Men Talking Mindfulness

Have you ever been mid-conversation with your partner, felt your jaw tighten, your stomach drop, your brain go sideways — and some part of you already looking for the exit? That's not a character flaw. That's your nervous system treating your partner like a threat.

EJ and Tarah Kerwin are couples therapists, founders of Relationship Renovation, and parents of twins born on their honeymoon. EJ — a yoga teacher and therapist — turned avoidant the moment real chaos arrived, and Tarah had a name for it: Buddhist motherf***er. They had to learn everything they now teach by surviving their own marriage in real time.

This conversation goes deep on why your success traits destroy your closest relationships, how your childhood nervous system patterns are running your marriage without your consent, and what emotional safety actually feels like when a man finally builds it.

IN THIS EPISODE:

1. Why the traits that made you successful at work become your biggest relationship wreckers

2. What a genogram reveals about your patterns — and why compassion always follows

3. FINE = Feelings Inside Not Expressed — and what that silence costs you

4. The difference between hypo arousal and being regulated — most men confuse the two

5. Triple H — Heard, Hugged, or Helped? Ask before you fix

6. Your partner is your greatest teacher — if you stop running from the lesson
   

RELATED EPISODES:

1. Ep. 105 — Learning to Respond Without Reactivity with Dr. Charles Freligh

2. Ep. 120 — Creating Emotional Stability with Jay Fields

3. Ep. 124 — No More Mr. Nice Guy with Dr. Robert Glover
   

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• Website, Podcast& Couples Coaching: relationshiprenovation.com

• Book: Relationship Innovation at Homework — Amazon

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Leaders are exhausted from a job they're not actually doing. They're exhausted from the performance of doing it. The mask, the armor, the carefully calibrated version of themselves they put on every morning before walking into the office.

In this solo episode, Jon breaks down what leadership theater is costing you, your team, and your family. Why most leaders are running on imposter syndrome and don't know it. What happens when you finally drop the armor. And five honest questions to ask yourself this week to start dismantling the mask.

Awareness to Action is here. The course Will and I have been building for the last year officially opens May 27th. Twelve modules that walk you through this exact work. Sit in on the live launch webinar that same day and you'll get a coupon code for 40% off the course, good for 48 hours after the webinar ends.

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Timestamps:

(00:01) The Mask of Leadership: Authenticity in the Workplace
(02:21) "Leadership Without the Mask: Embracing Authenticity"
(07:29) Cultivating Authentic Leadership: Steps to Building Trust and Real Connections
(10:05) "Embracing Authentic Leadership: Five Questions for Self-Reflection"
(13:53) Embracing Authentic Leadership

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Episode notes:

We almost didn't make it past the first few episodes.

Jon was filming from a yellow Fiat with black racing stripes in a Starbucks parking lot, stealing their wifi. Will was in his old apartment. The dogs walked through every shot. The phone overheated so badly Jon would drop off and Will would carry the show alone. We had no plan, no audience, no producer, and no idea what we were doing.

275 episodes later... we're still figuring it out. And that's kind of the whole point.

Today's episode is about two things. Starting before you're ready, and why community is the thing that actually keeps you going once you do.

We talk about the moment Will convinced Jon not to quit the show. The gold mine story... how close we came to stopping right before things broke open. Why Gene Roddenberry was embarrassed by the first episode of Star Trek (and why that's a good sign). What we've learned from 275 conversations with people like Jocko Willink, John Eldredge, Sean Fargo, James Nestor, Dr. James Doty, Nir Eyal, Steven Kotler, Howard Behar, Stanley Cup winners, SEALs, Special Forces, Olympic athletes, monks, psychologists, and guys who rebuilt their lives from scratch.

Every single one of them started before they were ready. Every single one of them had somebody in their corner.

If you've been sitting on something... a project, a business, a conversation, a creative thing you keep putting off... this one's for you. The timing will never be perfect. You will never feel ready. Start anyway. Start ugly. And find your people.

We also talk about our new course, Awareness to Action, launching May 27. Text A2A to 33777 or hit this link to stay in the know: https://focusnowtraining.com/a2a-course-interest

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Who are you when everything you've built your identity on gets taken away?

For Dennis Connors, that question wasn't hypothetical. A teenage USA rock climber turned Marine Corps intelligence operator, he served three combat tours in Iraq supporting Tier 1 Special Operations, ran 250 interrogations, and came home with multiple undiagnosed TBIs, severe PTSD, and two strokes — the second partially paralyzed his left side. In March 2018, his call sign was still Villain and he had a plan to end his life the next day. What happened on the other side of that moment took him to the Paris 2024 Paralympic podium as a Silver Medalist and to a TED stage where he made 4,000 people cry.

IN THIS EPISODE:

1. Why Dennis stood at the dark edge in March 2018 — and the single moment that stopped him

2. How undiagnosed TBIs compounded PTSD for years — and why he toughed them both out

3. Vulnerability reframed: not disclosing weakness — opening a conversational gate

4. Self-worth tied to results vs. self-love that doesn't collapse under pressure

5. Why community with shared passion goes deeper than shared service alone

6. The four pillars of perseverance: vulnerability, self-love, disciplined action, community
   

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2. Ep. 106 — Transcending Trauma with Dr. Frank Anderson

3. Ep. 135 — The Lie of Self-Sufficiency: Jon Macaskill on Why Men Carry Too Much Alone

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• Website: dennisconnorsusa.com

• LinkedIn: Dennis Connors

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Carl Jung said that when a man deals with his own shadow, he does something real for the world. On this episode of Men Talking Mindfulness, host Will Schneider sits down with Connor Beaton, founder of Man Talks and author of Men's Work, to get into what shadow work actually looks like for men and why most of us have been trained since childhood to avoid it.

Connor explains why men tend to carry a denser shadow than women. Masculine culture teaches strength through suppression. Stuff it down, hide the weakness, perform. The result is that the parts of yourself you've rejected... anger, vulnerability, self-compassion... don't go away. They go underground. And they start running the show from there.

Connor walks Will through the mechanics of how anger gets repressed and creates the nice guy pattern, how shame gets used on boys to gain compliance and then keeps grown men living small, and what he calls shame-based motivation... using pain as fuel to achieve, which works until it doesn't.

Connor shares his own story of bottoming out in his late twenties, living in the back of a Pontiac G5, apprenticing with a Jungian mentor, and the conversation with a close friend that changed everything. He and Will get into relationships as mirrors for shadow, the difference between guilt and shame, psychedelics and the default mode network, and why the real work for men is growing down into yourself rather than always building up and out.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• Why masculine culture creates a denser shadow through suppression

• The nice guy pattern and what happens when anger goes underground

• Shame-based motivation and why it has a shelf life

• Connor's crisis story and the two things that pulled him out

• Separating personhood from behavior and why it matters for fathers and sons

• Relationships as the clearest mirror for your shadow

• Psychedelics, the default mode network, and accessing the unconscious

• Growing down instead of growing up as the real path to maturity

Connor's book: Men's Work Connor's website: ManTalks.com Man Talks Alliance: ManTalks.com (courses, live calls, community) Connor's platforms: Instagram, YouTube, Spotify

Full episode: https://pod.fo/e/33c406

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You've read the book. You nodded at every page. And then you changed absolutely nothing. Sound familiar?

Nir Eyal helped Silicon Valley build the systems that capture your attention — then turned around and wrote the books on how to fight back. Hooked became the playbook for habit-forming products. Indistractable showed you how to resist them. And now Beyond Belief cracks open the real reason most men read all of it, agree with all of it, and still don't change.

It's not discipline. It's not information. It's belief. Specifically, the stories you've been telling yourself about who you are, what you're capable of, and whether change is actually possible for someone like you. Nir calls them limiting beliefs — and he spent six years researching how to replace them with something better.

This one hits different if you've ever blamed your ADHD, your past, your upbringing, or the algorithm for the gap between who you are and who you know you could be.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:

1. Why 90% of distraction isn't your phone — it's a feeling

2. The motivation triangle: behavior and benefit fail without belief

3. How a diagnosis becomes a cage — and how to break out

4. The man who almost died from a placebo overdose

5. Richter's rats: how one belief produced 240x more persistence

6. Why to-do lists are broken — and what to do instead
   

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• 5-Minute Belief Change Guide — nirandfar.com/beyondbelieflive
  

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• Website & free resources: nirandfar.com

• Books: Hooked, Indistractable, Beyond Belief — Amazon
  

Go Deeper here are Three Supporting EPISODES FROM MTM:

1. Ep. 92 — Overcoming Procrastination

2. Ep. 121 — Managing Your Mind: How to Kick Out Negative Thoughts

3. Ep. 138 — Curiosity Is Key to Breaking Men Free from Judgment and Rumination
   

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Stop pretending you're fine on 5 hours of sleep. You're not. On this episode of Men Talking Mindfulness, hosts Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider bring back Robert Sweetman, former Navy SEAL, sleep scientist, and founder of Sleep Genius, to talk about what actually makes the difference between garbage sleep and real recovery.

Rob's approach starts with a concept he calls the sleep dojo. The same way you'd treat a martial arts dojo with respect, structure, and intention, that's how your bedroom should work. Take the fights out of it. Take the scrolling out of it. Take the laptop, the TV, and the phone out of it. And then start paying attention to the physical environment: light, sound, and temperature.

Rob walks Jon and Will through the neuroscience of why blue light kills melatonin production, why a 35-decibel noise spike can wreck your sleep cycle without waking you up, why 65 to 69 degrees is the sweet spot for your bedroom, and why eating close to bedtime leads to visceral fat because melatonin blocks insulin. He also drops the truth about THC and sleep... it kills your REM. Will was doing sober October and says his REM numbers have already gone up.

Jon talks about going through Rob's 62 Romeo sleep course and how it changed his sleep habits. Rob explains his work building sleep pods for the military and writing a memo to the Secretary of Defense on weaponizing wellness for the warfighter. And the episode wraps with Rob offering to sign copies of his book, 62 Romeo Sleep 101, for listeners who comment on the episode.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• The sleep dojo concept and why your bedroom needs the same respect as a martial arts dojo

• Why blue light, noise spikes, and warm bedrooms are wrecking your recovery

• The link between late eating, melatonin, insulin, and visceral fat

• Why THC eliminates REM sleep even when it feels relaxing

• Deep sleep vs. REM sleep: aim for 90 minutes of each

• What orthosomnia is and why obsessing over sleep data makes things worse

• Rob's military sleep pod project and what it means for warfighters in austere conditions

• The 45-minute wind-down routine that preps your body for real sleep

Rob's book: 62 Romeo Sleep 101 (Amazon, $10) Rob's website: sleepgenius.us Rob's platforms: LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter

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One concept. That's all we're covering today. And if you only took one thing from 260-plus episodes of this show... it might be this.

Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust and came out the other side with an idea that Jon and Will think about almost every day. Between what happens to you and how you respond, there's a gap. A space. And inside that space is where every good decision you've ever made actually lives.

Most of us blow right past it. Something happens, we react. Email comes in, we fire back. Kid does something, we snap. No space in between.

In this episode we break down why the gap exists, why nobody taught you how to use it, and four ways to start building it this week. No fluff. No theory you can't use. Just one concept you can try before your next meeting, your next hard conversation, or your next encounter with slow internet.

This is the foundation of the Awareness to Action (A2A) course we've been building. Enrollment opens May 27th.

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Mindfulness is a $2 billion industry. It's in apps, corporate programs, retreats, and workplace wellness modules. And men are more burned out, disconnected, and distracted than ever.

 So is mindfulness  actually working?

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk who spent two years in a Thai monastery before deciding the world needed these teachings more than the monastery needed another monk. 

His platform, has reached over 20 million people. He trained under the teachers at Spirit Rock. And he's the man who certified Jon as a mindfulness meditation teacher.

This conversation goes beyond the apps and the retreats into what's actually blocking men from presence — grief they've never acknowledged, purpose they've never defined, and values they've never chosen for themselves. Sean ends the episode with a live mindfulness practice. Don't skip it.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:

1. Why the real problem isn't pace or tech — it's that most men are moving faster than they can feel

2. The difference between outer purpose and inner purpose — and why outer goals collapse under pressure

3. How grief is silently blocking thousands of men's meditation practice — and what to do about it

4. What the Buddha called the most powerful mindfulness practice: awareness of death

5. Why Sean wants to go out of business — and what that vision says about where mindfulness needs to go

6. How to ask yourself the one question that cuts through all the noise: what would I like for myself?
   

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• mindfulnessexercises.com

• LinkedIn
  

TOP 3 SIMILAR EPISODES FROM MTM:

1. Ep. 140 — Can AI Meditations Replace Real Teachers and Be Effective? with Dr. Steve Haberlin

2. Ep. 93 — The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself with Dr. Kristin Neff

3. Ep. 73 — Dr. James Doty: Neurosurgeon & Author of Into the Magic Shop
   

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"I spent five years hurting a good woman by staying with her but never fully choosing her." That one sentence, written by Bryan Reeves, has been read by tens of millions of people. On this episode of Men Talking Mindfulness, hosts Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider sit down with Bryan... former U.S. Air Force captain, relationship coach, and author of the book Choose Her Every Day or Leave Her... to talk about what men actually get wrong in their relationships and what it takes to fix it.

Bryan gets into the paradox at the center of every committed relationship... the need to care deeply about your partner while also holding onto yourself. He talks about why so many men bounce between total sacrifice and total detachment, why "what would serve we?" is the most powerful question a couple can ask, and why connection time is not productive time, even though every mission-oriented bone in your body says otherwise.

Jon and Bryan go deep on the two fears that show up in men over and over again... "I'm not worthy of love" and "I'm going to mess this up." They get into how those fears drive the shame cycle in relationships and how mindfulness is the practice that interrupts it. Bryan shares a story about studying the Tao Te Ching while being completely unable to apply any of it in his own relationship. Twenty-five years later, he can. The difference is reps.

They also talk about when leaving is the most loving choice, why men need men's work that isn't just beer and football, and why learning to play again matters more than most men realize.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• Why "checking the box" on your relationship is slowly killing it

• The paradox of caring and not caring at the same time

• The two core fears men bring to relationships and how they feed the shame cycle

• How mindfulness gives you access to repair after a fight

• Why the Gottman Institute says arguing past ten minutes is pointless

• When leaving in love is the right choice

• Why men's work and play are connected to being a better partner and parent

Bryan's book: Choose Her Every Day or Leave Her Bryan's website: bryanreeves.com (Bryan with a Y) Bryan's programs: Elevate Your Relationship, Elevate 2026 (annual men's group)

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