EP14: The Finish Line That Keeps Moving | Tripp Lanier

Most of us are waiting for permission. To relax, to take the risk, to finally live the life we keep telling ourselves we’ll get to once we retire, once the kids are grown, once we hit the number. Tripp Lanier calls it the finish line that keeps moving, and he’s spent more than twenty years coaching men who crossed it and found new problems waiting on the other side.Tripp is a men’s coach, host of The New Man Podcast, and author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous. In this conversation we get into why so many of us hit midlife running on a fraction of our power, what we have to let go of to move forward, and the difference between being genuinely burned out and being out of alignment.He also shares the question he asked one client about money and time that left the man in tears. It reframes a bargain a lot of us are making without noticing.This is not the guy yelling at us to dominate, and it’s not the guy asking us to perform our feelings on cue. It’s the ground in between.One note on a moment in the episode: when Tripp lays out the Hunter versus Prey idea, the quick version is that prey animals (deer, rabbits) have eyes on the sides of their heads, built to scan for danger, while hunters (predators) have eyes facing forward, locked on what they want. Most of us move through midlife like prey, playing not to lose. The call is to face forward.Find Tripp at triplanier.com and listen to The New Man Podcast at newmanpodcast.com.Against the Fade. Don’t fade.Against the Fade — For Men Who Refuse to Fade in MidlifeNew episodes every Tuesday.Newsletter & resources: https://againstthefade.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/againstthefadepodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@againstthefadepodcast X/Twitter: https://x.com/dontfadepodcast YouTube: https://youtube.com/@againstthefadepodcastA Second Summit Podcast.