Welcome guys and gals to the Man Talks podcast. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of Man Talks,

and today we have a mini episode. And on this mini episode, I'm going to jam on building presence,

how to build presence, and not only how to build presence, but why it is so important. And I have

some really interesting research to share with you and some great insight from both men and women. And so I hope you stick around for the whole 10 minutes. It's going to be a short 10 minutes. It's going to be packed with juicy goodness with some research with some tips and tricks. And I actually hate that. Tips and tricks. Whenever people say tips and tricks, it sounds like you're going to get something cheap and shitty. So let's not call it

tips and tricks. You're just going to get a lot of value and I'm going to give you some, I'm going to give you some action items, not homework, but some action items. You can choose to do them if you wish. And if you don't, it's your life. So don't choose to do them, you know, like it's up to you. but really I would recommend that you do them because if you don't, then, you know, you're just listening to my voice. And while it might be nice, I'm sure that you want to create change in your life. And I'm sure that you want to create some action in your life. So without any other further adieu and rambling about esoteric qualities of whether or not you should choose to do the exercises in this podcast.

Let's get started.

First and foremost, presence.

What is presence?

And why is it so important?

Presence, without going into the sort of dictionary version of what presence is by definition,

is really a feeling when you think about it and when you feel it in

your body. You know when you're around somebody who is just so there, some people call it they

are witnessing you or they're really hearing you, they're really listening to you. Other people

call it tuned in. They're really tuned into you.

Presence is the ability to connect with somebody else's source, with somebody else's story,

with somebody else's ideas and creativity and somebody else's love and hurt and pain and

whatever is going on for them in that moment. It's the ability to connect with that

moment of them, of who they are without, and this is key, allowing your own eunice to get in the way.

Yes, I said Eunice. Without your you getting in the way, without getting in the way of hearing them,

seeing them, being able to witness them, and receive the information that they're giving you.

So what does that actually mean?

What does that look like?

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