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  • Don't be a CUCK | How to be more manly and attractive

    The word “cuck” is an abbreviation of the word “cuckold”.


    It refers to a man who has been spurned by his woman because of his weakness as she pursues a sexual relationship from a stronger man.

    It’s become an internet insult, and it definitely sounds like a very dirty word - whether it’s officially a “cuss word” or not - it’s certainly a word that no man wants to be called, and it describes a position in which no man wants to be.

    How can you avoid being a cuck?

    How can you be more attractive and manly to your mate?

    Level up as a man. Join the Brotherhood. 

    Focus on self Improvement

    Men often go out of their way to get the girl. Then they get the girl and they give up.

    Improving yourself, working on becoming a better, stronger man will make you measurably more attractive.

    Meet her needs

    Your spouse is looking for someone to meet her needs - physically, emotionally, spiritually.

    Commit together to guard your family

    Affairs don’t happen overnight.


    Work together to draw your boundaries, and then enforce those boundaries without jealousy and with trust.

    Fight Like Hell

    I’ve been using the phrase a lot lately. You need to fight like hell to create the kind of marriage that overcomes temptation, that is full of love and respect, that is fiercely guarded and protected, and that is not full of dangerous fault lines and volcanic eruptions.

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    26 min
  • Alonzo Pettigrew | Traditional Manhood
    Helping men lead in their home and at their work

    Alonzo Pettigrew is making a difference by helping men level up into the husbands and fathers and leaders they were meant to be.

    Alonzo is a speaker, the MEn’s BRG President, a State Champion Coach, and Coach of the year, and has an M.B.A. in Leadership and Ethics.

    Traditional Values are worth preserving

    Alonzo talks with Manlihood about the traditional values he believes in, and how it matters that men work to live by and preserve those values.

    Leadership matters

    “When we promote leaders, we typically promote based on skills other than leadership and this creates dysfunctional organizations. Leadership is a skill that can be learned and my simple and effective method can improve your team quickly.” - Alonzo Pettigrew

    Connect with Alonzo Pettigrew

    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alonzo-pettigrew-73264731/

    Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq8qjv5mXfRq-bq5gZ95_jg

    Twitter | https://twitter.com/alonzo62


    54 min
  • Perseverance | Manly Chunks of Wisdom

    At Manlihood, we’re curating manly chunks of wisdom for you.

    If you’re like a lot of men, you may find yourself short on time for reading long books to look for wisdom that you can apply to your life…. We’re offering you the Campbell's Soup version… the best quotes and insights to help inspire you to be an even better man.

    Thanks for listening, and if you like these Manly Chunks of Wisdom, you’ll love the book that we put together for you. You can get it FREE at Manlihood.com/chunk

    Perseverance is a virtue that all men should strive for. To continue on through trial and hardship is at the very nature of manhood.

    Everyone has been faced with the temptation to quit. Let’s dig our heels in, and press in for the victory that we all crave, together.

    I’ve compiled a selection of some of the best nuggets of wisdom out there concerning perseverance from a variety of sources.

    19 min
  • Jim Shockey | Adventure and The Hand of Man
    Men long for adventure

    As we talk to outdoor tv personality and wilderness guide Jim Shockey on this episode of the Manlihood ManCast, we learn about the way people crave adventure, the way the outdoors is healing, and the importance of hunting for managing the balance of nature.

    Jim Shockey is an award-winning outdoor writer, hunter, wildlife photographer and videographer, outfitter and wilderness guide, and naturalist.

    Shockey owns several outfitting territories in the Canadian wildlands, and helps many adventurers trek through the backwoods on epic hunts.

    He’s also known for his proficiency with muzzleloaders, rifles, and archery.

    Jim Shockey on Television

    Shockey is the former producer and host of Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures and Jim Shockey's Uncharted on Outdoor Channel and Jim Shockey's The Professionals on Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel.

    He has won 15 Golden Moose Awards from 2009-2017.

    More About Jim Shockey

    He is a retired Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of 4 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (4CRPG)

    Canadian Armed Forces and is a Member International of the Explorer's Club in New York City.

    Jim attended Simon Fraser University and Carleton University and was an all-American swimmer and member of the Canadian National Water polo team, attending two World Championships.

    Jim Shockey and the Hand of Man Museum

    In this episode of the Manlihood ManCast, Jim Shockey talks about his lifelong project, The Hand of Man Museum. When he was a young boy, he had a vision to create this museum, and he has spent his whole life collecting  natural history and ethnographic arts from Western Canada.


    In 2019, he opened the Hand of Man Museum of Cultural Arts and Conservation on Vancouver Island, Canada. Tens of thousands have been through this amazing museum, which is funded entirely by voluntary donations.

    More from Jim Shockey

    Website | http://jimshockey.com

    Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/user/jimshockeyofficial

    Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/JimShockeyFanPage

    Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/jimshockeyofficial

    Twitter | https://twitter.com/JimShockey

    More from the Hand of Man Museum

    Website | http://handofmanmuseum.com/

    Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/handofmanmuseum/

    Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/handofmanmuseum/

    58 min
  • Testicular Fortitude: John Wesley Powell

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    Imagine taking a lead musketball to your arm, having it sawn off in a field hospital, and then going on to explore uncharted and impassable rivers on a raft with only one good arm…

    As his name would suggest, John Wesley Powell was the son of a Methodist preacher. He grew up with a fascination for exploration and nature, and as a young man, went on several river expeditions to study fossils and geology along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.


    But then the Civil War broke out, and he earned a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the Union Army. At the battle of Shiloh, his right forearm was shattered by a minie-ball, and his arm was amputated. He continued to serve in the army throughout the war, helping with Sherman’s artillery.

    After the war, he assumed the role of professor of natural sciences at Illinois Wesleyan University and  curator of the Illinois Natural History Society Museum.

    But you can’t keep a man like Powell contained to the classroom.

    With one arm, he went on to explore Pike’s Peak and the front range of the Rockies.

    In 1868 he put together an expedition to explore the Colorado River from Wyoming down through the Grand Canyon. Powell, along with a crew of hunters, trappers, civil war vets.

    He was begged not to go. One arm through dangerous uncharted rapids is dangerous business. But he went anyway. And that trip was worthy of those warnings.

    One of the party’s rafts sank in Utah, tanking about a fourth of their supplies and most of their scientific equipment.


    Four days later, the party entered the Grand Canyon, and marveled at the beautiful rock formations… but they almost lost another boat, and in that mishap, they lost even more of their food.

    Three men left the expedition, tired of the hard journey. Those three men were killed by a band of natives who thought they were invading their territory.


    As Powell and the remaining crew made it to area that is known now as Lake Mead in Nevada, he halted the expedition, returning two years later with another crew to make accurate maps of the Colorado River.

    These expeditions yielded much geographic information, as well as linguistic and cultural information about the Native Americans living in the area.


    Anytime we look at history, we can see positives and negatives.
    Critics of Powell’s work say that some of his ideas and opinions about the native population dehumanized them and had a large impact on the public policies that would have a brutal effect on their relationship with the US Government and the Westward Expansion.

    And while I may not agree with everything Powell said, did or thought, we can certainly agree that he was a man whose courage and relentless adventuring spirit show that he had testicular fortitude!

    6 min
  • Chris Mackowski | The Men of the Civil War
    Manhood was on display during the Civil War

    In our interview with historian Chris Mackowski, we talk about the American Civil War, and the stories of heroism and even villany that happened during that time.


    Chris also talks about his opinions on masculinity, fatherhood, and his passion for history.

    https://open.spotify.com/show/2QmqLwvb2z6qMbRVuibLbF?si=7c09fbc7462c4e0d

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b61kRiI2gH4

    Civil War History Expert

    Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Emerging Civil War and the series editor of the award-winning Emerging Civil War Series.

    Chris has authored or co-authored nearly two dozen books and edited a half-dozen essay collections on the Civil War, and his articles have appeared in all the major Civil War magazines.

    Chris is also historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge, a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield in central Virginia. He has worked as a historian for the National Park Service at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, where he gives tours at four major Civil War battlefields (Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania), as well as at the building where Stonewall Jackson died.

    Chris serves as vice president on the board of directors for the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, he serves on the advisory board of the Civil War Roundtable Congress and the Brunswick (NC) Civil War Roundtable—the largest in the country—and is a member of the Antietam Institute.

    More from Emerging Civil War

    Emerging Civil War | https://emergingcivilwar.com/

    Emerging Civil War @ Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/EmergingCivilWar/

    Emerging Civil War @ Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZcENe0ZUhycM4O3HCLs3Q

    More from Chris Mackowski

    Chris @ Emerging Civil War | https://emergingcivilwar.com/author-biographies/editors/chris-mackowski/

    Amazon Author Page | https://www.amazon.com/Chris-Mackowski/e/B001HMNPDE

    C-Span | https://www.c-span.org/person/?77638/ChrisMackowski

    Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/cwmackowski

    54 min
  • Mark Kroos | Music and Manhood
    Acoustic Guitarist Mark Kroos is a phenomenal musician, and a great example for men to follow

    "Mark Kroos is one of the most intelligent musical forces of the new guitar generation."

    - Randall Williams


    In this conversation with Mark Kroos on the Manlihood ManCast, we talk about his music, the challenges of life on the road, overcoming adversity, and more.

    Double-Neck Guitarist

    Mark Kroos plays an Ovation guitar with two necks at the same time. His shows are energetic, magnetic, and Mark’s personality is as welcoming as his playing is spectacular.


    In 2011, Mark competed in Guitar Player Magazine's International Guitar Superstar Competition in Nashville for host Larry Carlton and renowned judges Muriel Anderson, Reeves Gabrels and Carl Verheyen, taking 1st place out of 5 invited competitors and thousands of others who had submitted online.


    Facing hardship “like a man”

    In this episode of the Manlihood ManCast, one of the things that Mark talks about is the things he learned when covid shut down his ability to tour with his music. That experience deeply affected the way he processes things as a man.

    I see a guy on the street, and I think, ‘that dude has his act together!’ But I’ve had a lot of really great moments over the past few years and realizing that, nobody has their act together. It feels really freeing and incredible to see that.

    We try to appear hard, walking with our shoulder back, and chests out, and so much of this work over the past year has been about softening, and not taking myself so seriously. Because I really felt for a long time my guitar career was the most important thing in the world to me. Then I saw the world without my guitar career. The world was doing just fine.

    More from Mark Kroos

    Website | http://markkroos.com

    Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/user/mskroos

    Instagram | http://instagram.com/markkroos

    Bandcamp | https://markkroos.bandcamp.com/

    iTunes | https://itunes.com/markkroos

    Spotify |  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2pOLYuxb1wwCu8bmXyhhEb?si=fJoPdAMOTlOSUmZZ4wO8JQ

    Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/markkroos 

    Twitter | https://twitter.com/markkroos

    TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@markkroos

    54 min
  • How to develop manly skills. A Battle Plan for Masculinity
    No one goes into battle without a battle plan. Well, if they do go into battle without the plan, they are not the heroes we read about in the history books. They’re the ones who lose.

    https://youtu.be/68sNL35ecwo

    So let’s make a battle plan for manhood… a strategy to develop the manly skills we need.
    1. Identify some skills that you know you lack and want to learn.
    2. Study the information - through books, podcasts, youtube videos.
    3. Practice on your own - skills are the result of informed discipline.
    4. Apprentice from a master - Find others who know the skills you need, and shadow them
    5. The apprentice becomes the master.- We learn even more when we teach.
    6. What manly skills should a man acquire?

      Here’s a list of skills that many men strive to achieve.

      • Fatherhood
      • Romance
      • Taking care of your stuff
      • Fitness
      • Wilderness and Survival
      • Leadership and Mentorship
      • Combat and Self Defense
      • Planning and Time Management
      • Financial skills
      • Employment skills
      • Communication Skills
      • 20 min
      • Dr. John Delony | How Men Can Overcome Trauma and Anxiety

        Coming Soon! The Arrows and Iron Brotherhood! SIGN UP HERE to find out more! | http://manlihood.com/brotherhood


        Men often struggle with mental health and overcoming past trauma

        Men’s mental health is an issue that often gets ignored in our society. Men are expected to be tough, to be emotionally resilient, but no one is teaching men how to do that. Our Manlihood ManCast interview with Dr. John Delony gives men practical advice for working on our mindsets, dealing with our past, and building the connections and community we need to grow.

        Bestselling author Dr. John Delony talks about mental health

        Dr. John Delony is a national bestselling author, mental health and wellness

        expert and host of The Dr. John Delony Show. He holds two PhDs – one in

        Counselor Education and Supervision and another in Higher Education

        Administration. Before joining Ramsey Solutions, John spent two decades working

        as a senior leader at multiple universities, a professor and researcher, and crisis

        responder. Now as a Ramsey Personality, he teaches people how to reclaim their

        lives from the madness of the modern world.

        Dr. John Delony talks about trauma in a way men can understand

        Delony says that Trauma is not just experiencing a catastrophic event. It can be neglect, not being seen, or experiencing hard things alone. Big or small, trauma is cumulative.

        Trauma is stored in our body. It’s not just a story from the past, but it’s the body’s physical reaction in the present to something that happened in the past.  We get disconnected from our relationships, our spirits, and our bodies when trauma impacts us.

        Trauma causes us to act in ways that are out of our character. It destroys the value of self, and we act in response to everything - which can oftentimes create more trauma.

        More from Dr. John Delony

        Website | http://Johndelony.com

        Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnDelony/ 

        Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/JohnDelony 

        Instagram @johndelony | https://www.instagram.com/johndelony/ 

        Twitter @johndelony | https://twitter.com/johndelony

        1 hr

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