hyena would talk ill about you to your employer, would undermine you at every pass, would hit on the

woman that you love, would do whatever they could to get their own sense of validation and to get

theirs. And I could list off all sorts of hyenas that I've dealt with in my life, some that I'm

currently dealing with. And so could you.

Is that the kind of man you want to be?

Or do you want to be more like a lion?

You're a man of action.

You live life to the fullest.

Embrace your fears and boldly chart 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.

Man, if you're anything like me, you operate very well under frameworks and systems and procedures and processes.

I think it's really crucial that we as men learn ways to adopt systems that work for us, but also

look for correlations between the way that nature and

the wild and other aspects of our lives operate so that they can teach us what we as men

ought to learn from those experiences. And I've got an analogy or a metaphor. I'm not quite sure the

distinction between the two. Maybe one of you guys can tell me that, but a metaphor for the way

that we approach our lives. And today I want to talk with you about the concept of lions versus

hyenas. I've been doing some research because I've been thinking about this concept for quite some

time. And of course, there's all sorts of ways that we can operate in the world as men. And I found a

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