How did Earth Day become a thing? How do we take the message of Earth Day to heart and make changes in our lifestyles that support our environment? In this episode, your host Shawn Berry delves into the history of Earth Day, dealing with the guilt of "not doing more". He also encourages us to build relationship with nature as a key to make the difficult lifestyle choices that we know we need to make to preserve the beauty of Earth for our children and grandchildren.

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside.

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

"Nobody can do your work for you."

While brotherhood is vital for accountability, a man must learn how to self-start. Since men frequently experience a lack of motivation, Jeddy teaches a sustainable method for generating enthusiasm. Listen in for the complete set of keys needed to create results in our lives.

Highlights:

• What 2 traits are required to create results?
• How does self-awareness translate into real life changes?
• How can we stay motivated?

Rising Man Links:

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside.

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

"When presence is there and when there's no hidden agenda, it allows a woman to RELAX and TRUST."

As a marriage therapist and dating coach, Melanie Hersch thoroughly understands what holds men back from dating with confidence. In relationships, establishing trust and safety is crucial. This requires bold honesty, authentic expression, and clear intention. We also cover how to stop attracting the same type of partner, why ghosting is commonplace, and how to break the ice during an awkward date.

Highlights:

• Why to lead with strength, freedom, safety, and confidence when dating.
• How can we establish trust with women?
• Why honestly admitting that you don't know something is okay as long as there's confidence that you'll find the answer.
• "Why do I keep attracting the same thing?" - How Melanie figured out why her dating life was following the same patterns.
• How can we practice being more authentic?
• Is treating dating like applying to a job a healthy approach?
• Are we preparing ourselves for the relationship of our dreams?
• Why naming our emotions and authentically expressing them is key to emotional wellbeing.
• "A leader is the person in the room most willing to be uncomfortable" - Jeddy
• How to break the ice if a date is stiff and awkward.
• Why you can't be responsible for someone else's reaction.
• How does neediness show up and why will it sabotage relational health?
• The distinction between requests and demands.
• If you're not honest upfront, you are just delaying the inevitable, and increasing the size of the heartbreak.

Connect with Melanie Hersch:

Instagram | @melaniehersch

Website | GoodAtYou.com

Facebook | Good at You

Rising Man Links:

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside.

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

A leader expresses emotion cleanly, using his heart for the benefit of all. A boy expresses wildly, with little intention nor regard for others. Listen in for the keys to navigating emotions like a master, which include being solution oriented, acknowledging our triggers, and responding vs. reacting.

Highlights:

• Why lengthening the gap between the trigger and the response is vital.
• How to differentiate between the event itself and what we make it mean.
• Why moving toward the solution helps dissolve the emotional charge.

Rising Man Links:

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside.

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

In the second part of this interview, Dylan Smith uses his extensive knowledge of the human body and Vedic philosophy to enlighten us on sexual energy. This energy is our sacred, vital life force and it affects far more than our sex lives. He shares how to optimize our digestive fire, why relational health boils down to love vs. lust, and how to respect a woman on her moontime.

Show Notes:

• Do most cancer cases stem from lifestyle decisions?
• How to honor the cycles of a woman's moontime.
• Why are women typically not allowed into Indigenous ceremonies when they are on their moon?
• How to balance adherence to ancient scripture with the latest scientific understandings.
• Does orgasm and ejaculation deplete our vitality?
• Why a man's reproductive health impacts his ENTIRE LIFE, not just procreation.
• How can you optimize your digestive fire?
• What are the differences between vata, kapha, and pitta body types?
• Is there a difference between genital massage and masturbation?
• What are the rarely talked about side effects of the various popular contraception methods?
• Why sexual and relational health comes down to love vs. lust.
• How to utilize the saying that "where attention goes, energy flows."
• "In Ayurveda we don't remove the disease, we bring back the health and the disease dissipates" - Dylan Smith
• How to re-enliven your memory of perfect health.

Connect with Dylan Smith:

Website | Vitalveda.com.au - Sign up for a consultation

Podcast | The Vital Veda Ayurveda | Holistic Health | Cosmic and Natural Law

Instagram | @vitalveda

Rising Man Links:

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside. Next event is 4/16-4/18 in CA!

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

"What if I leaned into discomfort and busted through the barrier?"

When it comes to breaking free of familiar patterns, a DISCOVERY mindset is essential. Listen in as Jeddy explains why living for maximum comfortability will hold us back and how to welcome the unknown.

Highlights:

• How every action has a motivation or purpose behind it.
• What are side effects of living in safe, familiar patterns?
• How do we break out of deeply ingrained patterns?
• Why looking at your relationships can help you locate the underlying story or pattern.

Rising Man Links:

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside. Next event is 4/16-4/18 in CA!

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

No one is holding you back except yourself. By prioritizing his ultimate purpose and participating in masculine embodiment practices, Luke Kohen makes an incredible impact on the world. Through his spoken word poetry, music, and stories, he offers transcendent guidance in these tumultuous times. We explore why peace is the warrior's ultimate goal, how to embody Indigenous values, and why a man's purpose MUST be his priority.

Highlights:

• What does it mean to be a steward of light and integrity?
• Why "It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war".
• What do you care enough about to take a stand for?
• How martial arts helped activate Luke's masculine nature.
• Why an understanding of peace and resolution is the underpinning of martial arts.
• How Luke transcended self-hatred and war-driven conditioning.
• "The recognition and full acknowledgement that we wield the full power to both create and destroy is one of the most sacred things we have to reconcile as men." - Luke
• "I don't trust somebody who hasn't gotten to know their anger" - Jeddy
• How the lack of precise language to expression emotion negatively affects our culture.
• When was the last time you wrestled another grown man?
• "The people who can use their voices the most powerfully also are clearly anchored into their bodies" - Jeddy
• How Luke's latest spoken word poetry piece "YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS" came to fruition.
• Why all people have Indigenous roots, no matter how buried the connection.
• "We are the ones being invited to clean up the ancestral pain and trauma that has been passed onto us" - Luke.
• "Make your purpose your number one priority, and everything else will fall into place" - Luke.

Connect with Luke Kohen:

Instagram | @lukekohen

YouTube | Luke Kohen

Rising Man Links:

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside. Next event is 4/16-4/18 in CA!

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

No matter your level of education, you have something of value to teach others. Jeddy shares proven teaching principles that will help you create lasting, meaningful impact. He also offers self-reflection questions to ensure you aren't teaching material that you yourself have not yet mastered.

Highlights:

• Why there is always an opportunity to lead and teach.
• "I don't have to wait to give back to people who are not at the level or stage that I'm at" - Jeddy.
• Are unqualified men attempting to lead men's work programs?

Rising Man Links:

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside. Next event is 4/16-4/18 in CA!

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

"You cannot hold your wife's pain anymore than she can hold yours, but rather we witness, we support, we listen" - Chief Phillip Scott.

Unhealthy paradigms surrounding masculinity and femininity reign supreme in today's popular culture. In the quest to bring egalitarian principles to the world, we asked a seasoned elder for his perspective. We talk about achieving right relations among all people, honoring the Earth, and remaining grounded in the midst of pain.

Highlights:

• What does it mean to be in right relationship with the feminine?
• Why is the Earth considered feminine?
• How to create egalitarian relations between all genders and identities.
• Why invoking the ancestors is a powerful transformational aid.
• "A mentor is not a screen for your projections, but a mirror for your reflections" - Chief Phillip Scott
• Are you able to sit in discomfort without having to immediately fix it?
• Is grief avoidable?
• Do matriarchy and patriarchy imply a hierarchy?
• Who is White Buffalo Calf Woman and what is her importance?
• Indigenous perspectives on Two Spirits, non-binary folks, and transitioning to other genders.
• Why women on their moon-time are often asked to refrain from participating in lodges and ceremonies.
• "It's the grandmothers who are calling the shots" - Chief Phillip Scott

Connect with Chief Phillip Scott:

Facebook | Ancestral Voice, Institute of Indigenous Lifeways

Most effective way to reach him is by cell - # (415) 310-0981 - Call or text for info on ceremonies, pilgrimages, and rites of passages

Email | [email protected]

Rising Man Links:

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside. Next event is 4/16-4/18 in CA!

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!

What is the cost of holding back on your full expression? The short term pain might be manageable, but the long term ramifications are MASSIVE. Don't live to appease others, boldly express your voice, style, and gifts to the world.

Show Notes:

• Why altering and editing yourself constantly will lock the true you
• Are you walking and talking on eggshells, concerned about what others may think?
• How living in truth and authenticity can help others realize their freedom

Rising Man Links:

Elements | 3 Day Wilderness Immersion for men ready to reconnect with the wild man inside. Next event is 4/16-4/18 in CA!

Ignite | 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!

Fire Circles | Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment?

Initiation | Compass Program - 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.

Website | RisingMan.org

Instagram | @risingmanmovement

Instagram | @jeddyazuma

YouTube | The Rising Man Movement - featuring videos of each Monday Morning Meditation episode!