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

Man Talks. And today we're going to do a little bit of a dive into relational leadership.

So executing leadership and a relationship. And the reason why this is so important is more and more

lately I've been working one-on-one with some men and specific clients and in some small groups

through our mastermind groups.

And what I've noticed is that a lot of men are struggling to take any sort of ownership

or leadership in their relationship.

And that's a lot of ships, isn't it?

But I see a lot of guys struggling and I see a lot of women who are unhappy in their relationship

because their man is afraid to take leadership.

And this isn't just restricted to heterosexual relationships.

So this can this can be within masculine relationships and feminine relationships, but this is a masculine quality in a lot of ways.

When we take leadership within our relationship, we are executing on being able to own parts of ourselves that aren't working.

We are taking responsibility for our contributions

to the relationships dysfunction. And this is not just a masculine trait or a feminine trait,

but this is a leadership trait. And in a lot of ways, when I look at a heterosexual dynamic and with the men that I work

with and the couples that I work with, the partners are often communicating that there's a lack of

ownership. There's a lack of taking a responsibility around things that aren't working. And in a

relationship, when we as men start to shirk the responsibilities, when we start

to put the onus of the dysfunction of the things that aren't working onto our partner,

what we are actually communicating to them is that we can't be trusted, is that they

have to be responsible for not only the health and well-being of

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