From school teacher, a fighter, to entrepreneur, Josh Tyler of Savage Gentlemen is building more than just a brand of gear for men – he’s a battle scarred philosopher with a message about masculinity in this time when manhood is so drastically misunderstood.
Josh Tyler of Savage Gentleman joins us on this edition of the Manlihood ManCast. Tyler was a professional MMA fighter and is the co-founder of Savage Gentlemen.
He talks about the balance of being tough and being tender, how he started his rapidly growing business for men, and how he keeps the fighting spirit that motivated him in the ring in his everyday life.
In the past few years, for a number of reasons, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of families choosing to homeschool. Many had no choice but to opt into an “at home” model during the pandemic, and that created a number of situations where parents decided that home was the best place for their children to learn.
Today’s guest, Philip Mott is an expert, not only in education, but in homeschooling.
As a student in his early years Philip struggled. He was disengaged and did not take a liking to school in the least. Over the years as a reluctant learner, Philip started understanding more and more about the education system and diving into the reasons why children feel the way he did. This led him to believe that a systemic issue existed in the way we educate and relate to children. This sparked a passion in Philip that drove him to become a teacher himself. His vision is to help kids and parents take an alternative approach to education in order to have the best outcome for both student and parent. Philip is changing the way families look at education timelines and support while working with their kids.
Philip Mott is a writer, community facilitator and father. Philip holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Elementary Education. His focus is on empowering students to be self-directed learners and honoring the humanity of our children in all our interactions with them. Philip writes for newspapers, magazines and blogs covering alternative education approaches and homeschooling. He is also in the process of writing his first book. He is the creator and curator of philipmott.com – where he shares articles, essays, and other media about the ways adults and children interact.
Today’s guest is an LA County firefighter who previously served as an Army Ranger, with multiple deployments into Iraq and Afghanistan.
You can imagine that he’s “seen some stuff.”
But Nole Lilly’s personal traumas were even deeper, and he found himself in a dark place…
Nole currently lives in the mountains of Southern California, with his wife Heather and their 3 children. Nole and Heather have been married for 18 years. He has worked as a fireman with L.A. County Fire for the past 12 years. Prior to that, he served as a United States Army Ranger, deploying multiple times into Iraq and Afghanistan. Nole and Heather have experienced the death of two of their sons and their journey through that loss has shaped much of the people they have become today. Nole has also dealt with post-traumatic stress related to the loss of his sons and his time serving as a Ranger. As a fireman, Nole has continued to live and work in a world where exposure to trauma can be a very regular occurrence. From this experience, Nole felt called to start a podcast where he could share his experiences with others who are working through difficult times in life and also share the struggles and triumphs of other men that he admires.
Helping men level up in their careers and their roles at home.
Nick Matiash is a husband, father, author, and leader of the Evolved Man; an initiative committed to helping men pair hard work with heart work in life and relationships.
Nick’s mission is to awaken men to be the most authentic version of themselves, and to truly understand the power of their emotions, healing and harnessing them, rather than stuffing them or being ruled by them.
Most men live lives of mediocrity. This is a call to something more.
Nick believes that as men can work through the barriers that they have set up in their hearts and minds, they’ll be better husbands, fathers, leaders, and be able to be better in their careers too.
We’re often held back by our deepest insecurities, and those insecurities often come from a very real place that we may have to fight to reclaim.
Nick also talks about the role of a husband and father as a leader, as a lover, and how to do that, we have to make the time in our life to take better care of our own mental and emotional health.
Men don’t like to think about their mental health or their emotions.
But it’s incredibly important for us to be able to lead from a position of strength and wholeness, not a position of brokenness and trauma and burnout.
Book Description: You wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, or even the President of the United States.
When you were a kid your mind ran wild with imagination, daydreaming about all that you would accomplish and how amazing life would be. But at some point, the large life that you felt destined to live simply shrunk. It’s been minimized by experiences that have left you jaded, limitations that you’ve perceived, and people around you telling you to, “be realistic.”
The sky that you once thought to be the limit has been replaced by a painfully claustrophobic ceiling.
There’s more life to be lived, and there’s a part of you that knows it.
Whether it be in life, love, health or business…you feel like you’re missing something. Like you overslept on the day they were handing out all the rules to success and fulfillment and missed your chance to grab a copy. You feel trapped by a life that you didn’t sign up for, and crave the wide open space of possibility and potential that a younger you once knew.
This book is the guide that will open your world back up and allow you to truly live life on your terms. In these pages you will find:
• The unseen patterns of your mind that have caused you to run in place for years.
• The foolproof methods to bring those patterns into the light and have your way with them.
• A way to navigate your life with awareness once you’ve uncovered the obstacles that previously stood in your way.
You weren’t given a pulse and a heartbeat to waste on a life that you merely exist in. You are here to smile big, laugh loud, and love hard. You are here to make a lot of money with your natural set of gifts. You are here to create something that you are left in awe of.
This book is the pathway to all of that.
This book is the key that will unlock your mind to what’s possible.This book is for people who accidentally stumbled into a mediocre life—and are ready to move past it.
Shortly after we recorded this interview, this guest went on to compete in the International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation No Gi Tournament, and became a World Champion.
I’ve known Isaac Greeley since we were kids, we ride the same school bus together, and shared a lot of experiences growing up in a small town, in a small school, where some of the best people on earth are mined from the ground like silver.
Isaac talks with Manlihood about the life lessons he learned as a high school and college wrestler, and how that translated into his career as a chiropractor, and a coach who has coached champions in any number of combat sports.
Isaac talks about the bonds formed in mentoring relationships with coaches, in small groups with other men and young men, and the way that challenges and hardships as an athlete have helped him overcome similar challenges in everyday life.
Andrew Wright of the hard-rock band My Silent Reality has had one dream for many years, to be a rockstar. He’s fought through obstacles that derail others to make that dream a reality – a reality that is anything BUT silent.
Andrew Wright sits down with Josh Hatcher to talk about his music, his story, and to encourage men to dream big, make a plan, and then do the work to make it happen.
Strongman, strength coach, philosopher, and father figure to millions of YouTube followers Elliot Hulse speaks with Josh Hatcher of the Manlihood ManCast.
Modern culture is rejecting masculinity, and that rejection has been orchestrated for quite some time.
Elliott says that Marxist teachings and philosophy have greatly influenced western culture to abandon the idea of the traditional nuclear families, and the fathers place in it.
The role of the father is important in our culture
Elliot talks about the significance of a man’s influence in the home, his own experiences of rejecting his father’s strictness and toughness, only to later appreciate it when he became a father himself.
Culture must have a rite of passage to manhood.
Looking at the breakdown in modern society and family life, Elliot lays out the similarities with many ancient cultures and their rites of passage, as a boy leaves the world of the mother and joined the atonement of the father.
Elliot Hulse is not a misogynist.
He may have views on gender that run contrary to the feminist movement, and in fact, may even be a little different from my own, and the views of Manlihood as an organization. He loves and respects women, and in this interview talks about a conversation with his daughter after she found a YouTube video online accusing him of being a misogynist.
Elliot Hulse rediscovery if his Christian faith
He talks about how his Christian faith shapes his views on philosophy, the family, culture, and more, and talks about how his quest for purpose and identity and mentoring others led him back to the Christian faith of his youth.
The message of Elliot Hulse is resonating with folks who want to hear it. Almost 2 million subscribers on his Strength Camp YouTube channel, and almost 900k on his Elliot Hulse YouTube channel. It’s worth giving his message some thought and discussion.
By now you’ve all seen the Geico commercial with the guys from 90’s hip hop supergroup Tag Team rapping about Ice Cream. If you haven’t – you’ve probably been living under a rock, but here’s a link
An interview with DC Glenn of Tag Team
DC Glenn, aka DC The Brain Supreme sat down with Josh Hatcher for this episode of the Manlihood ManCast to talk about the birth of that 90’s classic, “Whoomp, There it is!” the journey of Tag Team through the years, and the group’s opportunity to inject a shot of joy in people’s lives with a silly commercial in the middle of a pandemic.
A Man’s Personal Development is Important
He talks about learning, and why it’s important for a man to always be educating himself, the power of networking, and why it’s important to hustle.
Tag Team dominated the charts in the 90s
Tag Team has sold over 7 million copies to date, and their smash single was followed up with a platinum selling album. The group was #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B Charts, #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts, spent 16 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard sales charts, and continued to stay in the Top 10 for another 24 weeks.
DC Glenn is living his bucket list
The hustle isn’t foreign to DC Glenn, as he’s working to launch a line of “Scoop, There it Is” inspired ice cream, working as a voice over artist and actor. And even though he’s done amazing things, he’s still got big dreams. He told Josh, “I want to be on The Mandalorian!” Anybody out there know a way to help DC Glenn make that happen? Let’s help him out!
Bestselling author and men’s podcaster Jim Ramos speaks with Josh Hatcher about the need for men to be strong in the midst of a culture that seems to condemn strong and noble masculinity.
Ramos is the founder of Men in the Arena, a non-profit Christian ministry focused on equipping men to honor God in their leadership of their family, church, and community. Men in the Arena has a weekly podcast with more than 250,000 men from around the world, and a facebook group of more than 10,000 men who tackle the issues of manhood and help to build each other up.
Jim Ramos’s book, Strong Men Dangerous Times spells out a clear definition of masculinity, one that is rooted in faith and tradition, and sounds almost counter-cultural. He spells out clear expectations for men, and speaks to their deepest struggles and insecurities.
Justin Jones of The Curious Jones Podcast talks with Josh Hatcher of the Manlihood ManCast
Justin Jones of the Curious Jones podcast talks about success, prioritizing his family, launching a successful side hustle, and what it means to be a good man.
After growing up in small town in Pennsylvania, Justin Jones climbed the ladder of success in the software industry, becoming VP of sales, and acquiring multiples maller tech companies and larger enterprise tech firms.
Jones co-founded Aktion, which is a specialty roast coffee and natural supplements company, and launched the Curious Jones Podcast which is available on all podcast streaming platforms including Apple, Spotify, Pandora and Stitcher.
Justin Jones has interviewed guests that range from Special Forces Green Beret Tim Kennedy, CrossFit Games Athlete Kristine Andali, Neuroscientist Randy Stout, PhD., Ryan Michler of Order of Man, and a host of other professional athletes, authors, and interesting people.
