All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show. Today we're going to be talking about why so many men go through a midlife crisis. Now, I've worked with countless men over the years who have gone through some form of a midlife crisis. And as I turned 40 this year, this was something that I was kind of interested in

within myself, because I have seen the very real implosion and destruction that a midlife

crisis can cause. And I was curious about this, not because I was unhappy with my life,

but more so because over the years, I've worked with so many men who have

reached their mid-30s to mid-40s and all of a sudden radically changed their life or imploded

their life or had this really big sort of monumental change that had been stirring in the background

for years or even decades.

And so we're going to talk about what I've found, the three things, the three contributing

factors that really lead to a midlife crisis and what it can inform you, how it can

inform you to actually lead a better life regardless of how old you are.

So first off, I just want to say the middle passage through life. I like

calling it the middle passage. This is from Dr. James Hollis, who I've actually interviewed on

the Mantox podcast before. He's a very renowned Jungian psychologist. He's done some incredible

work and written a lot of books. And he actually wrote a book called

The Middle Passage, which if you haven't read it before, if you haven't heard of it, I would

definitely recommend checking it out. He goes deep into the midlife. And some of his work has

revolved around this midlife passage that we will all go through.

So in our culture, though, one of the interesting things that happens is that because

many people are very afraid of death, unconsciously or consciously, they avoid asking

the really big questions. And so the midlife gets a very bad rap because, again, we call it

the crisis, right? It's not necessarily a crisis per se. It's more of an awakening. It's more of a

shedding of an old skin. It's more of a letting go of the shackles that have held us down and the

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