It’s now time to check in with each other and reflect on how we’ve been DOING authentic connection to our selves, to those most important to us and to our communities so far in 2021.

After all, wishing, hoping and praying for someone to fix our loneliness doesn’t actually help us move past our loneliness. We only move past our loneliness when we decide to DO authentic connection.

And yes, this is terrifying.

Let’s take a few moments to check in with each other to see how we’re going towards feeling connected to our authentic selves, those most important to us and to our communities. I’ll do a check in too.

Let me get you a coffee and come and join me now for a chat.

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘2021: Your year of authentic connection – progress check 3’: https://bit.ly/39yDqZH

Join me on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3l35iMh

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

The loneliness that comes from the disconnection from self when we’re gay and in a straight marriage is awful. It’s the loneliness that comes from being disconnected from our authentic selves.

My friend Andrew Reid has courageously shared his story of being gay while married to a woman. It’s a story of wishing his gay away and throwing himself into work and working out to feel seen, heard and that he belonged.

I know that Andrew’s story will help others, for I know it would have helped me when I was in his situation myself.

Let me buy you a coffee and come and join us for a beautiful and real chat.

About Andrew

Andrew is a man making his way through life in a regional city in the Australian state of Victoria. He’s the father of three young humans, owns his own business, loves keeping fit and came out as gay after a 14-year marriage to a woman.

Instagram: @reiddrew

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘The loneliness of being gay in a straight relationship – with Andrew Reid’: https://bit.ly/3toBJHn

Join us on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3l35iMh

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

Come and join Michael DiIorio and me for a coffee and our chat about hook-up apps – why we love them and why we love to hate them.

You’ll want to join us for this fun conversation about what we’ve learned about ourselves, others and our communities through these apps. You’ll definitely want to listen to the wisdom and insight Michael brings to the topic and how it’s great and beautiful thing to want to have sex, and how to use the apps as a tool for connection.

Let me buy you a coffee and come and join us for a chat.

About Michael

Michael is a certified life & wellness coach and founder of Wellismo, a wellness blog that intersects personal development and sexuality. As a coach, he enables clients to achieve their goals and create a future they're excited for.

Website: www.wellismo.com

Instagram: @wellismo_coach

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘Hook-up apps’: https://bit.ly/3BjXOto

Join me on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3l35iMh

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

When we look at perfection in our social media feeds, we think that we need to be as perfect as the bodies and minds we see online before we allow ourselves to be seen.

Nope, we find the cracks of others to be incredibly sexy.

Let’s have a chat to see what we can learn from Japanese pottery and philosophy about how our cracks make us very sexy.

Let me get you a coffee and come and join me for a chat

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘Cracks are sexy’: https://bit.ly/37HPJ4V

Join me on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3l35iMh

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

Loneliness is a horrible experience. We feel invisible. We feel worthless.

It’s no wonder that we look for quick fixes and for someone – anyone – to see us and hear us and make us feel that we belong again.

Let’s talk about how we can find that man who will save from our loneliness.

Let me get you a coffee and come and join me now for a chat.

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘Finding your Prince Charming’: https://bit.ly/375dcwC

Join me on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3l35iMh

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

It’s been a while since episodes, hasn’t it? I’m really keen to see how 2021 has been your year of authentic connection so far.

Let’s take a few moments to check in with each other to see how we’re going towards feeling connected to our authentic selves, those most important to us and to our communities. I’ll do a check in too.

Let me get you a coffee and come and join me now for a chat.

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘2021: Your year of authentic connection – progress check 2’: https://bit.ly/2VIwzJr

Join me on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uZtbkDD1zYI

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

How are you DOING connection in 2021 so far?

Are you smashing it? Are you doing it in fits and starts? Or are there more fits than starts?

Let’s take a few moments to check in with each other to see how you’re going towards feeling connected to your authentic self, those most important to you and to your communities. I’ll go first.

Let me get you a coffee and come and join me now for a chat.

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘2021: Your year of authentic connection – progress check 1’: https://bit.ly/3bXskOr

Join me on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Wq79PWy3SiA

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

This episode of Connection over Coffee is so full of practical advice and wisdom that it’s hard to know where to begin.

First, Nathan is The Loneliness Coach and his work focuses on the power of the labels we wear – both those that we put on ourselves and those put on us by others – and how they can lead us to feeling lonely.

Secondly, Nathan has some super practical and approachable ways to help us to recognise the power of these labels and to help us get the connection we need in life.

Let me get you a coffee and come and join us now for a chat.

About Nathan

Nathan Todd is the founder of No Label Defines Me Coaching. Nathan’s work primarily focuses on loneliness, labels, and disabilities.

Find Nathan at:

Clubhouse: realnathantodd

Instagram: @therealnathantodd

Facebook: The Loneliness Coach

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘The labels we wear – by Nathan Todd: https://bit.ly/3pxCBpk

Join us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3-He-byz83A

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

It’s hard to describe this must-listen episode.

It’s soul-nourishing. It’s funny. It's an aural hug. It’s ripe and delicious.

It’s so, well, Reno.

Join me and Reno for a coffee and a chat in this episode of Connection over Coffee with The Loneliness Guy. Get settled in for a deep, real chat about courage and how we need to be courageous to be who we are and get the authentic connection we need. It’s a beautiful thing.

About Reno

Reno occasionally refers to himself as a “Star”, an “Inspirer”, “Community Leader”, and a “Spiritual Life & Business Facilitator” – if Oprah, Lewis Howes, and Ru Paul had a baby, he’d be it.

It’s his way of owning the fact trying to box and label himself just doesn’t work for him. It’s also his way of painting a picture of what he does…

In a way, he gets paid to play, and to be him.

Find Reno at:

Website: www.itjustgotreno.com

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @itjustgotreno

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘Expose Yourself’: https://bit.ly/36CSOms

Join us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YUDZoZ-cQ5E

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

Why does everything about connection in the gay world seem to involve money? How do you do connection when you don’t have much money?

Join me in this episode of Connection over Coffee with The Loneliness Guy and let’s have a chat about how we connect when money is scarce.

Links

Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com

Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe

Read ‘Connection on a budget’: https://bit.ly/2Mdl1Jx

Join us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5uJfWud--dQ

Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help

Contact me: [email protected]

Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz