Straitup Legacy: A Man's Life Worth Living

Most people have had some version of volatility in how they were raised and the environment that they grew up in.  We are conditioned to perform - to be praised when we do things well and to be reprimanded or punished when we don’t.  For a lot of people and most of you know the volatile childhood that I had, our version of love and what stable and safe looks like is some kind of intensity or emoti...

One of the 5 pillars of this show is Radical Authenticity.  To be authentic is underpinned by our ability to be present.   For me to tune in to who I really am at my core I have needed to learn how to be present.  If I’m not present then I’m getting triggered by the world around me and younger parts of me could be running the show of Michael leaving no room for me to show up as who I authentically...

 We’re coming out of a pandemic that still leaves its’ imprint on what our lives and worlds look like, the middle east is erupting, we’ve had events that have caused us to question our trust for leaders around the world and inside all of it is what’s going on inside us - the pendulum of our masculine and feminine energies, which all of us have, throughout history have swung in polarized ways due t...

In the spirit of our growth as men, in this episode, I wanted to talk about some of the things that I’ve learned and also a theme that I’ve been hearing from different people in the latest chapter of my life.  I started reflecting on my own life and how at different times I’ve reacted the same way.  There have definitely been times in my life when people who cared about me were wanting to give me...

We live in a world designed to keep us from the neck up. Between the screens, the data, and the constant digital noise, men are becoming 'floating heads'—detached from the very skin they live in. I know from this happening in my life and to me this detachment wasn't just a loss of feeling: it was a loss of power.  When we lose touch with our somatic selves, we lose our intuition, we...

Most of us plough through life as if it’s something that we have ‘to do’.  And while we’re in the midst of all that we’re doing we forget how to 'be'.  We forget who we’re aspiring to be. I’ve always subscribed to the philosophy that hidden inside life’s hardships there are gems.  Precious little things that lie inside the hardest times and the hardest moments that we face as people…as h...

With the recent world headlines, leaders around the world and their values and judgements have come into question leaving many of us wondering ‘have we placed our trust in the right people’? The Edelman Trust barometer, a long standing reliable source of how people are feeling about those we put our trust in to lead us, is at an all time low and worse, the Edelman Institute’s data shows that peopl...

We live in a world where the average person spends more than 40% of their waking lives connected to screens and the internet.  In this episode we'll ponder on what the impact of this is to us as individuals and us as a society.  Is the digital era costing us the vital time and space that we need to evolve as humans or is there a cost to it?  Is there a cost to our children and their children?

In this episode, I'll talk about the foundations that I work hard to live my life by.  I'll talk about 5 tenets that a life worth living can be aspired toward.  These are the foundation of this podcast and the qualities that I've witnessed in some of the greatest men I've met and been inspired by.