The Bearded Gents Podcast

when we go through tough times, how do we manage the stress before it starts to take over and become far more than it ever needed to be? 

Today we chat with Luke: a proud father of 2 and survivor of stage 3 bowel cancer. He speaks about the ordeals and bright lights that came with it and what life really look like on the other side of it.

Today we speak with Jake Ward, a man who has invested time effort and energy in becoming more because of his past, transcending his present, and help men like who he was thrive in the future.

How do we get to a place where we feel free of the opinion of others? And what does that let us be and feel on the other side of it? Sufficient time to process and heal from parts of our life, allow us to leave behind the hurts that drive the unwanted caring.

We all find ourselves looking for the best partner we can, but the necessity of being the best partner WE can be is a decision that must be made fist. 

The reasons we give matters a lot when we consider what that reasoning says about ourselves. Who we are, why that matters to us, the implications this has on our relationships, all of this is impacted by the choices we make around giving.

We speak to Shaun of Staite again today. We speak about the necessary value of connection, of asking "Why" and how we got to this state in the first place.

Where does it come from? Where does it go? Where did you come from, Inspirational Joe? 
What do we do with it when we experience it? Does it feel like pressure to use it? Does it require sacrifices that we aren't prepared to make? Will it lead us to the promised halcyon day of our lives? 

Our relationship to the goals we set have a vital role to play in how likely we are to achieve them. Do we make a goal with intentionality, making a decision about the value we find moving down the path a goal takes us? Or do we simply pick something that's better than what we have, or at least what we don't want, and hope for the best?

When we feel mistreated, no matter how real or imagined it is, what do we do with the emotional reaction to it? Do we use it to set boundaries? Do we externalise it as a projected reaction? Or do we sit on it, let it fester, until we become resentful enough to use that emotion to bend the world to our unhealed perspective?