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This episode is an orientation to The Chopping Wood Podcast.

Before we talk about relationships, commitment, leadership, or emotional maturity, this episode explains what Chopping Wood actually means—and how to listen to this work.

Chopping Wood is not a slogan or a brand. It’s a principle about preparation: doing the inner work before pressure arrives, before resentment builds, and before relationships grow cold.

In this episode, Jack A. Daniels explains where this framework comes from, who this podcast is for, and why these conversations require depth, patience, and accountability.

This episode provides context, clarity, and the lens behind everything that follows.

Once you’ve listened, continue to “Before You Swing — The Foundation of Chopping Wood.”

This is the official trailer for The Chopping Wood Podcast.

Hosted by psychotherapist Jack A. Daniels, Chopping Wood is a therapeutic framework for masculine emotional mastery—designed to help good men become better men, and to help women finally understand the men they keep choosing, losing, or loving.

Season One begins February 9.
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