Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness

Podcast there are a lot of unspoken challenges in hidden battles that face men in modern society. on frustrated, cynical, and lost.

John Tyson has thought a lot about the problems men face

and has been on the ground trying to help them as a pastor in New York City.

In today's episode, I talked to John about the sources of this male angst

that he explores as the co-author of a new book,

Fighting Shadows, overcoming seven lies that keep men from becoming fully alive.

John and I discuss how men often try to solve their Malays and why those approaches don't work.

We then explore some of the shadows men fight in their lives, including the shadows of despair,

loneliness, unhealthy ambition, futility, and lust.

John offers some advice to overcome these shadows

including sitting around a fire pit with your bros, taking time to develop your telos or

aim as a man and ejecting a bit more playfulness in your life to counteract grumpy dad syndrome.

At the show.

All right, John Tyson, welcome back to the show.

Gidda, mate, how's it going going thank you for having me back on always a

joy to chat oh well always a pleasure we had you on last time to talk about the five

shifts of manhood as part of a program you do you got a new book out that you co-authored. It's called

Fighting Shadows Overcoming Seven Lives that Keep Men from Becoming Foley Alive.

You've done a lot of work around mentoring and guiding young men into manhood.

We've had you on the podcast to talk about that, sort of the rights of passage that you've developed

for your own son, then have also helped other men do with their their boys. This book is

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