The Liberation Project: A Movement For Manhood

Are you a sport's guy (or girl)? Or do you not understand why they are so popular? In this episode, the guys discuss if sports are good for us, bad for us, or what role they should play in our culture. Regardless of how you feel about sports, this episode will be enlightening. A Few Quotes from the Episode: -Sports make men feel unified. –BR - What do people learn from sports? Trust: being on a team. BR -What do men love about sports?     -Ties you to history, or where you are from. BR     -Crowds of people all championing for the same goal. BR     -It gives them a sense of family. JS -Men don’t generally connect for the sake of connecting. We need an activity. Sports is are our best excuse. –BR -Healthy coaches should be calling out your best. –BR -The Dark Side of sports is vicarious living or self-identifying your value with it. –BR -I am not identifying with my team; I am rooting for my team. –BR -It’s a commonality that goes past sports, that people are identifying or placing their value in their child’s

 All of us go through pain and difficulty. We get to choose, however, how we go through that pain. In this episode, Blair and Justin discuss how circumstances should not dictate our happiness, peace, and confidence.    -It doesn’t matter your circumstance, you can come alive where you planted.  BR -Coming alive where you are planted is determined by you being powerful over your inward heart. JS -Negative emotions choke your ability to think. BR -You need to see your emotions as a person and address the lies they are selling you.  JS -We use negative emotions because we think they are helping us. BR -Can love, peace and joy protect you? JS -We get to decide how to we want to experience this life. JS -The only way to heal bitterness is to learn to hope.  JS -We have to quit judging the world around us because of our fear.  JS -We become what we surround ourselves with.  JS

Are you ready for more adventure in your life? Do you need more risk? If your a man in our culture, your answer is probably a resounding YES! In today's episode, Justin and Blair discuss the reasons that risk is so crucial to a man's fulfillment and happiness.  A few quotes from this episode: -There is a natural longing in men’s hearts for adventure. When we disengage with risk, we begin dying inside. BR -Insert adventure in your life, or it will come out sideways somewhere else. BR -If you are in survival mode, what will cause you to risk and get out of your comfort zone?  JS -What is your threshold for risk, what is wisdom when determining how to risk, and how can you insert it into your life? BR

In this episode, Blair Reynolds and Justin Stumvoll discuss the concept of being a "self made man." They discuss why it is so popular, and what it really says about people that use the term.  If you are wanting to make an impact, and you want to do something noteworthy, this is the podcast for you. You'll learn how important it is to not do something on your own...or by yourself.   A Few Highlights from the Episode: -The concept of the self made man is an isolating one. It’s not a healthy concept. It is a concept that perpetuates the idea that we are alone. BR -Self made people have a concept of war.  JS -If I’m a self-made man that means what matters is what I have created outside of me.  JS -If you don’t have personal value that is separate from your circumstances, then you can’t have value for the people around you.  BR -You end up drawing people into their environment that are fighting to have value. JS -You get more done in team when you actually trust the person next to you.  BR -If you build something

In this episode, Justin Stumvoll and Blair Reynolds discuss the most important aspects of being a "real man." They'll share some good ideas, and some really bad ideas, to build confidence in your masculinity.    Here are a few great quotes from the episode: •It takes an incredible amount of confidence to become self-aware. BR •What is actually going on inside of me? How are people experiencing me? JS •Self-consciousness is self awareness with insecurity. I am aware of what others think and they feel, and that gives them the power to dictate my value as a person. JS  •Self-awareness is a healthy person, wanting to extend health. It’s not dictated by, it’s dictated to. BR •Self-awareness creates the infrastructure for health.  BR •Selfish people actually aren’t taking care of themselves.  JS •They don’t believe that they matter or their needs matter.  JS •People who know how to connect to getting their needs met can give and get. BR •Taking care of  yourself looks like having time to be connected and having hea

In this episode, Blair Reynolds and Justin Stumvoll go for the jugular regarding sex. They talk about our fear of being known, and our desire to escape. They discuss healthy connection, and why it is so difficult for many men (and women).  If you are ready for a closer connection with your spouse (or significant other) and for better sex...this is an episode that will open your eyes to what may be holding you back.   Here are a few quotes from the episode: -You are not to seek pain, you are just not supposed to run from it.  BR -A false version of yourself emerges when life beats you down, and you learn how to self protect and you start to live with a mask.  BR/JS -Put simply, men are afraid of emotional pain. BR -The Benefits of the Wall/Shadow Self: "You can’t reject me, you only are rejecting my Shadow Self." JS -Why would we ever want to come out of hiding? If we do, the world that you’ve created wants to knock you back down, because you had an unspoken pact with mediocrity. BR -You becoming healthy is pu

In this episode, Justin and Blair discuss our sexuality as men. What are we really looking for in sex? They discuss pornography, connection, and many of the other concepts that accompany sex (both healthily and unhealthily).  Yours eyes will be opened to a whole new paradigm to sex and what it REALLY means to get our needs met.   A few quotes from the episode: -Sexuality is wrapped up in our greatest desire and our greatest shame.  BR -What are the things inside of us that drive us towards sexuality? JS -What about our emotional journey is also tied into sexuality? JS -We have been sold a lie that men are nonemotional creatures.  JS -As men, we are terrified of facing our emotional pain, so we have to come up with an excuse not to face it.  JS -Our culture says have sex and you'll be connected. What we need to think is, what are the needs that we need to be met, and then have sex.  And if we can correct the way we are doing this, sex becomes healthy.  BR -Pornography is the cheapest substitute for what we act

In the media, men are portrayed as caricatures of guys in real life. Men are seen as idiots, uber-stylish, or some other extreme. In this episode, Blair and Justin discuss why our culture characterizes men in this way, and how we should respond.

Our culture is awash with messages about "how to be a man." We're told to make more money, have more power, be an alpha, and have a ton of sex. Is that what really validates a man? Justin and Blair discuss this question, and more, in Episode 2 of The Liberation Project.

What does it mean to be a man? Is it what we've been taught by our parents or told by the media?  Justin Stumvoll and Blair Reynolds, hosts of The Liberation Project, answer these questions and more in this origin episode. They explain why there needs to be a "Movement for Manhood," and what to expect from the podcast. You'll learn the reason The Liberation Project started, and why you'll want to be a frequent listener.