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ManTalks Podcast

5 Steps To Stop People Pleasing

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Talking points: boundaries, relationships, mindset

The counter-intuitive truth is this: if you're stuck in people-pleasing, you're generally not people-helping. I see a lot of men go through this, and many are unaware of what it really is and where it comes from. This week, straightforward insight and direct steps to breaking free.


(00:00:00) - What the heck is people-pleasing?

(00:03:02) - Two specific origins of people pleasing, and uncovering where it started in your own life

(00:06:18) - The effect of trauma on one’s needs and self-worth

(00:07:34) - The two major challenges of people-pleasing, and how to start breaking out of this

(00:10:39) - Reflecting on tendencies, practicing your No, and prioritizing what you need 

(00:14:45) - On boundaries


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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right team, welcome back to the man talk show.

0:08.4

Connor Beaton here.

0:09.5

Today we're going to be talking about the five steps that you can take to end your people

0:14.2

pleasing.

0:15.2

And I'm going to actually talk about what creates the people pleasing habit and sort of mindset and behavior. And then I'll talk about

0:24.4

why it might be the most detrimental thing to your sense of self-worth and your relationships.

0:28.9

And then I'm going to share with you how you can break free from it. So look in the description

0:33.0

below. And there's a free guide there for you on how to develop self-worth as a man. Now, I've seen so many men

0:39.7

struggle with self-worth, and I've put together a great resource for you that is free for you to

0:45.5

just work on that self-worth. So check it out in the description below. Okay, let's dive in. What the

0:51.6

heck is people pleasing? Why does this even matter? Why is it so important? Why

0:54.8

do so many people struggle with it? Well, first and foremost, people pleasing is really an attachment-based

1:01.3

issue where you learned in your childhood growing up, in your family system, that other people's

1:09.0

needs were more relevant and more important than yours. You may have

1:13.5

learned that in order to get your needs met, you actually had to over-prioritize somebody else's

1:20.6

needs. You had to make mom happy and ensure that she was fully taken care of. Or you had to,

1:26.9

the very common one is, you know, you had to make sure that everything,

1:31.3

that like everything was perfect for dad in order to get a like, good job, you know,

1:36.2

or like a little bump on the shoulder.

1:38.8

So people pleasers are sometimes people that have grown up in an environment where love

1:43.5

was performance-based.

1:44.8

Love was very conditioned and conditional on how well you performed.

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