Order of Man - March 14, 2023


DEWAYNE NOEL | Timeless Wisdom in Disturbing Times


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 2 minutes

Words per Minute

174.65857

Word Count

10,994

Sentence Count

626

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

In this episode of the Order of Man Podcast and Movement, Ryan Michler sits down with Dwayne Noel, the founder of Dry Creek Wrangler school, to talk about the power of genuineness, building yourself into a person you like, not hate, why the right to be wrong is so powerful and liberating, dealing with insecurities, operating in reality, and other timeless wisdom in disturbing times.


Transcript

00:00:00.220 It's been said that there isn't a whole lot of new information under the sun, just new
00:00:04.300 ways of saying it.
00:00:05.360 Now, I don't know if that's necessarily true, but one thing I know for certain is that my
00:00:09.420 guest today shares some of the most practical and life-transforming messages out there,
00:00:13.940 and he does it in a way that cuts through the noise and nonsense of modern times.
00:00:18.320 His name is Dwayne Noel, and he is the founder of Dry Creek Wrangler School.
00:00:23.060 Today, Dwayne and I talk about the power of genuineness, building yourself into a person
00:00:27.260 you like, not hate, why the right to be wrong is so powerful and liberating, dealing with
00:00:32.920 insecurities, operating in reality, the concept of what he calls cowboy energy and other timeless
00:00:38.920 wisdom in disturbing times.
00:00:40.920 You're a man of action.
00:00:42.360 You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart your own path.
00:00:46.720 When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
00:00:51.120 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong.
00:00:55.680 This is your life.
00:00:57.280 This is who you are.
00:00:58.680 This is who you will become at the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you
00:01:03.580 can call yourself a man.
00:01:05.680 Gentlemen, what is going on today?
00:01:07.080 My name is Ryan Michler.
00:01:08.620 I'm the host and the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement.
00:01:11.660 Welcome here today and welcome back.
00:01:13.860 I have got a very, very good podcast for you lined up today.
00:01:17.280 Somebody I know that you're really going to enjoy, you're going to resonate with, and you're
00:01:21.900 going to be inspired and transformed by the message that he shares.
00:01:25.440 Before I get into the introduction, if you're new, this is a podcast dedicated to helping
00:01:29.760 you become a better man, a more capable man, somebody who can go out and serve his family
00:01:35.720 and his friends and his community members as effectively and efficiently as possible.
00:01:40.680 And we do that by interviewing incredible men, successful men, dissecting what they have
00:01:46.180 to share, learning from them, and applying it in our own lives.
00:01:49.640 And today, again, I've got a good one for you.
00:01:52.120 Just want to also mention very briefly that the wait is over.
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00:02:11.780 All right, guys, let's get into the conversation today.
00:02:14.860 This is a man I recently came across on social media.
00:02:17.560 Uh, and I can tell you, I immediately resonated with his timeless wisdom and short punchy messages
00:02:23.860 that have gone extremely, extremely viral in a very short amount of time.
00:02:28.520 His name is Dwayne Noel.
00:02:30.400 Uh, he has been living what he calls the horse life for 25 years.
00:02:35.300 He's the founder of dry Creek Wrangler school, but what you may recognize him for is what millions
00:02:40.580 of others have now seen.
00:02:41.580 It's his no nonsense, common sense commentary and approach to life.
00:02:46.760 And I think the reason that he's gone viral is in large part to the void of patriarchs
00:02:52.620 in society today.
00:02:53.560 And I, I think you're going to see what I mean.
00:02:55.020 So guys enjoy this special conversation.
00:03:00.100 Wayne, what's going on?
00:03:01.120 It's so great to see you and finally be able to connect with you kind of face to face.
00:03:05.200 I know this is kind of a weird setting, but a little better than just seeing you on the
00:03:08.300 Instagram.
00:03:09.540 Well, thank you.
00:03:10.700 It's good.
00:03:11.260 Good to be here.
00:03:12.040 Appreciate you inviting me and having me on.
00:03:14.880 You said this is the, uh, the first podcast that you've been a guest on.
00:03:19.240 Is that right?
00:03:20.080 It is.
00:03:20.760 Yes, sir.
00:03:21.780 I'm honored.
00:03:23.380 It, uh, I've recorded a few.
00:03:25.480 I just started my own and, uh, and so it's definitely, everything's a learning experience
00:03:32.120 for me from the beginning.
00:03:33.260 So how do you feel about your, uh, your, we'll call it maybe new, newfound notoriety or, or
00:03:41.300 popularity?
00:03:42.020 How, how, how has that, uh, process been?
00:03:44.720 It, it, it doesn't seem real.
00:03:47.420 I just, it doesn't seem, uh, it doesn't seem real.
00:03:52.180 It, uh, it's pretty, it wasn't something I set out to do.
00:03:57.440 It wasn't something I expected and, uh, and now it's still something that's a little hard
00:04:02.540 to process sometimes.
00:04:04.420 What was the, uh, what was the first message?
00:04:06.720 Did you, did you post something and something went viral?
00:04:09.380 I mean, I've watched a lot of your content.
00:04:11.020 I've listened to a lot of your podcasts and your talks and your short videos on Instagram,
00:04:14.860 but was there, was there a catalyst for this, a certain message or video that just went
00:04:20.980 gangbusters?
00:04:21.580 And I started out, um, just, uh, I, I was training horses and, uh, all my kids had left
00:04:31.260 home and, uh, and I have worked in wrangling industry for a lot of years and I started exploring
00:04:40.460 this whole YouTube thing.
00:04:41.780 And I just wanted to, um, make just a few little simple videos on YouTube of just practical
00:04:49.100 for young people wanting to go into wrangling, um, horses and, uh, just, just some practical
00:04:55.740 tips just to help out things.
00:04:57.260 I wish that I had known when I started.
00:04:59.760 And so I wanted to do that.
00:05:01.300 And then I also kind of wanted to leave something for my grandkids when I was gone, they could
00:05:06.300 get on and say, Hey, you know, there's grandpa.
00:05:09.220 And, uh, and my wife and I, we talked when it started and I said, well, you know, if we
00:05:14.660 wind up here in five or six years, if I've got 2000 people.
00:05:18.380 We're going to be really successful.
00:05:20.540 You know, that's wasn't, wasn't expecting anything.
00:05:23.680 And that's how we started out.
00:05:24.980 I mean, that, that's all we look for.
00:05:27.880 And then, uh, and, you know, and they told me now, if you want this thing to do right,
00:05:32.560 you've got to keep content pretty regular, you know, you've got to put content up and,
00:05:38.180 uh, I'm pretty mobile.
00:05:40.540 My lifestyle is pretty mobile.
00:05:42.180 It was more so back then.
00:05:43.920 And, and so there came a point where it's like, I wouldn't where the horses were.
00:05:48.560 And so, well, we need to do something.
00:05:50.380 So, well, let's just, we're making breakfast on the campfire this morning.
00:05:54.360 So let's, let's just video that and talk.
00:05:58.480 And that's still to this day.
00:06:00.000 That's one of my, that's one of my most watched videos.
00:06:03.780 It just, we, I just wasn't expecting that either.
00:06:08.360 And then we, and we got to a point, somebody said, my buddy, my wife and my best friend,
00:06:15.160 they kept saying, man, you need to do a cigar video.
00:06:17.860 And I said, nobody wants to watch me do a cigar video.
00:06:21.240 And so I didn't do it for weeks, but finally one day I was like, well, I need to put something
00:06:25.340 up.
00:06:25.920 And so I did it and it took off.
00:06:28.020 And, uh, and so that kind of built things up a little bit.
00:06:33.760 And then one day I just, uh, I don't remember which video it was.
00:06:38.640 Um, I think, I think it was, uh, I might've been like, just get off the interstate or where
00:06:46.940 I had come back from the mountains with my boys and, and talked about how it just kind
00:06:50.820 of everything kind of balanced body, soul, and spirit up there.
00:06:53.560 One of those right in there, it just kind of exploded.
00:06:57.540 And, uh, so I got, you know, folks started writing in and asking questions and, and then
00:07:02.880 I answered a couple of them and, and then just went a whole different direction.
00:07:07.660 It's, it's really interesting to see.
00:07:10.080 And with all due respect, a lot of the things that you share, I think, I think most people
00:07:15.320 would place them in the, especially the people that listen to this podcast and listen to you
00:07:19.820 would place your wisdom and timeless wisdom in the common sense category.
00:07:24.680 And yet there's, there's a reason that it resonates with people there.
00:07:30.140 There's something that you're either saying it or the way that you're saying it or the
00:07:33.660 way that you're presenting it, that makes it very compelling to, I imagine most of your
00:07:39.840 audiences, young men, I would imagine.
00:07:42.480 And, and I'm curious as to, to know why you think that is why a message that frankly has
00:07:49.720 been shared, but why is it the way you're saying it, what you're saying is resonating
00:07:53.760 with so many people, man?
00:07:56.280 I don't know.
00:07:56.980 Um, I, I have seven children and three of them are, I have three grown sons and four daughters
00:08:03.820 and I'm, um, I'm a seventh generation of my family born in raised there in Kentucky, just
00:08:13.580 farmers in the hills of Kentucky.
00:08:16.220 And I, I guess there's just a S a simplicity and a common sense from the background.
00:08:23.220 You know, there's not a lot of fluff, not a lot of, it's a good question.
00:08:28.360 I don't, I don't know.
00:08:30.180 I, I, I guess it's just the way it, the way one of the things I believe very strongly and
00:08:36.620 I, and I tell folks is your message is important, but the heart behind the message and the way
00:08:43.200 you deliver that message, uh, is just as important.
00:08:48.000 And, uh, I, you know, I've always had a heart for young people, especially young men.
00:08:54.080 And my wife and I over many years have taken, you know, young men that are where we're at
00:08:59.300 and they kind of lost their way.
00:09:00.860 It's that, well, I mean, I already got seven kids, one more isn't going to hurt, you know,
00:09:04.680 come on over and we'll, we'll fix you a pallet and you can stay here.
00:09:09.080 Do you get on your feet?
00:09:10.000 You know, we've always had a heart for that.
00:09:11.460 So, you know, maybe folks can tell that, you know, I actually do care.
00:09:16.560 And there's a lot of people out there that they just, they just want to know that somebody
00:09:21.680 actually cares, you know, I'm not, I'm not selling books to make money and, and I didn't
00:09:27.800 set out to do this to, to get a name.
00:09:30.020 I just, you know, I thought there's some young people out there that just need a little bit
00:09:35.040 of direction.
00:09:35.620 And I just kind of had a heart to do it, you know, from, from my perspective, if I can share
00:09:42.020 what I think, you know, there, there's a lot of genuineness in the way that you approach
00:09:46.600 what it is you're saying.
00:09:47.780 I think that's what you're talking about.
00:09:49.400 People see that that is genuine.
00:09:51.660 I also think that you have somewhat of a patriarchal presence about you, which I think is really
00:10:00.320 lacking in society today, especially for young men.
00:10:03.060 When you consider rates of divorce and you consider how many young men don't have either
00:10:07.280 permanent father figures in the home or even a father figure type role model.
00:10:11.620 And they're craving that they know deep down in every fiber of their DNA that they need a
00:10:17.760 father to show them the way and they've never had it.
00:10:20.720 I mean, I can't tell you how often I hear from guys who are, you know, 30, 40, even 50
00:10:25.060 years old who are saying to me, Hey man, my dad was never around.
00:10:29.340 I never learned any of this stuff.
00:10:30.880 And I, I'm a man by age, but I don't really feel like a man deep down in my soul because
00:10:36.920 nobody ever bestowed that upon him.
00:10:39.560 I agree.
00:10:40.380 I get the same thing.
00:10:41.400 I get the same feedback all the time.
00:10:44.920 Um, you know, I get a lot of people on the channel and it's like, Hey, there's it's uncle
00:10:50.900 Dwayne, man, he's stuff that we never got from family and, and, uh, just, and, and some,
00:10:58.240 you know, some, I think some young men, uh, what they did get, maybe they got in a very
00:11:05.640 judgmental, harsh manner.
00:11:09.300 And, uh, you know, I mean, you and I, we, we both, we were kids at one time and, uh,
00:11:17.000 you know, somebody can tell you, Hey, you know, that's a, you're going down a bad road,
00:11:22.640 but you, you starting to feel your oats, you know, and you're starting to feel like a man,
00:11:27.320 you wanting to find your way and spread your wings.
00:11:29.240 And, and sometimes if they, if they tell you good information, but they tell you in a very
00:11:35.880 combative way or not combative, but maybe challenging way, uh, we won't listen.
00:11:43.680 And, uh, and I, and I learned that when my boys were growing up, when my kids, my daughters,
00:11:49.820 my boys were growing up, I wasn't near as laid back and easy going as I am now.
00:11:57.020 I was, you, you're right.
00:11:59.220 Very patriarchal is the right word come from a very patriarchal family.
00:12:03.020 And, uh, you just, you didn't question your dad or your granddad.
00:12:07.360 And, uh, and I was pretty, um, strict and disciplinarian, you know, and so, and there's
00:12:14.080 things, my boys and I, we, we have a good relationship today, but there's still things
00:12:18.380 that we work on because of the things I taught them when they were growing up.
00:12:22.780 Uh, I didn't teach them in a way that, um, was easy for them to, it wasn't always palpable,
00:12:32.360 uh, palatable, you know, um, it wasn't always because they've got the same, they've got the
00:12:39.460 same redneck cowboy blood that I do.
00:12:42.620 Yeah.
00:12:43.240 Um, and, uh, so I, you know, I came at them the same way that my dad came at me or his dad
00:12:50.960 came at him and they responded the same way, you know?
00:12:54.540 Um, and, uh, so when I hit 50, I'm like, you know, it might be time to not, not recalibrate
00:13:04.580 the message, but recalibrate the manner in which I'm delivering the message.
00:13:10.160 And, uh, and that, that has helped a lot.
00:13:14.400 Was there, was there a, uh, a catalyst for that?
00:13:16.920 Was there a moment that you felt like, you know, maybe I, maybe I took something too far
00:13:22.280 and they responded one way and that triggered that for you.
00:13:25.540 Is it just a level of, of maturity at that point?
00:13:29.320 What, what, what caused that change in you?
00:13:31.260 Cause I, cause I feel the same way.
00:13:33.140 My kids are younger.
00:13:34.160 My oldest is 14.
00:13:35.260 My youngest is six.
00:13:36.160 I have four, three boys and a girl.
00:13:38.540 And now, you know, I'm 41 years old.
00:13:41.540 And even now I'm realizing, oh, you know, maybe there's a better way to do this.
00:13:46.600 I think what I'm sharing is good.
00:13:47.860 I think it comes from the right place, but maybe there's a better way for me to lead my children.
00:13:52.280 Um, there were a number of, I got to the point in life in that particular period, there were
00:14:00.760 a number of things, um, and I won't go into them here, but it just, everything came to a
00:14:06.280 head all at once.
00:14:08.200 And it was a culmination of a lot of years of a lot of anger, a lot of combativeness, um,
00:14:16.700 a lot of frustration.
00:14:18.540 And I got to the point one day that I'm like, you know what?
00:14:23.660 I don't like me.
00:14:25.400 I just don't like me.
00:14:27.060 I wouldn't buy me a cup of coffee.
00:14:28.900 You know, I'm, I'm a, I'm the kind of guy and, and then health issues, um, you know,
00:14:36.380 that kind of helped bring it to a head.
00:14:37.960 My blood pressure was through the roof and, uh, I lay in bed one night next to my wife.
00:14:43.420 She was sleeping and my heart started, um, going kind of crazy.
00:14:50.120 And there was a, you know, and the whole left arm and everything.
00:14:54.400 And I said, well, it looks like, it looks like it's all, it looks like it's all coming
00:14:59.140 to a head now.
00:15:00.320 And, uh, and I, and I said, I'm not going to wake her up.
00:15:03.540 I just, this is, this is going to put an end to all of the life of fight and anger and
00:15:10.040 frustration.
00:15:10.660 And, and, uh, so I'm just going to lay here and let it go.
00:15:14.840 And I'm just tired of fighting.
00:15:16.380 I'm tired of fighting the world.
00:15:17.700 I'm tired of fighting myself.
00:15:19.000 I'm tired of fighting my anger.
00:15:20.320 I'm tired of fighting everything.
00:15:22.080 And I woke up the next morning and I was still here.
00:15:25.400 And, uh, so I went to the doctor, I don't know, a couple of days later and they did EKGs
00:15:30.100 and he come back and said, yeah, there was a, there was a heart incident.
00:15:34.640 And, uh, and that was kind of just the final thing that made me say, I can't, I mean, at
00:15:42.520 50, I can't live like this the rest of my life.
00:15:45.080 And, and, uh, the problem is not the world around me.
00:15:51.040 The problem is inside everywhere I go in the world.
00:15:55.080 Uh, I have the same problem.
00:15:56.500 And so the only thing that's consistent everywhere I go is I'm there.
00:16:00.980 So I had to start looking at me and saying, look, I need to change who I am because not
00:16:08.620 only can I not continue to stay alive for another 20 years living like I have for the
00:16:14.360 last 50 and it wasn't, you know, wasn't drugs and alcohol and stuff like that.
00:16:19.160 It was just stress and frustration and anger and high blood pressure and just attacking
00:16:25.960 the world, you know, I'm trying to get something done.
00:16:29.580 And I said, I can't do this.
00:16:31.120 So I need to start making some changes and I, I need to start changing me.
00:16:35.480 Um, and when I, when I found, when I found that mellow spot that I didn't even know was
00:16:44.920 there inside of me, um, I, uh, it is, there's been times my wife is, it, it worried her to
00:16:53.600 start with.
00:16:54.020 She's like, are you okay?
00:16:55.660 You know, are you all right?
00:16:57.020 And I'm like, man, I'm better than I have been in forever.
00:17:01.000 It's like, I've got a mellow spot I found and I'm just enjoying it and, uh, and protecting
00:17:07.900 it jealously.
00:17:10.320 And, uh, and so, you know, and that, that began, that began the journey right there, I
00:17:15.240 guess.
00:17:16.880 You, uh, you did either a podcast or a video that I watched, uh, several days ago and you
00:17:22.640 were talking about expectations.
00:17:25.480 And one of the things that I hear you talking about now, or at least I'm interpreting it this
00:17:29.280 way and, and maybe it's through my own lens.
00:17:31.100 Cause this is how I feel is that I've really had to learn to let things go that I would
00:17:35.920 cling onto expectations of others, expectations about the way the world, you know, quote should
00:17:41.680 be.
00:17:42.800 And as I begin to let go of the expectations, I let go of the standards for other people.
00:17:48.420 I let go of the need to control others.
00:17:50.460 I find that mellow spot that you talk about as well.
00:17:55.120 Is that, was that part of your journey or how did you get to this point where you begin
00:18:00.920 to relax and let things go and not be so angry and bitter and contentious at the world and
00:18:06.840 everything around you?
00:18:08.380 I came to, I, one of the, I don't know, there was a series of things.
00:18:12.140 I came to the point that I'm like, you know what?
00:18:14.900 I have the right.
00:18:17.300 Now, some folks are probably not going to understand this.
00:18:20.020 I have the right to be wrong.
00:18:22.460 I mean, as a human, as a man living in this crazy society, raising kids, being a husband
00:18:32.460 and, and there is no, it's just not a perfect world.
00:18:36.940 And so we, we make decisions, you know, we try to make the best decisions that we can.
00:18:41.760 Um, but we don't always make the right decisions.
00:18:47.600 And, and so I came to the point, I'm like, you know what?
00:18:50.960 I'm just, I'm tired of letting others judgment of my wrong decisions, break me down.
00:18:58.260 I have the right to be wrong sometimes, you know, that's, that's part of being human.
00:19:03.600 Well, the natural follow-up to that is then you understand if you have any humility, if
00:19:11.420 you have any honesty at all, then if I demand that they let me have the right to be wrong
00:19:19.440 sometimes, then I have to be willing to let them have the right to be wrong sometimes too.
00:19:26.000 You know, if, if I, if I am not going to let people hammer on me when I make a wrong decision,
00:19:33.840 then I can't turn around and get frustrated and get angry and hammer on everybody around me.
00:19:41.020 If they're not making the decisions that I think they should.
00:19:44.340 And, uh, and there's a lot of freedom in that, you know, the old, the old saying, it's not my
00:19:49.900 rodeo, not my bull, you know, not my circus, not my monkeys.
00:19:53.600 And that's their life and it's their problem and it's their decisions.
00:19:58.720 And, uh, you know, if they come to me for advice and they want some help, I'm happy to
00:20:02.700 help.
00:20:03.020 But other than that, you know, all I want is to be left alone.
00:20:07.500 And so then, then, uh, I have to let them feel the same way and find their own way through.
00:20:14.060 You know, I don't know if that answers, but that, that was a big part of it.
00:20:19.780 That was a big part of my finding that spot.
00:20:24.140 It's like, look, I don't have to please everybody around me and everybody around me doesn't have
00:20:30.580 to please me.
00:20:33.080 And, uh, and I think if, if more of us can get to that point that I, I don't have to expect
00:20:41.620 myself to please you and nor do I have to expect you to please me.
00:20:46.720 There's a lot of freedom in that.
00:20:50.020 There's a lot of peace in that.
00:20:52.880 Yeah, no doubt.
00:20:53.980 When you talk about how you raised your kids, I'm sure that you got better at it over time
00:21:02.360 about figuring out, you know, how to, how to communicate effectively with your children,
00:21:06.560 right?
00:21:06.740 The first one, your oldest is a son.
00:21:09.420 Is that right?
00:21:09.860 Yes, I have, I have two sons and then I had my wife and I had four daughters and then
00:21:16.660 we had another son.
00:21:18.280 Oh, wow.
00:21:18.600 Okay.
00:21:19.040 Yeah.
00:21:20.120 So did, so they probably have seen your oldest has probably seen a different side of you than
00:21:26.720 your youngest, especially growing up or, or what's that timeline look like?
00:21:31.580 And then the follow-up question to that is, do your children now, any of them see them,
00:21:38.040 see, see where you're at now and what you're sharing and, and have a hard time reconciling
00:21:43.380 what they may have sought you as a father versus now this, this more timeless wisdom approach
00:21:48.660 that we're talking about now?
00:21:49.920 Oh, definitely.
00:21:51.780 Uh, there definitely is out of the seven, three of them, let's see, three of them may watch
00:22:02.320 the, the channel and listen, maybe three of them.
00:22:06.300 Okay.
00:22:06.740 You know, um, and, uh, and then the others, they're, they're just, and, and I understand
00:22:13.960 it, you know, I understand a hundred percent and I support it.
00:22:17.180 And they're just sitting back and watching and, and there's not, there's not a, there's
00:22:22.700 not a breach in our relationship.
00:22:24.740 I mean, it's like, there's not a, I don't have any, my children that are not speaking
00:22:29.200 to me.
00:22:29.520 It's nothing like that.
00:22:30.720 Got it.
00:22:31.340 Um, but there is a, there is a caution because I had a very, um, I had a very quick temper,
00:22:40.580 uh, when the kids were growing up and I was also very authoritative.
00:22:46.560 And, uh, but I look back on it and 99% of it was insecurity.
00:22:52.920 I had no idea what I was doing.
00:22:55.620 I had no idea how to raise kids and it was insecurity and it was fear.
00:23:00.360 I looked around at all of my contemporaries, my, and I saw all the kids that went bad.
00:23:11.640 And I grew up in a, in a very conservative and I'm, I'm not so much in that now, but I
00:23:17.400 grew up in a, in a very, very conservative, uh, deeply, uh, religious background.
00:23:24.280 Um, and, uh, and I saw so many, you know, the, the whole thing about preachers, kids,
00:23:31.640 you know, missionaries, kids, and preachers, kids.
00:23:34.400 And I saw so many of them go bad, you know, crash and burn.
00:23:39.340 And, uh, and I was terrified of losing even one child.
00:23:44.580 I'm not going to lose a child.
00:23:47.060 So, you know, I, I tell folks, and this isn't original, I don't know where I got it, but
00:23:51.640 raising children is like holding a wet bar.
00:23:55.040 So, um, if you squeeze it, if you grip it too tight, it's going to slip out of your hands.
00:24:00.940 And if you don't hold it tight enough, it's going to slip out of your hands.
00:24:04.400 And, but I was afraid of losing my children.
00:24:06.920 So I was very, very protective and not just protecting them from the world, but protecting
00:24:13.940 them from themselves, you know, so, which made me very strict.
00:24:19.160 And, uh, I was just, I was, I was a difficult, I guess I was, I was a difficult father, you
00:24:27.340 know, to be, to be raised by, uh, it, it has its, I mean, it has its payoff.
00:24:34.000 I wasn't like physically abusive or anything like that.
00:24:37.060 Just, I wasn't a very calming man to be around, but my oldest son, uh, is a firefighter.
00:24:43.940 In Idaho.
00:24:45.580 My second son is a, is a, uh, a hunting guide and a packer in Idaho.
00:24:50.000 My, the third child, my daughter is, is a, a mother of three and happily married.
00:24:57.060 And my next daughter is, uh, she's very grounded.
00:25:01.060 She's coming out to Wyoming to the school this summer to cook for us.
00:25:04.780 She's, uh, she's an excellent cook.
00:25:07.580 And, uh, my next daughter is, is, uh, she works in a bank and she's going out with a,
00:25:15.240 with a very excellent young man right now.
00:25:17.760 And they're planning their future.
00:25:19.260 Uh, my next daughter is happily married and she has a baby.
00:25:22.360 Uh, and then my youngest, my son, he's, he's cowboying and doing well.
00:25:27.220 I just texted with him yesterday in Texas.
00:25:29.480 And so, you know, they all turned out well, I didn't, I didn't lose any of them, you know,
00:25:34.840 and I, there's not a lot of people that I think that can say that they raised seven children
00:25:42.400 in this society, in this day and age and didn't lose any.
00:25:46.720 So, you know, there are regrets, but there's also positives about it.
00:25:51.940 Um, and, uh, so, but anyhow, I'm sorry to, to return to your question.
00:25:59.120 They, they are, there is some, some of them are still waiting to reconcile what they see
00:26:07.640 now with what they were raised with and no, my, my youngest didn't have it any easier
00:26:14.760 than my oldest did.
00:26:16.100 I'm a slow learner.
00:26:17.320 I'm, I'm that three-legged dog I talked about.
00:26:19.760 I, um, no, I think they all had it equally strict.
00:26:23.960 Yeah, no, I think that's valuable because most of the men listening know that they want to
00:26:30.860 change their life in some way.
00:26:32.280 And I appreciate you saying that it starts with us.
00:26:34.940 It starts with us individually.
00:26:35.960 If you, if we look around and everything around us is crappy, well, we're the, we're the common
00:26:40.100 denominator in that, right?
00:26:41.900 So I appreciate you bringing that up.
00:26:43.180 And I think most of the guys that, that, that too long and follow and are banded with us in
00:26:46.840 some way want to change.
00:26:49.020 One of the hardest things is realizing that even though you have the heart to change, not
00:26:55.900 everybody's going to buy into it.
00:26:57.860 And even those that buy into it are going to come along the path with a lot of trepidation,
00:27:03.380 very, very wary of whether or not this is lasting change.
00:27:08.800 And unfortunately, in a lot of ways, we just don't have control over whether or not somebody
00:27:13.540 acknowledges our desire to change.
00:27:15.800 And even if it does, it might take years, if not decades to reconcile the two.
00:27:21.200 Well, Ryan, you know what the difference is for me right now?
00:27:24.300 Well, I like me, I like me, I would buy me a cup of coffee.
00:27:31.340 I would sit down and have a cigar with me.
00:27:34.260 Uh, and it wasn't like that before.
00:27:36.460 And you know, if a man gets to the point where he's like, I'm not the best man.
00:27:41.740 Um, but I'm a good man and those who can't see it, it's okay.
00:27:51.260 Uh, I'm doing what I'm doing because that this is who I want to be.
00:27:55.360 And this is who I need to be.
00:27:57.220 And often that's enough.
00:27:59.280 We, you, we have to get to the point where we like us.
00:28:05.280 And I don't mean that in a narcissistic, arrogant way, but I mean, you know, we, we, we look
00:28:12.040 at a, a picture, an idea of what a good man is or should be.
00:28:21.440 And then we looked and see if, if we're in that prism, if we're in that parameter and
00:28:25.980 we're like, you know what?
00:28:28.440 I'm, I've got issues.
00:28:31.560 Everybody does.
00:28:32.500 We're all human.
00:28:33.420 None of us walk on water, you know?
00:28:35.640 Um, but all in all, by and large, I think I'm a pretty good feller and I can sit down
00:28:41.260 and have a cup of coffee.
00:28:43.360 Like I said, have a cigar, have a pipe in peace and, and be happy with myself.
00:28:49.120 And if I can do that, uh, then if somebody comes along and they're not happy with me,
00:28:54.340 um, it doesn't carry as much weight.
00:28:58.240 What are some things that you did in your life as you made this transition from somebody
00:29:02.520 who doesn't like yourself to becoming somebody who does like, and would have a cigar with
00:29:06.600 what are some, some things that you did in order to make yourself feel more confident
00:29:14.540 in who you are?
00:29:15.980 And like, as you said, a pretty good fella.
00:29:18.660 My biggest problem was a lack of peace, a lack of calmness.
00:29:23.420 And so, and, and I don't know if this goes fully a hundred percent to your question,
00:29:29.640 but I, I got to the point.
00:29:32.740 It's like, what is it that I don't like about myself?
00:29:37.300 All right.
00:29:38.040 That was at the beginning.
00:29:38.960 What is it?
00:29:39.420 I don't like, well, I don't like that.
00:29:41.460 I'm so angry and so combative all the time.
00:29:45.380 And a lot of my problems at that time stemmed from that.
00:29:50.020 And so, well, then that's what I need to change.
00:29:52.960 So how do we change that?
00:29:54.880 Well, I get things out of my life that make me angry and combative that disturb my peace.
00:30:00.260 That's what I say.
00:30:01.080 When we start school, like the first, we have the first orientation for the week and I sit
00:30:06.640 down and we have, you know, rules.
00:30:08.500 And I say, look, rule number one this week, guys.
00:30:10.940 And if you follow rule number one, uh, everything else will fall into place.
00:30:15.360 Rule number one is do not disturb Dwayne's calm.
00:30:19.560 And, uh, you know, and then we go from there.
00:30:21.700 So anybody, anything in my life or anybody in my life that was just constantly
00:30:28.820 ginning me up and disturbing my calm, I got rid of it.
00:30:33.820 Uh, and that included family.
00:30:35.580 And, uh, I just, I walked away, you know, people that I absolutely could not satisfy or
00:30:44.460 could not please.
00:30:46.060 Uh, I just closed the door on them.
00:30:48.260 Just, just walked away, you know, and the things in life and, and my wife has been extremely
00:30:54.540 supportive and, uh, she'll, uh, cause it, you know, it's not one big thing.
00:30:59.800 Life is made up of a kajillion little tiny things.
00:31:03.500 And so we'll, I'll take her to town.
00:31:05.820 We, and by the way, she and I, our marriage is, is, uh, man, it's a thousand times better
00:31:12.320 than it's ever been.
00:31:13.200 Um, but we'll go to town, you know, to run errands and do stuff.
00:31:19.040 And, uh, we'll go to Walmart to pick stuff up and she'll, you know, she'll tell me, she's
00:31:26.020 like, look, why don't you just sit here in the truck in the parking lot, have a cigar
00:31:30.380 and I'll go into Walmart, you know, because Walmart disturbs me.
00:31:38.200 It is a disturbing place.
00:31:40.260 It is a disturbing place.
00:31:42.540 And, uh, so, I mean, just little tiny things like that is like, no, just, just don't, you
00:31:47.240 know, that, that just, just the, what, what is it in life that keeps you ginned up?
00:31:52.820 That just keeps you fired up.
00:31:54.340 That keeps you angry.
00:31:55.260 And how much of that can you just get rid of?
00:31:57.320 And, uh, you know, some of it may be life circumstances.
00:32:02.620 Some of it may be people, uh, some of it may be dietary.
00:32:08.760 Um, and, uh, and it's a combination of all of it, but the biggest, I would say overall,
00:32:17.160 the biggest changes I made was to, to identify what it was that, um, that kept me.
00:32:27.320 Kept me in a state of unlikableness, if you will, and get rid of it.
00:32:32.740 Yeah.
00:32:33.800 Yeah.
00:32:34.480 Yeah.
00:32:34.880 That's powerful.
00:32:35.540 I don't think we examine that all too often.
00:32:37.400 You know, we, we know that there's things that are unhealthy or, or, or negative.
00:32:41.460 You know, it's interesting about that though.
00:32:43.260 We, we, we actually keep those things in our lives because there's some sort of perceived
00:32:47.220 value from those things.
00:32:48.440 Like we would absolutely immediately get rid of them.
00:32:52.640 If there wasn't something we perceived to be gaining by those relationships or those
00:32:57.160 behaviors or those substances.
00:32:59.340 So there is something that we get from it.
00:33:02.080 Like what?
00:33:02.840 Give me an example.
00:33:04.180 Uh, alcohol would be a great example.
00:33:06.540 You know, many men I've, I've had my own struggles with alcohol and I've been verbal and vocal
00:33:10.160 about that.
00:33:10.780 Uh, where I know that's not good for me.
00:33:13.360 I know what kind of person I've become.
00:33:15.020 I know I don't like that person.
00:33:16.480 I know I'm not productive and yet it's a pretty good little escape mechanism, at least temporarily.
00:33:22.380 And so there's a benefit to that substance.
00:33:24.700 Although I know how destructive it is for me.
00:33:28.260 Right.
00:33:28.700 Right.
00:33:29.760 And there's that.
00:33:31.480 And, and, uh, there's also like people in our life and, uh, it's like it, how will the
00:33:39.980 rest of my family look at me?
00:33:43.440 If I cut this family member off, if I, you know, how is that going to affect my standing
00:33:51.920 with other members of the family?
00:33:54.040 Um, and, uh, you know, if I, if I just cut somebody from my phone, you know, one of my
00:34:03.360 friends, uh, was someone who was a friend or I considered a friend or they considered a
00:34:08.460 friend, considered to be friend, but it was just negative all the time.
00:34:13.220 Couldn't, couldn't ever match up.
00:34:14.800 Couldn't ever.
00:34:15.680 And it just kept me in a perpetual state of, uh, frustration and, and anxiety.
00:34:23.260 What's going to be the, what is going to be the effect on my relationship with others
00:34:30.620 in that circle?
00:34:31.620 If I just cut them out.
00:34:33.660 Right.
00:34:34.060 And so that makes it, that makes it hard.
00:34:36.980 Um, but it's like everything else in life.
00:34:40.060 You have to, uh, you have to count the cost.
00:34:44.060 Yeah.
00:34:44.900 You know, is, is what is what you're paying worth what you're getting?
00:34:50.200 Uh, and that sounds, that sounds kind of mercenary.
00:34:53.840 Um, but it's just survival, you know, uh, if it is what this relationship costing me,
00:35:01.500 is it worth, you know, and sometimes we go out of our way and we sacrifice in a relationship
00:35:08.360 to help somebody else, you know, who needs help, who wants help, who is accepting and,
00:35:14.900 and it's all costs on our side and that's okay.
00:35:18.940 But it's the people that we're paying to help who are not trying to help themselves, who
00:35:25.140 are giving no return to us or to themselves.
00:35:28.080 And it's just not worth the price.
00:35:29.780 It's not worth the cost.
00:35:31.660 Um, I can't, we, we have to, and there's a balance, but we got to come to the place.
00:35:38.280 It's like, I can't live your life for you.
00:35:39.860 And I can't let you destroy my life because you refuse to live your life.
00:35:45.620 Um, you know, and so it's a price.
00:35:48.940 There's a, there's a cost.
00:35:51.140 All right, man, I'm just going to take a pause from the conversation.
00:35:53.700 Very briefly.
00:35:54.340 We'll get right back to it.
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00:37:08.060 Let's get back to it with Dwayne.
00:37:10.100 Yeah.
00:37:10.540 I think that costs that cost analysis for, for lack of a better term is important.
00:37:14.340 You know, as you were saying that I was thinking about what somebody else might gain from
00:37:18.300 maintaining a toxic or negative relationship.
00:37:21.320 And it might be that they pride themselves on being helpful or charitable.
00:37:25.340 Like you mentioned, uh, it might be that they pride themselves on being, you know,
00:37:28.900 strong and tough and be able to work through these things.
00:37:31.260 And there's another one that I think is a real big issue, which there's something to
00:37:35.400 be said for it is they pride themselves on being loyal.
00:37:38.640 And so they'll, they'll be loyal to a classmate from high school.
00:37:44.060 They, they had a relationship with 20 years ago at the expense of everybody's wellbeing,
00:37:48.980 because they place loyalty above all of these other benefits of maybe not continuing that
00:37:54.680 relationship.
00:37:57.000 Well, I agree.
00:37:58.600 Um, and I think where people misunderstand and where they go wrong is loyalty is the
00:38:05.300 way I look at it.
00:38:06.340 And, and, you know, there may be some folks listening to this that they may have to chew
00:38:10.620 on this and contemplate this for a little bit, cause it's a different way of coming at
00:38:14.100 it.
00:38:15.080 Um, but loyalty is, it's a contract.
00:38:18.360 It's a two way street.
00:38:20.440 Loyalty is not a one way street.
00:38:23.600 Um, there are those who don't, who will not see it that way and that's okay.
00:38:27.960 Um, but if I am loyal to, um, to a person and, and that person is not equally loyal to me,
00:38:40.360 uh, then it's not, it's not loyalty.
00:38:45.260 Now somebody will fall.
00:38:47.520 I mean, you know, we've all had friends who've crashed and burned, who've hit a wall,
00:38:51.960 you know, and, uh, and there's loyalty during hard times.
00:38:56.360 I'm not saying that, but you talk about the friend from high school or something who's never
00:39:03.140 returned, never returned that regard.
00:39:07.960 Never returned that loyalty.
00:39:11.140 Then what are we being loyal to?
00:39:14.160 There's loyalty, but what are we actually being loyal to?
00:39:18.600 We're not being loyal to, to a friendship because a friendship takes two.
00:39:22.400 And if they've never returned their side of things, then there was never a friendship to
00:39:26.980 start with.
00:39:27.480 So you're being loyal to something that never actually existed.
00:39:31.320 Interesting.
00:39:31.840 Yeah.
00:39:33.000 You're almost talking about the relationship is this separate entity that you're being
00:39:37.840 loyal to like a relationship or, or the agreement, even if it's not clearly stated, the agreement
00:39:44.380 is that there's this friendship, there's you as a person.
00:39:47.220 And then there's this friendship and we need to be loyal to the relationship.
00:39:50.020 But if you quote unquote, breach that contract, so to speak, like then I'm being loyal to
00:39:57.180 something that isn't actually real.
00:39:59.380 That isn't, that isn't something I need to pledge my allegiance to.
00:40:03.200 Being loyal to a concept, you know, it's, it's like horses, you know, people will go out and
00:40:07.420 buy, they'll buy a horse cause they like the idea of a horse.
00:40:10.860 Um, you know, they grew up with posters on the wall and, and, uh, you know, and they'll,
00:40:17.840 they like the idea of a horse, but when they get a horse, uh, and they have to go out there
00:40:24.220 and clean the stalls every day and they have to feed the horse and they got to bust the
00:40:28.040 ice and the water trough in the wintertime and they got to pay for all the tack and pay
00:40:32.440 for the vet bill and pay for the farrier.
00:40:34.840 And, and then they go riding and the riding isn't like they thought it was going to be.
00:40:38.960 Um, they get out of horses because they liked the idea of horses.
00:40:45.920 They liked the dream of horses more than they liked the reality of horses and, uh, and the
00:40:54.540 price that it costs, um, to have a horse.
00:40:58.220 So the idea of a horse was much more appealing than the reality of a horse.
00:41:04.240 Uh, and I think a lot of relationships are like that.
00:41:07.240 Um, the idea of the relationships, what we wish that relationship was is a lot more appealing
00:41:13.980 than the reality of what the relationship is, uh, friendships and such.
00:41:18.980 And so when we stay loyal, when there's nothing there, we're staying loyal to what we wish the
00:41:24.560 relationship actually was.
00:41:26.200 We're staying loyal to the, um, um, the idea of the friendship as opposed to the reality of
00:41:37.080 the friendship that's not there.
00:41:39.600 And, and all that does, all that does is tear us up inside, um, and takes pieces away from
00:41:47.240 us that we could give to somebody else who was, who is a value and who values us.
00:41:52.380 Yeah, that's a, that's an interesting point.
00:41:54.940 I watched one of your videos and you were talking about this.
00:41:57.360 This was interesting.
00:41:58.060 Speaking of relationships, you were talking about how we want these relationships so bad.
00:42:02.480 And like you're saying now, the idea of the relationship that we make up this thing that
00:42:07.820 we want in our minds, and then we'll take a person, whether that's really who they are
00:42:13.020 or not, and we'll try to cram them into this, into this mold or into this picture that we've
00:42:19.020 created.
00:42:19.360 And then we'll try to justify and make up all these stories about why that person is what
00:42:24.980 we thought we desired when the reality paints an entirely different story.
00:42:29.220 Right, exactly.
00:42:30.780 Um, and you know, I'm in the point now, and this is extremely liberating.
00:42:35.920 I mean, I'll be, well, I don't know, how old will I be in April?
00:42:40.960 I think I'll be 56.
00:42:43.360 Um, I've lived a very unusual, very full, very full life.
00:42:49.420 So my views on friendship now, uh, are it, you know, someone comes along a possible new
00:42:57.600 friend.
00:42:57.880 It's like, I've lived 56 years without this person.
00:43:01.760 I don't need them.
00:43:03.980 You know, they, they did not get me where I am now.
00:43:07.300 Now, if they want to be friends, if they want, you know, even the Bible says, uh, a man that
00:43:13.180 hath friends must show himself friendly.
00:43:15.560 And if a man wants to be a friend, he's going to have to behave as a friend.
00:43:20.920 I don't have friends because I need friends.
00:43:24.820 And I don't need, I don't need someone's name in my contacts in my phone so that I can say,
00:43:35.240 Hey, I have that friend.
00:43:36.860 I don't, I don't need it.
00:43:38.340 If they're not going to behave as a friend, uh, then it's easy to just walk away.
00:43:44.180 I, I have gotten past the idea of friendship being bigger than the reality of friendship.
00:43:51.980 And, uh, there is a friend that's taken closer than a brother.
00:43:55.680 And, uh, if, if a friend isn't going to be at that level, then all they're going to do
00:43:59.980 is cost me.
00:44:01.060 And I don't mean cost me, you know, financially or anything, but they're just, they're going
00:44:05.520 to cost me my peace.
00:44:06.680 And, uh, they're going to cost me my, my calmness and, and the place where I am now.
00:44:13.520 And it's just not, it's a contract and they got to pay their side.
00:44:17.740 They can't expect me to pay everything.
00:44:20.460 Yeah.
00:44:20.760 Yeah.
00:44:21.260 Well, you, one of the things you've alluded to the school a couple of times now is, can
00:44:25.900 you talk to me about what, what the school is that is that for specifically horses and
00:44:31.760 horse wrangling, or is that, is that something else?
00:44:34.180 What is the school you're referring to?
00:44:35.540 It's a, so it's dry Creek wrangler school.
00:44:38.800 Um, so the school is classes are a week long and we provide all the housing and, uh, and
00:44:46.360 three meals a day.
00:44:47.480 And so it's the base idea was young people and not so young people who wanted to actually
00:44:55.900 get back to that life, who wanted to learn, um, to wrangle, to pack, um, and, uh, you
00:45:04.900 know, to work the life actually as a living of in horses to come out and get a week's
00:45:11.760 worth of schooling to get them started.
00:45:13.660 Now we also have folks who, who are like, they call and they say, I don't want to go
00:45:18.660 into wrangling and I don't want to go into packing, but I do want to improve, uh, my
00:45:24.880 horsemanship, uh, for the sake of my horse.
00:45:27.660 You know, I do want, and so they'll come out and, uh, spend a week at the school and
00:45:32.980 it's, it's not like, um, it's not a writing school.
00:45:37.460 It's not a, a school to come out and teach her.
00:45:40.660 It teaches you horsemanship.
00:45:41.760 It teaches the, um, the basic how horses think the relationship communication with horses.
00:45:49.520 We go in depth to the reality.
00:45:51.880 Then there's a lot more to it than people think on saddles, bits and head stalls.
00:45:57.800 We deal with the dietary, what horses need, you know, to eat the feed, what's good and
00:46:02.500 what's not, um, what a horse owner needs to know about taking care of a horse's hooves and
00:46:08.440 getting a good farrier.
00:46:09.520 Just the basic overview of horsemanship all around, um, from a practical.
00:46:15.700 I don't know philosophical is the right word, but from a practical philosophical, uh, point
00:46:22.800 of view.
00:46:23.260 And I, I've had a number of, of young men come through the school, uh, that came through
00:46:29.340 this last year and they're actually working in the industry.
00:46:32.040 Now they went and got jobs.
00:46:34.340 So, yeah, I imagine that you, you would, if you haven't already, I imagine that you'll
00:46:40.280 probably get requests from individuals who aren't interested in lifestyle at all.
00:46:44.840 Maybe they don't even have a horse, but they can see it as you talked about more of the
00:46:48.280 philosophical side of life, but they can use it as a metaphor and a catalyst for change
00:46:53.220 in their lives, even though they may not be interested in this, uh, this wrangling type
00:46:57.840 lifestyle.
00:46:59.480 We've had, this is our second year and we're relocating next month, uh, out to Wyoming.
00:47:05.680 We've been, this year we were in Tennessee and we're relocating to Wyoming at this.
00:47:10.340 So in 2022, we were in Tennessee and here in 2023, we're going to be out of Sheridan.
00:47:16.860 And so we have had families and we've had people contact, contact and say, look, um, we're not
00:47:23.460 really horse people.
00:47:27.180 Um, and we're definitely not wanting to go into the industry.
00:47:30.680 Um, but they've been watching, you know, the YouTube channel and stuff and it's like, you
00:47:36.080 know, can we, can we just come out for a week, you know, and just do, do some writing, but
00:47:44.060 we're not a dude ranch, you know, we are a school, but can we come out just, uh, you know,
00:47:49.260 just to absorb the, the different viewpoint on life or what, just to sit down and talk for
00:47:54.860 a week.
00:47:55.660 And so we are starting to get more requests, uh, of that sort.
00:48:00.780 And again, it's, that's not what we set out to do.
00:48:04.580 That's not what we saw our strong point or our, but you know, this whole thing's been
00:48:11.360 very organic.
00:48:12.220 It's, it's grown on its own.
00:48:14.140 It's taken a life of its own.
00:48:16.180 So we're just kind of riding it where it goes.
00:48:19.540 Yeah.
00:48:19.580 I imagine that's the case.
00:48:20.460 I know it has been for me over the years, thinking about what I wanted this to be when
00:48:25.020 we started versus what it is now is in the same vein, but a lot different than I anticipated
00:48:31.900 and imagined that it would be, but also being able to acknowledge what your strengths are
00:48:37.800 also acknowledging what people resonate with and how you're serving them.
00:48:42.560 Because ultimately a lot of people think that we individually get to determine what's
00:48:48.160 valuable to others, but we don't, they get to determine the consumer does, right.
00:48:52.160 They get to determine what's valuable.
00:48:53.800 And as long as it's an alignment with what we believe in, what we want to do in the kind
00:48:57.420 of life that we want to leave or live, uh, then, you know, we can use that as feedback
00:49:03.140 for what is going to be valuable to people and what's going to serve them well.
00:49:07.280 Right.
00:49:07.720 We, you know, we can't, we think we know what people need, but we don't, we don't really
00:49:13.400 know what people need, you know, but we have to be humble enough and we have to be wise
00:49:18.000 enough just as humans to when somebody determines that this is what they, they know what they
00:49:25.940 need, then we have to be, we have to have the wisdom to say, okay, but I can't provide
00:49:33.000 that.
00:49:33.540 You need to, you need to find somebody who's more qualified, um, who's better prepared,
00:49:40.580 uh, to provide that for you.
00:49:43.080 And, uh, because I can't, I can't provide that.
00:49:47.120 You talk about, uh, cowboy energy, you know, that we're kind of tiptoeing along that right
00:49:51.780 now.
00:49:52.060 I'd love for you to describe what that is.
00:49:53.800 I, I grew up until I was about 13 years old in Southern California, zero cowboy energy.
00:49:59.740 Uh, I moved to a small, very rural town in Southern Utah, where I was introduced to ranching,
00:50:07.960 uh, sheep herding, uh, the rodeo.
00:50:11.540 And I mean, there is, there is a definitive energy with the ranching and cowboy lifestyle.
00:50:17.460 Well, the best way.
00:50:19.500 So the last ranch I worked on actually cattle ranch was in Colorado a couple of years ago.
00:50:25.380 And, uh, that ranch had about a thousand head of cattle.
00:50:31.460 Um, and we, and then we joined in, in the summer with three or four other ranchers and
00:50:37.960 put all of our cattle up on grazing leases up in the mountains.
00:50:41.660 And so we had to move a lot of cattle periodically, uh, you know, maybe five to 800 head at a time.
00:50:50.060 And that's mama cows, uh, with the calves, the babies behind them through some pretty rough
00:50:55.260 terrain.
00:50:56.080 And you learn in a hurry.
00:50:59.060 If you're, if you're teachable, uh, that the best way to move cattle fast is to move them
00:51:04.660 slow, uh, to, to be calm because when you start pushing a herd of cattle, so the calves walk
00:51:12.780 much slower than mama does.
00:51:15.000 So what you wind up with is you, the babies are in the back with the old cows.
00:51:19.740 All right.
00:51:20.060 So you've got a bunch of little calves and if you push too hard, if you try to push them
00:51:25.540 too hard, uh, they scatter, they bust up and scatter.
00:51:30.200 They, they get scared.
00:51:31.300 But if you come in and you push them easy and you push them at a calm rate, a calm pace,
00:51:37.080 they'll move away from you calmly and keep moving forward.
00:51:41.320 But if you come in with too much energy, then all you do is you bust up the herd and you,
00:51:46.720 you, the calves will, they'll break off and you're chasing calves and trying to bring them
00:51:51.060 back in.
00:51:52.200 Um, and, uh, your horse on horses, they get, they feed off of you.
00:52:00.340 So the rider, if you have a calm horse and you're a very nervous, energetic, spastic kind
00:52:08.040 of person, your horse will, will start coming up to your level.
00:52:12.020 But if you have a, a young, nervous, spastic horse, but you're a calm, experienced rider,
00:52:18.080 your horse will gather calmness from you and, and they'll start coming down to your level.
00:52:24.360 And so the energy, you know, the cowboy energy is working, working cattle at a, at a calm,
00:52:35.680 deliberate pace.
00:52:38.380 Whereas, you know, rodeo energy, everything's on the clock.
00:52:42.860 Right.
00:52:43.220 Um, and, uh, so there's no, there, there is no calmness there.
00:52:47.620 The horses aren't calm.
00:52:48.740 The cowboys aren't calm and the calves are not meant to be right.
00:52:51.820 No, uh, and so the energy, it's a calm, it's, it's just a calm, deliberate.
00:53:00.000 Now everything is, uh, in balance.
00:53:03.120 So when you get, when you get a, a herd quitter, uh, you'll get a, a, a little bit older calf
00:53:10.360 that's not nursing on mom anymore.
00:53:12.660 That's kind of finding its independence and, uh, it keeps wanting to, to split and bust off
00:53:19.060 and go find its own thing.
00:53:20.720 And so when that's a herd quitter, that's what a herd quitter keeps quitting the herd.
00:53:24.680 Got it.
00:53:25.140 Okay.
00:53:25.660 And so you've got to be able to turn in and immediately punch up the energy and take off,
00:53:30.680 you know, and get in front of it and turn it and bring it back in.
00:53:34.480 But one of the things about that make the American quarter horse, the, well, that's a whole nother
00:53:42.400 deal, um, the, the real original American quarter horse that make them so uniquely qualified
00:53:50.440 as cow horses is they have an ability to, you can turn them and take off after a herd
00:53:57.760 quitter and they can punch their energy up, full up, run a dead gallop, get around that
00:54:03.020 calf and turn them back in.
00:54:05.060 But when you push that calf back into the herd, that horse has to go immediately calm again
00:54:10.480 back into calm.
00:54:11.500 Sure.
00:54:11.760 They have to drop that energy right back down because if they don't, it'll transfer to the
00:54:17.640 herd and the herd will get nervous where you get some of your more hot blooded horses, some
00:54:22.200 of your more running breaded horses like thoroughbreds who love to run, born to run.
00:54:27.640 And so you take off after a calf and you give them the chance to run, they get that running
00:54:32.600 blood up. And then when you turn the calf back in the herd, they can't turn that running blood
00:54:37.120 back off. They can't go from rodeo energy back down to cowboy energy. And so life is you go through
00:54:43.060 life with cowboy energy. And then sometimes if you've got to turn a herd quitter back, then you turn on
00:54:48.820 that high end energy, you go get it and you come back and then you come back down and you calm back
00:54:54.840 down. Otherwise your energy is going to transfer to the herd being life and it's going to keep
00:55:01.140 busting up on you.
00:55:03.220 Yeah, that's interesting because we all know people and we've all been those type of people
00:55:06.520 where it's just high energy, high stress, high, strong loves drama in our lives. And, and then
00:55:13.100 we have people in my life that, you know, they'll be yelling at their kids, for example, screaming at
00:55:18.200 the top of the lungs and the kid yells back and then they get upset that the kids yells back.
00:55:21.760 Like, well, where do you think they learned that from? And it, you know, we can't see it when
00:55:25.980 we're doing it, but it's very apparent when you're a casual observer of what's happening
00:55:31.660 here.
00:55:32.740 Right. Well, if you take, so if you take a, you fill up a bathtub of water, all right. And
00:55:39.100 fill that bathtub of water and go down there and kneel beside that bathtub of water and
00:55:42.860 take your hand, raise it up in the air as high as you can, and then bring it down as fast
00:55:49.080 as hard as you can. And what's going to happen? You splash that water everywhere. Well, you're
00:55:55.400 not going to splash it. You're going to hit it and you're going to hurt your hand. It's like a
00:55:59.200 belly flop. It's going to be like concrete. Yeah. The faster you come down, you're going to hit that
00:56:03.860 and you're not going to penetrate into that water very well. Got it. Okay. Okay. But if you do the
00:56:09.920 exact same thing and you come down at half speed, half of that speed, you're going to go right in
00:56:16.480 the water. If you bring down at quarter speed, you're going to come in, you're going to go right
00:56:20.720 down and you can go down there and I don't know, grab that rubber deck here, whatever you're trying
00:56:25.140 to do, you know, but, but it's like, I don't know if, I don't know if you hunt at all. If you,
00:56:29.620 if you're into firearms and yeah. Okay. So you understand if we talk a little bit about ballistics,
00:56:35.940 I'm a big 45, 70 guy and that's, that's my caliber of choice. And in really, really tough game.
00:56:43.040 Now this is something that's debated all across and, but it's been my experience and I, and I've
00:56:48.040 taken everything from grizzly to Alaska bull, moose, caribou on down. Got some experience here
00:56:55.520 in game that is really tough, you know, like really tough game like moose or, or grizzly bear,
00:57:03.620 a slower, heavier bullet will actually penetrate deeper, further than a smaller, super fast bullet.
00:57:13.020 And a lot of times we keep hitting that bathtub of water and hurting our hand because we're
00:57:20.540 hitting it so fast and so hard. And if we would just slow down, if we would just slow down and
00:57:27.840 approach what we're trying to approach, but approach it calmly and at a slower pace and
00:57:34.340 methodically, uh, we can penetrate a whole lot better, you know? And so, and that's part
00:57:40.940 of where I've come to is, is just, it's like this channel, this YouTube channel, for example,
00:57:49.060 everybody, when I started, they're like, Dwayne, you got to do this. You know, you've got to edit
00:57:53.060 this. You've got to have loud music and you got to come in here and you got to do that.
00:57:56.680 And you, and I'm like, no, no, that ain't me. I don't think I'm going to do that.
00:58:01.380 And now you, you've watched enough to know that it, everything's pretty calm, pretty laid
00:58:06.720 back. There's not a bunch of music. There's not a bunch of editing. I'm not sitting there
00:58:10.900 yelling at the camera and carrying on. And I approached it just slow and easy and it's
00:58:17.780 just exploded and taken off. So when I slowed down in life and quit approaching everything
00:58:24.080 with rodeo energy, then it's kind of gives life a chance to, to, uh, do what it's supposed to do
00:58:31.220 without me busting that herd up all the time. I like that analogy of the ballistics as well,
00:58:35.820 because you could also consider when you're going against tough game shot placement, right? Very
00:58:40.360 precise, very accurate. You're not going to take a shotgun out there and take a moose. In fact,
00:58:45.080 my son and I, just this last year, we were able to shoot a moose up here in Maine and, you know,
00:58:50.540 you could get into caliber and, you know, should you shoot this or shoot that? And yeah, there's
00:58:56.500 something to be said for that, but a lot of it, if you have a big enough caliber bullet, you know,
00:59:01.200 it's all negligible, but really what it comes down to is, are you precise on your shot placement
00:59:06.140 or are you taking this shotgun approach and hoping, you know, you hit something and it gets zero
00:59:11.700 penetration whatsoever? Right. Right. So yeah. Buck fever, you know, you, you approach a buck fever and
00:59:19.160 you're not calm and slow and, you know, aim, aim small and, uh, and it's perfect analogy. You're
00:59:26.740 right. And it goes back to life. You know, if we approach a buck fever and we're not, we don't have
00:59:32.480 a aim, you know, we don't have a goal. We're not specific. We're not precise. Then yeah, it,
00:59:39.260 it's all, it's all a moot point after that. Yeah. Well, Dwayne, I've appreciated this conversation.
00:59:45.440 And, uh, and I know the guys will as well. And of course I've watched tons of your videos and
00:59:50.400 podcasts. Where can the guys go learn more about what you're doing, whether it's on Instagram or
00:59:55.580 YouTube or wherever you want to direct them. So they know where to go and to get more information
00:59:58.780 from you. We have the YouTube channel, dry Creek Wrangler school. We have a webpage and actual webpage
01:00:05.500 that, uh, talks about the physical school itself, which is dry Creek wranglers.com. And then there is a,
01:00:13.560 the podcast dry Creek wrangler. Oh, and, uh, and then there's so much of this stuff. It's hard
01:00:21.860 for me to keep up with. I'm like a canary drinking from a fire hydrant these days. Uh, and then there,
01:00:27.780 there is, uh, an Instagram and I think that's dry Creek Dwayne. Um, and you, Oh, and I have a rumble
01:00:36.200 for crying out loud. You got it all. Well, yeah, let's see. Rush Limbaugh died. So somebody has got
01:00:41.600 to become the King of all media now. So I figured that's right. That's you. Somebody's got to do it
01:00:46.240 as might as well be you. Might as well. So the rumble is mostly just, you know, the stuff that
01:00:51.120 YouTube won't allow like guns and cigars and pipes and stuff like that. All the good, all the fun stuff,
01:00:55.760 all the good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, good. We'll sync it all up. Like I said, I've been following
01:01:00.860 you for some time now and I'm honored that I could be the one to kick off your podcast appearances.
01:01:05.800 I know there's probably going to be plenty more. Uh, and I'm, I'm a big fan. I'm a big supporter.
01:01:12.440 Your message is crucial. So whatever I can do to help you to spread the message, to support you,
01:01:17.820 to get the word out, I'm all about it. I really appreciate you taking some time today.
01:01:21.720 Well, I really appreciate it, man. I'm, I'm honored that you invited me on and let me come down here and
01:01:26.680 flat my gums for a while. And, uh, and so I thank you for it. I do.
01:01:32.380 All right, guys, there you go. My conversation with the one and only Dwayne Noel. I hope you enjoyed
01:01:38.780 the conversation. I, I, I really did. Um, it, it was a special conversation,
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