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Transcript: You're listening to your 20-minute Podcast with David Brower and our special guest today, Elliott Katz, who has written a book that every man should read and understand. Is that right? Elliott Katz: Exactly. David Brower: It's called Being the Strong Man a Woman Wants: Timeless Wisdom on Being a Man, it's- and um, man, you've got this book all over the place, translated in 24 languages, all over Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa. You must have really struck a chord with this.

Elliott Katz: Exactly. You know, uh, eh, I've come to realize you know, cultures may be different, but human nature is, is similar and men all over the world really need to learn how to be men, and traditionally, fathers or other me- older male role model- (clears throat) Excuse me. Other older male role models used to teach a younger man about what it means to be a man and that really has been lost. Elliott Katz: A lot of the ideas today, the things that men see on TV, the things they hear in the media have really lead to a lot of confusion a- among men.

I mean, we even hear that term, masculine confusion. We're not sure what it means to be a man and we're searching, searching, searching. So, I mean, this book is the result of my own search of looking what does it mean to be a man.

I was married and, for ten years. I got divorced and like a lot of people, at first I blamed the other person. Then I came to a point of asking myself, 'What do I have to learn from all this? I don't want to go through this again.' Elliott Katz: So I set off on a journey to learn what does it mean to be a man. And I started listening to the men.

Psi s2 digital hd serial flash programmer. The more I listened to the men, the more I realized we're all confused. I started reading books on relationships. [inaudible ] They really didn't say anything to me and it was only when I turned to that timeless wisdom that fathers used to teach their sons I was blown away because it coincided with what I heard women complain is lacking in men today. They don't show leadership, they don't make decisions, they don't take responsibility.

Elliott Katz: There's this giant disconnect between all the things men have heard and what women really want and really this is what traditionally fathers taught their sons, to be leaders of their family. And it's not about being controlling, not about micromanaging and being a tyrant. It's just today men are so afraid of being accused of being controlling, they've gone to the other extreme and they'll say. You know the wife will ask them, you know, for their input. 'Oh, whatever you want. Well, if you say that, she'll think of you as one of the kids. David Brower: Right, right.