The Great Man Within

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As we've been building this global Great Man community, one of the most inspiring developments I've seen unfolding over this last year…is how many men are stepping forward with the desire to lead groups of men in their lives. Whether that takes the form of leading your own men's group, mentoring men in the workplace or simply becoming a better leader of all genders in an area of life that's important to you…

…this episode has something in store for you.

In Today's Episode

• Bryan interviews me on my 6 year journey from hosting my very first men's group meeting to where I am today, having committed my entire life to leading men.
• How I overcame the "who the hell am I" and "why would these guys listen to me" inner critic
• How to handle intense emotional situations that men bring to you, that you've never seen before or have any experience dealing with
• How to begin your first steps
• How and why you need to build your inner circle – your nucleus – of men who lead alongside you
• How to harness the power and talents of the men in your group to raise them while simultaneously taking the weight off your shoulder
• The many rewards of leading men, including…how your deepest work can often come from leading others

#241

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In my experience, men are more likely to:

1. Jump out of airplanes
2. Run with the bulls of Pamplona
3. Scale mountains without safety equipment

….than confront other men on their misogynistic behavior.

A Great Man doesn't let that sh*t slide.

In this Episode:

• The definition of misogyny
• 4 stories of when and how I've confronted misogyny
• 4 guiding principles on how to call other men forward when you witness misogynistic behavior

#240

After 428 days of sitting on Zoom calls, the 21 men of The Great Man Mastermind finally got on planes and in cars, descended upon Austin, Texas, and met each other for the very first time.

It was a weekend that we will remember for the rest of our lives.

The unfortunate reality is most men have never experienced what it's like to belong to a committed group of men who they trust with both their minds and their hearts. To know that they are safe to both celebrate their biggest successes and reveal their deepest darkness.

During this weekend, we ventured into places like:

• Infidelity
• sexual abuse
• body shame
• marital issues
• quitting a decades long relationship with alcohol
• parenting children with mental health challenges
• coming off a decade of anti-depressant medication
• ending relationships with porn

And that's just the tough stuff.

We also ventured into the places where we are building:

• men preparing to leave lucrative professions to start a second chapter of their professional lives by following their passion
• starting a group initiative to raise $1m for a mental health charity
• building virtual and physical homes to attract and welcome the 10 million men.

In this Episode:

• What happens at a Great Man Within retreat
• Why personal development on your own is slow, shallow and incomplete
• How to activate the primitive, powerful Wild Man archetype within you
• Why your path to achievement doesn't have to be one of constant grind, overwhelm and sacrifice
• Why men are starving for adventure and play in their lives
• How 45 minutes of undivided attention from high caliber men can upgrade the next 45 years of your life

Interested in hearing about our next retreat? Email [email protected] to let us know, and we'll notify you as soon as our next retreat is planned.

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#239

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I'm going to ask you an important question that I urge you to consider deeply:

When it comes to the male relationships in your life, do you have buddies…or brothers?

In today's episode, I'll ask you to consider 5 questions that will help you distinguish between the two:

1. Do you feel the freedom to 100% around these men, or do you have to mold parts of yourself to fit within the group's expectations?
2. Can you bring the deepest and darkest parts of you to these men?
3. When you bring these men a problem, do they listen and allow you to feel seen and heard…or do they fire advice at you?
4. Do these men know the most meaningful things going on in your inner world at any given point in time…or are they oblivious?
5. Do these men call you forward into your Great Man?

#238

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In Today's Episode:

• How to know whether you should take a temporary break from masturbation
• 5 benefits of taking a temporary hiatus from masturbation
• 4 steps on how to set yourself up for success during your abstinence period

#237

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Over the last 11 years, my #1 investment has been my inner work journey.

Today, I'm sharing 5 of the biggest lessons I've learned in that decade long investment of time and money.

IMPORTANT POINT: You don't have to invest ungodly amounts of money on inner work to experience the benefits. I happened to work in an industry (financial services) that allowed me to fill my bank accounts but left me wanting in many other areas.

#236

Want details on the Digital Mastermind?

Email: Hello@DominickQ

Subject: Digital Mastermind Inquiry

Body: Tell me about why you want to become your Great Man

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What Would Your Great Man Do?

Every man has two lives:

#1: The life you currently live

#2: The unlived live of the Great Man Within You

The #1 purpose of this podcast is to help you discover and live The Great Man Within you.

Today's episode is experiential:

I run you through a series of scenarios to see what you would do…vs what your Great Man would do in life's most challenging moments.

Like:

• Being turned down for sex
• Being afraid to have a tough conversation
• Being angry after having a boundary trampled

Be ready to witness the contrast of how you would handle these everyday situations, vs how your Great Man would handle them.

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#235

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In this Episode:

• How to overcome your disdain of journaling
• The 4 benefits of journaling
• 3 different techniques of journaling
• 10 journaling prompts

The 10 Great Man Journaling Prompts

1. Envision your Great Man, and describe him in as much physical detail as possible (how does he look, what's he wearing, how does he stand, etc)
2. Describe your Great Man's relationship with his emotions.
3. Describe your Great Man's mindset (how does he handle adversity, his inner critic, etc)
4. Describe your Great Man's relationship with spirituality (ie purpose and/or higher power)
5. What is one recurring fear you have…and what ramifications have you experienced with this fear driving your behavior in life?
6. What is your Great Man's relationship with fear…and what guidance would he give you?
7. What is your present day relationship with anger (do you stuff it down, do you explode, are you exhausted from suppressing it etc)?
8. What is your Great Man's relationship with anger…how does it compare to your relationship with anger…and what guidance does he have for you?
9. What feels good about your sex life right now…and what areas of your sex life would you want to elevate?
10. What is your Great Man's sex life like…how is that similar or different to your sex life…and what guidance does he have for you?

Resources

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

#234

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Whenever a man requests to join the Great Man Within Facebook Group, he's required to answer an intake question that asks him about the most important area of inner work he's focused on right now.

For months, I've been seeing an uptick of men joining this community who are navigating weight loss, body image and body shame issues.

These have also been more recurring topics of conversation in our respective masterminds, so it was high time to have a conversation about this on the podcast.

This Is Your Episode If You've Ever

• Felt uncomfortable taking your shirt off in front of others
• Gone through countless cycles of gaining and losing weight
• Hitting your ideal weight and knowing its only a matter of time before you self sabotage
• Thrown food away, only to pick it out of the trash later and eat it
• And on some level, feeling unlovable

Our Guide for Today's Discussion: Mordechai Weiner

• Coach for people learning to love their bodies and lose weight sustainably
• Founder of the Reclaim Your Body Summit: interviewed 30 world-renowned guests such as James Clear, Gay Hendricks and Dr. Mark Heyman
• Host of the Feeling Full Podcast, which focuses on weight loss, body image and self love

Mordechai is also a close personal friend of Bryan and I, as he's in our men's group.

In this Episode

• How Mordy went from 350 pounds at his heaviest to 215 today, sustainably
• How a lifetime of losing and gaining weight finally shifted when he stopped focusing on weight loss, and instead focused on "shame loss"
• Why Mordy says losing weight is fragile and unsustainable if you still identify as the "fat guy"
• How "Shirtless Therapy" was crucial in reducing shame and tapping self love
• Why visualizing your future body is a powerful practice for re-inventing your self-concept
• Why Mordy pulled the plug on body surgery in 2015 – which felt like it was driven by secrecy and shame – to publicly documenting his surgery in 2020 as a radical act of self love
• The surprising similarities of food addiction and sex addiction

Stick around to the very end for a bonus 5 minutes:

A strategy to implement when you're feeling the overwhelming urge to indulge or binge.

RESOURCES

The Feeling Full Podcast

Mordechai on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr.mordechai

#233

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Men have no shortage of techniques to bring relief (drinking, porn, slipping into a binge tv watching coma)…

…but pleasure (soul enriching, generative, inspiring energy) can often feel like a foreign language.

In this episode:

• The difference between relief and pleasure
• Why cultivating pleasure leads to higher performance
• Why there are no male role models who embody high-performance and an ability to access pleasure