You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest.

Embrace your fears and boldly charge 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.

Tell them what is going on today. My name is Brian Mechler.

I am the host and founder of the movie that is the Word of Man.

I'm just a podcast movie about the claimant and the story of Masculinity.

Not this distorted, war-quisted view of masculinity that seems to shift

with the ebbs and flows of how society thinks about the way men should be showing up.

But by the objective standard of masculinity, which is that of being a protector,

a provider, and a presider.

It's the way that our grandfathers used to show up strong, bold, courageous, assertive,

and capable of handling anything that life might have to throw at them.

Unfortunately, I think we are seeing a trend in society where we are shifting away

from that version of masculinity.

I shouldn't say version. It is just masculinity.

There are no versions of masculinity.

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