself is he's always going to be fat
00:40:27.300 fast forward 20 years I saw him in his
00:40:30.600 like I don't know probably almost 30
00:40:33.360 years old we were both almost 30 years
00:40:35.060 old and he was still a fat chunky kid or
00:40:38.360 adult and I believe the reason is we
00:40:41.380 believe whatever people write in our
00:40:43.120 life's book we just forget that after a
00:40:45.800 certain age 15 16 18 20 years old you can
00:40:48.960 take that pen back and start rewriting
00:40:50.940 that Bedros is going to be athletic he is
00:40:53.580 going to be intelligent he he's not going
00:40:55.800 to be dependent on the system and it is
00:40:59.000 taking that pen back and rewriting a story
00:41:02.000 of the hero instead of the victim but
00:41:04.540 oftentimes we just let people keep the pen
00:41:06.500 and keep writing about us and we actually
00:41:08.520 start believing that story and therefore
00:41:10.800 adopting a false identity and then we go
00:41:13.380 through life looking for evidence to
00:41:16.080 reinforce that false identity which is
00:41:18.440 untrue but we've accepted it anyway
00:41:20.700 yeah I mean this is to a lesser degree I
00:41:26.260 remember when I moved from southern
00:41:27.740 California to southern Utah and I was so
00:41:31.920 excited about the move because even at I
00:41:33.980 think it was 13 or 14 years old I
00:41:36.020 realized it was an opportunity for me to
00:41:37.980 create a new identity and I became a jock
00:41:40.520 you know I started playing football and
00:41:42.800 got immersed with it with the jocks and
00:41:44.800 the and the athletes and and and I was so
00:41:47.760 excited about it because it was different
00:41:49.360 than what I was 14 for 14 years of my life
00:41:53.640 and right and that was a cool experience
00:41:55.940 for me at age 14 but we can do that
00:41:57.720 every day you know as men we can decide
00:41:59.800 hey you know maybe maybe you're an
00:42:02.120 alcoholic well are you or is that
00:42:05.300 something that you've adopted I
00:42:06.440 remember when I started going to AA meetings
00:42:08.160 there was this woman she was 30 plus years
00:42:11.400 sober and they go around the room and they
00:42:14.260 introduce themselves as hey I'm so-and-so and
00:42:16.580 I'm an alcoholic and I never did that I
00:42:18.360 that's nothing I would I would never say
00:42:21.020 that because I don't want to identify as
00:42:22.720 that so I just introduced myself as Ryan
00:42:25.120 hey I'm Ryan I'm here to learn and this
00:42:28.740 woman I remember vividly she says hey I'm so-and-so
00:42:31.500 and I'm an alcoholic and I've been 30 years
00:42:33.840 sober I'm like damn it stop calling yourself
00:42:35.880 an alcoholic please like you're embracing
00:42:39.140 that as your identity and what is that
00:42:41.340 doing I mean if it works for you great but
00:42:43.800 from where I sit why do we embrace these
00:42:46.580 titles that are not serving us that are
00:42:49.680 limiting who we could potentially become but
00:42:52.160 we're so wrapped up in our story that we
00:42:54.080 have to perpetuate it forever there you go
00:42:57.240 there you go that's exactly what it is it's
00:42:59.220 the perpetuation 30 years later dude as
00:43:02.380 far as I'm concerned I guess maybe if
00:43:04.280 someone's gonna say well you know she was a
00:43:06.200 clinical alcoholic well okay sure but each
00:43:08.920 time she says that it does reinforce a
00:43:11.840 message because when I think of an
00:43:13.600 alcoholic I think of someone who's
00:43:14.920 irresponsible that I wouldn't leave my
00:43:17.000 kids I wouldn't trust my kids with I
00:43:18.640 wouldn't trust my business with that I
00:43:20.980 wouldn't want to be friends with I
00:43:22.140 wouldn't want them to have access to my
00:43:23.660 wallet or my money or my bank account I
00:43:26.580 hate to say that but when I think about
00:43:28.100 an alcoholic I just think of someone
00:43:29.520 who's irresponsible and reckless and
00:43:31.400 could potentially harm my family my
00:43:33.360 business or my life and so I'd want to
00:43:35.320 keep them at arm's length man if you
00:43:37.080 haven't had alcohol for 30 years I would
00:43:39.980 say you're probably just a regular
00:43:42.220 functioning human who shouldn't drink
00:43:44.080 because maybe you turn into a gremlin when
00:43:46.180 you drink so great you figured out not to
00:43:48.200 drink but let's not wear that mask of
00:43:50.660 alcoholism or an alcoholic where now you
00:43:53.740 walk around telling me you're an
00:43:54.720 alcoholic and I'm gonna go oh shit you
00:43:56.340 know any minute now you could go back to
00:43:58.340 being the way you were because she's
00:44:00.760 probably proven that she's a responsible
00:44:02.500 person that she is ethical that she's
00:44:04.760 got new new core values and she's
00:44:07.200 reinvented herself so why not redefine
00:44:09.680 yourself but people don't they love
00:44:11.840 wearing that hat and identifying with a
00:44:14.920 thing I don't know why that is but it
00:44:16.620 is the human condition well I maybe it's
00:44:21.160 just comfortable or just a level of
00:44:22.900 complacency or maybe even laziness you
00:44:24.940 know or maybe ignorance like they don't
00:44:26.580 know any better so I guess the question
00:44:28.520 then begs for a guy who's identified with
00:44:32.360 being an alcoholic or a drug user or a
00:44:34.700 cheater or a piece of shit or a loser or
00:44:37.620 anything that he's adopted how do you
00:44:40.100 recommend for a guy like that to break
00:44:42.240 that cycle because it's very easy for us
00:44:44.420 to say well this is just the hand I was
00:44:47.140 dealt I can't do anything about that what
00:44:48.880 do you want me to do about it right they
00:44:51.060 just there's no level of accountability
00:44:53.540 what does a guy like that do yeah that's
00:44:56.380 a great question and so when they say
00:44:58.980 this is a hand that I was dealt or this
00:45:00.800 it happened to me or it wasn't my fault
00:45:03.500 and I get it like look man I got molested
00:45:05.500 as a kid between the ages of four and six I
00:45:07.340 was molested by two older boys in Armenia
00:45:09.020 I didn't walk up to them and say here you
00:45:11.780 go guys molest me it happened to me I was
00:45:14.720 absolutely the victim however I had
00:45:17.740 decided then I years later right that I'm
00:45:20.820 not going to externalize that meaning I'm
00:45:23.180 going to go internal and go what can I do
00:45:24.940 about it now so I'm never a victim in
00:45:26.520 life again so I'm not a victim of a bad
00:45:29.080 business partner I'm not a victim of the
00:45:31.300 government trying to oppress me or overtax
00:45:34.280 me and so when we have this internal
00:45:37.220 locus of control we can redefine our life
00:45:41.180 and create a new identity when it's a
00:45:43.520 external locus of control meaning well
00:45:45.660 that happened to me it's not my fault
00:45:47.480 it's the economy the president my
00:45:48.980 parents you know I'm genetically
00:45:51.640 predisposed to be fat okay well great
00:45:54.300 but the internal locus of control says I
00:45:56.640 am responsible I can do something about
00:45:58.540 it it is within my control and power and
00:46:00.700 the moment someone decides to just go I
00:46:03.480 am going to be fully responsible for
00:46:05.160 everything that happens in my life in
00:46:07.540 fact there's a creed at the project we
00:46:09.420 have a creed and there's a part of that
00:46:10.740 creed that says I am going to be
00:46:12.300 responsible for everything that happens
00:46:13.480 in my life and that gives me the power
00:46:15.260 and control to change my circumstances
00:46:17.660 so the moment we have this internal
00:46:20.180 locus of control we're able to then
00:46:22.340 write down I would say the next thing is
00:46:24.080 adopt a locus of control it's all on me
00:46:26.920 it's all my fault I'm responsible and
00:46:28.820 that's that no one outside of me can fix
00:46:30.560 me other than me and then you go what is
00:46:33.260 the version of the man that I want to be
00:46:36.060 look like maybe he wakes up at 5 a.m. he
00:46:38.860 drinks a protein shake he sends out three
00:46:40.900 gratitude text messages to people he's
00:46:42.500 grateful for he's working out by 9 a.m.
00:46:45.420 he's focused on money and meaning and
00:46:47.880 self-mastery okay what are those things
00:46:50.340 look like write it out like what is the
00:46:52.360 app that avatar look like and then live
00:46:55.020 to that every day live to that and I tell
00:46:57.800 the guys at the project I go I pretend
00:47:00.000 like there's a drone hovering over me 24
00:47:03.140 hours a day and that my son and daughter
00:47:05.880 Andrew and Chloe who's these are their
00:47:08.340 baby pictures in here but my son and
00:47:10.180 daughter on their iPhones could tap in
00:47:13.200 and see what dad is doing any minute
00:47:15.360 any time of the day wherever I am in the
00:47:17.160 world live right and so in my head that's
00:47:20.480 good yeah so I'm like man I've identified
00:47:22.680 who I want to be and I have to be
00:47:24.980 congruent to that man because if Andrew
00:47:27.320 and Chloe were to log in and see me live
00:47:30.300 and I'm like chowing down on donuts and
00:47:33.300 snorting cocaine off of hookers tits that
00:47:35.960 is not the congruent man that I say I am
00:47:38.500 and so when you decide that you're going
00:47:41.500 to take internal locus of control and
00:47:43.460 then identify what a winning man looks
00:47:45.600 like the idealized man that you love
00:47:47.820 respect admire want to be like and then
00:47:49.900 you live to that man knowing that you're
00:47:51.820 going to live to that man because some
00:47:53.580 people see you as an example could be
00:47:55.560 your co-workers could be your best
00:47:56.840 friends could be your kids then I don't
00:48:01.780 know how you can go back and be a shit
00:48:04.300 bag again I just truly don't like I
00:48:06.820 believe karma would be too harsh on me
00:48:09.160 if I went back to being the 1.0 version
00:48:11.960 of myself so I have to continue to be
00:48:14.640 this 2.0 version of myself to live as a
00:48:16.800 solid example of humanity to my kids to
00:48:19.460 people that listen to my show that read
00:48:21.140 my book that you know buy my products
00:48:23.640 and services and franchises otherwise
00:48:26.000 I'm the biggest hypocrite and there was
00:48:27.760 a study that came out about a decade ago and
00:48:30.920 the study proved that people have society
00:48:33.960 has more respect for someone that has
00:48:35.940 gone to prison serve their debt to
00:48:38.460 society and come out then a hypocrite who
00:48:42.680 says one thing but does another and so I
00:48:46.060 think being a hypocrite is lower than being
00:48:48.560 a convict that has served their debt to
00:48:50.860 society and I never want to be a hypocrite
00:48:52.720 hmm one thing you said is you said
00:48:58.000 something about you know karma would come
00:48:59.980 back do you I just want to dig down into
00:49:02.800 that a little bit is it karma which when
00:49:04.800 I hear that I think of some some maybe
00:49:07.940 cosmic force that just is is lucky or is
00:49:12.000 it a natural order which I think is more
00:49:14.000 based on evolution just the natural order
00:49:16.540 of things or is it a spiritual perspective
00:49:19.400 which is an eternal cosmic principle and
00:49:23.340 there's a there's a being that's dictating
00:49:25.500 all of this what do you think about that
00:49:27.420 well my personal belief is that we are
00:49:30.580 all god-like in that we all have a piece
00:49:33.660 of God the creator within us that is our
00:49:35.760 consciousness that is our soul that is
00:49:37.400 our spirit and so collectively we are
00:49:40.700 universal consciousness and that's just
00:49:43.760 my own personal belief so knowing that I
00:49:46.020 believe there are some universal laws that
00:49:48.000 exist and so when I say I'm going to do
00:49:51.640 something and I don't do that thing I am
00:49:55.240 hypocritical or when I do something bad to
00:49:58.660 someone when I know that I did something
00:50:01.600 bad I robbed them I stole their car I I
00:50:04.380 swindled them out of money there has to be
00:50:07.820 a universal balance and I believe that's
00:50:10.020 what karma is the universal consciousness
00:50:12.320 goes up you have taken too much out of
00:50:16.340 your karmic bank account and you need to
00:50:19.900 now deposit into your goodwill bank
00:50:21.620 account and so you will start feeling the
00:50:23.320 pain and I'll give you a great example of
00:50:24.620 that and now one might argue that
00:50:26.300 everything I'm about to say is
00:50:27.500 coincidence right and so I get it but
00:50:30.420 it's my own belief and if it's my own
00:50:32.580 belief and I live by this belief system
00:50:34.260 and if it serves me well then didn't I do
00:50:36.340 well in life after all yes and so here
00:50:39.160 here's what it is I used to be a really
00:50:41.260 big shit bag I'm 49 years old now but when
00:50:43.640 I was 19 20 21 years old I would carjack
00:50:47.920 people for their Honda Civics and Honda
00:50:51.660 Accords myself and a group of buddies we
00:50:54.260 would carjack people and we looked at it
00:50:56.680 as a victimless crime because we're not
00:50:58.540 going to beat you up we're going to be
00:51:00.120 mean and aggressive and pull you out of
00:51:01.480 your car and we're going to take your car
00:51:04.000 you're going to go file insurance claim
00:51:06.080 and we're going to take your car to an
00:51:08.380 auto body shop they're going to part it out
00:51:10.180 and they're going to use those parts for
00:51:12.300 cars that they're working on and that's
00:51:15.440 that and they give us money for it and so
00:51:17.880 that's how I sold it to myself well every
00:51:20.860 time we would carjack and steal a car and
00:51:23.740 let's say I got my four or five hundred
00:51:25.180 dollars worth of money from that endeavor
00:51:29.320 within a week or so something would happen
00:51:34.160 where I would lose that amount of money
00:51:36.200 or more in other words my car would have
00:51:38.800 this massive engine catastrophe that now I
00:51:41.520 it's going to cost me six hundred bucks
00:51:42.920 to repair like shit I made four hundred
00:51:44.920 bucks but it's a six hundred dollar
00:51:46.460 repair I remember another time I got a
00:51:49.420 windfall of money like that five or six
00:51:51.540 hundred dollars and then I got a ticket
00:51:53.360 for reckless driving and my car got
00:51:55.320 impounded soon after and so I always
00:51:58.220 felt like okay there's something
00:51:59.880 happening where I'm doing bad things
00:52:02.000 and bad things continue to happen to me
00:52:03.780 and I think there's a universal law that
00:52:06.060 dictates that you can't just keep doing
00:52:08.540 shitty stuff and expect good things to
00:52:10.380 happen at some point you have to start
00:52:12.120 filling up your Goodwill bank account and
00:52:14.600 I made it my mission I've told you this
00:52:17.320 before the story of getting in a
00:52:19.900 helicopter chase we were so we graduated
00:52:23.080 to robberies of homes stupidly and one
00:52:28.620 particular home my friends didn't case it
00:52:30.560 well and there was this older woman in
00:52:33.460 there and I was a getaway driver they
00:52:36.560 hop the fence they break the back door
00:52:38.380 they get in within seconds they're
00:52:40.180 hopping the fence and coming back out
00:52:41.560 and yelling at me drive drive drive and
00:52:43.680 I'm like what the hell happened you know
00:52:44.980 it was supposed to be an empty house and
00:52:47.420 we're supposed to steal this stuff and
00:52:48.640 then take it to a pawn shop well as it
00:52:50.520 turns out this woman was able to identify
00:52:52.760 us calls the police like an idiot I had a
00:52:56.440 yellow Toyota pickup talk about not
00:52:58.640 blending in so within about five minutes
00:53:01.440 Anaheim PD has their helicopter over me
00:53:05.280 and I'm trying to do a low-speed getaway
00:53:07.720 needless to say we weren't able to get
00:53:10.220 away I pulled into a gas station the goal
00:53:12.480 was we would all run out of the car and
00:53:14.800 keep our mouth shut sure yeah of course
00:53:17.440 that never happened the unmarked cars you
00:53:19.680 know block my doors pulled us out of the
00:53:21.260 windows rightfully so the lady was able to
00:53:23.940 identify my three friends but was never
00:53:26.000 able to identify me since I was the getaway
00:53:27.800 driver I was just hit with reckless
00:53:31.520 driving my car was impounded my friends
00:53:34.220 went to jail I didn't and that was the
00:53:37.280 turning point for me that's when I
00:53:38.540 decided like I think someone up there has
00:53:42.580 their eye on me and this is a shot over
00:53:45.120 my bow saying this is your one and only
00:53:47.040 chance and I took it as that whether that
00:53:49.760 was or not I don't know but I took it as
00:53:51.420 that and I said moving forward I'm gonna
00:53:53.760 fill up the Goodwill bank account and
00:53:55.780 thankfully as I became a personal trainer
00:53:58.160 I met some affluent people who were
00:54:00.180 actually willing to mentor me and coach
00:54:02.200 me and believed in me important to me and
00:54:04.660 I started to do good things and I felt so
00:54:07.140 amazing that I've continued on to do those
00:54:09.960 good things and today we've donated
00:54:11.460 millions of dollars to Shriner Children's
00:54:13.180 Hospital over the last 12 years every
00:54:15.700 year we adopt more kids through compassion
00:54:19.480 international currently we have 97 kids
00:54:21.600 adopted through compassion and then you
00:54:24.240 know we shut down the target here right
00:54:26.140 before Christmas and we buy anywhere from
00:54:28.920 fifty thousand to a hundred thousand
00:54:30.140 dollars worth of toys for toys for tots
00:54:33.040 which is run by the Marine Corps out
00:54:34.820 here and they give toys to kids who
00:54:36.400 otherwise would wake up Christmas morning
00:54:37.920 my I made it my mission to fill up my
00:54:40.820 Goodwill bank account because the last
00:54:42.340 thing I wanted to do was have again this
00:54:45.820 is just my belief system to have that
00:54:47.640 karmic justice fall on my kids to have and
00:54:51.540 I don't know if it would I I somehow got
00:54:53.780 that download from the creator like like
00:54:56.340 what would be the worst thing that God
00:54:58.580 would do to me well he wouldn't punish me
00:55:01.360 for my shortcomings he would punish my
00:55:03.740 kids that would be the worst thing and I
00:55:05.800 was like fuck it I'm gonna be a decent
00:55:07.320 human because I've always felt guilty
00:55:09.240 being a shit bag anyway but I did it
00:55:11.220 anyway because I wanted to fit in and it
00:55:13.140 was after that helicopter chase that I
00:55:14.900 changed my path listen to my mentors and
00:55:17.700 the rest was history and it's been I don't
00:55:19.660 know some 30 years now almost 30 years
00:55:22.260 of just trying to be a good human and
00:55:25.280 filling up that Goodwill bank account
00:55:26.580 I don't think I've ever heard the
00:55:30.020 helicopter story I think that was the
00:55:31.620 first time I've heard that actually yeah
00:55:33.660 there you go true story I would have
00:55:35.980 remembered it if I heard no I'm glad
00:55:37.740 you're talking about this I tend to take
00:55:39.460 and you're talking about our creator
00:55:40.920 you're talking about a spiritual
00:55:41.920 perspective but I I tend to lean more
00:55:43.980 into that in fact I I often think of
00:55:46.320 the parable of the talents you know I I've
00:55:48.940 been blessed by my creator with a certain
00:55:51.080 set of skills and characteristics and
00:55:53.160 and and opportunities who am I to hide
00:55:58.220 those things who am I to bury those
00:55:59.960 things right in the parable of the
00:56:02.000 talents teaches us that we are to take
00:56:03.760 those and deploy them for the betterment
00:56:07.100 of other people and then if we can do
00:56:08.740 that enough and Zig Ziglar says this help
00:56:11.340 enough people get what they want and you
00:56:13.180 will inevitably get what you want so I
00:56:15.420 don't care if you're looking at it from a
00:56:16.940 a secular perspective or a spiritual
00:56:19.440 perspective we all agree in the same
00:56:21.560 thing and we can all see that there's
00:56:23.560 something above and beyond just happenstance
00:56:27.640 or chaos it's definitely not that no no no at
00:56:32.360 best it's probably organized chaos that that
00:56:34.960 is meaningful to our creator but to us
00:56:37.120 monkey-brained humans we're just like I
00:56:39.280 don't get this but I do believe there is
00:56:41.340 always divine some type of divine
00:56:43.040 intervention that takes place and if we
00:56:45.440 listen to our the voices within which
00:56:49.340 these days there's so much external
00:56:52.260 pinging that happens social media 24-hour
00:56:55.500 news on the mainstream media that we're
00:56:58.220 not really going inward listening to our
00:56:59.900 consciousness to our inner thoughts to
00:57:01.760 the inner dialogue that takes place I
00:57:04.060 think this is why like when you're in the
00:57:05.360 shower you have some of your best
00:57:06.540 thoughts and you figure things out it's
00:57:07.980 the only place you don't take your iPhone
00:57:09.360 with you and so you actually have a few
00:57:11.620 moments 10-12 minutes to actually go
00:57:14.480 inward and when you do you realize like
00:57:16.460 oh I'm doing something that's
00:57:17.880 incongruent with my life I'm doing
00:57:19.560 something that I wouldn't be proud of if
00:57:21.020 my kids found out I'm doing something
00:57:23.060 that I know I should do better at but I'm
00:57:25.540 not and I have a gift and I'm not sharing
00:57:27.880 it if there was a God if there's a
00:57:30.380 universal consciousness what would they
00:57:32.280 think of me you know it's like oh shit
00:57:34.880 okay I better do something about it and
00:57:36.680 not enough of us are listening to that
00:57:38.120 voice I was taught early on by my mentor
00:57:40.640 Jim Franco to listen to that inner
00:57:42.540 voice and it was probably one of the
00:57:44.240 greatest gifts I've gotten
00:57:45.340 well it's funny when you said oh shit
00:57:49.000 because I've I've had those words echo in
00:57:51.520 my mind an infinite number of times like
00:57:53.800 oh shit this is what you're trying to
00:57:55.600 tell me the entire time and it's like
00:57:57.940 yeah like 10 years ago I was trying to
00:58:01.060 tell you this and you didn't listen and
00:58:02.800 it got progressively worse until you
00:58:04.920 decided it was too painful and then you
00:58:07.320 actually listen to me and man I've had
00:58:10.120 that thought echo in my mind an
00:58:12.160 infinite number of times I can't even
00:58:13.560 explain it yeah we are we're I like the
00:58:16.840 idea of stillness though yeah yeah I mean
00:58:20.200 there's something in it it's why like
00:58:22.280 when you go on a on a you know what do
00:58:24.840 they say I'm gonna go on a hike for the
00:58:26.300 next five days somewhere where I where I
00:58:28.400 don't have reception and then what
00:58:30.340 happens you come back and you have this
00:58:32.020 look in your eye and people like damn
00:58:33.500 dude you seem like you seem very tapped
00:58:36.080 into who you are you're like yeah I've
00:58:38.080 discovered myself I found myself why do
00:58:40.460 we have to go somewhere where we are not
00:58:42.420 connected to be able to find ourselves I
00:58:45.120 think it's stillness it's going internal
00:58:47.580 or people that go to a three-day yoga
00:58:49.780 retreat where help when they come to the
00:58:51.880 project the first thing we do is we take
00:58:53.340 all their technology away I don't care if
00:58:54.980 it's a whoop on your arm or an iPhone for
00:58:58.220 75 hours you are disconnected and the number
00:59:00.800 one thing we hear from these guys was
00:59:02.800 like man it was so freeing to be
00:59:04.160 disconnected from technology to not know
00:59:06.800 what's happening in the world for those
00:59:08.140 75 hours tell us instructors we don't
00:59:10.580 even wear watches so they can't tell what
00:59:12.140 time it is they can just tell it's
00:59:13.240 daytime and nighttime because they see the
00:59:15.000 outside every now and again outside of
00:59:17.120 that they go you know it was one of the
00:59:19.100 greatest feelings ever to be free and as
00:59:21.240 I was crawling for miles on in that pit
00:59:23.160 to just go internal and talk to self and
00:59:25.780 those are the opportunities like like we
00:59:28.020 go to yoga retreats and pay to go on these
00:59:30.200 like wilderness hikes to be able to find
00:59:32.380 ourselves it just cracks me up when we
00:59:34.160 could do that just by being still for 20
00:59:36.600 to 30 minutes at a time every day I mean
00:59:40.100 I think of the same thing at the about the
00:59:42.020 gym no discount to the business that
00:59:43.980 you've created with fit body boot camp but
00:59:45.740 I'm like we have to go into these climate
00:59:47.580 controlled perfectly symmetrical beautiful
00:59:52.600 that the weights are all balanced place to
00:59:55.760 manufacture something that our ancestors
00:59:58.200 would just do on a daily basis not because
01:00:00.840 they wanted to look good but because they
01:00:03.240 wanted to survive right right exactly funny
01:00:07.480 how they were moving logs and and and
01:00:09.780 boulders and trying to figure out how to
01:00:12.140 make a spear and an axe and all of that
01:00:14.580 kept them alive and fit and functional and
01:00:16.960 but it was for survival today you know we
01:00:19.740 sit on our comfortable couch climate
01:00:21.540 controlled we order our food from a from an
01:00:24.300 app and we get upset when the when we can
01:00:26.740 see our food getting jammed up on the
01:00:28.480 highway because the uber driver or
01:00:30.400 whatever grubhub driver is taking a
01:00:32.420 little longer and we've gotten so soft
01:00:34.820 and comfortable and complacent that now we
01:00:37.040 have to go to an air conditioned gym
01:00:38.640 hire a personal trainer like my industry
01:00:41.020 was created because the world has gotten so
01:00:44.020 lazy and complacent it's unfortunate but
01:00:47.380 that's literally the industry that was
01:00:49.180 created and I'm a part of it
01:00:51.300 yeah I mean my girlfriend and I often
01:00:54.880 laugh about this and she and she does it
01:00:56.560 lovingly but she's like your job is so
01:00:58.480 stupid your job is ridiculous and I'm
01:01:00.600 like I know I know it is but it is like
01:01:04.120 it's the reality of the situation we need
01:01:06.240 to have these conversations we need to
01:01:08.000 talk about these things it's such a weird
01:01:10.360 position to be in and look I'm not
01:01:13.220 discounting anybody who needs this sort of
01:01:15.300 thing I personally need it in my life you
01:01:17.760 need the gym in your life so we're not
01:01:19.500 discounting it it's just an interesting
01:01:21.720 phenomenon is all right this is just
01:01:24.400 where we become or sometimes we're too
01:01:26.680 smart for our own goods and this is where
01:01:28.140 we've come to life but I once had this
01:01:30.480 funny conversation with myself this was
01:01:33.060 2014 true story I was sitting in my car
01:01:36.520 eating a bagel with cream cheese it's
01:01:38.980 embarrassing to tell you this story
01:01:40.100 sitting in my car eating a bagel with
01:01:41.700 cream cheese instead of going to the gym
01:01:43.300 that morning I was so stressed and I'm an
01:01:45.780 emotional eater I was an emotional eater
01:01:47.780 I no longer identify as an emotional
01:01:49.620 eater that's not who I am but sitting in
01:01:51.920 my in my GMC truck eating a bagel with
01:01:54.840 cream cheese listening to Howard Stern
01:01:56.420 and Howard Stern is interviewing this guy
01:01:59.300 named Howard Wasden was who was a SEAL
01:02:02.640 Team 6 sniper back in the Mogadishu days
01:02:06.460 like Black Hawk Down days like he was in
01:02:08.560 that era in the 90s and I'm like oh wow
01:02:11.400 okay wow these guys like do crazy shit and
01:02:13.560 here I am like hand-wringing about going
01:02:15.360 to the gym and I'm stressed out because
01:02:17.320 you know fit body boot camp at the time
01:02:19.300 we were building it it was costing me too
01:02:20.860 much and I didn't know how to build it and
01:02:22.960 it was kind of chaotic and I was like
01:02:25.220 all right man if there was a gun to your
01:02:26.640 head I asked myself a gun to my head not
01:02:28.380 like I'm gonna kill myself but if there
01:02:29.560 was a gun to my head could I figure out
01:02:31.580 the answers to everything and I
01:02:32.920 immediately go yes and so sometimes if
01:02:35.860 we just need to operate like there's a
01:02:37.260 gun to our head because you can go take
01:02:39.100 any guy who's like fat lethargic out of
01:02:41.320 shape and claims that he doesn't have
01:02:42.640 time and say hey man I'm gonna put this
01:02:44.700 gun to your head I want I will pull the
01:02:46.660 trigger in 10 minutes if you don't take
01:02:48.060 this piece of paper and this pen and
01:02:50.080 write down everything you need to do to
01:02:51.780 get lean jacked and fit bro he will this
01:02:55.080 fat lethargic guy who claims who has no
01:02:56.900 time will write down his macros he will
01:03:00.320 write down what exercise he needs to do and
01:03:02.140 he will write down how he will find time
01:03:03.880 because he doesn't want the gun to go
01:03:05.640 bang and sometimes we need to operate in
01:03:08.660 life like there is a gun to our head like
01:03:10.700 that level of urgency because there is no
01:03:12.680 shortage of information there's a
01:03:15.000 shortage of action and agency I think
01:03:19.080 the the challenge correct me if you think
01:03:21.220 I'm wrong is that it doesn't really sting
01:03:25.040 until it's too late for example with my
01:03:27.340 marriage I didn't really know there was a
01:03:29.580 problem until she said I wanted to
01:03:31.020 divorce but if I would have been paying
01:03:33.260 attention and I would have been in tune
01:03:36.100 with all the signals I probably could have
01:03:38.940 caught it earlier and maybe even done it
01:03:40.960 done something about it before it got to
01:03:44.060 that point but we don't do that because
01:03:45.520 it's not painful it's just not painful
01:03:47.120 enough right exactly pain is a great
01:03:50.160 motivator what do they say that the
01:03:51.760 carrot or the stick and then Tony Robbins
01:03:54.000 always says we are more likely to want to
01:03:56.280 avoid the stick than to go towards the
01:03:58.820 carrot and so pain is a great motivator
01:04:01.380 hmm will be I want to be respectful of
01:04:05.560 your time I know you've got an important
01:04:06.820 meeting coming up will you just let the
01:04:08.460 guys know where to connect with you learn
01:04:10.240 more about MDK and other projects you
01:04:12.140 have going on including your book which
01:04:14.080 we didn't talk about it man up which is a
01:04:16.580 great book and that came out several
01:04:17.740 years ago but just let the guys know
01:04:19.820 where to connect with you absolutely best
01:04:21.980 place to connect with me is either on
01:04:23.640 Instagram or YouTube at bedrose coolian
01:04:26.200 and of course they can find my book which
01:04:28.220 has now become a national bestseller on
01:04:29.920 Amazon is called man up and Ryan I just
01:04:32.160 want to thank you for the opportunity man
01:04:33.500 you've been a great friend to me over the
01:04:35.260 years have given me the opportunity to be
01:04:37.360 on your show several times and I'm just
01:04:39.620 forever grateful for our relationship
01:04:41.220 likewise brother love you appreciate you
01:04:44.420 thank you for joining us today means a lot
01:04:46.200 to me thank you
01:04:48.480 all right guys I hope you enjoyed the
01:04:52.580 conversation I hope I asked good
01:04:54.180 questions and I don't doubt that that
01:04:56.320 Bedros gave us great answers to consider
01:04:58.460 and implement in our own lives I would ask
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