Men's Work Session - A Man's Missing Keystone, A Father's Self-Indulgence
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Talking points: inner child, fatherhood, abandonment, the shadow
Fair warning, there's a lot of F-bombs in this one. We've kept them in because I want people to get a sense of how deep a father wound can go. My guest has struggled with a kind of dualistic life. One day, he's crushing it and confident. The next, he feels uncertain and lost.
This is a heavy one, team, but absolutely worth checking out.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, good sir. How are you doing today? Enjoying my coffee, contemplating my life, just like every other day. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm jealous of the coffee situation. As you know, I'm on my couple weeks of no coffee on this detox, this cleanse. |
| 0:17.0 | And the hardest thing is when my wife makes a latte in the morning. It's like the hardest part of the day. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm like, oh, I want that. Although last night we did, we went out for dinner and all I basically |
| 0:28.9 | had was fish and vegetables. And then she's sitting across with me smashing a burger and |
| 0:34.4 | rosemary truffle french fries. And I was you is like she's like are you going to be |
| 0:40.8 | mad at me if i do this i said no but i'm going to basically sit here and salivate over your meal |
| 0:47.6 | right that's that's what's going to happen she she eats one french fry at a time like looking |
| 0:53.0 | deep into your soul. |
| 0:54.7 | Totally. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:56.4 | Absolutely. |
| 1:02.1 | Just like savouringly, you know, sexually eating French fries and just like dying on the other side. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay, my friend. |
| 1:04.2 | Well, let's dive in. |
| 1:06.2 | You were giving me some insight before. |
| 1:08.1 | Maybe just start from the top. |
| 1:09.6 | What are you thinking about we can |
| 1:12.4 | potentially tackle and work on today? Yeah. So, you know, I've always been the high performer. |
| 1:20.9 | And my high performances also cost me at times. But I've seen to reach like a plateau of my performance. |
| 1:30.3 | And really the bottom line that I'm searching for on this is understanding why I'm holding |
| 1:36.1 | myself back. |
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