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ManTalks Podcast

Feel Like You Suck At Communicating? Here's Where To Start

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

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

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Keeping it simple and straightforward this week. So many of us feel like terrible communicators, but the truth is we're not—it's just that we're not grounding and regulating ourselves before (and during) that hard conversation. So! Here are some easy, ready-to-use ways of getting you and your partner's nervous system regulated whenever things get heated. Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us 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 self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today.  Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts  | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you suck at communicating in your relationship?

0:05.0

Are you terrible at it?

0:06.2

Do you feel like you are unable to communicate what you want or what you need?

0:10.3

Do you feel like any time that you get into conflict with your girlfriend or your wife,

0:14.5

that it just sort of spirals into something even bigger than the initial sort of conflict

0:20.0

or argument or disagreement? For a lot of guys,

0:24.2

communication relationships is like one of the big things that they're really trying to work on.

0:29.2

And for a lot of men that I've worked with over the years, when they, when they come in,

0:33.4

whether they're coming to work with me one on one or they're coming to work with me as a couple,

0:37.6

communication is one of the biggest challenges that they seem to be facing in the relationship.

0:42.4

So why is it that many of us struggle to be proficient at communicating in our relationships?

0:50.8

The first thing they're going to say, and I'm going to talk very clearly and give you some

0:56.0

very specific point about how to improve your communication within your relationship. One of the

1:01.9

things that I think most of the videos on YouTube and most of the videos online don't talk about

1:08.3

when it comes to communicating more effectively, right?

1:11.1

Telling her exactly what you want, getting your needs met in a relationship, being clear, being direct.

1:16.0

There's a lot of good stuff out there.

1:17.5

And there's some really good advice or some shitty and terrible advice.

1:22.1

But I think one of the things that most of the videos miss is that poor communication is not just limited to your ability

1:30.5

to express yourself and that conflict and arguments and fights, recurring fights happening

1:37.3

within your relationship, not simply because you or your partner, you know, have some bad habits in your relationship or are,

1:46.5

you know, not very good of communicating. They happen because of the level of regulation

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