Strength Through Service: Finding Purpose Beyond Yourself | ASK ME ANYTHING

Order of Man

Ryan Michler

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Ask Me Anything, Kipp Sorensen sits down with Jay Jairdullo from the Iron Council for a powerful conversation about purpose, vulnerability, and growth. They discuss emotional regulation, staying resilient when life feels heavy, and how to lead with authenticity at home and at work.

Listener questions explore fatherhood, leadership, connection, and career challenges. Jay and Kipp also share practical tools for staying grounded, building community, and re-integrating after time apart. Plus, updates on the Iron Council and upcoming Order of Man events.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 – Intro and Iron Council background
02:00 – Reflections on purpose and service
06:57 – Meaning through serving others (Hook)
08:48 – Being vulnerable while maintaining respect
22:03 – Habits for when life feels deflated
31:23 – Building stronger local meetups
38:16 – Rebuilding life and finances
48:10 – Emotional maturity for men
51:25 – Staying connected during military absence
58:42 – Promotions and closing thoughts

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0:00.0	Meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in life is only found in one thing.
0:04.3	And that is in the service of others.
0:07.2	Not personal achievement, not stroking my ego, not look at what I've done.
0:12.0	It will always be found in the betterment of someone else.
0:16.7	That's why we do what we do, because I have all these opportunities to serve.
0:21.5	And it's not rooted in propping ourselves up.
0:23.4	It's rooted in actually trying to help other men.
0:26.0	And in return, we get served, right?
0:29.3	And it allows us to level up as well.
0:33.9	Jay, dude, we make it happen, man.
0:36.7	How you doing, sir?
0:39.4	Good, brother. How are you? Yeah, this is,
0:44.2	this is exciting. I think this is our first time together doing one of these. So I'm looking forward to it.
0:51.5	Yeah. If you guys haven't caught, Ryan's not on with us today for the AMA, but we have Jay from the Iron Council.
1:14.1	Jay is one of our leaders in the IAC. Jay, you've been in the Iron Council for how long? Eight years now, going on eight years. Eight years. Yeah. Yeah. So not. Yeah, go ahead. As you said, not quite from the beginning, but, but almost the beginning. I think, I think Ryan just celebrated the 10 year anniversary, right? So eight years. Yeah, it's wild. I think I'm probably close to nine or so just a little ahead of you. It's funny. I'm sure we've lost it, but back in the day,
1:21.0	we used to have a Google spreadsheet and then we were assigned a number. Do you remember this spreadsheet? And do you know what your number was?
1:30.1	I don't know what my number was. Okay. I don't. And I would have been in, I would have been in like
1:34.2	the mid to high hundreds. So, okay, because there was about 150, 180 somewhere in there when I
1:42.5	joined. So you were probably still under 100 people when you joined.
1:46.7	Yes. Yeah. I think it was like 86. It's 86 or 68. It's in my memory, it's one of those two numbers,
1:53.5	which is just wild to think about when we joined the Iron Council. We're talking hundreds of guys.
2:00.6	And over the last eight years, I mean, I was talking with Ryan about this a couple, you know, just a couple weeks ago.
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