Gentlemen’ s Guide to Excellence

This week I share a closely held secret.  Many souls have been lost in the quest.   It is time that this sacred knowledge be revealed.  This week I tell you where you can meet available women. Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (available on Amazon at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736798405 ) and anywhere else you find your favorite books.   Consider the book your complete tex...

Self talk.  What is running through your head every day as you progress through your day?  Is your self talk helping you or hurting you?  Today I share the top 10 things that run through my head in the course of a normal day to help get me past problems, and motivate myself to do what I have to do and handle what I have to handle. Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (availabl...

Career advice.  When I talk to young men graduating college, or men of any age who are trying to change jobs or apply for employment, I am hearing too much entitlement.  I am hearing too little confidence and not enough of a grasp of reality when it comes to what it takes to make someone want to hire you, to see your value.  “Give me a job" is what I am hearing, especially from younger guys out th...

This week I want to talk about the notion of nice guys finishing last.  Nice guys finish last?  Is that really true?  If it is, or isn’t, what guys get to win? Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (available on Amazon at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736798405 ) and anywhere else you find your favorite books.   Consider the book your complete textbook. The content on this channe...

Confidence.  Be confident. That’s what many people will advise you to do you without telling you HOW.  That, and women will simply flock to you if you are confident.  That sort of advice is everywhere, in every self-help book and from every dating and matchmaking guru.  But if you aren’t naturally confident person, how do you get on a path to being so? Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide...

Bad boys.  Do women really prefer so-called bad boys?  What is a bad boy exactly, and is there anything truly good about being considered one, or being one? Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (available on Amazon at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736798405 ) and anywhere else you find your favorite books.   Consider the book your complete textbook. The content on this channel a...

Making Hard Decisions.  Life isn’t always easy.  It isn’t always a walk in the park.  Sometimes it is necessary to make difficult, painful, expensive decisions that you would rather not deal with,  Sometimes the way forward isn’t clear - there is no option that is clearly superior to the rest and pain free.  Is there a way to make the process of making hard decisions easier, or less painful? Backg...

Daddy issues.  This week I am going to tell you why I think YOU should be broadly spreading and propagating daddy issues to women of all ages.  That’s what I do!  I am very much in favor of the concept of daddy issues, using my definition of the term. Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (available on Amazon at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736798405 ) and anywhere else you find...

First principles.  In this week’s episode, I will join the pantheon of great thinkers known for their contributions to the subject of first principles.  I’ll be right up there with the likes of philosophers Aristotle and Rene Descartes, Johannes Gutenberg - the inventor of the printing press, and more modern thinkers on the subject like businessmen Elon Musk and Charlie Munger. I dig into the ques...

In the 14 Sep 2020 episode of the "Odd Job Podcast" , a man who calls himself “Mystery” was the guest.  The Odd Job Podcast is run by two wonderful young ladies, and they did a great job of interviewing Mystery.  Mystery’s real name is Erik von Markovik and he is best known for his VH1 Reality show “The Pickup Artist”, as well as being the main source of inspiration for - and arguably the main cha...

Today we have another great episode for you on the subject of power.  Gaining power in life, and exercising restraint.  Just because you have power, it doesn’t mean you have to use, or abuse it.  Don’t be a bully.  Don’t act like a tyrant.  Use restraint.  Be respectful. Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (available on Amazon at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736798405 )   Cons...

Transparency.  How much should you share with the various people in your life about what you are thinking, planning, and doing?  How do you strike the best balance between not being overly secretive, and risk having trust issues with the women and other people in your life, and being foolishly too open and possibly revealing too much?  Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (due...

Good energy isn’t good enough.  Tepid and timid energy isn’t good enough.  You need great, top tier, tool shelf, unrivaled energy -- like you mean it and love life. Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (due for release on  Amazon.com  in early 2021 -  https://gentlemensguidetoflirting.com/   Consider the book your complete textbook. The content on this channel and the podcast...

What opinion does your wife or girlfriend hold about you?  What about your family, how do they perceive you?  What is your standing among your friends?  What about your neighbors and your community, how do they see you?  Do these people respect you, do they hold you in high regard?  Does it matter?  In this episode, I want to talk about how I think about the importance of your personal reputation....

Knock Knock!  Your dreams are achievable.  Knock Knock!  You can have that family you envision for yourself.  Knock Knock!  You can become the man you want to be.  Knock Knock!  You can be that leader, that ROCK, that your family and friends know they can rely on.  Knock Knock!  It does take a lot of work, there’s no magic shortcut here  But, we have a process that gets you there.  We have a proce...

We all have to go through the pain and suffering that life throws at us.  It is inevitable, something is going to go wrong from time to time, and you need to be able to navigate through those issues and come out on top.  Maybe some of you are in a serious amount of pain now due to something that is going on?  Whatever your situation, I’d like to talk about the mindset that we use in the book and h...

Is there something holding you back from being the man that you want to be?  Do you feel there is something stopping you from meeting and connecting with a great lady?  Do you feel there is something preventing you from starting the family that you envision having?  In this episode, we will talk about self-perception. Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (due for release on  A...

In a couple prior episodes, I mentioned that I wanted you to conduct yourself in a way in this pandemic that when you look back, you will be proud of everything you did over the whole duration of it.  You’ll be proud of how you conducted yourself at every step.  I still mean every word of that suggestion, but I feel like I need to expand on how I think about having a sense of pride more broadly. B...

Independent thinking.   What are you?  Are you a democrat, republican, progressive, conservative, liberal, socialist, communist, right, left, or evangelical?  Is that all that there is?  Do you have to fit within these labels?  Is there another way?  What are you?  Who are you?  Please be careful about letting other people’s labels define you.  I feel quite the opposite about the whole subject.  I...

I recently was reading about how winter is when depression hits the largest number of people, and this is the first time in most of our lifetimes that we have been dealing with something like the pandemic over that normally gloomy winter period.  So, some people out there are hurting more than normal due to everything that is going on out there, and some of those folks might be you, or someone you...

Respect.  Genuine respect.  Today I want to talk about how key, how crucial, paying respect is to success in your process of meeting and connecting with great women.  I mean showing respect to the lady.  I mean showing respect to her family and friends.   Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (due for release on  Amazon.com in early 2021 - https://gentlemensguidetoflirting.com/...

Handling Conflict.  Conflicts, disagreements and disputes are part of life, and always will be, no matter who you are, how much money you have, or what you situation is in life.  How to best handle conflict, anger, and disagreement using key principles from the book is what we dig into in this week’s episode. Background: Book's website: Gentlemen's Guide to Flirting (due for release on  Amazon.com...

Three Wins Per Day!  What 3 things did you do today to advance your goals in life, to improve yourself? Women, and everyone, loves to see someone who is continuously improving, who is on a trajectory to good things in life.  Women love it!!! Becoming the best man you can be doesn’t happen overnight.  Just reading my book doesn’t get the job done.  The book lays out a roadmap and gives you a ton of...

Men: Should you or should you not get married?  Is someone trying to pressure you into marriage now?  I talk a lot about a man’s various responsibilities in life in the book and on this podcast because a major part of my thesis is that is vital to success in many areas, including success with women.  But where does marriage fit into that philosophy?  We will take a thorough look at this crucial su...

In this episode I want to talk about dating safety - specifically for men.  There is plenty of information and advice available online and elsewhere about safety concerns for women, and rightfully so.    Guys need to be careful out there as well.  Men can be robbed, or cheated, or harmed.  We’ll cover all of the basics, plus some other things that aren’t so well known that can cause you real probl...