Grow Up: A Man’s Guide to Masculine Emotional Intelligence

Grow up. Be a man. We’ve all heard that before, and we often get defensive when we hear it. And as modern men we often live our lives on the defensive - struggling in relationships, on the job and often feeling alone to figure it out ourselves. In the pages of this book, Owen Marcus leads us along an enlightening path toward the authentic self, one that embraces and respects gender and masculinity. Marcus reveals that men aren’t immature or broken; they just need clarity, purpose, connection and the support of other men. Grow Up takes you through 9 stages of growing up where you will discover:

• Why professional success alone does not fulfill
• What may be missing and how to find it
• How we inadvertently self-sabotage and how to stop
• How to honor and attract women as your authentic self
• How to earn and maintain the respect of your peers
• How understanding your own Masculine Emotional Intelligence™ will lead you to a happier, more fulfilling life

Owen Marcus has spent years studying and developing effective learning systems for men. Grow Up is the first time the lessons of his group trainings, lectures, seminars, and personal experience have been compiled into a single manuscript. Grow Up is not a “self-help book”; it’s a playbook on how to live your own life. Imagine a life where you can dream, love, create and live in the moment with an ease you never thought possible. Take this book home, and watch the unfolding of the remarkable man in you.

Grow up. Man up. Be a man. We've all heard the axioms. Hell, you may have said one to someone. Someone may have said one to you.

It's not very helpful, though, is it? Because, really, at the end of the day, do we even know what "be a man" means?

You're not bad. You're not broken. You've just never had a good model for how to be a real man. How to be your OWN real man.

Men's roles in society are changing at lightning speed. Hyper-masculine macho no longer works. The "sensitive man" of the '60s and '70s is a huge turn-off to women and men. So where's the balance? Right here, in this book.

Grow Up will take you through the 9 stages of growing up. You will discover:
* How to attract women, while being true to yourself and honoring them.
* How to earn the respect of other men.
* Why, no matter how successful you are, you feel like something's missing - discover how to retrieve what was missing.
* How to stop sabotaging yourself.
* How Masculine Emotional Intelligence™ is in you, waiting to be expressed.
Grow Up is not a "self-help book"; it's a playbook on how to win as a man.


Owen Marcus had to grow up. Even as a professional success, he felt like a personal failure -- failing with women and failing at being a man. With no playbook or guide, he made his own: he spent years studying leading-edge concepts, testing them on himself, then developing a system that worked. After three decades of development, Grow Up is the first time he is sharing his discoveries with the public.

About Men is a documentary film, about the men's group Owen founded. His business, Free to Win, teaches men how to win as men. His blog, owenmarcus.com explores aspects of being a man that others avoid. Owen speaks about how men can get what was never given so to release their Remarkable Man.