009 What is Integrity?

<h1>How to live with Integrity</h1> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">In this episode, I venture into and explore something very close to my heart - and head and balls - and that is: INTEGRITY.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">It is my highest values, because, for me, everything else is determined by this. If I don’t have that, then all my other values don’t really get a chance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Join me as I share some personal stories - including the first one in which as a younger man I fell into a common trap; lying to someone a liked and pulling myself right out of integrity in doing so.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">I take you through what integrity actually is, how to assess it, and how to understand it on a deeper level so that if we fall out of it we can navigate our way back in.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">I visit a story about a time my now father-in-law hit me with a daunting question in front of his (Nardia’s) family, well before I was even close to being a permanent fixture;</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400">“What are your intentions with our Nardia?”</span></i></p> <p><b>* GULP*</b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Tune in to see how I handled this. Quite fucking excellently, I might add.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">I call on this story often in teaching about integrity because regardless of the answer I shared, what the key point sticks to is -</span> <i><span style= "font-weight: 400">can I be honest here regardless of what that honesty entails?</span></i></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">I venture into some of the nature of men and the masculine in how we have this need to test each other, and essentially what we’re doing is testing the strength, the</span> <i><span style= "font-weight: 400">dependability</span></i> <span style= "font-weight: 400">of those men we go into battle (hunt) with.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">If you’re a man struggling to understand yourself, wanting