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The Mythic Masculine

by Ian MacKenzie

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#89 | Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Village - Jasper Sircus

October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

My guest today is Jasper Sircus - a longtime friend, musician, and father of two, whose background spans community building, cultural anthropology, and mental health work with youth. He is currently completing a master’s in Counselling…
#88 | The Work of Intimacy - Jayson Gaddis (Getting to Zero)

September 11, 2026 · 53 min

Just in time for the weekend, a conversation from the vault (actually recorded 2 years ago, but freshly published now). My guest today is Jayson Gaddis, founder of The Relationship School, which he co-teaches with his wife. He is the…
The Deep Masculine: The Wild Man Is Calling

August 30, 2026 · 7 min

Can you feel it? Already the summer heat is ebbing. Walking the trail near my house, I see the first leaves curling at the edges, turning toward brown and gold. I am not ready for the season to change, and yet I know it must. With the…
#87 | The Wisdom of the Odyssey - Phil Cousineau

August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

Fresh off the first Cascadia Men’s Conference, I’m pleased to share my first long-form podcast episode in some months. Right now, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is storming around the world, a $1.3 billion phenomenon that has returned…
Dougie MacKay On Finn McCool and the Salmon of Wisdom

July 13, 2026 · 35 min

A few years back, I hosted Dougie Mackay at my home on Vancouver Island for some pizza and a televised hockey game. I’d just caught his show in town and was struck by how he illuminated the wingspan of a story - the way it could carry an…

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Satyen Raja On Presence, Purpose and Answering the Call

July 7, 2026 · 27 min

We’re just under 30 days out from my upcoming Cascadia Men’s Conference, a first-of-its-kind mythopoetic gathering happening August 6-9 in the Squamish Valley, north of Vancouver. In the lead up, I’ve been hosting live conversations with…
The Second Fire: 1:1 Mentorship for the Midlife Passage

June 1, 2026 · 7 min

Two decades ago, I graduated university. I took a job writing copy for a small online business that rented holiday properties, and my role was to add content for the search engines to bring in traffic. It was a 9-to-5 kind of thing. I…
Trans Masculinity and the Stewardship of Men's Work: A Guide

May 6, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

We have reached the final episode of the series:”Trans Men: In Their Own Words”. This conversation began with Episode #1, looking at the collective cultural moment with The Seed and the Soil. We explored how trans folk represent a…
Stories of Transition and the Journey of the Soul

April 8, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

Last week, I released Part One (you can listen here). This series grew from a seed - a conversation with Emmanuel H. Brown. Emmanuel has been navigating his own journey, seeking out the places where manhood and masculinity might be…
Awakening the Wild Erotic: A Ritual Reclamation (April 24-26)

April 2, 2026 · 14 min

To brood is to wander through a grovewhere one sheep straysand a hundred wolves follow. Why did I make brooding my vocationwhen AWE was an option? Thought spinner, mull the wine of wonder. - RUMI Three years ago, my colleague Deus and I…
The Trickster Medicine of Trans Masculinity

March 31, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and right moment to kick off this new series on The Mythic Masculine. It didn’t grow out of a plan; it grew out of a message from a trans man named Emmanuel H. Brown. Emmanuel was…
#86 | Trump, Tate and Taming Your Inner Dragon - David Sutcliffe

February 27, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

My guest today is David Sutcliffe, a somatic psychotherapist and former actor who has stepped off the red carpets of Hollywood to venture into the deeper landscapes of the masculine soul. David is something of an enigma to me. He’s a…