Manfulness

Journaling is an incredibly useful tool that has helped me immensely throughout my life to build an understanding and dialogue with my thoughts and feelings. In this episode, I share my story of how I began my journaling journey. I had to move past the belief that women are the only ones that can journal. I gave myself the freedom to write whatever was inside my head without any structure and it allowed me to begin this dialogue with my emotions and thoughts. I share my three uses for journal...

There are a bunch of hot topics in the world at the moment and along with that comes a lot of division. We all approach issues from a different perspective and form opinions based on our personal biases, judgements, assumptions and life experiences. It’s easy to hold onto our opinions as truths. But when we only listen to our opinions, we miss out on opportunities for greater knowledge, understanding and growth. It becomes “us and them” instead of moving forward together as a society.In this ...

In Melbourne, we have recently re-surfaced from our fifth lockdown and I feel that this one has hit me the hardest. I had to cancel my 40th birthday party and the Manfulness Masterclass, and I feel frustration and irritability confined to my home.This stasis of isolation can bring on many different emotions for people and they can be challenging to handle as the lockdown is out of our control.In this episode, I examine the feelings that are generated from being in lockdown and how media outle...

I’m about to turn 40, which feels like a pretty big milestone for me. I’ve been reminiscing about the last 10 years of my life; how much has changed and how much I’ve grown. I wanted to share my reflections with you as I unpack a few of the lessons I’ve learned and things I’ve journeyed through over the last decade.I look back at 30 year old me and feel so grateful for that man who said yes to embarking on the journey into the unknown. I faced some real challenges and painful moments, but the...

It has just ticked over to a new financial year here, and I find this is a great opportunity to really reflect on the past 12 months in business.When I look back at all that Erika and I have achieved in our businesses this year, I feel grateful and proud of what we’ve been able to do. We’ve grown so much not only professionally, but personally and when I think about how the end of financial year used to feel for me, there has been such a shift in my mindset.When I was first starting out in th...

My life completely changed when I started getting deep into personal development. I began unravelling the unconscious habits and patterns in my life, I worked through painful realisations and started taking responsibility for where I was at. Then I had the audacity to tell everyone else what they should be doing to change their lives too.I see a lot of people doing the same thing lately. When you start doing the work and bringing awareness to the darker areas of your life, it’s a natural temp...

In today’s episode I’m going to tackle a taboo topic: porn addiction. Pornography can be a difficult area for men to traverse because it’s something we’re incredibly shameful of. Most men don’t even want to admit they view porn. It’s also a common thing for men to struggle with, especially in our younger years when feelings of arousal are high but our understanding of sexuality hasn’t fully developed. It’s an easy way to deal with built up sexual energy but also boredom, frustration, and othe...

I try to be purposeful with the guests who come on the Manfulness podcast. The men I look for are doing something different, who are courageous and sharing parts of themselves that are usually hidden. People who role model a different way that manhood can express itself. Today’s guest Christian O’Connel is definitely one of those men. He’s recently released a book “No One Listens to Your Dad’s Show” that explores his career in radio and shares some deeper parts of his life. He talks to me abo...

I’ve had many men come to me in sessions who want to improve their life but have no experience working on themselves. It’s a harmful block that prevents many people from reaching the life they desire. We all face challenges in our lives that shape us but the outlook we hold determines how much control we can take over our own lives. People tend to fall into one of two main mindsets here. One mindset believes they have no power to change the things that happen to them and that they ...

Making decisions is a natural part of life. We make hundreds of decisions every day, what we’re going to wear or eat for dinner. We also make bigger decisions over our lifetime like where we’re going to live, what we’ll do for a living, or who we want to be with. These bigger choices often cause us trouble because we can often fool ourselves into thinking we’ve made a decision, while we’re actually sitting in indecision. I had a client come see me recently who suspected his partner had cheate...