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
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...
Reintegration and the Seed of Joy
Twelve of the fifteen fellow craft in the legend turned back. They recanted, submitted to consequence, and reintegrated. From the outside, their culpability was not ob...
How to Redirect a Conversation Without Destroying It
Knowing the meta conversation is happening and knowing how to interrupt it are two different skills. Brian Mattocks works through a three-stage approach for redirectin...
The Fellow Craft Who Chose the Wrong Exit
The men at the center of the third degree legend were not villains at the outset. They were skilled craftsmen contributing real labor to a significant project, with st...