Returning to the New Warrior Training Adventure | ManKind Project's NWTA

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Greetings and welcome to real
men fear.

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I'm your host author, coach and
healer Andy.

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Grant, please.
Visit v&e Grant.com to learn

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more about that last weekend.
I was in Connecticut to staff,

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the new Warrior training
Adventure weekend, which is a

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weekend-long rite of passage for
men.

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From the mankind project.
This was the first and WTA event

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in New England and three years.
Thanks to covid.

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I was supposed to have staff
this week and last October, when

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it was originally scheduled, but
then All the end WTA events

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across the United States will
put on hold due to charges of

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cultural appropriation.
I did a show about this last

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October episode 277 cultural
appropriation, and

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misappropriations with the
mankind project.

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The charges of cultural
appropriation from a group of

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Native American Elders, called
Spirit.

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I'm not going to rehash.
Everything here, you can visit

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the blog at real men, feel
dot-org, and I love links to

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every article and video that I
mentioned.

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But when I discovered that all
the nwt A's were cancelled, I

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would I was shocked disappointed
and hurt my nwt, a was back in

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October of 2016 and there was a
lot of Native American ritual

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and ceremony and it was
prevented very respectfully.

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I thought honoring where they
came from and giving full

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acknowledgement and it was
stressed how much training the

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mankind project guys, had with
the Lakota people to learn what

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we would be doing.
No.

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I thought cultural appropriation
meant taking something from

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another culture, and claiming it
as your own and mkp.

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Never did that in anything that
I was involved with nobody in

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mkp claimed to have invented any
of the rituals of processes that

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we took part it.
Now, there are months of

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negotiation between the mankind
project and Indigenous leaders.

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And I wasn't sure when, or if n
wta's would even return, I

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feared they would be so watered
down.

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If they did come back that the
power just wouldn't be there.

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They just kind of be this this
lame shell.

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Of what?
Once was a great thing.

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Now, I don't agree with all the
things that mkp, let go of

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doing, but I also wasn't there.
I was not part of the process.

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I have had no interaction with
Native Americans who were upset

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by what were Happening by things
that were happening on Louise

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these weekend's.
I do appreciate em, KPS attempt

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to have integrity to really
stand behind their intended

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consequences and the unintended
consequences of their trainings.

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When the end of you Tas were
scheduled.

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Again, I did not sign up to
staff.

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I wasn't sure what the changes
were.

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And if I was on board with
making any changes at all, but

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as I had previously step forward
to staff, they reached out and

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asked me if I would staff.
So, I decided to do so, and II

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was interested, I wanted to see
and have the experience of this

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updated weekend to see if it
was, you know, for better for

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worse or just, you know, maybe
had no impact at all.

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I don't know.
But I wanted to find Out that it

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was still powerful and was
something I could recommend to

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men again because though I staff
this past weekend.

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I did not promote it at all.
I did not invite any men to come

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do it because I wanted to make
sure it was worth doing darling.

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I didn't want to.
It's almost like inviting

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someone to see the sequel to a
movie when it's like half as

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good as the original and you're
just kind of telling them to

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come to the sequel because, you
know, everybody like the

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original but even though if I
know that the sequel's just

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crap, Real, my feels history
with the mankind project goes

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back.
A long ways.

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It was way back.
Episode 26, man, that sounds

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like fucking forever.
Go episode 26, we interviewed

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boys and Hodgson from the
mankind project.

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He's their communications
director.

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That was back in early days.
I'll be, oh Hunter was was still

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my co-host then.
And so we talked about him and

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that's really when I've learned
the first time I learned about

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this new or your training
Adventure weekend and they'll be

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a link to it in the show notes
and as fate would have it, It

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Boysen was in Massachusetts as
when the same, that's where I

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live.
And there was a weekend in

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Massachusetts, coming up in just
a few weeks and it was like 30

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minutes from my house.
So in the show, I agreed to do

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the weekend and I did.
And I also I did my traditional

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before and after videos that
have become kind of native two

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things I do.
So, they'll be a link for my

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before video, the day I was
leaving for it and my after

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video, and it's either, I think
it's the morning after I got

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home, and I just watch that
again today.

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And I'm just my voice is shot.
It's yeah, is funny anyways and

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get first-hand reports and I
don't give away what happens.

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I don't give it away Stone, you
know, if you go to the weekend

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now you go to the weekend, 10
years from now, you're not going

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to know what's different.
Just like if some of that did it

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in the freaking in the 80s is
very different from one, what I

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went through in 2016.
And so, you know, don't bother

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comparing, just just know that
you'll get what you need out of

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the weekend.
I believe that firmly So I did

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my before, and after videos and
then we also did a full real

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men, feel episode talking about,
again, my reported the weekend,

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my experiences, and my first
time I really recommend

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everyone, she do this.
And I've often joked that if I

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ever run for president, my, my
cat, a platform of my campaign

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will be that all men must
attend.

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The new Warrior training
Adventure weekend, so then I was

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really on board for that.
And then I stabbed about, six

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months later, in March of 2017,
I did my first Staffing also

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have had many many guests On
real men, feel have been through

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the weekend are active, or were
active at one point in the

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mankind project and sometimes
that's really part of the show.

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And sometimes that's just
something that we find it.

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We had in common after the show.
But so many of the best men, I

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meet have been through this
weekend.

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This new Warrior training
Adventure anyway, back to last

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weekend.
I staff.

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My first nwt, a since 2017.
And I did.

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So I did so because I so wanted
to fall in love.

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With the weekend.
Again, I wanted to find that

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despite any changes and
especially despite any opinion I

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had on those changes that this
was still a powerful potent

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weekend that I could recommend
to all men.

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It is.
I was flying high for four days

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knowing that they were 25 new
men in the world men with vision

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meaning and a mission men who
had grown healed and reclaimed

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the gold within them.
I wanted to staff this new

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Warrior training Adventure
weekend to see if it was still

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something.
I could hardly recommend two

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men.
Do it.

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Just fucking do it.
Don't look for details about

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what happens.
Don't go looking for a detailed

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reviews.
All of my videos are safe.

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I share only the experience.
I don't give details about what

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we go through, but you'll go on
a hero's journey.

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There will be times, you will
want to leave.

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You will want to quit.
If you're anything like me, you

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want to quit and leave, let that
be enough of description.

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Let the notion that you were
going to step forward for a

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challenging weekend, that will
benefit.

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You greatly Be enough.
And if you've done the weekend I

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highly recommend a staffing it
you'll get wins and insights at

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another level and seeing it from
the other side.

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Well, it just it just helps you
develop and grow and appreciate

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your experience as well.
And you'll make new friends with

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staff.
And with with new men, as well

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as reconnect with people that
perhaps, you know, we're on your

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weekend, depending where you
live, right?

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After my first Staffing, I shot
a video in my car before I drove

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home and I just started talking
about it.

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And it's maybe I just remember
being in tears, unplanned Tears,

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like immediately, and I expected
the same thing.

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Last Sunday.
I think, I even told her the men

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like.
Well, I'm now just sit in my car

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for a while and I'll start
talking about it and start

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crying to make a video, but
there were no tears.

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I just felt good.
I kept waiting for a few days.

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Waiting for the emotions to
Bubble Up to kind of well, me

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and then I'd do my little recap
but That that point never came

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so it allowed me to see my
growth since 2017.

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I can have a positive impact on
the weekend and help man grow.

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Without it being so emotional
that.

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When I finally X handle it go,
I'm not sobbing.

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All right.
Nothing wrong with that.

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I've done it plenty of times,
but it was, it was just

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interesting to see that.
That isn't the only way my

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experience has to end.
Right now.

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Plug-in new Warrior training
Adventure.com into a browser and

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you'll get a list of upcoming
weekend events around the globe.

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Pick one anyone and register.
And to be transparent.

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I don't even get a free t-shirt,
regardless of how many people

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you go there, how people sign up
and is, there's nothing.

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This is, this is me sharing
something that I firmly believe

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will help you tremendously.
And then we really both get what

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we want.
A better world. wherever you are

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