Family
Wolf & Iron Podcast #013: 3rd Manniversary, What’s in Store for 2017, and Family Issues
Hey gents! Wolf and Iron has finished up its 3rd year of manliness and I wanted to talk a little about what’s coming up in 2017, but more importantly, I wanted to give an update on what’s going on with my family life. As some of you may remember, I posted on Facebook ...
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Wolf & Iron Podcast #009: Larry Hagner of The Good Dad Project on Being an Awesome Dad, Fitness, Fathering Forward, & More
Author, speaker, podcaster, and founder of The Good Dad Project, Larry Hagner, joins me on the Wolf & Iron podcast to talk about one of the most important topics a man can succeed in: Fatherhood. Larry is such an open guy and we covered a lot of ground in this episode. The piece ...
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Wolf & Iron Podcast #008: EuGene Jordan on Marriage, Fatherhood, Cohabitation, A Man’s Role & More
EuGene Jordan, founder of menandmarriage.com, and I have a chinwag about the state of manliness and marriage in the UK and the typical issues many men face when committing to the high calling of married life. This is a great conversation, not only for the bounty of wisdom you’ll garner, but also ...
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Jun 17, 2016
Wolf & Iron Podcast #007: Father’s Day Special – Our Good Fathers
For this special Father’s Day episode of the Wolf and Iron podcast, I sent out a clarion call to men who have had good influences in their lives, either a grandfather, father, or mentor, to share a bit about those good men and the legacy of generational blessings they left behind. It was ...
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Mar 1, 2016
How a Man Raises Children in a Society that Raises Nothing
I was in a book study with a group of men who are committed to growing themselves in every good way, when the topic of fatherhood and our individual experiences, both as fathers and being fathered, came up. As we were working to relate our own methods of parenting, good and bad, back ...
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Man to Man: Failure to Launch
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
America and the western world is in a very ironic predicament. On one hand we have more men going through the process by which they have been told they can be ...
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My Story – From Fatherless to Manliness
There is a common thread which runs through the frayed cord of men, not only in our time and the last many generations, but in time immemorial: our fathers. Whether good or bad or all-together absent, fathers impact the lives of their sons. Here is my story of going from fatherless to manliness.
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Aug 7, 2015
Raising Sons: Initiating them into the World of Men (Rite of Passage)
“You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.” – Wally M. Schirra, American Naval Officer & Astronaut, 1923-2007
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Jun 18, 2015
TRThursday: Teddy’s Father, Theodore (Thee) Roosevelt Sr. (aka “Great Heart”)
“My father got me breath, he got me lungs, strength, life. I could breathe, I could sleep when he had me in his arms.” – Theodore Roosevelt on his father
I write this article on the eve of Father’s Day, so I thought it appropriate to take a closer look at ...
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Father’s Day: The Power of Encouragement
“Father! — to God himself we cannot give a holier name.” — William Wordsworth, English Poet, 1770-1850
Last Father’s Day I wrote about the Importance of Fathers. That article sparked some awareness in myself to the small but powerful ways we dads have in impacting our children, and particularly ...
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May 20, 2015
Man to Man: The Reasons You’re Not Getting Married are the Reasons You Should
Looking back, I can see that many of the reasons I wanted out of my marriage are the same reasons many men are staying out of marriage altogether, but the world needs men who are greater than the challenges which come in marriage. Man to man, here are the reasons you're not getting married, and the reasons you should.
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Call to Write: Mourning the Loss of a Father
Hey brothers. A follower of Wolf and Iron recently reached out to me to see if I had any articles on dealing with the loss of a father. I didn’t, and felt that while I would like to write an article on the subject (as I have thoughts on this subject like many ...
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