Nick Freitas

I want to be strong and capable for my wife.

I want to be strong and capable for my children.

And I want to be strong and capable for my country.

And that's what actually gives you true identity, meaning, and purpose.

It's not just chasing frivolous things.

There's nothing wrong with having the nice car.

There's nothing wrong with having the nice house or the good career.

But what we find is that.

We are not made happy by the toys that we accumulate.

We're not even ultimately made happy by the freedoms that we have.

Freedom may be a necessary component.

It's not a sufficient one.

We're made happy by the noble responsibilities that we take on.

And that's what we need more of.

We need more young men to be able to find places to not only develop those capabilities, but to actually develop them toward a purpose that will give them genuine identity and meaning.

I think the first thing that we have to do is we have to acknowledge something.

Part of the reason why some of the people within that sphere have gained such ground with young men is because they showed up and defended them when a lot of Christian, when a lot of conservatives, when a lot of other people in this space were not defending them, right?

The constant message they heard from the right was, well, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

And we weren't actually acknowledging that from the moment they entered elementary school, they were being told they sucked by society.

And instead of coming along and defending them and saying that was wrong,