In this episode, Stephen interviews Michael Thomas of Sharon, a homesteader, on the importance of homesteading, tradition, place, and much more. Show Highlights: Why Michael decided to go live on an 18th century farm. The importance of a sense of place. Why tradition and culture are tied in to place. What we can learn from those that came before us. On man's reaction to modernity and what we can do about it. The role of God and faith in tradition.  The balance Michael carries between modernity and tradition. Why we need to "purify" ourselves first before jumping fully into homesteading. The importance of humility and learning from our mistakes. Why incremental steps are better than a big, sudden move. The need for others and learning from the past. The importance of the Benedict Option. How you can connect with Michael and learn more about his projects in upstate NY. Exclusive Patron Content: On our patron-only question, Michael gives his advice on how young men can get started with homesteading and the skills they should develop now in order to make it successful. Sign up for our Socrates Tier at $5/month for access to this and more! About Michael: Michael is a homesteader who lives on a 1795 Colonial Farm in Sharon Springs, NY. He and his family run an orchard, breed dogs, and much more on their farm, and he works to spread the beauty of homesteading to the traditionalist side of the internet. Keep in Touch with Michael: Twitter: @MichaelTG09 Website --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@ManlyVirtue), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

In this episode, Stephen walks through 10 things that every young man - high school and college men especially - should do starting today in order to put their lives on the right path. Show Highlights: Learn to breathe properly. Stand up straight. Don't be a degenerate. Understand the value of money. Go to church. Begin to identify your core values. Develop strong friendships now. Learn to appreciate silence and solitude. Begin looking for a wife and/or get married. Lift heavy things. View the full show notes here. Related Podcast Episodes: Porn Myths Why Porn is Harmful Taking Action Breaking Free What is Dating? Dating Well Dating Tips, Mindsets, and Approaches Marriage and Chastity Marriage and Masculinity Resources: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@ManlyVirtue), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

In this episode, the gents examine what C.S. Lewis considered the fourth love, Agape or divine "God love." Show Highlights: Is love really all you need, as the Beatles said? The necessity of relying on God's help in order to love properly. What a properly ordered love looks like. Why Agape is the only love which does not have the potential to bring misery. How Agape relates to the other three loves. How God "implants" the capacity to love - gift-love and need-love particularly - in us. The cure for restless hearts.  Resources: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis About our Sponsor: Covenant Eyes is a screen monitoring and accountability platform for all your devices which will help you kick your porn addiction once and for all. Stephen personally used this to help him break free of the vicious cycle of addition. The resources provided by Covenant Eyes also help you identify triggers, form healthy new habits, boost your confidence, and restore hope so that you can live the life you want to live. Our followers can get 30 days FREE by using the promo code "VIRTUE" at checkout. --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@ManlyVirtue), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

In this episode, the gents tackle a more controversial question - can men and women be friends? Should they be? The answer is more complicated than you may think. Show Highlights: A recap of the three Aristotelian forms of friendship. Can men and women be friends? Why is there typically the temptation to eros in these friendships? What does male/female friendship look like before marriage? The rise of nice guy syndrome. Should you be friends with a member of the opposite sex when you're in a relationship? The importance of boundaries - the "Mike Pence" rule. Why men and women should have their own spaces to be with "their own." View the full show notes here. Related Podcast Episodes: The Problem with Nice Guys Resources: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis About our Sponsor: Covenant Eyes is a screen monitoring and accountability platform for all your devices which will help you kick your porn addiction once and for all. Stephen personally used this to help him break free of the vicious cycle of addition. The resources provided by Covenant Eyes also help you identify triggers, form healthy new habits, boost your confidence, and restore hope so that you can live the life you want to live. Our followers can get 30 days FREE by using the promo code "VIRTUE" at checkout. --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@theVMPod), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

This week, the gents sit down with Catholic author Kennedy Hall to discuss his books on masculinity and how we can combat and overcome the rise of "effeminate manliness." Show Highlights: How Kennedy's "vague cultural Catholicism" influenced his development as a man. How did he ultimately realize the problems with modern masculinity? The nature of effeminate masculinity. How can men become less effeminate and more masculine? How important should a man's faith be? Family Be Damned and why good fiction can inform and enliven the soul. View the full show notes here. About Kennedy: Kennedy Hall is the author of Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity and Family Be Damned, as well as the host of the Fatima Centre's Kennedy Report. Keep in Touch with Kennedy: The Kennedy Report Website Newsletter Twitter: @kennedyhall --- About our Sponsor: Covenant Eyes is a screen monitoring and accountability platform for all your devices which will help you kick your porn addiction once and for all. Stephen personally used this to help him break free of the vicious cycle of addition. The resources provided by Covenant Eyes also help you identify triggers, form healthy new habits, boost your confidence, and restore hope so that you can live the life you want to live. Our followers can get 30 days FREE by using the promo code "VIRTUE" at checkout. --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@ManlyVirtue), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

In this episode, the gents discuss the institution of marriage and the virtue of chastity, including her role inside and outside matrimonial covenants. Show Highlights: What is the virtue chastity? The common misconception that chastity only refers to celibacy. What does a rightly ordered sexual appetite look like? What is marriage? The traditional understanding of marriage. The role of sex and chastity within marriage. The four aspects of marriage. Marriage as a 'type' of Christ and the Church. Chastity in single people and married people. Examples of 'unchastity.' Why chastity is important in dating/courtships. View the full show notes here. Resources: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis Catechism of the Catholic Church About our Sponsor: Covenant Eyes is a screen monitoring and accountability platform for all your devices which will help you kick your porn addiction once and for all. Stephen personally used this to help him break free of the vicious cycle of addition. The resources provided by Covenant Eyes also help you identify triggers, form healthy new habits, boost your confidence, and restore hope so that you can live the life you want to live. Our followers can get 30 days FREE by using the promo code "VIRTUE" at checkout. --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@ManlyVirtue), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

In this episode, the gents take a short break from their series on Eros and the Four Loves to discuss ways to handle stress. Show Highlights: How stress can be good for you. Hormesis and antifragility. Avoiding vs. combatting stress. Advice on how to mitigate and avoid stressors. View the full show notes here. About our Sponsor: Covenant Eyes is a screen monitoring and accountability platform for all your devices which will help you kick your porn addiction once and for all. Stephen personally used this to help him break free of the vicious cycle of addition. The resources provided by Covenant Eyes also help you identify triggers, form healthy new habits, boost your confidence, and restore hope so that you can live the life you want to live. Our followers can get 30 days FREE by using the promo code "VIRTUE" at checkout. --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@theVMPod), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity).6xgment names before you publish --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

In this episode, the gents discuss continue their exploration of distortions of eros, the third love, by examining the opposite approaches advocating a Victorian puritanism and a more open and promiscuous stance. Show Highlights: How do Christians properly view the body and natural desire? Why is a promiscuous worldview incorrect? What do the Victorians and Puritans get wrong about a prude and rigid treatment of eros and sex? What a properly ordered eros or desires look like. Why sex and pleasure are, at a base level, good until they become corrupted. Is eros mainly an evolutionary appetite? Does this carnal element of eros make it dangerous? Why our view of Eros and sexuality need not be restrictive if ordered properly. View the full show notes here. Resources: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis About our Sponsor: Covenant Eyes is a screen monitoring and accountability platform for all your devices which will help you kick your porn addiction once and for all. Stephen personally used this to help him break free of the vicious cycle of addition. The resources provided by Covenant Eyes also help you identify triggers, form healthy new habits, boost your confidence, and restore hope so that you can live the life you want to live. Our followers can get 30 days FREE by using the promo code "VIRTUE" at checkout. --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@theVMPod), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity).6xgment names before you publish --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

In this episode, the gents discuss the issues with PUA and the Red Pill movement, discussing how each are distortions of eros.  Show Highlights: What is a pick-up artist? What is the Red Pill? Why do more men seem attracted to these movements/philosophies? The relationship between evolutionary psychology and the Red Pill. The problems with making sex your top priority.  The manipulative nature of these philosophies. What do these both get right? What do these both get wrong? View the full show notes here. Resources: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis About our Sponsor: Covenant Eyes is a screen monitoring and accountability platform for all your devices which will help you kick your porn addiction once and for all. Stephen personally used this to help him break free of the vicious cycle of addition. The resources provided by Covenant Eyes also help you identify triggers, form healthy new habits, boost your confidence, and restore hope so that you can live the life you want to live. Our followers can get 30 days FREE by using the promo code "VIRTUE" at checkout. --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@theVMPod), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support

In this episode, the gents explore two modern distortions of Eros or romantic love: hookup culture and casual dating. Show Highlights: Recap of the definition of eros. Becoming worthy of your love. Dating and discernment of marriage. Defining casual dating. What is friendship "with benefits"? Transactional sex and hookup culture. Physical love over all else -> the credo of the modern world. The damage that comes from hookup culture. The subordination of love to pleasure. Related Episodes: Masculinity and Femininity: Biological Differences Masculinity and Femininity: Psychological Differences Resources: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis View the full show notes here. About our Sponsor: Covenant Eyes is a screen monitoring and accountability platform for all your devices which will help you kick your porn addiction once and for all. Stephen personally used this to help him break free of the vicious cycle of addition. The resources provided by Covenant Eyes also help you identify triggers, form healthy new habits, boost your confidence, and restore hope so that you can live the life you want to live. Our followers can get 30 days FREE by using the promo code "VIRTUE" at checkout. --- Please like, subscribe, and leave a rating and review. Be honest - this feedback is crucial to helping us improve the quality of our show and reach like-minded men across the globe. Check out our website at vitalmasculinity.org and apply to join our active Discord chat group which you will receive an invite to by signing up for our newsletter. You can also contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@theVMPod), or Gab (@vitalmasculinity). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vitalmasculinity/support