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
Using Feelings as Navigation, Not Decoration
Saying trust your feelings sounds like a motivational poster. Brian is making a more precise claim: the emotional content underneath your MacGuffin is not the destinat...
Stopping Is Not the Same as Quitting
A culture that treats quitting as weakness also produces people who keep executing on goals that were never going to work. When the objective you created is a fiction ...
Where the Feeling Gets Lost in Translation
Before the goal, before the plan, before the whiteboard, there is a felt sense of something you are moving toward. It lives in your body. It resists easy explanation. ...
Why April Feels Like a Broken Promise
It's April, and the gap between who you planned to be and who you are right now is hard to ignore. Whether the resolution quietly died in February or you hit your targ...
Softening Is Not Surrender
The word softening carries social baggage for men, and Brian Mattocks addresses that directly at the outset. Softening is not capitulation. It is not the resignation o...