The conversation about masculinity is stuck between backlash and overcorrection. If you are a man who was raised to walk it off, stuff it down and stay the strong silent type, this one names the cost of that training without shaming you for it.

Mike Cobb talks about growing up inside a culture that taught compartmentalising, why bottled emotion always finds an exit, and how asking why three or four layers deep changes both leadership and self-knowledge. You will leave with a working definition of manhood built on responsibility and legacy rather than silence.

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Mike Cobb grew up in northwest Pennsylvania and spent thirteen years in the computer business before moving into mortgage, banking and then real estate development and timber in Central America. He lived in Nicaragua for fourteen years with his wife and two daughters and still runs three businesses across Central America and the Caribbean.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Manhood as Mike defines it: taking responsibility for your actions and owning the outcomes.
Success is what you build for yourself. Significance is what you leave for others.
Suppressed emotion is stored energy. It leaves the body eventually, one way or another.
Ask why three or four times and you move from logic into the emotional reason underneath.
Active listening means no rehearsing your reply. Reflect it back before you respond.
Pausing is allowed. A safe room lets a man say let me think and return with better.
The first honest step is wanting to peel the layers back, discomfort included.

CONNECT WITH THE GUEST:

Email: podcast@ecidevelopment.com (mention you heard him on Mind Over Masculinity)

Website: https://michaelkcobb.com

Company: https://ecidevelopment.com

EPISODE CHAPTERS:

[00:00] What does it mean to be a man today, asked without the reactivity

[01:04] From Pennsylvania to Nicaragua: fourteen years as an expat father and builder

[02:19] Success versus significance, and leaving the wood pile a little higher

[04:42] What men of his generation are still most afraid to say out loud

[07:23] Duck and cover, homework, and how a generation learned to compartmentalise

[10:56] Peeling the onion: how asking why keeps opening people up at work

[16:33] Active listening, breathing, and why the pause is the whole skill

[21:06] The first honest thing a man can do today, and where to reach Mike

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