If you only had 24 hours to live and you had to teach your son or sons everything you learned about being a man from life to love

Money to marriage people to porn and everything in between what lessons would you teach him?

Well, when my son was only 12 years old, I wrote a book for him I wanted to leave behind as my legacy. It's called are you the man?

201 lessons I wish my dad would have taught me. And I squeezed all of those lessons on manhood into

just 124 pages. The lessons I share in this book not only come from my successes in life,

but many of them also come from my painful and even shameful failures, including divorce, abuse, addiction,

adultery, and abandonment, just to name a few. You can read and learn in less than two hours

what it took me over 30 plus years to learn the hard way. So just go over to are you the

man.com and get your copy today. That's are you the man.com. Trust me, your wife and children will

thank you for it later. Hello, mighty men of God, Joe Martin here, man builder, award winning

speaker, author, and Tanya's husband and Kendall and Faith's dad. Welcome to the Real Men Connect

podcast where we help good men become great men God's way. Every Wednesday we we interview some of the nation's most respected and accomplishment of faith

to find out what it really takes to become the kind of husband, father, and spiritual leader

God called and created us to be.

Today is the real men check-in.

The real men check-in is just a quick way to help you start your week on the right foot

in the right way.

Every Monday, I share personal insights, encouragement,

and support that will move you beyond church to real change. I keep it short. I make it fun,

and then I'm done. So let's get started. Real men relate. They don't isolate or sedate.

That's right. You heard me. I said, real men relate. They don't isolate or sedate.

You know, my son, who was probably a teenager at the time, he once asked me, he says, dad,

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