Imperfect Mens Club

About Imperfect Mens Club

Every man reaches a point where he stops and asks: what's next? The Imperfect Men's Club is a weekly podcast for men in transition. Men navigating midlife reinvention, identity collapse, divorce, career loss, or any season of life where the old answers stop working. Fathers. Founders. Men figuring out what's next. Hosted by fathers, founders, and advisors Mark Aylward and Jim Gurulé, every episode is built around the IMC Flywheel, a framework covering the Five Arenas of Life with Self-Awareness at the center: Worldview, Relationships, Money, Life's Work, and Well-Being. Progress or breakdown in one arena affects every other. That's the whole point. These are conversations about personal accountability, self-discipline, emotional maturity, limiting beliefs, and masculinity without posturing. The kind men avoid until something forces the conversation. No edits. No music. No commercials. No guests. Just two men with lived experience having the conversations that actually matter. The imperfection is the perfection. New episodes every week. imperfectmensclub.com

Publisher

Mark Aylward & Jim Gurule

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 Jun 2021

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

9 of 172 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Self-Mastery: Don't Wish It Was Easier

   Hosts Mark and Jim discuss seven rules for self-mastery, exploring personal accountability and discipline for men in midlife.

2. 

   1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Self-Trust and the Blank Page

   Mark and Jim explore how self-trust empowers navigating career changes, dating, and relationships by trusting your ability to handle challenges and act on values.

3. 

   24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Self-Reality: Cleaning the Lens You See Your Life Through

   Hosts Mark and Jim explore how men can clean their self-reality lens to interpret life more objectively and empower their decisions.

Inside a recent episode

Self-Mastery: Don't Wish It Was Easier

Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And then before you know it, you're off your discipline. And yeah, it's a very individual thing, but very few people can do it. This is the 90% of life is showing up. It's hard to show up. It's hard to show up on time, all the time, prepared with a good attitude that requires a tremendous amount of discipline. And I think at the core of that don't have it. Yeah, no, it's true. At the core of that, I think is this idea of delayed gratification that the idea that, and I say this in my coaching, I say it in my mentorship, I say it as a father, I say it as a friend, but it's like, in my life, when I look back on it, anything that I've ever accomplished that you could consider worthwhile, like contributory, productive excellence, whatever you want to call it, it's little steps practiced every day over a long period of time. […]

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YouTube views

2,420

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

21 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

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Quality

93

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

77

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