The Next Stage Podcast by Sherpa5280 Rob Stout

Episode 8: The School of Hard Knocks 201 Wednesday, April 17, 2024. In a fallen world, hard knocks are the rule, not the exception, and in today’s podcast, Rob Stout presents the second in a series of shows focusing on overcoming the hard knocks of life. Today, Rob walks through the big question: Now What?
Now What #1: When you get knocked down, REACH OUT. Don’t medicate with isolation, drugs, alcohol, porn, food, or anything else. “Medicate” on God, because *he* is the ultimate medication that your body and soul needs in this moment. And/or, REACH OUT to a fellow man and go through this hard knock with somebody besides yourself.
Now What #2: When a friend gets knocked down, JUMP IN. Be the man who jumps into the pit with other men, and just be there. In this immediate moment, it’s less about diagnosing, diagramming, solving, or preaching, and more just about being there. If there is funny moment, laugh with. If there is a sad moment, cry with. If there is a wry or odd moment, ponder with. Whatever the moment needs, Jump In, and be with.
Now What #3: When you get knocked down, REACH UP. Reaching for an honest relationship with God is not religious Kleenex. Get real with God and take him at his offer – He really does want to be in relationship with you both during the great times on the beach and the painful times in the hospital, in the morgue, in the courtroom, with the pink slip….
Lean into what God says about your hard knock:
“Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our trouble… so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%201&version=ESV
“God heals the brokenhearted. He binds up their wounds.” – Psalm 147:3. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20147&version=ESV.
“I will never leave you or forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2013&version=ESV
 
For more information or to book personal time with host Rob Stout, visit www.Sherpa5280.com, or email TheNextStage@Sherpa5280.com.
About The Next Stage Podcast for Men. The Next Stage Podcast for Men is hosted by Rob Stout, a production of Sherpa 5280. To learn more about Rob Stout or Sherpa 5280 Personal Coaching visit www.Sherpa5280.com, or email TheNextStage@Sherpa5280.com.
About Sherpa5280 Personal Coaching for Men Imagine climbing a mountain and gradually discovering incredible panorama of peaks, lakes, snow drifts, and wildlife. It is as beautiful as it is daunting, because there are slippery footings, large boulders, hungry bob cats, and the air is only getting thinner. You resolve that that you’re not turning back. You are strong, capable, and a self-starter who has been going for it since you were a young boy.
What do you need? Well, you certainly don't need clichés and pity, but tips about hiking gear, crevasses, and generally not dying by someone who has hiked this path before and provides help, guidance, helpful tools, and a shot of good old fashion encouragement – that’s what we all need. You need what all the climbers who have summited the world’s tallest peaks need – a Sherpa.
Welcome to Sherpa5280. The climb we are talking about here is more than climbing a mountain. It's the climb called "your life." Sherpa 5280 brings elite level resources to help you "summit life's climb” of faithfully caring for yourself, caring for your loved ones, caring for your business and community colleagues, and fundamentally caring for yourself.
Whether you are that man, or there is a man in your life who needs resourcing to start the journey or, in some cases, get back on the journey after getting discouraged or sidetracked, let's get back on the trail today. Visit www.Sherpa5280.com or click here to book a free 30-m

Wednesday, April 3, 2024. In a fallen world, hard knocks are the rule, not the exception, and in today’s podcast, Rob Stout kicks off a series of shows focusing on overcoming the hard knocks of life. In this episode, Rob walks through two approaches to understanding hard knocks – the Elitist approach, and the Eeyore approach. Rob then identifies two important mental dispositions, or mindsets, that men must embrace in order get through the hard knock of the moment: (1) Embrace the suck, and (2) Call it joy.
For more information or to book personal time with host Rob Stout, visit www.Sherpa5280.com, or email TheNextStage@Sherpa5280.com. 

About The Next Stage Podcast for Men. 
The Next Stage Podcast for Men is hosted by Rob Stout, a production of Sherpa 5280. To learn more about Rob Stout or Sherpa 5280 Personal Coaching visit www.Sherpa5280.com, or email TheNextStage@Sherpa5280.com. 

About Sherpa5280 Personal Coaching for Men
Imagine climbing a mountain and gradually discovering incredible panorama of peaks, lakes, snow drifts, and wildlife. It is as beautiful as it is daunting, because there are slippery footings, large boulders, hungry bob cats, and the air is only getting thinner. You resolve that that you’re not turning back. You are strong, capable, and a self-starter who has been going for it since you were a young boy. 

What do you need? Well, you certainly don't need clichés and pity, but tips about hiking gear, crevasses, and generally not dying by someone who has hiked this path before and provides help, guidance, helpful tools, and a shot of good old fashion encouragement – that’s what we all need. You need what all the climbers who have summited the world’s tallest peaks need – a Sherpa.

Welcome to Sherpa5280. The climb we are talking about here is more than climbing a mountain. It's the climb called "your life." Sherpa 5280 brings elite level resources to help you "summit life's climb” of faithfully caring for yourself, caring for your loved ones, caring for your business and community colleagues, and fundamentally caring for yourself.

Whether you are that man, or there is a man in your life who needs resourcing to start the journey or, in some cases, get back on the journey after getting discouraged or sidetracked, let's get back on the trail today. Visit www.Sherpa5280.com or click here to book a free 30-minute online coffee with Rob Stout today (or real personal coffee appointment if you’re in Denver or live in or near where Rob regularly travels).

About Rob Stout
For over 30 years Rob Stout has helped men sojourn the journey of life. In addition to hosting The Next Stage, Rob also helps men "Summit Life's Climb" through his coaching practice.

Rob earned his undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University and masters degree from Denver Seminary where he specialized in leadership and organizational transformation. He is a Certified Life Coach and has certification from Life Coach Institute, accredited by the International Coaching Federation. 

Rob has served for over 30 years in leadership, teaching, and coaching roles in numerous business and non-profit organizations with a focus on helping men navigate some of life's most hazardous and strategically critical areas. Rob’s passion, experience, training, and wisdom makes him a well-equipped Sherpa to help a man summit life’s climb. 

Rob and Nicole have been married since 1994 and have three grown daughters. 

About Getting Even: Countering Life’s Hard Knocks, by Rob Stout. 
What do you do when life punches you in the gut and you’re faced with the hard knocks of life? Some men cower in the corner and medicate with drugs, sex, gaming, food, or diversions of choice. Others blame it all on someone or something. 

Getting Even: Countering Life’s Hard Knocks (LifeRich, 2020) meets a man in the middle of life’s hard knocks and embarks on a journey to fight back, reflect, recalibrate,

Wednesday, March 20, 2024. In 2020, Justin Morgan was in a downward spiral. Like the rest of the world, the Colorado Realtor was starting into the ugly face of a global pandemic where homes where not moving, forcing the young husband and father wonder if he was going to survive the storm.
Passion was not Justin’s problem. He passionately loved his family and helping Coloradans find great homes, but the path forward was now staring at a Goliath-size roadblock and as the pandemic dragged on and the world closed down, Justin began to suffer from a lack of perspective. Being a young professional meant that he could not remember the stock market recovering from Black Monday in 1987. He was too young to remember the recovery from the dot-com bust of 2000, the post-9/11 market turbulence of 2001, or the great recession of 2008.
Today on The Next Stage podcast, Justin Morgan shares how the pandemic taught him to seek out older men who can live a life of integration of passion, power, purpose, and perspective.
For more information or to book personal time with host Rob Stout, visit www.Sherpa5280.com, or email TheNextStage@Sherpa5280.com.
About Sherpa5280 Personal Coaching for Men Imagine climbing a mountain and gradually discovering incredible panorama of peaks, lakes, snow drifts, and wildlife. It is as beautiful as it is daunting, because there are slippery footings, large boulders, hungry bob cats, and the air is only getting thinner. You resolve that that you’re not turning back. You are strong, capable, and a self-starter who has been going for it since you were a young boy.
What do you need? Well, you certainly don't need clichés and pity, but tips about hiking gear, crevasses, and generally not dying by someone who has hiked this path before and provides help, guidance, helpful tools, and a shot of good old fashion encouragement – that’s what we all need. You need what all the climbers who have summited the world’s tallest peaks need – a Sherpa.
Welcome to Sherpa5280. The climb we are talking about here is more than climbing a mountain. It's the climb called "your life." Sherpa 5280 brings elite level resources to help you "summit life's climb” of faithfully caring for yourself, caring for your loved ones, caring for your business and community colleagues, and fundamentally caring for yourself.
Whether you are that man, or there is a man in your life who needs a needs resourcing to start the journey or, in some cases, get back on the journey after getting discouraged or side tracked, let's get back on the trail today. Visit www.Sherpa5280.com or click here to book a free 30 minute online coffee with Rob Stout today (or real personal coffee appointment if you’re in Denver or live in or near where Rob regularly travels).
About Rob Stout For over 30 years Rob Stout has helped men sojourn the journey of life. In addition to hosting The Next Stage, Rob also helps men "Summit Life's Climb" through his coaching practice.
Rob earned his undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University and masters degree from Denver Seminary where he specialized in leadership and organizational transformation. He is a Certified Life Coach and has certification from Life Coach Institute, accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
Rob has served for over 30 years in leadership, teaching, and coaching roles in numerous business and non-profit organizations with a focus on helping men navigate some of life's most hazardous and strategically critical areas. Rob’s passion, experience, training, and wisdom makes him a well-equipped Sherpa to help a man summit life’s climb.
Rob is the author of Getting Even: Countering Life’s Hard Knocks (LifeRich, 2020), available on Amazon.com, Kindle, and wherever books are sold. (See more information below.)
Rob and Nicole have been married since 1994 and have three grown daughters.
What do you do when life punches you in the gut and you’re faced with the hard kn

Wednesday, March 6, 2024. This is the Next Stage podcast with Rob Stout, a production of Sherpa 5280. https://Sherpa5280.com.
Episode 5 is the final installation of a four-part series on a man’s Passion, Power, Purpose, and Perspective. Today we’re talking about the skill of focusing correctly in order to build better perspective as husbands, fathers, and marketplace leaders.
The Big Idea: In order to gain perspective, you have to have the right time, the right person, and the right source.
For more information or to book personal time with host Rob Stout, visit www.Sherpa5280.com, or email TheNextStage@Sherpa5280.com.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024. This is the Next Stage podcast with Rob Stout, a production of Sherpa 5280.
In a culture that reduces happiness to an empty platitude of looking inside for one's meaning, it is no surprise that men are struggling for purpose. We want life purpose and of course, positive purpose. But what is meant when we hear the culture say, "You do you"? Who am I, so that I can know what I'm suppose to do in order for "me to do me"?
It is more important than ever for a man to be able to define not only his purpose, but objectively discern and eliminate what his purpose is not. Today on the Next Stage, Rob Stout talks about the imperative of understanding one's purpose and the skill sets of identifying and pursuing that purpose.
It's all about how you can lead better and safer for you, your family, your business, and your community as you summit life’s climb. Today's broadcast is the third installment in a series on the Four Foundations of manhood: Passion (episode 1), Power (episode 2), Purpose (today's episode), and Perspective (episode for 3/6/24). We're delighted that you can join us today.
For more information or to book personal time with host Rob Stout, visit www.Sherpa5280.com, or email TheNextStage@Sherpa5280.com.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024. This is the Next Stage podcast with Rob Stout, a production of Sherpa 5280.
In a culture that often caricatures masculine power as intrinsically “toxic,” it is more important than ever to understand both the opportunity and the hazard of a man’s unique power and influence at home, work, and public life. You are that leader and the challenge before you is to manage and steward that power appropriately. Today on the Next Stage, Rob Stout talks about the hazards and hope of power, and the challenge that every man has to steward power well. It's all about how you can lead better and safer for you, your family, your business, and your community as you summit life’s climb.
Today's broadcast is the second installment in a series on the Four Foundations of manhood: Passion, Power, Purpose, and Perspective.
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