It's not just one particular profile that makes a good man, but a combination of characteristics. Men's Leadership Mentor, Dean Brown, shares some essential ingredients for helping men step into their personal power, claim their leadership role, and develop fulfilling relationships, both business and personal.

A recent conversation with a friend made me aware that men are more hungry than ever for leadership mentoring. Continually shifting and uncertain times have left you unsure of where you stand in the world of business and personal relationships with women and how you can best lead others.

Dean Brown. Men's Leadership lessons...always listening, teaching, encouraging.

Dean Brown mentored thousands of people in his life and I thought it would be helpful to share a conversation I recorded with him during a Men's Leadership Mastermind.

Dean is my father and he passed on last year. He still has much wisdom to share through videos and audio recordings, though. He not only mentored and guided many men in their roles as leaders, he was also responsible for saving the lives of more than a few. I think you'll enjoy hearing the insights of a man who was highly successful as a business owner and entrepreneur, as a husband and father, and as a spiritual mentor. The fact that his wife of 51 years adored him and his daughters considered him their best friend says a lot about his ability to honor women and to lift them up in ways that only a strong, confident, and secure man can do. Guys, take notes!

Show Notes:4:48 - Leaders are willing to step into the unknown, bringing their whole selves along for the ride. The dance of masculine/feminine energies is always at work - yin/yang. There's not such thing as "just business". People do business, so that makes everything personal. Two sides to the same coin.

6:15 - Men's leadership is particularly important at this time because as many women step into leadership roles, we need men to stand in their masculine energy to ground our changing world. Masculine power is a gift, not a competitive power to the feminine. Together, we make an integrated whole. Dean was a powerful mentor and example of men's leadership at its best because he was a masculine man with the ability to share his compassion and his love with everyone around him. He understood that his receptive skills were equally important to his skills and his success as a proactive leader.

10:53 - Dean shares some stories of life-changing events that propelled him into his role as a public speaker, leader and mentor.

Dean Brown - lifelong teacher, men's leadership mentor

14:05 - As a young professional, Dean was approached to lead a group of teens and was initially reluctant, but he recognized that he had a responsibility to step up as a leader. It led him to a love of inspirational and motivational speaking that became a lifelong passion.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.Albert Einstein

Dean Brown - Business Owner, Entrepreneur

17:00 - Dean talks about the importance of developing listening skills in order to become more successful in business. He describes the need, from his experience working with a crisis center, to be discerning with people who pull you down with unrelenting talk about their problems. You have to learn how to know when to engage in deep listening.

19:15 - Men can have a hard time listening to women. Dean describes some of the reasons for this and why, in helping others to step into men's leadership roles, he considers it vital to master your mindset in this area if you want to be successful in your business and personal relationships.

21:15 - We have many different personality styles and ways of approaching things. We may need to examine our views of the other gender to recognize men and women have equal value as human beings. Our roles have changed drastically since our origins of man as hunter/gatherer and woman as nurt...