The Great Man Within

#82: John O'Connor is a men's coach who both Bryan and I have worked with for years.

In this episode we dive deep into the realities of our ever-changing days, and how we as men can show up as the best version of ourselves.

In This Episode:

• Why we now need to update our "maps of reality" on a daily basis
• How to create certainty when everything else is uncertain
• A process for inspecting fear to reduce it's grip on you
• How to implement new systems of communication with your family
• How to maintain stability when a family member, friend or business partner is panicking
• Contemplating how you want to look back on yourself, a year from now, and being proud of how you showed up

#81: Sunday just seems like the right day to do our gratitude practice, like we did last week.

Today, Bryan and I get creative with a few prompts – 3 questions – that will help you access deeper states of gratitude.

In this episode:

• How to create your environment to access a state of gratitude
• 3 prompts (questions) to inspire gratitude
• The 3 elements of a powerful gratitude
• Bryan's heartfelt expression of gratitude to someone he's been withholding appreciation from

#80: "Complexity is the enemy of execution." – Tony Robbins

If your life has slowed down or been grounded by the virus, perhaps you've noticed some elements of your life have become…simpler.

When we're in full-on "go mode," it's easy to complicate our lives.

But over time, complexity causes stress, procrastination and an inability to finish what we've started.

As we're bunkered down for the foreseeable future, it's time to simplify your life.

In this episode:

• How and why we overcomplicate things
• How to simplify the complicated
• 3 books to simplify your life

#79: In part 1 we talked about:

• The 3 benefits you can expect to get from a daily breathwork practice
• How breathwork can reduce anxiety, inflammation and chronic pain
• How breathwork can enhance your energy and immune system

Today I'll be sharing:

• 3 breathing practices that you can incorporate right now that take under 5 minutes apiece

Resources Referenced in the Podcast:

Wim Hof Method App: Download Here

Box Breathing App: Breathe +

Bumble Bee Breathing Technique: John Doulliard on YouTube

#78: Establishing a daily breathwork practice is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself to increase energy, manage stress and anxiety and bolster long term immune health.

In today's episode I share:

• The 3 benefits you can expect to get from a daily breathwork practice
• How breathwork can reduce anxiety, inflammation and chronic pain
• How breathwork can enhance your energy and immune system

#77: Today we are talking about leadership. Specifically, becoming a more trustworthy, conscious, masculine leader during times of turmoil and uncertainty.

There's one area of men's leadership capacity that I see is uniformly underdeveloped, which I will expose – and provide a solution for – in today's episode.

#76: My clients and friends have been telling me their evening routines have gone to hell over the last 10 days, so here's a little intervention to stop the hemorrhaging.

In this episode:

• 7 ways to tighten up your evening routine
• Why you need a consistent 90 minute window in which to go to sleep
• Why you should keep your bed sacred from phones, tablets and laptops

#75: Every so often we have a guest on this show that is directly aligned with many of the principals of living the Great Man Within you, and Dr. Myles Spar is one of those guests.

He came on to discuss his new book Optimal Men's Health, which is a man's guide to optimizing longevity, stress, fitness, nutrition and supplementation and looking and feeling your best.

Dr Spar must be eating his own cooking because he's in his early 50s and looks a decade younger, and he exudes vitality which you'll hear about in our spirited conversation.

In this Episode:

• Why having "Purpose" has shown to add 5 years to your life
• Why men need a sense of purpose to take their overall health – not just their fitness – seriously
• Why you need to get your hormone panel done, and how to do so inexpensively
• Understanding how your testosterone levels effect libido, vitality and mood swings
• Supplements men can take for better sleep, sex drive and stress
• Lots of "how to keep your dick healthy" talk

Who is Dr Myles Spar

• Medical Doctor specializing in Integrative Men's Health
• He's been featured as an expert on Dr. Oz, in Men's Journal and on the TEDx Stage
• He's a faculty member for the schools of medicine for UCLA, University of Arizona and Duke
• Chief Medical Officer for Vault Health which is a men's health startup that received $30M in venture capital funding
• Runs the Get it Up podcast, where he answers questions every guy has around sex, fitness, brainpower and performance
• Author of Optimal Men's Health

Book: Optimal Men's Health on Amazon Podcast: Get it Up Website: Vault Health Dr. Spar's Website: Dr.Spar

#74: Sunday morning just feels like the right time to stop, reflect and connect with what we are grateful for.

The 3 parts of a powerful gratitude:

1. It's specific
2. You can feel an emotion in your body
3. Share it

In this episode, I invite you into my personal gratitude practice, and why I'm feeling hopeful and inspired.

I do this with the intention of potentially opening new doors of gratitude for you in your life.

-DQ

#73: 5 quotes from Viktor Frankl's epic classic Man's Search for Meaning.

Viktor Frankl spent 3 years in concentration camps. He found hope and meaning in the most hopeless of situations, and went on to inspire millions with his stories since.

His teachings are especially prevalent in today's environment.

The 5 quotes:

1. "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

2. "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

3. "Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."

4. "In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice."

5. "It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions."