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The Iron John Podcast

The Iron John Podcast

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The Iron John Podcast is a production of the Minnesota Men’s Conference (MMC).

The Minnesota Men's Conference was founded by poet, author, and storyteller, Robert Bly in 1984. In the past decades, the conference as reached out to men of all ethnicities, orientations, nationalities, backgrounds, life experiences, and ages. Any person who identifies as a man is welcome to participate. We welcome men from all over the country, from large cities to rural communities, and from all over the world. In general, the men who attend our conferences are interested in living the question of what it means to live a mythically-informed life of depth and purpose, a life of soul.

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Episodes
  • The Iron John Podcast, Francis Weller talk: At the Heart of All Our Sorrows
    Nov 18 2025

    In this talk from the 2025 Fall Minnesota Men's Conference—Men Who Stand Atop the Old Mound of Miracles, author, psychotherapist, and soul activist, Francis Weller speaks on emptiness and on the great sense of what is missing when the desires of the soul are not addressed.

    Francis is the author of the bestselling essay collection, The Wild Edge of Sorrow, and of the recently released book, In the Absence of the Ordinary.

    If this podcast speaks to you, please consider joining us at one of our events for men. Go to www.minnesotamensconference.com for more information

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 1988 MMC Poetry by Thomas R. Smith and Roy McBride
    Sep 17 2025

    The 1988 Minnesota Men's Conference was especially potent for me, Timothy Young. I was one of the organizers and our headliners that year were Robert Bly, James Hillman, Robert Moore, and Etheridge Knight. Bly's main presentations were on the deeper meanings of William Blake's poetry. Etheridge's poems shook our hearts, and I was able to invite Roy McBride and Thomas Smith to read on our evening of poetry,

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    19 mins
  • Joel Glazberg Interview, 2025
    Aug 25 2025

    Welcome to the Iron John Podcast!

    In this episode, writer, activist, and publisher of InRoads Magazine, Anthony Signorelli interviews tracker, writer, and permaculturist Joel Glanzberg on permaculture, men’s wrk, the environment, and the role of human beings in the web of being.

    Joel will be one of the presenters at the 2025 Fall Minnesota Men’s Conference—Men Who Stand Atop the Old Mound of Miracles, October 7 through 12, 2025.

    To get more information about the fall conference or future Minnesota Men’s Conference events, go to www.minnesotamensconference.com.

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    58 mins
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