The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Modern Recruiting, AI, and Talent Strategy
Jun 2, 2026 · 53 min · 20 segments
Growing up between Canada and East Africa, Michael Kieran’s childhood was shaped by international communities, close encounters with elephants and lions, and…
Michael KieranGuestJames MackeyHost
Some sort of small final thing that exists that's the worst that could happen.
So part of their rite of passage as a boy, like when you turn 13, is you go out with the tribe.
are we talking about? So the Maasai is like a tribe that's lived in different parts of East Africa and certainly been like the...
men slash people in some of these major parts that you see in clips like Serengeti and Masai
Masai is the name of the the tribe exactly yeah exactly and you might assume they usually have
like the women wear these like um these necklaces that stretch their necks they have like uh droopy ears from like stretched out earrings they're usually wearing a red almost like a cloak which is really like bloodstained from cow blood and they're badass like they're I mean So at 13 years old, you're right at passage to becoming a man as you go out with the tribe, all of you on foot.
They surround a lion, a male, and you at 13 go into the middle of a circle with the lion, and your right at passage is to kill that lion.
I think they eventually, like, slowed it down i was like nature preserve environment you know environmentalists and things like that but that's been the yeah that's that's how you come now and
Some sort of small final thing that exists that's the worst that could happen.
So part of their rite of passage as a boy, like when you turn 13, is you go out with the tribe.
are we talking about? So the Maasai is like a tribe that's lived in different parts of East Africa and certainly been like the...
men slash people in some of these major parts that you see in clips like Serengeti and Masai
Masai is the name of the the tribe exactly yeah exactly and you might assume they usually have
like the women wear these like um these necklaces that stretch their necks they have like uh droopy ears from like stretched out earrings they're usually wearing a red almost like a cloak which is really like bloodstained from cow blood and they're badass like they're I mean So at 13 years old, you're right at passage to becoming a man as you go out with the tribe, all of you on foot.
They surround a lion, a male, and you at 13 go into the middle of a circle with the lion, and your right at passage is to kill that lion.
I think they eventually, like, slowed it down i was like nature preserve environment you know environmentalists and things like that but that's been the yeah that's that's how you come now and
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