E.212 Beyond the Hero Complex: How Learning to Ask for Help Transforms Men's Lives

Finding Your Way Through Therapy

Steve Bisson

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Psychology, Counseling, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Honest, Substance Use, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Send us a text What does authentic masculinity look like in a world that teaches boys to hide their emotions from an early age? Leadership coach Lee Povey takes us on his transformative journey from needing to be the hero in every relationship to discovering the profound power of vulnerability. Growing up with a narcissistic father who saw Lee's achievements only as extensions of himself left him with a deep question that persists even at 52 years old: what does it really mean to be a man? H...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Resilience Development and Action, where strength meets strategy and courage to help you move forward.
0:07.3	Each week, your host, Steve Bisson, a therapist with over two decades of experience in the first responder community,
0:13.4	brings you powerful conversations about resilience, growth, and healing through trauma and grief.
0:19.0	Through authentic interviews, expert discussions, and real-world
0:22.2	experiences, we dive deep into the heart of human resilience. We explore crucial topics like
0:28.4	trauma recovery, grief processing, stress management, and emotional well-being. This is
0:34.4	Resilience Development and Action with Steve Bisson.
0:44.3	Well, hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 212.
0:47.1	If you haven't listened to Episode 211, it's a Gordon Brewer.
0:49.8	Gordon came back.
0:51.1	We talked about grief.
0:53.2	He used to run a funeral home.
0:55.6	He talked about that. He talked about the stress of first responders' face, the trauma that they see, among many other things. So I hope
1:00.9	you go listen to it then. But for episode 212, we are going to be talking to Lee Povey.
1:05.7	Lee Povey is a high-performance leadership coach specializing in working with founders and startups.
1:12.4	He's a lifelong entrepreneur, former elite cycling person.
1:16.3	He also does a lot of help with high achievers and helps him motivate, lead, and give them
1:21.6	feedback.
1:22.4	And as a podcast guest, he wants to be able to use his Olympic sport experience and the business
1:27.3	world to discuss how to find more joy sport experience and the business world to discuss
1:27.9	how to find more joy and success, particularly with groups.
1:31.4	And I'm hoping that we talk about men's groups particularly.
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