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The Man Enough Podcast

Build Stronger Relationships with John Kim & Vanessa Bennett

The Man Enough Podcast

Wayfarer Studios LLC

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

John Kim (aka "The Angry Therapist") and Vanessa Bennet are world-class relationship therapists, podcast hosts, bestselling authors AND life partners. The couple joins Jamey, Liz and guest host Andy Grammer for a vulnerable and eye-opening conversation about the messy work of relationships. ​​John and Vanessa break down red flags in dating, therapy for men, how to set healthy boundaries for yourself and others, tapping into masculine & feminine energy, and how to navigate mismatched desires within couples. ​​Plus, don't miss a sneak peek of an unreleased song from Andy at the end. New episodes every Monday 🎙️ The video version of every episode and bonus features will always be available on the @wearemanenough YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/WeAreManEnough The Man Enough Podcast is produced by Wayfarer Studios and presented by Procter and Gamble, in partnership with Cadence13, an Audacy company. Read It’s Not Me It’s You Together, John & Vanessa have written this book, analyzing their own relationship to help untangle the common and frustrating barriers many individuals face on the road to a happy, loving, rewarding partnership. About John Kim & Vanessa Bennett: John Kim, also known as The Angry Therapist, is a published writer, speaker, life coach, and a co-founder of The TAT Lab and Lumia–Life Coach Training and Community. He built a coaching team of his own and launched a sister company called JRNI, creating a new way to help people. Vanessa Bennett is an author, holistic psychotherapist, and codependency expert. Her therapeutic approach integrates years of study and practice in Depth, Buddhist, and Yoga Psychology. She co-hosts the Cheaper Than Therapy Podcast, leads soul-based retreats and workshops, and creates and facilitates curriculum for non-profit and corporate events and conferences. Show Notes 00:00 Episode Starts 02:36 Intros 07:34 Red Flags In Dating 09:58 The Misconception of The One 15:36 Why Men Don’t Champion Therapy 19:05 Cutting Boys Off From Their Emotional Selves 27:22 Holding Your Friends Accountable 43:48 Caregiving vs Caretaking 48:34 John’s Poem 51:56 Disconnected Desires 01:06:22 From Judgment to Curiosity 01:09:22 Andy’s Song 01:13:31 What Does it Mean to be Man Enough Key Quotes from the Episode: “Taking a second to ask ‘what else could be true?’ is incredibly helpful in relationships…it turns the dial from Judgement to Curiosity” - Vanessa Bennett & John Kim “It’s important to have conversations in locker rooms, be the trojan horse, if you’re there and you’ve gone through some type of hero’s journey then you need to lead by example…share it with your friends.” - John Kim Guest Social Links: John Kim Instagram: @theangrytherapist Twitter: @angrytherapist Facebook:@theangrytherapist Vanessa Bennett Instagram: @vanessasbennet Facebook:@vanessabennettcoaching JOIN THE MAN ENOUGH COMMUNITY: https://instagram.com/wearemanenough https://tiktok.com/wearemanenough https://twitter.com/WeAreManEnough https://facebook.com/wearemanenough https://youtube.com/WeAreManEnough Subscribe to the Man Enough newsletter for behind the scenes, updates, sneak peeks of new episodes, and positive masculinity content: https://manenough.com/newsletter Read the Man Enough book: https://manenough.com/books Order the Boys Will Be Human book: https://boyswillbehuman.com FOLLOW THE HOSTS: Justin Baldoni https://instagram.com/justinbaldoni https://www.tiktok.com/@justinbaldoni https://facebook.com/justinbaldoni https://twitter.com/justinbaldoni Text: +1 (310) 845-6909 Liz Plank https://instagram.com/feministabulous https://tiktok.com/@lizplank https://facebook.com/feministabulous https://twitter.com/feministabulous http://www.elizabethplank.com/ Jamey Heath https://instagram.com/jamey_heath_ https://tiktok.com/@jameyheath https://twitter.com/jamey_heath_ https://facebook.com/jameyjaz http://www.jameyheath.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up on man enough.

0:02.0

The danger of the one, you know?

0:05.0

And believing that there's one person for you growing up with Disney movies and

0:09.0

romcoms and you know that whole lightning in the bottle and if that's not there then you can't build anything sustainable

0:15.0

with Vanessa and I we met each other on a blind date and it was rocky you know I was married divorce and I never been single for a long time so I wanted to

0:22.7

Bhatri I wanted to wake up with someone I didn't like I wanted to like do

0:26.1

drugs and have threesoms and all the stories that we hear about and I didn't

0:29.1

get far because and so when I met Vanessa you're welcome.

0:31.8

Yeah I was like damning and shit.

0:35.0

I was trying to get it get in somewhere.

0:37.0

Being man enough. What does that mean?

0:42.0

It's really manly to mess up, admit you're wrong, and then grow.

0:46.0

I couldn't accept that I was evil, so maybe I'm broken.

0:49.0

But those broken things could be corrected.

0:51.0

Intimacy between a father and a son

0:53.0

is me just wanting to like, put my head in your lap.

0:56.3

I love you son.

0:58.0

You haven't called me a benevolent sexist,

0:59.6

but my experience is women are better.

1:02.0

Even if it's a positive, it's still not equality.

1:04.5

I don't blame men for that.

1:06.8

I just blame the system.

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