The Restorative Man Podcast

Sometimes the most faithful thing we can do is stop producing. In this conversation, Jesse French and Cody Buriff talk about what it means to let parts of our lives “lay fallow”—to rest, to pause, and to trust that unseen work is still happening beneath the surface. They explore why rest isn’t laziness, but wisdom, and how our constant drive to achieve can actually rob us of long-term health. Together they wrestle with questions about control, trust, and the fear of slowing down. It’s an honest look at what happens when men choose to stop forcing growth and let God do His quiet work. Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

Sometimes the most important work isn’t in the harvesting but in the sorting that follows. Cody and Jesse talk about what it means to “thresh” our stories—to separate what’s real and life-giving from what’s just been protecting us. They explore how our masks and old ways of coping can hide the truer parts of who we are. Together they wonder what it looks like to name both the pain and the glory of how we’ve shown up this year. It’s an honest look at how reflection, curiosity, and the presence of others help reveal the man God is still shaping in us. Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

It’s fall, and Jesse and Cody are leaning into what this season has to teach us about our own lives. Harvest is more than gathering crops; it’s about looking back and naming what’s been growing in us over the past year. Maybe some things thrived, maybe others didn’t—but either way, this is a time to take stock without shame. They talk about how reflection helps us see what’s been formed in our hearts and where God’s been at work, even when we missed it. Because before we can move forward, we have to gather what’s grown.Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

Sometimes growth feels invisible and you wonder if anything is really happening beneath the surface. In this episode, Cody, Jesse, and Alison Buriff explore the surprising wisdom of the garden and what it teaches us about patience, tending, and transformation. From soil health to the slow process of rooting, they connect the hidden work of plants with the hidden work of our own lives. You will hear stories of pulling weeds, waiting for fruit, and learning to trust the process. It is an honest conversation about why real growth takes time and why that is actually good news. Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

Cody and Jesse sit down to talk about the beauty and ache of raising daughters. From the first time you hold them to the teenage years that stretch you in new ways, the journey brings both joy and grief. They share stories of tenderness, protection, and the surprising wisdom their daughters have offered back to them. This isn’t just about parenting skills, but about how fathering changes a man from the inside out. It’s an honest look at the mystery, the laughter, and even the tears that come with walking alongside daughters as they grow. Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

Jesse and Jeremy kick off this episode laughing and teasing each other, but pretty quickly the conversation turns to something deeper. They play a clip from Jeremy’s interview with John Tyson that names a truth many men have never heard clearly enough: you are needed. Not when you get everything figured out, not when you feel strong enough, but right now as you are. Together they talk about how easy it is to freeze up waiting to be “ready” and how powerful it is when a brother or father says show up anyway. It is a reminder that what the world needs is not a perfect man but a present one. Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

It’s easy to spend years playing a role and lose touch with who you really are. We all create masks and false selves to survive disconnection or to chase the love we longed for but didn’t know how to receive. In this episode, Chris and Jesse explore the reality that every man wrestles with a false persona, and every man is invited to risk laying it down. They unpack what it means to return to your true story, to embrace your identity as beloved, and why that journey can feel both terrifying and deeply freeing. This is a grounding conversation about shedding the false self and stepping into restorative manhood rooted in love. Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

Parenting has a way of exposing just how quickly we can lose our cool. In this episode of The Restorative Man Podcast, Chris Bruno and Jesse French talk about the practice of non-anxious curiosity, a simple but powerful way to stop yelling at your kids and become a calm dad. Sparked by a conversation with Mark Batterson on the Restorative Manhood Digital Summit, they explore how choosing curiosity over control changes the way we parent, love, and lead. Through real stories of rupture and repair, they get honest about the messy moments every father faces. If you’ve been searching for how to connect with your kids without constant correction, this conversation will help you breathe a little easier. Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

 So many men grow up cutting off parts of themselves just to fit expectations. In this episode, Cody Buriff and Jesse French share a teaser from Jesse's interview with Taylor Calmus, aka "Dude Dad", featured in the upcoming Restorative Manhood Digital Summit. Taylor talks about chasing creativity, rediscovering childhood passions, and why refusing to box yourself in can actually lead to a more authentic life. Cody and Jesse reflect on their own journeys of integration, reminding us that the things that once made us come alive as kids still matter today. It’s an honest, funny, and hopeful look at manhood that invites us to carry all of who we are into the world.Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab

In this episode, Jesse French and Greg Ehlert share a heartfelt conversation sparked by Greg’s interview with John Ortberg on spiritual disciplines. They unpack how practices meant to bring us closer to God can easily slip into performance and self-evaluation, leaving us striving instead of resting in grace. With insights from Dallas Willard and vivid metaphors like sailing and surfing, they reflect on how spiritual practices are less about achieving and more about opening ourselves to God’s love. The discussion also explores how living in this posture of receptivity reshapes not only our relationship with God but also the way we show up with our families and communities. It’s an honest and freeing reminder that disciplines are not about shoulds or striving, but about connection and trust. Access the Restoration Project Community and join the Grove Collective!Subscribe here: https://rp-grove.circle.so/To know more about Restoration Project, visit us here:Website: www.restorationproject.netInstagram: @restorationprojectcoFacebook: Restoration ProjectLinkedIn: Restoration Project Want a thriving marriage? If your relationship feels more like roommates than lovers, or if you're struggling with connection and intimacy, you're not alone. Thrive Marriage Lab is a 12-month guided journey—offering practical tools, live sessions, and expert guidance to help you build a stronger, more connected marriage. Doors open just once a year, so don’t miss out! Use code RP for $20 off and join today at restory.life/thrive.FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connectionSubscribe here: www.restory.life/thrive-datesHow healthy is your marriage? Take our FREE marriage assessment!Instagram: @ThriveMarriageLabYouTube: @ThriveMarriageLabLinkedIn: Thrive Marriage Lab