Our culture seems to encourage two ways of treating our issues: (1) unapologetically embrace them or (2) pridefully avoid them.  Both treatments are undergirded by the "I'm a special snowflake" mentality.  The question is not whether we adopt these mentalities when our issues surface -- they are natural human reactions -- but how we can consciously combat them with a more real, humble approach. +++++ If this podcast made you better, please subscribe, rate, and review. Let's walk in purposeful manhood together. More at chadkanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

What will your funeral be like? Will those hours feel like minutes, or days, to people? In this episode, Chad reflects on three deaths in his life that impacted, and continue to edify, him. How we live dictates how our funeral will impact people. By reflecting back, we can set a new course forward. +++++ If this podcast made you better, please subscribe, rate, and review. Let's walk in purposeful manhood together. More at chadkanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

Seven years into starting his own Digital Marketing business, Taylor Condrin (by our world’s standards) has cracked the code to a purposeful life.  He’s a successful entrepreneur and has a beautiful family (wife and two kids), a gorgeous home, and much of what us men strive for: freedom, impact, and success. But that wasn’t always the case. In fact, two years after high school, Taylor was broke, confused about his future, and battling anxiety. What triggered his transformation? How did he build his own self-running business with just a GED and a tight budget? What drives him, and how does he define a purposeful life? His answers surprise, teach, and inspire us. Listen in! You can find out more about Taylor's business and ministry here: https://www.facebook.com/EvangelistTaylorCondrin/ +++++ Do you have ideas on how we can better equip and encourage men? I want to hear them. Email me at [email protected]. More about purposeful manhood at chadkanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

Have you been in a season of "just get through it?" I have. Here are three things I've learned from seasons like these; these insights should give you the nudge you need to keep grinding, with a genuine smile on your face. Enjoy. +++++ If you have ideas on how I could make this podcast better serve men, email me: [email protected].  More about purposeful manhood at chadkanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

What are the purposes behind the wildernesses we put ourselves through? Chad's answer was crystal clear. Excerpt: After trying anything and everything under the scorching sun, this well proved to be the only honest, trustworthy, never-failing source: God." +++++ This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE. More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

Could your greatest treasure be sitting right under your nose? Mine did, but I needed the wilderness to give me the lens to finally see it. Chad shares a story that illuminates this odd, but game-changing truth, in this episode. Excerpt: "Everyone seems to be foregoing their purpose, out of fear, to sufficiently perform for a crowd of people who would actually be far more “entertained” and inspired by the daring, energetic, relentless pursuit of something authentic." +++++ This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE. More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

This chapter is about choosing which conqueror you will become in life -- the one who ignores all else to win the battles of life, or the ones who cherishes his internal victories, even if it means losing the exterior ones. Two years into entrepreneurship, Chad reached a crossroads and was given that very choice. Hear which conqueror he chose to be and why. Excerpt: "Our external pursuits of worldly accomplishments influence us to prepare for battle, sharpening our swords and mapping our attack formations, but the fiercest armies we face are actually inside of us, and our feats on the material battlefield seem to only somewhat correlate with our more hidden, more prized advances and accomplishments." +++++ This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE. More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

During Chad's stint in the wilderness, he tried to turn back to his former life of Fortune 500 management consulting multiple times for reprieve and familiarity. Despite him comfortably walking through them before, they shut each time, to his shock. This chapter unpacks, in retrospect, Chad's learned "why" behind those "failures." Excerpt: "That’s the battle – the battle between our two selves. The muddy, bloody tug-of-war between who we know we can become and who the world wants us to settle to be. The battle between stable and sensational; between predictable and purposeful; between good and great." +++++ This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE. More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

This chapter is about the hidden blessings of having lacking clarity around our ultimate plans and purposes. Excerpt: "Perhaps each summit is really purposed to prepare us for the next one, regardless of whether we reach the first." +++++ This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE. More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message

Are you a slave?  I am.   We all are, whether our master is money, sex, acceptance, success, or something else. Seasons of hardship exposure how unworthy masters and truer paths. That is what entrepreneurship did for Chad -- he shares in this episode. Quote from book: "And so the question is not whether we’re slaves -- captured stallions forced to submit to a system we didn’t design -- but rather, who our master is and whether we trust them." +++++ This 14-part mini-series unpacks each chapter of Chad's new book, Dying in the Wilderness: Finding Purpose Through Failure. Chad's book can be found on Amazon HERE. More on Chad at ChadKanyer.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saddledstallion/message