All right, team, welcome to The Man Talk Show.

I'm Connor Beaton.

And joining me today is Mr. Owen Marcus, who specializes in men's or masculine emotional intelligence. So we're going to be

talking extensively this episode about what is emotional intelligence, why it's so important

for your life, for your relationship, for your career, purpose, happiness, et cetera,

how to develop and deepen that emotional intelligence. But first, let me tell you a little bit

about Mr. Owen Marcus. So after 20 years of working on healing and working with his Asperger's

syndrome and dyslexia, he discovered something that was still missing. His mind was fully working,

but his life wasn't. He wasn't happy. His relationships with women were sometimes struggling.

And so he'd done a little work to understand what was going on behind the scenes,

which led him down the path of doing a tremendous amount of men's work.

And it led him down the path of training in somatic psychotherapy,

of which he is now a member of the United States

Association for Body Psychotherapy. And for years after this, for the last few decades,

he's trained coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists in the work that he does, specifically

in the work that he does with every man. So Owen Marcus is a co-founder of

every man and he has supported men's work, men's groups, men's organizations for the last

few decades in really allowing men to develop a more, a deeper sense of how to actually navigate their emotional landscape. And if you listen to

this show, if you've tuned into my work before, you will know how important that is to me

and how relevant this conversation is because I think that somatic work specifically understanding

where we feel in the body is important because for a lot of men that come and start to do this work, you know, you ask a man, what are you feeling right now? And for the most part, a lot of guys just don't know. You know, it's like, I don't know. I don't know if I'm feeling ashamed. I don't know if I'm feeling embarrassed. Most of us can tell when we're feeling angry,

but that's kind of about it for some guys. And so having a more robust language, understanding of

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