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271 - Why You Never Feel Ready: The Lie of “Someday” and the Practice That Ends It with Brandon Clift

2026-11-0450:05

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). New Year’s Eve, a small twin-engine plane, 30 seconds after takeoff. The right engine cuts out with Brandon and his wife, 29 weeks pregnant, on board, treetops close enough to count the lights on a football stadium. In this first solo episode, Brandon finally tells the whole story, including the voice that came over the radio from the only other plane in the sky that day, and why those four words, hold your blue li...

270 - Beyond the Hero's Journey: Soulful, Gentle, Spiritual and Strong with Douglas Guest

2026-10-3056:45

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Boysen sits down with Douglas Guest, a Mankind Project brother from Scotland. Douglas has spent his career working for families and children, co-created Year of the Dad for the Scottish government, and helped establish the Scottish Healthy Masculinity Alliance. Together they talk about grief tending as a gateway into men's soul work, including Francis Weller's gates of grief. They discuss moving from a scarci...

269 - The Midlife Crisis Survival Guide: What to Do When Everything You Achieved Stops Mattering with Dr. Drew Littlejohns

2026-10-1301:05:12

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Somewhere around 37, give or take five years, a switch flips. The goals that drove you for two decades stop meaning anything, the achievements pile up and nobody cares, and the question quietly changes from how do I win to how do I die well. Dr. Drew Littlejohns has lived both sides of that line: multiple eight-figure brands, two bankruptcies, two divorces, seven and a half years sober, 25 years of mountaineering C...

268 - Your Organization Is Alive: Leading With Heart, Not Machinery, with Norman Wolfe

2026-09-3051:41

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). What if your organization isn't a machine but a living thing? In this episode, Boysen Hodgson sits down with Norman Wolfe, founder and CEO of Quantum Leaders Inc., former Hewlett-Packard executive, ManKind Project brother, and co-author with his wife Jane Wolfe of the Living Organization trilogy. Norman's leadership journey started with a first performance review that said "unacceptable" in every category. Four dec...

267 - How 12 Weeks of Doing Hard Things Rewired My Body, My Marriage & My Business with Dane Sanders

2026-09-2201:08:18

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Three years ago Brandon signed up for Men and Women of Discomfort, made it two weeks, and quietly bowed out. This year, after a small plane lost an engine at 150 feet with him and his wife aboard, after a dire diagnosis for someone close to him, and after a fourth straight physical showing high cholesterol and low testosterone, he called Dane Sanders and said I'm in. This episode is the after shot. Dane flips the m...

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