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Dr. Lexx is a phenomenal sex therapist, educator, and media consultant. The #CouplesClinician runs The Institute for Sexuality and Intimacy, LLC and is an Amazon best-selling author twice over! She’s the coolest nerd you'll ever meet and she’s passionate about helping others build, maintain, and perpetuate true relationship intimacy with #shamefreesexed.

For Dr. Lexx, therapy work helps people heal from  relationship distance, intimacy challenges, depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma.  Her educational work teaches others about sex positive comprehensive sexuality from an intersectional lens. It is The Institute's mission to deliver sex positive, comprehensive, gender expansive, adipositive, culturally diverse, queer and trans inclusive,  medically accurate, shame free sex education. 

In this episode, we dive in to talk about ALL the taboos. Dr. Lexx is a champion for healthy, authentic, wild, pleasurable, and out-loud conversations about sex and sexuality!

Website: https://www.lexxsexdoc.com/
Insta: @lexxsexdoc
Twitter: @lexxsexdoc

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Rick & Leonard model what it looks like to build strong relationships with men.

They've taken their decades of experience in men's work, social justice, and professional mental health care and authored a new book to help any man deepen his own personal development and increase his effectiveness in the world.

The Book is "Power Tools for Men - A Blueprint for Healthy Masculinity" and it is available April 28, 2023 on Amazon.

“This is a down-to-earth breakthrough book that weaves heart-felt stories with practical concepts that promote healthy masculinity and help men thrive in the 21st century.” — Jack Canfield, NY Times bestselling co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Leonard Szymczak MSW, LCSW is an award-winning author, psychotherapist, and speaker. As a therapist, he has been in the forefront of men's healing for 40 years and is the bestselling author of 6 books. His TEDx talk on fatherhood has been viewed over 110,000 times.

Rick Broniec, MEd. is an author, speaker, coach, and workshop facilitator. He has been a Full Leader and Leader Trainer for MKP since 1990 and has facilitated hundreds of men’s personal growth workshops in eleven countries on five continents. He is the bestselling author of 2 books.

Website: www.powertoolsformen.org 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/toolstohelpmenthrive/

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Trevor Hendy works in the field of Personal Truth and Wellness. He is a Life Coach, Mentor, Author and Wholistic personal trainer who specialises in helping people discover their own answers for why they haven’t yet created the life they truly want.

Trevor is a former Professional Athlete, reaching the pinnacle of his sport, winning several World Ironman Championships in the sport of Surf Life Saving. With many World series and Australian championships under his belt, it was his ability to constantly find his way through the most challenging of Ocean situations in the most pressure cooker of moments that first showed him as a man who knew how to slow things down and complete any task thrown at him.

He is a member of the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame and in the year 2000 was awarded an AM, member of the Order of Australia for his services to the community and the sport of Surf Life Saving.

In September 2012 he launched his website trevorhendy.com to share his own story, adventures and wisdom and to play his part in uniting everyone else who has a passion to do the same.

Trevor has 4 children and now lives on the Gold Coast with partner Jo. He spends his days playing, learning, sharing and living every moment as though it is setting the tone for all future events.

FIND TREVOR: 
Website: https://trevorhendy.com
Insta: @hendytrev
Girl Awakening Podcast: https://www.girlawakening.com/ 

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In the ManKind Project we talk about Doing the work … When we talk about ‘work,’ we’re talking about the emotional and psychological labor that it takes to become an integrated being. 

What is life like when you discover that the ‘work’ is worth doing … no matter how old you are? 

Peter Clothier is 86 years old. 

Peter Clothier’s latest book, “Dear Harry,” is a deep exploration his relationship with his Father, through letters, it's a confessional of the hidden darkness that men can hold onto for decades, and how the process of engaging with memory and story can create a new way of being … for body, mind, spirit, and soul. 

• How do we re-narrate and heal our past? 
• How does sharing with others through confession bring us closer together?
• How do we create relationships with people who are no longer here? 
• How can we embrace meditation and contemplation in our pursuit of art … as a way to connect and expand our understanding or art?

Montauk Highway by William de Kooning - https://collections.lacma.org/node/224664 

Peter’s empathy and compassion flow in his story-telling in such a beautiful and gentle way. This conversation is what happens when eldership is nurtured through practice. 

Find Peter Clothier

• on Amazon
• on Facebook
• at his website

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Chris Hemmings is on his way back from an incredibly dark place.
Once considered one of the UK's leading experts and facilitators in conversations surrounding manhood, masculinity, male psychology, and suicide prevention was accused of sexual abuse by someone he briefly dated (IMPORTANT: The accuser has since retracted her allegation). This resulted in the masses slandering and defaming him all over the comment sections of his online content (much of which has gone viral several times). 

The backlash from the false allegation sent Chris into a deep spiral of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations. Without solid evidence, many of his networks in the Journalism, Education, and Mental Health fields turned their backs on him.

Where does that leave Chris today? Well, you are going to hear of Chris's journey through forgiveness, reconciliation, and deep inner work to become a man who, given the chance, wouldn't change anything that has happened to him.   

Highlights From The Episode:

• How one allegation completely upended Chris's Career and Life. 
• Why ALL men AND those who DON'T identify as "Male" need to get behind in supporting men's mental health initiatives. 
• How his professional downfall has become one of the greatest blessings in his life.

Learn More About Chris Hemmings

Website: https://m-path.co.uk/
Instagram: @Mpathmen
Twitter: @Mpathmen
Pick up his Book: Be A Man

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Dying to Live! How to Face Death with Radical Presence

This one is hard. 

This is Boysen Hodgson, co-host of the ManKind Podcast, today with a conversation about death and dying, with my dear friend, Michael Russer. Now Michael has been on the podcast before. You can hear from him in Episode 31, ‘How to Create Extraordinary Intimacy’ … Michael has been my colleague, friend, and right hand ‘get shit done’ guy for many years. 

He’s an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and a thinker and leader in creating extraordinary intimacy in the face of hardship, including his long battle with prostate cancer. 

Michael is dying. Brandon Clift and I got together with Michael to talk about living with extraordinary presence and facing life, and death, with dignity … focused on what matters. 

In somewhat of a tradition … I wrote some poetry for Michael to go with this episode.

I’ll read that … and then we’ll dive in. In this episode, the three of us start out with a check in, in true men’s work fashion. Thank you for listening. 

• Read the Poem for Michael, "Bury the Lead" 
• Check out Michael's TEDx Talk; "Creating extraordinary intimacy in a shutdown world."  
• Get Michael & Jacqueline's Book; "Return to Sex & Intimacy, for Cancer Survivors and Their Partners"
• If you would like to support Michael & Jacqueline through this transition, please support this campaign. 

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Dr. Kay Bretz, a German-Australian corporate leader, elite athlete, entrepreneur and author of the inspirational book 'Turning Right – Inspire the Magic'. After earning a master's degree in International Business and getting awarded a doctorate in European Law in record time, Kay has worked in more than a dozen countries as a McKinsey consultant.

During his time as a corporate leader, he pursued his passion for long-distance running and learned to master the mental game. Kay stepped up from hobby marathon running to becoming one of the fastest ultramarathon runners worldwide. In his first year of ultrarunning in 2015, he improved the race record of the 250-kilometre-long Big Red Run by more than five hours. Then he joined the Australian national team in the 24-hour running format and became the fastest-ever Australian at the world championships, clocking 259.67 kilometres within 24 hours. In 2019 he got awarded the Australian Ultraperformance of the Year Award.

The pivotal moment unravelling his personal transformation was a simple right turn at his garden gate. Accidently, one day Kay turned right and realised that he had never turned right at that juncture. Too much was he caught up in his need for predictability, clinging to discipline and self-control. Turning right made him realise that there was a world out there waiting for him to explore, so – metaphorically speaking – Kay started turning right more often embracing uncertainty. Over this journey he learned how to leave behind the limitations he placed on himself which prevented him from overcoming his biggest challenges and reaching his dreams. His entire perspective on what he was capable of shifted, resulting not only in performance jump but also deeper fulfillment.

Links To Find Out More About Kay: 

• Website: https://turningright.com/
• The Book: https://turningright.com/award-winning-book

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We're three weeks into 2023, and by now, 95% of people will have already quit their New Year's Resolutions. Was it that they picked the wrong goal? Or is it because the Purpose behind their resolution was unclear?

To help you get locked in on your Purpose in life, we've invited Purpose Coaches Michael Bonahan and Rick Broniec to lead you through a three-stage visualization and meditation.

Find Out More About Michael and Rick:
- https://wisdomwindfall.com/

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Dr. Joli Hamilton is an Author and Professor of Psychology at the Institute for Sexuality Education and Enlightenment, where she teaches intimacy and communication skills, kink, and BDSM for educators and therapists.

She joins Brandon for a third time along with her husband Ken, to give us a peek behind the curtains of what a healthy and functioning non-monogamous marriage looks like.   

Having researched Jealousy and Envy, Joli can unpack the seemingly complex and overwhelming world of polygamy, polyamory, and open relating unlike any other.

What you'll find in this interview is that it continuously circles back to the importance of individuals knowing themselves and how they want to be loved. Whether it's in a dyadic pair (two people) or with multiple lovers, the lesson remains, you must know how to love yourself in order to be loved the way you want to. 

This episode we discuss... 

• There is a misunderstanding of non-monogamous relationships for many people. It’s not just about screwing everybody. 
• How it is naive to call this a "Lifestyle."
• How both Ken and Joli practice and process their relationships with other people. 
• How jealousy and envy become a gateway to deep learning and greater intimacy. 

Learn more about Dr. Joli Hamilton:
Visit https://www.jolihamilton.com/

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