Let’s stop pretending. You’ve been man-keeping. Maybe you don’t use that word, but you know exactly what I’m talking about. He’s your husband, your partner, your guy—but somehow, you’ve ended up being his only friend, his therapist, his cruise director,…
Men’s Peer Group Tools Series: Clearing Let’s be honest—most men suck at saying the hard things. We swallow it. We bury it. We laugh it off. We say, “No worries.” We say, “I’m fine.” We say, “It’s nothing.” And then…
Response-Ability Series #2How to Stop Living in Reaction and Take Back Your Power to Choose Your Response Your heart pounds. Your jaw locks. Your breath disappears. The car cuts you off and suddenly you’re gripping the wheel with white knuckles.You…
From Irina’s stabbing to Charlie’s assassination to Evergreen’s shooting, the bodies aren’t even cold before we turn tragedy into ammunition. Last week was grotesque. Not just because of the tragedies themselves, but because of what came after. It began with…
Between shit and response there is a space. What you do there determines the man you will be. When most of us hear the word responsibility, we think of the traditional roles men have carried for generations. Get a good…
Tattooed on his arm, Auschwitz prisoner number 119104. That was Viktor Frankl’s number. That’s what the Nazis did—they reduced human beings to numbers, nails, and screws. They calculated that the average body had enough iron to make a handful of…
Your net worth is not your self-worth. And if it is, you’re going to end up worth less. Worthless. That isn’t clever wordplay. That’s truth. Every man I’ve ever worked with—good men who want to become great men—has been caught…
Men come to me restless and unsettled, unable to name what’s happening. “Am I burned out? Depressed? Just getting old? Is it my marriage, my job, my body?” Underneath it all, what they’re really saying is: Something must be wrong…
Every week, I meet people who are in motion but not in direction. They’re busy, productive, juggling work and family and commitments — but when I ask where they’re going, the answers blur. Not where they’re headed this week. Where…
What Kabbalah, Viktor Frankl, and Your Broken Heart Know About Becoming Whole It happens to me almost daily. Someone walks through my door—sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes a high-performing leader, a grieving parent, or a seeker mid-collapse. And…
