The Bearded Gents Podcast

When it comes to nutritional science, who's opinion do we believe? Do we even think about it? Or are we quite happy to let someone else do our thinking for us and pretend that everything they say will be correct and perfect for us? How much evidence do we need before we might consider that not all nutritional advice is create equal when it comes to a specific and singular case, like ourself.

Considering things in our past is sometimes valuable. But how do we actually view those things in relation to how we feel about our present? Do we wish we could change the past? Or do we reframe it? Do we wish we could bring a feeling state from the past into the present? All of which can be telling on our current sense of self, and possibly needs addressing.

Yet more on everyone's favourite subject. Big picture stressors and their impacts on how we perceive ourselves in relation to them, and on how many levels this stress impacts us. 

What IS Stress? and how is that relevant to you? How does it work, what does it do to you and what does that really look like?

What does exercise do, when we consider it regarding mental health? Does it do anything? Is it the exercise itself, or the decision to do some exercise? The physiological benefits, or the psychological ones?  And how do we find and create those benefits when it comes to something typically associated with uncomfortable pain and stressful sweating?

Creatine is pretty awesome. But, what is the difference between what you have always thought and what might be new ground trod with different thinking? Are you repeating the same things to yourself in your head? or are you genuinely challenging yourself with new ideas and concepts of self?

Today we speak with Jo Howard, burgeoning billionaire and caffeine monger. She tells us the story of how she came to be who she is and the forever learning she's doing so that her story works for her now and in the future.

On how many levels does change happen? Mental, emotional, physical? What about spiritual? Or vibrational? How much impact does a sense of self we cant see or touch really impact what our future can look like?

How do we change without addressing the filters and lenses with which we view the world and ourselves? if we view the actions and behaviours we exhibit through a logical or masculine frame, does that mean we are missing the value of a more emotional and feminine perspective? Wouldn't the opposite be true too? The value of feminine and masculine, order and chaos, right and wrong, can sometimes...

Change happens on a few levels and in a few different ways. But how, and why, does it happen at all? Where do we start and what does that look like?

What is it to be masculine? To be a man? Big questions, and each person sees it differently, but are there some fundamental truths to it? Is it still valued? And is there anything to the idea that "Icks" are the recent trend of it being devalued?

Where is the line between the worthy use of power and the abuse of power? If it serves enough people, is that justification enough?  Does the having and wielding of power inherently create detachment with human experience? Or, is that a human propensity that is simply magnified by power?

If we do not learn from history and the harsh lessons humanity has been given, are we doomed to repeat it? 

Nerida is... a lot of things. First and foremost: a woman of vulnerability, and the strength that brings to anyone who owns it. Nerida tells her story of that journey of ownership and the wisdom and depth of life she found in it.

When we don't trust ourselves to have an awareness and understanding of ourselves, we rely on other people's opinion and direction. And this, is a slippery slope. Because we lose ourselves to that, and our power over ourselves...

When we have leveraged ourselves with enough value to prioritise sleep, how do we go about doing that? Well, today we answer those questions.

How many things really can disrupt sleep? Given it is kind of a big deal on so many levels, how sensitive it is to outside factors is worthy knowledge to consider.

What is sleep, what does it do and why it matters.  or Where does it come from, where does it go? Where did you come from, Sleepy Eye Joe?

Today we open our newly revamped ideas with an interview with Brendon Moelaart, who tells us the story of who he was, how he became who he is now, how his past led him to stoicism and what that has changed for him moving forward.

After some time off, we come back to review and check in with what's new, what's old and how that's sitting.

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.