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In this episode I talk with host of the podcast “Evolving Man” Ben Goresky.  Ben is an addictions counselor, coach and an explorer of consciousness.  Ben shares stories of his childhood and dealing with bullying and later addiction through high school.  He tells us about going through rehab at 15.  He tells about later in life finding a men’s group that pushed him to start his own men’s group that now has over 50 circles of men.

    Ben tells us the difference between masculine and feminine energy and the beauty and power in both.  He shares how a men group opened and ignited certain masculine energies in him.  He tells us about an acronym of masculinity one of his teachers taught him called PCP which stands for Presence, Claim and Penetration.  He explains this and how you used this to ignite his masculine energies which allowed him to find his true calling.

    Ben helps people with relationships.  Ben tells us how we are all enacting unconscious patterns in relationships and we have to recognize these patterns before we can change them.  Ben talks about how he was constantly avoidant the further he got in a relationship and how tons of men run this exact pattern these days.  Ben tells us about the work he did to acknowledge and deal with the fear that is at the root of that to allow more intimate relationships.

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    In this episode I speak with Greg Wieting.  Greg helps people deal with and overcome anxiety, depression and chronic pain.  Greg has developed his framework using neuroscience, mindfulness/somatic practices and energy work.  Greg tells us how trauma stays in our body and how it can manifest itself anxiety, depression and chronic pain.    

    Greg explains how a trauma response occurs in our body to protect us but how they can keep firing after the danger is gone and cause us a lot of suffering.  He explains the importance of mindfulness and somatic practices to heal your trauma responses so they work for you rather than against you.  Greg tells us how our bodies have an innate wisdom that heals itself and his job is just creating a climate to allow that understanding to come back online.

Greg tells us how when we have mental illness and pain for so long we end up identifying with our mental illness or pain and the strategies we use to escape those things.  He shares how a mindfulness practice can really help us ease that identification.  Greg also shares how now there’s tons of medical doctors dealing with patients more holistically because they realize the value in treating more than just the symptoms.

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In this Episode I speak with Masculinity Coach Dylan Roos.  Dylan talks about the work that he does to help young men to transition from boys psychology to a man’s psychology.  He talks about how all cultures used to have rites of passages from boys to allow them to transition into manhood.  Dylan tells us how our society has lost these rites of passage and how it has resulted in a lot of men who haven’t developed their masculinity in a healthy way.

    Dylan tells us about what a lot of younger men are struggling with these days.  He talks about their lack of confidence, mental health, and ability to handle adversity.  He talks about how society demonizes masculinity and why changing the term “toxic masculinity” to “wounded masculinity” would be more beneficial for younger men to express their masculinity properly. 

    Dylan tells us how not properly integrating our masculinity and emotions leads to repression.  He tells us how repression leads to more nasty actions and violence in the future.  Dylan shares his own journey and some painful moments in his life that lead to his own transformation.  He shares how his daily habits and what he wants in life change after developing a more positive masculinity.  

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    In this episode I speak with Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey.  Adjoa currently practices Emergency Psychiatry in New York City.  She also is an author and has a background in viral immunology.  Adjoa tells us the difference between Psychiatry and Psychology and how they treat patients differently and how their fields interact with each other.  

    Adjoa tells us what it was like working in a Psychiatric emergency room during and after the pandemic.  She tells us about how we are now going through a mental health pandemic and how she helps people going through a mental health crisis.  She tells us about the differences in street drug use that happened during and after the pandemic and why people use these to self medicate.  

Adjoe tells us how loneliness and isolation are becoming so normal right now and how they are fueling the mental health crisis.  She tells us how she helps patients who are experiencing these things.  Adjoa describes depression, anxiety, and panic attacks and how they arise in people.  She gives us great advice on how to deal with these issues and how to prevent them in the future.

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In this episode I speak with comedian and host of the podcast “Causing the Effect Podcast” Scott Gazzoli.  Scott and I talk about why we have an interest in the mind, consciousness and personal development.  Scott tells us the path he went down to find out more about who is and live with more authenticity. 

    Scott talks about balancing spirituality and personal development.  We talk about the balance of “doing” and “being” and the importance of having both to find fulfillment in our society.  We talk about the feeling of lack and insufficiency that everyone feels and how we deal with it.

    Scott tells us about his life growing up with his dad being a part of the mafia and going into the witness protection program.  He tells us the story of growing up being groomed to be a part of the mob.  He tells us a bunch of lessons he got growing up in that environment and how he got out of it.  

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This is our 100th episode and we got one of our favorite guests back on the podcast.  In this episode we speak with Rob from the YouTube channel “Adeptus Psychonautica”.  Rob’s YouTube channel is based on his journey through psychedelic culture and exploration through consciousness.  Rob gives us his views on the discourse with psychedelics in our culture.

    Rob just came back from a 12 day Ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon rain forest in Peru.  He tells us about the different retreats he’s been to in Peru and the differences with each one.  He shared one of the most powerful experiences he had in this last retreat.  He tells us how Ayahuasca helped clear a lot of emotional and mental baggage he’s been carrying with him.

    Rob tells about how the Shipibo tradition in the Amazon rain forest treats the psychedelic experience.  He tells us about what a plant diet in these traditions mean and how it works with Ayahuasca.  He shares the knowledge he learnt from their traditions and how they use sound and music to work with someone who is taking Ayahuasca.  He also tells us about how taking Ayahuasca orally or compares to synthetic DMT in his experiences.

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In this episode I speak with voice actor, character developer and host of the podcast “Beyond the Pen” Maccabee Griffin.  Maccabee tells us his story of starting out in drama and eventually going and doing two tours in Iraq with the US army.  He tells us about finding his love for acting again after coming back from Iraq when he started playing Dungeons and Dragons with his friends.

    Maccabee tells us how he builds characters in stories and how to make them more realistic and connect with people more.  He explains how a character needs to have strengths and weaknesses to be more realistic.  He explains how he uses historical events of mythology to place the character in and help see the traits of the character grow.  

    Maccabee is also a very accomplished voice actor and he gives us advice on how to develop different accents and voices.  Maccabee also shares some of his mental health issues he’s been dealing with over the years and what he has done to live with them.  He tells us how his mental health issues allow him to empathize with the characters he makes.

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In this episode I speak with the Internationally best selling author of the book “Bigger, Better, Braver” Nancy Pickard.  Nancy tells us about her story of getting divorced after 26 years and having to reinvent herself.  She talks about overcoming fear and how she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at age 60.  She tells about what the imposter syndrome is and how to overcome it.   

    Nancy is a shadow coach where she helps people discover their shadow beliefs.  She explains how our shadow is developed through our childhood and how we develop mechanisms we learn to keep us safe.  These shadow beliefs however stay with us our whole life and influence our whole operating system through adulthood.  She explains how we can recognize and overcome shadow beliefs that may be preventing growth in our lives.

    Nancy tells about how her spirituality changed after her transformation into a life coach.  She talks about how she never believed in the idea of manifestation and explains why that is now one of her strongest beliefs.  She explains the importance of becoming before receiving.  

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In this episode I speak with Meg heppner.  Meg is host of the podcast “The Art of Being H(YOU)man”, hypnotherapist and coach.  Meg talks about the dreams society has promised us and how they are no longer feasible for large portions of the population.  She talks about how these expectations we've been raised with affect our mental health and decision making.  Meg feels that this is a great opportunity for people to live more outside the status quo.

    Meg talks about how much of our culture and interactions are based in fear.  She talks about how different subconscious fears express themselves in individuals and society at whole.  Meg is a minimalist and she shares how many of her relationships changed after becoming one.  She talks about the consequences of doing something that's outside the status quo in society.

    Meg talks about the stories in our society that only have power because we collectively agree with them.  She talks about not agreeing with a story or making a new story has the power to create tremendous change.  As a hypnotherapist Meg tells us how the stories, fears, and beliefs in our subconscious influence our conscious behaviors.  She tells us how to implant ideas in your subconscious that help change your behavior  

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In this episode I speak with host of the podcast “Weekly Wins and Losses” James Heppner.  James tells us how his main purpose is trying to help people participate and engage in life.  He talks about how to deal with wins and losses in your life so you can use them as something that was given to you rather than labeling it as a win or loss.  

    James tells us about growing up in a family where his dad was a pastor of a megachurch.  James tells us about dogmatism is about certainty and how he had to find a way to be comfortable in uncertainty.  James tells us about the process of deconstructing his faith and the reconstructing his faith in a way that works for him.

    James helps people feel safety in places when they usually feel danger.  He tells us about the greatest things that happen in your life when you take a step into uncertainty. He gives us exercises on how to change our beliefs about things that we want in our life.

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