A few weeks ago, our guest Sovann Pen listed courage as one of the important virtues for men. In today's episode, we talk a little about courage and the role it plays in manhood today. For sure, many of the decisions we need to make as men will require us to have courage. But, maybe the most courageous decision of all could be the decision to live in such a way that fear doesn't control our lives

We love all the wonderful things technology has done for us. I mean we have more ways available to entertain ourselves than all previous generations combined. We can keep up on our friends and family around the globe. We know immediately when something is happening and can get involved as best we can. But, with all these improvements have also come with a lot of dangers and destruction. Perhaps especially for men. Today we're talking about the risks and boundaries we need to set with technolo...

In today's episode, we get to hear from Sovann Pen, the host of the "Courage, Coaching and Counseling Podcast." Sovann is a licensed professional counselor in Portland, OR, and has been counseling for 15 years. He's a husband of 26 years, a father of three, and enjoys helping parents with the challenges of parenting as well as strengthening marriages. We talk about making time spent with your kids more important than getting your to-do list done, being too busy and not attending to our charac...

Warning! Warning! Warning! Do not listen to this podcast! Whatever you do, don't listen. There is information in this episode of the podcast that might not sit well with you in a variety of different ways. It might challenge your point of view on a lot of different aspects of your life. If you listen to this episode, you may never be the same. So, whatever you do, don't continue on. Hit that stop button and go listen to another fantasy football podcast. Listener discretion is advised.

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then gratitude is a dish best served out loud. William Faulkner once said, "Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." There are lots of times where I feel thankful for someone or something, but how often do I follow up that feeling with action? Am I only grateful internally, or do I take the time to externally express my thanks? Right now there is so much spite and angst being...

At the recording of this, we are still anxiously awaiting the arrival of baby Naumann, so we took the opportunity to talk about another important thing to consider for fathers of young children. When you're in the season of little kids in the house, it can be exhausting and you're just longing for a break. But once those days are gone, you find yourself longing for them again. The unfortunate thing is, you can't go back in time and fix it. You only get one shot. Don't worry, I'm not going to ...

As we recorded this, Robby was still about 2 weeks away from the birth of their second son. In this episode, we spend a little bit of time talking about everything that's going on right now with Robby, but we also dig in on how your whole world changes when you have your first child. If you have kids of your own, you know exactly what we're talking about. If you haven't had kids, you'll want to listen in to prepare yourself. And if you've got kids on the way, you'll probably want to take note...

Among the many qualities that seem to be lacking in our society today, near the top of the list would be perseverance, faithfulness, and loyalty. We live in a world where it's not merely justified but even praised when someone leverages their current position in life for something better. But is that really the best thing? This week I have a conversation with Dr. Mike Wilde, a former pastor and mentor of mine, and someone who embodies perseverance.

A Marc said, the definition of a godly man has changed throughout history as the culture in which those men lived changed. The kind of man that was considered to be the most masculine in the 1300's is a lot different than what our culture today says a man should be. In my conversation with Marc, we talk about the macho man stereotype and how we can be men of virtue instead of men who change with the culture around us.

It's your day off and you're sitting on the couch watching football or playing video games. You have a list of things you need to get done and maybe even want to get done, and yet for some reason, there seems to be some invisible force holding you down on the couch. Have you ever experienced that? I think we've all experienced the struggle to find the initiative to work when we'd rather bury our face in a bag of Doritos. In fact, the abundance of help wanted signs in businesses would lead us ...