Well, hello, hello!

Settle in, snuggle up wherever you are.

I am Stephen Hussey and this is another episode of, of course, the Love Life podcast.

And today's topic is going to be a return to one we talked about a couple of episodes ago,

the subject of masculinity.

If you remember a few episodes ago, we had Matt talking about why men find it so difficult to open up emotionally

and reveal their weaknesses or their vulnerabilities, especially when it can blow up in their face,

where they're judged by other men for being that way, or by women on a day who have expectations

or what a man should act like, and all these expectations, how they weigh on men and make them emotionally guarded.

And this conversation goes into masculinity from a different perspective, and it's a conversation between Matt and Lewis House.

Lewis is an international speaker, he's a New York Times bestselling author, he has an international global podcast,

the School of Greatness podcast with a huge listenership, so he's very accomplished, and they talk about Lewis's book,

The Mask of Masculinity, and in this book, Lewis talks about the different masks that men wear all the time to cover up their insecurities.

The mask might be money, success, it might be their prowess with women, and that's what we talk about in this episode.

So it's Matt and Lewis talking about how as men grow up, especially if they weren't successful sexually when they're younger,

or in their teenage years, which is a lot of men, and then they start getting female attention, and maybe they get a little bit addicted to that attention, they think,

wow, I've never had this before, and suddenly they start defining themselves by that level of attention, and we talk about how that affects them going forward in their dating lives.

So it's very relevant stuff, super interesting, dive into the male psyche, I'm going to hand over to Matt and Lewis now, hope you enjoyed the episode, I'll see you soon.

So I'm here with my man, Lewis Howes, the writer of the brand new book The Mask of Masculinity.

Thank you for coming, Lewis. Good to see you, man.

Your new book is so relevant to our audience because it is about understanding the male brain, and the different masks that men wear when they are covering up their true complex, authentic, emotional selves.

And when we can understand the masks that men are wearing, then we can actually connect them at the deepest level, and have more powerful, meaningful relationships.

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