Boyhood Resurrected | Rebekah Lovell | Episode 403

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is all about raising boys, even if you're a girl mom like me. I sat down with Rebekah Lovell, author of Boyhood Resurrected, for a powerful and honest conversation about how modern systems are failing our boys, and what we can do about it.

We talk about how boys are hardwired for adventure, movement, risk, curiosity, and strength, and how over-scheduling, over-screening, and over-labeling can slowly extinguish the light in their eyes. Rebekah shares her family's journey navigating early schooling challenges, why institutional systems often misunderstand boys, and how moms (especially!) play a crucial role in protecting and cultivating their sons' masculine design.

This conversation will step on a few toes — gently. We talk about:

The difference between discipline and suppression
Why movement and autonomy matter
Screen culture and its impact on boys
The myth of being "behind"
Adventure as a developmental need
Respect as a love language for boys
Raising driven, courageous men in a culture hostile to masculinity

Even as a girl mom, I found so many parallels. Childhood matters. Wonder matters. Agency matters. And truthfully, this conversation ultimately points back to Jesus and how God intentionally wired our sons.

If you're raising boys (or love someone who is), this episode will challenge, encourage, and equip you.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Speakeasy podcast. Today we're talking about raising boys, but like I'm a girl mom.
0:08.1	So it's not just for the boy moms because I couldn't help myself and tied a lot of it into mothering girls.
0:15.3	So Rebecca Lovell is the author of Boyhood resurrected and she's also just an incredible voice online championing for boys and for sanity in a culture that seems to be kind of losing its mind.
0:28.5	And we had an incredible conversation about how the current systems and structures that boys are caught up in not only are not serving them, but more often
0:39.5	than not are stunting them and how boys are hardwired for adventure and curiosity and
0:46.7	chaos, honestly. And I think I said in the interview, like this episode will probably
0:53.3	step on some toes a little bit,
0:56.0	but we did our best to frame it in ways that offers an immense amount of grace and that
1:02.4	makes the understanding that a lot of the time these things happen and get away from us
1:09.2	without us even noticing.
1:12.4	And the next thing you know,
1:17.8	your boys are sluggish and bored and have no interest in anything and haven't moved their bodies. And then we wonder why they're getting in trouble at school. And we wonder why they're
1:22.2	having trouble keeping up with the standards that are in front of them. And so Rebecca is a mother of two boys.
1:29.6	She has walked this road and she also just points everything back to Jesus, right? And that the
1:34.8	Lord is in it and that he hardwired boys a certain way. But like I said, there are a lot,
1:40.1	most of the conversation. I'm like, yeah, I can totally see this in girls in a different way, right?
1:45.7	Because they're so different, but there are just similarities in the way that we as humans made in
1:51.2	the image of God are wired.
1:52.7	And so this is a great conversation just about childhood specifically honing in on the boys
1:57.9	because I am a girl mom and there hasn't been a lot.
2:01.0	There haven't been a ton of episodes that really hone in on the boys because I am a girl mom and there hasn't been a lot. There haven't been a ton of episodes that really hone in on the boys.
2:04.8	So here you go.
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