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266 – Why Parenting Tactics Don’t Change Your Kids (And What Actually Does) with Pat Barber

by donhuff | Sep 20, 2026 | Celebration Stories, Community News, ManKind Podcast

Most of us were handed one of two scripts: the “because I said so” dad with all structure and no warmth, or the gentle parent with all warmth and no structure. Both leave kids without what they actually need. Pat Barber spent 22 years as a CrossFit coach,...

265 – From FBI Burnout to 35 Days at Sea — One Veteran’s Search for Purpose with Jere Hartman

by donhuff | Sep 7, 2026 | Celebration Stories, Community News, ManKind Podcast

The US military does an incredible job of creating warriors and a horrible job of bringing them home. Jere Hartman lived that truth. After leaving the 75th Ranger Regiment, he chased the career ladder at the FBI, hit 240 pounds, and looked in the mirror at a miserable...

264 – Remembering Dolly Parton: 80 Years of Unapologetic Ambition & Radical Kindness with Brandon Clift & Boysen Hodgson

by donhuff | Sep 4, 2026 | Celebration Stories, Community News, ManKind Podcast

The world lost Dolly Parton this week — and you might be wondering what a men’s podcast has to say about it. Everything. Because underneath the rhinestones, the hair, and the persona was a masterclass in things most men spend their whole lives trying to learn:...

263 – What It Actually Takes to Build Brotherhood and Leave Isolation with Nick Papadopoulos & Jake Fishbein

by donhuff | Aug 27, 2026 | Celebration Stories, Community News, ManKind Podcast

Most men have zero foxhole buddies. Not because they don’t want them — but because they keep choosing comfort over the risk of being truly known. Nick Papadopoulos has spent 23 years building men’s groups, and Jake Fishbein has spent the last decade inside...

262 – Why Intentional Fathering Is How We Heal the Father Wound with Ian and John

by donhuff | Aug 14, 2026 | Celebration Stories, Community News, ManKind Podcast

There’s a wound most men carry and rarely name: the father wound. In this episode, Boysen sits down with Ian Schwartz and John Harrington — co-founders of the Intentional Fathers Initiative — to talk about why intentional fathering isn’t just good...

261 – Stop Meditating Alone: The Real Reason Most Men Quit – with Toby Sola

by donhuff | Aug 3, 2026 | Celebration Stories, Community News, ManKind Podcast

Toby Sola has spent two decades teaching meditation — years of it inside a monastery, refined through close work with world-renowned teacher Shinzen Young. Today he runs Bright Mind, an app built on one guiding principle: as simple as possible, but no simpler. In this...