4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Ryan Michler delves into the concept of the "integrity gap" — the disparity between what men know they should do and what they actually do. He explores how this gap hinders personal growth, results, and relationships, urging listeners to bridge it through actionable steps. Michler provides six introspective questions to help men align their actions with their aspirations, fostering purpose and impact. Tune in to discover how to close the integrity gap and become the man you’re meant to be.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Introducing the Integrity Gap
02:23 - Risks of the Integrity Gap
08:17 - Impact on Your People
10:41 - Who Are You Ideally?
14:56 - Who Are You Currently?
18:22 - What Needs to Happen Daily?
20:14 - What Information Do You Need?
22:38 - What Systems Do You Need?
24:50 - What Do You Need to Do Right Now?
26:34 - Adapting to Life’s Challenges
Battle Planners: Pick yours up today!
Order Ryan's new book, The Masculinity Manifesto.
For more information on the Iron Council brotherhood.
Want maximum health, wealth, relationships, and abundance in your life? Sign up for our free course, 30 Days to Battle Ready
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | 250,000 people have killed themselves in the past six months. |
0:05.5 | He also said that every 14 seconds, somebody takes their lives. |
0:08.7 | I can't help but wonder why so many men are taking their lives. |
0:12.1 | And I would argue that it's because they don't feel valuable. |
0:14.7 | They're not contributing in some meaningful and significant way. |
0:17.7 | They feel like they've lost their way or lost their purpose or lost their drive or lost their passion. And then we slipped into depression, anxiety, frustration, and |
0:27.7 | eventually unchecked suicide. Men, do you ever feel like you're destined for something more? |
0:36.9 | Maybe you're lying awake at night thinking about what your current reality is versus what you |
0:41.7 | imagine it could be and what you think it ought to be. |
0:44.9 | Maybe you feel frustrated or anxious or depressed or angry even about the results that you're |
0:53.3 | experiencing in your professional life, in your personal life, |
0:57.2 | in your physical health, and just your overall sense of well-being. I know I certainly have, |
1:01.9 | and I still do get that way from time to time. And what I've realized is that in those moments |
1:06.1 | of desperation and despair or even just frustration about the lack of results that I'm enjoying in my life |
1:12.4 | relative to the results I would like to enjoy is all a matter of what I call the integrity |
1:18.9 | gap. And the integrity gap for some frame of reference here is the gap between what you know |
1:26.0 | you should be doing, what you know you want to be doing, |
1:29.0 | what you know you ought to be producing in your life, and the results that you're actually |
1:33.3 | enjoying. And we can know everything about what it takes to be a man. We can know everything about |
1:41.4 | what it takes to have a successful relationship. We can know everything we need to know about how to build an amazing physique |
1:47.3 | or how to build prosperity and abundance. |
1:50.5 | And yet so many men struggle every single day, |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 7 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ryan Michler, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ryan Michler and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.