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It's hard to hate someone whose story you know
A sentence worth sitting with — and what it asks of us, both in the listening and in the telling. A coaching peer shared this line with me recently, and it landed with the quiet force of something I'd half-known my whole life but never quite heard put that
I watched Louis Theroux's manosphere documentary. Here's what stayed with me.
And why I put together a cheat sheet for the dads in my life. There's a scene early in Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere — now streaming on Netflix — where a group of young men stop in the street to tell one of these influencers that he's
Burning the haystack down, together!
A viral instagram post said: burn the haystack down. I agree. But not like this. When feminism galvanises women against men rather than alongside them, it replicates the binary it's trying to dismantle. bell hooks knew this. don Miguel Ruiz knew this. And when a friend asked me
Urges vs Needs
Easter Sunday, Day Two of a 72-hour fast While everyone around me is moving through chocolate today, I'm somewhere quieter — past the halfway mark of a 72-hour water fast, and sitting with something that feels like the beginning of a long-overdue shift. The physical part has been easier
The Man With Many Names
From the very beginning, I was an and/and person in an either/or world. I am a coach. I am a community builder — someone for whom creativity and the desire to make a difference are not optional extras but something close to oxygen. I am a father. I am