King David is the world’s only Quit Porn Strategist, for a society that sorely needs it. He’s a young man with a big dream: to burn down the $97 billion worldwide porn industry, one man at a time. His story with porn dates to his teenage years and before. And though he's out of his teens now, every year more young men are still discovering the world of porn. David wants to help them find the exit. In our conversation we discussed: How he was full-on cancelled in 2020, and how that led to his per...
Nov 18, 2021•4 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 51
# Thanks to all my listeners for an incredible first year! # Ryan Michler is the host and founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement, and one of my greatest teachers in the Renaissance of Men. From him I’ve learned about podcasting, consistency, and high achievement. But I’ve also found that he’s one of the deepest and most nuanced thinkers and doers about masculinity, from the jiu jitsu mats to canoe building, fatherhood and hunting. In our conversation we discussed: The importance of fai...
Oct 05, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Dr Warren Farrell is a political scientist, educator, and bestselling author of The Myth of Male Power and The Boy Crisis. He defected from the heights of the feminist movement, the National Organization for Women in the 1970's, and at great personal cost he set out an adventure to share the truths that he knew about men, women, and families. The Financial Times of London named him one of the world's top 100 thought leaders. His books are published in more than 50 countries and 19 languages. He'...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 49
President Anthony “Dream” Johnson is the Host and Founder of the 21Convention and 21Studios. Fifteen years ago at age 18 he started a meetup group, that became a conference, then a convention, then three conventions—some around the world—and now a summit. Along the way he had the idea of filming the men who spoke at his events and releasing their talks free to the world. With that decision he surfaced the work of men that had given their lives to exploring vital aspects of masculinity. He calls ...
Sep 16, 2021•3 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 48
TJ Reeves is a neuroscientist, athlete, psychedelic adventurer, and the founder of a startup called Acts Decentralized Real Estate. His company aims to help large communities of people source, purchase, and develop packages of land, so that can begin moving off-grid and establish sovereignty. Even the name Acts is inspired by the biblical book of Acts, about a community coming together around a shared spiritual pursuit. So naturally TJ and I had a lot to talk about. In our conversation we discus...
Sep 09, 2021•3 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Alison Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed educator and expert on understanding men, women, and relationships. She’s also the bestselling author of “The Queen’s Code.” Yes, the Renaissance of Men podcast is about men and masculinity, but in her book, Alison writes, “To know men is to love them.” To me, that earns her a seat at the table. Because Alison has spent 30 years — yes, three decades — studying men, and has devoted her life to explaining men to women. Her goal is to improve human r...
Sep 09, 2021•3 hr 57 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Celebrated British author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is the author of one of the best-known and most beloved poems in the world, “If.” Kipling writes in plain language, about situations and scenarios that we can recognize, even if they aren't familiar to us from our everyday experience. He explains how being a Man is a result of decisive action, not simply being, while laying out a sort of “North Star” for excellence to guide us in how we conduct our lives. I couldn’t think of a better work to ...
Sep 04, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Jeff Liboiron is a martial artist, voice over performer, fiction and non-fiction author, and most recently, poet. It was his poetry that brought him to my attention. His writing is vivid, brutal, and real. It revels in graphic violence, blades and flowing blood, dark skies, screams, and steel. And the celebration of a crumbling empire's final, fatal collapse... and the dangerous world its corpse will leave behind. In our conversation we discussed: How being born without half a leg influences his...
Aug 24, 2021•2 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 44
MT White is the author of the essential new fiction book CONTENT. It's a thrilling story that many of you may be able to relate to, about a young man living overseas who finds his way into an online community where all is not what it seems. It's an examination about what happens when you take appealing, but bad ideas to the extreme, how we all get lost in our screens, kick around more dangerous ideas than we're willing to own up to, and what the consequences of that might be in our connected age...
Jul 09, 2021•2 hr 53 min•Season 2Ep. 43
When I started this conversation series with my friend Jonathan West of the Being Husband Podcast, I went in without expectations. I just knew that much like men and women, black people and white people have lived together in America for a long time. But also like men and women, it seems like black people and white people don't know much about each other. Once Jonathan and I started talking as men, as friends, and as equals from our respective backgrounds, I wondered what I would learn from him,...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Matt Beaudreau is an entrepreneur, public speaker, consultant, educator, podcast host, and founder of Acton Academy Placer and Apogee Training in Northern California. Acton Academy is a charter school based on Socratic dialogue that emphasizes real world results and outcomes over test scores. And Apogee Training is an online mentorship program to help boys become good at being men, led by some of the finest examples of masculinity today, like Ryan Michler and Jack Donovan. In 2020 the joke becam...
Jun 09, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 41
David Whitehead is a martial arts instructor, dojo owner, podcaster, researcher, TV personality, husband, father, and dedicated questioner of everything, including things that are dangerous to question. He's built his life and a universe of content around those questions and the often troubling answers he's found. But unlike most who question the nature of politics, government, organized religion, and global industry, he’s taken the essential step into action. In our conversation we discussed: H...
May 26, 2021•3 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 40
KJ Keightley is a husband, father, homesteader, farmer, firearms absolutist, outdoorsman, Gaia sandals ambassador, and a helluva guy. We met recently in a chatroom full of barbarians and fell into each other's orbit. Like all good friends we recognized something in each other. In him I saw true spirit, expertise, and an attitude towards life and masculinity that I could relate to, and respect. But living in lockdown life, it can be difficult sometimes to get to know the men that we've recently b...
May 01, 2021•2 hr 58 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Bronson Lee Norton is a musician, podcaster, bowhunter, and bodybuilder, and in 2015 he heard a woman's cries for help coming from a nearby house he happened to be walking past, on a route he didn't usually take. Then, like a real capital-M man he went charging in through that door and changed three lives, including his own. But rather than allowing that event to define him, he used it to redefine himself, thereby turning one of the worst events into his life into a doorway through which some of...
Apr 21, 2021•3 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Billy Red Horse, aka the Gentleman Mystic, is a writer, teacher, Zen master, and to me a shining guide to what it means to be a well-mannered man and classic Southern Gentleman. He writes, "Awakening is the goal. Refinement, manners and the experience of Beauty are the Path. Transcendence in this Lifetime IS possible." And as a valued elder in this growing Renaissance of men, his words carry special weight. In our conversation we discussed: How tribes of men are forming to respond to the reckoni...
Apr 07, 2021•2 hr 57 min•Season 2Ep. 37
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, and also the world’s greatest dramatist. While he’s better known for his plays than his poetry, no survey of English literature would be complete without him. This week, I break my rules to read one of the most important passages in the entire English language: Hamlet’s Soliloquy, which has not only a great deal to teach us about being a man, but about being human as well. I also explore Shakespear...
Apr 04, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Rainman is the founder and voice of the growing 263 Collective Podcast. He’s an ROTC instructor, former cyclist, and fitness and firearms enthusiast. He understands intuitively and from his upbringing the need to set up people around you to succeed. Now he lives that principle in his life In other words, he cares. And a man who cares is the sort of man I’m proud to know, and that this world and moment needs. In our conversation we discussed: His background in the ROTC and the extreme lengths he ...
Mar 31, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Danny Miranda is the host of the popular Danny Miranda Podcast, where he interviews some of the world's top performers on behalf of those pursuing their highest version. He's talked to men whose names you might know, like Ed Latimore, Sol Brah, and Johnny Noble. He's spoken with Gary Vee, Zuby, and Dan Go, as well as Manny from WellBuiltStyle, Jack Butcher, Tej Dosa, and dozens of others. He’s got a lot going for him: stellar guests, momentum, a sharp mind, and killer friends. But it’s his posit...
Mar 24, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 34
The three most taboo topics in America today are weight, money, and race. Tragically, these are the same topics that are tearing the country apart. As solar men we know that what hides in shadows must be dragged into the light, or else it festers and multiplies. But that takes a sort of courage that it seems few people embody. With livelihoods and reputations on the line it's not hard to understand why. Which is why I'm grateful for my friend Jonathan West, host of the Being Husband podcast. In ...
Mar 18, 2021•2 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Blood and Rain aka Arthur Dayne is one of the most exciting content creators in the Renaissance of Men right now. He’s passionate, thumotic, and disciplined. But most of all one gets the sense that behind his mask of anonymity he truly lives the life he talks about and walks his talk. He's a Muay Thai kickboxer, high-octane bartender, actor, writer, poet, Orthodox Christian, and the host of a growing podcast and Instagram account of the same name. He’s also one of the brightest stars in the new ...
Mar 16, 2021•3 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Dr. Robert Glover is the author of the famous and highly acclaimed canonical work of the Renaissance, “No More Mr. Nice Guy.” It’s the book that virtually every man in this movement agrees is a classic and is rightfully called the “gateway drug to the red pill.” It’s also a harsh but loving mirror which shows men why their beliefs about the world are wrong, why their actions in their lives don’t produce the results they want, and why there’s a deep pool of rage buried within them that often come...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 59 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Pastor Michael Foster is a man’s man in a church that’s been defined by women for decades. He’s been blazing a white streak through the Internet, with a podcast that's exploding in popularity as his message lands with men looking for a preacher who connects with their gut, and not just the head or heart. You can hear it in his voice: clear, direct, unapologetic. He looks you in the eye and invites you into the arena with him to do battle with him against the ideas about Jesus Christ, the Bible, ...
Mar 03, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Jack Donovan is a man who needs no introduction. He’s the author of the bestselling book “The Way of Men”, one of the canonical works of the Renaissance. It’s the origin of the Four Tactical Virtues — Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor — plus the vital distinction between being “a good man” and “good at being a man.” His follow-up books “Becoming A Barbarian” and “A More Complete Beast” expanded those themes into a larger sociological context, helping men understand the necessity of tribe and...
Feb 23, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 29
John Donne (1572-1631) was the foremost of the metaphysical poets and is one of the most famous and well-regarded poets of the English language. This week, in honor of Valentine’s Day, I read his timeless classic “The Ecstasy”, in which he recounts his profound metaphysical visions while lying beside a riverbank with his beloved. In my analysis I share who I think his beloved might be, and how this poem ties to the tragic story of his life. This is a poem I have a personal history with and is de...
Feb 14, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Jonathan West hosts the popular podcast Being HUSBAND and runs the Instagram account of the same name. He’s a spiritually-facing man who grew up in the faith and earned a degree in theology, with a preacher for a father. His podcast also helps men become better husbands and leaders in their homes and communities. So naturally we became fast friends. In our conversation we discussed: The origins of the Being HUSBAND podcast in a dream Jonathan had How he maintains a strong and healthy marriage wi...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Ben Howes runs the popular Instagram account Oaks and Oaths, and the podcast of the same name. Though born a Christian, his disillusionment with the faith and its faithful led him to abandon that path and discover Norse and Germanic Paganism. Now he leads and instructs others down that ancient road. Due to time constraints we had a shorter conversation than my recent episodes, but we think it’s just the first of many. We discussed: Self-actualization, aesthetics, and masculinity. Why men need to...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Brendan Schmidt runs the popular Instagram account MasculineRevival , on which he pairs a rich aesthetic and movingly honest words about masculinity, as he discovers for himself what it means to be a man. He’s also someone I share a lot in common with. We “speak the same language,” having been on similar journeys through the New Age and men’s inner healing world and arriving at a rediscovery of traditionalism. Over the course of our two-and-a-half hour conversation we discussed: The difference b...
Jan 27, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Andrew Marvell was an English Restoration poet who lived and wrote during his nation’s civil wars, and in its transition from monarchy to the beginnings of republicanism. He was a well-traveled, well-spoken, hard-partying bachelor. In his masterwork “To His Coy Mistress” he paints a vivid picture of a familiar and amorous scenario most men will be familiar with. But he presents his own unique spin on it, in a moving and timeless encouragement to seize the day. To read "To His Coy Mistress" click...
Jan 23, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 23
John Sonmez, founder of Bulldog Mindset, is a men’s coach, entrepreneur, published author, public speaker, and ultra-marathon runner. We met at the 21Convention in Orlando, Florida, this past October. He’s the sort of high-energy, fit, and positive guy who makes that event so special. And while you wouldn’t know it to look at him today, he’s also a man who’s been on a remarkable journey of transformation from fat to fit, scared to brave, and sad to Chad. He’s built businesses, retired young, and...
Jan 13, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Derek Arellano is a former first-place pro bodybuilder and US Army veteran, and now is a professional trainer who’s passionate about the body, movement, and creating transformation in his clients. Derek and I also live in the same city. And the more time we’ve spent together, the more I’ve seen how much of value he has to share. He’s found his way into the Renaissance of Men, as well, and is discovering how all the streams of his life are feeding into a singular expression of who he is, and what...
Jan 06, 2021•3 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 20
