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Being a Man: Modern Manhood, Ancient Wisdom & Purpose, The soul's journey for men

Being a Man: Modern Manhood, Ancient Wisdom & Purpose, The soul's journey for men

Maurizio Rosini, MyMasterMan 4 Episodes Jul 17, 2026

Being a Man is a weekly seven-minute conversation for high-performing men who want more than success. Each episode takes timeless ideas from great philosophers, the Stoics, and history's most grounded leaders, and brings them into the life you are actually living. The show explores the inner world most men were never taught to explore: the soul's journey, the nature of our choices, and what it truly means to be a man today. Hosted by Maurizio Rosini, founder of MyMasterMan, a global brotherhood and coaching movement for men.

Episodes

Welcome to Being a Man
Welcome to Being a Man Jul 17, 2026 31 Modern manhood, ancient wisdom, and the search for purpose. A new weekly podcast for high performing men who have built a life that works, and still feel that something real is missing.Being a Man is a short weekly conversation hosted by Maurizio Rosini, founder of MyMasterMan. Every episode takes a timeless idea from the great philosophers, the Stoics, and history's most grounded leaders, and bri
The Man Who Had Everything and Felt Nothing
The Man Who Had Everything and Felt Nothing Jul 17, 2026 328 He closed the biggest deal of his life and felt absolutely nothing. If you have ever won everything you aimed for and still felt empty, this episode is for you.In the first episode of Being a Man, Maurizio Rosini explores one of the most common and least discussed experiences among high performing men: the emptiness that arrives after success. Through the words of Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic philos
The Disciplined Man Who Was Actually Running
The Disciplined Man Who Was Actually Running Jul 17, 2026 295 He had not taken a day off in four years, and he said it like it was a medal. But sometimes discipline is just avoidance with better public relations. This episode is about the difference.In this episode of Being a Man, Maurizio Rosini looks at one of the most respected traits in a man, discipline, and asks a harder question: is yours carrying you toward the life you want, or just keeping you movi
A Thousand Contacts and No One to Call
A Thousand Contacts and No One to Call Jul 17, 2026 286 Two thousand contacts in his phone, and not one person he could call at two in the morning. This episode is about the quiet loneliness almost no successful man will admit to.In this episode of Being a Man, Maurizio Rosini explores one of the most painful and least talked about realities of modern manhood: the loneliness of the successful man. A man can be surrounded by people and completely alone.
This Yours? The Slave Who Was Freer Than Emperors
This Yours? The Slave Who Was Freer Than Emperors Jul 24, 2026 288 Some things are up to you, and some things are not. A Roman slave named Epictetus built his freedom on those nine words, while the emperors who owned him stayed prisoners. This episode is about the addiction almost every successful man carries: control.In this episode of Being a Man, we go straight at why the most controlling men feel the most out of control. Through the Stoic philosopher Epictetu
You Don't Get the Same River Twice
You Don't Get the Same River Twice Jul 29, 2026 331 "No man ever steps in the same river twice," Heraclitus said it twenty-five centuries ago, and it should stop every father cold. The child who wants your attention tonight will never exist again. This episode is about the difference between being present and just being there.In this episode of Being a Man, we look at the quiet heartbreak of the successful modern father: confusing attendance with p
The Question He Chose to Die For
The Question He Chose to Die For Aug 5, 2026 353 An old man in Athens was offered his life if he would stop asking one question. He chose to die instead. The question: are you actually living your life, or just sleeping through it? This episode is about the most dangerous mode a man can live in — autopilot.In this episode of Being a Man, we confront how capable men accumulate lives they never actually chose, one reasonable step at a time. Throug
Comfort Is Making You Soft
Comfort Is Making You Soft Aug 11, 2026 280 A Roman teacher told his students to choose cold, choose hunger, choose the harder road on purpose. Not because suffering is holy, but because a man who has never chosen discomfort will be destroyed by the discomfort he does not choose.In this episode of Being a Man, we look at what a frictionless life is quietly doing to modern men. Comfort is not neutral. Comfort is training. Every easy option t
You Are Not a Man Who Has a Soul
You Are Not a Man Who Has a Soul Aug 14, 2026 264 You are not a man who has a soul. You are a soul, temporarily wearing a man. This episode is about what changes the moment that stops being a nice phrase and becomes something you actually live from.Most men run their lives from the opposite direction: I am this body, this title, this bank balance, this reputation. And if that is all a man is, then every threat to any of it becomes a threat to his
The Man in the Barrel Had More Than You
The Man in the Barrel Had More Than You Aug 18, 2026 259 A Greek philosopher lived in a clay jar, owned a cloak and a stick, and was the one man in the ancient world nobody could buy. When Alexander the Great offered him anything he wanted, he asked him to step out of his sunlight.In this episode of Being a Man, Diogenes becomes a mirror for the modern high performer. His argument was simple, and it still cuts: every possession you own owns a piece of y
Nothing Was Ever Punishment
Nothing Was Ever Punishment Aug 21, 2026 271 God has never punished you. Not once. This episode is for every man who has quietly asked what he did to deserve the collapse, the diagnosis, the ending, the years he cannot account for.In this episode of Being a Man, we take on the belief running underneath most male suffering: that hardship is either random misfortune or punishment, which makes it meaningless either way. The alternative is not a

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