Guys, the world and our social media accounts are flooded with a false sense of bravado and machismo and the quote unquote alpha mentality from men who,

you know, when you peer the layers back or dealing with some very difficult and challenging experiences and struggles, but unfortunately a lot of these guys have never learned to deal with these experiences head on and end up doing a lot of mental and emotional damage to themselves and others along the way.

My guest today is Jason Wilson. He's the author of Battle Cry, Waging and Winning the War Within. Today Jason and I discuss why men do have a hard time addressing and dealing with these wounds, the differences between being worried and being concerned, his own experiences with unhilled trauma.

What it means to be a comprehensive man, we also talk about a four part framework for mastering your emotions and ultimately how you can and should embrace your inner lion and lamb.

You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly charge your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time every time. You are not easily deterred and 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.

Men, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler, I am the host and the founder of the Order of Men podcast and movement. I'll tell you it's really good to be home. I've been on the road for the past couple of weeks and I've had the opportunity to interview some incredible people, Jesse Itzler, Jason Wilson, who's my guest today, also Dan Crenshaw.

It's good to be able to go connect with these guys. We've done meetups in Houston and in Dallas. We were going to do one in Atlanta. I was there for a short period of time so we couldn't make that work, but we're going to be doing more meetups near you.

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And origin main dot com use the code order. All right guys with that said, great guess lined up. I've got so much positive feedback because a bunch of you know that he's coming on and we sat down indeed, troigt a couple of days ago last week.

And so honored to be able to have Jason Wilson on the podcast. He's the author of his newest book, Battle Cry, waging the war within and also the author of cry like a man.

But he's a father, he's a husband, he's a martial artist, he's also the founder of the cave of Adelam, which is a program designed to teach young men life skills and dealing with the difficulties and challenges of being a young man through the practice of martial arts.

Now I know a lot of you have probably seen his viral videos. They've been viewed tens of millions of times all over the world. I've been following Jason for years and admittedly I talked about this in the podcast. I initially struggled with his message.

But frankly, his approach to men and emotions is refreshing and I'm honored to be able to have the chance to sit down and talk with him in person. Enjoy guys.

Jason, what's up, man? Glad to be sitting down here with you in person. Yeah, yeah, man. Thanks for this opportunity, man. Definitely. Yeah, I've been following you for, I don't know, probably two or three years. I'll tell you this. Initially, I didn't like you.

Really? Yeah. Why is that? It wasn't you personally. I didn't like what you were saying. Oh, wow. Okay. And I think it was a cry like a man. I saw it. I'm like, what is this?

What is this? But the reason I do like what you have to say the more I followed you and got to know you a little bit is there's a lot of like fake alpha machismo type stuff out there in the world right now.

And you're the antithesis of that. But I don't think anybody would doubt that you are a man or manly. And so it's very refreshing in this alpha age, if you will.

Yeah, you know, it's interesting, man. I would not have written cry like a man four years prior to when I did. I was the epitome of a hyper masculine male or what I call today just a masculine male.

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