Ascent for Men

Most men aren't failing because they're weak. They're failing because nobody told them who they're supposed to be.Ascent for Men is a weekly podcast hosted by Jesse Carstairs and Adam Tyler Free, two faith driven coaches committed to helping men stop coasting and start leading. Every week they sit down for raw, unfiltered conversations about faith, identity, marriage, fatherhood, and what it actually looks like to become the man God made you to be.No fluff. No performance. Just truth.New episodes every week. Subscribe and join the ascent.

Ascent for Men is a education podcast hosted by Jesse Carstairs, Adam Tyler Free, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jesse Carstairs, Adam Tyler Free hosts Ascent for Men, a education show with 17 episodes published.

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  Your Wife Is Begging You to Outman Her And You Keep Letting Her Down

  Sep 15, 202631 min

  Adam posted on social media: "Your wife is begging you to outman her." Men lost their minds. The ones who got the most offended were the ones who needed it the most. In this episode, Jesse Carstairs and Adam Free break down what masculine energy actually looks like in a marriage, not the performative tough guy version, but the biblical one and why so many men are walking in feminine energy without even knowing it. They cover why men raised in female-dominated households absorb feminine communication patterns and carry them straight into their marriages, how Adam's wife Jade became more direct and more masculine because Adam talked in circles and hid things and how he built that trait in her without realizing it, why Jesus spoke in parables to crowds but was razor-sharp, direct, and blunt when talking to his disciples one-on-one and what that means for how you communicate with your wife, why men who over explain, get defensive, and take everything personally are operating in feminine energy and don't know it, why your wife's trauma from before she met you is still your responsibility and why "she had a hard past" is not an excuse, how to give your wife emotional reps that start shifting the culture of your home this week, and Mark 10:45 the one verse Jesse says most men haven't memorized but need to. In your four walls, in your wife's heart, she already knows whether this episode is about you. The question is whether you're willing to find out too. New episode every Tuesday. Send this to a man whose wife is running his home.

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  You Can't Be Righteously Angry About Child Trafficking and Watch Pornography on the Same Phone

  Sep 2, 202634 min

  You post about Epstein. You share the trafficking headlines. You're angry about AI-generated child pornography being legalized. And then you open an incognito tab. Jesse and Adam are done letting that contradiction go unnamed. In this episode, they connect the dots between personal sin and cultural collapse — and make the case that the reason nothing changes out there is because most men haven't dealt with what's in here. They cover why men who watch pornography cannot be righteously angry about child trafficking — and why that hypocrisy is exactly why nobody does anything, why three generations of passive men is how you get a government that legalizes AI-generated child pornography, why Jesse doesn't put his sons on social media — and what AI is doing with the photos you post of your kids right now, why a pornography-addicted brain shows the same damage as an active heroin user, Jordan Peterson's first rule applied to the man who wants to fix the culture before he's fixed his own house, Adam's account of his grandfather, his father, and the moment he threw his hands up and told God — don't move me out of the way, and Jesse's story of a father who didn't know his own father and killed himself when Jesse was eighteen months old — and why his sons will never be able to say what Jesse grew up hearing. The curse stops with the man who picks up the Bible and doesn't put it down. That man can be you. October 19th to 22nd. Santa Rosa Beach. The next retreat. Seats are almost gone. Apply at theascentformen.com. New episode every Tuesday. Send this to a man who is angry at the world but hasn't dealt with his own four walls.

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  We Put 10 Men in the Mountains for Four Days, Here's What Actually Happened

  Aug 25, 202626 min

  They weren't planning another one for six months. They got home Thursday and by the weekend they were already building the next one. That tells you everything you need to know about how the retreat went. In this episode, Jesse Carstairs and Adam Free recap the first Ascent for Men retreat, four days in the mountains, no itinerary, no junk food, no escape routes, and no man walked away the same. They cover three hours on a dock in the Tahoe Keys talking about identity in Christ and why they couldn't stop, why there was no itinerary and why that was exactly the point, the walks after every meal and the science behind why they worked, a 62 year old and a former gang unit officer getting after it in a CrossFit class together, the moment men realized their stories were not unique and why that's the most freeing thing they heard all week, how to tell the difference between God's voice and the enemy's and why one of them always makes you feel like you're not enough, the father who brought his son and what his son watched him do in that room, and why the next retreat in October is already going to have a waitlist. This is not a conference. There are no name tags and keynote speakers. It's four days of real men, real food, real Bible, and no place to hide. The next one is in Santa Rosa Beach. Seats are limited to 12. If you missed the first one, you already know what your excuse cost you. Apply at theascentformen.com. New episode every Tuesday.

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  Stop Fighting Your Lust Problem, Fix This One Thing and It Takes Care of Itself

  Aug 18, 202627 min

  You've tried to quit. You've white-knuckled it. You've made promises. You've broken them. Jesse and Adam want you to understand something: you've been fighting the wrong battle. In this episode, Jesse Carstairs and Adam Free answer the question they get more than any other from men in their DMs, how do I overcome lust and be consistent in the Bible? Their answer is going to surprise you: stop focusing on the lust and focus on one thing instead. One will take care of the other. They cover why willpower alone will never beat lust and why white-knuckling it is a losing strategy every single time, Adam's account of how reading the Bible every day caused his desire for pornography to simply disappear, not through discipline, but through displacement, Jesse's story of how lust nearly destroyed his marriage before he gave his life to Christ and what actually changed, why pursuing God's heart makes lust genuinely hard to want, Peter walking on water and what happens the moment you take your eyes off Christ, the protein versus carbohydrates framework for understanding why sermons are good but scripture is non-negotiable, and why God told Adam clearly during prayer: you do your job, I'll do mine. The light of the word will shine on the dark corners you've been hiding. You don't have to drag them out yourself. You just have to open the book. New episode every Tuesday. Send this to a man who has been trying to quit and can't figure out why it's not working.

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  Your Bible Is Clean Because You're Still Having Surface Level Conversations With God (Part 2)

  Aug 12, 202639 min

  Jesse and Adam can look at your Bible and tell you everything they need to know about your walk with God. If it's clean, they already know the answer. In Part 2 of this series on reading scripture, Jesse Carstairs and Adam Free get practical, the tools, the method, and the habit that turns Bible reading from a religious checklist into a real relationship with God. They cover why your Bible should look like your kids got to it with highlighters and why a clean Bible is a warning sign not a sign of respect, the exact tools Jesse and Adam use, highlighters, pens, pencils and why Adam treats his Bible as an heirloom he is building for his son right now, Joshua 1:9 and what meditating on the word actually means versus skimming it, Matthew 7:13-23 verse by verse, the narrow gate, the bad tree, and the most alarming words Jesus ever spoke: "I never knew you," why the many Jesus warns about are not atheists, they are church-going men who did things in His name but never actually knew Him, and why your marked-up Bible is the difference between a man who knows about God and a man God actually knows. There are only two fires, brothers. One is eternity. One scorches you into refinement. Your choice starts with whether you open this book today. New episode every Tuesday. Send this to a man whose Bible still looks brand new.

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