The Bearded Gents Podcast

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. 
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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. 

The reasons we give matters a lot when we consider what that reasoning says about ourselves. Who we are, why that matters to us, the implications this has on our relationships, all of this is impacted by the choices we make around giving.

We speak to Shaun of Staite again today. We speak about the necessary value of connection, of asking "Why" and how we got to this state in the first place.

Where does it come from? Where does it go? Where did you come from, Inspirational Joe? 
What do we do with it when we experience it? Does it feel like pressure to use it? Does it require sacrifices that we aren't prepared to make? Will it lead us to the promised halcyon day of our lives? 

Our relationship to the goals we set have a vital role to play in how likely we are to achieve them. Do we make a goal with intentionality, making a decision about the value we find moving down the path a goal takes us? Or do we simply pick something that's better than what we have, or at least what we don't want, and hope for the best?