Build The Man The World Forgot
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Here is where retreats and course opportunities will be shared. Coming Soon!
Rewild The Man Retreats are being planned right now, and we're not talking about the local Holiday Inn. Think Africa, Canada, and Sweden.
You’ll learn the primal skills that kept our ancestors alive: tracking wild game, building fires with your bare hands, mastering archery and marksmanship, survival in the wild, and the sacred act of processing what you’ve harvested.
This isn’t a vacation. It’s an initiation. A right of passage to be shared with your new brotherhood. A return to the man you were meant to be.
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My Story
The Man Behind Rewild The Man
My name is John David Fraser and I've spent more than 50 years in the wild - hunting, guiding, fishing, and learning what it means to be a man. Not the kind of man shaped by algorithm or opinion, but the kind formed by fire, failure, and long days in the backcountry.
I grew up in a time when boys were handed knives, not phones. When we learned to tie a fly, clean a fish, and split wood because it was expected of us. That kind of knowledge wasn't a hobby - it was survival, service, and pride.
Over the years, I became a licensed guide and outfitter, leading hunts and fly fishing trips across Canada's north country. I've instructed fly fishing, written numerous articles for national publications including Traditional Bowhunter Magazine, and regularly appear in the award-winning web series, From The Wild.
But along the way, I started to see that something was missing.
Men were showing up unsure of themselves. Unsure how to make a fire. How to properly hunt, track, and thrive in the wilderness. The world had softened them. What became a career in guiding slowly became something deeper. I wasn't just helping men catch fish. I was helping them come back to themselves.
That's what ReWild The Man is all about. It's a return to grit. To responsibilty. To primal skills and quiet strength that lead to a more fulfilled life. To the code of the man who protects, provides, and leads - not with noise, but with presence.
This work is a call for modern men to remember what we once knew: That the world doesn't need meeker men - it needs wilder ones.
