Be a Better Man, Raise Your Sons Right, and Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Body | ASK ME ANYTHING
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Ask Me Anything, Ryan and Kipp dive deep into ancestry, fatherhood, marriage, leadership, depression, and raising strong young men in a modern world. From guiding your kids with better standards, to rebuilding intimacy in marriage, to understanding what real vulnerability looks like, this episode is packed with practical wisdom. They also discuss how men often become their own biggest obstacle - and what to do about it.
Plus, a conversation about movies that shape boys into men.
If you're navigating fatherhood, marriage, or personal growth, this one hits home.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Ironman Training & Weekend Plans
09:05 - Family Ancestry & Legacy
15:51 - Raising Kids with Higher Standards
25:03 - What Women Mean by "Vulnerability"
28:47 - Are Movies a Good Way to Teach Boys?
40:35 - Marriage Struggles & Depression
53:02 - The Power of Brotherhood
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to depression, you know, you have all this clinical ideas and thoughts about it, |
| 0:04.6 | therapy, and that can work and there's value in it. But the first thing that a man needs to do is |
| 0:10.0 | get out of his mind and into his body. Breathwork, hold exposure, heat exposure, box breathing. |
| 0:16.6 | Whatever you can do to get out of your mind and into your body is going to help you be a more |
| 0:20.7 | integrated person and you're just immediately going to feel better. |
| 0:24.2 | Like if you sat and breathed, you would feel better. |
| 0:27.7 | Things are going to slip away. |
| 0:29.1 | That fog that you're feeling, that haze will definitely improve. |
| 0:34.8 | Kip, what's up, man? |
| 0:35.8 | Great to see you this Friday for our Wednesday. Ask Me Anything. You got any |
| 0:39.2 | good plans coming up this weekend? Um, freaking Iron Man. I have long distance run today, a long |
| 0:47.3 | distance bike and still trying to learn how to swim. That's my weekend. And the wife is out of town. |
| 0:58.1 | Oh, so you got the kids too. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why weekend and the wife is out of town so oh so you got the kids too yeah yeah so that's why you're going for your long run and your long bike ride is because the kids are there you're like I'm |
| 1:01.5 | out of here when they're when your wife's there you do the short stuff but when they're when she's |
| 1:07.5 | not and the kids are there you're like ah this is a good time to go on a long long run yeah i'll see you guys in five hours yeah what's what's the what's the distance this |
| 1:16.5 | weekend that you're going to do um probably about just up to about eight miles on the run and then the |
| 1:23.8 | bike uh i want to get up to 35, 40 miles on the bike. |
| 1:28.7 | And you'll do that consecutively or you'll do that two consecutive days? |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, two consecutive days. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah, I'm not ready to start combining them. |
| 1:38.6 | The swimming is, you would think, I don't know what the Iron Man distance is. |
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