Men, welcome to the man talk show. I'm Connor Veeton. Today is more of a public service announcement

than anything else. It's more of a reminder for you as a man about something that I think is

arguably one of the most important things that you should pay attention to in your life.

Because for myself, when I didn't pay attention to this, I lost. I suffered. And for the men that I

have worked with over the years, when they weren't paying attention to this, they suffered.

They struggled. And the simple truth that I want to bring back in, the simple reminder, the simple public

service announcement, as I said in the very beginning of this, is that not everyone, not

everyone has earned a place at the table of shaping who you are as a man.

Not everyone has earned a place at the table of determining

what you value as a man. Now, for most of you, you may not have ever questioned this. You may not

have ever thought about who you want to be sitting at the table of shaping who you are as a man. The people and the men who

are going to hold you accountable, the men who are going to call you forward into being a better

father, the men who are going to be an example for you to aspire to, that are going to ignite the

flame in you, the fire in you, of what's possible as a man,

what's possible as a leader, what's possible physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Not everyone has earned the place at the table of having a say in who you should be and what you might be capable of. You see, most of the men that I've

worked with over the years have allowed other people's opinions to infiltrate them so deeply,

so deep in their psychology that they are, to some degree, not a free man. They're not a sovereign being because they are

trying so diligently to become, to shift, to act like, to say the right things based on what

other people want, even if those other people are not someone that you

respect, that you admire, that you trust. But we get caught in this web of trying to gain

validation, gain praise, gain admiration from people who sometimes we don't even want that praise or that

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