Nut Up: The Hard Truth About Duty Over Feelings as a Man and Father | 1PM: 153

Episode 153 February 21, 2026 00:02:07
Nut Up: The Hard Truth About Duty Over Feelings as a Man and Father | 1PM: 153
The 1% Man Podcast
Nut Up: The Hard Truth About Duty Over Feelings as a Man and Father | 1PM: 153

Feb 21 2026 | 00:02:07

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Bertrand Ngampa Bertrand Ngampa

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Podcast Description

In this raw and unapologetic episode, Bertrand Ngampa—now a father of four with aspirations for ten—delivers a message that might ruffle some feathers: sometimes as a man, you just have to nut up and get the work done, regardless of how you feel.

Fresh from welcoming his new baby boy and supporting his recovering wife, Bertrand shares a candid conversation about the reality of fatherhood and manhood. Yes, men are emotional creatures. Yes, men need balance and rest. But there are days when none of that matters—days when you have a duty and responsibility greater than your feelings, and someone has to step up and do what needs to be done.

Bertrand isn't saying men should suppress their emotions or never take time off. He's saying there are specific moments when your family needs you to push through, strap up, and handle business because if you don't, no one else will. This is the plight of being a man, and instead of resenting it, Bertrand challenges you to fall in love with it.

If this message hit home, share it with the fathers and men in your life who need this reminder. Subscribe to The 1% Man podcast and follow Bertrand on all social media @bngampa for more unfiltered truth about life, fatherhood, and building your legacy.

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Episode Transcript

[00:00:01] Hey, what's going up? Today's key message for you today is nut up. [00:00:06] That is the key message. Nut up. [00:00:09] All right. Now, you might be saying, bertrand, what do you mean? Okay? But I was having a conversation with my wife. My. If you guys don't know, I just had a new baby boy come into the world. So I am a father of four now. Hopefully gonna be working all the way up to 10. But, hey, that's another conversation, another time, but something that we were going back and forth with. We were just having a great discussion, and we were talking, and I mentioned to her that as a man, there's some days where it doesn't matter how I feel. I just have to get the work done. [00:00:41] Now, I know a lot of people say that men need. Men are emotional creatures. Men have feelings. Men are. Need balance. Men need just as much as women. However, caveat to this is, I'm going to say if you're a father, you probably know what I'm about to tell you is that there are days where you can rest. There are days where you can take off. There are days where you could take a back seat and maybe kind of let your wife drive a little bit. But today, today's a special day where it doesn't matter how you feel. You have to get the work done. Not up, right. [00:01:16] Strap up, let's go. Get it done. Right? Because if you don't, no one else is going to do. No one's going to. Else is going to do the work that needs to be done in the house, right? There are other days where you can be all, oh, my God, I don't feel too well. Oh, my God, this is going on. However, today is just not one of those days, all right? And it doesn't happen all the time, but specifically today, and especially now that my wife is pregnant, she's recovering. [00:01:43] There are days I told her, hey, I wake up and I don't feel like waking up. But it. But I put my feelings aside, and I have a duty and a responsibility that is greater than my feeling. [00:01:56] All right? With that being said, nut up, get it done. [00:02:01] That's the plight of being a man. Fall in love with it. All right? [00:02:05] Peace.

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