But accountability requires two things.

It requires you to be courageous when you see other men who you care about that are struggling to actually say something.

Because there's a risk associated with that.

You could alienate the friendship.

If, for example, when I was in the throes of my alcohol abuse, somebody came to me and said,

Hey, man, I know you're drinking and it's not a good look, and you are ruining your life,

you've got to have people like that.

You're a man of action.

You live life to the fullest.

Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.

When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time every

time you are not easily deterred or 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

and then today I want to talk with you about the benefits of brotherhood.

Now, look, I know if you've been around for any amount of time,

you know that I talk about brotherhood quite often.

And I talk about it because it's important.

And I also talk about it because I have seen

tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of men over the past 10 years of doing this

that don't have brotherhoods. They don't have men in their corner. In fact, there's studies that

suggest that some men, most men, in fact, don't even have three men that they could call in a moment

of crisis, family, friends, colleagues, coworkers, long-loss friends from high school, nobody.

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