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DOMINION Is Open — But Not for Most Men

May 13, 2026 13m 04s Full transcript available
DOMINION Is Open — But Not for Most Men
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It's dominion season, men. If you're feeling lost, empty, or lacking brotherhood, it's time to step up and take control of your life. The Dominion program is here to transform you into the leader, husband, and warrior God has called you to be.
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1:09 This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
1:13 I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
1:15 Let's get into it.
1:16 Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion
1:21 over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens
1:23 and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing
1:27 that creeps on the earth.
1:28 That's Genesis 1, 26.
1:30 And then Isaiah 62, 6.
1:32 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen all the day and all the night.
1:37 They shall never be silent.
1:39 So guys, it is dominion season again.
1:41 If you're not familiar with that, which a lot of you probably won't be
1:43 because we get a bunch of new followers and subscribers every month.
1:46 We're very, very thankful for you.
1:48 But if we go back in the Wayback Machine to 2024,
1:51 we announced the launch of a new discipleship coaching program called Dominion.
1:55 And so essentially the reason why we launched this program is because for years,
2:00 I heard from guys like you that are like,
2:01 hey, I've watched all the podcasts.
2:04 You know, I've listened to the podcast.
2:06 I've done the devotionals.
2:07 I've seen you speak live.
2:08 I put some of the stuff in to practice.
2:11 But I need help.
2:12 I need help in my city, in my household.
2:16 I need to create a foxhole.
2:18 I need to improve my foxhole.
2:19 I need help.
2:21 Not just generic help, which has been great, but something more specific.
2:25 And so since we launched Undaunted Life in 2016, I've heard stuff like that.
2:30 And I've literally had thousands of interactions with men all over the globe.
2:34 And I'm getting the same comments.
2:36 And I still get those comments to this day, even with the Dominion program out there.
2:39 But it's the same comments over and over and over.
2:43 It's like, I know God should be steering this thing,
2:46 but I just can't figure out how to hand off the wheel, right?
2:49 I used to have fire.
2:51 Somewhere between responsibilities and the routine, that fire went out.
2:55 My body's sending me signals right now.
2:57 I keep ignoring the signals.
2:59 I keep ignoring my body, not because I don't care,
3:01 but because everything else just won't stop demanding my attention.
3:04 I've been doing life without real brotherhood for so long,
3:08 I've almost convinced myself that I don't need one, right?
3:11 Every time I fall short with my family,
3:13 I tell myself and I tell them that I'll do better.
3:15 And then I don't.
3:16 And that cycle is just kind of wearing me out.
3:18 But there's no really, there's no way around it, right?
3:21 You know, I've walked out of more churches than I can count,
3:24 feeling like they weren't built for a man like me.
3:26 So I stopped walking in altogether.
3:29 The world is rotting and I'm angry about it.
3:31 But anger without a target.
3:33 And it's just, you know, a plan that's eating me alive.
3:36 Like I'm just angry in all kinds of different directions.
3:39 And then guys are like, hey, Kyle, the content's been good.
3:41 Like I've liked it.
3:43 But good isn't what I'm after anymore.
3:45 I need something that actually goes somewhere.
3:49 And guys, look.
3:50 There are a lot of guys hoping that things are going to change.
3:53 And you've probably heard this before.
3:55 You should know this.
3:56 Hope is not a plan.
3:58 And that's why we launched Dominion.
4:00 And so guys, if you're listening to this on time as of today,
4:04 applications for Teams 9 and beyond.
4:06 I can't believe it, man.
4:07 When we did Team 1, I was like, is this thing going to be a thing?
4:10 And now here we are working on Teams 9 and beyond.
4:13 You can go to undaunted.live slash dominion.
4:15 That's the website.
4:16 Or you can go to the show notes, undaunted.life slash dominion.
4:20 And so just to introduce this to you guys even a little bit further,
4:24 and maybe even a reintroduction for some of you guys that have heard this before.
4:27 So for a lot of guys, it feels like you're running on empty, okay?
4:32 So your walk with God has gone quiet.
4:34 You can kind of feel that.
4:35 Your mind is kind of scattered and cluttered and struggling to really lock in.
4:40 It's kind of all over the place.
4:42 Your body isn't where it needs to be.
4:43 Your fitness isn't where it needs to be.
4:45 And you know it.
4:45 You can feel it, right?
4:47 And the loneliest part is that you're carrying all of that without a single man beside you.
4:53 Certainly not a foxhole full of men, right?
4:56 And you can see the gap between who you are and who you're supposed to be,
5:00 and you just can't seem to close that gap.
5:03 So that's exactly why Dominion exists.
5:06 So this is a private, high-commitment discipleship program
5:10 designed to transform men of faith like you
5:13 into the leaders, the fathers, the warriors, the husbands
5:16 that God has called you to be, right?
5:19 So inside Dominion, you're gonna get really,
5:21 now we can say it's field-tested and time-tested.
5:24 It's a strategy where you will have a band of brothers
5:27 that will not let you quit on yourself or on the program.
5:30 And you're gonna have a clear mission that moves you out of survival mode,
5:33 which a lot of you are living in right now,
5:35 and move you into your calling.
5:37 So you're gonna work the process,
5:39 and your faith will become unshakable if you work the process.
5:43 Your mind will lock in if you work the process.
5:45 Your body will follow that if you work the process.
5:48 And you will begin taking ground in every area of your life.
5:53 I'm serious, okay?
5:54 And then, you know, if you walk away from an opportunity like this,
5:58 you'll just continue to drift, right?
6:00 It'll be another year older, and then another year softer,
6:03 and then another year further from the man your family needs you to be.
6:07 And so for a lot of you guys, this is your moment.
6:09 You've been looking for a wake-up call.
6:11 This is your moment.
6:12 So you can stay comfortable, or you can take dominion.
6:17 And let's just say these initial teams have really seen some tremendous life changes.
6:21 So right now, again, we're wrapping up teams six, seven, and eight.
6:25 And without getting into individual stories and all that,
6:28 you've had guys that have saved their marriages.
6:30 You've had guys that had children that went prodigal
6:33 that are now back in the fold.
6:34 You've had guys that were struggling in their area of business,
6:38 their area of work, and they've turned that around.
6:40 You've had guys that, you know, they worked out here and there,
6:42 and they kind of did some diets here and there, but they weren't consistent.
6:45 That for years now, they've been consistent.
6:47 They've been seeking the Lord through prayer, through Bible study.
6:51 They're catechizing their children.
6:53 They're the head of their household for the first time in their entire marriage, right?
6:57 They're acting like the head of their household,
6:58 and their wife has kind of gotten more into the helpmate-made-fit-for-him role.
7:03 And they're both together raising up their children
7:06 in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
7:08 All these things have happened,
7:09 not because Dominion's some sort of magical program.
7:12 It's because it gave guys permission to finally lock in and take care of business, okay?
7:16 So over the next couple of weeks, starting this Friday,
7:19 and then throughout the next couple of weeks,
7:20 you're gonna be hearing from some of the guys.
7:21 You're gonna be hearing from some of the recent team guys.
7:24 You're also gonna be hearing from a wife from the Dominion program,
7:28 from one of our Team One guys.
7:30 And so there's gonna be a tremendous amount of information given to you.
7:34 And again, one thing you'll notice about these guys
7:36 is it's kind of all over the place, right?
7:39 You have guys that are a little bit older,
7:40 guys that are a little bit younger,
7:41 guys that aren't married yet,
7:42 guys that have been married for decades.
7:44 And no matter what spot in life you're in,
7:47 all of these guys found themselves in that same spot that I described earlier.
7:51 Something was off, something was missing,
7:54 and they needed to put a supercharger on this thing
7:56 and really finally lock in.
7:58 And that's what the program has done for them.
8:00 And you're gonna hear from them here soon.
8:02 And here's the thing.
8:03 Ultimately, we need more Watchmen on the wall, right?
8:06 So we have a program, our alumni program for Dominion is called Watchmen, right?
8:10 You can't be in Watchmen unless you've done the entire Dominion program.
8:13 We need more guys like that that are equipped to push back darkness,
8:17 that are equipped to cultivate spiritual, mental, and physical resilience
8:21 on a daily basis and in their community,
8:24 in community with other men.
8:26 And that's what this program helps you to do.
8:27 So again, the application website is now live.
8:30 It is live.
8:31 The link will be in the show notes.
8:32 Or again, you can just go to www.undaunted.life slash Dominion,
8:37 undaunted.life slash Dominion.
8:39 So it's gonna redirect you to a page to put in your application.
8:42 So it's not a very long application.
8:43 We just need to get an idea of who you are.
8:46 If we like your application,
8:47 you're gonna get a chance to interview for the program.
8:49 The interview is going to be with me.
8:51 And so applications will be reviewed
8:52 and interviews will be set on a first come first serve basis, okay?
8:56 So if you want in this program, I'm telling you,
8:59 do not wait to put in your application.
9:02 This has happened the last two cycles.
9:04 Guys kind of waited, they hemmed and hawed
9:06 and I'll get around to it and I'll figure it out later
9:08 and blah, blah, blah.
9:09 And then all the interview slots are gone, okay?
9:11 Every time we've opened this up,
9:12 every interview slot has been taken, okay?
9:14 And so it's probably gonna happen again.
9:17 Lord willing, it'll happen again
9:19 because we have guys that are just dying
9:20 to get into this program.
9:21 They've seen the benefits from it.
9:23 So we wanna make sure that that is available to them.
9:25 But again, it is first come first serve basis.
9:28 If you don't get into the interview process,
9:29 you will be put into the backlog.
9:32 You'll be put into the wait list for the next go round
9:35 because we only need to open this up twice a year, okay?
9:38 These are six month programs, right?
9:40 And so we only open up the applications twice a year.
9:43 So the deadline for this tranche
9:45 or this set of applications is Thursday, May the 28th
9:49 at 5 p.m. Central Standard Time.
9:51 Again, Thursday, May the 28th.
9:52 So interviews are the first week of June.
9:54 And I'm just gonna tell you guys,
9:55 if y'all wait until Thursday, May the 28th
9:57 and you're sitting there that afternoon
9:59 getting your application in,
10:00 I'm telling you, you're probably gonna go
10:01 right to the wait list
10:02 because all the interview slots are taken.
10:04 Get your applications in.
10:06 So you might be wondering why an application exactly?
10:10 Like why this high level of commitment?
10:12 I mean, you're talking about an investment
10:14 of time, energy, and capital.
10:16 And ultimately the reason is,
10:17 is because most men don't change their life
10:19 unless they take really a hard left turn, right?
10:22 I mean, most men aren't gonna change their life
10:24 by doing some sort of like $30 a month app
10:27 or even like a free app
10:29 or like a weekend course or something like that
10:31 that cost them a few hundred bucks like that.
10:32 That's not what we're looking for here.
10:34 Guys aren't turning their lives around in a weekend.
10:36 That's just not really how it works for most guys.
10:39 And the thing is this,
10:40 I'm not looking for interested men.
10:42 There's a lot of men that are interested
10:44 in the Dominion program
10:45 and we're thankful for your interest,
10:47 but interest doesn't move you, right?
10:49 I'm looking for invested men
10:52 because guys, you can be mediocre for free.
10:54 You know that.
10:55 You've been mediocre for a long time, a lot of you.
10:58 You've never invested in yourself and your development.
11:01 And so why would you start now?
11:03 Well, it's because some of you need to, right?
11:05 I mean, for me, I'm looking for killers.
11:07 I'm looking for men who bleed what they believe, okay?
11:11 Like I'm looking for guys that are just dogged, right?
11:13 I mean, the kind of guys that hit the ground running
11:15 before the rest of the world wakes up
11:17 or maybe you wanna be that kind of guy
11:19 and you just haven't really kicked it into that gear yet.
11:21 Like I'm looking for brothers who are for real.
11:23 Like not guys that talk a good game, right?
11:26 But men who actually show up and do the work
11:29 that they say they wanna get better and they mean it.
11:31 They just need a little bit of guidance.
11:33 So, I mean, honestly, if you're listening to this right now
11:35 or if you're watching this,
11:36 if you're the kind of guy who says,
11:37 yeah, well, you know, that sounds cool.
11:39 Like maybe I'll think about it later.
11:40 I'm just gonna be honest with you.
11:42 Dominion's not for you, okay?
11:44 This is not like a maybe sort of kind of program, okay?
11:46 This is a commitment program.
11:48 And this is an exclusive brotherhood, right?
11:50 Because I'm hand selecting the right number of men
11:53 for teams nine and beyond.
11:55 And again, these are men that are ready to sweat.
11:57 They're ready to grind it out.
11:59 They wanna become top tier leaders, husbands, fathers.
12:02 They wanna be warriors for Christ.
12:04 And they just need some guidance.
12:06 They need a team of guys to do it with, okay?
12:08 And to be honest, if filling out a short application
12:11 and committing to invest in your own growth
12:13 feels like too much, like that's okay.
12:16 Dominion just isn't your fight.
12:17 It's just not for you.
12:18 It's just not what you should be doing.
12:20 But for the men who do step up,
12:23 for the ones who say I'm in,
12:24 for the ones that actually mean it,
12:26 like I'm not gonna waste your time
12:27 with some sort of empty hype, right?
12:28 That's not really my style.
12:30 So I'll just get straight to it.
12:32 You will be sharpened.
12:34 You will grow.
12:35 And for the first time, for some of you in a long time,
12:38 you'll look in the mirror
12:39 and you will recognize the man staring back at you.
12:42 It'll be a godly man, a godly husband, a godly father.
12:46 And you're gonna see the man
12:48 that you were always supposed to be.
12:50 You will take Dominion.
12:52 So guys, applications open now.
12:55 Undaunted.life slash Dominion.
12:57 Get your applications in soon
12:58 and sign up for your interview spots.
13:00 Undaunted.life slash Dominion.
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I'm looking for men who bleed what they believe.
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