It's the same thing with emotions. You don't need to be mad at the indicator. You need to figure out what it's telling you.

So if you're angry, which sometimes is the appropriate emotion, great. Figure out why you're angry and what you're actually going to do about it.

If you're sad, well, that's an indicator that something's off in your life. So figure out what it is.

Address it accordingly and then deal with that emotion. That's the more constructive way to deal with emotions rather than pentamup.

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

On this episode, we're talking with my friend Ryan Mickler. She is the author of Sovereignty, the battle for the hearts and minds of men.

It's a great book. I wish I had it in my 20s, but I probably wait to stubborn and arrogant to listen to any of the advice in here.

It's not about being some sort of manly man who shoots things and eats them. A lot of this stuff is counter to the narrative of being some sort of unfeeling hard-ass.

And I was really pleased to see that Ryan grew up without a permanent father figure.

He's seen firsthand how a lack of strong, ambitious and self-sufficient men has impacted society today.

He's also a husband, father, Iraqi combat veteran and the founder of the Order of Man.

So this is a guy who's been exploring masculinity for a while from a position of genuine curiosity because he didn't have the role models to develop this in a healthy way himself.

So I really think this is a good episode for especially younger guys out there, but men and women alike of all ages have something to take away from this one.

We'll discover that there's a far greater enemy inside of us than there is outside of us.

It's good if we take responsibility for things because then of course we can control and improve them and we'll discuss why we're on our worst enemy when it comes to that and why that's empowering.

We'll also explore the idea that if we want to regain our sovereignty, we have to let our excuses die even if they are valid excuses.

And we'll also learn to formulate an after-action review.

This is a process that Ryan has implemented in his life with these five questions to analyze the effectiveness of every encounter, project or conversation.

It's really key to continual progression in every area of life and we're going to outline that for you here as well.

Don't forget we have worksheets for today's episode so you can make sure you understand and get all the keys that Ryan is dropping today on the show.

That link is in the show notes at jordanharbinger.com slash podcast.

All right, here's Ryan Mickler. Hey Ryan, thanks for coming back on the show man.

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