The Unfinished Man with Lair Torrent (Part 3): The New Masculine Frame

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today, John and Lair explore the evolving concept of masculinity, emphasizing the importance of vulnerability, emotional processing, and the need for male friendships. They also discuss the challenges men face in expressing emotions and the societal pressures that often lead to unhealthy competition, isolation, and more. Find out more about Lair HERE Follow Lair on Instagram HERE Buy Lair's book The Practice of Love: Break Old Patterns, Rebuild Trust, and Create a Connection That Lasts HERE Order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose, HERE Jump into John’s new Single. On Purpose app HERE Follow John on Instagram HERE Find out more about John HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.4	Hi, my name is John Kim.
0:33.0	I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago, and I've been documenting
0:37.0	my journey
0:37.5	ever since, sharing my life lessons and revelations. I believe in casual over clinical with you
0:43.2	instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:51.5	Hey, quick question. Are you sick of swiping? Are you sick of the toxic dating landscape? Like most of my clients are, are you sick of being ghosted and unresponsive people? Well, check it out. Put all the dating apps away and jump into my online community. Sing on Purpose, the app. It's a community of like-minded singles
1:12.7	working on connecting to themselves first, and by doing so, they are creating organic connections.
1:19.2	And listen, I never said single forever, so you could, of course, connect with someone and find
1:23.9	love on the app, but that's not the goal. I'm also in there all the time doing
1:28.0	lives at least once a week and we're going to eventually do in-person hangs. It's going to be an
1:34.0	amazing community. It just launched. Check it out, sing on purpose.com. I'll see you inside.
1:40.5	This is episode three of our series, The Unfinished Man with Laird Torrent, licensed marriage family therapist, author, speaker, father.
1:53.0	And a lot has happened since we talked last.
1:56.5	And so on today's episode, we were actually supposed to talk about finding your masculine frame, understanding masculinity and the search for a masculine frame.
2:06.4	But I don't even know if we're going to get to that because there's so much to talk about because life happened.
2:12.6	Lots of life.
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