How a Man Overcomes Betrayal | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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Ryan Michler

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Friday Field Notes, Ryan Michler explores how men can confront and overcome betrayal in both personal and professional life. Drawing from his own recent experiences, Ryan offers practical strategies and hard-earned insights to help men navigate betrayal with strength, clarity, and integrity. He emphasizes respect, self-control, and learning valuable lessons rather than succumbing to anger or despair. This episode is a call for men to rise above hardship, establish healthy boundaries, and move forward with resilience and purpose.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 – Introduction
02:15 – Facing betrayal in life and business
04:37 – Responding with respect and rationality
06:50 – Treating innocent bystanders gracefully
09:12 – Learning the lessons from betrayal
11:32 – Recognizing red flags early
13:54 – Building strong boundaries
18:43 – Final thoughts and encouragement

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0:00.0	personally and professionally. You're going to get burned. You're going to get hurt. The people who
0:04.0	betrayed you, the people who took advantage of you, the people who stole from you, they just told you
0:09.5	who they were. And I'm glad they do. I'm glad at some point they finally come clean and tell us
0:14.5	exactly who they are so we can remove them from our lives. We can learn the lessons and we can
0:19.3	charge forward with a newfound sense of hope,
0:21.7	optimism, growth, development, and an added level of security in place to make sure it doesn't
0:27.1	happen to the degree it did before.
0:30.9	Gentlemen, if you've been around for any amount of time, you know that the likelihood of being
0:35.4	betrayed in your life, whether it's personally or
0:37.9	professionally, is quite high. In fact, odds are that you've had a significant other step out
0:45.4	on you, a girlfriend, a fiance, maybe even a wife. Odds are that you've had business
0:51.3	dealings go south, that you've been taken advantage of, that you've been manipulated, that you've been bypassed. The reality of life is that you're just going to get
0:59.9	sidestep. Now, I don't always think it's malicious in intent. In fact, I would say it's probably
1:06.7	not always, or maybe even ever, malicious in intent. Sometimes, sure. But for the most part,
1:14.1	I think people are selfish. I think people who would betray you aren't really thinking about
1:19.2	how it might impact you. I think those who would betray you are often putting their own self
1:23.5	interest ahead of yours. But I don't think they're being mean-spirited for the most part.
1:28.9	And that's part of what I want to share with you today is as a man, it's your job to navigate
1:33.7	betrayal, again, personally or professionally in a way that is conducive to your growth,
1:40.5	conducive to your learning, and conducive to your own benefit and the people that you are trying to serve.
1:47.0	So I'm going to share with you some things that you can do, some mindsets and some actions that you can take to ensure that in the face and wake of betrayal,
1:56.1	that you can handle it correctly so that you can move forward, drive on, and create a better life for
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