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YouTube Live Event. 10/3/2015 at 9:00pm eastern time, the Inbetween Man Podcast presents The Introduction of The Man Game! Are you a Mr. Sensitive? Save the day, subscribe and join us for a deep dive into why The Man Game is important for you to learn.

The last two weeks we have been talking about acknowledging and learning how too as good questions. Learning how to ask good questions is an art form and learning how to answer questions is also a process that requires a lot of practice. Since guys already know how to "Bust Other Dudes Chops", the Man Game shouldn't be a new thing any man. The InBetween Man's Man Game is a different animal all together and it will require you partner up with another dude who you know very well. Someone like a brother or very close college friend who was a roommate at College or whomever. You really need to know before going into this that you partner in this game isn't out to really verbally abuse you. Although, it would be helpful if your partner had some dirt on you, but it's not mandatory.

The primary purpose of The Man Game is to learn how build up your outside armor and practice getting verbally waterboarded with your buddy. Learning how to overcome "personal attacks" verbally isn't easy especially if your "sensitive" about certain topics happening in your life. This is one of the reasons why I highly recommend you do it with someone you are close with or is a brother because the likelihood of either of you overreacting is low. The whole point of The Man Game is to break through the other persons armor and get them to react in a defensive way. The person who does that first is the winner.

A good example of a few people who have made a career learning how to play this game is Ted Cruz or Nancy Pelosi. Nothing ever seems to penetrate their armor and they always deflect or move the topic onto something else. Mitch McConnell is another EPIC example of this. (I am not a fan of any of them, but if you can learn how to deflect personal attacks like any of the above, you'll be moving in a direction.)

The whole point of The Man Game is for you to build up enough armor that nothing can stop you from being personally offended. If something does sneak through your armor and you feel like you've been personally attacked, I want you to write down what your partner said to you and how you responded. Each of you should also have a "word" you can use to call off the verbal waterboarding if things start to go off the rails. If your armor is thin, both of you will know right away and your partner in the game MUST be sympathetic to this and willingly back-off. The Man Game at times, will not be fun and it could cause you to hang up the phone in a rage attack. But that is okay, now you have new information about yourself that confirms what hot TOPICS. After all this is a close friend / brother and we aren't trying to emotionally abuse someone on purpose.

The entire purpose of the game is to learn how to take a "verbal upper-cut" that stings and not overreact or blow up. If you "blow up" you've already lost and the best place to learn how to NOT "blow up" is with your close friend or brother. The other reason for The Man Game is to give the individual an opportunity to understand what areas in your life you are most "sensitive" about. If anyone, including me, ignores any sensitives areas you don't want to talk about or understand, at least you will know why and be prepared for it. What you don't work on know, I promise you will work on later and delay can dangerous.

So come to the Live ready to be verbally assaulted and this will also give me you a chance to try and throw me off my game as well. October 3rd at 9:00pm Eastern, We will be Live.

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Quote From Research: “Without deliberate intervention to redefine masculine success beyond economic provision and to challenge the Man Box's emotional restrictions, we risk losing an entire generation of men to depression, anxiety, and despair.”

LINK - To The State Of American Men 2025 Research Study:

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The top three things you can do for yourself and kids to confirm you’re an epic Dad. The last couple of days I’ve been looking over some of my Video & Shorts data and an interesting trend showed itself to me.

My last podcast episode, Acknowledging Your More Than Just An ATM Machine had a nice jump in views on Google Podcast/Music. If I average 4-6 downloads per podcast episode, this episode had 87 views. Which isn’t a lot, but it's a lot for me. Plus, I had three YouTube Shorts that all got over a 1000 views. One was titled, Dad Lessons, Men’s Mental Health & Carl Jung.

The podcast episode was about Acknowledging that one or more aspects of the traditional male values system is lacking emotional growth. The Dad Lesson was me playing a Rage Against The Machine video and going crazy with my three boys. The Men’s Mental Health Short was about how men get stuck in an insanity loop trying to figure out what is wrong with them and NOT ask for help. They never actually figure out anything; they just get more miserable. The last short is titled Carl Jung, Why Suffering is Necessary. Carl Jung talks about there is a necessary suffering that must happen in order to be a human being.

All four of these different pieces of content connected with men in some way. This episode is about taking what I learned from all four of those episodes and bringing them together. A little fun with my boys, how we can connect with our kids in a meaningful and easy way and why learning how to ask questions is a practice every man should do more of and also teach their boys. Learning how to ask good questions is one option men can try without having the anxiety or fear of “asking for help!”. Smart people know how to ask great questions. Questions are the primary WEAPON for attorneys. Questions allow attorneys to see and hear how people respond and gather additional information to help formulate their next question. The goal is to tell a story, expose the facts and lay them out to a jury so they can make a decision. Guilty or Not Guilty. Asking questions is an art form and the more questions we ask the better we get at asking them and understanding the answers.

I believe all men can do a better job at learning how to ask smart questions and teaching our kids how to ask questions is a skill set they can develop over time. Along with three others things you men can do to confirm they are great Dads! This one is short and sweet and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did recording it. I’ll see ya in there.

Keep Smiling,

R-

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Quote From Research: “Without deliberate intervention to redefine masculine success beyond economic provision and to challenge the Man Box's emotional restrictions, we risk losing an entire generation of men to depression, anxiety, and despair.”

Here is the link to the introduction playlist for The InBetween Man Podcast. Listen to all five episodes or one, it will help you get to know me and determine if my content is right for you.

https://tr.ee/XglIlS

Below is a link to all of our social media and invite to our private male only Discord server. The link to my ETSY.com store is also below.

Linktr.ee/theinbetweenman

ETSY Store:

https://tr.ee/hEcpYQ

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Did you grow up watching your father be the man of the house? Did your mother stay home from work and take care of you and your sister? Who was the primary “bread winner” in your house? Your father? Your mother? Did they both work? What was that like?

In this episode I’m going to share with you the 1st Stage Of Men from my personal growth accountability process, otherwise known as The GOTR Methodology. There are a total of 5 different stages of men and if you are seeking a process to help you isolate & understand personal dynamics you’ve never considered before, you can find more info The GOTR Methodology on my website.

https://thein-betweenman.com/the-gotr

If you would like to know more about how I use the 5 stages of men, you can set up a free one-hour consultation with Renick and he will be more than happy to share our process and hopefully work with you on a one-to-one coaching basis. I’m only accepting three clients right now. I’m already coaching a new client who started at the end of last month. I’m happy to discuss next steps towards the end of our free consultation.

First of all, this episode isn’t going to be your everyday overview. I’ve made a conscious effort to make sure I’m using “Man Banter”. That means, I’m gonna be honest, in-your-face, ball busting and hopefully you’ll learn something. The GOTR Methodology is very simple to wrap your mind around, you don’t need to be Albert Einstein to figure it out or ChatGPT. I promise!

My only ask for this episode is to really think and use your brain to determine if you can simply “acknowledge” my 1st stage of Men. That’s all it is, acknowledging. Can you validate that my 1st stage of men is correct? It’s a simple yes or no question, but if you are “on the fence” about it and need more time to come to a decision, be “on the fence” then.

If you can acknowledge, please do me a favor and share this podcast with a friend and ask them the same thing. Can you acknowledge the 1st stage of men's definition / statement? Maybe you could even have a conversation with a drinking buddy of your to see if he agrees. Share it with your wife, mother, friend, enemy, barber, Doordash delivery guy, whoever. If you could leave a comment also, that would be great, even it’s, “#gfy this crap is stupid.” I can live with that.

Any feedback you can share I would really appreciate it. You can also email me at arenickpodcast@gmail.com.

Also in this video I go over my Emotionally Vulnerable Everyday Greeting Cards by Peder North. They are a must have for any first, just in case your date wants you to pay for take-out for all 9 of her kids. Don’t Do It!! You can purchase all four of my emotionally vulnerable greeting cards on my ETSY Store. The link is below.

That’s all I’ve got for you. I’ll see ya in there!

Keep smiling,
R-

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