Signal to Noise Ratio, Protecting Leadership Standards, and Why Curiosity Wins | ASK ME ANYTHING
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this Ask Me Anything episode, Ryan Michler and Kipp Sorensen answer powerful questions from the Iron Council on leadership, fatherhood, faith, discipline, and personal responsibility. They explore how to eliminate noise and live an integrated life, coach teenage boys through cultural conflict, raise resilient children, and avoid bureaucratic leadership traps. The conversation also confronts modern church culture, challenges the pursuit of comfort over growth, and defines what it truly means to be present as a father - even when work demands time away.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Episode Introduction
03:50 - Signal vs Noise and Life Integration
14:27 - Coaching Teens Through Cultural Conflict
22:52 - Leadership Systems vs Human Judgment
34:41 - Faith, Masculinity, and the Modern Church
47:29 - Helping Kids Find Their Passion
52:31 - Defining Presence as a Working Father
56:19 - Men's Forge Event Announcement
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| 0:00.0 | Anything that is not business related or financially related is noise. And I don't think that's the case. |
| 0:06.3 | I think there's just as much signal with my own personal goals and objectives. I think there's |
| 0:11.5 | just as much signal with my children and being involved in their lives. And so I want to be a |
| 0:16.9 | completely integrated man. I'm not Elon Musk. I'm not Steve Jobs. |
| 0:21.5 | Would I like their wealth? |
| 0:22.4 | Sure. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm not willing to do what it takes to get there. |
| 0:25.5 | So it doesn't mean that just because I'm not doing it that way, that it's wrong. |
| 0:32.4 | Kip, what is up, brother? |
| 0:33.5 | So good to see you. |
| 0:34.3 | Looks like we're both dealing with tax nightmares and headaches right now. |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get away from that for a minute and do something somewhat enjoyable and have a good |
| 0:42.2 | conversation. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, necessary evil, right? You got to do them. I mean, |
| 0:49.4 | you don't have to. There's a consequence. I wouldn't say a necessary evil. I would say an evil, |
| 1:12.4 | but is it necessary? I mean, we have to, but it's ridiculous. Like every time I do taxes, I'm like, this is just theft at this point. Look, I'm not one of those guys that says no taxes at all. I realize there's infrastructure that I enjoy. I realize there's services that I participate in. You know, there's there's there's things that need to be paid for. I get it. |
| 1:18.4 | But I just cannot every time I just get, and there's nothing you can do about it because the |
| 1:24.3 | idiots that we have in DC don't care for whatever reason. And all we're |
| 1:30.0 | doing is just continuing to ramp up. And this goes for both Republicans and Democrats. It's all |
| 1:36.0 | just more, more, more, more, more. Let's pay for this. Let's buy this. Let's add this. Let's do this. |
| 1:40.5 | And look, I'm all for looking at programs that maybe we should explore. Not to the degree that we do, but we can't pay for it. |
| 1:48.6 | So end of discussion. There should not be another discussion about it. Yeah. And always easy to spend someone else's money. |
| 1:55.7 | You know, it's been fun. I think I mentioned this on the podcast already, but I teach a financial literacy class to some |
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