A Life Advisory PracticeFor Men in Hard Seasons

For the man carrying
more than he can say.

Two guides. Real conversations. A way through what you've been carrying alone.

The first conversation costs $97. The alternative costs everything.

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The Four Pillars

A man is not five
separate problems.

His body, his marriage, his purpose, his faith, and his work are one life expressing itself in different rooms. We address the whole house.

01

Faith

The deeper why. The thing under the thing. Not preaching — wrestling.

02

Body

Strength, recovery, energy. Backed by credentials, not Instagram science.

03

Relationships

Marriage, fatherhood, brotherhood. The relationships that make or unmake a man.

04

Work

Vocation, money, purpose. The arena where a man either builds or hides.

“

Iron sharpens iron. Oak takes time.
Both are needed. Neither alone is enough.

The Iron & Oak Way
Three Ways to Walk

Start with one
conversation.

Every relationship begins the same way — one honest hour. From there, the path depends on what you need and what you're ready for.

Step One

The First
Conversation

$97
One-time · 60 minutes

A single, honest call. No pitch. We ask hard questions, you answer them, and we tell you the truth about what we see.

  • One 60-minute Zoom session
  • Pre-call intake to focus the time
  • One of three honest paths at the end
  • No obligation. No follow-up sales.
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The Core Practice

The 90-Day
Walk

$497/ month
3-month minimum · By application

A guided 90 days across all four pillars. Weekly 1-on-1, bi-weekly group, a written plan, and direct access to both guides.

  • Weekly 1-on-1, alternating Iron & Oak
  • Bi-weekly cohort call with other men
  • Personal written plan, reviewed monthly
  • Voxer access during business hours
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The Group

The
Brotherhood

$197/ month
Month-to-month · Capped membership

For men who need brothers more than 1-on-1. A small, real community of men doing the same work alongside you.

  • Bi-weekly group call, both guides present
  • Private community space
  • Monthly teaching from Iron & Oak
  • Path to upgrade to The 90-Day Walk
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A Note from the Founders

Why we charge for this.

A fair question, and one we want to answer before you ask it.

Both of us have spent years having these conversations for free. Friends in hard seasons, brothers-in-law going through divorces, men from church carrying things they couldn't tell anyone. Most of those conversations helped. Some of them didn't. The pattern we noticed: the ones that helped were the ones where the man on the other side had skin in the game.

Free advice is easy to nod through and forget. Paid advice gets written down. Not because the words are different, but because he is different the moment he commits something. The $97 first conversation isn't priced for our mortgage. It's priced so you show up ready.

The 90-Day Walk costs $497 a month because the work is real work, and we won't cheapen it by pretending it isn't. We've watched too many men hire a $20-a-month app and quit in three weeks. We've watched too many others spend $10,000 on a mastermind and learn nothing. We priced this where the men who need it can afford it, and the men who don't won't bother.

The work is real work. We won't cheapen it by pretending it isn't.

— Chris & Anthoney
The Guides

Two men.
One practice.

We are not above the work. We are still in it — married, building, believing, growing. We don't guide men toward a place we haven't been.

Chris (left) and Anthoney (right), founders of Iron & Oak
— Oak

Chris

Faith · Family · Vocation

Husband, father, builder. The relational half of the practice. Fifteen years of men calling him at the hard moments — the marriages on the edge, the careers in question, the faith going quiet. He's the conversation men come back to.

Oak grows slowly. Rooted, patient, immovable when it's planted right. The kind of presence a man needs when his world is shaking and he just needs someone steady across the table.

— Iron

Anthoney

Strength · Body · Mind

Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with a background in psychology. The credentialed half of the practice — the one who'll tell you straight what's happening in your body and what's happening in your head, and how the two are talking to each other.

Iron is forged. Sharp, direct, formed under pressure. The kind of voice a man needs when he's been telling himself the comfortable story too long.

Begin Here

One honest hour.
That's where it starts.

Book a First Conversation. We'll send a short intake before the call. You bring the truth. We'll bring everything else.

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