220: John Eldredge: The Wounded Boy Inside Every Grown Man | Adam's Failure Is Still Destroying Men Today

About this episode

John Eldredge discusses the impact of Adam's failure on modern masculinity and the generational issues it creates.

This week's Brave Co podcast is a moment I've been waiting to share with you guys — John Eldredge live from our BraveCo conference last year, and I'm telling you, this one carries weight. John takes us all the way back to Adam in the garden and shows us how the original failure of masculinity — passivity, the failure to engage — is still being passed down through every generation of men. He unpacks the fig leaf every man wears, why what you meet when you meet a man is rarely his true heart, a...

People in this episode

Host: BraveCo

Guest: John Eldredge

Topics covered

• masculinity
• failure
• passivity
• generational issues
• spirituality
• identity

Keywords

• masculinity
• John Eldredge
• failure
• passivity
• men
• spirituality
• identity

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