Learning to Let Go, Never Offering Unsolicited Advice, and Getting Good at Saying, ‘I Don’t Know’’ | ASK ME ANYTHING
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this "Ask Me Anything" episode, Ryan Michler and Kipp Sorensen dive into listener questions, exploring themes of faith, letting go, and pursuing purpose. They discuss building male camaraderie through action, overcoming overthinking, and embracing "I don't know" to find peace. From marathon training insights to serving others and knowing when to offer empathy versus tough love, this episode offers practical wisdom for men striving to live with intention. Join the Iron Council brotherhood at orderofman.com for more.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Introduction and Catching Up
05:29 - Strengthening Faith and Prayer
12:39 - Marathon Training Insights
16:44 - Letting Go and Overcoming Overthinking
30:39 - Defining a Life Well-Lived
36:25 - Going All-In on Order of Man
46:07 - Empathy vs. Tough Love in Leadership
53:54 - Reincarnation Animal Discussion
57:19 - Battle Planner and Closing Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | There's a very simple phrase that, Khalid, you should adopt in your life as potentially part of your mantra. |
| 0:06.0 | There it is. Three words. |
| 0:08.0 | I don't know. I don't know. |
| 0:12.0 | And then just be comfortable with that. |
| 0:14.0 | So Kip, your wife asked me about some questions and my response is, |
| 0:19.0 | I don't know. And learning to be okay with I don't know |
| 0:23.5 | and I don't have the answers and life is better at a better attitude and my relationships |
| 0:28.5 | are stronger and I'm much more resilient and adaptable as things come up you're a man of |
| 0:35.4 | action you live life to the fullest embrace your fears and boldly charge your own path. |
| 0:40.3 | When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time. You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. |
| 0:49.3 | This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become. |
| 0:59.3 | At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man. |
| 1:07.8 | Hip, what's up, man? Long time, no C. You didn't have enough of me over the weekend, so you decided you wanted to show up for another round here this morning, huh? |
| 1:10.8 | Yep, sign up for some more. Some more mickler. It was funny. |
| 1:15.3 | I was just having some conversations about how often, well, when men connect and talk, |
| 1:21.6 | have you noticed? And I don't really realize it because I'm a guy, so I don't realize it. We don't |
| 1:26.2 | really connect on deep things. You know, like people say, so how's Kip? I'm like, yeah, he seems pretty good. What's going on with his kids? I don't know. What's going on with his wife? I don't know. What's going on with work? I don't know. Well, how do you know he's good? I don't know. He just seemed good. Like we had a good conversation. And then it's like, what'd you talk about? I don't know. Well, how do you know he's good? I don't know. He just seemed good. Like, we had a good conversation. And then it's like, well, what'd you talk about? I don't know. |
| 1:48.3 | Just random stuff. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's so hilarious versus women. You know, they find out about |
| 1:54.2 | their dogs, you know, disease and illness and their kids and what they're dealing with and what crushes they have |
| 2:01.9 | and who their bullies are and what their spouses are doing for work and what their work is like |
| 2:06.6 | and it's just hilarious the difference between men and women when it comes to how we converse. |
| 2:12.3 | Totally. Well, I used to always joke around that on the jiu Tutsu Mats, you get to know people really well |
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