For those who don’t know what what South by Southwest (SXSW) is – it’s three conferences in one. A film festival, music festival and an “interactive” or high tech conference rolled into a week long event in Austin, TX in March. A couple months ago I came up with the crazy idea of inducing the [...]

The man’s movement is going virtual. The Ultimate Men’s Summit is a free 10-day teleconference June 10-19. There are over 75 presenters from Robert Bly and Sam Keen the founders of the original men’s movement to myself. For over a decade the men’s movement went underground. Men were meeting in their own groups, but there [...]

Would you risk being seen as different, as a deviant to perform a heroic act? If you are like most of us – no you wouldn’t. Stanford Professor Phil Zimbardo passionately speaks about his book, The Lucifer Effect and his nonprofit organization, The Hero Project in this interview with Michael Bungay Stanier. Zimbardo explains that [...]

When you hear heroes speak you hear them claim they aren’t heroes. NPR did a story on three average men being extraordinary – a lawyer, a pilot and an oil executive. The revolution in Libya occurred because many average men and women did things that were not average. It is their repeated acts of courage [...]

Being the man you want to be often means escaping the box you are in. There is no bigger box than our education system. It is so big, so pervasive that we don’t realize its effect. After a few generations of it we grew to accept learning to be our education system. It is not [...]

What better way to grow than to start a business. Over the last 30 years many of my clients have been entrepreneurs. They might have been some of my most tense clients, but they were often some of the easiest to work with because they understood change. Starting and operating a business forces you to [...]

Go beyond selling If you want to be successful and sell, make the “design so engaging and compelling that people simply have to share it,” is what Ravi Sawhney, the founder and CEO of RKS says in his Fast Company blog post. He goes on to say, When you’ve done this, you just haven’t sold [...]

Why can existing be so hard? Why does it feel like you are fighting the inertia of the entire universe to have the life you want? I doubt you are using your innate capacity to fully live. In previous posts, I’ve written about the Evolutionary Change™ or Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey as being an unconscious [...]