Welcome to the Knowledge for Men podcast where strong men come to rise as grounded leaders, lovers, and creators of their world.

This is the next level.

Everyone thinks you're solid, your family, your partner, your friends, your coworkers, but deep down, you don't buy it.

You lay in bed most nights staring at the ceiling like it's got answers, wondering how much longer you can carry the weight of everyone else's world without yours collapsing.

You're not breaking because you're weak. You're breaking because

you've never been given permission to be real. See, the world never handed you a manual for

manhood and masculinity. Just a bunch of recycled lies dressed as wisdom. Man up, be strong,

don't cry, don't complain, provide, protect, no matter the cost,

you sacrifice yourself. So, you built a fortress around these ideas. You became the calm,

the collected, the provider for everyone, the backbone for everyone, and it worked for a while.

People like when you do things for them, of course. But now that calm is

slowly killing you. Not because it's wrong, because it's just not yours. It's a mask, you see,

and it's suffocating you. Real strength isn't how well you can fake composure. It's how honest

you're willing to get,

especially with yourself.

Because what's the point of leading a life,

a career, a family,

a whole persona.

If you're dying quietly behind the scenes,

you want to feel real again,

then this is the moment we stop performing,

stop pretending,

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