----- W I L L K N E C H T • M E D I A & B O O K I N G
An episode that serves your listeners on its own. The book is just where the conversation continues.
Will Knecht can give a host an honest conversation about what happens when achievement, identity, suffering, failure, surrender, sonship, brotherhood, and the second half of life collide with the Father's persistent work in a man's life. His stories aren't the destination. They're bridges, used just long enough for a listener to recognize his own.
--- T H E L I S T E N E R T H I S E P I S O D E S E R V E S
Your audience doesn't need another author with an October release. They need a conversation. This one is for:
The man whose title has been telling him who he is.
The man walking through a fire he cannot fix.
The man who has succeeded and is surprised by how little the success settled
him.
The man whose mistakes have hurt people he loves.
The man who knows truths about God but longs to know the Father.
The man trying to fly the most dangerous years of his life alone.
The man entering the second half asking what he will become and what he
will hand to the men behind him.
--- E I G H T W A Y S I N T O T H E C O N V E R S A T I O N
Pick the door that fits your show. Each one opens with suggested questions your producer can lift as-is.
01 The Sale
"I ran my family's company for 35 years, sold it in 2024, and then had to find out who I was when the title came off."
Best for faith-and-business, founder, exit, leadership, legacy, and second-half shows.
− Suggested questions
- Who were you the Monday after you sold the company?
- Why doesn't a man's drive disappear when the title does?
- When did you realize success had become part of your identity?
- What would you tell the founder approaching an exit?
- If significance isn't earned, where does it come from?
02 Sonship Before Performance
"A man can spend his whole adult life being introduced by his title and never learn that he was a son before he was a producer."
Best for men's ministry, identity, discipleship, leadership, and cultural-analysis shows.
− Suggested questions
- Why do men answer 'Who are you?' with a job title?
- What does it mean to say a man is a son before he is a producer?
- How can good ambition become a source of identity?
- What changes when a man receives identity instead of earning it?
- How are you still learning this now?
03 The Fire
"My family's forge burned to the ground on a cloudless morning, and I eventually learned that the fire exposed more than a building."
Best for Pittsburgh/PA/OH regional media, resilience, suffering, and leadership shows.
− Suggested questions
- Take me back to the morning of the fire. Where were you standing?
- What did the fire expose besides a building?
- How do you talk about God's sovereignty without pretending suffering does not hurt?
- When did you begin to see that season differently?
- What would you say to the man whose 'building' is burning right now?
04 The Honest Failure
"Some of the lessons I most want another man to learn came from decisions I deeply regret and people I hurt."
Best for candid men's, fatherhood, marriage, discipleship, and anti-platitude shows.
− Suggested questions
- What did you get wrong that you most want another man to hear before he gets there?
- Why are you willing to put failure in the book?
- What is the difference between regret, repentance, and shame?
- How did isolation make failure more dangerous?
- What has grace looked like after consequences remained?
05 The Dangerous Prayer
"Twenty years ago I asked God to make me holy; in the years that followed, He kept exposing how much of my
identity and security still rested somewhere other than Him."
Best for formation, prayer, Bible study, men's ministry, and deeper Christian conversations.
− Suggested questions
- Why did you pray for holiness?
- What did you misunderstand about that prayer?
- How can God use hardship without us claiming to know why every hardship happened?
- What has surrender looked like more than once?
- What does formation look like when it is slow?
06 Nobody Flies Alone
"Most men fly the most dangerous mission of their lives with nobody watching their six."
Best for men's-ministry leaders, brotherhood, church men's groups, and mentoring shows.
− Suggested questions
- What does 'watching your six' mean in a man's spiritual life?
- Why can a man be surrounded by people and still be isolated?
- What did isolation cost you?
- How does a man begin building real brotherhood later in life?
- What should churches do differently for men?
07 Finish Strong
"I turned sixty and finally did the math I'd been avoiding: the question was no longer what I would build, but who I would become and what I would hand to the men behind me."
Best for Halftime/second-half, legacy, fatherhood, and older-male audiences.
− Suggested questions
- What changed when you turned sixty?
- How did selling the company change the way you think about legacy?
- What does finishing strong mean beyond achievement?
- What do you want your children and other men to receive from you?
- What should a successful 55-year-old man start asking now?
08 The Father Who Was There All Along
"I spent years asking God what He wanted me to do; the deeper change began when I started asking, 'Father, show me Yourself.'"
Best for spiritual formation, prayer, discipleship, Christian living, and pastoral shows.
− Suggested questions
- Why did 'Father, show me Yourself' become such an important prayer?
- What is the difference between knowing truths about God and knowing the Father?
- How did you begin recognizing His handwriting in earlier chapters of your life?
- Why isn't transformation simply a matter of trying harder?
- How does a man live differently when dependence becomes maturity rather than weakness?
--- B I O S , R E A D Y T O R E A D O N A I R
Media bio · 50 words
Will Knecht spent 35 years leading Wendell August Forge, the western Pennsylvania hand-forging company his family bought in 1978, including rebuilding after a 2010 fire destroyed the business. He sold the company in 2024. He now writes More The Man, a Christian men's newsletter and forthcoming book.
For business & founder shows · 100 words
Will Knecht spent 35 years leading Wendell August Forge, the western Pennsylvania hand-forging company his family bought in 1978. He led the company through a catastrophic 2010 fire and eventually sold it in 2024, confronting a question many founders discover only after an exit: who are you when the title comes off? Will is now managing partner of Gameday Men's Health operations across three states and writes More The Man. His work explores identity, ambition, leadership, failure, surrender, and what a man's drive is for once it stops being the source of his worth.
For ministry & discipleship shows · 100 words
Will Knecht is the founder and writer of More The Man, a men's discipleship ministry focused on helping men know the Father more deeply and become more like Jesus. Before that, he spent 35 years leading Wendell August Forge, the western Pennsylvania company his family bought in 1978, including rebuilding after a catastrophic 2010 fire. He sold the company in 2024. In More The Man, Will writes candidly about ambition, identity, failure, surrender, sonship, brotherhood, and the Father's faithfulness, not as a man who has arrived but as a fellow traveler still being formed.
--- A B O U T T H E B O O K
More The Man is a fellow traveler's invitation to recognize the Father's hand in your own story, trust Him through the fires and failures of life, and keep becoming more like Jesus.
More The Man is written for the Christian man who senses there has to be more. Through candid stories of ambition, success, a devastating business fire, financial collapse, failure, surrender, daily
communion, brotherhood, and grace, Will Knecht writes beside the reader rather than above him. He has not arrived; his stories are bridges designed to help another man examine his own, see the Father's hand more clearly, avoid mistakes he does not need to make, trust God in the fires he
cannot avoid, and keep becoming more like Jesus.
Releases October 13, 2026 · Encouraged Life · Foreword by Dr. Brent Allen · Manuscriptavailable to hosts on request
