Experts On: The Power Of Connection To Others—And Yourself

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Connor Beaton

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

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Talking points: isolation, culture, relationships, friendship, anger, connection Every now and I then, my team and I like to compile some of the greatest insights from our guests and center them around a theme. This week, we’re going hard on connection. The importance and nuance of it, the consequences of being without it, and the ways connection manifests. These days, connection isn't easy, but it's more important than ever. Listen in some highly distilled wisdom. (00:00:00) - Doug McKinley on isolation, passing down wisdom, self-leadership, working weaknesses, and adding value to you and your world (00:21:51) - Nedra Tawwab on developing satisfying friendships and how to navigate tough conversations (00:35:26) - Marisa Franco on how men and women build friendship differently, “friendship minus mission”, how camaraderie has changed over the years, and the impacts of NOT having friends (00:50:56) - Angus Fletcher on changing your internal story and your relationship to yourself, cultivating inner antifragility, and relating differently to your own anger *** Pick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Check out some free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship Build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance. Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was curious because you're, you know, you went from clinical psychology into
0:11.0	executive coaching and, you know, working with execs.
0:15.0	And that's, in some ways, I would imagine having been in sort of both of those spaces that you have an opportunity to see
0:22.6	men in very different ways, different roles. And I'm curious as to, you know, whether working
0:29.2	with men in your clinical practice, you know, a few decades ago versus working with men today
0:34.6	in an executive sense, are some of the challenges the same that you've been
0:38.3	seeing? Are, you know, have men gone through a bit of a progression based on what you've seen?
0:43.6	Like, is the, is the masculine landscape a narrative changing? How would you sort of comment on that?
0:49.3	What a great question. Yeah, it's certainly changing, but I think my experience has, there seems to be a demarcation
0:57.9	at around, let's say, current date, like men that are under 40 or 45 versus men that are over.
1:05.6	That sort of line of the baby boomers and into the Gen Xers really seems to be the most predictive for me.
1:12.6	Big boys don't cry, right? The whole thing that we were trained when we were kids was very
1:17.6	prominent when I grew up and others in my age. And now I'm finding really a beautiful openness
1:25.5	to the later Gen Xers and millennials. they seem to be, they're open to,
1:31.4	you know, seeking therapy, to being soft and being vulnerable. And it's just, it's actually,
1:36.3	I think it's a great thing. But unfortunately, I think it has more to do with generational transfer
1:41.0	of wisdom as opposed to my generation actually embracing it. My generation, I was born in
1:46.8	1962, is still pretty protective. We isolate and when men isolate, bad things happen. So we
1:55.2	tend to be very competitive and ambitious creatures and we tend to not want to gather and hold be accountable
2:02.6	because we want to compete. So it's a recipe for problems if we're not more aware. Yeah, you said
2:09.9	the generational transfer of wisdom. Are you referring to just sort of the handing down of what manhood looks like from generation to generation,
2:20.4	or can you just illuminate that a little bit more?
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