All right, team. Welcome back to The Man Talk Show. Maybe like some of the men that are out there,

you have been experiencing a lack of direction, a lack of ambition, a lack of motivation.

Maybe you felt disconnected from a kind of masculine energy

or masculine core inside of you, a kind of fire that can push you and propel you towards

your goals, your aims, your desires. Maybe you've felt disconnected from that despite

all of your best intentions. Today we're going to be talking about what

blocks that masculine energy and core inside of you and how to reconnect to it in a way that's not

just about cold showers and lifting heavy weights. Those things can be very, very helpful.

Absolutely. I do those things. I love to lift heavy.

I love to go in the cold plunge and sauna and do breathwick.

All of those things are very helpful.

And sometimes there are some psychological pieces that you need to understand in order to press forward.

So I'm going to talk to you about the modern trap.

The modern man trap is the kind of nice guy

culture. And this nice guy culture can be a deterrent towards your inner strength. It can harm

a connection towards your inner strength. You have this kind of well-intentioned push for you as a man

to be highly empathetic. And this can inadvertently lead

to a kind of passive behavior in your life, a kind of inability to assert healthy boundaries,

that you start to over-index being nice, being kind, being overly compassionate, being overly accommodating. And it's not even

that you're a people please, or maybe you sort of fall into that category, but you just start to

over-index a relentless onslaught of compassion. And I think some of you have probably experienced

this where you get compassion fatigue, you get

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