We are men, we are warriors, we are dads, dads with a purpose, dads with an edge.

We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others.

We have one shot in life to be a dad.

Why not make it epic?

What's up, guys?

Welcome to the dad edge podcast.

I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show, as you guys have heard many, many

times before.

What we're talking about today, I'm really excited about today's guest.

I was on his show as well as we are talking about all things masculinity but not just masculinity

because we know that that is a hot topic here as far as it pertains to social media and

just out there in the world, toxic masculinity, masculinity, your beard is too masculine,

dangerous masculinity, all those things, right?

But we're going to talk about that a little bit today and I can't think of a better guest

today to talk about that topic and someone who's been very influential in my life and

as well as other podcasts.

I first heard of him a long time ago through Ryan Mickler, a good friend of mine over at

Order of Man.

He and I, for those of you who don't know, we've actually been good friends for the past six

years and we share a lot of different contacts and podcast guests and that kind of thing.

And I heard Nicky a long time ago, but what you don't know about Nicky Blue is that, man,

this guy has just been instrumental as far as connecting me to different people in the

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