You're a 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.

Gentlemen, what is going on today?

My name is Ryan Mickler and I am the host and the founder of Order of Man.

If you are joining us for the first time today or you've been here forever,

I want to welcome you to what I would consider to be the manliest podcast available on the Interwebs.

My goal is to help you become a better man, a better leader.

In every fastening of your life, it could be your family, your business, your community,

everywhere in between. So each and every week we have an interview show

where we bring in the world's most successful men from entrepreneurs to New York Times best-selling authors,

elite warrior psychologist, everywhere that we can and anyone that we can.

So you can learn the lessons that have helped them excel in their lives

and of course we can use that information to succeed in ours.

Now we also have this show, our Friday field notes,

the one you're listening to right now, where essentially you're going to hear my thoughts,

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