Facing Shame, Finding Strength & Leadership: Men’s Work Session
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
I sit down with Roger for a powerful conversation about intimacy, leadership, and the courage it takes to be fully honest in a relationship. We explore how childhood wounds can carry into adult partnerships, and the work it takes to break free from old cycles of shame and avoidance. Roger opens up with deep vulnerability, and together we unpack what it means to step into responsibility and create real connection.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 – Opening & Welcome
00:52 – Roger’s Relationship Struggles
04:08 – Intimacy & Connection Challenges
07:56 – The Cycle of Avoidance
13:29 – Childhood Roots with Mom
20:05 – Healing the Inner Boy
28:22 – Facing the Partner with Honesty
35:30 – Learning to Be Okay with Disappointment
42:35 – Separating Self from Validation
47:29 – Commitments for Change
52:19 – Micro Moments of Leadership
53:18 – Closing Reflections
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| 0:00.0 | All right, my friend, how you doing today? |
| 0:08.3 | Yeah, I'm good. |
| 0:08.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm really good, Connor. |
| 0:10.9 | It's funny when we, before we hit record, I like saw your background and I was like, |
| 0:15.0 | uh-oh, you're at work. |
| 0:18.0 | How's that going to go? |
| 0:19.7 | But I think it'll be, it'll be great. It'll be great. I always like, I always give guys a hard time because, you know, sometimes with my clients, you know, they're, they're just the only time that we can see each other is when they're at work, you know, and so they're in their office. And you just, we're trying to get into something and they have to try and like close a door or like lock it or |
| 0:40.1 | you know whatever it is. |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah. Anyway, thank you. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm in the boardroom so it's good. |
| 0:44.7 | Good, good, good. |
| 0:45.6 | Well, thanks for joining me and just give me |
| 0:48.6 | a little bit of insight into what you're wanting |
| 0:50.8 | to address, confront, work on, or resolve? |
| 0:56.1 | For me, I'm trying to, I'm very good at all the practices. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm really good at scheduling these calls with my partner, but I just don't have the courage |
| 1:07.6 | to follow through. |
| 1:08.6 | And I'm always thinking of reasons why I'm always there's always |
| 1:13.7 | an excuse for why it's not the right time to address and I think I've said this to you but yeah my |
| 1:18.8 | my partner is an amazing woman and she calls me forward and she wants me to be the best person I do as |
| 1:24.3 | well and I think there's a frustration both with her and myself that I'm, |
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