Jeremy & Tyler are back in the studio to how culturally rewarded patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting can function like addictions for men, keeping them trapped while believing they are powerful and “in control.” The cost? Over time, they diminish the man himself, shrinking his humanity, robbing his authentic relationships, mystery, interdependence, and the...

“Whether you are rich or whether you are poor, life delivers challenges to you” and despite these challenges, our guest Deremiah points out how much embracing our choice and autonomy regardless of the circumstances defines how we live. We do not get to choose our challenges. Learning how to listen to ourselves, to listen to...

This week we explore what it means to be a bully, a manipulator, a tyrant, and an addict under the siren song of “winning.” We ask ourselves how the reductionist and simplistic rules of sports or the battlefield do not serve the versions of leadership to which we aspire and know we are capable of...

This week we explore our own encounters with how traditional expectations both elevate and imprison, leading to breakdown before breakthrough. The conversation explores: “What expectations about manhood did you inherit that nobody taught you how to actually embody?” “When have you felt most trapped by the very roles that were supposed to give you strength...

This week Tiffany and Tyler sit down with the author of Hold My Hand, Mama, A touching story that walks readers through the circle of life from a daughter’s first steps to her mother’s last and beyond. Gabrielle was the recipient of the Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold and shares her story with Goodpain and what...

Jeremy and Tyler open Season 02 of Goodpain with an overarching discussion of masculinity, how they arrived at the topic and introduce the importance of Initiation Rites, and what happens in their absence. The discussion moves from Aboriginal Australia to sub-saharan Africa for wisdom involving of masculine energy. Ultimately, Jeremy & Tyler share their own...

We’ve reduced civic duty to voting, but community emerges from deliberate cultivation of beliefs, attitudes, and rituals practiced between solitude and collective life. Community isn’t manufactured through programs or proximity. It emerges when we practice civic arts we’ve abandoned: endurance, gratitude, and fierce presence.

The patterns that destroy community aren’t random failures or unfortunate side effects. They’re the logical result of certain assumptions about value, scale, efficiency, and human nature – assumptions so embedded in modern life that they’re nearly invisible. We’ve built systems that systematically undermine the very conditions that make community possible, all while telling ourselves we’re...

In this final installment of the Apprenticeship Model for Leadership series, we talk about Generational Maintenance, synthesizing all domains for lifelong practice within a framework of intellectual humility and twenty-year thinking. We also introduce the model for our next series, the Northern Arapaho’s Four Hills of Life Movement. In this context we use the model...

Different cultures have developed sophisticated approaches to leadership, mentorship, and wisdom transmission that may conflict with Western apprenticeship models. The challenge is learning from diverse traditions without imposing our frameworks or appropriating sacred practices. The bridge-builders themselves face this as they share knowledge with global researchers while maintaining the cultural integrity of their practices, in...