About this episode

Shane Wicks discusses the challenges men face in modern society and the importance of emotional intelligence and patience.

"We all have to showboat. We all have to be that actor on stage 24/7. There's no place for us to take off the masks and just be ourselves." — Shane Wicks Shane Wicks is the founder of Hyperactive Men, an Ottawa-based men's development organization built on four pillars: strength and discipline, emotional intelligence and relationships, financial intelligence and strategic thinking, and command and presence. He joins Nicky for one of the more honest conversations this show has had in a while. Shane opens with a line that stops the conversation cold: his son died at 3 months old on a Sunday, and he went to work Monday morning. That's not a story about cruelty or indifference. That's a story about what men were trained to do — push, perform, pretend. And it's exactly why so many men are carrying Pandora's boxes they're terrified to open. What follows is a real conversation between two men who lead other men and know how far the problem actually runs. The 200-to-1 ratio of women's resources to men's resources. The hunter's patience that modern life has systematically destroyed. The math behind why every man doing this work is an ally, not a competitor — because when you do the…

People in this episode

Host: Nicky Billou

Guest: Shane Wicks

Topics covered

• men's development
• emotional intelligence
• personal development
• military veterans
• patience

Keywords

• men's development
• emotional intelligence
• patience
• military veterans
• personal development
• strength
• discipline

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hyperactive Men

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