During any election cycle, I know it seems increasingly difficult to place any trust or faith in our elected officials on both sides of the aisle, but it's crucial that we find and elect and support those men who exhibit leadership capabilities even outside of the political circus.

After all, much of our lives are impacted by those we elect.

And I've often wondered, probably like you as well, why any good man would get into the political arena.

And that's why I wanted to have my friend and candidate for Congress back on the podcast. His name is Sean Parnell.

He's a man that I highly respect for his friendship, his service to this country as an army ranger with the 10th Mountain Division and really his desire to do good for this country.

Today we talk about what true leadership looks and feels like, the external and internal threats of this country faces, his take on career politicians' term limits, which actually might surprise you, it did me, and the power of story to influence and help others.

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.

Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan McClure, and I am the host and the founder of this podcast and the movement order of man. I want to welcome you here, I want to welcome you back, you're in the right place. If you're a man and you want to improve your life, that's what we're all about.

We've got this podcast, we've got two other podcasts per week, we've got the Iron Council, which is our exclusive brotherhood, we've got the Battle Ready course, which is a free course designed to give you what you need to plan out your life professionally and properly.

We've got a lot going on, we've also got our store, we just did a revamp, a little site makeover on the order of man merchant, die store.

We're going to have our fall lineup available very, very soon. So if you'd like to check it out, please do. Also, I have a few copies left, just a few.

So if you want one, you need to get on a quick few signed copies of my book Sovereignty over at the store, you can check that out at store.orderofman.com.

Outside of that, this is primarily where we're sharing the information that you need to thrive in your life. So we have incredibly successful men from like this week, politicians to New York Times bestselling authors to warriors.

My guest today happens to be all three also scholars and like I said, just successful men in general entrepreneurs. So my job is to take their information and their wisdom and then distill it into practical tips and strategies that will help you and me and everybody else listening thrive.

So with that said, we're going to get right into it.

Again, Sean Parnell, candidate for Congress and former Army Ranger with the 10th Mountain Division is back. He's back by popular demand. The podcast we did, I believe it was in July, did very, very well.

And I wanted to have him back on because of that. He just got done speaking at the RNC with his campaign for Congress going very, very well. And on top of that, and he's got an insane schedule. Trust me, I know because we tried to schedule on the podcast.

He just wrote a new fictional book titled One True Patriot on the heels of other books that he's written, including his New York Times bestselling book outlaw, Platoon.

Sean is a regular contributor on Fox as well as appearances on CNN, MSNBC and a lot of other networks on the current climate in the US.

He's also the co-founder of the American Warrior Initiative and has since again thrown his hat into the ring of politics. And he's running again for Congress in Pennsylvania 17th congressional district. Guys, I hope you enjoy this one.

Sean, what's up, brother? It's good to see you again after what I don't know. It's only been like a month or if not shorter. I don't know.

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