The Heart-led Man

Chris Firinauskas helped build one of Australia's fastest growing burger chains from the ground up, scaling at 20 locations a year while creating a culture that became the envy of the hospitality industry. But behind the success was a man quietly paying a price most high performers never talk about. In this episode, Chris opens up about what happens when the armour of high performance stops w...

Dan has spent his life being a great talker but struggling to follow through. In this conversation, he arrives wanting ownership, and what unfolds goes far deeper than either of us anticipated. In this session, I explore with Dan the razor thin line between giving up on life and choosing to fully live it. We go into anger, isolation, faith, identity, and what it actually means to be a man who take...

Loneliness is one of the biggest challenges men face today. When men try to do life alone, grinding, pushing, carrying the pressure in silence... it often leads to stress, mental health struggles, and relationships that suffer. But what if the very thing you’ve been avoiding: connection and brotherhood... Is the key to your growth? To your success? To improving your mental health? In this episode...

You’ve built success in business, sport, or your career, but maybe you’ve hit a plateau. At work, in your leadership, or in your relationship, it feels like something’s missing. I get it. I’ve been there. I know what it takes to push through plateaus and reach the next level. Before I became a Master Certified Coach, I played AFL my whole life before switching to rugby in 2015, eventually competin...

You’ve built success in your career or business… but at home your relationship feels different, your partner doesn’t fully relax with you. Maybe she’s guarded, always questioning, pulling away, or doesn’t trust your leadership. Deep down, you feel it... you’re not showing up in the way you know you could. In this episode of The Heart-Led Man, I reveal the #1 reason I reveal the #1 reason women don...

In this special episode of The Heart-Led Man Podcast , I sit down with a friend, former client, and member of the Ascension Men's Community, Matt Vacirca, a High School teacher at an all boys school. This is the first of a new series where Matt and I dive deep into the conversations men need most. We explore: Why performance alone leaves so many men burnt out, anxious, or empty The transition...

Feel like you’re falling behind in life? Like you should be further ahead by now, more accomplished, more secure, more certain, but deep down, you’re wondering if you’ve missed your chance? Or worse, you may think something is wrong with you. I know that feeling all too well. In my mid-30s, I looked around and saw most of my friends with families, homes, great wealth, and steady careers, while I w...

There’s a hidden side to many high-performing men that rarely gets spoken about, sensitivity . In this powerful episode of The Heart-Led Man , I open up about my own journey as a highly sensitive man. For years, I believed it made me weak… unmanly… broken. I spent most of my life hiding it, behind performance, people-pleasing, anger, or pretending not to care. But what if your sensitivity isn’t yo...

We’re halfway through the year and if you’re a high-performing man who’s built success but feels stuck, disconnected, or unmotivated... this episode is for you. In my work with leaders, business owners, and men inside The Ascension Men's Community, I’m seeing a pattern: Goals have stalled Energy is low Focus is scattered And the fire that once drove them feels distant But the answer isn’t mor...

Are you constantly stuck in your head overthinking, second-guessing, and silently battling a voice that tells you you're not enough? In this episode, I break down what I call "The war in your head", the internal chaos so many high-performing men face behind the scenes, and why more success, more discipline, or more productivity won't fix it. You'll hear: My personal story...

Why do so many high-performing men feel lost, anxious, and disconnected, even after building a successful life? In this deeply personal and powerful episode, Evan reveals the hidden root behind this quiet suffering: a lack of purpose, and disconnection from our natural gifts. Through his own story and the stories of clients who went from anxious and unfulfilled to clear, confident, and fully alive...

If you’re a high-performing man who constantly procrastinates, overthinks every move, or feels like nothing you do is ever good enough, this episode is for you. In this raw and real solo episode, I unpack one of the biggest internal blocks I’ve battled in my life and leadership: Perfectionism. You’ll discover: Why high-achieving men are more prone to perfectionism How perfectionism disguises itsel...

In this episode, I talk about what it's like to promote ourselves as introverts, the challenges, why we get stuck, how to overcome our fears and take steps to promoting ourselves in a way that's authentic to us. Self-Promotion is the ability for us to share who we are in front of others, to be seen and heard, to speak up in front of a group of people, to share ourselves on social media,...

In episode 6, Evan discusses how us as Men can rebuild the attraction and desire in our relationship. Evan shares insights from his own experiences in relationships, from the many men he works with who have had struggles in their long term relationships and marriages, and the common patterns around a lack of attraction and desire. He's come up with 5 ways men can take responsibility for their...

Welcome to the Heart-led Man Podcast. In episode 5, Evan discusses all about the inner critic, the voice inside our heads we battle with, and especially suffer in silence with, as men. Evan covers his own battles with his inner critic and how it's impacted his life, and the men in his world. He explains why the inner critic forms within us and then describes several ways we can break free fro...

Welcome to the Heart-led Man Podcast. In this episode, Evan discusses his method of how to find our superpowers. The unique, natural gifts we innately embody and develop over time, which leads to greater purpose and fulfilment in our lives, and contributes positively to the world. Many men these days suffer from feeling stuck, lost, directionless and purposeless, which can have a detrimental effec...

Welcome to the Heart-led Man Podcast. In episode 3, Evan discusses the subtle ways as men we can sabotage our relationship and how we can overcome these. Evan shares insights and lessons from his own relationships in the past, the many men he's worked with in his time as a coach, but also listening to the perspectives of the women in his world. He's narrowed it down to 5 ways as men we c...

Welcome to the second episode of the Heart-led Man Podcast.    In this episode, Evan discusses all things anxiety. He explains what anxiety is, what life is like living with anxiety, and most importantly, how he freed himself from it. Evan shares the lessons from his ability to free himself of it, helping his clients to do the same and describes to listener's a simple process to free themselv...

Welcome to the Heart-led man podcast. In this introduction episode, Evan talks about what inspired this podcast and the 5 traits of the Heart-led man. (0:01:15) - What inspired this podcast (0:06:35) - Top 5 traits of the Heart-led man. 1: Masculine Leadership (0:09:10) - 2: Self aware (0:10:26) - 3: Disciplined Warrior (0:12:08) - 4: Chooses love over fear (0:13:50) - 5: Connected to his body ___...