Mandate Summit testimonial
November 12–15, 2026 · Austin, Texas · Four days, in person
DEEP AS IT GETS
FUN AS FUCK
AND THE ROI IS EXCEPTIONAL
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, with men who make you better just by being around them.
Summit at a glance
- Dates
- November 12–15, 2026
- Where
- Austin, Texas
- General admission
- $2,000
- Food included on eating days. Lodging is not included.
- The room
- Twelve guides
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 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.
Read the full detailThe 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.
Stories
What actually
changed
Three men on the Mandate Summit, in their own words.
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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.
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FRATERNITY
Your friends
are your future
You're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
You’ve undoubtedly heard that phrase, and it’s spot on, but here’s my addition:
You are also the average of the abs you’re surrounded by.
Do your closest friends all have six-packs, externally AND internally?
Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future (and present).
You may have drinkin buddies and golf besties, but if you’re still reading this, you probably don’t have a squad of brothers that make you excel at all areas of life just by being around them.
That’s osmosis. It’s simple science.
The Summit is the spark.
Fraternity keeps it LIT.
This brotherhood mastermind calls you to step up and choose it on purpose. Enroll first, then schedule your onboarding call and get set up with the brotherhood.
This is how we build our future—with friends who are fuckin fantastic.
- EnrollCheckout for the annual membership.
- ConnectAfter enrollment, schedule your onboarding call.
- OnboardAfter your call, get set up with your squad.
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