Menfolk Journeys

Jan 17 2025 27 ep. 69 mins
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This podcast explores how different men from all walks of life wear the beautiful and confusing mantle of manhood.

Men can be knuckleheads in public life. But in private, if given the right questions and if they feel comfortable, men can also be thoughtful, reflective, and have deep conversations about their lives, big questions, and meaningful ideas.

We have great conversations with men just like us and from all walks of life, so we can learn from their personal stories and all get better together. 

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26. Doug and His Community

Jan 17 2025 81 mins  
Who is your tribe? Do you have a large family, or a community that surrounds you, supports you, and perhaps binds you? Are you born into a community, or do you make one for yourself? This conversation with Doug is about the magnetic draw of Community, and the beauty and challenge that comes with it. What if you think differently than your community? How do you frame your life indiv

25. Lucio and The Permission To Be Himself

Nov 21 2024 66 mins  
"Just be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde Sometimes we lack the courage to really listen to the person you are, or sometimes we might hear, but don't understand what we're telling ourselves. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to become the person we were always meant to be. My friend Lucio has had a remarkable, successful life...and it unfolded f

24. Michael and the Making Of His Own Life

Nov 14 2024 66 mins  
When do you make the choice to not become your dad? We all think about how we were raised, especially when we have our own children. And, we all think about what we want to do that worked in our past, and what not to do. My friend Michael had to navigate his father’s moods, and tried to make sure that his sons wouldn’t have to experience that kind of growing-up. But we all fail

23. Zack and Faith is a Moment, Love is a Verb

Nov 07 2024 74 mins  
How do you know when you have to change your life? When you grow up in an all-encompassing and all-consuming world but then find that you need to live in another world to be your most authentic self, how do you find the strength to do that? Is it a survival instinct? My friend Zack grew up in an evangelical Christian home where he had to teach himself to read and live in a world-vi

22. Cass and Still Learning from Pop

Oct 31 2024 72 mins  
Do we ever stop learning from our parents? Even at 70, my friend Cass thinks about his dad, and what kinds of lessons he’s passed on. Maybe the folklore of our parents never leave us. Maybe there are ideas and value that persist and live through us the whole of our lives. And what does that say about how we grow into our own manhood? It could be that our version can sometimes be

21. David and The Responsibility of Privilege

Oct 24 2024 85 mins  
Is your responsibility to give and pass on in proportion to what you've been given? If you have been blessed with a head start and a safety net to fall into as a just-in-case, what do you do with that? My guest David spent that first part of his launching getting deep learning. He challenged himself with an outstanding, elite, and mutli-faceted education. And from that, he spun out

20. Simon and A 21st Century Odyssey

Oct 17 2024 73 mins  
Have you wandered? And if you did, did you get back home or to your own “North Star’? I think the Homeric epic The Odyssey continues to be compelling, especially for menfolk, even after 2,700 years. The story of trying to get back home, but being detained, waylaid, having adventures, learning, and generally exploring various ways of living while maintaining a “North Star” i

19. Sean and Following the Breadcrumbs

Oct 10 2024 61 mins  
The origin of the word “serendipity” is suggested to have from a 1754 fairy tale titled The Three Princes of Serendip, by Horace Walpole. In the story, the heroes ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’. Some folks think that having a life of unexpected - but sought for - blessings come from a divine higher power, or

18. Andrew and The Swagger That Comes With Being Yourself

Oct 03 2024 69 mins  
How do we gain confidence? Where does a sense of full possession, of being comfortable with who you are, come from? Does it ever leave? Or, once you possess yourself, can you hold fast to that belief that you are everything you need to be? Having that confidence in yourself is an enviable trait...and can give a man a swagger about themselves. But what if that man is your own father

17. Eric and A Fearless Spirit Figuring It Out And Passing It Forward

Sep 26 2024 74 mins  
When we are growing up, do we know we're missing some vital things in life? And when we grow up, do we try to reclaim the stuff we felt we missed? My guest did, and does. He recognized some things in his life that he wanted to reclaim, and set out on an independent, fearless course to do that in his adulthood. This is a conversation about how to embrace what failure can do for us,