fatherhood
Oct 31, 2017
Wolf & Iron Podcast #28 – Man to Man: Fight! Defeating your Demons
The last few weeks have been hard. My dad died. My world has been rearranged a good bit, or at least a new type of reality has set in. Honestly, I had been expecting this day since my boyhood; that I would get a call saying my dad had died in some car ...
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Wolf & Iron Podcast #022 – 4th Manniversary Special! Mike talks about the last year, new stuff, and the future of Wolf & Iron
The last year for Wolf & Iron has been pretty incredible. I started Rustic and Main, wrote a book, repaired my marriage, sent one kid off to college, quit my job, grew Wolf & Iron by the thousands, and still have most of my hair.
In this Manniversary episode ...
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Wolf & Iron Podcast #019 – Author Warren Peterson on Success, Failure, Writing, and Living Significantly
My pal Warren Peterson has experienced the ups and downs of life. He chased after success in the way most men do, and lost it all. That experience was a wake up call that he desperately needed, and now he is using it as a catalyst to help men get on the right ...
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Wolf & Iron Podcast #014: Jason MacKenzie on Being a Better Man Through Authenticity and Vulnerability
I don’t know when it happened, but at some point we denigrated the enlightened, renaissance man and esteemed the stoic, ridged, emotionally detached man instead. Introspection and a genuine understanding of our gifts and our failings, can lead a man to be better. It requires a good deal of humility for a man ...
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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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