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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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In this weekly Ask Me Anything episode, Ryan and Kipp open with reflections on consistency, discipline, and what long-term success actually requires. They then tackle listener questions on deeply held beliefs, fatherhood, masculinity, and how perspectives change with age and experience.
The conversation moves into practical advice on building strong male circles, writing and publishing a book, and preparing for marriage with clarity and intention. As always, the episode blends personal insight, hard-earned lessons, and actionable guidance for men committed to growth.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Welcome and Consistency
09:08 - Question on Strong Beliefs and Doubt
17:00 - Fatherhood, Leadership, and Manhood Expectations
29:09 - Finding High-Caliber Men and Brotherhood
36:32 - Writing and Publishing a Book
44:27 - Preparing for Marriage
50:24 - Iron Council Update and Closing
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| 0:00.0 | Example or scenario of maintaining frame would be coming home from work after a bad day. |
| 0:04.8 | Maybe you lost a client, maybe your boss is frustrated with you, maybe your job's on the chopping block. |
| 0:10.0 | Who knows? It could be any number of things. |
| 0:12.0 | And you can come home and still maintain frame and you can say, hey, hon, just want to let you know, bad day at the office today. |
| 0:18.8 | Lost a big client, pretty frustrated about the way that it went. |
| 0:21.9 | It's going to represent a sizable decrease in income to the business. And I'm concerned about it. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's how you maintain frame, guys. It's this phrase right here. And here's what I'm going to do about it. |
| 0:34.9 | All right, brother, we're back for another ask me anything. Good to see you. We're getting back on our regular schedule. So we've been off. I guess that happens during the holidays, you know, just things come up, extra curricular activities, family outings, trips, busy with work, trying to catch up, all that kind of stuff. But here we are. We're going to stay on this schedule now yeah i love it it's a good example though right we pivot we adjust we still make it happen |
| 1:00.0 | right and um you know often i i'm sure you can relate to this in your past where if it wasn't |
| 1:06.9 | aligned with the expectations or the way you wanted to do it, you'd probably kick the |
| 1:11.7 | cannon like, ah, we'll just skip this week, right? But, you know, you've been awesome. In fact, |
| 1:16.8 | it's impressive to think that you've never missed an episode on this podcast for, what, 10 years? |
| 1:24.3 | I mean, that's pretty crazy. There's been a couple of replays that I've done, you know, and I was in a really dark time of my life when I was going through my divorce where I did a few replays. I might have done two or three, but every single week for, like you said, the past 10 years, we've put out a podcast. And when we started doing two, we've never missed one of those. And we started doing three. |
| 1:44.6 | We've never missed one of those. |
| 1:45.9 | So there has never been a time where we've committed to releasing a podcast episode that we haven't for 10 years. |
| 1:55.0 | You know, it is fascinating too because I think this is what's required to be successful. |
| 2:00.5 | I hear so many men often complain about |
| 2:04.6 | other people's success. Like, oh, that guy has great connections or that guy's really intelligent |
| 2:11.8 | with that thing or he comes from a background of wealth and abundance or he just got lucky. |
| 2:21.0 | These are all things that men will say. |
| 2:23.1 | And it's just not true. |
| 2:27.1 | Now, some of those things exist. |
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