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ManTalks Podcast

How To Lead In A Relationship—Your Next Step

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

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

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Talking points: relationships, leadership

A while back, I launched a video on how men can better lead themselves and their relationships. It got a ton of dialogue, let's just say. Here's what I mean by lead, and three definitive steps to getting it right.


(00:00:00) - Defining what “lead” actually means

(00:04:08) - The first thing to do

(00:07:14) - Stop taking her emotions personally

(00:12:47) - Lead in connection, lead in repair


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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back.

0:09.0

We are to be talking about how to lead in a relationship part two.

0:13.0

There is a part one to this that you can check out on the channel if you haven't already.

0:17.0

Tons of people have loved that video.

0:19.0

So go and check it out. Let's dive into part two.

0:23.6

How do you lead in your relationship as a man? First off, I can't even believe I have to say this,

0:28.5

but it's shocking to me how controversial this is for some people. There's this notion that, you know, to lead in a relationship as a man is somehow

0:40.2

misogynistic and it's not what women want. And generally, like, where I want to begin is

0:46.2

for you as a guy, just like, I would say just generally ignore the people that say that they

0:52.0

don't want you to lead in a relationship. What most women I've found are actually saying is that they don't want you to lead in a relationship. What most women

0:55.7

are I've found are actually saying is that they don't want to be treated like a servant

0:59.2

in a relationship. They don't want to be treated as less than in a relationship. They don't want

1:04.0

to be looked down on. And all that's true. When I'm talking about leading in a relationship,

1:08.7

I'm not talking like you're the boss and they have to do what you say.

1:12.9

We're not talking about, you know, you being the like executive manager and she's this servant that has to go along with things.

1:20.3

That's not what we're talking about.

1:22.1

Leadership, as I defined it in the first video, is a process of influence where one or many people are influenced towards a

1:29.5

common goal or task. Now, for me, leadership is reciprocal. Leadership is reciprocal. If you are

1:37.2

trying to lead in a non-reciprocal manner, meaning you're not letting yourself be influenced in

1:43.7

return by your employees, by your

1:46.6

partner, by your girlfriend, your wife, whoever it is that you are leading and having some

1:52.4

leadership with, that is not healthy, effective leadership. That is tyrannical. It's trying to

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