The Bearded Gents Podcast

When we struggle to move forward in our lives, is it because of missing motivation? Or a lack of purpose? Without either, we tend to stay stuck. Worse, we may have energy to move but no direction but down to go.

When we think that things are just the way we think, we act in accordance with that. But what happens when they doesn't work out? Well, we've just assumed. And that is the danger of assumptions: that things are one way, so we invest heavily into things that we simply don't know for sure, only to find that what we think and whats a little more real just aren't the same.

When you are in a relationship, you grow. When you leave one, you grow. Does that growth change what we look for and what we prioritise when we consider starting another?

The value of new years resolutions can be debatable, depending on how and why we make them. Do they work, and if so or not, why sis it have the outcome it did? Are they made because actually want change? Or are they made to make ourselves feel better for not changing things before now?

If we feel guilty about wanting to do things that may aim us towards happiness, where does that guilt come from? From putting ourselves first, and that feeling wrong? Or because we are convinced that our happiness may come at the cost of someone else's? Often, convenience is chosen to avoid the guild and placate the happiness.

What is the value of a father? Of a role model? And why would we pick one, on what terms do we put value in one? How masculine energy is supposed to work, why its important in the balance of life, where we find and how we think to emulate it.

The necessity of men being able to voice their feelings can be a double edged sword. While it is definitely valuable and important, the learned experience of many men is that speaking them can be met with indifference or even a reduction in their appeal. Is there a middle ground?

Rites of passage, initiations into adulthood, becoming a valuable member of society. There seems to be very few of these moments and markers in modern times, so the significance of becoming a man and what that means in terms of value and responsibility is diminished and ignored, by men in particular.  Maybe, that's why many men feel lost and without purpose?

Author, gut health enthusiast, entrepreneur, community servant, friend of healthy people in high places. Gary tells his story of how he became some who needed healing and the road he traveled to actually heal himself.

Rambling about hard decisions in our past, why they are hard in the first place and why easy way outs are so attractive. How we communicate when it comes to making decisions that concern others, why it matters how we do that.

When we think we don't deserve what we get, when we doubt our ability to live up to the title and the standard we seem to have been set with. Sometimes its the standard within us, sometimes the expectation outside of ourselves, either can lead to suspicions about being unworthy of what we have

Circles that keep repeating in our lives, how they get there and how we recognise them in time to change them and ourselves for the better.

What is it, and why its important. How it happens and how it serves us but sometimes doesn't...

When the intention we have with our words isn't received as meant, what do we do about it? Take it personally, or clarify yourself. When we hear something that makes us question what they meant, do we choose to take it negatively or positively, or establish our own value with it?

What being a parent looks like from a few different perspectives, how to tell if we're are doing it right or wrong or worse, and what kind of attitude might actually create value for parents and their kids to have the relationship and upbringing we all want.

Examining the difference between looking at the past as a lesson and using the past as the reason why things aren't they way we want them to be and why we aren't who we could be.

Today we meet Matt, who tells his story around mental health and making what he can from the ups and downs that come with it.

When we want to make changes, we need to look at more than just what we want to remove. Without something to replace it with, we have an annoying habit of going back to those old habits.

Not much needs saying. What is it, why is it, what could be done about it.

Unpacking the reasons why success is has previously been an untouchable subject, and how the self sabotage and justifications have allowed it to be an unwanted burden and elusive achievement until now.

Why we try things, or say we'll do things, but when it comes down to it we either stop or don't even try.

Today we interview a young entrepreneur, trainer and nice guy Daniel about how he became someone who has built success with a great lifestyle balance at a relatively young age.

Considering the myths about how growth HAS to happen, as opposed to trying things enough to find our own path.  Stereotypes, how our ego reacts to them, confronting the idea that maybe that particular path just isn't us, becoming more authentic and self reliant on choosing and finding our own path.

Why when we ignore history, we are doomed to repeat it unless we attach meaning to it to make it an experience relevant to us. Otherwise we detach from it, and from other people, and forget how the abuse of power turns into the abuse of other people. 

When an old limiting belief about learning holds us back, what happens when investing in education with something we do genuinely want feels blocked by those old beliefs?