How to Initiate Boys Into Manhood | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Friday Field Notes, Ryan Michler explores the crucial question of how to initiate boys into manhood. Drawing from personal experience as a father and mentor, Ryan outlines key principles such as separation, challenge, risk, and meaning that help shape rites of passage.
He emphasizes the importance of deliberate and intentional practices for raising boys into strong, capable men—especially in a society that often resists such growth. This episode offers fathers, mentors, and even single mothers clear considerations for guiding the next generation of men.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:40 – The challenge of raising boys in today’s culture
03:00 – Separation from women in rites of passage
05:27 – Building challenge and risk into the process
07:50 – Age-based milestones for boys
10:05 – Responsibility, puberty, and independence
12:21 – Honoring achievements with meaning
14:33 – Public celebration and recognition
16:58 – Marking and family mottos
19:16 – Reintroduction as young men
21:37 – Course promotion and final thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | anytime a female is in the mix, it changes the dynamic. |
| 0:05.0 | It changes the way that boys and men show up. |
| 0:08.0 | They posture, they cower a little bit, that they're not as bold, they're not a |
| 0:13.0 | assertive, they're not as competitive. |
| 0:16.0 | And it's not entirely bad in the appropriate context, but when it comes to building a right of passage, |
| 0:21.6 | we cannot allow a woman into the mix because she's going to change the dynamic, and that is not |
| 0:28.4 | a slight against women. |
| 0:30.1 | As a father of three boys, I know how challenging and difficult it can be to help usher our young men into manhood |
| 0:40.6 | and couple the complexity and the challenge and the struggles of ushering them into manhood |
| 0:46.9 | with the idea that culture and society don't really want you to. |
| 0:51.3 | In fact, much of culture and society from government to education, to |
| 0:55.5 | academia and the medical community would love nothing more than for your young men to be |
| 1:01.8 | perpetual little boys or inferior women. It is our job as their fathers, as men of neighborhoods |
| 1:10.2 | and communities, to raise these boys, |
| 1:12.9 | to usher them into manhood, and to make these boys into men who will be our future leaders, |
| 1:19.1 | who will be our future protectors, who will provide for themselves and for their communities |
| 1:23.8 | and their loved ones. And unless you can figure out a way to do that effectively, they will be inundated with |
| 1:30.1 | academia, with government, and with the medical challenges, the messaging, the propaganda that |
| 1:42.3 | would love nothing more again than to keep them sedated as who they are or |
| 1:46.9 | who they have the potential to become. So today I want to talk with you about eight tips that you can |
| 1:51.8 | incorporate when it comes to raising your boys into men. This is for fathers. And this one is actually |
| 1:57.9 | also for single mothers. We have a lot of single mothers who listen, |
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