In popular culture, it's increasingly frowned upon to utter the phrases man up or be a man.

Now, it's easy to misconstrue what those terms mean, and it's also very convenient to dismiss them as some sort of misguided sense of masculinity.

You know, without context, anything can be painted as negative or toxic.

But with context, we can see how powerful those statements can actually be.

My guest and friend, Pedro Escullion, is back on the podcast to dissect what those phrases mean and teach us how we can incorporate solid principles in our lives and in the lives of the young men who are looking to us as an example.

We talk about the value of harvesting your own provisions, why brutally honest feedback is crucial to your success, losing and regaining your sense of purpose, and of course our responsibility to the generations of men who will follow in our footsteps.

Your man of action, you live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly charge your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.

You are not easily deterred and defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life, this is who you are, this is who you will become.

At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.

And what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mcler, and I am the host and the founder of the Older Man Podcast and Movement.

It's good to be back in my studio. I've been traveling for about a week, week and a half. I went and saw Pedro Escullion, who's my guest today, and spent some time in Texas with Evan Hafer with Black Rifle Coffee and Tim Kennedy.

Those podcasts will be coming out soon. It was good to travel and see those guys and be around other good men and have a good time and have these conversations that are valuable for me, just as much as I hope they're valuable for you.

But it's also good to be back and back into my schedule and to be able to release some of these conversations. That's what this podcast is all about.

So if you're new to the Order of Man Movement, we're trying to give you the tools and resources. And in this podcast, the conversations that you need to thrive as a man. So we've got a lot of good plans as we start 2021.

I hope it's going well for you guys. Before we get into the conversation, I just want to mention very quickly that we've got a lot of new merchandise in our store.

We've got a couple of new shirt designs. We also, this is a very, very limited run. So if you're interested, make sure you head over there very quickly.

I've got signed copies of Sovereignty. And usually I do paperback. So we've got paperback signed copies. But I also have an even smaller run of hard cover copies of Sovereignty. And those will be signed.

So if you're interested in a signed copy of Sovereignty, which is the book I wrote about three years ago, yeah, three years ago actually in February, it'll be three years, then head to our store store store. Order of Man.com.

And also on the topic of a book, looks like we're going to be writing a new book that should be out later this year. So stay tuned on that. But for now, check it out. If you want to support what we're doing, store. Order of Man.com is a great place to do it.

And also if you would please leave a rating and review of the podcast, believe it or not, just a simple two minutes to leave a rating review goes a very, very long way in promoting the podcast on the podcast charts.

And of course, getting this message out to the men and women who need to hear what we have to say.

All right, guys, with that said, let me introduce you to Beidro. So a lot of you guys are familiar with him. I've been really looking forward to having him back on the podcast. I met Beidro years ago. And frankly, I'm honored to call him a mentor and a friend.

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