Becoming Self-Aware, Overcoming Infidelity, and Disincentivizing Bad Behavior | ASK ME ANYTHING

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Ryan Michler

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s AMA, Ryan and Kipp tackle tough listener questions on becoming more self-aware, navigating the pain and decisions around infidelity, and setting boundaries to disincentivize bad behavior in relationships and parenting.

They also explore meaningful rites of passage for young men, fostering responsibility in teens, and the lessons they wish they could share with their younger selves. Honest, direct, and actionable, this episode blends inspiration with real-world strategies for men striving to lead with integrity.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Introduction
03:18 First listener question – Skill, habit, or mindset shift
14:09 How much infidelity is too much to forgive
27:06 Considering separation over chemical dependency
39:55 Rite of passage for your son
46:44 Handling entitled teenagers
54:44 Advice to your teenage self
01:05:32 Promotions and closing remarks

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0:00.0	It's a betrayal of yourself is what it is.
0:02.7	Yeah, she deserves that level of scrutiny.
0:05.0	Of course she does.
0:06.4	But if you say, hey, I'm going to work on forgiving you, then you're not being an integrity
0:11.6	if you don't.
0:12.5	And if you cannot stomach it and you cannot learn to forgive her, then you have to be out.
0:18.0	Because it's not fair to you to be in a relationship where you have built up
0:22.6	intention, frustration, animosity, resentment, much of it justified, and still be in the relationship.
0:31.6	You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest.
0:34.6	Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path. When life knocks you down,
0:39.0	you get back up one more time, every time. You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient,
0:46.0	strong. This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day,
0:52.2	and after all is said and done you can call yourself
0:55.5	a man kip what's up brother great to see this monday morning good to see you as well man i i had a
1:04.1	great weekend productive time with kids um this is one of those mondays i'm feeling good i'm ready
1:09.8	to get after it makes oh nice yeah how, nice. Yeah. How you feel? Good. I'm good too. I built a fence for the most part of the weekend. And it just did not go as quickly as I thought it would go. I ended up spilling three gallons of paint on my origin boots and my origin jeans. What else? But other than that,
1:31.0	it was an amazing weekend. Isn't that true? It actually was. That's crazy. Is there anything?
1:36.1	Is there anything that you've ever done project-wise, whether work or at home, that actually
1:42.7	goes as quick as you think it would be?
1:45.1	There was one time, and I'm 44 years old.
1:48.2	And I think it was, I was hanging a picture and I found the stud immediately screwed or
1:53.8	drilled or hammered right into the stud, hung the thing.
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