In this final interview of the Tribe Graduate series, I sit down with Dustin Poole, the only Manifestor graduate from Tribe Class 003, and brother… this one hits deep. Dustin’s story is powerful because it’s not just a transformation story. It’s a full awakening story. The kind of shift that changes the way you see your past, your relationships, your body, and reality itself.

Dustin found this work at a crossroads. After ten years of marriage, two daughters, and a life built around the identity of “husband” and “father,” everything began to collapse. Divorce became the catalyst. And like so many men, his mind tried to reach for the familiar answer: more muscle, more women, more external wins. The old idea of “alpha” as performance. But deep down, Dustin already knew time wouldn’t fix it. He had seen too many people stay miserable for decades, thinking distance alone would heal the wound.

What made Dustin different is that he was already a seeker. He grew up overseas in a Muslim world while being raised Christian, and early on he felt the conflict between love and dogma, between truth and ideology. He couldn’t accept the idea that loving people could be condemned simply for believing differently. That friction became the doorway into a deeper spiritual question: why are we here, what is existence, and what is this experience of being human?

Inside the Academy, Dustin began doing what every man must do to wake up: he watched. He listened. He observed himself. He saw patterns. And he realized the same truth every awakened man eventually finds: our circumstances aren’t creating our suffering - our thoughts are. Over and over again, he saw that the “problem” was never the divorce, the relationship, the social dynamic, the job, or the outcome. The problem was the story. The meaning. The program. The victim mindset.

As Dustin explains in this episode, the single most impactful teaching across his two years in this work was learning the difference between a thought and a fact. That sounds simple… until you realize most men live their entire lives treating thoughts as reality. When you see that clearly, everything changes. You become the observer. You stop taking life personally. You stop reacting. You stop trying to fix the world from your ego. And you start living from the Alpha state - calm, grounded, intentional, and free.

We also dive into Dustin’s experience in Tribe, where the curriculum goes deep into ego, Spiral Dynamics, healing, unity consciousness, and Human Design. Dustin shares what it meant to finally understand himself as a Manifestor - a rare energy type designed to initiate, to move, and to make impact. It gave him language for experiences he couldn’t explain before: feeling repelled, moving differently, leading naturally, and learning how to approach people in alignment.

Then we get into the in-person gathering - the brotherhood experience of coming together after a year of calls, models, growth, and transformation. Rituals. Movement. Connection. Presence. Cold plunge. And finally, Dustin shares a personal healing experience from the plant ceremony in Tulum that will challenge your view of what the mind and body are truly capable of.

If you’ve ever wondered what’s possible when a man dedicates himself to awakening, to mind mastery, and to living in unity… this episode is your answer.