There's conflict and fighting and those are two completely different things in my opinion.

Conflict is a result of being human. You're going to have differences of opinion and there's going to be conflict.

But when you fight it's really about being right.

And when you can relinquish the need to be right,

you're less likely to need to fight. the Hey and welcome back to the relationship schools Smart Couple Podcast. I'm Jason Gaddis, your host, and I'm grateful to be here.

We are exploring a series for men by men on what makes male men so challenging in partnership sometimes.

And with all that's going on in the world,

I thought it was beneficial to have this conversation.

All right, this podcast is for people that want great long-term partnerships and also want great

relationships, deep ones,

fulfilling ones, connected ones, ones that can weather

the storm of adversity.

So we interview experts, therapists, neuroscientists, my wife, myself, and lots of cool people and we jam about partnership and relationship.

So in this series we are discussing men and I'm gonna have a smattering of guests about men over the coming weeks and months.

And we'll keep referring back to this initial series and male conditioning. In this episode I've got coach Michael Taylor

who is an old friend and somewhat of an old slash new friend. We met years ago when I hosted the

evolving men's conference. He came out to help us with this conversation around

masculinity and he's just a great guy.

And extremely positive and despite what he's been through

and he helps a lot of people and he's got a great message. So I thought it would be cool to have him on the show and get his take on men, especially men in partnership.

So here's a little bit about Michael. He's a motivational speaker,

entrepreneur, author, and radio show host. He's born in the inner city projects of

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