Kyle Jason Leitzke

At first glance, it looked like nine men gathering in a barn. But what happened at 13 Moons Ranch was deeper. We didn’t just talk about fatherhood—we used it as a doorway. A doorway into truth. Into tenderness. Into transformation. We cried. We roared. We reclaimed the parts of ourselves we buried to survive. And in doing so, we remembered: Brotherhood is medicine. And this is just the beginning.

From the bleachers of my childhood games to the depths of men’s healing work, my mother’s words—“Do it”—taught me to trust myself and honor the feminine.