Kyle Creek - Regret, Resilience, And Reinvention
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Talking points: masculinity, regret, anger, culture
It's been too long since I sat down with The Captain himself. I am continuously grateful for Kyle's honesty about his own life, his process, and his opinion on things. Which means this conversation is as refreshing as it is frank. Strongly recommend sharing this one, team.
(00:00:00) - Why is regret such a thing, are men conditioned to beat themselves up, and should it impact our decisions?
(00:10:47) - How a recent writing project nearly broke Kyle, and what he learned
(00:18:28) - On Netflix’s “Adolescence”, social media, and male role models
(00:26:24) - How Kyle manages anger
(00:31:38) - On maintaining discipline and motivation for creative or side projects, and what Kyle would’ve done differently
(00:41:41) - Why therapy didn’t work for Kyle
(00:49:38) - Kyle’s new book
As is tradition, I'm share Kyle's unedited bio here because it's...well, it's just fantastic.
"As a kid, I wanted to be a cowboy. Then, my mom bought me a skateboard and I got on with my life. In college, I decided copywriting was the career move for me and, for the last decade, I’ve held a variety of creative positions both in-house and within agency settings. I’ve also published five books, spoken at events around the country, and educated the masses about shark dating as the host of “Shark Sex 101” for Discovery Channel’s ever-popular Shark Week series.
My work has had its share of recognition — but nothing will ever mean as much to me as the “2016 AAF People’s Choice Show Winner” award that I received for tattooing a former employer’s face on my ass as part of a charity auction.
My only regret in life is being just a grammar gunslinger and not an actual cowboy. I don’t even own a horse."
Connect with Kyle
-New book: Speech Therapy: https://m.cmpgn.page/QDc2tx
-Website: https://www.kylecreek.com/
-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sgrstk/
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Kyle the Captain Creek, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. Thanks for having me back. Of course, of course. December 19th, 2022, last time you're on the show. That feels, I was going to say, that feels like a lifetime ago. I feel like I've lived, was that three years almost? I feel like I've lived three lifetimes in three years. Well, I think we'll probably get into some of that. |
| 0:21.6 | But let's start with regret. |
| 0:24.2 | Why is regret such a prominent part of a man's life? |
| 0:28.5 | And what the hell are we supposed to do with it? |
| 0:31.2 | I mean, I think for me, the problem with regret is, you know, as a man, I hate feeling incapable. |
| 0:37.2 | I hate feeling like I've made mistakes. I hate feeling incapable. I hate feeling like I made |
| 0:38.2 | mistakes. I hate feeling stupid. I really hate feeling like I've been taken advantage of or put |
| 0:43.4 | myself in a place to be taken advantage of. And so the things that I tend to regret or, you know, |
| 0:49.1 | the times of my life when I've really beat myself up or when something hits at my ego essentially |
| 0:53.2 | makes me feel like I made a |
| 0:55.0 | mistake. And I know we were chatting before this about, you know, I bought this home in Florida that I |
| 0:59.8 | recently sold. And when I bought that house, I was static about it. I thought it was the right move. |
| 1:05.8 | And I had a couple things in my career, not go as I planned. And over the coming months, I could not get over |
| 1:13.2 | the feeling that I'd made just this massive mistake. And this mortgage was just eating me alive. |
| 1:18.8 | And I allowed just that stress to really erode almost every facet of my life for a while it felt |
| 1:26.4 | like. Why do you feel like we personalize the mistakes that we make? |
| 1:30.4 | I think this is such a common thing for guys where it's almost as though when we screw up, |
| 1:37.6 | that failure is a reflection of who we foundationally are. |
| 1:41.7 | It's like a reflection on our identity. |
| 1:43.9 | I think you nailed it. |
| 1:44.7 | I mean, for me, it's the biggest thing |
| 1:47.5 | is feeling stupid. |
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