Connect With Your Daughters, Uncommunicated Expectations, and Systems for Overcoming Divorce | ASK ME ANYTHING
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this Ask Me Anything episode, Ryan Michler and Kipp Sorensen tackle real-world questions from men across the globe. They discuss staying on the path after divorce, resisting the urge to chase new systems, and why consistency matters more than quick results. The conversation dives into parenting sons and daughters, raising boys through real-world apprenticeship, navigating estranged relationships with adult children, and how emotional regulation shapes leadership and influence.
From fitness and fatherhood to boundaries, patience, and embodiment, this episode offers grounded wisdom for men committed to growth.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Weekend banter and life updates
03:35 - Systems after divorce and consistency
14:12 - Predictions, expectations, and relationships
21:26 - Taking young children into the outdoors
29:29 - Connecting with daughters as a father
35:55 - Teaching young men leadership and decisions
42:46 - Estrangement from children and self-leadership
51:48 - Men's Forge event announcement and CTA
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Your anxiety and your nervous system were spiked because you're focused on something outside |
| 0:04.5 | of your control. |
| 0:05.5 | And the problem with that is that there's no way to regulate your anxiety and nervous system |
| 0:09.5 | based on something outside of your control. |
| 0:11.5 | You can't bring that down. |
| 0:13.4 | And the only way to control your anxiety and your nervous system is to what? |
| 0:17.1 | Focus on the things that you can control. |
| 0:19.6 | That's how you bring yourself down. You don't think about |
| 0:21.9 | it. It's you getting out of your mind and getting into your body. It's called embodiment. |
| 0:28.3 | Kip, what's up, man? Glad to be with you on this Friday as of this recording and getting into the |
| 0:34.0 | week. Do you guys have any, or the weekend, do you have any plans? |
| 0:37.7 | Wife out of town, man. She's, she's doing a retreat at the lake house for a bunch of women. And that, that means dad works on all these projects. I don't know what it is. When she's out of town, I go, all right, great, I'm going to get all this stuff done. And my kids don't appreciate it, but it kind of inspires me to kind of button things up whenever she leaves. I don't know. I'm not sure why I do that. |
| 0:57.0 | Did you ever do that? stuff done and my kids don't appreciate it but it kind of inspires me to kind of button things up |
| 0:54.5 | whenever she leaves i don't know i'm not sure why i do that did you ever do that that's probably |
| 0:58.8 | because you just don't want to spend time with your kids and you're got to rather be doing projects |
| 1:02.0 | possibly and when she's there she's there to regulate the kids so you're like yeah i guess i'll hang out |
| 1:07.8 | with you guys yeah they're better behave so i hang out with them yeah you're like, yeah, I guess I'll hang out with you guys. Yeah. They're better behaved. So I hang out with them. Yeah, you're like, I kind of like you guys now when the wife's here. But, you know, when it's just, nah, not so much. Probably. Probably. Um, I don't know. I mean, you know, it's, it might just be that you're, you're bored, you know. And I think that's a, |
| 1:29.4 | that's actually, that actually might be a good thing is that you want to crank stuff out when |
| 1:35.0 | she's not there because hopefully the idea is that you want to spend time with her when she is, |
| 1:39.7 | right? She gets back. Yeah. Right. Yeah, we'll go with that. I like that. I like that. |
| 1:43.6 | Yeah. That's a better end. That's the PC. I like that. I like that response. That's a |
| 1:44.6 | better end. That's the PC answer. The first one's the right one. That's the politically expedient one. |
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