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EP 47 - Our Men Need to Grieve: Rites of Passage, Ancestral Wisdom & the Crisis of Modern Manhood with Kale KaaleKahi
September 29, 2026
What happens when a culture forgets how to initiate its young people? What can matriarchal cultures teach us about centering women, children, and future generations? And what would change if we stopped defining manhood through status, dominance, and accumulation and began teaching men to become stewards of generations? In this deeply personal conversation, Hawah sits down with Kale KaaleKahi, Native Hawaiian culture keeper, ceremonialist, and co-founder of Sacred Sons (a pioneering men’s group), to explore what modern manhood has lost and what ancestral wisdom might still have to teach us about becoming fully human. Kale shares about growing up without his biological father, the profound influence of his mother, her unexpected death, and how becoming a father to his daughter radically changed his relationship to love, grief, ancestry, and responsibility. His work with Sacred Sons and N.O.W. Academy is rooted in a belief that men need more than self-improvement: they need elders, brotherhood, ceremony, and rites of passage that teach them how to carry power without being controlled by it.
What happens when a culture forgets how to initiate its young people? What can matriarchal cultures teach us about centering women, children, and future generations? And what would change if we stopped defining manhood through status, dominance, and accumulation and began teaching men to become stewards of generations?

In this deeply personal conversation, Hawah sits down with Kale KaaleKahi, Native Hawaiian culture keeper, ceremonialist, and co-founder of Sacred Sons (a pioneering men’s group), to explore what modern manhood has lost and what ancestral wisdom might still have to teach us about becoming fully human.

Kale shares about growing up without his biological father, the profound influence of his mother, and how becoming a father to his daughter radically changed his relationship to love, grief, ancestry, and responsibility. His work with Sacred Sons and N.O.W. Academy is rooted in a belief that men need more than self-improvement: they need elders, brotherhood, ceremony, and rites of passage that teach them how to carry power without being controlled by it.

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This episode invites you to rethink what it means to become a man, not through domination, status, or power, but through grief, responsibility, relationship, and service to the generations still to come.

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