Founder’s Journal

This does not claim to be an account of facts but rather of personal experiences. May you find inspiration for your own journey.

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10-minute Summer Solstice Guided Reflection

This Summer Solstice practice combines 4-4-6-4 breathwork with guided visualization to review what how far have you come this first half of the year, which of the seeds that you have planted so far are growing well, and which need more tending going ahead. Release stress, gain clarity, and step with courage and calm into your next 6 months.

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10-minute Waterfall Energy Cleanse

Join me on the journey to Costa Rica into its verdant green plants, nurturing nature, enchanting singing of birds and healing waterfalls. I use this visualization to wash away whatever heavy energy has accumulated in my body during the day. As well as during my retreats or private sessions. It has proven highly effective to reset men’s nervous system and instil immediate sense of calm and renewed energy.

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Setting Boundaries as an Act of Love

We often think of setting boundaries as a stressful, uncomfortable, or even aggressive process. But when a boundary is set with genuine intent and delivered from the heart, it transforms. It becomes a tool for protection—not just of your own peace, energy, and self-respect, but surprisingly as a catalyst for healing others.

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Stop Holding Back. Start Living Fully.

Two nights under a canopy of stars. Leaping into waterfalls. Running naked along riverbanks. Meeting the shaman who played a pivotal role in my own transformation. And moving through my signature 4-step guided process to open a new chapter in life. Together creating a space where the real magic happens.

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Does this path have a heart?

Seven years ago, this short piece of text helped me gain perspective on my life choices — and gave me the motivation to act on them immediately.

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Trusting Our Instinct

Most men join FewGoodMen because they are looking for their next chapter. For some, this means making a major career pivot so they can express their talents more fully. For others, it means starting their own company and finally having the freedom to bring their vision to life. And for some, it is simply about finding work that feels more aligned with their values. Here is how having great community of men around you can help you.

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The Sailor and the Storm: Why a Man Must Master His Inner Wild

There is a polite fiction we are sold as young men: that to be a "gentleman" is to be harmless. We are taught to make others happy, mind our manners, and keep our voices at a civil decibel. Or we simply learn to be “nice” because people are nicer to us that way. 45 years into life I can testify this strategy is not working.

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King’s Speech & Coat of Hearts

It’s striking that 90% of men choose a heart for their coat of arms, instinctively reclaiming the exact part of themselves they were taught to bury.

True masculinity isn't found in the armor we wear, but in the raw bravery of stripping it all away to lead with a naked heart.

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The original wound & Need for Reconnection

At age 4, we boys are deeply relational, highly articulate about our feelings, incredibly empathetic, and fully aware of the emotional dynamics around us. A year later, we don’t change biologically; we just begin to absorb the cultural script where emotional vulnerability and desire for deep connection are viewed by the culture as "weak" or “feminine." We learnt that to belong to the "pack" of men, we must sever our connection to our own Heart.

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“I will not die an unlived life”

Statistically 85% of men who suppress their inner Beast are wrestling with fear of death. The greater the unlived life, the greater the death anxiety. For the unintegrated man, death is not just the end of biological function; it is the terrifying deadline on a life he never actually piloted.

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The Tyrant is Just a Terrified Boy

Shocking. But predictable. Gen Z men have grown up watching their fathers and older brothers fulfill the Good Boy contract only to end up burnt out, divorced, and deeply unfulfilled. We don't fix this by doubling down on the "Good Boy" narrative and telling men to be quiet.

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The Spear in the Chest: Why Your Crisis is Actually an Initiation

If you feel like the shaman in this image today—pierced by life, confused, or hurting—I invite you to shift your perspective. You are not broken. You are being invited to let the "old you" die so that a more authentic, powerful, and compassionate version of yourself can be reborn.

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Body as a Gateway - Systema & Bodywork

What if unlocking your full potential starts in your body, not just your mind? I share how Russian Systema and bodywork—key parts of the FewGoodMen curriculum—helped me release tension, reconnect with my strength, and feel fully present.

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Clay and Soul - The Art of Being Fully Present

Finding your center of gravity, being fully present, letting go off your ego and not being afraid to start all over again. Mindful ceramics lets you explore the core principles of FewGoodMen in a hands-on, creative way—helping you build new skills while reconnecting with presence and intention.

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Seamanship as a compass to larger life

I can’t think of a more precise, complex, effort-requiring and useful discipline to be used as a metaphor for, and actual embodiment of the man’s midlife passage. 

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Let the man ride!

Yes - half of you are rolling eyes, the other half nodding, feeling a surge of adrenaline. It's not just a machine of freedom and direct confrontation with mortality. In midlife, the motorcycle becomes a powerful declaration of authenticity and one’s direction. Ready to feel alive again? It's time to let the man ride.

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