10 Ways to Make Yourself More Influential | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this Friday Field Notes episode, Ryan Michler shares ten powerful strategies to become more influential in every area of life. From building strength and dressing with purpose to mastering communication, practicing honesty, and making exceptionalism the standard, Ryan delivers actionable insights for men who want to lead with integrity and impact. He also emphasizes the importance of follow-through, consistency, and lightheartedness in building trust. Whether at home, at work, or in the community, these principles equip listeners to show up as the man they are meant to be.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Introduction
02:28 Build Strength & Muscle
04:56 Dress Your Age & Occasion
09:38 Learn to Communicate Well
14:26 Use Self-Deprecation
15:38 Get Good at Saying “I Don’t Know”
18:39 Get Good at Saying “I Don’t Agree”
23:03 Be Ruthlessly Consistent
25:13 Make Exceptionalism Your Standard
29:43 Follow Through on Commitments
31:38 Laugh, Smile & Be Lighthearted
34:00 Bonus – Never Let Them See You Sweat
36:20 Closing Remarks
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| 0:00.0 | Make exceptionalism your standard. |
| 0:03.5 | We do everything with exceptionalism. |
| 0:07.5 | If you're gonna cook dinner tonight, be exceptional. |
| 0:11.5 | My kids, I asked them what they wanted for dinner tonight. |
| 0:13.5 | They said, we want spaghetti. |
| 0:15.5 | That's gonna be the best bowl of spaghetti they ever had. |
| 0:19.5 | If I show up ready to do this podcast, you can see. |
| 0:23.8 | The lighting's right. The audio's right. I just bought some new equipment that I'm going to be |
| 0:29.2 | testing this weekend to make it even better because I want to show up exceptionally. |
| 0:36.5 | Several years ago, I wrote a book called The Masculinity Manifesto with a subtitle |
| 0:41.6 | How a Man builds Influence, Credibility, and Authority. And specifically today, I want to unpack |
| 0:47.9 | the influence equation, the influence factor in that equation, I should say, because I really |
| 0:53.3 | believe that as a man, it's our job to |
| 0:56.0 | build and forge and develop a level of influence with the people that we want to serve. |
| 1:03.5 | If you have no influence, then you cannot possibly serve anyone. I think influence gets a bit of a bad rap. I think a lot of people tend to think that |
| 1:14.2 | being influential might have some sort of negative manipulation component to it. And I don't believe |
| 1:20.7 | that's the case at all because we're dealing with people who get to decide whether or not they're |
| 1:25.3 | going to be influenced by you. And by the way, |
| 1:28.0 | they are going to be influenced by you, whether they want to or not. They're going to learn things |
| 1:33.0 | about you. They're going to read into you. They're going to make decisions based on how you show up |
| 1:39.1 | and how you respond. And if you show up in a negative, destructive way, they're going to be influenced by that. If you show up in a positive, destructive way, they're going to be influenced by that. |
| 1:45.6 | If you show up in a positive, constructive way, they're also going to be influenced by that. |
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