Why Men Suffer In Silence: How To Embrace Vulnerability To Create Healthy Love | Jason Wilson

I'm going on tour! Come see The School of Greatness LIVE in person! Get my new book Make Money Easy here! Transformational leader Jason Wilson shatters conventional masculinity, revealing a revolutionary path toward manhood. Drawing from his decades of experience mentoring young men at Detroit's Cave of Adullam and his personal journey of emotional healing, Wilson shares how he evolved from a "masculine male" focused solely on protection and provision to a "comprehensive man" capable of expressing full emotional range while maintaining strength. Through vulnerable stories about his marriage, fatherhood, and personal growth, Wilson illustrates how embracing emotional transparency led to deeper connections and true freedom, offering a revolutionary framework for men seeking authentic, balanced lives. The Man The Moment Demands by Jason WilsonIn this episode you will learn:How to break free from limiting masculine stereotypes and develop a comprehensive range of human attributesWhy emotional transparency is crucial for developing deep, lasting relationships and finding inner peaceThe "Four R's" process for making conscious decisionsHow to balance being both strong and sensitive while maintaining authentic masculinityWhy addressing childhood trauma is essential for becoming an emotionally healthy manFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1725For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Mel Robbins – greatness.lnk.to/1710SCGabby Bernstein – greatness.lnk.to/1714SCRupi Kaur – greatness.lnk.to/1678SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  Welcome back to the School of Greatness, my friend. Today, I'm excited for you to be not only inspired and motivated to take action in your life, but really to feel empowered, to step into the ultimate man that you've always wanted to be. And for ladies listening, this may be more powerful for women to listen to, because you're going to understand how to understand the men in your life, whether it be men in your family, men who are friends of yours, men in the careers that you're in, and the men you're in relationship with. I sit down with my friend Jason Wilson, who is a bestselling author, founder of the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy. And he is an author of a new book called The Man the Moment Demands.

• 0:45Lewis Howes?

  We tap into something extremely powerful today, a conversation about what it truly means to be not a masculine man, but a comprehensive man. And in his new book, he explores the 10 vital characteristics that men need to master to show up fully in their lives. And we discuss them throughout this episode. Through this raw and honest discussion, we dive deep into why so many men struggle with emotional expression, the difference between being masculine and being comprehensive, and how to authentically heal from past trauma. Jason's going to share valuable stories from his own journey of transformation, including how his marriage evolved when he learned to express his full range of emotions,

• 1:29Lewis Howes?

  when his marriage was almost to the point of failure and ending. And whether you're a man wanting to step more fully into your authentic self or a woman seeking to understand the men in your life, this episode offers game-changing insights on modern masculinity. And if this is your first time here, do me a favor and click the follow button over on Apple Podcasts or Spotify right now and leave a review on your biggest insight or takeaway from this episode, so I can stay connected to you and hear what you're truly learning. I want to hear from the men. Out there listening, what is it that you learned? Is there some myth that you saw as being dismantled? That you grew up in a certain way, thinking you needed to live a certain way?

• 2:13Lewis Howes?

  I know I thought I needed to live a certain way as a man. And in some ways, those beliefs served me to a point. But in a lot of ways, they didn't serve me in relationships or in my business and in other areas. If you're a woman, I want you to leave a review with a comment on your biggest insight and takeaway on the myths and the beliefs that you feel like you need to question and maybe are dismantled as well from this conversation. I believe you deserve to feel the most authentic, comprehensive version of yourself. And sometimes, modern society tries to hold us back and put us into stereotypes as men and women in modern relationships.

• 2:54Lewis Howes?

  And in some ways, they serve us, and in other ways, they hold us back and cause pain and suffering. And one of the biggest challenges in modern relationships today is I think the men and women in relationships are not being fully authentic. And they're not healing. So when you enter into a relationship where you're living in past trauma, you bring that trauma and wounds into your relationship. And it's hard to grow if someone's constantly living in the past. And if you're not being authentic or saying what's on your heart and your mind because you're worried of upsetting your partner or you're worried that they're not gonna like you or they're going to react in some way. And you people please them, then you're not being your most comprehensive and authentic

• 3:39Lewis Howes?

  individual in the relationship either. And one of the biggest problems that people have in relationships is around money conversations and money struggles. And I've got a brand new book coming out. It's called Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life. And this is going to help you understand your money history. Also your money, personality, style today. And it's going to give you the tools to unlock freedom for abundance and have a more healed relationship to money in your life. So you can have a healthier relationship with the man or the woman in your life around money. So it doesn't cause you friction in your relationship as well. I want you to create peace in your life. I want you to feel free.

• 4:22Lewis Howes?

  I want you to have beautiful relationships with yourself and with others. And this episode is going to unlock that for you. If you're enjoying it, make sure to share this with one friend. Text this, just copy and paste the link where you're listening to this episode. Text it to one friend and ask them the biggest takeaway they learned from this episode as well, and have a open conversation with them. If you're in a relationship, send this to your partner and say, hey, what do you think about this? What do you think about Jason and Lewis's insights? Again, this is about opening the conversation for more expansion and possibilities for growth and love. And that's what you deserve, and that's what I want for you. So excited. So let's dive into this episode with the one and only Jason Wilson.

• 5:08Lewis Howes?

  Welcome back everyone to the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guest today is my good friend, Jason Wilson in the house. Good to see you. Always good to be here, man. Excited that you're back. You've got an amazing new book out called The Man, The Moment Demands. How to Master the 10 Characteristics of a Comprehensive Man. And I wanted to start this, you're a bestselling author, you've got an amazing school for young kids and also fathers on how to become better men and how to be leaders of their own lives and how to be leaders in their community and their families and step into the characteristics, the distinctions of leadership for authentic, comprehensive men. You've been doing this for decades in Detroit, but also you have a documentary and ESPN

• 5:52Lewis Howes?

  that has spread around the world and your social media following is massive as well. And I'm curious, there seems to be a deficiency of. Comprehensive men in the world and specifically in America seems to be that way. I don't know if there's a combination of social media that is hurting men or if it's gender roles being confusing from where it once was and now it's shifting. And so men don't know how to step into their masculinity in a comprehensive, authentic way, in dynamic with their parents, with women, with other men, with work. The idea of being successful and making money and having a material things

• 6:37Lewis Howes?

  and kind of that drive from where they are to where they want to be. If that's confusing men, but it seems to be a lot of confusion for men on who men are supposed to be in the world, how they can have a peaceful, harmonious life, while also prosper and have a beautiful relationship and get married and build a family and all these different things. It just seems confusing for men. What is the root cause of the confusion for men to be who they're meant to be?

• 7:06Jason Wilson?

  Well, I believe it starts when we're young. The misleading mantras is what I call them. What big boys don't cry or no pain, no gain. Like that's a universal principle. And we see even in sports that if a star player gets hurt, you don't push him through that pain. You take him out the game and give him time to heal. But unfortunately, we believe that a principle that pretty much came through weightlifting, developing the muscle is something that we apply to all areas in our lives. And that's why I believe we don't really live full lives. And so to shake all of those mantras and then being admonished

• 7:46Jason Wilson?

  for having any other emotions besides anger or being bold or strong. If you showed an ounce of sensitivity growing up young, you were called a punk or soft. And so those, I believe, programmed all of us to say, okay, I don't like the way I feel when I hear that. I don't, I remember when my father admonished me for caring too much. So you know what? I'm gonna shut that part of my heart off. And that's why so many of us can't meet the moment, especially in relationships, because we've allowed the world to define us as as men. And then even the one word or adjective masculinity is not a comprehensive definition of what it means to be a man. It's just attributes such as boldness, strength and aggression.

• 8:29Jason Wilson?

  But what about nurturing, kindness, long suffering, patience? Those aren't feminine attributes. Those are human attributes. And so instead of masculinity or femininity, we practice humanity, like what do I need to be as a comprehensive human being? And that's where men struggle because even in movies, like when the last time you really seen conflict resolved between two action heroes without fighting or killing each other? You know, and then we wonder why road rage is at an all time high. While there's a lack of patience with men, even in conflict or in business.

• 9:11Jason Wilson?

  I want to be the top dog or the classic alpha male, which has been proven a myth. Like there is not a dominant fight for a leader in a wolf pack. The leader of the wolf pack, leaders that is, are the breeding pair, the male and female. Really? Oh, yes. I mean, Google it and research. I wrote about it in the book because I believe that's one of the main things that prohibits men from being a comprehensive leader. You don't have to be dogmatic to lead people the right way. And so there is no alpha male, even in the wolf pack. So should men strive to be more alpha? What is it then? So now, so then the beta is is negative. Like, so he's beta. So what does that mean?

• 9:56Jason Wilson?

  He's a nurturer, he's compassionate, he's caring. Those aren't soft attributes. Some of the greatest warriors had both. And that's why I said be a comprehensive man, be strong but sensitive, be courageous but also compassionate. You have to have, boom, you want to be multifaceted. Not what I call mono faceted, you can only do one thing. And because of that, so many men are stuck in first gear in life. You know, that first gear is, that's the masculine gear to get you from stop to start and get you going. But what happens then? Do you stay in that gear if you're driving that car? No, you'll burn out your clutch. That's why so many men are on the edge of suicide today. Because everything is by your strength, by your will.

• 10:39Jason Wilson?

  You're only identified by your accomplishments instead of who you are. That's why you can't rest, you can't find peace. And often say, peace has to be within you before it's around you. So there's many, I believe, reasons for why we are where we are as men.

• 10:56Jason Wilson?

  The biggest fear of us is really doing the introspective work to find the healing that we desire and deserve.

• 11:02Lewis Howes?

  Do you think women can fully embrace a fully comprehensive man?

• 11:08Jason Wilson?

  Absolutely, my wife did it. Again, the struggle comes in with men is the process. So the same way we have to unlearn what we've been deceived to believe a man is, we have to give our wives or the women in our lives that same grace to unlearn what they've been doing. And a lot of times, as men are breaking free from what I call emotional incarceration, if they face a woman or in a relationship where she just say impassively dismisses a moment where he is transparent with how he's feeling, now he wants to go back into the ways where he was hardened. And I tell him, no, no, it's not time to retreat back to that cell, that mental jail cell where you know there is no peace.

• 11:51Lewis Howes?

  But what if the woman, his woman isn't accepting him for his comprehensive emotion, his range of emotion?

• 11:57Jason Wilson?

  It's his blessing.

• 11:58Lewis Howes?

  She's like, what are you doing? That's not attractive to me. That's a turn off, like, don't act weak around me.

• 12:04Jason Wilson?

  She just confirmed that she's not the right one for you.

• 12:07Lewis Howes?

  So don't be with that woman.

• 12:09Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, so a lot of men, we, see, we're changing for the wrong reasons. When I made the journey into comprehensive manhood, I had to change for myself. Um, one moment I never forget, my wife and I, we were in the car, we were in the, we were arguing. And uh, this is when I was learning how to become a verbal process or how to express what I'm feeling without yelling or hitting things. So you used to be what, a suppressor or angry? Passive aggressive. Passive aggressive or just? It would just explode, you know, I would come off calm and next thing you know, boom, I would lose it. Really? Yeah. Oh, real quick. So she wasn't used to a man, any man in her life, being able to articulate

• 12:51Jason Wilson?

  what he's thinking or what he's feeling with composure, with, with calm. Yeah, composure. Yeah, yeah. So when I was able to do that. She didn't understand the language of composure from a man. Cause typically what, we have to be what, only masculine. Exuding attributes of strength, boldness and aggression. So I chose to be comprehensive that moment in the car. She gets out the car, looks at me and says, you're the most emotional man I ever met. And boom, slams the car door and walks into the grocery store. Really? Yeah, seriously. So I'm sitting in the car. That doesn't feel good. No, oh, oh, it was. To be ashamed for your emotions. Yeah, it was, it was very devastating. I got very angry.

• 13:31Jason Wilson?

  Um, which I call is the surface emotion for men, you know, it's the emotion we can go to the fastest without going and digging deeper to what we're really feeling. So. What were you really feeling? I was hurt. Yeah. Okay, here it is. I'm trying to become a better man. Um, I knew I was uh, as a father, just discipline only driven. Uh, I wasn't there emotionally for my daughter during the year. She needed a, a lover more so than a disciplinarian. And uh, she didn't feel that she was the apple of my eye, yet the worm in the apple. And so here it is as a man, I'm doing this hard work. I'm sitting in this car. Trying to evolve. Yeah, and I'm saying, you know what?

• 14:14Jason Wilson?

  I'm gonna go back to being this demonstrative, uh, quick tempered. Positive aggressive. Yeah, husband. And in that moment, I realized like, wait a minute.

• 14:26Jason Wilson?

  I'm doing this for me, not you. As a byproduct, you will benefit and the children will benefit. But I need to do it for me because as soon as you don't appreciate my effort, I'mma digress back into that mental sale. That was a pivotal moment in my journey.

• 14:43Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 14:44Jason Wilson?

  And I stayed on the course until I finished it. And of course, I'm still evolving.

• 14:49Lewis Howes?

  Why did you stay on it and not return to the single-minded man that you once were, you know, without the range of expression?

• 14:59Jason Wilson?

  Life wasn't worth living, man, just to be real with you.

• 15:04Jason Wilson?

  I compare it to, you know, the box of eight crayons you'll see. And then you have the box of 64. As men, we tend to gravitate towards the box of eight. And so I compare those crayons to emotions. And out of the eight, we may use four of them. But women have access to 64 and we do too. But their entire life, they've been affirmed in expressing those emotions. So then when it comes to communication between man and woman, she is requesting violet, but all you have is purple. So you can't even meet the moment there. And also, instead of, even in relationships with men, if a man offends me, I don't just go to anger.

• 15:50Jason Wilson?

  I go to the real emotion of, my brother, you know, that offended me. Why don't you trust me in this business deal? Now the conversation now is here. No one has to have their guard up. Guards are dropped, now we can communicate as human beings. I got tired of having to be stuck in masculine mold all day, every day. Having to live life in a performance-based mentality. There is no rest there. A man can't even take a nap when you live that way.

• 16:23Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 16:23Jason Wilson?

  So I was, easy decision to make. Was the journey a challenge at times? Absolutely, but well worth it.

• 16:32Lewis Howes?

  How old are you at this moment?

• 16:33Jason Wilson?

  Fifty-four.

• 16:35Lewis Howes?

  You know, at the, at the car.

• 16:36Jason Wilson?

  Oh, at the car?

• 16:39Lewis Howes?

  How, what age range was this?

• 16:42Jason Wilson?

  I would say forty-six, maybe.

• 16:46Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 16:46Jason Wilson?

  Yeah.

• 16:47Lewis Howes?

  So not that longer, actually.

• 16:48Jason Wilson?

  Oh, no, no.

• 16:49Lewis Howes?

  So before forty-six, would you say you were more, more of a one-sided, lesser range of emotions type of man?

• 16:59Jason Wilson?

  Absolutely, definitely. That was, I call that a masculine male.

• 17:03Lewis Howes?

  You were a masculine male?

• 17:04Jason Wilson?

  That's all I was. Everything was centered around being masculine, being strong, bold.

• 17:10Lewis Howes?

  What's limited with only being a masculine male?

• 17:14Jason Wilson?

  Well, I use my mother, caring for her as an example, when she developed dementia. I couldn't fully meet that moment in her life by only being a protector and provider. Those two roles I had mastered. Whenever the pharmaceutical companies were trying to fleece her out of more money, I was able to protect her. When her social security check couldn't meet the difference that we owe the doctors and for the prescription, I was able to provide. But what happens when she asks me a question ten times and I have to answer it the eleventh time without her feeling any frustration? What happens when she's crying and she's confused and I have to meet that moment with compassion and love?

• 17:59Jason Wilson?

  What happens when her fingernails need filing or clipped and I have to meet that moment? Only being a protector and a provider was too limiting for me. I couldn't be all that she needed. And so when that time happened in her life, I chose to meet that moment instead of running from it. And often men say, I want to be a comprehensive man, what do I need to do? I tell them always to run to the moments where you fear feeling the emotions that make you feel weak. And so that's what transformed me. And I said, this is living, this is power. That's how I'm able to reach so many boys and men. That's why I'm contacted by even UFC fighters.

• 18:40Jason Wilson?

  These men are beat pretty much everyone that you can think of in the average setting that's not trained in MMA. But yet they're starting to see like, wait a minute, I can't live from this raise that I feel, this childhood trauma that keeps time traveling to the present and ruins my life. So here it is, these men, the greatest warriors, are they weak now because they want to be comprehensive? Because they want to be human, authentically human? No, they they're fighting now for their right to experience more of life than just providing and protecting.

• 19:16Lewis Howes?

  Wow, so so you so around forty six, you made a decision that just being a protector and a provider was not all you wanted to do anymore.

• 19:28Jason Wilson?

  I saw it destroying my marriage.

• 19:30Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 19:31Jason Wilson?

  I uh, I lacked patience.

• 19:35Jason Wilson?

  I I didn't even understand emotions as far as what a woman is feeling. So again, if you're, I mean, my brothers were drug dealers, you know, and I grew up in a area where I'm in the middle of gangs from each mile road in Detroit. So you, I didn't know how to express or really feel emotions outside of being tough and strong or appearing to be what we would call a thug, which I've made an acronym for, which is a traumatized human unable to grieve.

• 20:08Jason Wilson?

  I I said, this isn't living. And when me and Nicole, we were arguing our last time before we decided to get a separation in two thousand and fifteen. So look at the time span there.

• 20:21Jason Wilson?

  I said, I need to really dig deep into what's causing me to be this man. What's causing me not to embrace all of the human attributes that I've been given by the Most High? And it was my childhood trauma. It was my father wound. It was the losses that I've experienced that had shaped my mind into believing another loss is coming. You weren't even good enough for your father to affirm you. But upon deeper reflection, I realized that I didn't have a bad father. I just had a father who had been wounded and didn't go through his process. He loved me, but again, he came from an era where the masculine male was the gold standard. And so until I saw the truth there,

• 21:06Jason Wilson?

  before he died, we were able to reconcile, which was beautiful. And he was called by God to be a pastor, but ran from it.

• 21:13Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 21:14Jason Wilson?

  Because he didn't want to be perceived as a pimp. Because in his era, the pastors, uh, the pimps transitioned into being a pastor.

• 21:22Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 21:22Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, and that, he told me the story. I couldn't believe it. He's still, you're tax exempt still.

• 21:28Lewis Howes?

  So there was just a, they're a pimp, but they were getting more out of it.

• 21:32Jason Wilson?

  Still drove a nice car.

• 21:33Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 21:34Jason Wilson?

  And all you had to do was to pander to the women's emotions.

• 21:37Lewis Howes?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 21:38Jason Wilson?

  So my father was a bar barber, very popular in Detroit. So he cut a lot of the pimps' hair back then.

• 21:43Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 21:44Jason Wilson?

  And a lot of them would tell him, big old, man, nothing like being a pastor. It's almost just like being a pimp.

• 21:51Jason Wilson?

  But he allowed that to stop his calling. He could have changed it. But because he was just a masculine male, he, my father was a provider. He would work 12, 13 hour days, come home, wore out. At the end of his life, he couldn't walk. He had Parkinson's disease. My mother worried to death. He worked to death.

• 22:12Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 22:13Jason Wilson?

  So those are two extremes that I learned from. And I said, you know, I'm not going to be either. I learned from my dad to make sure I take a rest, take rest in between work. Um, if you don't take a break, I often say you eventually break. And, uh, with my mom, the brain wasn't meant to hold the trauma she experienced. My grandfather was lynched. Uh, her first marriage was abusive. Then my brother gets murdered.

• 22:38Jason Wilson?

  So all of this, she couldn't let go. And what was amazing, brother, she didn't find peace, my mom, until she started to forget.

• 22:46Lewis Howes?

  Forget?

• 22:47Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, because of dementia, she couldn't remember all of the trauma.

• 22:51Lewis Howes?

  So she had peace because she wasn't holding on to the memory?

• 22:54Jason Wilson?

  Yes.

• 22:54Lewis Howes?

  If you don't have the memory, if you let go the memory.

• 22:57Jason Wilson?

  Now you have the peace.

• 22:58Lewis Howes?

  You're like an empty vessel that can experience joy and love and harmony again.

• 23:01Jason Wilson?

  That's why the scriptures say, "Casher cares upon God."

• 23:06Jason Wilson?

  We tend to hold them and grasp and hold and control it. And that's what wears us down, especially as men. We can't rest, we can't let go of the disappointments of the day. We're still trying to work when we should be resting. That's what tomorrow is for. Table those things, find rest, and then get up and hit it hard again. But again, if your whole identity isn't working and performing, we can't sleep. We can't sleep. You know, and I guess that's one of the greatest blessings of me knowing so many influential individuals. I get to see the side that people don't see.

• 23:41Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, of course.

• 23:42Jason Wilson?

  And I said, well, money isn't the answer. Being a celebrity isn't the answer. Being a professional athlete or fighter isn't the answer. But being authentic in who you are is the answer. For me, when I found my purpose in Christ, when I found my purpose in following the Most High, that really solidified me, I would say, in being a comprehensive man. Because again, you could be multifaceted, but without a purpose, you're just a busy person.

• 24:17Lewis Howes?

  Do you know any men today, either unknown or successful influential men, who have zero relationship with God, that live a harmonious, peaceful, and successful life?

• 24:36Jason Wilson?

  No.

• 24:39Jason Wilson?

  When I get to meet them behind the closed doors.

• 24:43Lewis Howes?

  You see the pain.

• 24:44Jason Wilson?

  I see the pain, the facade comes off. They willingly take it off because they're tired of wearing it. The Superman cape that's been strangling them, take it off. No. The millionaires, no. Because the money, see, the thing about being a millionaire, what I've learned.

• 25:09Jason Wilson?

  You can do everything. Man, if I could go to Spain, you know, this to give me a break. You do it, now you still don't find peace.

• 25:16Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, you still have to live with you.

• 25:17Jason Wilson?

  Yeah.

• 25:18Lewis Howes?

  In Spain.

• 25:18Jason Wilson?

  So somewhere else. The average guy can always have that dream or that vision like, you know, one day when I can do this or get this house or get this firm, that's when everything will be together.

• 25:29Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 25:30Jason Wilson?

  The millionaire has done everything and still is unhappy. Still doesn't have peace.

• 25:35Lewis Howes?

  It's almost worse in a sense, because I did everything I thought was going to give me peace. It didn't, now what?

• 25:39Jason Wilson?

  There you go.

• 25:40Lewis Howes?

  Now, something is really wrong with you.

• 25:42Jason Wilson?

  Exactly, and so I say, no matter where you go, there you will be.

• 25:46Lewis Howes?

  Uh huh.

• 25:46Jason Wilson?

  You can't escape yourself. And so I never was one to, um, I guess adhere to escapism. Always tried to find my peace in where I'm at.

• 25:57Lewis Howes?

  Did you have a lot of escapism, though, before the last 10 years?

• 26:01Jason Wilson?

  Of course, I was, as men, we're conditioned that way. We, you know, work hard, become a millionaire, travel, buy your way, buy your peace, get the right people around you. Even with the right people around you, if you hadn't did the work inside, you won't have it. And so for me, it took for me to surrender my life to Yeshua or Jesus to really find that peace, to purge all of this pain that was in my heart. Because I, I didn't grow up in a church, I didn't want to walk this path.

• 26:30Lewis Howes?

  You didn't grow up and go to church at all?

• 26:32Jason Wilson?

  My mother, what I mean by grow up, meaning it wasn't, I was a part of the culture. I mean, my mother made me go, but as soon as I got to the age where she could trust me at home alone.

• 26:43Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 26:43Jason Wilson?

  I stopped going.

• 26:44Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 26:44Jason Wilson?

  And so, but when I truly accepted Him in my life, the process still was a journey. It's not like, uh, uh, no, it's not magic, like instant, it's gone. It comes with work. It is written that we should consider, you know, when we're testing trials, is joy. We should be joyful when that happens because it develops our faith and perseverance.

• 27:06Lewis Howes?

  Hmm, when there's a trial.

• 27:08Jason Wilson?

  Yes, and then, of course, we're gonna lose loved ones, but we don't grieve like the world. So those are the type of things that were instilled in me through this transformation I had because I know I get to see my mother and father again. My hope is different from those that are in this world. And then my identity is in not what I do, it's in Him. So whatever stops, I, as we talked earlier, the transition is always difficult.

• 27:35Jason Wilson?

  But because my identity isn't in it, I can, I can transition, you know, and but a lot of guys can't transition at all. Like I know, I shared with you before here, what he's calling me to do. It may take some time, right? As we talked, you said four years, right?

• 27:51Lewis Howes?

  I've been touting this for four years.

• 27:52Jason Wilson?

  Yeah. And but our time compared to his time is, you know, and so, but when you're stuck in your identities and what you do like athletes, when you retire, you don't know what you're gonna do with yourself.

• 28:06Lewis Howes?

  What's this, what should a man put their identity in if it's not their work, their success, their money, their relationship, you know, or who, who's in their circle, who they know, what should they put their identity in to have more harmony?

• 28:20Jason Wilson?

  Hmm. For me, first, the foundation, of course, is, is the most high in, in, in Christ for me.

• 28:25Lewis Howes?

  So what does that look like?

• 28:26Jason Wilson?

  My identity, oh, well.

• 28:27Lewis Howes?

  But he's not me, my identity is.

• 28:29Jason Wilson?

  In him, meaning I, I am, I embody all who he is. So I manifest his attributes for, to me, in my book, at the end, I share, he was the ultimate comprehensive man. He was the fighter, he was the provider, he was the leader, he was the lover, he was the nurturer, he was the gentleman. He was the, uh, the father, all right, as incarnate as God here is one. He was the son. And so those attributes of the comprehensive man, I exude because of who he is in me. So when I say I am, he is in me and I am, he, he's the reason why I exist and why I move. I exude his attributes.

• 29:13Jason Wilson?

  And that's what I mean by my identity being wrapped up in him. Second, I would say my family, but even that can be shaken. If I was to, uh, commit adultery on my wife, she may leave, I don't know. If I was physically abusive to her, my children's love would change.

• 29:33Jason Wilson?

  So all of my hope lies in him. That's the only concept that I have.

• 29:38Lewis Howes?

  Where do you feel like you've struggled the most as a man?

• 29:43Jason Wilson?

  I would say,

• 29:48Jason Wilson?

  reminds me of Moses. We were talking about him earlier. When the Moisai called him to go to Pharaoh to free his people, Moses complained about not speaking with the eloquent tongue, making a lot of excuses. And then God told him to have his brother speak for him, which I believe was a big mistake because Moses didn't work through all of his insecurities. And at the end, those insecurities caused him to hit the rocks and he couldn't enter the promised land. So I share that to say because I know it's a blessing knowing that, you know, everything you do is wrapped up in Him. At the same time,

• 30:30Jason Wilson?

  finding your confidence solely in Him can be a challenge at times. A lot of things that He has me doing, I know it's not me. I know the men that stopped me at the airport or when I go speed come up to me here. I mean, real men crying, breaking down. That's not me. I'm just a man. And so to truly just say, hey, I'm gonna trust you regardless and just move. Sometimes that can be a challenge when you're walking towards the Red Sea and it hasn't been parted yet. But He's telling you to go that way and didn't tell you He wasn't gonna split it yet. Just go that way.

• 31:08Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 31:08Jason Wilson?

  That can be challenging at times.

• 31:10Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 31:11Jason Wilson?

  Um, and that's why it's important to not have your identity wrapped up in things, money, your accomplishments, and even your family, as much as I love mine.

• 31:24Jason Wilson?

  I know love on the human plane is conditional. It's based on what we can do.

• 31:30Lewis Howes?

  If I do this, I will receive. If I don't do it, it's not gonna be there.

• 31:34Jason Wilson?

  It's just human nature. You know, the closest you'll get to unconditional love is from a good mother on this earth.

• 31:41Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, or a dog.

• 31:42Jason Wilson?

  Or a dog. That's my

• 31:45Jason Wilson?

  And, you know, when you realize that, you're like, hey, you know, for me, it was, uh, I studied many religions and I chose that path. And I have no regrets. If I lose everything and still have Him, I still have everything.

• 32:00Lewis Howes?

  Oh my gosh, yeah. Which of the ten characteristics of a comprehensive man are you the most limited still? Do you feel is still a something that has more effort and harder to actually embrace and comprehend?

• 32:28Jason Wilson?

  I would say the gentleman in regards to chivalry.

• 32:34Jason Wilson?

  I had to study that because today we say chivalry is dead, right? And it's almost like chivalry is perceived as pandering to women. But when I studied it, it was the code of honor amongst medieval knights. Why did we relinquish that? So for me, growing up, again, the misleading mantras. It was the saying bros before H O E S, okay? So I was programmed never to really trust a woman. Don't be affectionate with a woman in public, you'll be looked at as being weak. To this day, I have to fight to hold my wife's hand in public.

• 33:13Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 33:14Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, man, and just being.

• 33:16Lewis Howes?

  You have to fight to like force yourself to do it?

• 33:18Jason Wilson?

  It's an internal struggle. My father, I remember I told him I was getting married, he told me, why? Why would you do that? So I mean, all the men in my life never were comprehensive men.

• 33:31Lewis Howes?

  They just have, they have multiple, you know.

• 33:35Jason Wilson?

  And then, you know,

• 33:38Jason Wilson?

  outside of being a fighter and provider, the gentleman, what is that, you know? We were smooth, but it was always.

• 33:45Lewis Howes?

  It was called a game. To get something.

• 33:47Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, so we had to have game.

• 33:50Lewis Howes?

  So I didn't like.

• 33:50Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, playing games, you know, and so that's why the commitment level wasn't there. And so again, just really living freely from that romantic side that's in me. And that's a process I'm going through now. Resolving the hurt, you know, experience the relationships. And that's one of the men's biggest struggles with getting married is because when you marry someone, she's going to see, she's not going to just see Batman, she's going to see Bruce Wayne now. Can you deal with that?

• 34:21Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 34:22Jason Wilson?

  Are you okay with her seeing that you're depressed some mornings? That, yeah, you two are anxious at times. Oh, yeah, you two get scared at times. And so that's the challenging part for men. And for me, it's just moving past the lies that I've been, I guess, programmed to believe by the men in my family, that being romantic publicly was a sign of weakness. And so that's one of the attributes that I struggle with exuding.

• 34:52Lewis Howes?

  Why do you think it's so hard for men to commit in an intimate relationship?

• 34:59Jason Wilson?

  Again, it's the fear of, I used to say vulnerable, being vulnerable. But I believe that's the wrong word because that means you're open to harm or being killed. Like, if a gunman was to come in here now, the news report would say, he killed the vulnerable citizens. What we're trying to encourage men to do is be emotionally open or transparent. And so for me to be transparent and open was actually a gateway to my freedom, man. And my wife would tell you to this day, to have a man who can,

• 35:41Jason Wilson?

  she can see that is scared, but can move through that fear. Or a man who says, hey, I don't know about this decision, but I'm gonna trust God that this is the right way to go. I'm gonna trust the data we have, that this is the right decision financially, and we're gonna move. For her to see that, whoa, okay, he doesn't know it all, but yet he still walks confidently in that decision. He still has a little fear, but he doesn't succumb to it. Now you be, you can be more authentic.

• 36:12Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 36:13Jason Wilson?

  And that's really what men want. They're dying to just be treated as humans. Can I just share my fear without you condemning me as being weak?

• 36:24Lewis Howes?

  Hmm, with being accepted.

• 36:27Jason Wilson?

  I'm just a human being, man.

• 36:28Lewis Howes?

  Do you think men fear commitment more because they lack the ability to be emotionally transparent and to be received for their range of emotions? Or are men afraid to commit to one woman because they don't want to just only be with one woman for the rest of their life?

• 36:48Jason Wilson?

  From the men that I've worked with, the greatest fear is their inadequacy.

• 36:55Jason Wilson?

  The imposter syndrome, that I'm really not all she thinks I am. Real she's going to see this one side. What happened during COVID? The divorce rates went through the roof.

• 37:09Jason Wilson?

  Because you couldn't be at work for eight hours. There was no time apart. For me, I was sad when COVID was over. Because I enjoy being with my wife and my son all day, every day. I didn't have to leave them. Because by that time, I had become a comprehensive man. You wanted to express it all, yeah, yeah. It was nothing to hide. But if you're with the suits, the bra, you know, the provado, all this other stuff, that's your aura all day. No one ever sees a sign of weakness. There is no, you're never concerned, you're stoic 24/7. Then you get married and now she can see. Now she, oh wait, why are you depressed?

• 37:54Jason Wilson?

  I thought we're living our best life. I thought nothing bothers you. What happened?

• 37:59Jason Wilson?

  So no one wants to be a fraud. But how can you be a fraud when you're authentic? There's nothing to hide anymore. Do you think most men are authentic before they get married?

• 38:11Jason Wilson?

  I don't think most of us are authentic at all right now. Because, I mean, especially in the era of social media, everything is performance, highlight reels. They don't see the other side of what goes on inside of a man's mind, his heart, his fears. We're doing a better job now, especially thankful to a man like you, who are showing the real side of what men are going through.

• 38:40Jason Wilson?

  But I don't think we're there yet. I know.

• 38:46Jason Wilson?

  With more conversations like this, we're getting there. But no, we're not living authentic. I mean, even look at the videos, the movies. Hollywood. Even in hip hop, everything is a facade.

• 39:04Lewis Howes?

  What's your thoughts on hip hop and hip hop culture and music? Is it helping men and women in any positive way? Or is it only a lower level frequency that is really keeping men and women subject to hurt, harm and sadness?

• 39:22Jason Wilson?

  Well, you couldn't just say hip hop. You know, you could say mass media and not all of hip hop, you know? But definitely mass media is playing a major role in the how people I see themselves in the mirror. Definitely, especially social media. Again, I've had couples where wives had to just get off social media because they would be depressed looking at other couples. And they have no idea that that couple was struggling. You see, and so I couldn't identify, you know, wouldn't say it's totally hip hop. But I mean, you can say the same for rock, pop. You know, the drug abuse in those two genres alone. And so, but it's not all rock. It's not all pop.

• 40:06Jason Wilson?

  It's not all hip hop. But yeah, no, definitely, I wouldn't say that. But mass media has played a major role, especially in the way our children think.

• 40:15Lewis Howes?

  You've got an amazing exercise in your book, The Man The Moment Demands, about looking in the mirror, about spending more time in the mirror. And actually, when I saw that, I was like, huh. Wouldn't that reinforce people's egos to like stare at themselves and say, oh, look at me. I look so good. Because I think a lot of people actually spend too much time in the mirror checking themselves out or selfie, looking at themselves, making sure they look good or have the right makeup on for women, whatever it might be. I actually think they're too self-absorbed looking. But you have an exercise about looking in the mirror. For what reason?

• 40:47Jason Wilson?

  To reflect on what you've read in the book. So we've, we're unpacking a lot that as men, we've been conditioned to suppress. So now at the end of the chapter, I want you to start looking at yourself, the wounds, the things about yourself you didn't like. And then we start affirming ourselves with the statements that I write in the book. And so a lot of times, men, I was talking with a friend of mine actually in Detroit. When he went through the first chapter, he was like, This hard for me, I didn't realize it was so hard for me to look in the mirror. Cause a lot of us as men, we really don't love ourselves.

• 41:20Lewis Howes?

  Look in your eyes. Not like look at your body.

• 41:23Jason Wilson?

  Not how you look, the suit that he wears, I actually share that in the first chapter. Like that's not what we're looking at. Looking tentatively in your eyes for 60 seconds. And then say these statements. You know, and so during that process for a man to stay there for one. He becomes emotional. Uh, even when we, I have fathers and sons, when they're having a, a conflict in their relationship. I have them sit in front of each other and without saying a word, communicate through their eyes only. Within a matter of seconds, the father starts crying.

• 41:56Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 41:57Jason Wilson?

  Because now he can convey with his heart what his words want to allow him to say.

• 42:02Lewis Howes?

  Most men can never look themselves in the eyes to another man for more than a few seconds without shimmying around or you know, it's hard for a man. One of the reasons why I chose to do this show in this style is to be completely across from someone.

• 42:16Jason Wilson?

  Hmm.

• 42:17Lewis Howes?

  Not that it's bad or wrong if someone's not across from them, but a lot of people sit kind of catty corner.

• 42:24Jason Wilson?

  That's true.

• 42:24Lewis Howes?

  You know, it's like you sit next to each other, kind of facing each other in like TV set, which again, nothing wrong with it.

• 42:30Jason Wilson?

  Right.

• 42:31Lewis Howes?

  But it doesn't force you to reflect and see how you're showing up. Like in there, you can kind of, I could look here, uh, you're sitting here, but you're over there, right?

• 42:41Jason Wilson?

  Got you.

• 42:42Lewis Howes?

  So I can just kind of wander off and kind of talk and you know, connect to the audience, which I get it's a different setting. It's a different context. But you can hide a little bit, you know what I mean? Again, nothing wrong with it, but I believe that if you truly want to understand someone, you've got to face them.

• 43:00Jason Wilson?

  I agree.

• 43:00Lewis Howes?

  And you've got to face, oh, does this make me feel uncomfortable? What is it about them that's making me feel uncomfortable? Or, you know, am I, why am I struggling to resonate with this person? Why am I struggling to look at this person in the eyes and really feel them in this specific way? And if I want to be more comprehensive, I can't just listen to their words, I have to listen to what they're not saying. And if I'm looking off here and just kind of answering questions or talking, my energy isn't connected to your heart. It's out this way and my head is looking at you, but not my heart facing and embodying all of you. And I think energy doesn't lie. But if you're out here, you can hide a little bit.

• 43:44Lewis Howes?

  Doesn't mean you can't have a great conversation.

• 43:46Jason Wilson?

  Absolutely, yes.

• 43:47Lewis Howes?

  Doesn't mean it's bad, it's just, I wanted to force myself to be like, okay, let me embrace all of this. If I'm nervous, if I'm excited or whatever, like, let me feel it. And then lean into it.

• 43:58Jason Wilson?

  That's really good, man. It works when I worked with the young boys in the Cave of Adullam. Oh, see, look at me here, I'm here, I'm talking, because they don't want to break contact.

• 44:06Lewis Howes?

  Of course.

• 44:06Jason Wilson?

  I know, stare here, look at me, so you can not only hear my words, but see the sincerity in my eyes, that I love you. It's just a little tough right now, but we're gonna work through this.

• 44:16Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 44:17Jason Wilson?

  It breaks them down, man, and even especially with men and Nicole and I, my wife, we, we'll lay in bed and she'll say, hey, I need to connect with you. And what that means is that we stare into each other's eyes at least for like three minutes.

• 44:30Lewis Howes?

  Is it hard for you to stare into a man's eyes or your wife's eyes?

• 44:35Jason Wilson?

  That's a really good question. I'd be transparent with you. With men, it's not an issue, because I've been doing it for 20 years, working with boys and men. With my wife, she'll often say, why are you looking off? Keep, look at me in my eyes, because I have the exercise in there. And I tell men, you may need to break contact, eye contact for a moment, because it can get intense.

• 44:58Lewis Howes?

  Of course.

• 44:59Jason Wilson?

  But we sit back. And the reason it is, is because just some unresolved hurt years ago. Same thing with her. We're processing and still growing. And then to move past that and say, no, I'm right here. Or, I know I may tear up because of how much I love her, and so I break off. I don't want to dive deep right now. And so to give her all of my heart. That's deep for a man, like I'm locking into you like this and I'm staying there. And now, because you were smiling at first, then eventually the smile goes and you're really into deep communication. And then now the heart's open.

• 45:44Lewis Howes?

  It's almost like your wife does to you what you do to young men.

• 45:47Jason Wilson?

  Exactly. She's, that's funny. She does, she'll say, why are you, like she'll kiss me. Now this is funny. She'll say, give me a hug. She go to kiss me. This is what I do. Seriously, sometimes. So she's right here. I do this. I look, girl. And she says, why do you do that? And I'm like, I don't know.

• 46:06Lewis Howes?

  Oh, easy. Yeah, it's still uncomfortable.

• 46:08Jason Wilson?

  It's, I'm still unlearning what I've been, you know, living from for so many years. And that's why I tell men, stop thinking it's a master level in manhood. It's not. You have to keep evolving. And so I, I, I've gotten better.

• 46:22Lewis Howes?

  You know, it's also interesting, probably if she stops asking you, why do you do that? Or why don't you look at me more? I bet if she stopped kind of like pressuring you in that way, you might feel more comfortable to do it also at some point.

• 46:36Jason Wilson?

  Or I may not do it.

• 46:39Lewis Howes?

  It's true. But if she stops doing, you might say, oh, she accepts me for who I am.

• 46:43Jason Wilson?

  That's possible.

• 46:44Lewis Howes?

  Let me lean into it now. I feel more accepted.

• 46:46Jason Wilson?

  I'm gonna tell her to watch.

• 46:47Lewis Howes?

  You know what I mean?

• 46:48Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, yeah, I mean.

• 46:49Lewis Howes?

  And then maybe in like six months, if you're not like new, she can reflect and bring it back. But almost when Martha,

• 46:56Lewis Howes?

  I think Martha's really smart in how she approaches me in certain things. Cause I, I don't know, I, nothing comes off the top of my mind, like, but I'm sure I do stuff like that in my life with her. And I'm not like this perfect man with her, you know?

• 47:08Jason Wilson?

  Absolutely.

• 47:10Lewis Howes?

  She does a really great job. I don't know how she learned this, but I'm like, God, she's got like a whole nother level of psychology inside of her. Because she will like, she'll know that maybe I'm resistant to something energetically, or she's not the intuition around it. And she'll just accept me. And maybe she'll mention a few times, I'm like, I don't like that, or whatever it is. And then she'll stop pressuring or pushing. She'll kind of let it go and just love and accept me for who I am. All my inefficiencies and deficiencies, whatever it is. And I'm like, I appreciate that she's not doing this to me. So that I want to give it to her.

• 47:46Jason Wilson?

  Yes.

• 47:46Lewis Howes?

  You know, it's like I'm more open to wanting to try whatever that thing is. I'm not, it's coming to mind, but.

• 47:51Jason Wilson?

  You know, it's interesting because Nicole is very understanding. We wouldn't have been married 26 years.

• 47:57Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 47:58Jason Wilson?

  If she hadn't accepted some of my ways, like.

• 48:01Lewis Howes?

  Of course.

• 48:01Jason Wilson?

  I'm an introvert who extroverts well. Okay, that's me. Wholeheartedly. Like concerts, internet, I'd rather be doing nothing at home.

• 48:12Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, just relax.

• 48:13Jason Wilson?

  So she does a great job at that. It's, it's me just. Again, what you asked about the, the attribute of the comprehensive man or the characteristic that I have the most trouble exuding is that gentleman attribute or characteristic. And really just allowing that part of my heart to open more to her. And that's something, that's my next, uh, something else I will have victory over, so.

• 48:40Lewis Howes?

  Wow, good.

• 48:41Jason Wilson?

  Yeah.

• 48:41Lewis Howes?

  That's great.

• 48:42Jason Wilson?

  Definitely, yeah. I love being transparent because I don't want men to think like, well, he's arrived. Like, no, my brother, it's, it's constant, evolving, constant.

• 48:50Lewis Howes?

  It's a journey.

• 48:51Jason Wilson?

  Working, it's, it's, uh, it's a week. My wife and I call marriage a beautiful struggle. And because it, it is in, in, in far as like the weight training or any type of conditioning that gets your body where you want it to go. It's the same way with your, your mind as well and your heart. Do the heart work, you know, it's, it's hard work, but it's worth it. And I was, I have a beautiful relationship with my wife where now arguments are, I don't want to say a thing of the past because anything could happen in the moment, but where we hold on to it longer than the day, those days are over.

• 49:27Lewis Howes?

  Hmm. Did you used to argue a lot in the beginning of your marriage?

• 49:30Jason Wilson?

  Oh, my God, her father was like, look, why don't you two just break up? Like that was like, please break up.

• 49:37Lewis Howes?

  Fighting all the time.

• 49:38Jason Wilson?

  Always arguing, always arguing. Um, just, I mean.

• 49:44Lewis Howes?

  Why do?

• 49:44Jason Wilson?

  If I draw a line, she would step over it and vice versa. That was our relationship.

• 49:48Lewis Howes?

  What is it's, when you see married couples fighting, yelling, arguing, holding on to these arguments for long periods of times? What are they saying to you? What is it that they're doing or not doing? Or they need to step into in order to evolve? And when people say, well, every marriage has arguments and all people, all, you know, all healthy marriages fight. Like is, what are your thoughts on that?

• 50:17Jason Wilson?

  Well, that's not true, because we used to fight and argue a lot, and now we don't. What helps us in communication, I use our relationship for one example, is if there's some discord or, you know, some, just some dissension between Nicole and I. And just say, just say an argument ensues, just, you know, our voices raised. I don't look at Nicole, the woman who was in front of me. I look at the young girl, because I know my wife. I know the years when she didn't feel good enough and the wounds and the, the fear of losing everything. I look at that little girl. So oftentimes I tell my friends' wives as well,

• 51:01Jason Wilson?

  that's not the 50-year-old man that's talking. That's the eight-year-old when his father wasn't there. That's the eight-year-old when his mother was overprotective. And so that's what helps me lock my heart into Nicole in those moments. I say, oh, I know why she's responding this way. She feels that she's about to lose something, okay? Or if I could, for so long, brother and our, our marriage early on, I was very critical of Nicole.

• 51:32Lewis Howes?

  And you had a tone or an energy that was not.

• 51:34Jason Wilson?

  No, just everything negative, nothing she could do right.

• 51:37Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 51:37Jason Wilson?

  I was serious to the man, and I had to go a period in our marriage without saying anything. I'm just gonna eat this one. I saw what I was doing to my wife. It was so bad in one of our psychotherapy sessions with our marriage counselors. I allowed her the freedom to write down everything that I did to her over the years on index cards. Man, it probably never ended. Six hours. Ho! Two days. Oh, my gosh, probably hundreds of index. For her to just say, when you said this, this is what it did to me. Why did you say it? Oh, man, that's a lot of hurt. But it was needed. I didn't mean this. This is why I said it. And this is what happened.

• 52:20Jason Wilson?

  This is where it came from. Next index card, next index card. Oh, my gosh. So the therapist said, well, do you want to turn, Jason?

• 52:29Jason Wilson?

  The pride in me was like, yeah, I want to make sure she know it's not just her. You know what I mean? Like, you done. You did this to me. And the therapist said, like, I could have my stack as well. I chose not to do that. Is that suppressing your feelings now? No, because I already expressed them. Meaning, I did the internal work. I let her know. And I let my therapist know. My prayer life for God, everything, I was able to release it. But she couldn't let those things go. So that was more important to me. Anything that I'm, I'm, I feel that I'm holding on to, I make sure first and foremost that I speak it at the right moment. That's what's crucial. Timing is everything far as in that relationship. Yeah, yeah.

• 53:11Jason Wilson?

  And so, um, no, I couldn't, uh, repressing it, brother, made me a very unstable man mentally. But at that moment in our marriage, my wife needed the opportunity to gracefully release the things that she had been hoarding in her heart that was affecting her love for me. And it set her free. Always, you know, it set her a sense of freedom by releasing it. Absolutely. And for me to finally say, well, I said this, first and foremost, I was immature. I should have never, first, own it. This was wrong. It was immature. Secondly, this is what I was trying to say. And I'm sorry. Oh, oh, oh, that's the first thing. You have to acknowledge, first, I heard you, then I'm sorry.

• 53:55Jason Wilson?

  And this is what I meant. Or, there is no justification. I was wrong, and I'm sorry. And do you forgive me? Hmm. And she may not forgive you right away. She may take time eventually. That's true, but in some cases, but Nicole, when it was conveyed. Yeah, of course. She saw, you know, yeah, yeah, so. This, this, uh...

• 54:16Lewis Howes?

  One of the activities in your book, which I think is really powerful, that we talked about already, is called Mirror Time. And I just want to walk people through the exercise. I think it's really cool. Take out your mirror or stand in front of your mirror and silently gaze into the eyes of the man reflected in it. Which again, I think just doing that for 10 seconds, most men are unable to do, to really look in their own eyes.

• 54:37Jason Wilson?

  Especially after reading that chapter.

• 54:40Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 54:40Jason Wilson?

  Of unpacking the things that they've been holding on to.

• 54:43Lewis Howes?

  Absolutely. But I think men struggle looking themselves in the eyes without looking at their ego. Without looking at how they look, or shaved, or my hair look good, or my... Nothing wrong with putting yourself together, but the exercise of staring into your soul.

• 54:59Jason Wilson?

  Well, how about, what about the men who don't like who they see in the mirror? The men who the world say aren't attractive?

• 55:05Lewis Howes?

  Yeah. And then like, then they don't want to see themselves.

• 55:08Jason Wilson?

  Exactly.

• 55:08Lewis Howes?

  When they look, they see shame, they see not enoughness, all these things.

• 55:12Jason Wilson?

  That's good.

• 55:13Lewis Howes?

  So look yourself silently in the eyes of the mirror, of the man reflected in it. Don't look away for 60 seconds. That alone is an amazing exercise. But what you have people go through is, the next thing is B. Then affirm that the man with the follow... Then affirm that man with the following statements.

• 55:34Lewis Howes?

  One, I am not an alpha male, I am a comprehensive man. I will practice chivalry in the lives of the women I love and encounter. I am worth the effort it takes to look good. I am smart and capable enough to master the rules needed to impressively and successively participate in any social function. I think people doing that, what if they don't believe they're worth? They're worthy, they're smart enough, they're capable enough. You know, what if they don't believe they're a comprehensive man because they haven't proven it to themselves up to that moment?

• 56:16Jason Wilson?

  It's a process again. So I'm just taking you through the journey of the characteristics. That's why I close with, now it's time for you to take the steps to go on, go beyond this point. And so even in that one chapter, even about being in social settings, because I also teach dining etiquette in that chapter, the gentleman, because so many men do not know how to dine in public settings and are intimidated by that. And so I teach men, this is a short course, what I teach the boys in the Cave of Adelum, how to dine at a table, how to enter and exit a table. And so those things are very crucial, especially if you're dating someone or a job interview, trying to make a great impression for an investor. I've had kids who are in college now who've gotten scholarships

• 57:01Jason Wilson?

  off of the way they can hold their fork and knife.

• 57:03Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 57:04Jason Wilson?

  Seriously. I've gotten text messages, Mr. Wilson, you were right. I got a $2,000 scholarship or $15,000 scholarship because of the way I conducted myself at the table. So how many men like myself, I created that dining etiquette training because I was embarrassed by my father. We went out to eat one day. I had no idea. I was a little eighth grader, you know? Actually, I believe, yeah, I was in the eighth grade. I loved, my favorite restaurant at the time was Red Lobster. So I was eager to eat shrimp and I'm eating with my hands. Didn't have the napkin in my lap. My father didn't teach me. So when he dropped me off at home, because my parents were divorced,

• 57:45Jason Wilson?

  I thought everything was cool, but maybe 10 minutes later, I hear my mother arguing with him. I asked her what happened. She said, "He was mad at me for not teaching you how to dine at a restaurant." And that scarred me.

• 57:58Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 57:59Jason Wilson?

  Because he didn't tell me that. And so I vowed, I said, "You know what? I'm gonna make sure that no boy has to go through what I went through." And then come to find out, when I talked to their fathers about it, because they watched the process as well, I said, "Man, I didn't know that. That's why I'm nervous when I'm in a business setting, because I don't know how to dine at a fine dining restaurant." And so again, I often say inside of every man is a broken boy who needs to be healed. And so that's one thing I do through working with young boys. During that process, okay, good. I'm able to stop intergenerational trauma through you, but what about the dad?

• 58:37Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 58:38Jason Wilson?

  You know, and so I help him heal the broken boy inside. So now I know this healing can continue in their family.

• 58:45Lewis Howes?

  Interesting.

• 58:46Jason Wilson?

  Yeah.

• 58:47Lewis Howes?

  You talk about a few things in this book. Protecting and providing is part of the comprehensive man, correct?

• 58:53Jason Wilson?

  Yes, sir. Yes.

• 58:55Lewis Howes?

  Part of the ingredients of becoming a comprehensive man. And it, and what it sounds like from the generation you came from, that's all men knew what to do was protect and provide and kind of nothing else, right? Was kind of what they leaned on, right? I'm a protector, I'm a provider.

• 59:11Jason Wilson?

  Even now, still to some.

• 59:13Lewis Howes?

  Really? I feel like the younger generation has lost the, of men.

• 59:19Jason Wilson?

  Okay, yes.

• 59:20Lewis Howes?

  The teens and young twenties has lost the art of providing and protection, huh, Guru? And maybe have swung more into the other elements of the comprehensive men.

• 59:32Jason Wilson?

  Which ones?

• 59:33Lewis Howes?

  I don't know.

• 59:34Jason Wilson?

  I don't think so. I think, I, I think the providing and protecting definitely has.

• 59:43Lewis Howes?

  From men?

• 59:43Jason Wilson?

  From men, from men, definitely. But the other attributes, they haven't touched yet because after COVID, men, a lot of young men are lazy, are stuck in the basement, are apathetic towards life, you know? No outlook, like, you know? So many of us complain about young boys or young men not being men, but how many of us are actually teaching them how to be one?

• 1:00:07Lewis Howes?

  Hmm, you are.

• 1:00:08Jason Wilson?

  So there, yeah, but we need to be more of men. So more of these young boys feel condemned more than, I guess, encouraged to change. And so that's why they're stuck in the basement. That's why you don't see the work ethic you used to.

• 1:00:21Lewis Howes?

  If a man does not know how to protect and provide, what type of woman will he attract?

• 1:00:27Jason Wilson?

  You have to have that, those attributes. I mean, like I said, that's the first gear in manhood, protecting and providing. You know, even the scripture says, a man who doesn't provide for his own is worse than an unbeliever.

• 1:00:41Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 1:00:41Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, so you have to provide for your family. You want to be a fighter. You want to be assertive, not necessarily being aggressive. You want to have calculated actions in everything. You know, the fighter in that chapter, I talk about the good side and the bad side. You know, a lot of men, we lose control, lose our freedom, lose our lives. But the fighter in this book, what I'm teaching you is how to be strategic in every move, how to consider this decision and then look at the outcome of that decision before you make that move. For instance, the Oscars with, I talk about Brother Will Smith and Chris Rock, the situation that happened there. He could have, you know, once he stood up, he lost it.

• 1:01:27Jason Wilson?

  But in that moment while he's in that seat, if he could have processed in real time like, I want to wreck my man right now because he's offending my wife. But if I get up right now, this is going to cost me more than it's worth. Let me deal with him backstage and talk to him one-on-one. But as soon as he got up out that chair, the internal battle was over. He lost. And then to Chris Rock's, I guess, not defense per se, but to give him a lot of credit, his self-control and restraint is something that I admired in that moment. And he was talked about bad after that. Like, he should have hit him. He should have did this and did that.

• 1:02:11Jason Wilson?

  When you do what I do in my community, that retaliation can also cost you your life. So when I saw Chris Rock, when he took the slap, which is interesting, being a man of the most high, I think about where your shoe was. Jesus said, you know, whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the other. Well, people don't understand, he wasn't saying be a coward or don't defend yourself. If I'm sitting across from you, like we are now in the time of Jesus, and I was to slap you, that's why he said right cheek. For me to slap you on your right cheek, I would have to slap you either with my left hand, right? Or the backside of my right hand. What he was saying wasn't to, they would slap you with your left hand

• 1:02:56Jason Wilson?

  because it was used for unclean things. Especially during that time, it was a right-handed society. He was saying if someone insults you, turn to the other. It was actually out of rebellion. Like, here, take it.

• 1:03:13Jason Wilson?

  Wasn't talking about self-defense. So what Will Smith did when he slapped him, well, he actually slapped him this way.

• 1:03:20Lewis Howes?

  Even harder, even harder.

• 1:03:22Jason Wilson?

  It was very disrespectful. Chris Rock took it, said, you know what, I'm gonna win this in the end. A lot of people say he could have been scared, no one knows. But for me, who worked with black boys in Detroit, it was important for me to see both sides. Because even to Will's, not defense, but understanding his childhood trauma, if you read his book, I believe even in that moment, he may have been thinking he was protecting his mother. Because you know, his father abused his mother and he said, even all of his accomplishments was like a silent apology to his mother for never being able to stand up and defend her.

• 1:03:58Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:03:59Jason Wilson?

  See, a lot of people don't know that.

• 1:04:00Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:04:02Jason Wilson?

  CPSD, CPTSD, PTSD, yes, is real. So in that moment, that childhood trauma manifested in that moment. I've, I've operated from it before. I don't put it past Will. His actions were still inexcusable, but I understand.

• 1:04:20Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:21Jason Wilson?

  And so I see the contrast in both, I teach from both. I hope one day those two men can reconcile even after that. But even in that, it's like, he could have lost almost everything in that moment. How many men you know right now, intelligent, who are in prison? Because.

• 1:04:40Lewis Howes?

  Intelligent who are in prison.

• 1:04:41Jason Wilson?

  Are in prison because they didn't have a rule over their emotions in the moment.

• 1:04:45Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:45Jason Wilson?

  And lost it.

• 1:04:46Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:47Jason Wilson?

  And that's what happened to Will and into Chris Rock's, understanding his situation, like, what about the trauma he experienced? That was in front of the entire world.

• 1:04:57Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:58Jason Wilson?

  And, you know, it bothered me when I see so many people talk about him. He should have done, he could have did, that was me. But it wasn't you, it was him.

• 1:05:07Lewis Howes?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:05:08Jason Wilson?

  Do we even respect the fact that he chose not to respond in that way? Everyone wants to be tough or gangster, I grew up around that. The men I knew, I, matter of fact, one of the most dangerous men in the city of Highland Park, young kid was selling drugs on the street,

• 1:05:28Jason Wilson?

  slapped his hat off. Did he retaliate in the moment? No.

• 1:05:34Jason Wilson?

  Took his hat off, oh, I understand, young man, it's okay, and walked off. My brother would do the same.

• 1:05:42Jason Wilson?

  Because he knew if he did something to you then, he would get caught.

• 1:05:46Jason Wilson?

  I'm not responding right now. This is, that's a reaction. And if it's really real and I feel this way tomorrow or next year, I need to do something.

• 1:05:56Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, there'll be some consequences, but.

• 1:05:58Jason Wilson?

  So I, I take my hat off to Chris in that moment. It took a lot not to just respond.

• 1:06:04Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, and not to, also not to say anything.

• 1:06:07Jason Wilson?

  That's, I talk about that as well. He didn't respond physically or verbally.

• 1:06:12Lewis Howes?

  Maybe there was some shock or some, oh, I've got, the show must go on.

• 1:06:15Jason Wilson?

  Of course, yeah. But for you to.

• 1:06:17Lewis Howes?

  But he didn't react.

• 1:06:18Jason Wilson?

  How about, let's, let's make it practical for the average man. Your boss says something to you that pisses you off.

• 1:06:25Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:27Jason Wilson?

  Do you slap him? Do you curse him out? You see, you see the hypocrisy in this? The comedians who clowned him.

• 1:06:36Jason Wilson?

  You signed to Netflix and the head of Netflix says something to offend you. Nine times out of ten, you probably won't say nothing to him.

• 1:06:44Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 1:06:45Jason Wilson?

  What's the difference?

• 1:06:48Jason Wilson?

  Chris Rock chose the best response for him in that moment. It's no different from a man boss irritating you. You're not gonna cuss him out because you've needed that money to provide for your family.

• 1:06:58Lewis Howes?

  Sure. You may, you know, leave that job in six months or you may, you know, create a different decision, but yeah.

• 1:07:04Jason Wilson?

  And so that's, that's the thing about understanding how to be a comprehensive fighter. Even, even fighting spiritually, brother, I never shared. When we were in New York for Tribeca for the documentary with Laurence Fishburne. I don't even, I don't think I even shared this with him, my man, is that the night before. We're asleep, my wife and I sleep before the premiere. My phone rings, I hear it vibrating on the nightstand. I look, it's my son. Him and my daughter are staying two floors below.

• 1:07:35Jason Wilson?

  I pick up the phone, hey, what's going on, man? Dad, someone's banging on our door. A man was drunk banging on my son and daughter's door.

• 1:07:45Jason Wilson?

  I run down, didn't get my shoes on, ran out. My wife immediately dropped her knees and started praying.

• 1:07:52Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 1:07:53Jason Wilson?

  Because I'm trained to really hurt you. I run down and in the process, I'm processing in real time. Okay, what, if I see this guy here, what do I need to do? How should I respond? A lot's going through my head. When I get to the floor, I see the guy, thankfully the security is there and he passes out.

• 1:08:15Lewis Howes?

  Uh huh.

• 1:08:16Jason Wilson?

  He was drunk. His hotel room was at the same

• 1:08:19Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:20Jason Wilson?

  corner of the hotel, just a floor above, I believe.

• 1:08:22Lewis Howes?

  Trying to get in, yeah.

• 1:08:24Jason Wilson?

  What if I had gotten there before security?

• 1:08:27Lewis Howes?

  Hmm, admirable.

• 1:08:29Jason Wilson?

  But, but I know from another situation that to be able to process in real time to see, because I still was very angry, Louis. I still wanted to hurt him.

• 1:08:41Lewis Howes?

  Of course.

• 1:08:42Jason Wilson?

  But I had to let all of that go in that moment. Many men still would have confronted him and probably punched or slapped him.

• 1:08:49Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:50Jason Wilson?

  Do you see how things were set up spiritually? Because what if I would have gotten in altercation with him the night before the Red Copper premiere?

• 1:08:56Lewis Howes?

  Man.

• 1:08:56Jason Wilson?

  Then, everything could have been lost.

• 1:08:59Lewis Howes?

  Is there anything you'd go to jail for?

• 1:09:02Jason Wilson?

  Of course, my family. Definitely, protecting him, which I'm supposed to do as a man. And I go to jail for my Lord, of course, you know? Whatever that looks like. Many were in prison for their faith. Those two, definitely. Yeah, and even the boys I serve, you know? I'm very protective. I love them like they're my own son, my children. Anyone comes in, if it come to our building trying to harm them, I have to protect them.

• 1:09:32Lewis Howes?

  So someone, you know, if someone harm, you see someone harming your family and you go into protector mode and?

• 1:09:40Lewis Howes?

  You would do whatever to defend them, even knowing if it sets you in jail for the rest of your life?

• 1:09:45Jason Wilson?

  If you're harming my, you're trying to harm my family, I have no choice but to take you off the earth. And that's serious. If, if you're touching my wife and my, I have no choice but to eliminate you, eliminate the threat immediately, and I would deal with the rest later. I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6. But if you have the audacity to come to my loved ones like that, I will take care of you. I will respond accordingly. No emotion involved. I would do what I had to do. And that's just, that's just it. My daughter, my wife, I mean, a guy was following her. I shared in this book, in the fighter chapter. This is where I fail. This is perfect.

• 1:10:31Jason Wilson?

  Guy was following her, man. I hear my wife on the phone. She calls me, Jason, a man's following me. What do you do? Martha, someone's following her. You immediately get in your car and go to where she is. I did that. Race there, two guns in my hoodie.

• 1:10:47Lewis Howes?

  You got two guns?

• 1:10:48Jason Wilson?

  I can legally carry, yes. I, I, I, um, technically trained.

• 1:10:52Lewis Howes?

  You had two of them?

• 1:10:53Jason Wilson?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:10:53Lewis Howes?

  Tank.

• 1:10:54Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, I was, uh, I was.

• 1:10:55Lewis Howes?

  You were ready for whatever.

• 1:10:56Jason Wilson?

  I was livid, yeah. I mean, this is my.

• 1:10:58Lewis Howes?

  In Detroit? Or was this?

• 1:11:00Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, it was Detroit, Metro Detroit.

• 1:11:01Lewis Howes?

  Detroit area.

• 1:11:02Jason Wilson?

  What's she getting her hair done? I pull up.

• 1:11:05Lewis Howes?

  So you're at home. She calls you, there's a guy following me. When you say, where? Boom. Guns in, I'm locked and loaded.

• 1:11:12Jason Wilson?

  I'm there.

• 1:11:13Lewis Howes?

  Truck, frickin' driving, 10 minutes.

• 1:11:14Jason Wilson?

  Pull up in the gas station. And I said, stay on the phone with me. I said, where's the guy? He's behind me. I said, all right, walk out. I'm in the, at the gas station.

• 1:11:24Lewis Howes?

  So she came to the gas station, or she was?

• 1:11:26Jason Wilson?

  See, she had, she was, she had to go to a public place because she was scared.

• 1:11:28Lewis Howes?

  Of course. So she went to the gas station.

• 1:11:30Jason Wilson?

  Could be around more people.

• 1:11:31Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:11:32Jason Wilson?

  She walks out, here he comes.

• 1:11:35Lewis Howes?

  I'm flipping. I'm like, so movie scene. John Wick up in here, you know?

• 1:11:41Jason Wilson?

  I get out, walk to her. I look at him, he's sipping coffee. And I walks her to the car. I get in the car. She's safe and secure, bro.

• 1:11:53Lewis Howes?

  All you gotta do is leave.

• 1:11:54Jason Wilson?

  You okay? She was like, yes, I'm fine. I said, all right. So I'm sitting there. And I'm looking at him and I'm like, he doesn't know how serious this is.

• 1:12:03Lewis Howes?

  Oh, man.

• 1:12:05Jason Wilson?

  I get back out the truck.

• 1:12:08Jason Wilson?

  I, I, again, I love being transparent so they can see. Of course, yeah, yeah. You know, no one's superhuman. No, of course. I walk up to him, I said, hey, uh, why would you follow my wife? Oh, Jesus, that's scary. He says, I, I wasn't, I wasn't following your wife. I get nose to nose with him, I was about to headbutt him. And through my teeth, I said, so you clawing on my wife for lying to my man? Oh, my gosh. And I just, and I'm thankful, because what if he would have been the type of guy that said, man, get up off me? Yeah, push you or say, if he said one thing at you, you're. See how I failed in that moment, but the hyper masculine male would have said, no, you did what you're supposed to do.

• 1:12:53Jason Wilson?

  You know, what I was supposed to do was make sure my wife made it back safely. And then get out. Yeah. Diffuse the situation. And leave, she's safe. Yeah. See, that's, that's what the competence of fighter does, he keeps himself in an advantageous position, however. Like in jujitsu, you're taught not to fight, right? It's like, almost. No, you're taught to fight. But it's also, it's almost like you're taught to not engage in the fight if you don't have to. That's every martial arts. Yeah, it's like, diffuse the situation, get away. What I love about jujitsu is you don't have to meet force with force all the time. See, that's what I did. Yeah. I had won the battle, I took it away, I had her safe, I should have pulled. And then you re-engage in the battle.

• 1:13:36Jason Wilson?

  That's where I failed, and that could have changed my entire life. Could have ruined your life. Absolutely, and so that's what I, I teach, man, it's like, keep yourself in advantageous position. Again, if he was, say he had a knife coming at her, it's justifiable. Different. It's just. But he's just sipping coffee, what, what did he say he was doing? He just said he wasn't following her, but I knew he was lying, my wife isn't a liar. Yeah, yeah. But I was just enraged at the fact that. Possibly someone could harm my beloved wife.

• 1:14:07Lewis Howes?

  And of course.

• 1:14:08Jason Wilson?

  And I I can't, I I don't play those games, you know, and so. That was, it was a mistake, but and I I hope men when they read that like, wow, and you'll see, we've all been in those situations.

• 1:14:20Lewis Howes?

  Of course, I've been in those situations.

• 1:14:22Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, of course.

• 1:14:22Lewis Howes?

  Yes, and so. I mean, luckily I didn't have guns on me, but yeah, because I don't know if.

• 1:14:26Jason Wilson?

  But you don't need a gun.

• 1:14:28Lewis Howes?

  Of course.

• 1:14:28Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, and so, but yeah.

• 1:14:29Lewis Howes?

  To end someone's life or hurt someone badly not to go to jail forever.

• 1:14:33Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, you can.

• 1:14:34Lewis Howes?

  One punch, you can, yeah, one punch.

• 1:14:36Jason Wilson?

  Absolutely, and so that's that's why I started with the fighter chapter, because I know men could identify with that. But the key is to teach them how to fight the right way.

• 1:14:44Lewis Howes?

  Okay, let me ask you about this then.

• 1:14:45Jason Wilson?

  Yes.

• 1:14:46Lewis Howes?

  If a man doesn't have the qualities, the characteristics of a comprehensive man to protect and provide. And he tries to enter in a relationship with a woman and get into a serious committed relationship.

• 1:15:06Lewis Howes?

  In your perspective and your experience of working with so many men, what will typically happen if a man never learns to protect and provide? Whether it be physically, financially, spiritually, emotionally, whatever my D, what will happen to that relationship for the woman?

• 1:15:21Jason Wilson?

  It won't make it, it it won't even make it, not just for him. As a man, do you know how heartrending it is when you can't pay the bills, when you can't provide? Let's move protection, I mean, I hope most men will be able to do whatever they can to protect a woman. You may not be skilled, which also tell me you should learn martial art that's tested for, you know, street situations, real life situations. But just move protection.

• 1:15:46Lewis Howes?

  Provider.

• 1:15:47Jason Wilson?

  Providing. How, you you you won't feel good about yourself? No man wants to see his children struggle. I had mentors.

• 1:15:56Lewis Howes?

  But what about women that are like, you know what, I'm I'm making good money, I've got a high paying salary, I can provide for myself. And for both of us, so I don't need him to provide because he gives me other things. He's kind to me, he's nice to me, he's considerate, he's a gentleman, he's thoughtful, he's a lover.

• 1:16:15Jason Wilson?

  Yeah.

• 1:16:16Lewis Howes?

  He brings all these, he's good to me and my family.

• 1:16:21Lewis Howes?

  What about that situation?

• 1:16:23Jason Wilson?

  He still needs to be in his position in that home. So what I mean by that is, it was at one point in our marriage when Nicole made significantly more than I did.

• 1:16:34Jason Wilson?

  And I still was the provider and the leader. Be deeper than money, so.

• 1:16:43Lewis Howes?

  How?

• 1:16:44Jason Wilson?

  How can you provide?

• 1:16:45Lewis Howes?

  How can you provide if you're?

• 1:16:47Jason Wilson?

  I'm trying to give you, I'm trying to see if I want to say this, but I'm gonna say it. So coming up, you know, being young, all the drug dealers got the best looking women. They had the money. But they missed providing everything else that guys like myself was able to move in on. Where their money would take care of me.

• 1:17:09Jason Wilson?

  Literally where their girl's money would take care of me.

• 1:17:12Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 1:17:14Jason Wilson?

  So what is provision to a woman? Is it just money? No. It's everything, all those characteristics are providing. Again, my wife made significantly more money than me. But because I could provide in all the other areas and now I make more than her, of course. We were able to make it.

• 1:17:36Lewis Howes?

  But if a man can't provide financially, but he.

• 1:17:38Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, you know, I agree. No, that's what I'm saying. What I mean is I.

• 1:17:43Jason Wilson?

  A man would not feel good about himself as the man, as the father, as the husband, if you're not contributing the finance, any finances. I know.

• 1:17:53Lewis Howes?

  What if you're like, I want to be a stay at home dad and I want to just be there for my kids and she's got an amazing job so she can go make money all day?

• 1:18:01Jason Wilson?

  Couple like that right now and it works really well. They were losing money the other way. As a man just wanting to be the provider.

• 1:18:10Lewis Howes?

  Do you think a woman, most women can accept that if their man isn't financially providing?

• 1:18:17Jason Wilson?

  See, see, this is a, what does a woman really want?

• 1:18:20Lewis Howes?

  Very telling.

• 1:18:21Jason Wilson?

  See, I'm, I'm just saying, just from my experience, my wife even shared in another interview, it wasn't about that. She was trained differently by her parents and what she saw. They both worked hard. You know, most, I mean, successful marriages, you have to have two jobs now.

• 1:18:38Lewis Howes?

  Right, yeah, yeah.

• 1:18:39Jason Wilson?

  So, money is, is not, is, is far from what will satisfy a woman. It's stability and what does that look like? So for me, when I didn't make as much money, I would have to do odd end jobs. I would clean people's homes to bring in extra money. Okay? And so, that's, it's still not enough. It's, I get what you're saying. It's like, you don't want to get into a relationship and you can't provide. Like, to me, that's short sighted, it's irresponsible. When I mentor young men, like, you know, if you want to get married, how much are you making right now? But don't let what you don't have stop what you can get. And that's what many of us as men fail. You have a woman who's ready and you may not make what you want to make right now. She may make more than you.

• 1:19:26Jason Wilson?

  But I didn't care because that money went to the same bank account.

• 1:19:29Lewis Howes?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:19:30Jason Wilson?

  Put the ego aside and start building your kingdom. I am a living testimony that it works. But you have to put that aside and any mature woman will tell you, it's more than money that's going to make that marriage.

• 1:19:45Lewis Howes?

  Sure.

• 1:19:46Jason Wilson?

  And so, um...

• 1:19:47Lewis Howes?

  But if the woman is in protector and provider mode, if she's in it and he is not in, stepping into his comprehensive protector provider mode, not masculine, but comprehensive protector provider mode, have you seen a relationship work where the woman is in protector provider and the man is not?

• 1:20:08Jason Wilson?

  No, because, I mean, I, you, that's like she's a single mother almost. You know, a woman needs to feel protected. She needs shelter. She needs a covering. You know, as a, a man of, of God, you know, Christ is my head. I'm the head of my wife. So it has to have some order for a woman. A woman wants stability. She wants to feel that things will be okay. But if you're not stable, especially emotionally, again, you can't, you won't be able to make money if you're emotionally unstable. And so, no, to your point, no, they, you need to know how to provide and protect. Even if you're not making the money that you want to bring to the table, but just doing something. I tell men who are unemployed,

• 1:20:53Jason Wilson?

  still get up like you have a job, get dressed and leave the house until you get a job. Never become comfortable sitting still at home.

• 1:21:02Lewis Howes?

  Why are men lazy today?

• 1:21:05Lewis Howes?

  Not all men, obviously, but why does it feel like a society of more lazy men than more hardworking men?

• 1:21:14Jason Wilson?

  I believe it's again of going to the cause and effect psychology, what's causing them to be disconnected with being that provider, going out, having that work ethic, you know? Every man that I talk to that, you know, I have a friend of mine who gets laid off often, not laid off, get fired from jobs. He's really good.

• 1:21:34Jason Wilson?

  But until we could help him feel like, what's, what's causing you to lose so many jobs? To dig and go deep to, wait a minute, it was my fear of failure due to what happened as a child here. A lot of men are lazy, not because they don't have the work ethic per se, but because they have lost a desire to live. Why have they lost a desire? A lot of times it's due to childhood trauma or situations or present losses that they haven't been able to let go of. And I mean, I know you see it, guys. Now you're going off to drinking and other vices now just to find some peace or some freedom. So it's not, I don't think it's laziness in all cases. Laziness does exist.

• 1:22:18Jason Wilson?

  But when you see a man just dejected, discontented with life, it's much deeper than him just being lazy. And every time I work with a man and help him get to his cause and effect, starts finding reasons to live again, you know? I'm often say, you're not tired of living, you're tired of not living. So finding out that, that piece right there, what's, what am, what am I, why am I not living? What's happening here? And when a man finds that answer, he starts walking out of, you know, what I call emotional incarceration and starts to live. And there'll be setbacks, but as long as he keeps walking out, he'll be fine. But I don't believe it's, it's just laziness.

• 1:23:00Lewis Howes?

  Got you. What do you think is the number one thing that holds men back from being their most authentic, highest versions of themselves?

• 1:23:08Jason Wilson?

  Fear of how they'll be perceived.

• 1:23:10Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 1:23:11Jason Wilson?

  Oh, yeah, man, it's a.

• 1:23:14Jason Wilson?

  I can't tell you how many times when I share this information with men at conferences and they'll say, well, what happens if your girl, you know, disrespects you and calls you weak or soft? And I tell them, you've been blessed. And the whole audience will start laughing. She's not your girl. She's not. Be thankful. Do not compromise who you really are for anyone. Man, it's so hard for people, though, because they want to, in a world of people-pleasing, that's really hard to do. But the most unhappiest people I've ever met are people-pleasers. Yeah, that's true. So, there's no solace in that. Mm-hmm. So, you know, again, you don't want to be authentic and you're a a-hole. But me, so. Right, that's not comprehensive. You know, it's not comprehensive.

• 1:23:56Jason Wilson?

  And so, again, you want with my, I talk about the four Rs in this book, you know, process. I teach men of how to, you know, make decisions in the moment and reflect. So, the first R is reflect, second R is release, third R is reset, then the fourth R is a byproduct of those three, which is rest. So, when you reflect on what's troubling you, what's going on in your life. Yeah. You think on those things, you get to the next R, which is release. You have to be careful there because you don't want to release everything because. And you don't want to release on someone. Yeah, that's true, too. But if you and Martha, if you were impatient with Martha earlier in the day, you don't want to just release that, you want to retain that so you can revisit it and maybe apologize

• 1:24:37Jason Wilson?

  and say, hey, you know, I was impatient with you earlier and I want to ask for your forgiveness and I want to reconcile right now. Yeah, yeah. Next one is the reset. Reset back to your baseline. I call it lamb mode. So many men want to be in lion mode or the alpha mode. Is it lamb mode? Lamb, like a lamb, sheep, you know, lamb. And so, lion and the lamb, that's what we teach in the Cave of Adelum, to bring up the lion when there's predators coming into your pride. I call that fight or flight, the brain's response to stress or trauma. Handle it then, but don't stay there. See, I stayed there in the gas station when that guy was following my wife.

• 1:25:19Jason Wilson?

  I should have reset to lamb mode because everything was safe. And so, that's what I teach men is like, look, never suppress the lion, bring him out when needed for putting back and live from the lamb. Wow. Then you can reset and there you will find rest.

• 1:25:36Lewis Howes?

  You have one son, right?

• 1:25:38Jason Wilson?

  Yes.

• 1:25:39Lewis Howes?

  What's your biggest fear as a father with your son?

• 1:25:42Jason Wilson?

  Right now, he's sixteen. State of this country is him driving.

• 1:25:50Jason Wilson?

  You know disproportionately African Americans are pulled over more than any ethnicity. And

• 1:25:59Jason Wilson?

  even with unfair cause, no just cause to be pulled over. Statistically, we're less likely to have drugs or firearms. So I'm scared. I'm concerned with that, but I trust that God will take care of him the same way he took care of my daughter. When she was interning in New York and I love New York. I just didn't want my daughter just on the subway alone, you know, it's just terrifying, but with him, that's my concern and I'm thankful for the police officers I do know who are just and kind. All different ethnicities.

• 1:26:39Jason Wilson?

  And I have faith that my son and I have to train him. See, that's that's the dynamic of being an African American in this country. Like when you have a son, you don't have to teach him how to respond when the police pull you over per se. I literally tell my son to roll all four windows down so he won't feel threatened.

• 1:26:58Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 1:26:59Jason Wilson?

  To make sure.

• 1:26:59Lewis Howes?

  Disarm the police officers.

• 1:27:01Jason Wilson?

  Soon as he pulls you over.

• 1:27:02Lewis Howes?

  Your hands up on the, yeah, yeah.

• 1:27:04Jason Wilson?

  And have your ID out. Do you know what that does to his adrenaline, his mind? And just one move could cost him his life.

• 1:27:13Lewis Howes?

  One fast, yeah, reaction.

• 1:27:15Jason Wilson?

  And so it's terrifying as a father, man, just to be real with you.

• 1:27:21Jason Wilson?

  But yet, you know,

• 1:27:24Jason Wilson?

  I have to cast that. I can't live from that, you know, I've had a lot of losses and. I don't want to live from that, that, that type of mentality. I won't be able to stay in the present. My trauma would keep time traveling and ruining, ruining it. I should be excited that my son has a driver's license and can drive.

• 1:27:43Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:27:43Jason Wilson?

  And, you know, and I work with police officers as well at times and to understand the trauma they, they've endured. My best friend, I talk about him in this book. He's a retired police officer. PTSD is real.

• 1:27:58Lewis Howes?

  And getting shot at, getting, you know, knives on or whatever.

• 1:28:00Jason Wilson?

  Getting shot at, most police officers don't even have to experience that. It's seeing the trauma of a crime scene.

• 1:28:07Lewis Howes?

  All the dead bodies they see.

• 1:28:09Jason Wilson?

  Or a person with a bullet hole talking to you, shot in the head, talking to you, trying to tell you who shot them. That's what my best friend had to endure.

• 1:28:18Lewis Howes?

  Someone, he had a bullet in his head and he was able to speak?

• 1:28:22Jason Wilson?

  And he's trying to articulate to the officer, my friend who shot him and he could.

• 1:28:28Lewis Howes?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 1:28:29Jason Wilson?

  My friend, it's difficult for him to sleep at night. In this book here, I share that he had a moment of just intense anger, frustration. And then his wife actually had, had cancer. She's deceased now. He said he grabbed his sternum wheel so fierce that imprints from his fingernails was in his palm. That's how hard he was grabbing the sternum wheel because of all that he saw as a police officer.

• 1:28:57Lewis Howes?

  You probably just see the worst of society as a police officer, which has got to be traumatizing every day. You're probably on guard, even if you do a routine stop, you know?

• 1:29:08Jason Wilson?

  He tells me all the time. I mean, I remember one time we caught some kids who were breaking in homes in his neighborhood. I pull up, I see the kids breaking in this neighbor's house. I call him, he runs out. They, by the time he comes out, they're in the car. I didn't know where they were. But his training, we're driving, says that's them. I said, how do you know? Because he's constantly in fight or flight.

• 1:29:32Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:29:32Jason Wilson?

  He was able to, it was the car.

• 1:29:35Lewis Howes?

  Detect what, how they're moving or whatever.

• 1:29:37Jason Wilson?

  The movement of the car, why is a female driving? There's three guys and he knew all of that, but he's like that all the time.

• 1:29:44Lewis Howes?

  Twenty-four seven, yeah.

• 1:29:46Jason Wilson?

  Friend of mine who was a, a ex-marine, same thing.

• 1:29:51Jason Wilson?

  Same thing. And it's like, so when I think of my son driving at the same time, I know not all cops are out to get young black boys. I do know that. And so, um,

• 1:30:08Jason Wilson?

  my mind is on both sides.

• 1:30:10Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:30:10Jason Wilson?

  I pray, I let go, and I continue to do my work to help as many men as possible. And what I love about the reach of social media, I had cops stop me just to talk to me. Seriously.

• 1:30:24Lewis Howes?

  Like, ah, here we go.

• 1:30:25Jason Wilson?

  No, I'm like, man, I don't do this kind of thing. But they'll say, hey, you know, um, do you have a moment to talk? And it's humbling because to know that here it is as a man, just you see him in a uniform, think he should have it together, and he does it. Just to talk about marriage and life, and it's a rough day today. And that's what I tell my son to always consider. Always try to consider the last stop they could have had.

• 1:30:54Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:30:55Jason Wilson?

  And even in this no guarantee, but it does increase your chances of going home.

• 1:30:59Lewis Howes?

  A hundred percent, yeah. And how he responds to things calmly.

• 1:31:02Jason Wilson?

  I often tell my boys, I say, the car is not a courtroom. Get home.

• 1:31:09Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 1:31:09Jason Wilson?

  Then get a lawyer.

• 1:31:10Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:31:10Jason Wilson?

  They don't need, yeah.

• 1:31:11Lewis Howes?

  Just, yes, sir. Yes, sir.

• 1:31:12Jason Wilson?

  There's no guarantee that'll work because I, we've seen the yes, sir, and no, sir, and it's still in the other way.

• 1:31:18Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:31:19Jason Wilson?

  Um, but yeah, man, that's, as a father, a loving father, I love my son deeply. Um, it's a fear, but I'm gonna lean on God with that, man. Like, I'm gonna trust you again.

• 1:31:33Lewis Howes?

  What do you think is your ultimate purpose in this life, from this moment until the moment you die?

• 1:31:40Jason Wilson?

  I don't know, you know? People would say, you know, the cave of Adullam is my life's work. I swear, I don't think no one could tell me my life's work until I'm dead. Because I could do something at A that could change everything.

• 1:31:55Lewis Howes?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:31:56Jason Wilson?

  And so my purpose, I believe, is, uh,

• 1:32:01Jason Wilson?

  being a servant, aligning myself to be used by God to, um,

• 1:32:08Jason Wilson?

  Reach as many people as possible and help them heal, man.

• 1:32:11Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:32:13Jason Wilson?

  To truly find life in living.

• 1:32:16Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:32:16Jason Wilson?

  You know, especially with me and my heart breaks for men specifically because we're hiding so much, man. And I see them, we talk. I see right through the filters.

• 1:32:29Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 1:32:30Jason Wilson?

  And it breaks my heart because they're struggling. And they want to be free like me where I can just share and don't care how I'm perceived anymore.

• 1:32:38Lewis Howes?

  What's the, what's the area in your life where you're hiding the most?

• 1:32:42Jason Wilson?

  Where I'm hiding the most?

• 1:32:48Jason Wilson?

  I don't, I don't think there's an area anymore, my man. I mean,

• 1:32:54Jason Wilson?

  no, once I can cry in front of my wife, like that was the ultimate, like, oh my God, I'm, how is she gonna take this one?

• 1:33:02Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:33:03Jason Wilson?

  Um.

• 1:33:06Jason Wilson?

  But no, man, I don't, I don't. There is. I believe all of us though have moments where we feel that we're not good enough, you know, like, man, I'm a do this like public speaking, whatever it is, he's just like. But I put all that aside, man, and, and move through it.

• 1:33:25Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 1:33:26Jason Wilson?

  And then again, leaning on those memories of what happened when I allowed myself to be transparent. It worked out, you know? I never thought I would have cried ever in front of Nicole, my wife.

• 1:33:37Lewis Howes?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:33:39Jason Wilson?

  But it's amazing how she respects me so much more that she can see the comprehensiveness in who I am as a man. And to see I embody all of the characteristics and even more.

• 1:33:53Jason Wilson?

  It shows her that, man, you know,

• 1:33:57Jason Wilson?

  it gives her the freedom to be scared. It gives her the freedom to not be okay. To know that, wait a minute, my husband does it and he makes this.

• 1:34:05Lewis Howes?

  I can guarantee it.

• 1:34:06Jason Wilson?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:06Lewis Howes?

  What do you, for the women watching right now, who maybe are, are watching, or maybe a friend of them sent this video or this audio because they said, hey, you should listen to these two guys talk about this. Maybe they're more, they've been more closed off emotionally. Or maybe they've struggled being vulnerable in front of the men, uh, the man in their life. Or the men in their father, their husband, their boyfriend, the men in their life that they're the closest with.

• 1:34:38Lewis Howes?

  They've struggled letting go and surrendering those emotions. It sounds like Nicole had kind of anger emotions as well. She wasn't as able to receive you being vulnerable or being open, I guess.

• 1:34:51Jason Wilson?

  Yes, absolutely.

• 1:34:51Lewis Howes?

  She wasn't able to see your heart fully open up and have a range of transparency, like you said, right? And if there's women watching or listening that are used to the paradigm of men need to protect and provide and not show those emotions in front of me.

• 1:35:10Lewis Howes?

  What is available on the other side if that woman or those women can start to allow their man to fully be open? Because sometimes women will say, I wish he would show his emotions. I wish he would be more vulnerable. I wish he would cry. I wish he would express himself. But then when they see that side of the man, they're like, what are you doing? And they're like, oh, that's not a turn on, that's a turn off. Or it looks a little weak. I know I'm supposed to like this, but I don't like it because I've been conditioned for my life that my dad didn't do that. Or I don't know anyone who shows their emotions that way. What's available for women who allow, who accept the man to be transparent with his emotions in front of her consistently?

• 1:35:54Lewis Howes?

  What's available on the other side?

• 1:35:56Jason Wilson?

  First and foremost, I would say to them what my wife would tell them. Make a decision. What do you really want? Do you want this man who provides and protects? Don't show you the other side of his life? And then you find out what was really going on, planning his funeral? Or do you want a man who can be emotionally open with you? And in the process, you're able to be emotionally open with him because now he has a capacity to receive it. Do you want a partner in life or just a performer? So, once you make that decision, now we can move forward. It's going to be difficult because again, you weren't trained this way.

• 1:36:36Jason Wilson?

  But every daughter sees sides in their father like, man, I wish he would have done this because he would be much healthier where he is today. Do you want your husband when he can't be strong, when he can't provide as much to feel like? I might as well just die.

• 1:36:53Lewis Howes?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:36:54Jason Wilson?

  Or would you rather have had a husband who found his worth than who he is instead of what he does? So that when he becomes an elder, he enjoys that stage of his life.

• 1:37:03Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 1:37:04Jason Wilson?

  And so, once they make the decision, understand it's going to be work just like the marriage. But on the other side, to have a man who can sit there, table everything he's thinking about, and lock in with you because he knows it's important to hear your heart.

• 1:37:21Jason Wilson?

  If you make the right decision, it'll literally transform your marriage, your life, and your children's future.

• 1:37:27Lewis Howes?

  Here's the real question then. For women who have been hurt by men in their lives over and over again, their father, ex-boyfriends, and let down by men consistently, lied to, cheated on, manipulated, promised something and then under-delivered, the men in their lives have hurt them and let them down over and over again. How can women who have been hurt that much by men learn to love men again, learn to trust men again, learn to trust themselves when they're with men? When they've been let down consistently over and over by their father

• 1:38:08Lewis Howes?

  or the previous men they've been with, and they've never really found a good man?

• 1:38:13Jason Wilson?

  Yeah. That's a very good question.

• 1:38:18Jason Wilson?

  One young lady who's married, I was talking with,

• 1:38:25Jason Wilson?

  been through a lot of abuse growing up.

• 1:38:29Jason Wilson?

  Father pretty much disowned her. That's the ultimate for a daughter. And then,

• 1:38:39Jason Wilson?

  form of infidelity in the marriage, or I would say adultery.

• 1:38:47Jason Wilson?

  At that point, her life was just like, I'm done with this.

• 1:38:54Jason Wilson?

  And I simply asked her, I said, where's your identity? Again, back to where it started this conversation. Is it your identity as a daughter? Is it your identity as a wife?

• 1:39:11Jason Wilson?

  Or is it your identity is your daughter in God?

• 1:39:17Jason Wilson?

  Which one is the most important? What are roles? Which one is your identity?

• 1:39:25Jason Wilson?

  And I get emotional because when she realized that her identity was different from a role, she founds value.

• 1:39:35Jason Wilson?

  My role as a father, as a husband, a teacher, mentor, those are my roles. My identity is in the one who created.

• 1:39:47Jason Wilson?

  Can't be shaken there.

• 1:39:50Jason Wilson?

  Once you find that and make that your foundation, people will always disappoint you. My wife, before we met, she was in a, not in a good relationship, was done with men. I had to really pursue her. She gave love another try and look, we're happy.

• 1:40:08Jason Wilson?

  So I would tell every woman who was going through that, trying to shake that mentality is really research and take time to find out who you really are and where your identity really is. That way, it can't be shaken.

• 1:40:25Lewis Howes?

  Yeah. For anyone watching or listening right now, I want you to share this with one man or one woman in your life that you care about, that you think could just have an interesting conversation with. Send this to them and say, hey, what opened up to you? What inspired you? What resonated? What didn't resonate? Let's talk about it. It's how a discussion about this. Cause I think the way we can just all improve is to have these types of conversations and hear different perspectives.

• 1:40:53Lewis Howes?

  So share this with one person and then ask them to share back with you their biggest takeaway from this conversation with Jason Wilson. The man, the moment demands. Master the 10 characteristics of a comprehensive man.

• 1:41:08Lewis Howes?

  Again, if you're a woman watching and you're in a relationship with a man, get them this book and send them this video. Have them connect with what I think are two masculine looking guys. And maybe they'll resonate with us based on, on, you know, what we've accomplished, our success and the way we look.

• 1:41:27Lewis Howes?

  And hopefully this will resonate in some way because we both suffered emotionally, physically, spiritually and financially in our lives. And I would say that we both found peace and freedom on the other side of going through the fire of all of the crap. And finding healing.

• 1:41:46Jason Wilson?

  Yes.

• 1:41:46Lewis Howes?

  Cause at the core of all this is finding healing. And you talk about the tree, is it the tree of emotions, the tree of

• 1:41:51Jason Wilson?

  Tree of trauma.

• 1:41:52Lewis Howes?

  Tree of trauma.

• 1:41:52Jason Wilson?

  Where to find healing.

• 1:41:53Lewis Howes?

  And you know, if you want to become free, you have to heal the trauma. And no one wants to talk about that. I mean, people, we hear it a lot. I talk about it all the time, but no one wants to get to the root of the pain because it's so painful.

• 1:42:09Jason Wilson?

  Absolutely. You have to uproot the tree.

• 1:42:11Lewis Howes?

  It's not enjoyable. It's not an enjoyable process.

• 1:42:14Jason Wilson?

  We cut off branches. That's what I talk about. But branches grow back.

• 1:42:18Lewis Howes?

  Yeah. Or we put on a mask.

• 1:42:19Jason Wilson?

  Yeah. Oh yeah, for sure. And so instead of cutting, keep cutting off the branches, uproot the tree and move it to a different environment so that it could thrive.

• 1:42:27Lewis Howes?

  It can heal.

• 1:42:28Jason Wilson?

  Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. And become strong.

• 1:42:31Lewis Howes?

  And people don't, it's, it's not easy, but it's worth it. And so I want people to, to get the book. It's very powerful. Follow Jason Wilson as well. He's the director of the Cave of a Dullum Transformational Training Academy, which is inspiring. Make sure to check that out. You're also on social media, Mr. Jason Wilson, all over Facebook, Instagram, social media, mrjasonwilson.com. And the book is out right now, at the moment of this being out there. So make sure you guys get a copy. Give it to the men in your life. If you're a woman, you're going to want to read this as well because you're going to want to understand, is my man actually living up to these things or not?

• 1:43:10Jason Wilson?

  Yes.

• 1:43:11Lewis Howes?

  Or what is the things that I really want in a partner if I'm single, if I'm a single woman? Learn about the characteristics and start assessing the men that you're going on dates with. Oh, is, is he to live, is he embodying this or on the journey? There's not many men are going to be perfect at all tendencies. I don't even know if that's possible.

• 1:43:29Jason Wilson?

  That's true. Yeah.

• 1:43:29Lewis Howes?

  But is, hey, is he on the journey of this? See, do I see that he's working on these things? Is he living into this? Not does he have the potential, but is he on the journey of living this already?

• 1:43:40Jason Wilson?

  Absolutely.

• 1:43:41Lewis Howes?

  Cause I think you've got to, yes. You know, men have potential to become greater at all times, but if, if you're meeting a man at the first moment and he doesn't want to grow, it's hard to just hope that he's gonna live into his potential in the near future.

• 1:43:57Jason Wilson?

  That's true. That's very good.

• 1:43:58Lewis Howes?

  He's gotta be on that journey right now. You can't just say, well, I know he has the potential, so it's gonna happen one day. It may never happen. The time you want it, right? It's like, we all have the opportunity to do it, but it, it takes timing for some. It's gotta be the right timing, the right triggers, traumas for others, breakdowns, like things gotta happen sometimes.

• 1:44:16Jason Wilson?

  Right. It's around these, the right mentors.

• 1:44:18Lewis Howes?

  All of it, all of it.

• 1:44:19Jason Wilson?

  And that's really good. I never thought about that, brother, just for women to see what type of characteristics they should have in a man. And you know, I tell men all the time, I wrote it for men who are tired of being the wrong man in the moment. And we all blow it as fathers, leaders, as sons, trying to care for your parents who are aging.

• 1:44:38Lewis Howes?

  You know, it's, the funny thing is, I wrote the mask of mask, the mask of masculinity for men, but more women read it. But the men that do read it, it's like transformational for them, right? It's like, wow, I am realizing all the things where I was wounded and I'm healing and growing and all these things. But you always hear these things about like, women having this list for when they're a single and they write down a list of like all the things they want in a man. I want him to be tall and make money and successful and make me laugh, like all these kind of things of a list. If you want the real list, write down these 10 characteristics. If you want to have a thriving relationship, not a superficial, good-looking relationship on social media,

• 1:45:24Lewis Howes?

  where you think he looks good on paper, you want to have him living up to these 10 characteristics. Make a list of these 10, then you can add, yeah, he's a funny personality, or he's outgoing, or he likes to travel, and he likes adventure, and he likes dogs, whatever.

• 1:45:43Lewis Howes?

  But he likes all those things, but he lacks the ability to provide. He lacks the ability to protect. He lacks the ability to be a lover, a friend, father, a son. If he lacks the ability to step into those things, because that's not what he wants, then you are going to struggle in that relationship. After a few years, you're going to say, why is he not stepping into this? Why is he not living into this embodiment of a comprehensive man? The man that I dream of being with as a woman, right? And if you can write down that as your list, and when you're going on dates, start asking yourself, is he living into this? Is he, is he being a gentleman? Is he being chivalrous? Is he being his word? Is he living into these characteristics?

• 1:46:27Lewis Howes?

  You will live a much more harmonious and joyful relationship than a fun, chemically bonded relationship that has great sex or looks good on social media, but suffers silently in the background. So write these down, ladies, as your list. When you go out there and look for as the guy you want to date. You see what I'm saying?

• 1:46:50Jason Wilson?

  Yes, and I want to close with this. I want to commend you, man. I'm really proud of you. Marriage, just everything I know, just some things that we've talked about and which they don't need to know. But I just want to thank you just for being authentic, man, and just really moving in, following your heart, brother. And I see it, especially after your father passed and just, I recognize that in you, man. I just want to commend you for being authentic, man, and following the good in your heart instead of your fears, man.

• 1:47:22Lewis Howes?

  Thanks, brother.

• 1:47:22Jason Wilson?

  Just everything, the home, just everything I see you're doing, man. I just want to commend you, and it's, it's very inspirational to me. And I don't know if you know that, but I want to tell you that you, you inspired me to step even further out of just other comfort zones I may have.

• 1:47:38Lewis Howes?

  Sure.

• 1:47:38Jason Wilson?

  So I just wanted to salute you in that, Em, brother.

• 1:47:41Lewis Howes?

  Thank you.

• 1:47:41Jason Wilson?

  Seemingly, it's like you always find a way to meet the moment. And so I salute you in that.

• 1:47:47Lewis Howes?

  I'm always, I'm just trying to be the man the moment demands, you know?

• 1:47:49Jason Wilson?

  You're doing it.

• 1:47:50Lewis Howes?

  Trying to be that.

• 1:47:50Jason Wilson?

  You're doing it.

• 1:47:51Lewis Howes?

  Not always perfect, but try to endeavor.

• 1:47:53Jason Wilson?

  Perfection, it's about just practicing it.

• 1:47:56Lewis Howes?

  Appreciate it.

• 1:47:57Jason Wilson?

  Thanks for sharing.

• 1:47:58Lewis Howes?

  Appreciate you.

• 1:47:58Jason Wilson?

  Yeah, man.

• 1:47:59Lewis Howes?

  I've asked you this before.

• 1:48:03Lewis Howes?

  About the three truths in the previous interview. So I'm going to have people go watch our previous episode to get that answer. But um, I want to ask you your definition of greatness. Uh, one more time to see if it's different from the last time. And probably don't remember, I don't remember, but.

• 1:48:18Jason Wilson?

  No.

• 1:48:18Lewis Howes?

  Just kind of curious where you're at after writing this book. Uh, and before I do, Jason, I want to acknowledge you, man, for constantly being of service. You know, I was at Mass this last weekend with Martha and the, the. I don't know, what do they call it at Mass? I'm new to Mass, but I don't know if it's a preacher or pastor.

• 1:48:37Jason Wilson?

  I'm not a Catholic, so actually.

• 1:48:38Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's more Martha's thing, but I go to support her. But there's great wisdom there, great messages. Preacher, the pastor, I don't know what to call it at Mass, but um, person giving the, the messages of the day. He said, you know, a lot of people in life today are trying to understand their purpose and they don't know what their purpose is. And they're living in fear or they're depressed or these different things because they're not clear on what their purpose is. And he said, there's some individuals in this church who I am not going to ask the question because I know that they know. But I'm going to ask these two kind of teenage kids that was, you know, sitting next to him, near him, to come up and answer. What is our purpose? So we had these kids come and teach the congregation.

• 1:49:22Lewis Howes?

  He said, okay, what is your purpose? And they said, to know God, to love God and to serve God. And I want to acknowledge you for living into that purpose fully, for embracing it. And for knowing God, loving God and being of service and mentoring so many people in the world who need a messenger and a mentor that they can believe in, that they can trust and that they can live up to the message of. So I acknowledge you for stepping into that. And so, and I continue to uh, encourage and nudge you into your greatest fears. That I believe of what you're possible for the next phase as well.

• 1:50:07Lewis Howes?

  So I'm, I appreciate it, brother. But uh, final question, what's your definition of greatness?

• 1:50:14Jason Wilson?

  I guess I have to follow what you just said about your purpose in, in God. So you're sure Jesus said, the least shall be the greatest in the kingdom of God.

• 1:50:26Lewis Howes?

  The what will be?

• 1:50:27Jason Wilson?

  The least shall be the greatest in the kingdom of God. Those who are servants here, those who are looked upon as the least here shall be the greatest.

• 1:50:39Jason Wilson?

  That's the greatest for me is being a servant, helping others, walking in humility. Meekness not weakness.

• 1:50:51Jason Wilson?

  That's my definition currently of being great because I have to surrender more to where I know he wants me to go. And for me to surrender, that means I'm under a master. Who is the greatest?

• 1:51:10Jason Wilson?

  So as long as I'm in my place where I need to be.

• 1:51:17Jason Wilson?

  I'll be fine. So to me.

• 1:51:21Jason Wilson?

  Greatness is for me having a kingdom mine, being the least, being the servant. Looking out for others and understanding that I have one who's the greatest of them all, looking out for them.

• 1:51:33Lewis Howes?

  And I guess to follow up with that, what is?

• 1:51:37Lewis Howes?

  If people.

• 1:51:40Lewis Howes?

  Aren't intentionally living a life of service.

• 1:51:47Lewis Howes?

  What is happening to those individuals if they're not thinking, I'm here to serve. Whatever, whether it's through their gifts and talents or their art or sport. If they're not thinking service mentality and they're thinking self mentality. What are they creating for themselves?

• 1:52:05Jason Wilson?

  I believe they're creating anything which is interesting.

• 1:52:08Lewis Howes?

  They're not creating anything.

• 1:52:09Jason Wilson?

  Basically, it's self-absorbed, like you're saying. Now, what do you want to leave? What will be your legacy? It will be all about you or will it be more about what you've done? So for me, even when I read my audio book. I thought about how long that would be here on earth. How my son, my daughter, my grandchildren, their children will have it. Because I was a servant, because I chose to give more than I receive.

• 1:52:45Jason Wilson?

  They will find more to life that way. If it's when I was all about myself, my goals, my desires.

• 1:52:54Jason Wilson?

  I wasn't happy. There was no fulfillment. But when I put my dreams on hold for his will. Yeah. I found life. Yeah, I found life, man. And I tell people all the time, try it. Just try it. Deny yourself.

• 1:53:15Jason Wilson?

  And watch what happens. My man. Yeah, it's listen, it's brilliant. Appreciate it. Always good talking with you. Powerful. Always good. Yeah, thank you, man.

• 1:53:24Lewis Howes?

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• 1:54:06Lewis Howes?

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• 1:54:39Lewis Howes?

  I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links. And if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me personally, as well as ad free listening, then make sure to subscribe to our greatness plus channel exclusively on Apple Podcasts. Share this with a friend on social media and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts as well. Let me know what you enjoyed about this episode in that review. I really love hearing feedback from you and it helps us figure out how we can support and serve you moving forward. And I want to remind you if no one has told you lately that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter. And

• 1:55:23Lewis Howes?

  now it's time to go out there and do something great.