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Order of Man

Ryan Michler

Society & Culture, Business

4.8 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this AMA episode, Ryan and Kipp dive deep into personal growth, relationships, and modern masculinity. They explore lessons from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, including humility, grit, and knowing when to "tap" in life before things spiral. The conversation tackles real listener questions on anger, marriage struggles, dating challenges, fatherhood, and leadership at home. They also break down the concept of the "integrity gap" and how misalignment between who you are and who you want to be creates frustration. This episode is a practical guide to self-mastery, emotional awareness, and becoming a more intentional man.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Intro & Weekend Recap
03:12 - Jiu-Jitsu Lessons for Life
08:29 - The "Tap" vs Life Crisis Analogy
12:59 - Peptides Discussion
14:13 - Low-Level Anger Explained
22:59 - What It Means to Be a Man Today
26:49 - Fixing Emotional Distance in Marriage
32:22 - Dating Without Becoming Cynical
39:21 - Leading a Stronger Partner
45:11 - Connecting with a Distant Teen
55:05 - Patience with Kids vs Strangers
01:02:59 - Feeling Stuck Without Direction

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0:00.0	In life we don't tap, we just wait till we get strangled and then our world falls apart.
0:04.6	That's what happens is like you go through a bankruptcy or you go through a divorce or you deal
0:08.8	with a crippling medical condition or some crisis that could have otherwise been averted
0:14.3	because you didn't just tap and learn a lesson. You just doubled down and did the same dumb things
0:18.5	you've been doing before and And then things fall apart.
0:21.4	You're like, what happened? Well, you had a dozen times to tap and say, hey, yeah, we can fix this.
0:26.7	I want to figure out what's going on. I want to get better. We don't take advantage of it.
0:32.1	All right, brother, what's going on, man? Great to be back for another Ask Me Anything. How was your weekend?
0:36.8	Did you have a good weekend?
0:40.1	Air Raider, yard work.
0:43.4	I don't know.
0:44.2	The usual.
0:44.9	Yeah.
0:45.6	Yeah.
0:46.4	We had a bunch of lacrosse games over here.
0:48.7	Well, that's good.
0:49.5	Yeah, that's nice.
0:52.0	It's funny.
0:52.9	It's like, we talk about this stuff and it's like so boring. But every guy listening is like, yeah, I get that. I wish we had a more eventful life. Sometimes we do. We've got an event coming up. So that'll be kind of eventful. That one's in April, April 23rd through the 26th. If you want to come out to St. Louis and have a good time learning from great men like Dwayne Noel and G.S. Youngblood and Frank Schwartz with F3 and Larry Hagner with the dead edge, you got to be at that event. That's going to be amazing. That's at the men's forge. But yeah, for me this weekend, a bunch of lacrosse. I think my boys had five lacrosse games last week, my two oldest.
1:29.2	Check. So a tournament. They're getting after it. Yeah, it was a tournament this weekend and they're
1:32.9	getting after. I love, I love lacrosse, man. I've fallen in love with that sport. It is so
1:37.7	incredible. I wish it was more prevalent when I was younger and that I had the opportunity to play,
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