Jun 29, 2018

Dad’s are very influential — for both good and bad. But ultimately it is up to us as men and fathers to choose who we want to be, and to live according to who we were created to be. Join us for this conversation as we explore this topic of what we learned from dad.

Music Credit: "Funkorama" Kevin MacLeod (

Jun 22, 2018

Sometimes the idea is there, the desire is there, but what is missing is knowing how and where to start. Join Mark and Alen as they talk about how to get started down the initiation path with your son, and share some of their own stories of what worked, and what didn’t.

Book reference: Raising A Modern Day Knight, by...

Jun 15, 2018

From sit-coms, to commercials, to the latest newsmaker, the messages about what it means to be a man are very confusing. Mark and Alen cut to the “heart” of what manhood really is, and isn’t, and discuss why understanding this matters now more than ever.

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Jun 8, 2018

What is initiation? Most people are familiar with the word or with some select examples, but not in the context of boys becoming men. That is because we have lost the art and power of the role of initiation in transitioning from boyhood to manhood. In this episode, Mark and Alen tackle this idea of initiating boys to...

Jun 1, 2018

Whose idea was this and what are we trying to accomplish? How is The Next Man Up different than the many other rites of passage offerings already out there for men? Mark and Alen revisit how The Next Man Up started and what they hope to accomplish by engaging and equipping fathers to design a rite of passage process for...