Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.

Excited to be back in your ear having conversations about what really matters, right?

Relationships.

And, you know, I'm always really impressed when I see someone who's sort of in a

state of influence or, quote unquote, celebrity and using that influence to further conversations

that are important and have them in a fun way. And this recently is something I experienced when I

saw my friend Brandon Alexander, who has an Instagram account called New Age Gents, and he was talking with Giacomo Gianniotti. I hope I got that right. How Italian

was that? Seriously, I'm basically Italian now. And Giacomo, you may know him from Grey's Anatomy. He's an incredible man. I watched this talk,

and I was just struck by his level of compassion and awareness about the relational space,

about masculinity. And so I reached out to him and asked if he would be open to coming on the podcast.

And he said yes. So today's episode is a conversation about many things to do

with relationship. And I was just really excited to get to sit down with him and jam. And so,

you know, it's like we're all having coffee together, which I think is what podcasts are really like.

Anyways, I was so excited to have him on. He is a compassionate kind and very conscious man of his behavior.

And I think, I say this all the time,

that our ability to recognize our own shortcomings,

our own space for growth and expansion is actually what is so connective in relationship, is the ability

to hear feedback and all those things. And Giacomo shares a lot of his learnings that he's had

both growing up as a man and from an immigrant family and also his experience in relationship and his marriage now.

So I'm so excited for you to hear this episode. Before, of course, we get started. My ask is that

wherever you listen to this, please subscribe to it and leave a five-star review and a written review

that is so helpful to get into more people's ears.

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