Burett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

Well back in 2012, the owners of Huckberry introduced me to a guy who owned a company called

GoRuck.

Besides making high quality rug packs, I also know that GoRuck put on these all-night

events for which participants hauled a 40-pound weight in their backpack while being led

through a series of physically and mentally-grilling exercises like push-ups, bear crawls,

and carrying an 800-pound log with their teammates.

And that's how I found myself in downtown Oklahoma City at 12 in the morning, sitting

in a pond next to my brother in below freezing weather in the middle of November.

Nine hours, hundreds of squat thrusts later, and 12 miles later, I finished my first GoRuck

challenge.

And then I've done other GoRuck events and I've learned a lot about resilience, leadership

and teamwork in the process.

And today on the show, I talked to the founder of GoRuck Jason McCarthy, who started the

company after serving as a Green Beret in Iraq.

What began as a backpack company has morphed into a tight-knit community of people looking

to push themselves through what Jason calls good, live in.

Today on the show, Jason and I discussed where the idea of the GoRuck events came from,

and what a man can learn about leadership, teamwork, and community by doing hard things

with other people.

After the show is over, check out the show notes at aowm.is-goRuck, where he finally

used to resources where he dealt deeper into this topic.

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