You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest.

Embrace your fears. You can boldly charge your own path.

When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time.

Every time. You are not easily deterred or 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, welcome to the Order of Man podcast,

whether you're new or you've been with us for any amount of time.

What we're all about here is giving you the tools and resources

and with this podcast, the conversations that you need to thrive as a man

in this very interesting world.

So today is your Friday field note.

You get to hear some of my ramblings. For better or worse,

you know, I get mixed reviews.

When I do Friday field notes, a bunch of you guys say,

just do interviews because you want to hear from other people more than me.

And I have other guys who say, I really like the Friday field notes.

So whatever your preference is, you can either listen or wait until Tuesday

when we have another great conversation on the podcast.

But if you want to hear from me, here it is.

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