From the Department of Defense

by | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers

I have two offerings for you this edition! First, as I shared in the last newsletter, I was recently interviewed by Tony Rezac on his Basecamp for MenPodcast. Tony is an author, coach, and workshop leader, and a fellow warrior brother in Mankind Project USA. We had a...

What’s your biggest challenge as a man?

by | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers

From the Department of Tears I woke up feeling sad and lost last week, needing a good cry, but the truth is I’m not that good at crying. I’m working on it. I have been working on a big side-project this summer that I have been super excited about, and now...

From the Department of Tears

by | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers

I woke up feeling sad and lost last week, needing a good cry, but the truth is I’m not that good at crying. I’m working on it. I have been working on a big side-project this summer that I have been super excited about, and now it looks like the time for it...

Is this the kind of man you want to be?

by | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers

About half of us said, “I keep doing less important things instead of the most important things in my life.” Good to know I’m not alone in recognizing this and working to change. I’d be easy to stop choosing less important things over more critical things if there...

From the Department of Cleaning Up Messes

by | Sep 18, 2020 | Inspiring Brothers

I have long understood that one of my unique gifts, one of my superpowers if you will, is to clean up messes. For most of my life, I saw this gift as a weakness: as a sign of my needy desire to be liked, to fit in, to get a gold star. I saw it as a product of shadow....