Welcome to the Knowledge for Men podcast where strong men come to rise as grounded leaders, lovers, and creators of their world.

This is the next level.

Are you just playing a character in the movie of your life?

You're not a man.

You're a performance.

Let that sink in.

You've built a life not around your truth, but around a mask.

The provider, the tough guy, the nice guy, the player, the successful one, the fun, easygoing dude everyone likes.

But let me ask you this.

When was the last time you actually looked in the mirror and said,

This is me?

Raw, honest, unfiltered, no performance, no approval seeking.

If he stripped all that away, would you even recognize the man underneath?

Let's talk about it. Most men don't even know they're acting. They think they're just doing what needs to be done. But that's the problem. You've become who the world expected you to be. And somewhere along the way, you forgot how to be. And here's what it's costing

you. You can't access real peace because you're constantly in performance mode. You struggle to feel

love because you're never fully seen. You feel off like something's missing, but can't quite

name it. You feel hollow because you're living someone else's script.

And men living a lie, they break, they betray themselves, they lose the fire in their eyes.

They die slow. Death by a thousand cuts. You don't need to improve the mask. You need to take it off,

burn it, and build something real underneath. Here's the truth

nobody wants to admit. You didn't choose most of your identity. It was handed to you. It was absorbed

around you by your parents, your culture, your friends, your work, your wounds, social media,

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