In this show we discuss the practical applications of masonic symbolism and how the working tools can be used to better yourself, your family, your lodge, and your community. We help good freemasons become better men through honest self development. We talk quite a bit about mental health and men's issues related to emotional and intellectual growth as well.
Latest Episodes
Slow Is Fast: Applying the Trowel With Patience
There is a specific kind of damage that happens when someone feels genuinely seen for the first time in a while. The energy of that moment is real and biological, and ...
Shared Adversity Builds What Shared Interests Cannot
The relationships that survive years and real difficulty are almost never built on mutual taste. They are built on shared experience of something hard. Brian Mattocks ...
Why Adult Friendships Get Stuck at the Door
Take the ingredients that made childhood friendships work and try applying them to adult life, and something breaks down almost immediately. The problem is not that ad...
The Business Case for Making Friends
For a long time, the self-made man myth held a certain appeal: do everything yourself, depend on no one, carry your own weight. Brian Mattocks has believed some versio...
Conscious Giving and the Flip of the Dynamic
The week's arc closes with the move that the previous four episodes were building toward. Defense and naming are necessary skills, but they're not the destination. Bri...