Welcome guys and gals to the man talk show. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of

Mantox. This podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and

extraordinary individuals to

help teach and mentor you in what it's like to be a top performer in life, love, and business.

So joining me today is Rainier Wilde, and he has a master's in community counseling and psychology.

He's a certified vocational specialist and certified

CBT life coach. He's been extensively trained in Eastern mindfulness, Western contemplative

practices. I don't know why that's always a hard one for me to say. Like every single time,

it's a hard one for me to say. Uh, and the art of

Socratic questioning. And he's spent thousands of hours professionally interacting with men

in all different stages of life from spiritual seekers, wanting training, uh, in being present

to men scrambling to get their lives pieced back together. So today we talk about a bunch of different things.

We dig into the shadow and what the shadow is. Rainier shares his personal story. He was a therapist

for a number of years until he had an affair. And that affair shook his life at the foundation at the core. But he was able to

move through it and save his marriage and get his life on track. And so we talk about his personal

journey, his personal experience. And then we go into what the shadow is, how it shows up. And you can

kind of piece it back and see how it showed up

in Rainier's life. We also talk about initiation and why initiation is so important, which, by the way,

I have a special mini episode that's coming up later on this week where I dig super deep into

this specific topic because it's something that we need to

talk more about. So we discussed that and we dig into a little bit about faith because interestingly

enough, Rainier for quite a few years ran a faith-based community, which was quite interesting.

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