How To Solve The Male Leadership Crisis In Our Young Men

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Young men are abandoning leadership, being sucked into addiction, and rejecting building a family.

What's at the heart of this? How do we stop it?

Jeremy is joined today by Bryce Bouchard, who leads Noblemen Ministries.

Bryce spent a lot of time working with college-aged men and has seen a lot of the shift over the past couple of decades.

Learn practical steps about re-engaging our young men, encouraging them to walk with Jesus, showing them the good fruit of family, and helping them reconnect with their fathers.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:06 Bryce's ministry background

4:23 Young men abandoning leadership

14:41 Men need a picture and a clear path

18:48 How to help men take on responsibility

22:50 Reaching new men

25:33 When a man starts to honor his father

33:00 The difference between the Biblical man and the Andrew Tate macho "man"

38:55 Young adults delaying family

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Resources Mentioned:

The Navigators: https://www.navigators.org/

Noblemen Ministries: https://noblemenministries.com/

Oaks International: https://oaksintl.org/

Noblemen Realms Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9XB9ZV2

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0:00.0	We desperately need tools to level up men right now.
0:03.2	If we do not have this, if we don't do this, it's this crisis, this Isaiah 3 crisis
0:07.8	Bryce is talking about.
0:08.8	This is, this is super serious.
0:12.2	Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast.
0:14.8	Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing
0:20.4	you with biblically rooted concepts,
0:22.4	tools, and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait
0:27.4	to chat about all things family. Everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Hey, I am joined today by
0:33.3	Bryce Bichard. Bryce recently moved to Fort Collins, Colorado. And I really wanted to connect with Bryce. Some of you guys know my daughter, Lisa. She's down in Florida, working with the Navs, and trying to figure out discipleship. And, you know, our family's obviously been very involved in that. Bryce was part of the navigators. Now he's a part of Oaks International. But he started a literally kind of a discipleship process or a ministry called Nobleman.
0:57.8	And I was listening to some of the insights Bryce had on just masculinity and kind of how that intersects with culture and within our Christian context and really wanted to drill into some of those things that Bryce is learning from his ministry.
1:11.9	So Bryce, thanks for jumping on the podcast today.
1:14.0	Yeah, thanks, Jeremy.
1:15.1	Good to be with you.
1:16.5	Yeah.
1:17.4	So, yeah, Bryce, take me, give us a quick overview, what you do, a little bit about noblemen and also kind of the broader ministry you're involved in there.
1:26.5	Yeah, so as you mentioned, I was with the navigators for about 28 great years, learned how to
1:33.3	disciple people through the navigators.
1:36.3	I was a natural evangelist.
1:38.3	When I came to Christ, I couldn't help but tell everybody I knew about Jesus.
1:42.3	And I would leak folks to Christ and have no idea what to do with them.
1:46.0	So in college, I knocked on every door in my dorm room and had all these folks coming to Bible study.
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