Sean Waxman has spent 32 years in weight rooms, from Olympic weightlifting platforms to high school football programs, and he's convinced we're getting something seriously wrong with how we raise young men.

Strength used to be something you coveted. Now it's treated like a threat. Aggression gets pathologized instead of channeled. And the trophies-for-everyone era has stripped an entire generation of the chance to fail, sit with it, and try again.

Sean doesn't think the weight room fixes everything. But he thinks it's one of the last places left where a kid can fail safely, get pushed by an older guy who's been there, and learn that suffering well is a skill, not a punishment.

In this conversation, Sean and Tex get into:

• Why he left the college coaching track to coach high school football, even for free
• What "the disease of me" looks like inside a 90-kid football program
• How he builds team culture when he's not the head coach in the room
• The cardiac arrest that nearly killed him, and the clarity it gave him about what actually matters
• Why the best leaders on a team are rarely the most talented players

This one's part coaching philosophy, part hard truth, part reckoning with a guy who's spent his whole career in the room where boys either become men or don't.

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