Stop Waiting to Be Saved: Ownership, Mission & Growth | ASK ME ANYTHING
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Kipp and Jay tackle some of the toughest and most meaningful questions from the Iron Council community in this week's Ask Me Anything episode. They discuss emergency preparedness, victim mentality, ownership, leadership, family mission alignment, and how to navigate unresolved tension in relationships. The conversation also dives into finding purpose in difficult jobs and managing rage when justice feels out of reach. Along the way, they share practical leadership insights, powerful mindset shifts, and personal stories about family, service, and growth. This episode is packed with grounded advice for men trying to lead themselves and others more effectively.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00:00 - Pre-show conversation and traditions
00:12:52 - Emergency preparedness and taking action
00:22:00 - Ownership vs victim mentality
00:35:20 - Why After Action Reviews matter
00:45:05 - Pursuing a bigger family mission
00:57:20 - Do masculine principles apply to women?
01:03:15 - Handling rage when justice fails
01:15:20 - Resolving lingering tension in marriage
01:26:20 - Finding purpose in a job you hate
01:33:45 - Closing thoughts and sign-off
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| 0:00.0 | When we do things, we create possibility for others to consider it for themselves. |
| 0:06.9 | Right. |
| 0:07.7 | When your buddy sees you level up and have success in life, it's not that Jay's now successful and I'm happy for Jay. |
| 0:15.9 | It's, hmm, I know Jay. |
| 0:18.5 | And Jay achieved that? |
| 0:24.0 | That might be possible for me to do that. |
| 0:30.5 | And that's what you're doing as a lighthouse is you're creating possibilities for others to consider for themselves. Jay, we do it again, sir. I don't know, like you're a law enforcement, right? So part of me feels like I |
| 0:39.3 | shouldn't ask you where you are and where you're recording from. Is that like, is that an undisclosed |
| 0:44.6 | location in Massachusetts? There you go. We're up in, we're up in Martha's Vineyard, |
| 0:50.5 | which is a little island off of Massachusetts for a little Memorial Day vacation. |
| 0:55.1 | We come up here every couple years. |
| 0:56.7 | I've been coming up here since I was 13 or 14 years old. |
| 0:59.9 | My childhood friend, his parents, own a house up here. |
| 1:03.5 | So we've been coming up here. |
| 1:04.7 | And we don't come up every Memorial Day, but it's like a kind of a thing. |
| 1:07.8 | There's a 5K race that we ran yesterday. |
| 1:10.4 | And this morning, we did this annual tradition of, |
| 1:14.3 | are you familiar with the Ted Kennedy scandal, I guess you'd call it, |
| 1:21.1 | back in the 60s? |
| 1:22.8 | A woman died and went off a bridge in his car and died. |
| 1:29.2 | You know, do you know about that? So we used a senator back in senator back in that they want to say the 60s or the 70s probably the 60s he was on he was at martha's |
| 1:34.6 | vineyard and and there was this party and they wound up the next morning finding a woman Mary joe |
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