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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 #15: Aaron Walker on Entrepreneurship, and Living a Life of Success and Significance
The first time I heard Aaron Walker (known as “Big A”) speak I knew I had to have him on the podcast. I didn’t know anything about him, I just loved his enthusiasm. Before I read his book or had really taken a look at his site, I reached out to him and asked ...
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Sep 27, 2016
Manly Featured Product – Sturdy Brothers’ Charles Apron Review
I had the inspirational opportunity to interview Spencer and Ben Young, founders of Sturdy Brothers, for a Captains of Industry article nearly two years prior to this review of their most manly “Charles Apron“. I say ‘inspirational’ because while speaking to Ben prior to the article write ...
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Wolf & Iron Podcast #006: Ben Hewitt on Living Off the Land, Unschooling, Writing & More
I came across Ben Hewitt a few years ago. He’s a man living much of the way many men desire to live: by the sweat of his brow, on his own land, raising and growing food, educating his children as he sees best, and seeing how his hard work directly contributes to the ...
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Judging a Man by His Apples
Men, we are judged by our work, both at the office or in our businesses, but also the work in our families. How are we caring for our orchard at home? Let us consider this metaphor in judging a man by his apples.
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Wolf & Iron Podcast #004: Liam Hoffman of Hoffman Blacksmithing on Blacksmithing, Entrepreneurship, and Finding Your Calling
My guest for this episode of the Wolf & Iron podcast is Liam Hoffman of HoffmanBlacksmithing.com. Liam is a 19 year-old entrepreneur who started forging blades and axes at an early age. He’s a prime example of a young man who, when given the freedom to do so and support of his parents, found ...
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Wolf & Iron Podcast #002: David and Jason Benham on Conviction, Character, and Manliness
I had the opportunity to speak to David and Jason Benham, better known as the Benham Brothers. Twin brothers who have made a name for themselves by standing up for Christian values regardless of the cost. They are local to me in Charlotte, NC, and I have had the opportunity to see them ...
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Feb 15, 2016
Captains of Industry: Chris and Jason Angelini of American Bench Craft
There has certainly been an upwards trend in handcrafted, American made goods. The return of the artisan man, the shop owner, the leather worker has come about at a most unexpected time. Industrialization has become so commonplace that true craftsmanship is now a novelty, and perhaps more appreciated than it was during the ...
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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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Flanking Your Passions: Achieving Goals Indirectly
Some days back, I had just stepped into a favorite coffee shop of mine when I noticed the owner, Paul, an Aussie who makes incredible coffee, clearing objects from the counter top so that an award might be prominently displayed: Best New Coffee Shop in Charlotte, 2015. I asked him how it came ...
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Sep 15, 2015
Barbati Fratres – The Bearded Brothers and the Start of the Freemasons
When you think of Freemasons, what typically comes to mind? A secret organization, shrouded in mystery? An ancient brotherhood with unknown ties of influence throughout history? Great! Because I am absolutely going to play that up!
I believe what I have uncovered and what you are about to read is ...
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Manly Sites I Follow and Men I Admire
A good deal of my online time is spent researching or creating content for Wolf & Iron, but that is not to say that I don’t have a few resources I turn to when I need my man-tank refueled. A few years back if you wanted to know how to be a man ...
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