
The Evolution of Modern Men
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Ed Watters: To overcome, you must educate.
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Educate not only yourself, but
educate anyone seeking to learn.
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We are all Dead America,
we can all learn something.
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To learn, we must challenge
what we already understand.
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The way we do that is
through conversation.
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Sometimes we have conversations with
others, however, some of the best
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conversations happen with ourselves.
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Reach out and challenge yourself; let’s
dive in and learn something new right now.
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Today, we are speaking with Jason Lange.
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He is a men’s embodiment coach and
he’s all about evolutionary men.
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Jason, could you please
introduce yourself?
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Let people know just a little
more about you, please.
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Jason Lange: Yeah.
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First off, thanks for having me here, Ed.
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Excited to be here.
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And so, yeah, I’m a, uh, men’s
work guide, coach, and facilitator.
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I’ve been working with men
for about fifteen years now.
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Started my journey, um, my journey
started with me getting into men’s work.
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And so, um, learning really firsthand
the power of embodiment work in men’s
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groups in terms of shifting a lot of the
challenges I was having in my life and
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fell so in love with the work, now it’s
kind of what I guide other men through.
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Um, and something I’m just
grateful for every day.
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And in fact, I think it’s just
becoming more and more important
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with each and every passing day
with the state of the world.
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Ed Watters: I can’t agree more, Jason.
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Men are hurting out there.
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We are lost, confused, you know,
because the world is changing rapidly.
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And what we define
ourself as, it’s changing.
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So there’s already confusion
from the traditional lifestyle.
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Now we’ve got so many more lifestyles
in the mix, and it’s very hard for
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many men to accept and understand the
evolution into what the modern world is.
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What should a man be
in your opinion, Jason?
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Jason Lange: Yeah, it’s such a great
question and is really at the heart
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of so much of the work I do in that.
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A lot of the pain as you speak about
that men are under these days is,
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we don’t know what we’re supposed
to be or what we’re supposed to do.
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You know, the rules of the game
in a lot of ways have changed.
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And men generally, in my opinion, want
to do well for themselves, for their
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community, for their world, but they
don’t, these days, really know how.
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And, you know, the paradigm used to
be, in a sense, if you were a man, in
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a kind of more traditional sense, just
providing, showing up, doing your work,
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taking care of your friends and family,
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that was enough.
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That’s not really enough anymore.
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And what we’ve seen, what I’ve seen
firsthand in the men I work with is a
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lot of us came into this world and, um,
you know, over the last fifty, sixty
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years, there’s maybe kind of three
predominant, what I say, archetypes
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for the masculine, for men that were,
were, um, kind of demonstrated for us.
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And I’ll just go through them quick
and then it’ll become pretty clear
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what the problem with them is.
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And the first is kind of the, what we
joke is the traditional kind of macho
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jerk, the my way or the highway, the man
who just goes for what he wants, takes
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what he wants, and often doesn’t really
think about much more than himself, right?
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So he’s just, uh, conquering in a sense.
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And the thing about those men is they
often do tend to get a certain type of
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success and achievement and kind of,
but it’s usually in more of a taking
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sense and they can often adversely
impact those people around them, the
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environment, all kinds of things.
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And so many generations of men in
the last, you know, um, decades grew
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up seeing the damages of that kind
of man, a man who just doesn’t care
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and causes harm to those around him.
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And as a result, you know, particularly
I would say in the fifties and
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sixties and onward, we started to see
a response to that of what we kind
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of now call the nice guy, us nice
guys, I consider myself a nice guy.
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We’re very heart centered, we really care
about safety for those around us, we go
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out of our way to not be creeps or not
to be too sexually aggressive, and we
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really are kind of polite, in a sense.
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We want those around us to
feel well taken care of.
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The problem with a lot of nice guys
is they do that at their own expense.
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So they don’t set healthy boundaries,
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they don’t really go for what they
want, and they often end up feeling
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very frustrated and left behind in
some of their primary relationships.
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Then the third one I’ll just mention here,
Ed, which is kind of sprinkled all around
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is what I call the traditional stoic.
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You know, I, I kind of tend to point
to, um, the kind of greatest generation
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of grandfathers in particular, guys
you could, you know, know for twenty,
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thirty, forty years, and maybe never
even know they were in war or had some
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extremely challenging life events.
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They just kind of grunt their way through
life, keep to themselves, show up and
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do their responsibilities, but really
keep their inner world locked down.
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In all three of those strategies,
uh, of being, for men, have kind
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of fallen apart in the sense
they’re just not working anymore.
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And you know, the, the, uh, suicide rates,
loneliness rates, physical, um, ailments
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for men, like, it’s just all skyrocketing.
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Men are literally
hurting as you’re saying.
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And so what we’re being asked to do and
kind of the, maybe the central premise
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of the work I do is, it’s not about
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toxic masculinity or any of the stuff
we often hear about now that, Oh, you
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know, men are just inherently bad.
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It’s about, we got to take
the best of what was and bring
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it into the future as well.
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And what that really points to in the
work I do, Ed, is I kind of, again,
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bring it to three different points here.
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First, you know, modern men, modern
integrated men, we need to be embodied.
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So we actually need to be
connected to our direct bodily
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experience from moment to moment.
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This includes the physical
sensations in our body and as I
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would say, our emotions as well.
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Because emotions start as
physical sensations in the body.
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And so many of us men have actually been
trained out of our bodies by our culture.
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We have been taught from a very
young age, stop crying, toughen
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up, don’t move in school.
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We get all of these messages,
and it’s from culture, it’s from
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other men, sometimes it’s from
our teachers, that whatever’s
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happening in your body, ignore it.
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A real man is tough and he just
moves forward no matter what.
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That tends to cause some
pretty big problems later on.
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So first off is us men just learning
to get out of our heads and actually
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including our whole bodily experience.
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So being grounded, being present,
and really just being here.
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Something that sounds maybe pretty simple,
particularly in our age of technology,
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where everything is trying to pull
our attention away from right here and
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now, it’s, it’s a big, big challenge.
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Then second, is from that place, once
we’re grounded and embodied, that’s
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when we allow ourselves to open.
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To actually become open to the moment,
open to our emotions, and attuned
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to ourselves and those around us.
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So this is a pretty big paradigm
shift for a lot of men where I say the
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most powerful men I know these days,
they are also the most sensitive men.
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And I don’t mean sensitive in
that they get hurt just from
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someone calling them a name.
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I mean sensitive in that they’re
deeply attuned, particularly
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to those around them.
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They’re deeply attuned to
their emotional responses.
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They aren’t prey to their emotions, right?
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It’s not like, Oh, this emotion happened
to me, now I’m just exploding in rage.
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They’re actually able to notice,
and see, and be with, Wow, I’m
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feeling really angry right now.
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That is such an evolutionary leap for
most men to actually be able to name
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what their inner experience is in the
moment rather than just reacting from it.
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So there’s this openness that, um,
is deeply connected to that, that
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bedrock of groundedness, in presence.
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And then the third thing I’ll just add
here in terms of what I kind of say as an
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evolutionary man is, we, we learn to take
power of our awareness, to control, where
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is my attention going in any given moment?
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And to learn that, uh, our awareness
is actually one of our superpowers.
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So in any given moment, can I take my
awareness, literally the focus of my
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attention, and put it on what is most
important for me, for my family, for
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my work, for the planet, whatever that
means in that particularly moment.
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Another way to think about this is,
we are able to orient towards depth.
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What is the most important thing for
me to be paying attention to right now?
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And when we have all three of those
things, so a deep grounded presence,
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an open and sensitive heart, and an
expanded and focused awareness, those
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two terms might seem contradictory,
but they’re actually quite, um,
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they work quite well together, we,
we become something very different.
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We become a man that is in touch with
our power, our sexuality, what we
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want, our capacity to set boundaries.
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But we’re also deeply attuned to
the people around us, noticing
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the impact we’re having on our
environment, on our relationships.
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And we’re orienting towards, what’s
most important for those around me?
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So it’s a tall order in a lot of ways,
because I think a big part of where
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society is letting men down right now is
we’re not getting any training for how
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to be in this world in cultivating a deep
presence, learning to be present with our
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emotions, even learning to work our minds.
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These are actual skills and capacities
we have to practice and train at, and
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nobody is teaching us guys this stuff.
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Ed Watters: Yeah, I can’t agree more.
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You know, I think the simple
man is a thing of the past.
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We live in a technological age and
therefore we have to keep up with
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that to be relevant in this world.
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And with the changes in our
technology, the brute force, the
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manual labor is getting less and less.
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So there’s, there’s this thing,
our testosterone, it sometimes
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puts that grr to us, you know?
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But we go to the workplace and we
work that out a lot of the time.
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And now with the advent of technologies,
a lot of the times men work just
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like this, and there’s no room
for that grr time to get it out.
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We, we need to incorporate social
activities that allow us to be around men.
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You say men groups are necessary, and
I really do agree with that a lot.
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Dealing with men in this atmosphere,
what are some of the struggles that
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we are facing as men transitioning?
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Jason Lange: Yeah, absolutely.
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Uh, we mentioned one in particular
is loneliness and isolation.
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So I think men in particular are,
are very susceptible to, um, falling
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into very isolating life patterns.
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You know, this is obviously different
across cultures and in individuals.
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But in general, a lot of women
are better at just maintaining
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relationships, just literally just
having connections in their lives.
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A lot of us men, again, partly, you
know, some of it biological, but a
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lot of it cultural, um, fall prey to
what I call the myth of the lone wolf.
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This idea that, Oh, a real man is
someone who’s tough, that doesn’t
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need anyone, doesn’t rely on anyone.
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So we kind of have that context
along with, like you spoke
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about, a lot of shifting cultural
and technological changes.
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Where a lot of the places us men used
to go to get community have kind of
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fallen apart, social groups, men’s
clubs, certain types of work and
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activities, um, church groups for some
people, there’s a huge range of things.
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But a lot of that stuff is falling
apart and there’s this shift, right?
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Uh, at least here in the West, to kind
of work from home, more entrepreneurial
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stuff where many men I work with,
right, um, they can spend days or weeks
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without interacting with a person.
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You can click and order
everything off Amazon.
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And there’s all this energy now kind
of working against us from actually
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connecting with other human beings.
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And again, I think it’s, it’s men
that are particularly vulnerable
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to this because we have this thing
of, I got to do it all myself.
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So many men internalize this belief
that I got to figure it out all myself.
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That’s what a tough man does, you know,
here in the States where I live, right?
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Um, we are just inundated with the image
in particular of like the, the, the lone
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cowboy, the rugged individual, just,
who pulls himself up by his bootstraps.
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And the truth is, uh, that
doesn’t work anymore, right?
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Many of the men that go that route end
up addicted to alcohol or weed, or have
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autoimmune disorders, they die earlier.
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Like there is just a
crazy amount of stats.
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We are meant to live in, meant to
live relationally, and in community,
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and in the natural world, right?
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The lone wolf is actually the wolf that
was kicked out of the pack and they
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do not survive as long as the wolves
in a pack, it has real consequences.
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So for one, most men are chronically
malnourished in connection is what I find.
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And if they do have connection in
their life, Ed, a lot of men out of
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the gate, we default to connecting
via what I call triangulation.
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So it’s me and you and we build
connection by having our attention
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on a third thing, a sports game,
an activity, there’s something that
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we’re putting our attention on.
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You know, another way I put this is
men like to talk about things, right?
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We’ll get together and we’ll just talk
about things, or politics, or whatever,
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but rarely are men trained to turn
their attention towards each other.
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Hey, I’m gonna ask you
what’s going on in your life.
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You’re gonna ask me what’s
going on in my life.
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And our attention is actually going to be
on each other, which is where the deepest
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connection is often built and where I see
time and time again with men I work with,
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they’re, it’s like they are in the desert
malnourished and they get into a space
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where people are actually present and
something inside them comes back alive.
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Some type of connection starts to blossom
and vitality comes back to their lives.
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So for one, they’re just, there’s not
enough connection for so many guys.
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Number two, like I said, is
just these changing expectations
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for what men should be.
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You know, in a sense, um, uh, the
probably most concrete form of this
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is all these, some of these ideas
we’ve talked about, we, we kind of
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consolidate in what we call the man box.
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Which is this idea that, uh, and
they’ve done research, right?
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It’s really interesting, they did,
they polled, um, men and women
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across the board, so this was
both sides, and it’s just simple
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question, what marks the transition
between a girl and a woman, right?
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What makes a girl turn into a woman?
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And most people, both men and women
included, noted biological features.
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So she starts menstruating, she
has her cycle, her body changes,
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then she’s a woman, right?
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Same question asked about boys and
men, totally different answers.
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It’s not based on biology, it’s
based on how the man is showing
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up in his culture or society.
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Expectations of behavior and integrity,
meaning a boy could be fully mature in
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his body, but not be considered a man,
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right?
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Oh, he’s still, he hasn’t,
he’s failure to launch, right?
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He’s stuck at home.
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And part of what drives that are
these, what we call the man box.
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Which is, right, the set of expectations
that create a box of behavior for us men.
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That if we’re checking the
contents of that box, We’re a man.
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If we’re not checking the contents
of that box, we’re less than a man.
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We’re something else, there’s all kinds of
slurs and words for that, that people use.
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But some of the defining characteristics
of that, like we said, are be tough,
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don’t show emotion, don’t be weak, push
yourself, these are some of the messages
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we get from a very young age as men.
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Which again, then leads to this
incredible problem of, as human beings.
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We men have emotions and feelings, but
from a young age, we are not taught
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what they are, or how to relate to
them, or how to healthily express them.
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So what happens instead is we have
these uncomfortable sensations
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in our bodies, sometimes we
can’t even label what they are.
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And what men, I think in particular, do,
Ed, is they turn to things outside of
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them to try to get rid of that feeling.
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So, booze, weed, porn, masturbation,
food, working really hard, earning
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money, there’s so many different ways
us men will try to eject from our
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experience so we don’t have to feel it.
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And the trouble is feelings don’t go away.
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You can numb them out, you can
try to push them away, you can
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run away from them, but they stay.
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And there’s, you know, again, more and
more research here that shows, you can
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even run a thought experience here.
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He came across a person, a
young boy or something, right?
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And he’s just scared or
bawling in tears or something.
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And you come up to him
and you go, Stop crying.
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What you’ll see that boy do,
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he’ll hold his breath, he’ll
stop breathing and his body
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will actually tense up.
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So, the way we stop emotion is
we tense up our body to hold it.
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We hold the feeling inside and maybe
we eventually dissociate from it.
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But long and short of this is every
time we don’t feel the, feel a
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feeling or allow emotional content
to properly be experienced, it gets
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stored in our body as held tension.
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And the research seems to point
to our fascia, which is what
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connects our muscle to our bone.
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But this has a huge energetic cost, right?
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Because even if I just
told you right now, right?
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Tense all the muscles in your arms,
you guys can, you can do this, right?
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Just stand in here and
you tighten your biceps.
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And if I was like, Now hold
that for twenty minutes.
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At first, it’s like, Oh, that’s easy.
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But as the time goes by you’re like,
Wow, this actually takes a lot of energy.
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And that’s energy you do
not have available for you
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in the rest of your life.
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So many men these days I work with,
they have so much buried, buried
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feeling and emotional content that’s
held in their body as tension.
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And then they walk around depressed,
exhausted, anxious, and not sure
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what’s, why this is happening to them.
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And so training men to learn to get in
touch with their bodies, their hearts,
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their feelings, and then what to do with
their emotions to make it a constructive,
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healthy thing is a huge edge and very
underserved thing in our world right now.
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And you know, when we’re young, Ed, I
like to joke, you know, it’s like we kind
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of come with a certain, uh, amount of
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juice in our battery.
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It’s like, you know, we can
just push ourselves, we can go
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out drinking, we can, whatever.
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And we just bounce back.
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And then, you know, you start to
hit your, your forties and fifties
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and it’s like, Oh wait, this doesn’t
just recharge automatically anymore.
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I got to be really mindful with
what I’m doing with my life force.
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And a lot of these held emotions really
start to kind of have an impact on
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us, I would say, in that middle age.
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Where we’ll start to have extreme amounts
of autoimmune disorders, depression,
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physical ailments that, you know, they
can’t all be traced back to emotional
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content, but it has a massive impact.
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So something I’ve seen in the live work
I do, with men in particular, is guiding
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a man into, you know, sometimes something
they’ve been holding, literally an
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emotional experience they’ve been holding
from their childhood even, for decades.
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And they finally allow that to move
through them, it’s like a different
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human being shows up on the other side.
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Their face softens, their
eyes open brighter, there’s
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more energy, more presence.
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And, and just tell you like, Wow, I’m here
because I was spending all of this energy
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to hold that at bay for all these years.
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And that just has such a
huge consequence on us men.
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So isolation and, you know, another
way to put this, maybe, emotional
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constipation that a lot of us men
kind of get stuck with, two of
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the huge challenges right now.
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Ed Watters: I like that.
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And it is so important to recognize that.
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Bottling things up is what we do best and
that deep work, that dark shadow work,
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you call it, I believe, it is what we have
to do to really break free from it all.
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And love ourselves even though we hate
who we used to be, that’s, that’s quality.
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And when we put quality
into us, we get quality out.
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It’s easy to hide, it’s easy
to run, and it’s easy to blame.
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I know that a lot of people get stuck
in this blame game because that’s what
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they’ve been taught to do, really.
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And, you know,
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it’s about putting ourselves around
people that really make the difference.
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What type of role models
should a male be looking for?
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Jason Lange: Yeah, this is huge and it’s
one of the big reasons why I really am a
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proponent of this idea of men’s groups.
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Because another challenge we have
as men is, many of us don’t get to
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spend time around other healthy men.
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So we’re like, Hey, I know what I’m being
shown in the world is not a healthy,
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uh, is not healthy, but I don’t have any
role models of what else there should be.
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And this is something that, you know,
Robert Bly, who wrote, um, Iron John,
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he was one of the first to kind of
talk about another one of the many
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kind of shifts for men was, you know,
once the industrial revolution came,
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before that, boys at some point would
kind of go off to be with the men.
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Dad would have a trade or work and,
you know, around seven or eight,
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you would start to spend time
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with dad, or your uncles,
or the men in your life.
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And you would be taught kind of the way
a man should be in a sense, what it means
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to serve your community, your family.
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And once the industrial revolution hit,
all the dads went away to factories.
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And so boys were left at home.
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And then we got shoved into school
systems, which though it’s changing,
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teachers have predominantly been women.
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So a lot of boys have spent a lot
of time being raised by women and
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don’t necessarily have access to
that, that kind of older role model
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energy where we get transmitted
so much, so much happens in that.
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And I got pretty lucky, part of my
personal journey is I got lucky.
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I got into a men’s group when I was
in my twenties and that exposed me to
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older, more mature men I never would
have met in a different container.
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And this was a visceral thing for me
as I’m sitting in the room with some
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of these men and seeing how they’re
sharing, how they’re standing, how they’re
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breathing, how they deal with emotions.
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And, you know, it sounds a little
cheesy, but I remember one of my
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first mentors, I saw him speaking
and interacting with some people.
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And I just had this
sense in my body of, Wow.
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That’s what I want to be when I grow up.
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It’s not so much what he’s doing,
but it’s his presence, which has come
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from a certain type of practice and
work he had put in and on himself.
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So getting around other men who,
as I say, are deeper than us
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doesn’t mean they know everything.
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It just means in, you know, sometimes
it’s in career, sometimes it’s in
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transformation, sometimes it’s in sports.
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These men have gone a little
further on their path than us
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and can transmit something to us
and that is a really rare thing.
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You know, it’s something I’m
so grateful for having become
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a father in the last years.
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Have, you know, tried to navigate a
pandemic and all this crazy stuff.
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And I was in men’s groups with some
guys in their fifties, sixties, and
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seventies who, you know, I would
be on the verge of a freak out.
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Oh my God, this is happening with my kid.
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And they’re like, Hey.
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Yeah, totally.
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I get it, I remember that.
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Here’s what worked for me,
here’s what I discovered.
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My whole nervous system just
would relax like, Oh, okay.
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I got some people looking out for me who
have some advice for me, who can guide me.
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It doesn’t mean they have all the answers,
but their wisdom was transmitted to me.
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So getting around other healthy
men is one of the most powerful
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things we can do as guys.
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Get around other men who can call us
forward when there’s something in our
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life we need to be held accountable
for, and frankly, just support us when
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we can’t hold it together anymore.
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And so many men I know are just
bracing, holding on for dear life and
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have nowhere to go where they can,
sometimes literally, but oftentimes
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figuratively, be held by others.
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Hey, man, it’s okay.
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I’ve got you right now, you
don’t have to hold it in.
401
00:28:05,540 –> 00:28:08,719
That to me is one of the most
powerful shifts I’ve seen for men.
402
00:28:08,719 –> 00:28:13,310
So getting in a group, getting around
other healthy men changes lives.
403
00:28:13,349 –> 00:28:14,929
I’ve just seen it time and time again.
404
00:28:15,830 –> 00:28:17,000
Ed Watters: Yeah, yeah.
405
00:28:17,000 –> 00:28:21,879
I think it’s, it’s one of
the most important things.
406
00:28:21,879 –> 00:28:25,409
You need that context to be.
407
00:28:25,669 –> 00:28:32,919
And the only way you can get context of a
man is to be around a true man and that,
408
00:28:32,929 –> 00:28:36,610
that sometimes is very difficult to find.
409
00:28:38,049 –> 00:28:45,330
Another big thing I remember is
being able to reach out and ask.
410
00:28:45,715 –> 00:28:48,054
Hey, can you help me with this?
411
00:28:48,155 –> 00:28:49,564
Do you have any advice?
412
00:28:50,424 –> 00:28:53,955
It was one of the hardest
things for me to do.
413
00:28:53,955 –> 00:28:56,854
Do you have any advice for young men?
414
00:28:57,134 –> 00:29:03,934
How do you reach out to a
possible role model and ask for
415
00:29:03,934 –> 00:29:06,354
that help that you might need?
416
00:29:07,364 –> 00:29:10,850
Jason Lange: Yeah, that, um, I
just want to really highlight what
417
00:29:10,850 –> 00:29:15,080
you said because this is sometimes
the hardest thing for men to do.
418
00:29:15,340 –> 00:29:17,010
What I’ve seen in the work I do with men.
419
00:29:17,220 –> 00:29:20,730
I mean, I’ll tell you, Ed, some, you
know, I’m a coach as well so I work
420
00:29:20,730 –> 00:29:22,970
with guys one on one or in programs.
421
00:29:23,230 –> 00:29:27,149
And so sometimes I will have the,
I’ve had the experience many times,
422
00:29:27,440 –> 00:29:34,159
men are actually paying me for
coaching, guidance, support, right?
423
00:29:34,159 –> 00:29:37,699
So they’re paying me for it
and like a week will go by
424
00:29:37,709 –> 00:29:38,919
and I won’t hear from them.
425
00:29:39,310 –> 00:29:41,679
And so I’ll reach out and be
like, Hey, what’s going on?
426
00:29:41,679 –> 00:29:42,790
I’m just wondering how you’re doing.
427
00:29:43,230 –> 00:29:46,260
And they’ll eventually reveal
to me, Oh my God, I had the
428
00:29:46,260 –> 00:29:48,240
worst couple of days in my life.
429
00:29:48,550 –> 00:29:50,950
It was so hard, I barely survived it.
430
00:29:51,270 –> 00:29:53,469
And I’m like, I’m literally here for you.
431
00:29:53,469 –> 00:29:57,140
You’re, you’re actually paying me to
be here for you and you still, right,
432
00:29:57,150 –> 00:29:58,650
had this challenge to reach out.
433
00:29:58,679 –> 00:30:00,279
Cause they’re like, Oh,
I felt so much shame.
434
00:30:00,279 –> 00:30:01,780
I was embarrassed or whatever.
435
00:30:02,230 –> 00:30:05,680
And I’m like, No, that, like, what
I tell my guys is the moment you
436
00:30:05,680 –> 00:30:10,955
want to withdraw is often the most
important moment to reach out to say,
437
00:30:10,955 –> 00:30:13,035
Hey, I’m really struggling today.
438
00:30:13,115 –> 00:30:14,065
I’m just, I’m in it.
439
00:30:14,245 –> 00:30:18,905
I, I, I’m stuck, I’m mad or I’m pissed,
or I’m sad, or I feel totally trapped.
440
00:30:19,214 –> 00:30:24,265
And it’s that reaching out and
finding connection that often
441
00:30:24,524 –> 00:30:28,355
starts to release some of the
energy to allow us to heal and move.
442
00:30:28,585 –> 00:30:34,920
Or frankly, might not change a single
thing about the actual mechanics of
443
00:30:34,920 –> 00:30:36,560
whatever challenge we’re having in life.
444
00:30:37,090 –> 00:30:44,849
But connection often resources ourselves,
resources us so we have the energy to
445
00:30:44,849 –> 00:30:47,440
keep, keep at that problem, so to speak.
446
00:30:47,649 –> 00:30:51,580
So it’s not like talking to me necessarily
fixes everything all the time, but it just
447
00:30:51,580 –> 00:30:53,930
makes a man feel like okay I’m not alone.
448
00:30:54,310 –> 00:30:57,360
I feel energized, I feel
resourced so I can go back and,
449
00:30:57,570 –> 00:30:59,189
and get at this thing again.
450
00:30:59,819 –> 00:31:01,525
But it’s a real challenge.
451
00:31:01,525 –> 00:31:05,445
So if you’re, you know, thinking
about it, it, whether it’s, you know,
452
00:31:05,445 –> 00:31:09,245
someone on social media, or someone
who wrote a book, or someone in your
453
00:31:09,245 –> 00:31:11,655
immediate community, reach out to them.
454
00:31:11,655 –> 00:31:14,194
Just say, Hey, you know, I’m
looking for a little guidance.
455
00:31:14,195 –> 00:31:16,754
Would you have some time, some
time to just sit down and chat?
456
00:31:17,155 –> 00:31:21,985
Um, they, you know, there is actually a
fair amount of research that shows, in a
457
00:31:22,025 –> 00:31:29,255
pretty profound way, um, men, it’s not,
you know, the ideal obviously is you
458
00:31:29,255 –> 00:31:34,985
have like a very present, attuned, caring
caregiver, father energy, who can come in
459
00:31:34,985 –> 00:31:36,985
and is regularly engaged with your life.
460
00:31:37,485 –> 00:31:39,575
Many of us don’t have
that for various reasons.
461
00:31:39,804 –> 00:31:47,225
But what they, what they’ve shown is even
a single intervention by an older, caring,
462
00:31:47,225 –> 00:31:51,335
wise man, so this could be a sports coach,
this could be an uncle, this could be
463
00:31:51,335 –> 00:31:56,105
someone in your community, a teacher,
whatever, somebody who just drops in
464
00:31:56,105 –> 00:31:57,934
with you and says, Hey, you know what?
465
00:31:58,495 –> 00:31:59,425
I know you can do it.
466
00:31:59,485 –> 00:32:01,704
I believe in you, let’s figure this out.
467
00:32:03,175 –> 00:32:09,825
One time even can completely alter the
trajectory of a boy and man’s life.
468
00:32:10,215 –> 00:32:14,715
So these don’t have to even be like, you
know, best friend relationships forever.
469
00:32:14,735 –> 00:32:18,245
But sometimes just getting a little
mentorship from someone in your workplace,
470
00:32:18,254 –> 00:32:21,465
or someone in your church, or someone
in your friends and family community,
471
00:32:21,465 –> 00:32:23,094
it’s like, Hey, I’m
struggling with this thing.
472
00:32:23,275 –> 00:32:24,365
Have you ever dealt with that?
473
00:32:24,465 –> 00:32:27,864
And you ask them, people are
often, love to share about their
474
00:32:27,864 –> 00:32:29,984
wins, or advice, or self story.
475
00:32:30,154 –> 00:32:31,804
So you just, you got to reach out.
476
00:32:32,184 –> 00:32:36,310
And if it’s a little too uncomfortable,
you know, you can find a container,
477
00:32:36,310 –> 00:32:39,830
something like a men’s group, or a
retreat, or a program to come into
478
00:32:39,830 –> 00:32:41,660
where that’s really woven in as well.
479
00:32:42,350 –> 00:32:43,630
Ed Watters: Yeah, that’s good advice.
480
00:32:44,309 –> 00:32:47,100
You know, another thing is quality.
481
00:32:47,170 –> 00:32:53,240
I think the quality of your
mentors matter, because we touched
482
00:32:53,240 –> 00:32:57,630
on it earlier, what, what you
are around is what you become.
483
00:32:57,640 –> 00:33:03,710
And you really want to think about
that when you are attaching yourself.
484
00:33:04,280 –> 00:33:10,570
If, if the guy’s out there partying
and doing immature things, is that
485
00:33:10,659 –> 00:33:13,080
the right mentor that you want?
486
00:33:13,630 –> 00:33:18,935
You know, I remember it was fun, it
was great, it was energetic, it was
487
00:33:18,995 –> 00:33:22,715
thrilling to be around that energy.
488
00:33:23,195 –> 00:33:30,045
But now that I’m older and I’m a little
wiser, I look back on those connections
489
00:33:30,054 –> 00:33:36,354
that I chose when I was younger because
I wanted that vibrant feeling in my life.
490
00:33:37,125 –> 00:33:42,525
This is not necessarily the
right person to reach out to.
491
00:33:42,765 –> 00:33:51,420
And I really think that we need to
work harder on being available to
492
00:33:51,420 –> 00:33:53,850
individuals when they reach out.
493
00:33:54,380 –> 00:33:58,490
And don’t slough a young man
off if they reach out to you
494
00:33:58,490 –> 00:34:00,750
because it’s so important.
495
00:34:01,569 –> 00:34:05,350
They saw something
there, answer that call.
496
00:34:06,915 –> 00:34:16,315
What type of person should we be
going into a relationship like that?
497
00:34:16,325 –> 00:34:24,205
Because a lot of people they’re withdrawn
and they don’t want to be bothered by it.
498
00:34:25,030 –> 00:34:31,680
But really, I, I feel that it’s your
duty if a young man reaches out to
499
00:34:31,680 –> 00:34:34,370
you, you need to answer that call.
500
00:34:35,230 –> 00:34:35,510
Jason Lange: Yeah.
501
00:34:35,510 –> 00:34:40,929
One of my, you know, favorite inquiries
for this is, uh, to slow down.
502
00:34:41,160 –> 00:34:45,190
And even just inside yourself
connect to, yeah, that inner
503
00:34:45,190 –> 00:34:47,550
teenager there, that inner young boy.
504
00:34:48,130 –> 00:34:51,040
And remember, where were you struggling?
505
00:34:51,300 –> 00:34:52,380
Where were you in pain?
506
00:34:52,910 –> 00:34:56,985
What do you wish you could have
asked an older, mature man?
507
00:34:57,205 –> 00:34:59,805
And what do you wish you could
have gotten back from him?
508
00:35:00,625 –> 00:35:04,535
And you’ll probably get a
pretty clear read, right?
509
00:35:04,555 –> 00:35:07,255
Like, Oh man, I really needed
somebody to X, Y, or Z.
510
00:35:07,934 –> 00:35:11,774
That can be one of your great gifts in
life then is to go out and give that.
511
00:35:12,205 –> 00:35:16,674
To find other men who you can express
that thing you needed at that age
512
00:35:16,675 –> 00:35:18,145
and say, Hey, here, here I am.
513
00:35:18,165 –> 00:35:19,635
I want to, I want to bring this.
514
00:35:20,145 –> 00:35:23,394
And just, you know, in general, I
think one of the greatest things we can
515
00:35:23,394 –> 00:35:30,180
do as men is show up with curiosity,
not shame people, just, right?
516
00:35:30,190 –> 00:35:33,939
It’s not making them wrong for, you know,
if a young boy who’s stuck, we don’t
517
00:35:33,940 –> 00:35:36,010
want to shame them, we just get curious.
518
00:35:36,010 –> 00:35:37,300
What’s going on in your life?
519
00:35:37,699 –> 00:35:42,889
And, um, I kind of summarize, you
know, in the work I do, Ed, I call
520
00:35:42,889 –> 00:35:44,930
it the father energy we all need.
521
00:35:45,610 –> 00:35:49,830
And I kind of mentioned it earlier,
actually, that I, to me, the ultimate
522
00:35:49,830 –> 00:35:53,890
kind of fatherly masculine energy that
anyone can give, doesn’t just have to be
523
00:35:53,890 –> 00:36:00,740
a man, but it’s this particular texture
of, oh, let’s figure it out together.
524
00:36:01,379 –> 00:36:05,679
Meaning if a challenge hits you and
you feel like you failed, or don’t
525
00:36:05,680 –> 00:36:10,160
know how to do something, or are
stuck, it’s the loving presence of
526
00:36:10,160 –> 00:36:12,950
someone else who acknowledges that.
527
00:36:13,180 –> 00:36:17,110
And then sits with you and says, Okay,
well, what can we do different next time?
528
00:36:17,450 –> 00:36:20,070
What do you need to work on
in yourself or in your career?
529
00:36:20,360 –> 00:36:25,440
And that just stays with you in that
and helps you run the experiments.
530
00:36:25,710 –> 00:36:28,865
Another way to put this is,
helps you learn to fail better.
531
00:36:29,635 –> 00:36:32,845
So if something happens in life
and it doesn’t work out the way
532
00:36:32,845 –> 00:36:34,715
you want, you figure it out.
533
00:36:34,805 –> 00:36:37,275
And to me, that is real resilience.
534
00:36:37,305 –> 00:36:39,105
It’s not that you always
get what you want,
535
00:36:39,395 –> 00:36:42,715
it’s that you’re able to respond
to the moment and try again.
536
00:36:43,355 –> 00:36:43,890
Ride through it.
537
00:36:44,550 –> 00:36:47,770
Men tend to love, you know,
sports movies, stuff like Rocky.
538
00:36:48,010 –> 00:36:49,030
What makes Rocky great?
539
00:36:49,470 –> 00:36:51,130
It’s not that he wins every time.
540
00:36:51,340 –> 00:36:53,980
It’s no matter how hard he
gets hit, he gets back up.
541
00:36:54,090 –> 00:36:54,860
He tries again.
542
00:36:55,370 –> 00:36:57,709
We find that very inspiring as men.
543
00:36:58,070 –> 00:37:01,780
And that’s a really unique
texture of love, men in
544
00:37:01,780 –> 00:37:03,730
particular, can offer to others.
545
00:37:04,040 –> 00:37:05,610
Of, wow, yeah, you’re
really hurting with this.
546
00:37:05,610 –> 00:37:09,520
You feel really stuck with this, or wow,
you, you face planted on that, right?
547
00:37:09,580 –> 00:37:10,620
Well, let’s talk about it.
548
00:37:10,670 –> 00:37:11,370
Let’s figure it out.
549
00:37:11,380 –> 00:37:12,400
What could we try different?
550
00:37:12,720 –> 00:37:17,819
And having someone in your, in your
corner, so to speak, like that as
551
00:37:17,820 –> 00:37:20,560
a man, wow, does it change things.
552
00:37:20,840 –> 00:37:25,520
It, it creates a completely different
type of resilience that allows
553
00:37:25,520 –> 00:37:31,320
us to go out and be bold and run
experiments and fail in a sense.
554
00:37:31,560 –> 00:37:36,600
But we learn so much every time
that if we just commit to that as a
555
00:37:36,600 –> 00:37:40,839
lifestyle and we have someone guiding
us from a place of depth, it is
556
00:37:40,839 –> 00:37:43,289
incredible how much we can transform.
557
00:37:43,619 –> 00:37:48,645
But so many of us guys just
did not have that growing up.
558
00:37:49,165 –> 00:37:51,235
So for me, I didn’t have
that kind of presence.
559
00:37:51,475 –> 00:37:57,285
So I learned to just get really
close to the chest, play it really
560
00:37:57,285 –> 00:38:01,905
safe because I was so afraid of
fucking up my life, making a mistake.
561
00:38:02,355 –> 00:38:04,754
And I didn’t feel like I
had any net underneath me.
562
00:38:05,025 –> 00:38:07,415
So you know, I was just
kind of locked in myself.
563
00:38:07,945 –> 00:38:10,255
As I’ve gotten into men’s
work and gotten supported,
564
00:38:10,595 –> 00:38:13,785
I’m able to take much
bigger risks in my life.
565
00:38:13,995 –> 00:38:18,535
Which sometimes work, sometimes don’t,
but I’m always glad I took the chance.
566
00:38:18,815 –> 00:38:22,365
And that’s a real place of
liberation for so many of us guys.
567
00:38:22,605 –> 00:38:26,255
So if you want to mentor a man, you
know, it’s really, really shore him up.
568
00:38:26,275 –> 00:38:26,915
Get curious.
569
00:38:26,915 –> 00:38:27,525
What do they want?
570
00:38:27,795 –> 00:38:28,644
What’s in the way?
571
00:38:28,995 –> 00:38:32,104
And then you just hash it out with him
and you stay connected and present.
572
00:38:32,595 –> 00:38:35,385
And you can completely
change somebody’s life.
573
00:38:37,665 –> 00:38:41,455
Ed Watters: And that’s what
we need to do most is change
574
00:38:42,005 –> 00:38:43,985
the status quo in our world.
575
00:38:44,505 –> 00:38:47,245
Too much hate, we need to turn it to love.
576
00:38:47,255 –> 00:38:51,895
And it’s okay to love as a man,
you know, not just a woman, but
577
00:38:52,034 –> 00:38:54,734
your community, your fellow man.
578
00:38:54,735 –> 00:38:55,615
It’s big.
579
00:38:55,925 –> 00:39:01,984
And I, I really think we as
people out here working towards
580
00:39:01,995 –> 00:39:04,880
that, that’s much needed.
581
00:39:04,890 –> 00:39:10,220
That, that is mentoring men
to come aboard and do this.
582
00:39:10,230 –> 00:39:13,300
We, we have to do this together, it’s big.
583
00:39:15,120 –> 00:39:20,440
Do you have anything that you want
to add to our conversation today that
584
00:39:20,440 –> 00:39:23,199
you feel that’s vital that men hear?
585
00:39:27,020 –> 00:39:29,570
Jason Lange: You know, I’ll just add, I
really love what you just shared there.
586
00:39:29,580 –> 00:39:34,555
And I think there’s a unique, you know,
like I said, kind of texture and quality
587
00:39:34,985 –> 00:39:37,775
to love through the masculine in a sense.
588
00:39:38,355 –> 00:39:42,305
And it’s one I think a lot of
us men and boys are craving.
589
00:39:42,315 –> 00:39:46,865
And what it is, is someone who looks
at us and says, I see the best in you.
590
00:39:48,385 –> 00:39:49,475
That’s what I want from you.
591
00:39:49,574 –> 00:39:52,665
I see the best in you so I
expect the best from you.
592
00:39:52,665 –> 00:39:57,445
And I’m going to be an advocate and be on
your team and fight for the best from you.
593
00:39:57,795 –> 00:40:01,235
So if I fuck up in my life, or I
treat someone badly, or I cheat in a
594
00:40:01,235 –> 00:40:05,520
relationship, or I do something bad,
we actually often are longing for other
595
00:40:05,520 –> 00:40:09,450
men to stop us, look us in the eye and
say, Hey man, that, that’s not cool.
596
00:40:09,990 –> 00:40:10,800
That doesn’t fly.
597
00:40:11,320 –> 00:40:17,189
I know, I know, I know who you are and
I know there’s more in you than that.
598
00:40:17,540 –> 00:40:20,010
So let’s clean this up or let’s do better.
599
00:40:20,719 –> 00:40:26,160
And that texture of love of, I’m not going
to take anything but the best from you.
600
00:40:26,780 –> 00:40:27,770
Because I see it in you.
601
00:40:27,790 –> 00:40:32,410
I’m holding that vision for you,
is so affirming for us guys.
602
00:40:32,680 –> 00:40:36,600
And we’ll, we’ll, we’ll move mountains
when someone believes in us in that sense.
603
00:40:36,860 –> 00:40:40,820
And doesn’t just let us get away,
so to speak, with bad behavior.
604
00:40:41,189 –> 00:40:44,635
And I think that’s something the
world is desperately missing right
605
00:40:44,645 –> 00:40:49,775
now is, you know, it’s not calling
out so much, but it’s calling forward
606
00:40:49,785 –> 00:40:51,995
the best in another person, right?
607
00:40:51,995 –> 00:40:53,234
The best in another man.
608
00:40:53,245 –> 00:40:56,525
And that is something I do not
think enough men are doing.
609
00:40:56,875 –> 00:41:00,954
Where I think it’s our responsibility
as men to call forward the other
610
00:41:00,954 –> 00:41:04,765
men in the world we don’t see
showing up in the most healthy ways.
611
00:41:05,105 –> 00:41:08,075
And again, it’s not about tearing
them down or shaming them,
612
00:41:08,325 –> 00:41:12,075
but it’s about pulling out the
best of them saying, Hey man,
613
00:41:12,695 –> 00:41:13,815
I know you got more in there.
614
00:41:13,865 –> 00:41:15,705
Let’s figure this out, how
could we do this different?
615
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How can we clean up this mess?
616
00:41:17,535 –> 00:41:20,725
And, you know, it can be a little
controversial to say these days,
617
00:41:20,725 –> 00:41:24,265
Ed, but I’m definitely of the camp
that what the world needs right now
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00:41:24,325 –> 00:41:27,135
is not less men in the masculine.
619
00:41:27,464 –> 00:41:29,404
It’s actually, we need way more.
620
00:41:29,935 –> 00:41:34,175
Healthy men holding the masculine,
showing up in the world.
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00:41:34,605 –> 00:41:37,015
Women in the feminine, they can’t
do it all on their own, they’re
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00:41:37,105 –> 00:41:38,954
fucking trying, but they can’t.
623
00:41:39,175 –> 00:41:42,025
We need to step up as men
and take responsibility for
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ourselves and for each other.
625
00:41:44,304 –> 00:41:49,005
And that is, you know, one of my teachers,
uh, last thing I’ll share here, pointed
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00:41:49,005 –> 00:41:52,435
out, it is one of the most challenging
things about stepping into what I kind of
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00:41:52,465 –> 00:41:58,705
call men’s work and this path of growth,
which is about taking full responsibility
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00:41:59,000 –> 00:42:00,610
for who we are in our lives.
629
00:42:00,940 –> 00:42:04,300
So this is very different from
traditional kind of victim energy
630
00:42:04,300 –> 00:42:08,080
of, Oh, my parents duh, duh, duh, I’m
stuck, I’m a victim, it’s not my fault.
631
00:42:08,370 –> 00:42:09,630
It’s more, wow.
632
00:42:09,630 –> 00:42:12,999
What happened had an impact on me, right?
633
00:42:13,009 –> 00:42:18,549
How I was raised, my socioeconomic
status, so many different things, right?
634
00:42:18,659 –> 00:42:20,749
This stuff happened to
me and it had an impact.
635
00:42:21,699 –> 00:42:27,440
The thing is the moment we become
aware of what happened, we become
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00:42:27,440 –> 00:42:28,990
responsible for shifting it.
637
00:42:29,470 –> 00:42:35,600
And that is a painful thing not a lot of
men want to do and it even extends beyond.
638
00:42:36,610 –> 00:42:40,339
We don’t even, it’s not even about
just taking responsibility for
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00:42:40,340 –> 00:42:45,410
ourselves, but for the whole mess all
men up until this point have created.
640
00:42:45,920 –> 00:42:47,754
You say, Hey, I didn’t create this mess.
641
00:42:47,965 –> 00:42:51,055
But I’m gonna take responsibility
for cleaning it up in myself,
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00:42:51,085 –> 00:42:54,385
in my relationships, in my
lineage, in my community, and
643
00:42:54,385 –> 00:42:55,795
as much as I can in the world.
644
00:42:56,115 –> 00:42:57,645
And not all men are up for that.
645
00:42:57,645 –> 00:43:00,825
It is, you know, it is something
to bite off and chew, but
646
00:43:00,825 –> 00:43:02,805
it is incredibly empowering.
647
00:43:03,215 –> 00:43:04,655
Empowering and liberating.
648
00:43:04,715 –> 00:43:06,666
I have seen for, so many
guys to say, You know what?
649
00:43:07,945 –> 00:43:11,305
All this stuff that happened to me,
you know, we could see this stuff often
650
00:43:11,305 –> 00:43:15,145
in the lineage, my dad was raised a
certain way, his dad was raised a certain
651
00:43:15,145 –> 00:43:16,905
way, his dad was raised a certain way.
652
00:43:17,185 –> 00:43:19,264
And when we’re willing to step
in and say, You know what?
653
00:43:19,355 –> 00:43:20,315
The buck stops here.
654
00:43:20,705 –> 00:43:23,555
I’m not willing to pass that
on, whether I have kids or not.
655
00:43:23,785 –> 00:43:27,565
I’m going to change this karma in my
generation and say, You know what?
656
00:43:27,785 –> 00:43:31,985
I am allowed to feel, I am allowed to
love, I don’t have to do it all alone.
657
00:43:32,705 –> 00:43:37,275
Power and sensitivity can go hand
in hand, it’s not either or like
658
00:43:37,275 –> 00:43:38,525
so many of us men are taught.
659
00:43:38,945 –> 00:43:41,745
And the world needs so much more of that.
660
00:43:45,075 –> 00:43:46,405
Ed Watters: I can’t agree more.
661
00:43:46,764 –> 00:43:48,404
You know, we’re hurt.
662
00:43:48,895 –> 00:43:54,045
And we need love and maturity and
understanding to bring it back together.
663
00:43:54,475 –> 00:44:01,695
Acceptance is the first step of
admitting that we have a problem.
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Houston, we have a problem and it’s huge.
665
00:44:05,655 –> 00:44:12,785
And I think that the glue to
fix this broken, whatever it
666
00:44:12,785 –> 00:44:16,045
is, is us being here today.
667
00:44:16,104 –> 00:44:21,140
And I think it’s very important
that people can reach out and
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00:44:21,140 –> 00:44:23,090
find people like you, Jason.
669
00:44:23,100 –> 00:44:25,540
How can people find you?
670
00:44:26,770 –> 00:44:28,340
Jason Lange: Absolutely,
thanks for asking.
671
00:44:28,700 –> 00:44:33,250
You can keep up with me and all
of my work at evolutionary.men.
672
00:44:33,300 –> 00:44:35,439
So it’s not dot com, it’s dot men.
673
00:44:35,709 –> 00:44:39,510
And on there I’ve got a podcast of
my own, I’ve got some blogs, I’ve got
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00:44:39,510 –> 00:44:42,550
retreats, programs, and a contact form.
675
00:44:42,550 –> 00:44:44,690
So even if you just have a question
as a guy and you’re like, Hey,
676
00:44:44,690 –> 00:44:45,610
I don’t know where to start.
677
00:44:45,840 –> 00:44:46,560
Just reach out.
678
00:44:46,590 –> 00:44:48,190
You know, you don’t even
have to work with me.
679
00:44:48,190 –> 00:44:52,640
I can point you to all kinds of
resources because I’m so fervent.
680
00:44:52,660 –> 00:44:55,769
Like, you know, part of my
mission is, I do believe, every
681
00:44:55,770 –> 00:44:56,960
man should be in a men’s group.
682
00:44:57,039 –> 00:45:01,490
And I thought, I think if we get
there as a society and as a culture,
683
00:45:01,570 –> 00:45:05,310
things will get so much better, that
we don’t have to do it alone as men.
684
00:45:05,690 –> 00:45:09,080
And it doesn’t mean you have
to have forty best friends.
685
00:45:09,130 –> 00:45:11,780
And when I say men’s group, I’m just
talking a couple of guys in your
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00:45:11,780 –> 00:45:14,190
life that you go deep and get real.
687
00:45:14,645 –> 00:45:18,445
Get real with about what’s going
on and where you want to go.
688
00:45:18,705 –> 00:45:22,055
So you can find, uh, reach out
to me, you can find about all
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00:45:22,055 –> 00:45:24,305
my stuff at evolutionary.men.
690
00:45:24,965 –> 00:45:26,705
Ed Watters: Very powerful, Jason.
691
00:45:26,955 –> 00:45:31,435
What you’re doing is worth
much respect and I want to
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00:45:31,435 –> 00:45:33,085
say thank you for doing that.
693
00:45:33,554 –> 00:45:37,585
And thank you for sharing it here with
us today on the Dead America Podcast.
694
00:45:38,515 –> 00:45:38,815
Jason Lange: Yeah.
695
00:45:38,825 –> 00:45:41,165
Thanks so much for having me,
Ed, and creating a space like
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00:45:41,165 –> 00:45:42,535
this to get the word out.
697
00:45:42,555 –> 00:45:44,055
And it’s really transformational.
698
00:45:44,055 –> 00:45:45,065
So, appreciating you.
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00:45:48,315 –> 00:45:50,044
Ed Watters: Thank you
for joining us today.
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If you found this podcast enlightening,
entertaining, educational in any way,
701
00:45:57,665 –> 00:46:04,025
please share, like, subscribe, and join
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00:46:04,055 –> 00:46:06,985
great episode of the Dead America Podcast.
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00:46:07,745 –> 00:46:12,268
I’m Ed Watters, your host, enjoy
your afternoon wherever you are.