Enjoy these 29+ hours of powerful podcast episodes about what it takes for modern men to show up as healthy leaders in intimate relationships. Listen below or click the spotify playlist to queue them all up for a long drive.
I just finished recording with Melanie on her show Dear Men, and we ended up tackling some of the most damaging myths I see guys carrying around dating. We spent serious time on three big ones: this idea that perfect confidence is required to be attractive, the fear that approaching women is automatically creepy in...
Melanie Curtin and I had one of those conversations where we kept looking at each other going, "Oh, that's exactly it." We were mapping out the top three traits that separate the Nice Guys who stay stuck from the ones who actually start getting what they want in relationships, sex, and life, and these patterns...
There's a moment in every man's relationship where he feels that familiar tightness in his chest, that instant defensive response when his partner's energy shifts toward him with what I call "the poke." I was on Melanie Curtin's podcast recently talking about this exact phenomenon that so many guys have experienced but maybe haven't named....
What if the very thing you think makes you weak as a man is actually pointing you toward your greatest strength? I had a great conversation with Melanie Curtin about something I see come up constantly with the men I work with: the difference between neediness and having needs. And honestly, this distinction has been...
Here's the tension every man in relationship faces: you want to be there for your partner when she's upset, but the more you try to help, the more you both spiral. I had a great conversation with Melanie Curtin about this exact paradox, how our instinct to fix or absorb our partner's dysregulation actually makes...
What happens when the very emotion we're most afraid to reveal is the exact thing creating the isolation we're desperately trying to avoid? I just got off a call with Melanie Curtin exploring this question through the lens of shame, one of those emotions that sits right at the core of so much of what...
I just got back from an incredible conversation with Melanie Curtin on the Dear Men podcast, and we went deep on something I think gets misunderstood constantly: what it actually means to open a woman. Look, this isn't about seduction techniques or manipulation. What we're talking about is creating the conditions where another person feels...
There's a moment in every man's life where he finds himself standing at the edge of something deeper with someone, paralyzed by the weight of what it might mean. I got to join Melanie Curtin on Dear Men to talk about this exact fear I see come up constantly with the men I work with:...
There's a moment in every man's life where the shell he's built around himself finally cracks, and everything he thought he knew about strength gets turned upside down. For me, that moment came during my first men's group experience, going from 30 years of being emotionally stuck to sobbing on my back in just 20...
Here's the thing about modern relationships that nobody wants to talk about: the very thing that's supposed to ground us and give us sanctuary can become the thing that keeps our nervous system in a constant state of activation. I had a powerful conversation with Melanie on Dear Men about this paradox I'm seeing more...
There was a moment in this conversation with Melanie Curtin where she said something that made me physically uncomfortable. She was describing how codependent partners will literally match their breathing to their partner's anxiety, and I realized I was doing exactly that, right there in ...
I had one of those conversations with Melanie that I keep thinking about weeks later, the kind where you're discussing something most people whisper about behind closed doors: when do you actually know it's time to get a divorce? This conversation hit close to home because I work with so many guys wrestling with this...
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