Dennis has spent twenty years inside schools mentoring young men.

Not as a school district employee. As an outsider who can say the things nobody else will say.

The false masculinity being sold to boys — athletic dominance, sexual conquest, economic status. The pornography crisis — 85-90% of young men have seen it before age 14. More than 50% have seen violent pornography. And nobody's talking to them about it.

The phone addiction that's rewiring their brains and stealing their future — 93% of free time connected to a device. Seven and a half hours a day on average. And the anxiety and depression numbers that have been climbing since 2012 — the year the front-facing camera changed everything.

But this episode isn't just about the crisis. It's about what actually works.

Dennis left a fifteen-year career as a principal to build something better. One day a month. Ten meetings a year. Boys who were failing, fighting, and getting suspended — becoming leaders who mentor the next generation.

We talk about how to have the pornography conversation with your son. About the wound delivered by an absent or abusive father — and how to stop passing it down. About the bike riding analogy for fatherhood that stopped me cold. About the boy who thanked Dennis for the porn lesson and said he stopped — and made honor roll and the travel soccer team.

And about what it means to be the kind of man your son actually learns from.

This one hits deep.

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// Show them the way
and when they're grown
they will not stray.
x Rob