GoodGuys2GreatMen Video Podcast

Who Says You Need to Grow a Pair? (FREE QUIZ)

Dan Dore & Steve Horsmon • 2m 3s • 29 January 2022

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Who Says You Need to Grow a Pair? (FREE QUIZ)
Video overview: If you’ve been wondering where your confidence, masculine presence, or relationship leadership has gone weak, this scorecard will show you where to look. This video points you toward a simple way to get honest with yourself, see what needs work, and start building the kind of strength your life and marriage are asking from you.

A lot of men know something is off long before they know what to do about it.

You can feel it in your marriage. You can feel it in your confidence. You can feel it in the way you respond when your wife is upset, distant, critical, or uninterested.

You may not have the words for it yet, but you know you’re not showing up as the man you want to be.

Maybe you’ve become more reactive than you used to be. Maybe you avoid hard conversations because you don’t want to make things worse. Maybe you’ve lost your sense of direction. Maybe your wife’s mood has become the thing that decides whether you feel strong or weak that day.

That’s a painful place to live.

And it’s even more painful when you keep trying to fix the outside situation without understanding what’s happening inside you.

That’s why we created the Good Guys to Great Men Masculine Mastery Scorecard. It’s not a personality test. It’s not a cute quiz. It’s not something designed to make you feel bad or give you another label.

It’s a mirror.

It helps you look at the areas of your life where you may have stopped leading yourself. It helps you see where your confidence, clarity, purpose, emotional strength, and relationship skills may need attention.

And brother, that kind of honesty is powerful.

Most men spend years trying to guess what’s wrong. They think the problem is their wife’s lack of affection. Or the sexless marriage. Or the arguments. Or the resentment. Or the fact that she doesn’t seem to respect them anymore.

Those things matter. I’m not minimizing any of that.

But many times, those painful relationship problems are pointing toward something deeper in the man.

Has he lost his center?

Has he stopped trusting himself?

Has he become too dependent on her approval?

Has he stopped telling the truth?

Has he become passive, pleasing, resentful, or afraid?

Has he forgotten what kind of man he actually wants to become?

Those are the questions that change things.

Because once you can see where you are, you can start choosing where to go.

That is the whole point.

The Masculine Mastery Scorecard gives you a way to stop swimming in vague frustration and start getting specific. It helps you see the parts of your inner game that may be affecting the outer game of your marriage, your work, your health, your energy, and your confidence.

A man cannot improve what he refuses to look at.

But he also does not need to beat himself up when he looks.

This work is not about shame. It is not about calling yourself weak. It is not about proving you’re broken.

It’s about telling the truth with enough courage to do something useful with it.

That’s what separates a man who stays stuck from a man who grows.

The stuck man keeps waiting for life to feel better before he changes. He waits for his wife to soften. He waits for more sex. He waits for more respect. He waits for his confidence to magically come back.

The growing man gets curious.

He asks, “Where am I not leading myself?”

He asks, “Where am I giving my power away?”

He asks, “Where am I reacting from fear instead of choosing from strength?”

He asks, “What would it look like to become a man I deeply respect?”

Those questions are not always comfortable.

But they are clean.

And they give you a path.

We’re also sharing the Love Secret Revealed Summit recordings as a free resource because I want you to keep learning. I want you to hear different conversations, different perspectives, and different ways of understanding love, connection, intimacy, and personal growth.

But don’t just collect information.

That’s another trap men fall into.

They read the books, watch the videos, listen to the podcasts, take the quizzes, and still don’t change the way they show up at home.

Use these resources as a doorway into action.

Let the scorecard show you where you need to get more honest. Let the summit conversations stretch your thinking. Let this be more than another thing you consume while your marriage, confidence, and self-respect keep drifting.

The real work begins when something in you says, “Enough guessing. Enough waiting. Enough blaming. Enough hoping she changes first.”

That’s when a man starts to grow.

He starts becoming clearer. Stronger. More grounded. More emotionally mature. More willing to tell the truth. More able to create connection without needing his wife to make him feel okay first.

That is masculine mastery in real life.

Not perfection.

Not performance.

Not pretending to be some fearless man who never struggles.

It’s the willingness to look honestly at who you’re being and choose the next better version of yourself with intention.

That is what I want for you.

Use the scorecard. Have fun with it. Be honest with it. Let it show you the places where your next level of confidence, leadership, and love is waiting for you.

Then do something with what you see.

Because your life will not change just because you understand more.

It changes when you become the man who acts on what he now understands.

See where your strength needs work

If the scorecard shows you places where you’ve lost confidence, clarity, or leadership, we can help you work through them with honesty and support. You don’t have to figure this out alone — this is exactly the kind of work men do best with other men.

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About the Hosts

Steve Horsmon & Dan Dore | Certified Professional Men’s Coach

Steve Horsmon and Dan Dore have spent over a decade supporting good men who are confused, frustrated, and afraid that their marriages and families are falling apart with no idea what to do about it. We've both experienced the same emotions that you're going through now. We know what it feels like to try all the mainstream try harder, be nicer advice while watching things continue to get worse. And that's exactly why Goodguys2Greatmen exists. Since 2012, we've coached thousands of men through some of the hardest periods of their lives; marriage breakdown, emotional distance, sexless relationships, fears of divorce or separation. We focus on practical solutions to help you survive some of the most challenging and painful experiences that a man can go through. This podcast is for men who are done waiting for their life and relationships to improve and are ready to make some bold decisions so that you become more calm and confident and start moving toward what you really want.