Winning the Cultural War for Masculinity, Overcoming the Need for Approval, and Knowledge Vs. Wisdom | ASK ME ANYTHING
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1 hour and 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about being a man of action and how to deal with the responsibilities that come with being a Dad and a husband. We also talk about the importance of a good support system and how important it is to have good friends and family around you.
Transcript
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You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.
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When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time. Every time.
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You are not easily deterred or defeated. Rugged. Resilient. Strong.
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This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become.
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At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.
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Tip, what's up, man? Good to see you. It's also good to be back after a, well, I told you my wife's been gone for the past three or four days, maybe five days, which is good.
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You know, I love my kids, but at times I'm like, how in the world does she do this all day, every day?
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It's such a challenge. It's fulfilling. It's rewarding. And it's also hard and frustrating at times.
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Yeah. It's sometimes when, when my wife's out of town or I'm like full-time with kids, I'm like, oh man, I got this.
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But, but it's also like a sprint. And so I'm like, oh yeah, like that was fine for a day.
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Right. But if I didn't do this for like five days in a row, I'd probably lose my mind.
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I mean, look, I'm not trying to discount what my wife does and what your wife does and other wives do, but also we get, you get more efficient as you go along too. Right.
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You learn systems, patterns, you get into a groove. And so you're, you become more capable.
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That's like with anything, whether you're working out or taking care of the kids or in your business, you become more capable.
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So then you can deal with a heavier workload. I was actually talking about this with Andy Frisilla.
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This was months ago when we did our last podcast. And I said something to the effect of, you know, if you were to just to drop me personally into your shoes, I would just crumble under the weight.
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And he's like, yeah, absolutely. You would. But he wasn't saying it arrogantly. He just says he's over years and years of developing systems and the ability to manage a bunch of different things.
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He just got better at it. And that's what we do. Hopefully that's what we should be doing anyways.
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Totally. And, and to your point, develop the people that support us, right. That we, whether it's our kids or our employees, you know, to help support the system.
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Yeah. It's always, my, my kids do, we do pretty well. When mom gets home, they're probably a little hungrier than maybe they normally would be a little bit more tired than probably they are, but you know, they're still alive. They're still smiling. We had a good time all as well.
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Yeah. Last time. I can't remember. I think my wife went out of town and, um, and, and when she got back, she was like, Oh, so how was it? And they're like, same as always. Dad made us clean.
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Yes. That's what they do. They clean. That's like my thing. Oh, mom's out of town. We're cleaning. I do the same thing. I do the same thing. And it's funny too. My kids will be like, Hey, can we have lunch? I'm like, yeah, sure. Go make it.
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They're like, wait, what? And I'm like, yeah, if you want lunch, you're old enough, go make it. And my daughter, she's such a little sweetheart. She loves to make lunch for the boys. So she'll actually go make lunch. She'll do mac and cheese or sandwiches or nachos. And I'm like, this is awesome.
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Um, yeah, that's funny. A little mom helping you out. Oh, it's so funny because I think it was the other night we were, I think we were doing dinner. My daughter and I were doing dinner together, make, you know, making dinner. And, uh, I can't remember exactly what she did. It was some sort of little mannerism or something. And I just could not help but laugh. She just reminded me so much of her mom. And I just thought, Oh my gosh, she's been conditioned, which is not a bad thing.
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My wife's amazing. Yeah. But it's just, it's so funny. It's so funny, man.
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It's in Prince get half, like how they show up, you know? And even when you joke, like, uh, right now we joke around a lot with the two-year-old saying, you know, get out of here. And we like, just kind of shoving like jokingly, but now he's doing it, but it doesn't seem like a joke.
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Different. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't seem like a joke. Like people will sit by him. He's like, get out of here and shoves him in the face. I'm like, yeah, that's kind of backfiring. Like, I don't, I don't think he sees us joking with you now. It's like, you're shoving people around. I'm like, okay.
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Earlier this morning, my, my youngest son and I were doing a puzzle and I said something to him and he's like, dad, you're not the boss of me. And I said, Hey, we don't talk like that. He's like, I was just joking, dad. It was just a joke. I'm like, you little.
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Yeah. Yeah. Great space. Yeah. All right, man. Well, enough of that. Let's get into some questions. I know we got some good ones. I, I, uh, solicited some questions on Instagram at Ryan Mickler earlier today. Uh, so I'm sure we'll have some great ones.
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Yeah. And as always, you guys, uh, responded to the call. So first question, uh, William Connor, where I live, the gyms are still closed. I try and work out at home, but have trouble staying consistent.
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I don't want to fill my head with any more excuses. I just want to get it done. Any tips on how to stay consistent?
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I would say at home where you don't have as much accountability. It, some people say a home gym is easier. I actually find that not to be the case. It's harder because it's easier to get distracted.
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We were talking about your kids. Uh, you've got your emails and your phone and your wife and your projects around the house that need to get done. And the chores, everything's at home.
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And so it's not this separate space where you can go and just focus on that one thing. So that's difficult. Uh, one thing that I think you probably ought to incorporate is to make it enjoyable.
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I have found so many guys that just love to beat themselves up by working out. And if that's your thing, fine. If you enjoy that and you're a bit of a, a masochist, masochist, maybe then, okay, cool. That's do that. That's fine.
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But if, if you find it miserable, you're just not going to do it.
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Like you're dreading it. You're dreading it because you hate whatever it is you're doing, whether it's running or sprints or power lifting or whatever, whatever the thing is that you don't enjoy.
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You're, you're beating yourself into the ground by telling yourself you have to do it. And then the guilt comes with it. And there's times where you should do that, where you should just bear through and knuckle down and get it done.
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But your, your training should be enjoyable. I'm not saying easy, but it should be enjoyable. That's why jujitsu has been good for me because I actually enjoy it.
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Like it is a good exercise. It keeps me in shape to a degree. There's other things I do in addition to it, but I enjoy being there.
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You know, there's, there's elements of being in the gym, especially if I'm working out with my children that I actually really do enjoy.
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Uh, we've got a concept to rower in the house. I hate rowing. And so I just, I don't do it.
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If I forced myself to do it, I could force myself to do it for sure. But then I'm just going to be miserable. My back's going to hurt and I'm going to hate it and everything else.
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So I do other things, you know, you can do rows with weights, for example, and that's more enjoyable to me.
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So I would say just make it more enjoyable and see if that doesn't change things up. And then also have a set schedule. Don't, and don't deviate from it.
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So if you're going to work out every morning at 6am, for example, don't craft and create excuses as to why you shouldn't do that.
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Just start to build it into your routine. And that's going to be a little bit more challenging at first, but once you build it into your routine and you make no excuses ever to get out of that, then it's going to become easier and easier and easier.
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You know, it's going to be your set time. The only other thing I would suggest in addition to that is have your workouts prepared ahead of time and all of your clothes or gym attire, whatever it is you're going to need or wear ready to go.
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Because if you don't, it's small. I know it's small, but it is a little barrier that if you don't have your clothes laid out, I've had this happen and it sounds silly when you say it, but if I don't have my clothes laid out the night before, it's infinitely harder for me to get up in the morning and actually go to the workout.
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If I don't know exactly what I'm going to be doing in the morning, it's infinitely harder for me to get up and feel motivated to go in because I don't want to think about what I'm going to have to do and yada, yada, yada.
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So I remove all of the barriers possible and I think that will help.
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Yeah. How much of that, Ryan, do you think is just like mindset?
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You know, like, you know, in the Iron Council, you know, and you've had him on the podcast, you know, the author of Morning Miracle.
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And it was funny because a part of his book, he talks about, you know, mindset before going to bed.
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And if you go to bed with the idea of like, oh, man, I only have six hours of sleep.
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I'm going to be so exhausted. By the time you wake up in the morning, you're going to continue that process and go, oh, I'm so exhausted versus like, oh, great.
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I get six hours of sleep. That's going to be sufficient. Like, so how much of that do you think is just mindset?
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Like being grateful, like, oh, I get to go to the gym, you know, like how great that is versus, you know, I don't know.
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Do you get what I'm saying? Is it just on the mind? Do you think that helps a little bit just trying to focus on the positive?
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I don't think it's a trick at all. I think having the right mindset is crucial.
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One of the things, for example, that we don't say in my house is this is hard. I hate that. That phrase infuriates me because all that does is put unnecessary obstacles in your way.
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You're telling yourself it's hard. You made it hard. You made it harder than it needed to be by telling yourself it's hard.
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But is it challenging? Possibly. Is it, are there, are there things that we're going to struggle with? Sure.
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But we don't say this is hard because then you're just reaffirming a bad position. So I think mindset is huge and that's something you can control, right?
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You talk about the six hour thing. You get to decide what that means. Yeah.
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That means you got six wonderful hours of sleep, or that means you only got six hours of sleep.
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My oldest son and I were talking about the glass half empty versus half full the other day.
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And, uh, and, and that's exactly what this is. Like, he's like, well, I don't get it. And I told him, it's just, you're just deciding how to view it.
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You view it in a positive light or a negative light, but it's the same.
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Objectively, there's the same amount of water in the cup in both scenarios. It's just how you view it. That makes the difference.
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Yeah. Okay. Uh, dad, Brad AF best person from which to learn about writing a personal mission and vision statement.
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I don't think you need a person to learn from. I think there's little, little tricks and little strategy cues and strategies. Sure.
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But I don't think there's some miraculous like formula out there. And if you only learned it, then everything would be better.
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What I would say is write down your first vision for yourself and use the book sovereignty. It's behind you, Kip.
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Um, that actually goes into depth, or you can go to our battle ready program. Uh, it's a free email course.
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If you go to order a man.com slash battle ready, that's going to walk you through how to create a vision, an objective or your objectives, tactics, et cetera, et cetera.
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The here's the biggest trick. It's not a one and done thing. This should be constant evaluation.
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So you write out your vision statement and evaluate it for a couple of days, or even just sit on it for a couple of days and come back to it.
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You're probably going to realize, Oh, that was wrong. That was different. I need to change this. I need to tweak that.
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I do the same thing with social media posts. I'll write a post, for example, and I'll think, Oh, this is amazing.
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This is said exactly how I want to say it. It shares the perfect message that I'm trying to convey to people.
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And then I'll post it and I'll come back to that two or three days later. I'm like, what the hell was I thinking? That doesn't even, yeah.
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Yeah. It doesn't sound clear in your mind at the moment. And you're like, okay, wait, that's maybe a little confusing.
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Yeah. So I would say your vision statement isn't a one and done thing. It needs to be revisited quite often.
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Recalibrated, adjusted, tweaked, because your priorities are going to change and your life's going to change.
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And the way you view, it's going to change. And you're going to have new experiences that give you a new filter or lens in which you look at things.
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So constant evaluation. And then over time, by having an evaluation process built into the system, you're going to come up with something that you're very excited about.
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But look, here's the deal. Let's not get hung up on the vision statement either.
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Because I know a lot of guys who either A, never do a vision statement at all. And so have no vision or direction for their life. That's a mistake.
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And then I know other guys who focus so heavily on the vision and then they never do anything. It's like, well, wonderfully written vision.
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So what's your plan? Well, I don't know. What do you think? You're just going to will it into existence? No, of course not.
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So to have something that just points you in the right direction so that you can start moving.
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It would be silly, for example, to get out a map and you want to go on a hike in the afternoon and you get out a map and you're thinking, okay, we're going to hike this new place that we've never been before.
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Here's the map or go to the bottom of the trailhead, for example. And you'll see at the bottom of the trailhead, you'll see they have maps of the places sometimes, right?
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So you go to the bottom and you open it up and you're like, okay, here's where I am. Okay, that's where I want to go. Here's the couple of paths I could take.
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You would never do that, right? You would actually take the first step and that's what a vision statement is designed to do.
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So don't get so hung up on it that you aren't actually moving the needle somewhere and just realize that as you go along, if we're using the metaphor, the trail, that you're going to make turns and changes and tweaks and adjustments based on where you want to go.
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But that vision statement helps you get oriented in the right direction so that you can start moving.
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Yeah. And maybe a good analogy is that map, that's your vision statement, is of a trail that's not confirmed yet.
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So you map it and then you have to get on the trail for a while and go, oh, the map's off a little bit. Let me adjust the map.
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Some guys will sit in the parking lot and go, okay, let's review this map.
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Well, guess what? Your vision statement is of a trail that's not fully mapped out yet and it's not exact and you're not going to know until you go a couple of miles in and adjust it accordingly.
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Yeah, that's a good point. I think about that with early explorers.
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You think like Columbus or Lewis and Clark, you know, they had a general idea, but Columbus was completely off, which makes sense.
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How would he know? And he went, right? And he found, he ran into an island, a country, a continent that he didn't know existed.
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And then that's new information. That's new data that other explorers can now use in their travels and their pursuits.
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Yeah. Like Lewis or the Oregon trail, your favorite game as a, as a 10 year old, it was in the Oregon trail.
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It was. And I think I died of dysentery and, and ran out of food and got shot by, I don't know, or eaten by a bear.
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I can't remember all the things in Oregon trail, but man, those were the good old days when video games were just a game, you know, we didn't get lost in them.
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I'm wondering if that's probably one of the first video games ever.
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I, I would doubt that it was, that it is. I mean, it was a computer game, you know, but I would doubt that there's probably something else before that.
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We'll have to look into that pretty, pretty early in the days. You youngsters will have to Google it.
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No, they know what Oregon trail is. Every human being knows what Oregon trail is.
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By the way, I got posts on Instagram saying, Hey, your, your pup daddy joke last week was funny, even though Ryan didn't think it was.
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So I know the, the one guy who thought it was funny emailed me too, and just felt convinced that he needed to tell you and me about how funny you were.
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So congratulations, Kip. You made one person laugh last week. You're getting better. That's an improvement.
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All right. Awesome. 36. I just need confirmation, at least from one person.
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You're funny, Kip. You're funny and you're special. All right, let's go.
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And I'm loved. Austin 36. I didn't say that. I mean, you said that. Let's not take it too far here.
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All right. Austin 36. What does Austin have to say?
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I'm looking to learn a new skill to keep me on my toes and improve my capacity for actively working towards something.
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I know you push a lot of traditional manly skills on your podcast, like shooting, building stuff and learning to fight.
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However, I want to learn how to skateboard. How would you suggest I focus on those traditional manly skills instead?
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Why, why, why wouldn't you learn to skateboard?
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Yeah. If you want to learn to skateboard, then learn to skateboard. That's awesome.
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I don't, I don't, I don't get wrapped up in the manly skill thing, or this is a feminine skill.
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This is a manly skill. You know, I picked up the guitar several months ago, right?
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Or maybe a year or so ago now. Um, I I've fallen off the wayside a little bit because I focused on something else.
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Is that masculine or feminine? Neither, neither is singing, neither is painting.
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I think you could probably, probably make the case that traditionally the arts would be more feminine, but that doesn't mean a thing to me.
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Like if you want to paint, paint, if you want to sing, sing, if you want to, uh, do you, if you want to learn how to sew, sew.
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Here's a great example. Pete Roberts, one of the, one of the manliest men I know.
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So, so like he built a business on sewing. It's not, there is no masculine or feminine.
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There's skill sets that I think men should know shooting, hunting, survival, that sort of thing.
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And you might treat those as hobbies, but you're also looking at those things.
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Like that's part of being sovereign too, right? Some of those skills.
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Yeah. And I don't think a lot of that stuff, I don't know if it even has to be a hobby as much as it is an acquisition of skills.
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And I think that's important, but as far as hobbies go, was that the term you used? Hobbies?
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As far as hobbies go, don't get wrapped up in what you should do. Just consider what you're interested in.
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And if it's sewing or painting or singing or shooting or building or skateboarding.
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Great. Yeah. Do that. That's a hobby. That's something skateboarding is going to make you a better person.
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Like it's going to make you, it's going to make you more aware of your body.
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You're going to be in better physical shape. You're going to have an outlet to be able to get lost.
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And when you need to balance, you're going to find friends who do the same thing that you can have.
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I want to see a picture of you or a video of you doing your first kick, kick flip.
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Cause I think that's what you need to do. If that's what you're interested in.
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Totally. So I lied. He didn't say hobby. He just said, Oh, he didn't. Okay.
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Oh yeah. Skills. Yeah. I think you ought to just look at what you should learn based on what you
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might need if you were to encounter a situation and then practice those things. Find people who
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are good at those things. Pick the first one off your list. Maybe it's the easiest. Maybe it's the
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hardest. Maybe it's the one that you have somewhat of an access to, or you have a friend who happens
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to be in that space and pick one and learn it and learn something else and learn something else.
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And just, you know, just, just go. Okay. Carson Williams.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Jeez. Wrong. Zach Mo one, one, three.
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Oh, Zach. Yeah. What's that? I said, Oh, Zach Mo. Zach Mo. How did having a second or third child
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affect the relationship with your wife more stressful? I've heard the second child can be a
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strain on a relationship. Yeah. I think second, well, the first is the biggest challenge,
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of course, because that is the biggest shift in family dynamic. Second is still a challenge because
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they're usually young. So now you have one in diapers who's still being potty trained. You still
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can't do everything. And then you add another one into the mix. And that is a challenge, right?
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Once you get to three and four, it's just, it's actually easier because now the youngest,
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just like my daughter, right? She can take care of, she can help out and they have independence
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and they play with each other. So once you get up to three, it's, it's easier, but yeah, two,
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two can be a real challenge. So just make sure that you're carving out alone time. Here's one mistake.
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I think a lot of people make, they let their kids go to bed. So late, put your kids to bed at a decent
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hour. Can my two youngest go to bed at seven 30? My two oldest go to bed at eight o'clock
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and people say, Oh my gosh, that's early. Yeah. Because I want to have time with my wife and they
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need sleep and we get up early to waking up. Brecken usually wakes up. He's my oldest. He's
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almost 13. Now he gets up at five 30. Usually my youngest gets up at five 30, just because that's
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what kids do. They get up and they watch cartoons or whatever it is they do. And then my two middle
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kids, I would say between seven and eight, usually they're up six 30, seven, seven 30,
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somewhere in there. Yeah. Okay. So they're getting plenty of sleep, which they need. We, my wife and
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I have separate time alone time. We also, when we were, when we had young kids that there was,
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there was roles. My wife, she would get up in the middle of the night and take care of the kids. I
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never did that. And that was a, that was a role that worked well for us. And the reason it was,
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is because she said, well, you have to go into work. So I'm not going to have you get up.
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She was breastfeeding. So of course there's nothing I can do there anyways. So why have
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both of us up? That seems silly. So we, we created these, we'll call them rules that allowed us to
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operate the best based on what we were good at, what we needed to do, what our responsibilities
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were. And of course, what our kids needed it as well. So having these boundaries and these rules
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and these things in place, and then having the open communication about them and how they're
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working is very, very important, especially as you start having kids or more kids.
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Yeah, for sure. And I think to your point, like the communication is critical. Cause like,
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I think some guys will go, yeah, it makes more sense for her to get up, but they don't like
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actually ask their wife what she thinks, or it's not communicated. And then there's kind of like a
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little bit of this covert contract and that's like, Oh, just come up with a game plan, communicate,
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make sure everyone's on, on the same page and on board with the, with the strategy and the
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approach. I would say a good question to ask is how is this working for you? And then in addition
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to that, I would make recommendations and suggestions because I think what a lot of men
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will do is they'll go to their wife and they'll say things like, what can I do to help? How can I
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support you? Which is good. I think those are good things to ask and talk about, but it would be nice.
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I imagine if, and it is because my wife does this for me when your spouse comes to you and says,
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Hey, I noticed that, uh, you, you don't have as much time or that you've been tired. And so I went
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ahead and took care of these things or, Hey, I told you we're going to go out on date night on Friday
00:23:05.700
night. I planned it all out. So all you have to do is get ready and we're out the door at five 30
00:23:10.500
and you plan it. So look for ways to serve without having to ask her how you can help.
00:23:17.620
Because here's an interesting way to look at this. I get messages every day and I love getting
00:23:21.880
messages from the guys who are inspired and uplifted by what we're doing here. But a lot of
00:23:26.940
guys will ask, what can I do to help? Or how can I help you? And while I really, really appreciate
00:23:32.760
the sentiment, what you're actually asking is for me to identify ways for you to work or serve.
00:23:41.840
And that's adding extra stuff to my plate. So again, I appreciate it. And I'm just trying to
00:23:48.320
tell you this as objectively as possible. So you can understand how it might come across.
00:23:53.060
Now, if I had somebody who came out and just did something, and I have had people do that
00:23:57.560
and fill a gap or fill a need, that would be way more advantageous than somebody saying,
00:24:03.460
hey, how can I help? Or I've had people say, do you have any job openings? I'd really like to work
00:24:08.320
for you. What could I do? Why is that my responsibility? You want to work here? You want
00:24:13.880
to work with us? You tell me what you bring to the table, what you could add value with and how you
00:24:19.380
could provide to this organization. It's not my responsibility to do that. And I think we should
00:24:24.120
do the same thing in our relationships too. Yeah, for sure. For sure. That's good.
00:24:29.640
All right. Adamo Carr, how can a boy who's a student become a real man and not just a male
00:24:35.680
in a world or an environment looks down on men? The way that the world views men has nothing to do
00:24:42.180
with you becoming a man. Like you need to rise above that. Right. Because why does somebody's
00:24:49.060
opinion matter? It doesn't. If you feel inferior and John Eldredge actually talks quite about this
00:24:55.060
in his book, wild at heart and his other teachings, a man is constantly trying to answer the question.
00:25:00.620
Am I enough? Am I capable? Can I do this? Am I enough? And what the world thinks of men or thinks
00:25:05.900
of you is irrelevant in answering that question. You have to answer that question for yourself.
00:25:11.360
So the first step is to identify where you feel you're lacking.
00:25:14.360
And we've given you some frameworks, protect, provide, preside, sovereignty. There's frameworks
00:25:19.640
that we've added in here and not added, but this isn't the right way to say it. Say it again.
00:25:27.280
Clarified. Clarified. I think that's articulated. I think that's a good way to,
00:25:31.000
because this isn't new information. I mean, a lot of what we share here is well-documented and
00:25:36.800
researched. One book that I read years ago, that's a really great book is Manhood in the Making by David
00:25:41.080
Gilmore. A lot of what I talk about when it comes to protecting, providing, and presiding
00:25:44.900
is not new. It's something all cultures throughout all of time in history has adopted as their view
00:25:51.900
or their take on what it means to be a man. So we've articulated, clarified, and then we present
00:25:57.900
it in a meaningful and significant way. So yeah, let's not get so hung up on what the world thinks of
00:26:05.060
you and how you should show up and be more focused on where you think you need to show up,
00:26:10.940
where you feel deficient, and then start working towards improving those areas. I'm not saying we
00:26:17.860
need to be ignorant or blind to what's going on in society with the dismissal of masculinity. I'm not.
00:26:23.360
I'm just saying that we'll look at the alternative. So society, it continues to go down this slippery
00:26:30.080
slope of, uh, undermining masculinity and telling young boys how toxic they are just because they're
00:26:35.880
boys. So the alternative to what you're suggesting is just to accept that and then to continue to live
00:26:42.600
in this state of boyhood or, uh, overly feminized man for the rest of your life. And we know that's
00:26:49.880
not the answer. Yeah. Or, or give away your sovereignty and, and, and complain and argue that
00:26:55.760
it's because of them that, that it's, that you're not becoming the man you should be because society's
00:27:02.500
fighting against you, right? You're going to give over that power to them. Yeah. That's what they
00:27:06.700
would like. The powers that be would like for you to acquiesce to that because they want you to sit
00:27:13.380
down, to shut up, to be a good little boy, to do what you're told him to become a cog in the wheel.
00:27:17.540
You as an independent man represent and pose a very serious threat to the powers that would be.
00:27:25.760
This is why it's actually so important that we remain sovereign, that we remain in control of
00:27:32.620
our lives, that we fight for second amendment rights, that we fight for freedom of speech,
00:27:38.300
because this is how they silence and, and put away men. It's, it's done throughout all of time in
00:27:46.260
history. So we actually have to actively fight against it. So again, I'm not saying be ignorant to
00:27:52.500
what's going on. I'm just saying, don't let it be a factor in you becoming the man that you want to
00:27:58.740
become, which I commend you for wanting to become that man. We need more men like you who want to,
00:28:03.920
and have a desire to step up fully. Totally. And wouldn't you say, Ryan, that the natural by-product
00:28:08.900
of you doing that is a shift in society's perception. Like if we want to make that adjustment
00:28:15.640
from a social perspective, the best thing you can do is get your house in order, right? And focus on
00:28:21.440
becoming that man. And, and, and the natural by-product of that is you providing influence
00:28:26.540
to those in your life, in your communities, in your family.
00:28:29.180
Yeah. I think, Oh, I did. I think I might've lost you there.
00:28:37.660
I got you. Can you hear me? Okay. Yeah. I got you. Okay. Yeah. I think you're absolutely right.
00:28:43.560
You know, we have a lot of people who don't necessarily agree with what we say here, but
00:28:48.080
they listen. And I think if they listened with an open mind and an open heart, uh, they would see
00:28:52.440
that the type of masculinity that we're talking about, and it's not even the type of masculinity,
00:28:56.060
it is masculinity. There is no type. This, this is what it is. If they, if they listened with the,
00:29:03.660
the desire to learn and many people have, they will begin to see that we're not the enemy and
00:29:09.600
we're not toxic and we're not, uh, trying to undermine women or, uh, minorities or anybody else
00:29:16.200
who may be, uh, in a difficult circumstance that we're actually here to lift people up, to serve,
00:29:22.480
to provide, to be an example. And, and, and that's what you need to do. These people who
00:29:29.080
look, there's going to be some people who are dead set on the fact that men are horrible,
00:29:35.300
misogynistic, uh, tyrannical in nature, that it's the patriarchy. There's people who are dead set on
00:29:41.800
that. And then there's other people who have been fed that line. And so they just started to believe
00:29:46.300
it until they start to see men behaving like men. And then they realize, Oh, this is actually
00:29:52.660
not the problem. This is actually the solution, but they won't see it if you aren't willing to be
00:29:59.220
that kind of person. So we have an obligation societally to be the kind of men that we are
00:30:04.320
supposed to become so that these individuals who are misguided and who have been led astray can see
00:30:10.140
how men actually show up for their families and their communities, their employees, and everybody else
00:30:14.900
they interact with. Yeah. And I've seen, I've seen this Ryan, and let me know if you agree or not
00:30:20.200
that when we pander, like when we're overly concerned about that perception, it often renders us
00:30:28.580
not doing what we should do. Right? Like if, for instance, let me give an example. Like if you have
00:30:34.760
a wife that's maybe overly feminine, uh, feminist, you know, kind of viewpoint of things, and you're so
00:30:41.160
concerned about coming across as a domineering male, that's, you know, trying to control everything.
00:30:47.880
If you, and you pander to that, then you're not showing up like you should. Right. And, and you're
00:30:53.600
actually end up perpetuating the perception of like your ineffectiveness as a male. Right. Right. Like
00:31:00.520
you got to be true to like, what's important regardless, even those that are close to your life,
00:31:05.980
you got to be true to that. So then that way they can see what's possible. And, and so you're doing
00:31:10.980
what, you know, you should be doing regardless. Yeah. I've had, I had an interesting conversation.
00:31:15.980
This was months ago on, on, uh, on Instagram. And I can't remember the exact situation, but I remember
00:31:21.560
this engagement with this individual who was upset about something. And we had, we had a mature,
00:31:27.560
actually a mature discussion on social media, which doesn't always happen that much, but I didn't
00:31:32.500
pander. I didn't apologize. I didn't try to make that P that person feel warm and fuzzy.
00:31:37.660
I just stated my position respectfully without name calling, without any straw man arguments,
00:31:43.220
without any of these, these ad hominem attacks, like nothing like that. It was just a very respectful
00:31:48.520
dialogue. He agreed on some things. I agreed on some things. He disagreed. I disagreed. And we walked
00:31:53.900
away both with a new perspective that we hadn't considered before, but it, it, it took me being
00:32:02.240
bold and capable enough to stand up on my own two feet. And every once in a while I'll, I'll screenshot,
00:32:08.480
you know, a critic or a haters comment. And I'll post on Instagram with, with my reaction. And people
00:32:14.420
will say, don't, you shouldn't respond to that stuff. I don't respond to that stuff for those
00:32:18.480
individuals. I respond to it for the people who see it and see what it's like to have to, to, to see
00:32:25.500
an individual, a man who has the balls to stand by what he believes in what he says. I share it.
00:32:31.700
So those people will be inspired to do the same thing when they're confronted with somebody who's
00:32:36.940
a troll or a hater, or one of these, you know, extreme feminist type people, uh, or, or a lefty,
00:32:43.340
like they need to see what man looks like and how he responds to these types of conversations.
00:32:52.680
That's why I share it because I want to be an example that way.
00:32:55.700
Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Thank you. And that's at Ryan Mickler, by the way,
00:33:01.640
to see these posts by Mr. Mickler. All right. Michael Mares. Somebody told me on Instagram,
00:33:07.420
by the way, and I don't get into this too much, but somebody told me the other day that I'm being
00:33:11.360
shadow banned on Instagram. Wow. I didn't know what that means. Shadow banning his, you haven't been
00:33:17.440
flat out banned, but Instagram or social media sites will restrict access or restrict searches,
00:33:23.260
or they might, um, they might manually unfollow people from your, your follower account. Like
00:33:29.780
they do some really shady tactics and I don't really get into that too much. But one of the
00:33:34.860
things that, uh, that these social media companies will do is they'll hide you in search results so
00:33:41.360
that you can't, you can't pull up as easily. And so this guy messaged me the other day and he said,
00:33:45.940
Hey man, you're being shadow banned. Like I can't even find you in the search results on Instagram.
00:33:49.660
And, and so I went in there and I looked, and so I just went, did a search and sure enough,
00:33:56.060
it like my name didn't come up. And then I went back in later and it didn't come up until I typed
00:34:02.140
in the last letter of my last name. Really? Yeah. It's really crazy stuff. So again, this goes back
00:34:09.140
to the fact that the powers that be don't want, they don't want men talking about masculinity. They
00:34:15.400
don't, they don't want us talking about individualism. They don't want us, uh, congregating
00:34:20.700
and getting together and organizing. They don't want that. And yeah, they're little small tactics
00:34:26.860
that they employ to attempt to limit our ability to do so. Yeah. And anyone that's listening,
00:34:33.160
that's a little bit like, uh, this is conspiracy a little, it's not actually just like you have some
00:34:39.900
critical thinking and actually check news sources. And it's crazy. Like, this is not a, not a, like,
00:34:47.140
this is not conspiracy. This is legit. And, and I don't think I'm being attacked. Like we need to be
00:34:51.900
very clear because I think there is a point that people take it too far. I don't think I'm being
00:34:56.620
attacked or persecuted. I don't, I don't buy into that stuff, but you can be sure there's little
00:35:02.740
tactics and little strategies that are being used to algorithms. Yes. To manipulate follower counts,
00:35:09.080
not just mine, but others as well. Uh, what you see, what you hear, what information you have access
00:35:14.060
to. That's not a conspiracy. Most people who've thought at all about that or, or open-minded can see
00:35:20.320
that, yes, there's definitely things that are going on here. Definitely. Yeah. For sure. And, and,
00:35:25.660
and Zeke Bishop today on your question on Instagram, he, you know, he, he mentioned use
00:35:31.000
parlor. It's back online and, and we don't really talk about it much, but you do have a parlor account.
00:35:36.180
Um, I did before they shut it down. Yeah. Yeah. Online. So maybe something we do promote a little
00:35:42.320
bit. So, yeah, maybe I tried to get back in there, but I couldn't, you know, I don't know. I think
00:35:47.520
they're probably at this point having problems with logins and things like that, but yeah, I tried to
00:35:51.100
get back into it and, and I couldn't, so I don't know. I don't know what's going on with parlor.
00:35:54.880
Yeah. According to him, it's back up. I think it is. And I've heard that from other sources too,
00:35:59.840
but I, again, I tried to log in with my login details because I have, I've had a parlor account for
00:36:05.300
six months, eight months, somewhere in there. And I just, I couldn't get back on there. So yeah,
00:36:08.880
here, check this out. This is crazy. So I'm watching parlor right now and it comes up and
00:36:13.820
crashes and closes. Well, you can't parlor doesn't have an app. You have to do it on their website.
00:36:20.640
Oh, so the app doesn't work anymore. Right. Because Apple won't hold Apple and Google won't host
00:36:25.920
their app on their platform. So you actually have to go into the web-based version of it.
00:36:30.560
And that was, that was part of the problem is that Apple came in and said, well, we're
00:36:35.540
because of violence and all these other things, we're not going to host your app on our, our app
00:36:40.420
profile, whatever it's called. And Google said, we're not going to host you in our stores. So
00:36:45.580
then they're like, well, we'll just do it all web-based, but then Apple service, whatever it
00:36:49.720
is came in and said, well, no, we're not even going to host your, your site on our, on our servers.
00:36:54.920
So then parlor went in and that's AWS that did that. Amazon did that. Amazon. That's right.
00:37:00.220
Sorry. I said, Amazon's like, we're turning your servers off. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. That's
00:37:03.840
right. So then parlor is now on their own servers or something independent. I, you know, more about
00:37:08.600
this than I do. And then they started back up, but it's all web-based because you can't get an app.
00:37:13.520
You can't, you can't find the app anywhere. Yeah. Although they should be smart enough to,
00:37:18.420
I mean, I don't know, maybe it's overly technical, but you can actually download and get apps on your
00:37:23.860
phones without going through the Apple store and the Google play store. Yeah. But it might just be
00:37:28.960
overly technical for some people, but the violence that you're talking about, are you talking about
00:37:33.580
the coup, the attempt to overthrow the United States of America? Is that so ridiculous you're
00:37:40.440
talking about? It's so ridiculous. They want to paint that with that term. It's a coup. It's not a
00:37:46.180
coup. If you think that's a coup, like, I'm not saying it was, it was a good thing. I'm not saying
00:37:50.800
that, but it's, it was not a coup. That's not what a coup is. And if you're saying it was,
00:37:56.340
then you've never even remotely, as I have not ever even remotely experienced an overthrow
00:38:03.900
of a government by a military party or a political party. You've never experienced that. If you think
00:38:10.040
what happened at the Capitol is, is actually a coup. It's not what it is. Let's not, let's,
00:38:15.600
let's call it for what it is. I think we should, let's call it for what it is and let's not make
00:38:21.560
shit up because then that actually undermines the argument of those who would make these types of
00:38:27.800
things up. Like, let's be real about it and have a real conversation. That's so frustrating is the
00:38:32.940
manipulation of words, uh, in order to push and paint your narrative. Look, if you have a perspective,
00:38:39.140
cool, but let's talk about it honestly and intelligently not make things up. Yeah. Sorry.
00:38:45.720
I had to go there a little bit. It's good. It's all good. When you talk about, uh, Michael Mareska,
00:38:51.220
he's thinks your next project should be a recurve ball, a bow. So he's just letting you know that
00:38:57.020
that's what you should consider next. Good to know. If we ever finish our canoe, then dude,
00:39:02.860
it's looking like it's progressing really well. Like I saw the post this morning on your Instagram.
00:39:07.660
Yeah. So, and you're going to, so all those slats are coming over and then you,
00:39:12.800
are you in a literally cut a straight line? Yeah. And then do the other side and then you just glue
00:39:18.300
right there. Yeah. There's different patterns on the bottom of a canoe. So I can't remember. I think
00:39:23.620
this is just called a straight line pattern, I think. Uh, but then they have something called,
00:39:27.880
I want to say a herringbone pattern where they actually, the slats overlap,
00:39:32.420
crisscross overlap each other. Yeah. Uh, so there's different ways of doing it. This is the
00:39:37.360
way that we chose to do it. And the way the book instructed us to do it, we use a book called canoe
00:39:41.100
craft. Uh, so yeah, you, you basically put the slats on the strips and you, and you put those all
00:39:47.020
the way up on one side. So Breck and I have officially completed one side and then you, yeah,
00:39:52.480
it's coming along and then you, and then you make a center line down the middle of the,
00:39:56.120
of the canoe itself on the bottom. And then, yeah, we'll cut that straight. So it'll be straight as
00:40:01.400
an arrow. And then, then we'll fill in the other side and it will meet and join at the line that we
00:40:07.800
just cut. It seems so dangerous to put like a major crease at the lowest part of the boat.
00:40:15.220
Yeah. No, that's a really good point. I'm like, uh, that glue better be really good because that's
00:40:20.720
like one huge, massive section of possible leaking, you know, I don't know. Yeah. Maybe,
00:40:26.740
but I guess that's all the, down the sides, all the slats have glue. There's so exactly. And you
00:40:32.240
know what is funny? Cause Breck and I cut some, some of the planks off the canoe yesterday and
00:40:37.060
we grabbed them and there was like three or four together. And we're like, Oh, we're like trying
00:40:41.320
to break them apart to see how strong the bond was. Yeah. And I was like, I was like cranking on,
00:40:45.560
I couldn't get it. And he was cranking on, I couldn't get it. So I tried it again and I finally
00:40:48.700
broke it. I'm like, Oh, look, I got it. Well, I actually broke the wood, not the, the joint,
00:40:53.280
not the glue. Really? Holy crap. It's some strong stuff. But then the other thing that you do,
00:40:58.680
and a lot of people don't know this. So, so you, so you, you put it all together, right? You got
00:41:03.940
all the strips on the canoe and you glue it all and everything else. And then from there,
00:41:07.820
we'll pull the staples off. We'll plane the hole. We'll sand it all down. So it looks really nice
00:41:11.920
and clean. Uh, there's little holes from the staples and other little, you know, little blemishes that
00:41:16.900
maybe we didn't join the joints just right. That will fill that in with an epoxy mixed with, uh,
00:41:24.420
some, some sawdust to the color of the strips. So it looks the same. Okay. Yeah. And then after
00:41:31.000
that, a lot of guys are like, Oh, just this slap some flex seal on it or something. That's actually
00:41:36.320
not what you use on a canoe. You actually use an epoxy and hardener mix. So, so the epoxy hardener
00:41:44.020
will go over the entire canoe and then it'll dry and harden. And I'm telling you that stuff is
00:41:50.980
unbreakable. We did that with the stems with that epoxy hardener. And so the heart, the whole thing
00:41:57.300
will have a hard epoxied shell out over the top of fiberglass is actually what it goes. And that's
00:42:03.600
really what's holding the water back. It's not the wood. It's not the epoxy. Yeah, that's right.
00:42:08.600
The wood is the shape, but the, so you, once you sand and plane the hole, then you put a sheet of
00:42:12.720
fiberglass over it, uh, transparent fiberglass, and then you epoxy over the fiberglass. So,
00:42:19.260
Oh, okay. Yeah. Unless the, unless you get a hole in the epoxy once it's dry or the fiberglass
00:42:24.700
in theory, you shouldn't have any gaps in your, in your hall at all.
00:42:31.220
I see. So all those guys that were, were a little bit like betting on the idea of Ryan sinking
00:42:36.640
all you assholes. It's sounding, it's sounding like that's probably highly unlikely.
00:42:42.100
No, I mean, let's not go that far. Let's not take it that far. Now you're just setting me up
00:42:46.240
for failure even more so than hoping I would fail. Well, I mean, I just don't, I don't understand
00:42:50.980
this stuff. Right. So I'm thinking like, that's a lot of little cracks for water to come through.
00:42:55.100
You don't think that there's like fiberglass and epoxy and all this other stuff that's like
00:43:00.300
really solidifying everything. So yeah, because you know, a hundred years ago there wasn't even
00:43:07.800
thousands of years ago when people were building canoes or ships to come across, you know, the
00:43:12.060
Atlantic ocean, they weren't put, they weren't fiberglass epoxied holes. They were wood with
00:43:17.440
probably some sort of resin or something to water. I actually don't know, but something to water.
00:43:24.280
Yeah. Something. Yeah. Like a pine gum in between. Yeah. That's interesting. Tar. I don't know what it
00:43:29.340
was. Recurve bowl. Michael says. Good to know. Which I think is a cool, I would love to make a
00:43:34.380
recurve bowl. I think that'd be awesome. But when I was at Soren X about two or three weeks ago,
00:43:39.360
there's their winter strong event. There's a guy that I actually follow on Instagram. His, I don't
00:43:44.240
know is, I don't know his, his, his full name, but he goes by org organic archer and he makes his own
00:43:51.160
bows. He makes his own arrows and he was showing us how he was shooting. He, and he had, he makes his own
00:43:56.560
quiver. And so he, and he would, and he was killing it. Like he was awesome. All with arrows that he
00:44:03.960
made himself with the bow that he made himself and, and had pretty incredible stuff. And it is
00:44:11.220
organic archer. So he just shoots like lettuce and tomatoes. That's it. Yeah. Just organic,
00:44:17.500
organic, gluten-free, vegan-free. Organic vegetable archer. Yeah. There's a head of lettuce. You better
00:44:21.980
watch out. Cause he's going to smoke that thing. You got to get it. That's right. It's funny. Cause
00:44:27.400
he doesn't post his hunting pictures or videos. And I'm like, why not? And he's like, ah, people get
00:44:32.020
rubbed the wrong way. I'm like, you literally make bows like that. Like people get rubbed the wrong way.
00:44:37.860
They follow you because you make a weapon that is used to hunt and kill things. They get upset. He's
00:44:45.000
like, yeah, they get upset. People are ridiculous. And he's hunting with, with bows as well.
00:44:49.980
Cause that's what you do with a bow. You hunt with it and kill animals to eat.
00:44:53.600
Yeah. I guess they're target, but he's hunting with these, with these traditional bows. Oh yeah.
00:44:57.600
He's killed animals with this thing. It's awesome. That's awesome. That's so cool. All right.
00:45:01.960
Mayberry tea. He's quite, his question is your favorite Jocko mulk flavor from our friends or over at
00:45:09.900
origin. Um, I don't use the mulk all that much. I I'm more of the, the discipline go. Um, but I think I
00:45:19.020
just use their plate usually just use their plain one. If I have, I don't, I don't use the protein
00:45:22.800
a whole lot. Yeah. So I use the, um, the peanut butter chocolate, peanut butter. Good. The mint
00:45:29.080
mint chip one is good. That's probably my best of my favorite is the mint chip one. Um, but yeah,
00:45:34.980
I usually I'm more of the gut, the discipline go. And I like, uh, sour apple sniper, which is what I
00:45:40.680
think you're drinking. Yep. And then I like after burner orange and I don't like orange drinks,
00:45:45.800
but Dave Burks after, or after burner orange is really, really good. Yeah. Yeah. No longer,
00:45:52.820
no longer water. Uh, he's taken the real discipline. That's right. You know what? All right. Long
00:45:59.220
question here. The burly maple, any cattle livestock raising in your future. Does that aspect of living
00:46:05.440
on land interest you at all? My wife and I are working towards some land currently, and we'll be
00:46:09.920
raising some animals and pursuing other ventures that will eventually become available to us.
00:46:15.040
Um, such as my woodworking business, some rental storage, and I'm unofficially dubbing man class
00:46:21.780
where I'll be teaching skills like woodworking, metalworking, hunting, fishing, and ranching.
00:46:25.800
Just curious on your interests. Keep up the world changing work. Hashtag battle team, Charlie.
00:46:32.640
Nice battle team, Charlie representing. Um, yeah, so, well, so here, here's, here's what we've done in the
00:46:38.960
past. My in-laws, when we were in Southern Utah, they, they had land and they'd always have two to four
00:46:43.900
head of cattle and we would usually buy half, half a beef, uh, half a cow, half a cow each year.
00:46:50.140
Uh, now that we're here in Maine and we've got lots of property, one of our neighbors is a cattle
00:46:56.340
rancher and he's actually the one who comes and haze our field. So he haze our field, uh, and he pays
00:47:03.520
us in beef. In fact, we just picked up half a cow just, uh, a week or two ago. And he's working it too,
00:47:10.280
right? The field or what do you mean? The field he's working as well. Yeah. He haze the field.
00:47:16.520
He'll bring manure over, make sure it has the nutrients in the soils, the way it needs to be
00:47:20.280
in order to grow the right hay for his cows. Like he's doing all of that, which is a win for us.
00:47:24.620
Just that alone, because the field is maintained and it looks nice and beautiful. You've seen it a
00:47:29.200
couple of times and you get meat out of it and we get meat out of it. Yeah. So, and then we've got
00:47:33.980
another neighbor who's literally just across the street and he's got cattle as well. Uh, and, and
00:47:40.860
they're, they're going to have a meat store right there where they're going to slaughter their own
00:47:44.380
cows, butcher them there. They have the meat store. So people can just on their way home, pick up meat
00:47:48.940
at the store, which is right here. It's pretty cool. He's got some really good plans. So the reason
00:47:54.940
that we are not into that right now is because initially we didn't know how long we'd be here.
00:48:00.240
And I'm not interested in having one or two or five head of cattle on my property. If I'm only
00:48:07.060
going to be here for a couple of years, plus there's fencing and everything, which there is
00:48:10.680
no fencing here on our property. So there's other stuff. And then in addition to that, I'm not,
00:48:16.880
I'm not interested in that because that's not, it's, it's cool. I think it's really cool. I think
00:48:21.800
it's amazing, but I've, I'm doing other things. Like I've got this podcast and I travel and my goals
00:48:28.020
are different. So we've got chickens and ducks and we've got things like that, but cattle, I'll let
00:48:33.520
my neighbor do it. And my, my, my two neighbors do it. And then I'll work with them to, to arrange
00:48:38.880
that. Yeah. Plus we hunt, you know, so we get a lot of meat there too. So that's true. Yeah. That's
00:48:44.860
a, that's a sweet setup to get the land maintained and also, Oh yeah, it's great. Yeah. It's perfect.
00:48:49.640
Yeah. That's great. All right. 22 cheapster. How does one with a close personal relationship
00:48:55.660
spouse slash parent that refuses to truly see and, or acknowledge the progress you've made
00:49:01.420
and only see you as, as you were not as you just, uh, not as you are, despite the evidence
00:49:08.140
presented. Again, we're getting so heavily focused on other people. Now, if it's your spouse, okay,
00:49:16.700
that's actually a little harder because you actually need to live with her, engage with
00:49:21.000
her. Hopefully she believes in you to a degree. And the only thing that you can do is keep
00:49:26.160
being that way. And hopefully she'll come around and she'll begin to see, let's be honest. You
00:49:30.900
may have a track record of a decade or two of not performing. So yeah, maybe she's a little
00:49:36.660
hesitant about you finally getting back in shape or getting back on top of it. I could certainly
00:49:41.940
understand that reservation that she may have with your parents. That's easier because that has no
00:49:49.360
bearing or relevancy in your life. It really doesn't. I know we want to have a close connection.
00:49:54.600
We want to be connected with them. We want to turn to them for advice, but look, if they're not
00:49:59.460
going to acknowledge your performance or whatever it is, or your growth.
00:50:04.620
And like, they're, they're not obligated to do that. It'd be nice if they would, but they're
00:50:10.420
certainly not obligated to. So stop putting it in their hands and stop putting in their court and
00:50:15.020
you focus it on yourself with your wife. If it is your wife, I would just say, keep lines of
00:50:20.180
communication open, keep showing that you are improving, that it is sustainable. And over time,
00:50:27.720
I think that she'll probably come to see that if she doesn't, there's some underlying issues
00:50:33.060
and deeper concerns that need to be addressed beyond you just trying to improve yourself and
00:50:39.840
get better. Yeah, for sure. And maybe a tactic that, that I've had to deal with in the past,
00:50:45.460
like me, like I've literally had to deal with this idea of like moving beyond and, and becoming,
00:50:51.640
you know, a different man and, and people holding onto the way I was. And I, one thing that helped
00:50:59.760
me at least was not, I wouldn't fight against the perception. Right. So I would own it. So if,
00:51:07.100
if Ryan, for instance, you, you had a, you know, we had a shady history, right. And you kind of bring
00:51:11.900
it up like, Hey, you know, I can't trust you because of, you know, blah, blah, blah. I wouldn't
00:51:16.280
argue. I understand. Yeah. Totally understand, man. I'm sorry. Like, but how do you want me to
00:51:22.420
address this now? And don't argue, don't argue with like, well, but I've changed. No, no. Yeah.
00:51:27.780
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Totally get it. I understand where you're coming from and then keep moving on,
00:51:33.800
keep moving on and, you know, stay on the path. It's sometimes, especially with a spouse,
00:51:38.740
it might take time to, and it's tough. I'm, I think you're dead on with that. I I'm thinking about
00:51:44.420
this as you're talking and, and wondering in my own personal life, if I have people that are close
00:51:49.100
to me who don't believe in me. Yeah. And I'm honestly having a very hard time identifying one
00:51:55.640
person that is, and, and there's a couple of reasons for that. I'm going to say this at the
00:52:00.020
risk of sounding arrogant or egotistical. What would already do? Yeah. So it's might as well just double
00:52:05.760
down on it. The truth is what, why wouldn't they believe in me? Like, like what, there's no reason
00:52:14.900
for them not to, because I've proven time and time again, that I'm, that I'm somebody who can be
00:52:20.360
trusted, that I'm somebody who can be relied upon, that I'm a man of my word. Like I fall short. I'm
00:52:24.760
not saying that, but why wouldn't they believe in me? So that's, that's one consideration.
00:52:29.540
The other consideration is I'm probably overlooking somebody who doesn't believe in me,
00:52:33.700
but I just don't care. So I can't even think about who that person would be enough to you to care.
00:52:38.680
Yeah. Or because it just doesn't matter. Maybe they are close and I don't even know because I
00:52:44.220
just haven't even given it much consideration. You know, I've had, I have people in my life who
00:52:49.520
probably maybe they think less of me, but I don't know. I don't know if it is because
00:52:55.660
that doesn't, I don't concern myself with that. I'm not concerned with that.
00:53:00.300
Yeah. Well, I mean, currently if I'm wrong, but part of that is because you, your, your mission
00:53:06.200
is more than that, right? Your mission isn't to gain the acceptance of, of maybe all these people,
00:53:11.480
but your focus, your, your goal and your focus is somewhere else. Yeah. And it's agnostic to whether
00:53:16.980
you get that approval of the masses or, you know, that's exactly right. It doesn't matter. It does.
00:53:22.680
I, the amount of time that I spend thinking about the people who don't like me is literally zero
00:53:29.200
so much so that I can't even identify who that would be. I think there's people who say things,
00:53:35.860
but I can't identify who that would be. So how do you get to that point? That's the real question.
00:53:40.840
You know, how do you get to the point where you, you aren't worried about that? Be so heavily
00:53:46.660
focused on yourself and your own improvement and getting better in your own way that you feel so
00:53:56.200
assured and confident in yourself that nothing else really matters.
00:53:59.660
Totally. Totally. Almost to the point of if, when you get that, those naysayers, it's almost like,
00:54:06.360
are you joking? Like it seems so crazy because that's just not who you are.
00:54:12.400
Yeah. I either think those individuals are joking or my next reaction or response is what is wrong
00:54:18.300
with this person? It's never what is wrong with me. Yeah. They're always, they're so out of touch.
00:54:23.860
Right. Right. Why is this, or why are they so miserable? Like what's happened to this person
00:54:29.120
or what hasn't happened to this person that they accepted it and taken it so personally that their
00:54:34.220
life is so miserable that they need to come after me. Like, I don't, I don't, if somebody comes to me
00:54:38.840
and says, now look, if somebody I trust and admire and respect comes to me and says, Hey, Ryan, you
00:54:43.200
know, um, here's some things to consider that might be blind spots. You need to be aware of. That's
00:54:48.000
different. That's not what I'm talking about. But if somebody, I don't know, comes at me, it's like,
00:54:52.120
well, what is wrong with that guy? I've never thought, Oh man, maybe I am a loser. No, I don't
00:54:58.120
think that at all. Cause I've proven I'm not to myself, not to anybody else to myself.
00:55:02.320
Yeah. All right. Ducks rich with all the help out there in the manosphere, where would you start
00:55:09.420
or continue? I'm following and listening with, with, uh, listening to your podcast along with
00:55:16.020
many other guests. I am overwhelmed on the information overloading right now. So kind of
00:55:22.200
like this, you know, and we've talked about this in the past is just like all this information coming
00:55:25.880
in maybe a little bit of a overload. Yeah. I think, um, Andy for Silla calls them, I believe
00:55:32.820
he uses this term learning zombies where you're just like learning, learning, learning, learning,
00:55:38.240
learning. And you're just kind of walking around, like learn all I need to learn. I used to be that
00:55:42.500
way. I'd listen to so many podcasts and books on tape and then I would never act. And then I'd feel
00:55:47.100
guilty for not acting. And it was overwhelming. Like this guy's saying, so I get it. Uh, the other thing
00:55:52.300
that learning can be is a bit like the term is mental masturbation, right? Like it feels good.
00:55:57.160
And you think you're actually moving the needle, but you're just consuming and you're not ever like
00:56:00.900
actually doing anything. So stop doing that and go to work here. Here's what I would suggest to you.
00:56:06.680
And of course this is going to be biased, but I wouldn't have created this movement or these
00:56:11.660
resources. If I didn't think they'd serve you, there's two resources you need. If you're ready to
00:56:16.400
move forward, there's sovereignty. That's the book behind you, Kip. We talked about that earlier.
00:56:20.460
And then there's the battle ready program, order of man.com slash battle ready. I would say
00:56:25.520
if you want to get off the X right now, like you actually want to start moving, do the battle ready
00:56:31.380
course. That's where you start 17 emails over 30 days. It's going to help you identify what you
00:56:37.660
want, what you should be doing, how you're going to go about doing it. And it's going to put you on
00:56:40.960
the path and then you act. So if you're ready to go order of man.com slash battle ready, that's a
00:56:45.680
great resource for you. That's why we created it. Yeah. And just to reiterate the
00:56:50.240
importance of the action part of learning, I do think there's a big difference between
00:56:55.480
intellectually being able to regurgitate information versus actually knowing for yourself.
00:57:00.940
And that concept of knowing for yourself is made available through action, not through just
00:57:06.560
intellectually understanding something, you know, and I don't think it connects. It doesn't become
00:57:11.180
yours. If that makes sense until you actually act upon it. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I think that's
00:57:17.800
right. There's a difference between knowledge and wisdom. Yeah. You know, we can, we can acquire
00:57:22.980
all the knowledge and still be a moron. Yeah. We see that. We see that in a lot of very intelligent
00:57:28.800
people. Right. Success. Yeah. Either no success or they, they don't operate in reality. They don't
00:57:36.820
operate in the real world. They're so delusional and, and, and blinded by their intellect that they
00:57:44.760
don't actually apply any of it. They don't see how their words and their actions impact themselves and
00:57:50.780
other people, but they're really smart. Okay. Well, that's part of the equation. And wisdom is the
00:57:57.400
application of knowledge. I should say the proper application of that knowledge. So move from
00:58:04.740
knowledgeable to wise. That's what we should be all striving to do. Yeah. Good distinction. Brad
00:58:11.500
Becker 23. I'm struggling with my connection quadrant. This first quarter of the battle
00:58:16.620
planner has been great with in all the areas I'm right on track. I've been very introspective
00:58:22.780
this quarter and have really focused on myself. Uh, I am a single guy with no wife or kids to focus
00:58:28.340
on. I've got a brand, a band of brothers who are all really open with each other already. And I don't
00:58:33.420
feel like we're lacking in our relationships with each other. My question is this, how do you gents
00:58:38.480
adjust fire on a quadrants? That's not really taking off for you. Thank you.
00:58:44.820
So let me just wrap my head around this. He feels like his relationships are solid. Is that what he's
00:58:49.880
saying? He, and yeah, yeah. And I think it's a little bit of like, Hey, I'm, I'm pretty good in
00:58:55.340
this connection quadrant. So I'm not really progressing in it because it seems like it's already in a good
00:59:00.760
place. Okay. So here's the way I think you're looking at this and it's okay to look at it this way.
00:59:05.680
Like you're, you're looking at what can you get out of this? Like how, how can these other
00:59:11.000
relationships serve me? And I already have everything I need. So I'm good. Okay. Well,
00:59:16.540
that's part of the equation. Not everyone else. Right. So maybe shift your focus from how can these
00:59:23.480
relationships better me and serve me? And by the way, there's nothing wrong with that. Relationships
00:59:28.160
should be reciprocal. The reason I married my wife is because partly because there was some value in it
00:59:34.460
for me, right? Like the reason Kip, you and I do this is partly because there's value in it for me.
00:59:40.720
Let's not pretend that's not the case. It is. Yeah. Okay. For sure. But also the other part of that
00:59:46.520
equation is how do you serve other people? Is there somebody you can mentor? Is there somebody who's
00:59:52.360
really struggling? Is there, is there somebody who maybe could learn a new skill that you have?
00:59:57.600
How can you add value? How can you enhance another person's life? How can you make their life better?
01:00:03.560
How can, how can their life be better just because you're in it? And maybe these are some questions to
01:00:08.440
ponder and consider as you try to dial in your connection quadrant so that you can focus on what
01:00:16.000
other people are getting out of the relationship, not just yourself. Yeah. Well, and I, I actually think
01:00:22.880
that that's, that's the tall tale sign of guys progressing within the iron council. Like I use
01:00:31.100
that analogy a lot. Um, and, and to learn more about the iron council, you guys can go to order
01:00:36.020
man.com slash iron council, but, but guys always join the IC for them, right? It's like, okay, what I'm
01:00:42.880
going to get from this and, and guys make great strides and they make great improvement. And I think the
01:00:48.260
tall tale natural order of things is they come in for themselves and they stay for others. And now
01:00:55.500
they're there because the value they provide their battle team, because the value that it's providing
01:01:00.520
their families, the connection quadrants more about other people, the quadrant on condition is about
01:01:06.680
other people. It's not just about them. And, and, and, and ultimately goes into protect, provide,
01:01:13.480
and preside and us serving our families and our communities. That's right. But do the thing that
01:01:19.420
we always talk about is like, first you got to, you know, you need the best tools possible to do the
01:01:23.940
job, which, and, and like you said, that's good, but that's also the sign of progression. I think as,
01:01:30.040
as we focus on ourselves, our, our, we, we end up having an outward mindset to serve other individuals.
01:01:36.220
Yes. There, and there's a reason for being selfish at times and it's so that you can serve other
01:01:44.920
people. Yeah. And the natural by-product is you getting better anyway. So then it works out of,
01:01:50.840
you know, anyway. Right. Right. The reason that you, for example, the reason you should work out
01:01:55.700
is so that you can have the energy and, and, and the skillset and the strength to be able to help
01:02:01.640
other people. Should you need, should it needed to be called upon the reason that you're going to
01:02:07.540
study for the new degree or designation or credential is so that you can serve your clients
01:02:13.600
more effectively. Guys, the reason we do things is so that we can serve. So even selfishness in a way,
01:02:22.300
if you have the right motive of that selfishness can be used as a catalyst for growth in other people's
01:02:28.180
lives, the reason I show up the way that I do from this podcast to when I wake up to when I go to bed
01:02:33.520
to how I perform to my exercise is so I can serve my family and you guys more effectively. Tim Kennedy
01:02:38.840
actually talked about this when we did our podcast a couple of weeks ago. I asked him about his life's
01:02:43.440
purpose, I believe is the term I use. And without hesitation, he said to protect and preserve human
01:02:48.420
life. And that's why he does everything that he does. Sheepdog and jujitsu and martial arts and
01:02:56.160
his military career is, is he's become proficient so that he can fulfill his mission or his purpose
01:03:04.160
to protect and preserve human life. He gets that. He understands that most people who are successful
01:03:10.340
get that Andy Frisilla. He works out, he works hard when he was 300 plus pounds and out of shape.
01:03:17.400
And I met him for the very first time when he was that way, he told me he was less capable of serving
01:03:22.420
other people. So he got in shape so he could be better at his job and at his life. He understands
01:03:27.880
that. Jocko gets that. Jordan Peterson gets that. Joe Rogan gets that. Get more proficient so that you
01:03:35.140
can serve people in your own way, more proficiently, more effectively. I think I lost you again. We're
01:03:44.340
having internet connections for a second issues today. Yeah, I got your back. All right. All right.
01:03:49.520
A couple more. All right. Lyndon Vano, especially with your financial advisor knowledge, I would love
01:03:56.240
to get some advice on how to prepare to be the first time home buyer. Things to look for, things to avoid,
01:04:01.940
common mistakes single men make in purchasing a house and et cetera. Thank you, Ryan.
01:04:07.300
Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to tell you how to invest necessarily because I'm not a real estate
01:04:11.200
investor and there's other people who are way more qualified than I am to talk about these issues.
01:04:15.840
We did have Brandon Turner on the podcast, Bigger Pockets podcast. Those guys do a lot about real
01:04:20.740
estate. So if you're looking for real estate deals and transactions and how to structure the deal and
01:04:26.080
what to look for, that's a better resource. But here's what I would tell you for first time home
01:04:31.500
buyers, I think is what he said. Is that right? Yep. Yep. Okay. So first have some money in your
01:04:37.620
account. That way you have the, excuse me, have the buffer built up. Number two, whatever you believe
01:04:44.280
your mortgage payment will be, start making that mortgage payment to yourself. So if you're paying,
01:04:49.360
let's just say hypothetically a thousand dollars in rent right now, and your mortgage payment with
01:04:54.340
taxes and insurance is going to be 1800, then you need to be paying a thousand in rent and 800 to a
01:05:01.220
separate fund. And if you say, well, I can't do that, then you can't buy the house. And it's amazing
01:05:06.880
how many people overlook that. The other thing I want you to consider is that whatever your payment is
01:05:12.460
on the house, let's say again, with taxes and insurance, it's $1,800. You need to say, you need
01:05:18.000
to have, I would say somewhere between 10 to 20% more than that. So in this case, 180 to $360
01:05:24.120
more every month that you can set aside into a fund to replace leaky faucets, the carpet,
01:05:32.200
when the heater, the AC goes out, you need to have some sort of fun for that. Otherwise you're going to
01:05:38.040
be caught with your pants down and it's going to suck when you have to pay eight grand for new
01:05:42.940
carpeting throughout the house. Or, uh, you know, the, the flood in the basement that just happened
01:05:47.480
because of, of the weather or, or whatever. Right. So, so many unknown costs when you buy your first
01:05:56.200
house, you're like, Holy crap. I got it. Right. Like people don't even think about like,
01:05:59.920
Oh, I need to buy a lawnmower now. And I need to buy, you know, it's like, Oh,
01:06:03.080
well, what's the, what's the adage? What, what you own owns you. So remember that. And it might,
01:06:08.980
you might be okay with that. I am, I own a home. We own several homes. Actually. I think Kip you do
01:06:13.840
as well. Like, and I know other guys, highly successful guys who rent because they get that
01:06:17.900
concept. So you have to go into it with your eyes wide open, knowing what you're getting yourself
01:06:23.000
into. And what else I would say outside of the financial relevancy of this is start to develop
01:06:29.140
some basic home maintenance and repair skills, know how to fix a toilet, know how to fix a sink,
01:06:36.360
know how to lay hardwood floor, know how to put down carpet, know how to build things like these
01:06:41.740
know some basic electrical stuff. These are little things that are going to save you a lot of money
01:06:46.960
because when the toilet breaks or whatever, and you have to call a plumber, that's going to be way
01:06:52.940
more expensive than you just going to the local hardware store and buying the new floaty thing or
01:06:57.780
whatever, and putting that in yourself. Okay. You can do it. You just got to figure it out.
01:07:02.580
I've replaced toilets. We've done some basic electrical work, replace switches, replace
01:07:08.540
ceiling fans. Like you can learn these things. They're simple and you should be able to do that
01:07:13.700
stuff yourself. Yeah. All right. Brendan Watt, advice for someone looking to change careers or start
01:07:21.080
out on their own. Those are two drastic different things, but well, they are. And it's so broad
01:07:29.860
like advice for somebody starting on their own or starting a new career path. Get after it. Like
01:07:36.880
start it. Here's what I would say. Start at a don't start at P or, or Q, like start at a everybody wants
01:07:46.680
to start at Z. Well, I just want to have a new career. Okay. That's Z. Yeah. Start at a, what is,
01:07:54.880
I don't know what a is because it's such a broad question that you're asking right now, but
01:07:58.280
let's say hypothetically, you want to start your own business, teaching how people, how to shoot
01:08:06.940
firearms. Uh, so what is a for teaching somebody how to shoot firearms as a, as a, as a business?
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Well, you probably ought to just get a social media account. That that's what I would say a is.
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And then you want to get your phone, not the best camera that money can buy your phone. That's a B.
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Okay. And take some videos of you shooting with some basic one, two, three, four tactical
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instructions, not everything, not all advanced, not all the intricacies and the inner workings.
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You don't need to go buy a range. You don't need to have a film crew. No, your phone, you shooting,
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teaching the proper, you know, grip stance, positioning, trigger squeeze, all that kind of stuff
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and be consistent about that. Now. Okay. You've got, you've got a social media account.
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You've got some videos on there. Do you have a website? No, not yet. Okay. Well then that's B.
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You need a website. So get your website going. Okay. Now maybe you need to invest in a new
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firearm or some targets. And that's step C. The point that I'm making here is I don't want you or
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anybody else just to jump to Z like, I'm going to do this. I'm going to go all it. Okay. But what
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about all this other stuff that you need to do? Part of the problem with social media and even with
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this movement is I have a lot of people to reach out, right? I'm going to start something
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similar. I'm going to start something similar. I'm going to start something similar and it's
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going to be successful. And I'm going to have these guests on. I'm going to do this and this
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and this. I'm like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. What you've seen on social media from me and from
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other people that you respect and admire and want to be like is, is the effort of years and years of work,
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six years for us at this point of behind the scenes stuff that's happening that you don't see,
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right? You don't see when we had the failed, our first failed event. You don't see when you had a
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mass exodus from the iron council for things that you didn't do correctly. You don't, you don't see
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that stuff. You just see the wins. And so you're a little bit naive in going into this thing. Most people
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are, I was. So take it in stride, start with point a, then move to B, then C, then D, then keep going.
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Yeah. I know that's a really broad general answer, but it's a really broad general question to just
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figure out what step a is and get going. Well, and one thing to consider as a possible step a
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is, are you killing it in your current job? Right? Like, are you taking advantage of the opportunity
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that you have right now to learn whatever it is for you to learn from your current position
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and situation? Like, make sure to do that. Like take advantage of your current circumstance.
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Cause sometimes we have a tendency to think like, Oh, well I changed my job and then, you know,
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then I'll be, or then I'll learn or whatever. Learn now, take advantage of what you have.
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That's always a good step. You know, that's a good point. I'll give you an example of that and
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how that would look. So I was about six, five, six years into my financial planning business.
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And I was working with an organization out of Salt Lake. Uh, and it came to a point where
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the value I was receiving from the organization was significantly less than the value that I was
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providing at that stage in my career. And I realized this and I thought to myself, well,
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I've got to go out on my own. I've got to start my own business and my own organization and how I'm
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going to do this. It was very overwhelming. It would have been easy for me to stick around.
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And, and what I did is I gave myself a deadline and it was about six to eight months. And I said,
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I'm for the next six to eight months, I'm going to learn everything that I need to learn here
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in this organization where the risk is lower, where I have support and I have the infrastructure and I
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have all these little buffers built in place. I'm going to learn for the next six to eight months,
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everything from organizational structure to rules and regulations. Cause I was in the financial
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planning industry to finding a place where I would have, you know, be able to lease an office space
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on my own to the tax ramifications to how to set up my own registered investment advisory firm.
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I spent six to eight months learning all of that, going to training, figuring this all out,
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asking people who had done it before. And then in six months, eight months, I was ready to go.
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And at that point I pulled the trigger because to your point, I spent six to eight months maximizing
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my current position, knowing that I didn't have one foot out the door, but knowing that it was
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going to happen. And this was preparatory for that day. And it made the transition not seamless.
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I won't tell you that, but it made it significantly more manageable. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And you didn't
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pass up those opportunities, right? If you didn't do that and you just moved on, you've been like,
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damn it. I should have, uh, you know, I should have invested the time and understood that before
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I left and who knows what else, right? Exactly. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, thanks guys for
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dot order of man.com. Perfect. All right, guys, we appreciate the questions. Make sure you subscribe
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a couple of weeks, next couple of weeks. Uh, Steven Pressfield, if my new conversation with
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Steven is coming out in a couple of weeks. And then I just had a great conversation last week with,
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uh, Robert green and that one will be coming out in the next week or two as well. So, and we had
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any penny, uh, on yesterday as of the, yeah. And some great episodes recently too, you know,
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like Tim Kennedy was awesome. Randall Wallace was, I love that interview. That was one of my favorite.
01:14:37.340
Yeah. It was super great. Really different than what we've done in the past. Uh, but,
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