The I'm Ryan Naidel, host of 15 minutes of freedom, your daily action guide to getting shit done.

Today's episode's entitled, Zeus's Cancer. Sit back, relax and enjoy the content. In today's episode I'm going to share with you why tapping into your emotions, especially as a man, is not a bad thing.

It's actually what you should be doing. It's no secret to you if you're a

longtime listener. We're infirmly consumed a handful of episodes that I feel that we as men

specifically have been told by our parents, I'm a 34 year old man as I record this, that to be a man

means to keep a stiff upper lip.

It means to not show emotion. It means not let people see you sweat and to be the stoic provider.

That that was the story and the belief that was passed down from my father to me.

I don't believe that I'm the only one.

Perhaps you listening right now, maybe you're the other person

that exists that heard the same story.

But in this,

there's a strange phenomenon that actually happens.

We were told not to show our feelings or emotions,

but yet they still existed.

When something hurt us, we still felt pain.

Whether that's emotional pain or whether that's physical pain.

When we got upset about something, we still got angry.

When we were joyous about something, we still got happy.

But with me, I did not have an outlet.

Now, this was not because my father was a bad man in the situation. It was because that was the belief system of his father.

And although I did not know my great-grandfather, I would venture to say it was probably

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