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Six years ago, while staffing a New Warrior Training Adventure, I met a Man that I know I've known for many lifetimes.  His name was Les Gaines, and unfortunately he passed away almost two years ago.  I miss this Man dearly and can remember the many conversations we have had that were healing, educational, and uplifting for both of us at various points in our life.  

Several weeks ago, I saw his wife posted a memory of Les playing with his Daughter, and I got so emotional thinking of his spirit and wisdom, and wanting others to be able to hear his voice and his words.  A day after this, I was cleaning out my email inbox and came across a file Les shared with me, and when I opened it, it was a conversation we had four years ago.  And I got emotional again after hearing it.  

After listening to it, I was floored at the wisdom that Les shared about leadership, healing wounds, and laying our "baggage" to rest to fully embrace all that we can be.  I knew this was something more people get to listen to, so we decided as a Hosting Team to share this conversation.   

Key takeaways from this episode: 

• When acting on purpose, be mindful of your associations
• Be intentional 
• What does it mean to be a mature Man
• Bless and acknowledge your wounds

If you identify as  a BIPOC (i.e. Black/ a Person of Some Obvious African Ancestry, Indigenous, or a Person of Color) Man, and are interesting in being a part of a safe space for BlPOC men to just be and do what we call “the inner work:” the refining of one’s way of living through self-reflection and introspection.  Check out of of the following opportunities

You Can Find Out More Here:

• New to men's work? Introductory Training Website: 
  https://mkpusa.org/themenswork-bipoc
• Weekly open Men's BIPOC Circle : Brotherhood of King's Collective (Saturdays 12pm - 1:30pm eastern / Zoom info below
• Want to take a deeper dive into men's work? https://mkpusa.org/crossroads/

Contact Jermaine to find out how to become part of the Brothahood of MKP: [email protected]

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Brandon Peele, author of the brand new book, “Purpose Work Nation: Leading Organizations in Service of Our Nation’s Sacred Purpose” which launches on February 22, 2022. 

Is it possible that the unraveling of narratives we’re seeing around us might be an opportunity to actually manifest some of the visions that the United States is founded on? Is there an opportunity in what seems like chaos … for Equality, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and unity. e pluribus unum … 

And how might organizations and companies be the best positioned places to make this happen?

And what do the Bald Eagle and the Bison have to do with this?

Brandon’s work on building purpose has taken him all over the US speaking and working with audiences at some of the biggest companies in the world. Purpose Work Nation brings forth the research about where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we might choose to go, together. 

Your support for Brandon’s work will also have a positive impact for the ManKind Project! Brandon is generously donating a portion of the book’s proceeds to the ManKind Project USA. 

This conversation is for you if you’re feeling the tectonic shifts in the culture and looking for ways to help forge new directions for yourself and the organizations you work with. It’s for you if you’re a leader interested in quadruple-bottom line kind of thinking, people, planet, profit. 

4:00 What if purpose is a human right? 

5:00 How being socialized gradually dulls our sense of adventure and limits our access to remembering WHO WE ARE. 

7:30 Rehumanizing ourselves out of the made-up beliefs that lock us down. 

10:30 Moving from self-centered to interconnected. 

17:00 Complexity as a motivator for Purpose work. 

19:00 How our narratives keep unfolding, offering us a set of new possibilities for human growth and connection. 

22:00 What is our purpose as a nation? Can we find a unifying purpose that helps us move forward? 

25:00 Why look at organizations as a place for the expansion of purpose? 

31:00 What will “Purpose Work Nation” teach us? 

32:00 Collective myths and reimagining our old stories? 

35:00 The Twin Drivers of Flourishing

Get the book! http://purposework.us/

Learn more about Unity Lab: https://www.unitylab.co/

Read about Brandon in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/afdhelaziz/2021/10/11/how-unity-lab-is-pioneering-a-new-path-to-activate-employee-purposeand-foster-inclusion-and-respect-in-companies/?sh=b5af5a4c3195


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After 25 years in the corporate world, 10 of those being as a Senior Executive, Jim Young witnessed and experienced the effects of "Burnout."

Having watched his fellow colleagues and subordinates go from engaged, attentive, and motivated to distant, exhausted, and checked out, Jim began to ask the quest "What causes this cycle of intense work ethic and output in men, only to end in eventual burnout?"

Motivated to find the answer, Jim became a licensed coach to defeat the "Other Pandemic" affecting workers all over the world: BURNOUT!

Jim joins Brandon today to share his findings of what CAUSES burnout in men and how the scripts we've been given from a young age are to blame.

Key takeaways from this episode: 

• How to spot the symptoms of burnout before it's too late.
• The lessons we were taught as young boys which, to this day, still impact how we work as adults.
• How intimacy can be the cure to the burnout you are experiencing.
  
  

Loved Jim? You Can Find Out More Here:

• Website: https://thecenterdcoach.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecenteredcoach/

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Jordan’s book, “Father Figure; How to Be a Feminist Dad” takes on a number of narratives about parenthood and gender and offers a set of frameworks to challenge a lot of common understandings of parenting and fatherhood. 

This episode is for you if you're ready to geek out at the intersection of Archetypal Psychology and Feminist thought. It's for you if you're a Dad struggling to make sense of what's happening with your kids. It's for you if you're determined to not reproduce some of the damaging messages  you may be carrying about what it means to be a 'Father Figure' in your kids lives. 

4:30 - How our culture is being challenged to reimagine core ideas around agency, autonomy, and personal growth. 

7:00 - Looking at Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey with new eyes 

10:00 - Using the Hero’s Journey to draw distinctions around where we fit in and where we push back against cultural norms.

13:45 - Learning to parse the useful … and the not so useful.

15:00 - How do we find meaning? 

30:00 - What does it mean to be a Feminist Dad? 

38:00 - But without the old narrative, isn’t it just chaos? 

42:00 - Learning to reflect when you’re in the ‘Fall-Back’ Position.

43:00 - The Four Frames of Responsive Fathering / Responsive Parenting 

47:00 - Recognizing that we’re in conflicting myths. 

55:30 - The Value of Emotions / Catharsis / and the Therapeutic Process. 

Learn More: 

https://www.jordanshapiro.org/

Books Referenced in the Episode: 

Father Figure: How to Become A Feminist Dad by Jordan Shapiro

The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World by Jordan Shapiro

The Hero with A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis by Emily Jane Willingham 

The Will to Change by bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

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Jermaine Johnson is the Director of The Brothahood of MKP, a group for men of obvious African ancestry that is part of the ManKind Project USA. In this episode of the ManKind Podcast, host Paul Newell sits down with Jermaine to talk about the blessings and challenges of building vibrant communities within other communities. 


Key takeaways from this episode: 

• Learn about the ManKind Project history
• What it's like to be 'the only one' in a community
• The healing benefits of being in uncomfortable situations
• Facing collective trauma to heal the whole community
• Practicing authentic connection and breaking through the armor
• How to call in the people that resonate to build community 
  
  

You Can Find Out More Here:

• New to men's work? Introductory Training Website: 
  https://mkpusa.org/themenswork-bipoc

Contact Jermaine to find out how to become part of the Brothahood: [email protected]

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Melissa Hite is a Sexual and Spiritual Advisor who has spent her entire life studying the physical body, sexuality, and spirituality. With a balance of academic and experiential education, Melissa is helping heal the wounds of people who are seeking deeper connection and intimacy within themselves.

Melissa uses her unique experiences from her 10 years as a legal sex worker to help her clients better understand and establish healthy boundaries for themselves and others.


Key takeaways from this episode: 

• “The degree to which you respect your own boundaries is the degree in which you’re able to respect the boundaries of others.”
• There are outdated stigmas attached to sex work that prevents many from experiencing its healing benefits.
• Our bodies are the first thing to signal and let us know when our boundaries are overstepped.
  
  

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• Website: https://highersexeducation.com/
• Book Melissa: https://highersexeducation.com/contact/

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Why should men care about healthy masculinity, belonging, inclusion and equity in the workplace? 

How do we connect with men where they are, and how do we invite them deeper into the conversation? 

Learn what organizations and leaders can get for themselves and their companies out of doing this kind of work. 

4:10 - the Man In the Mirror Moment that brought Ray to his work

7:30 - How the Better Man Conference has touched tens of thousands of men and women in over 200 corporations around the world. 

11:50 - Who Ray is speaking to, Is this for you?

13:00 - Five States of Men Getting into Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work.

15:50 - What is the dynamic duo of allyship? 

18:45 - What is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion? 

20:45 - How we can think about Leadership in terms of Family.

23:10 - Four Steps on the Allyship Journey.

27:00 - Looking at Advantages & Accountability and how we use it.

Learn more about Ray Arata: https://www.rayarata.com/ 

Learn more about the Better Man Conference: https://bettermanconference.com/ 

Buy “Showing Up; How Men Can Become Effective Allies in the Workplace” 

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Erin Brandt has traveled and supported men in men's groups for over 5 years to learn more about themselves, their relationship to women, their autonomic nervous systems, attachment and so much more! This is how I (Boysen) first met Erin, but there's so much more ... 

Erin helps all kinds of people (through individual and group work) learn to understand and heal attachment wounds through a mixture of somatic and dialectic processes aimed at helping  them 'parent' and sooth themselves.

Some Key takeaways from this episode: 

• Understanding Your Autonomic Nervous System 
• Beginning to understand your Attachment System and how powerful this is in our relationships
• What is healthy attachment? 
• What's at the core of self-esteem? 
• How do we learn to create healthy attachment (by CARING for ourselves)? 

Loved Erin? You Can Find Out More Here: 

• Twitter: @ErinErinTherapy 
• Web Site: http://www.appreciatingmen.com/ 
• 6 Hacks to Calm Your Nervous System Fast: www.CalmAndEngaged.com/6-hacks 

Other than one on one coaching or couples coaching, which is always available, the newest way that Erin is working with men online is through ... 

- Small group Q&A sessions,  one month at a time
- 4 men or masculine identifying people per group
- one hour per week 
- 3 weeks per month 

- Each man gets 10 min to ask ANY question he wants… in general the goal is to ask about relationships, as we are contributing to an online library of relationship tools for men, but relationships are based on knowing yourself AND knowing your partner… so you can ask questions about yourself, about your partner, about women in general, about relationships in general. 

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Book Recommendations: 

HOLD ME TIGHT by Sue Johnson

3 of Stan Tatkin’s great books:

• WE DO - for new couples to see if you have/ give you a roadmap to build secure functioning in your relationship
• WIRED FOR DATING - gives examples of how a date might sound if both people are insecurely attached, and then how the date could go better if even just one partner responds in a securely attached way
• WIRED FOR LOVE - Like Wired for Dating for committed couples, WITH a set of agreements at the back to work on committing to to work towards a secure functioning relationship

Erin's  favorite attachment teacher is Diane Poole Heller, because she combines attachment with somatics (listening to the body) + with the relational field between two people.

Her book is THE POWER OF ATTACHMENT, and if you prefer an audiobook, hers is called HEALING YOUR ATTACHMENT WOUNDS.

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Chris Hemmings is a Mancunian, he's a man from Manchester. This fact alone connotes a number of characteristics about how he grew up; proud, scrappy, and very much coded into a particular kind of British manhood.

In this episode, we’ll talk about the rules, expectations, entitlement, pain ... AND the positive possibilities of "Lad-Culture." How our upbringing, our schooling, and our early years shape and harden our attitudes about what it means to be boys and men, about how we see women and girls, about where we think our place is in the world as men. About waking up to our impacts in the world.
 
About how repressing our emotions damages our physical, mental, and emotional health.
And about how we can make real cultural changes for the young men in our lives. 

Some Key takeaways from this episode: 

• Start talking & listening about the real stuff. 
• Own your impacts. Work for self-forgiveness and accountability. 
• Do the healing work you need to do to be able to see and own the real impacts of your behaviors.
• You don’t have to know what to do next. It’s OK. Normalize making mistakes. 
  
  

Loved Chris? You Can Find Out More Here:

• Book: https://www.amazon.com/Be-Man-Chris-Hemmings/dp/1785901672
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hemmch
• Web Site: https://www.chris-hemmings.com/

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Justin Baldoni is an actor, director, producer, speaker, and entrepreneur who is focused on creating impactful media and entertainment.

He is also the author of Man Enough - Undefining My Masculinityalongside his role as co-host of the Man Enough Podcast with his fellow hosts, Liz Plank and Jamey Heath where they invite guests to discuss the impacts of traditional masculinity on all people while reminding their audience that they are enough.

Justin joins a panel for an in-depth discussion around many issues that are associated today with manhood and masculinity. Topics include privilege, pornography, competitiveness, and the challenges that are front of mind for a lot of men.

You can expect both a lot of laughs and insights as Justin, Brandon, Paul, and Boysen dive deep into this discussion.

Loved Justin? You Can Find Out More Here:

• Book: Man Enough - Undefining My Masculinity
• Podcast: Man Enough Podcast 
• Instagram: Justin Baldoni

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