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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey, Welcome back everyone to the Felix Black Show podcast.
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great content coming from the Felix Black Show. Today, I
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want to talk about leadership again in relationships. We have
to continue to talk about this to normalize men being
the leaders in a relationship. First of all, I want
to talk to the men. We have to stop. We
have to stop expecting a woman to lower her standards
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for a man who cannot provide what she needs. How
do you do that? First, you take care of yourself. Men,
our focus should be work. It should be providing for ourselves.
That way we become more attractive to women. We should
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be providing. We should be able to take care of
ourselves before we include anyone else into our lives. In
addition to providing, is that emotional intelligence. This is how
I know that men are supposed to be in the
leadership position in a relationship. We have to develop that
emotional intelligence. Women do too, but definitely men. We have
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to develop that being emotional being irrational based on our
emotions is not a natural male trait. Naturally we are aggressors,
we are protectors, we are the decision makers, the problem solvers.
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So that's how I know that we should be outfront.
You as a man, should be outfront once we're when
we're younger, When we're in our younger years, us as men,
we focus on the attention of women and harder how
to garner that attention.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We dress ourselves up, We want to get a car,
we want to get named brands, we want to look
a certain way, and we think that that's what women want. Initially,
that may be what they want, but for long term,
and you know, everyone's goal is usually long term happiness.
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The long term happiness is going to come with the
stability that a man is going to provide. If we're
spending three thousand dollars on a belt buckle a jacket,
but yet we still live at home with our parents
or we're CouchSurfing, it's not stability. It may not be
beautiful in the beginning, when you're in your twenties, when
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you're out and you're going to the club and you're
experiencing life. Yes, you have the older generations telling you
stop chasing those skirts, chase the money. When we say
chase the money, we mean chase your quality of life,
establish your quality of life. So then now you can
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set a standard for anyone that you involve in your life.
You cannot project a sense of stability, a sense of
success through these high dollar value items when you don't
really have the wealth.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's easy to buy a.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Three thousand dollars jacket when you're not paying any rent.
But if you're a homeowner that has a four thousand
dollars mortgage, you might think a little bit differently about
that three thousand dollars jacket. Anybody who's in homeowner knows
what comes with that. We've got lights, electricity, you have
things that go wrong with the home. That is one
of our responsibilities, providing, shelter, providing. So when we are
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saying to our younger generations to chase the money, the
women will follow. They follow the money. They're following you
because you are projecting a level of success that you
actually don't have. So that's what turns a lot of
women off. Yes, you look nice, you look the part,
but what are you doing after the lights and the
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club go off.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Are you going to your own place or are you
going to your friend's couch. Now, I am not to
say if you don't have a home, you're a loser.
That's not what I'm saying. You should have an apartment.
We can start as having roommates when you're younger. You're
chasing the money, you're chasing the success. You can have
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a roommate. Then you graduate to your own apartment. Then
you graduate to your own home. That's where you should
be at. That's where you should be in order to
call yourself a provider. You should have your own could
be an apartment, could be a home. You could be renting,
you could be owning. You have your own. Once you
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establish that you have your own, you understand everything depends
on you.
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The rent being.
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Paid, the insurance being paid, your car note being paid,
electricity cable, all of that depends on you without help.
Once you start to live your lifestyle, you can pay
all of your bills comfortably and still maintain and afford
the three thousand dollars jacket. Now you have a level
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of success. Now you can incorporate someone else, a woman,
into that life.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You can't incorporate a woman.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
If you're sleeping on someone else's couch, you can't do
that supposed to do that. So this is where we
get the women who jump into those leadership positions because
men aren't providing for them. It's unfortunate that they have
to do that. It's unfortunate women that you all have
to do that. But I understand you have to do that.
Some mean you have children you have to take care of,
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and if men aren't stepping up to the plate to
do their part, you have to do what you have
to do. I totally agree with that, totally. I don't
have any problems there.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Where.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
My problem comes with just like I just told the men,
we get to a certain level of stability in our
own lives absence of a woman. I have a level
of stability in my life now, I can pay my
bills comfortably, i can do what I want to do,
go where I want to go. I'm ready to incorporate
someone else. This is where even if you are a
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woman who's used to making those decisions and used to
leading in your everyday life, you have a decision to make.
You have a decision either you want to lead, follow,
or get out of the way. A man who has
built himself up solo, who is leading his own life
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is not going to let you come in and take
that over. He's not legit if he lets that happen.
What he's going to do is going to provide a
list of rules, a list of expectations, the same way you,
as a woman, have expectations. You better have some because
we have them. We have our expectations. We see if
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our expectations meet, if they align, and then we start
the relationship. A man who's a leader doesn't need a leader.
We don't need that. What do we need. We need
consult we need affection, we need nurturing, we need love.
The world looks at men and we are strong, we're tough.
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We have to be that way to provide for ourselves
and to provide for you all. We have to be
that way, and we're okay with that. Where we don't
have to be that way is at home. We can
come in. Our job is done, our home is safe
and secure. Everybody is living their life to the highest
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standard that they can at that time, and so now
we can take a break from being the tough, the
strong man, and we can be vulnerable. We can open
up just a little bit at home with the woman
that is taking care of us. We need that support,
We want that support. We don't want to come home
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and be told what to do. We already know what
to do. We want to assist you in anything that
you need, your emotional needs, your physical needs. And we
also want to be able to share our day, our thoughts,
our feelings, and we want to know that those really
matter to you and that you're going to do whatever
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it is you need to do to make me feel comfort,
to recharge me to go out and face the world
again the next day. It's just it's a cycle that happens.
Too many women want to be the partner. Scratch that,
too many women want to be the leader. I'm just
going to say the word, the leader. What do you
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get out of leading a man? A grown adult man.
You may have your own everything, your own home, your
own car, so do I Who is going to sacrifice
their home, their vehicle, their independence more you are if
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you want to be in a relationship with a provider
of a man, you are going to have to do that.
You're gonna have to give up your apartment, your home
to move in with him. Men should never move in
with a woman.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Never.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Never, We should only be borrowing her car. If our
car is in the shop, it's getting repaired. We are
the ones when her car breaks down on the side
of the road, we go to her. Hey, take my car,
you go home, go to work, whatever it is you
need to do. I'll stay here with this vehicle and
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get it repaired. That's what we do. So when you
want a chivalrous man, when you want a gentlemanly man,
what are we receiving. I can't be chivalrous to another man.
I'm chivalrous to a woman. That is the origin of nights.
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Being gentlemanly and distinguished towards women, Showing customs and courtesies
to a woman. That is the originality of chivalry. Understand
what it is. It is not something that you are
granted because you are a woman. It's something that you
are granted because you are a woman of distinction, a
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woman of respect, a woman of class, a woman. Once
you try to be me, once you try to be
a man, you're going to diminish the amount of chivalry
a man wants to show you. We are not used
to protecting men in the sense that we protect women.
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When it calls for us to be protectors of our ladies,
of our wives, of our girlfriends. That is different than
us protecting our male friends. We don't want anything that
happen to you bad. We don't want any negativity to
come your way. We want to shield you from all
of that. We look at you as strong yet ladylike
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figures who can be taken advantage of, who are emotional,
who are very soft. But that doesn't mean you're weak,
that doesn't mean that you're inferior. You have a different
level of toughness that you all can endure.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You endure what is.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Required of you the same way we endure what is
required of us as men. We are strong together. We
get caught up in if I'm the leader, that means
that you are less than me, you are inferior to me. No,
someone has to be making those decisions, those tough decisions.
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I listen to the console.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The woman I'm with has more confidence from me than
anyone else walking this planet, anyone else. I believe in her.
She's not gonna steer me down a road of inadequacy
or stare me down the wrong road. That's the level
of trust we put in women. We want to have
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the same trust from you. Relationships are a gamble both parties.
Both parties share some level of vulnerability. Don't think because
we're a man and we're in a relationship with you
that we don't share a level of vulnerability, because we do.
We want to open up you, guys want us to
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open up. We want to about certain things because we
understand there's an image that our woman has of us,
and we want to maintain that image of strength. We
never want to look weak in front of our woman.
That's something that we just want. We want to be
that way for her so she doesn't have to worry
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about it being weak and being vulnerable to different things.
We want to be able to open up. We want
to be able to share because society has shown us
that it is not for a man to share openly.
We're getting better with that, but it's still not fully
something men are going to do. We wait till we
get home to do that. But we need that softness,
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We need the yin to our yang in order to
open up and to share more. So allow us to
do that. When we talk leadership, men are the natural leaders.
We are natural leaders in the world. We are animals.
People forget that we're animals. The men are bigger, faster, stronger.
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That's just the way that it is. And in our species,
the men are the leaders. Why do women look for
a tall man? Why do women look for specific features
of a man to procreate with that man and create
children in both of their images. That's what it is.
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So the way that we appeal to women, my fellow men, stability.
If you appeal to their need for stability.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You won't have to chase. You won't have to chase.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
They will let you know they want to be a
part of your world. We will talk about showcasing your
availability in your stability in another video. Men are the
leaders in the relationship. Stop with thinking not being a
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leader makes you inferior.
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It does not.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Someone has to be the final decision maker. It should
be a man. And if a man is wanting that position,
why are you arguing against that?
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Why are you not okay with that?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What is wrong with giving him that responsibility. You still
have a voice, You still are a part of everything
we do. No leaders makes decisions in a vacuum. We
do not make decisions by ourselves in any industry. A leader,
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a good leader, takes in information and still makes the
best decision. Our leadership also can be managed, so as
a woman, you can manage your man. Keep things away
from him that you know will burden him more, Handle
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things that you can handle that don't burden him more.
Because we do the same for you as a woman.
We try to keep as many things off your plate
as we can so you can focus on us, on
the family, on the children, because I know that's what
women want to do. Women relish the ability, the opportunity
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to raise a family and to be the glue in
that family. I want you to do that, So we
want to we want to minimize those distractions that.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You have from that.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
We take a lot, We take a lot of distractions
off your plate willingly and gladly. So my question is,
when you have a man who wants to be a leader,
why don't you let him lead? No leader is perfect.
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So if you're thinking he's going to make the absolute
right decision every single time, no, that's called trust, that's
called building. You don't make the right decision every single time,
So how can you expect me to do that as
a leader in this relationship? If you have a man
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who wants to lead. Why won't you let him lead?
Why won't you afford him that opportunity to show you
that he is able to lead if his life is
in order, his own life is in order. What makes
you think that he can't provide you with some leadership,
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some guidance in your life. You can provide me with
some also, I'm not above learning, but I am the lead.
I am in front of the family. There is no
debating that. And so why has that become a Why
has that become a debate? A debate with men who
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are able to lead. If a man isn't able to lead,
of course you have that. I understand that. But when
he is able to lead, now what is the problem?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
What is your issue? That's what I want answer, That's
what I want to hear about. This has been the
feelings of Black Podcast talking about leadership in relationships. Men develop
yourselves to be able to lead yourself and lead a family,
and women afford the right man in the opportunity to lead,
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and I think we'll all be in a better place.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'll see y'all in the next one.