Mandate Summit testimonial
November 12–15, 2026 · Austin, Texas · Four days, in person
A BROTHERHOOD MASTERMIND
FOR DRIVEN DUDES
Where the most fun you'll ever have and the most important work of your life happen at the same time.
This is what
showing up looks like.
A glimpse of The Mandate in person—and the kind of men who make the Summit what it is.
Featured guides
Who is
in the room
Twelve guides lead the four days. Here is what each one brings to the room.
Guides
on the floor
Jordan Bowditch
Founder and host. Leads the arc of the four days and the brotherhood container around it.
Elliott Hulse
Strength-based masculine embodiment. Leads a deep dive on the King, Lover, Warrior and Magician archetypes.
Stefanos Sifandos
Relational integrity and polarity. Guides the opening breathwork ceremony.
JP Sears
Comedy with depth underneath it. Debuts his Better Man Project and leads a competitive workout session.
Kevin Orosz
Improv and spontaneous expression. Leads Freestyle Flow BROetry — responding to the moment instead of scripting it.
Eben Pagan
Entrepreneurship and the integration of business success with the rest of a life.
Annie Lalla
Love and relationship work, focused on partnership as a foundation.
Brandon Hawk
Emotional range as a working skill rather than a soft one, from an executive coach, husband and father.
Mansal Denton
Founder of Sacred Hunting. Guides the ceremony that breaks the group fast, honoring how the food arrived.
Josh Lanphear
Former corporate lawyer, now a men's coach. Leads embodiment practice and a rite-of-passage session.
James Mitchell
A session on power, consent and holding intensity without flinching, and how that carries into leadership.
Brent Pella
Comedy and performance.
The Mandate Summit
Four days that
change how you return home
Four days in Austin with a group of solid men who are in it to WIN it. A 36-hour fast we break together in radical fashion. Body first, mind last. Fierce competition with the highly esteemed BROlympic Games. You'll laugh harder than you expected and go deeper than you planned.
We have fun and get FUNcomfortable - that’s the vibe.
- Dates
- November 12–15, 2026
- Where
- Austin, Texas
- General admission
- $2,000
- Food
- Included on eating days
- Lodging is not included.
What the days contain
The 36-hour fast
We enjoy a ‘Last Supper’ together, then stop eating in solidarity for a day and a half. Food is the buffer most men use to not feel anything. Take it away and whatever's underneath gets loud FAST.
Breaking it together
Mansal Denton, my sacred hunting homie, breaks the fast with us in ceremony, honoring the source of your nourishment. Then we eat one of the best meals of your life, praise GAWD.
Down into the body
Breathwork, bioenergetics, sauna and cold plunge and MORE. We hit the body first - not the brain - because your meat suit is the TEMPLE where pain, power and possibility really reside.
Down into the raw dawg realness
World-class workshops with certified badasses.
Liberation through radical honesty. Saying the quiet part out loud. Expressing what you’ve repressed and exercising the issues in your tissues.
Up into competition, celebration and preparation
This is where the brotherhood becomes BROfficial. Conscious kink SEXploration. The BROlympics. Mastermind think tanks with business gurus and expert performance coaches.
Austin, Texas. Food is included on the days the group is eating. Lodging is not included.
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What actually
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Who runs this
Jordan
Bowditch
I'm Jordan Maurice Bowditch, aka J-Bow. Husband, father, founder, fantastic friend, brotherhood extraordinaire, dog-dad, BROfessional Edu-tainer, basket-BALLER and world-class men’s performance coach.
Unapologetic frat boy for life, former National Educator at Bulletproof Nutrition (like the keto coffee), hubby to my wife Alexa aka Queen BAEbeskie, and some other cool-ish stuff that you should definitely be impressed by.
I built The Mandate because most men's events I went to kinda sucked - boring, forced, and unnecessarily serious. They made me choose between going ballz deep and simply having fun with the boyz. The most fun weekend of your life and the most important work of your life can be the same weekend - and they must be in my estimation.
That's the thesis, and I've been delightfully dying on that hill for decades.
HEAR FROM ATTENDEES
Mike Bryan
Husband, Father & Entrepreneur
Ben
Retreat Attendee
Matt
Retreat Attendee
Brandon
Retreat Attendee
Mike & Alex
Retreat Attendees
Dan Schwartz
Retreat Attendee
Spencer Hicks
Retreat Attendee
Mark Carey
Retreat Attendee
Josh Brown
Retreat Attendee
Alex & Josh
Retreat Attendee
Josh Lanphear
Retreat Attendee
Mike & Josh
Retreat Attendee
Footage from The Mandate's in-person work. Not a recording of the upcoming Summit.
What you are actually building
The life
on the other side
Not a weekend of talking about it. Five things that change, and stay changed, because other men are in it with you.
Look great naked — and FEEL even better than you look.
Go on wild adventures where you feel unmistakably alive, sharing peak experiences with your best friends.
Have the best sex of your life, not because you mastered a new position or discovered a revolutionary dildo, but because you became an embodied boss in the bedroom, which translates directly to the boardroom.
Make more money with less effort, because fuck the sleep-when-you're-dead mentality. Your unique value is your authentic leadership, not how many hours you work.
Live a life you’re sincerely proud of — and your grandkids beg to hear about.
The Mandate Gap
Does any
of this land
We call it The Mandate Gap, which is the distance between the genuinely good guy you are and the GREAT man you know you're capable of being.
You're the one everyone leans on, and you don’t have many (if any) who YOU lean on.
You're in the room with your family, but you're often not REALLY there.
The passion at home slowly turned into endless logistics about calendars, carpooling and career climbing.
You did what you thought you were supposed to and are successful enough to buy some cool stuff and take vacations, but a part of you still asks, “is this it?”
You can feel there's a more ALIVE version of you in there — and you're just not getting to him consistently by yourself.
The method
Body first.
Mind last.
Most men work on the mind first, because it is the part that talks. A temple with a weak floor comes down under its own weight, so we build from the ground up.
- BodyFoundation
- Energy, strength, recovery, nervous system capacity. If the body is depleted, nothing above it holds.
- EmotionsMiddle pillar
- Regulation, resilience, range. You can't lead an emotion you've never let yourself feel FULLY — not in yourself, not in anybody else (including those you’re leading like employees, kids, etc.), and definitely not in your woman.
- MindRoof
- Clarity, strategy, vision, leadership. Where most men start, and where it only works once the floor is solid.
- ResultsPinnacle
- What shows up outside is downstream of what got built inside. Congruence, not performance.
Down. Down. Up.
The arc of the four days, and the reason men leave with something that survives the drive home.
Down — Into the body
Breathwork, bioenergetics and somatic practice to move what is stuck.
Down — Into the primal
The anger and the sadness you've been outrunning, and the dark shit you've never said to anyone, finally said out loud to men you deeply respect and implicitly trust.
Up — Into clarity and action
Competition, celebration and the plan you actually take home.
The Core Four
- Fast
- Strategic deprivation as a lifestyle, not a trend. It restores metabolic and psychological authority.
- Eat
- Food as fuel rather than anesthesia. Real nourishment, no added sugar.
- HIIT
- Twenty minutes a week, minimum. Train the stress response so pressure stops running you.
- Compete
- One competitive class or sport weekly. Learn to win, lose and recover in front of other men.
Who this is for
Read this
before you book
The room is only as good as who is in it, so this part is deliberately blunt.
This is for you if
- You are done pretending and ready to be straight with a room full of men.
- You will feel the low end so you can access the high end.
- You accept that isolation is the slowest way to change anything.
- You are ready to invest in this now rather than after the next crisis.
Do not come if
- You are not willing to be honest, with yourself or the group.
- You have it all figured out already.
- You will not check your ego or follow another man's lead.
- You want to be the one fixing everyone else instead of doing your own work.
- You want a feel-good weekend rather than a change you have to live with.
Before you register
The terms
Stated here rather than buried at the payment step.
- Food is included for the days the group is eating.
- Lodging is not included.
- What is said in the room stays in the room. Every man present agrees to that.
Health and participation
The Summit includes extended fasting, breathwork, high-intensity training, sauna and cold-plunge work. It is not therapy or medical care. Participation is voluntary, and you may opt out of any element. Speak with a qualified clinician before registering if you have a health condition, take medication or are unsure whether fasting, exertion, heat or cold exposure is safe for you.
The Mandate is not a crisis service. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number. In the United States, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Questions
The obvious
questions
Where is the Summit held?
Austin, Texas.
What does registration cost?
General admission is $2,000. Food is included for the days the group is eating; lodging is not included.
Is lodging included?
No. Food is included for the days the group is eating, and you arrange your own room.
Do I really have to fast for 36 hours?
The group fasts together for a day and a half and breaks it in ceremony. It is the spine of the descent, and it is also your body. If fasting is not safe for you, say so before you register and you will be looked after another way.
Is this therapy?
No. It is men's work, facilitated by practitioners, in a confidential room. It is not a substitute for therapy, medical care or crisis support.
Who is actually going to be there?
Twelve guides lead the four days, and the Summit page lists every one of them with the session they bring.
What happens after the four days?
Most men who stay changed do it with ongoing brotherhood. FRATERNITY is where that continues, with direct enrollment into the annual membership.
Meet Brent Pella
The comedian roasting retreats
is one of our guides
Brent brings comedy and performance to the four days in Austin. Man Temple is his own parody of men's retreats, not footage of The Mandate Summit.
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Verified
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