Menfolk Journeys
This podcast explores how different men from all walks of life wear the beautiful and confusing mantle of manhood.
Men can be knuckleheads in public life. But in private, if given the right questions and if they feel comfortable, men can also be thoughtful, reflective, and have deep conversations about their lives, big questions, and meaningful ideas.
We have great conversations with men just like us and from all walks of life, so we can learn from their personal stories and all get better together.
Episodes
65 episodes
64. Eric And The Fire In His Belly That Keeps Burning
Full disclosure: Eric Foster is my older brother...but this isn't a conversation about our family, siblinghood, or any of that.It's about how he takes advantage of the 24 hours that are granted to ALL of us, and what he does to make the ...
63. Brian And Retiring With Purpose And Committment
Brian did a LOT of things well in his adulthood, and he seems like a model that others want to aspire to: married, children, grandchildren, and a lucrative career that enabled him to retire with comfort.And now, with the next chapter in ...
62. Pedrum and Being The Rock Of His Family
When you're a younger man, there's often a yen to leave the house, strike out on your own, and find your identity in your independence.For Pedrum, he's leaning into his identity as the rock that anchors his family. At 26, he's building t...
61. Jason and Facilitating Moments Of Brotherhood
Have you ever had a moment where you see the man you want to become?Jason was able to meet someone who held up a vision of his future self...and it changed the entire direction of his career and life.Now, he brings together men fo...
60. Shaun Is Intent On Raising His Cub Right
The challenges fathers have in raising young boys today seems, well, more challenging than before.From conflicting models of what manhood and masculinity should be, to readily-accessible pornography, to figuring out how to sociali...
59. Shalin and How Breathing Changed His Life
Why does it seem like such a simple thing to breathe...and for there to be an entire course of study on how to breathe?Shalin began to understand the power of breathwork when he was 16 years old, and on the cusp of manhood....
58. William and Creating a Brotherhood
Who is are the people that help you with your life?Do you have a cohort, a group, a tribe, a brotherhood, that can show you who you want to be?Do you have those people who are also inspired by you, so they can become a be...
57. Michael and The Opening Of His Eyes
Are there specific, precise, lodged-in-your-memory moments in your life that completely changed the direction of your thinking, your purpose, your entire way of living?Do you have a time that totally shifted your perspective on what you ...
56. Randy and Rebuilding a Framework
What happens when you decide to dismantle your own life, because it wasn't working for you?Do you have the courage to deconstruct...and then rebuild? Can you look around your life and - if it's not what you want from it - beg...
55. McKenzie and A Definition of Manliness
Why do so many men struggle with communication...especially in their intimate relationships? Oftentimes, men find it more uncomfortable to share feelings and thoughts than just about anything else...but that skill is the key to havi...
54. Jeremy and Overcoming Porn Addiction
Addiction comes in many ways and forms...and the most pernicious of all are addictions that are Anonymous, Affordable, and Accessible. Unfortunately, with today's technologies, pornography checks all of those addiction boxes. And fo...
53. Scott and Coaching Through Adversity
It's one thing to be a coach and help your athletes overcome challenges, injury, setbacks, and mental blocks.It's another thing to be a coach and have to overcome your own adversity - even your own disability.Scott was disabled in...
52. Patton and The Father You Get
How can you reconcile your memories of your father, when doing so becomes painful, embarrassing, and leaves you with a feeling of loss?Patton has had to think about his sonhood experiences with his alcoholic father, and the destructive w...
51. Anthony on Supreme Nature and Recovery
As a young man, Anthony embraced his natural surroundings in Appalachia, paying attention to the workings of the world. With family around him, and a model of manhood in his grandfather, he grew up in a place where he knew he belonged.A ...
50. Lyubim and His Heroic Journey
The Hero's Journey is generally, in broad strokes, thought of as Joseph Campbell's archetype of a single person going into the Wilderness, encountering the Challenge, overcoming the Challenge, and becoming Transformed in the process. Then the H...
49. Eric and Being Lionhearted
What does it mean to be Lionhearted?How can you be - as a man - a Warrior, Lover, King, and Hero? And, what do those archetypes actually mean in terms of building ourselves?And, when you’re raised to be quiet, small, and unassumin...
48. Chris and His Questions of Faith
No one knows what kind of experiences change how we think about our Faith. It's private, individual, and can't be thought of as a common experience.Chris want to West Point with a plan of being a soldier, then a chaplain. A goal to becom...
47. Josh and Overcoming the System
The Foster Care experience is referred to - by the kids who live it - as "The System." For the youth who are doing the best they can to live their life, The System can be filled with strangeness, uncertainty, and above all, the feeling like the...
46. Brad and Clearing out the Baggage
Laying down a foundation for your life - something upon which to build an ethical, moral, and livable framework - might be one of the most important things we do.How will I treat others? What do I value? What's important to me? How do I ...
45. Matthew and Our Dance With Reality
Living a life that guided by Faith is rare. And, building a profession from a foundation of Faith is even rarer, unless you become a church leader.Matthew is not a church leader, but he is a learned scholar of Christian works by St. Thom...
44. Aaron and our Relationship with Money
What does it mean to have a relationship with money? We attach such deep emotion, anxiety, and energy to the idea of money in our personal lives, and in the world itself. We think about money in terms of status, livelihood, material...
43. Troy and Being True To Yourself
If you have the gift of performance, and are inspired to pursue a career...do you go for it? Do you really dive in and make it happen? Or, do you tuck it away and go for a safer pathway?Troy Horne decided to stay true to himself, and lea...
42. Anil and Loving Relationships
No one said that relationships were easy. And, growing up, we only have the models around us to see how to have successful - or unsuccessful - relationships. Of course, we learn as we have more experience, and figure out what works or doesn't w...
41. Mike and Learning To Love Yourself
When you have dyslexia, not only can you be challenged by reading, but you can also become beset with anxiety, feelings of being stupid, and all of the embarrassment that comes with those years.And, when you know you're smart, imagine ho...
