Welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. And in this week's midweek mini episode, we are going to talk all about meeting your edge. So I recently made a post about meeting your edge. And I got a lot of people asking questions like, how do I meet my edge? How do I know if I'm at my edge? Why can't I seem to

meet my edge? What's the resistance around it? How you know, what are the blocks? I mean,

I got a tremendous amount of questions both on the post and in direct messages. So I thought I would

tackle this in a mini episode. So first and foremost, why is meeting your edge relevant, important,

why is it something that you need to do? So from a masculine perspective, I'm just going to take

this approach. Again, remember, masculine is not about gender, whether you are a man or a woman

listening to this. You have masculine qualities within you. You can label it as the yang and the yin

the yang. You can put it as the yang and the yin and the yang. You can,

you know, put a spiritual term on it, like whatever you need to do. But the masculine is the,

the part of us associated with, with wanting to expand, with wanting freedom, with craving

direction and purpose and a whole

bunch of other pieces. But the masculine in us is going to want to constantly meet our edge because

it wants to know where its parameters is. And in a less esoteric sense, it wants to meet the edge. So you crave meeting your

edge because this is part of our initiation. It's part of the initiatory process for us as men.

Culturally, from a heritage standpoint, from a historical standpoint, we have always had some form of an initiation

as men. And in those initiations, we have met our edge. We have met the primal part of us. We have

been thrust out into experiences where we are forced into an environment where we have to get uncomfortable, where we meet life

on life's terms, and we have to figure out ways not only to survive, but to thrive. And it's in

these moments and these initiatory moments where we meet the parts of ourself that are actually required,

that are required in order to thrive,

in order for us to move beyond simply survival.

I mean, at the bare minimum to survive,

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