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ResistingBeta: The Men's Health Podcast

Andrew Bontzwww.resistingbeta.com
We are on a mission to create impact at scale by connecting you with experts to improve your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Many men feel disconnected and distant from the man they know they can be and we want to be the catalyst to bring you to the best version of yourself!
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Episodes

Achieving Balance in 2023: Strategies for Success Across the 7 Key Areas of Life w/ Joel Hassenritter

Our guest this week is Joel Haasenritter. He is a certified Oola Life coach and founder at Wayfinders For Life. He helps visionary, heart-centered people create a life that matters by helping them reconnect to their dreams and crush their goals so they can leave a lasting impact on the world. We talk about: Navigating your way through the fog of suck What are the four seasons of life? How Joel reinvented himself after a move and a career change What does it mean to connect your heart to your hea...

Dec 28, 20221 hr 9 minSeason 1Ep. 20

The Seasons of Mental Health: How to Not Get Stuck in Your Suck W/ Dr. Gregory Scott Brown

Gregory Scott Brown, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist, columnist for Men's Health magazine, and author. He believes we can work together to fight mental health stigma by having open and honest conversations about mental health. Dr. Brown advocates for evidence-based integrative care that incorporates exercise, mindfulness, meditation, and nutrition with standard-of-care treatments for mental illness. What We Talk About: What does a diagnosis of depression or anxiety mean? Even though Dr. ...

Dec 13, 202251 minSeason 1Ep. 19

Adam Lyons - Dating After Divorce: 3 Secrets To Elevate Your Attraction

Our guest this week is Adam Lyons. He went from being voted least likely to have a girlfriend in high school to becoming the #1 dating coach in the world for three years in a row. Adam in the CEO of Attraction Explained and the creator of the A.C.E. Formula. His proven methods help men meet high-quality women and date them without worrying about being ghosted. In this episode we cover: How can you be attractive to a partner across all the various human senses? How do you bounce back after a divo...

Dec 06, 202259 minEp. 18

Lucas Krump - Overcoming Loneliness and Building a Path To Authentic Friendship

Our guest this week is Lucas Krump. He was working as an executive leader at a Fortune 100 technology company and was climbing the corporate ladder, reaping the benefits of a solid paycheck and a stable career. But no matter how much he had, he felt lost, disconnected, and empty. He discovered that many men he knew felt the same way and felt a calling to walk away and start again. As CEO and Co-Founder of EVRYMAN, his mission is to enable men to connect with themselves and others through the pow...

Nov 29, 202250 minEp. 17

Ep 16 - Becoming A Holistic Man: Optimizing Mental and Sexual Health W/ Toni Hickman

Our guest this week is an Emmy award winner, professional music artist, certified naturopath, and unorthodox spiritualist. She is also an author, motivational speaker, and performer. Topics Discussed: Resisting the societal push against the masculine Creating balance for our boys by surrounding them with masculine men If men weren’t supposed to cry, they wouldn’t have tear ducts Holding an emotional bomb inside of us The connection between domestic violence and bottling up emotion What is the de...

Nov 22, 202246 minSeason 1Ep. 16

Andrew Bontz - Becoming A Magnetic Man

I sat on a call with a dating coach who reached out to me after a short conversation inside a Facebook group. I remember him saying, “I can help you sleep with as many women as you want.” I let him continue his pitch out of respect, but he had lost me. I didn’t want that. In fact, that runs counter to who I want to be. If that’s you, I understand because I was there in my early 20’s. I look back on the year after my divorce and here are a few points that I pulled from the hundreds of hours of bo...

Nov 14, 202221 minEp. 15

Andrew Bontz - My Better After Divorce Blueprint

Today's episode is a solocast where I document the steps I took in the first year after my divorce and what resources I used to turn my life around. Topics I discuss: Stuck in self-fulling stories The internal dialogue that fed my victim mentality Sought external validation seeking stories that positioned me as the victim and her as the villain My competitive nature worked against me. I needed to win. She needed to lose. My ego and unhealthy bruised bravado caused me to act childish Fear of bein...

Oct 31, 202235 minEp. 14

Ed Coambs - How Your Attachment Style Impacts Your Overall Well-Being

Ed is the founder of HealthyLoveandMoney.com an organization on a mission to help couples foster financial intimacy through learning, healing, and growing. He offers books, courses, blogs, and podcasts through this website, all aimed at helping couples understand where their relationship and money challenges come from and what they can do to change it. Topics Discussed: How to deal with the insecurity you feel if your partner makes more money than you How can you improve your ability to lead in ...

Oct 24, 202255 minEp. 13

Mark de Grasse - An Executives Journey From a Shell-person to Fulfillment

Mark De Grasse shares his story about how he traversed out of a valley of low self-worth to become the best version of himself. Mark is the President of DigitalMarketer, a business strategist, and a podcast host. Topics Discussed: What to do when you don’t feel like you are enough The steps Mark took after realizing he was depressed two years ago Giving up porn to improve mental health Feeling like you’re failing at life even though the outside world wouldn’t guess it How his life imploded after...

Oct 17, 202247 minEp. 12

Luke Briggs - Shifting Your Identity to a Confident, Fit, and Disciplined Machine

Luke Briggs went from a weak, unconfident high school kid to a personal trainer who’s helped hundreds of clients transform their lives through diet and proper training and a competitive bodybuilder and powerlifter. Topics Discussed: Making a drastic change to change the course of your life Getting past inner narratives Key steps to becoming a more confident man How Luke developed the discipline to not miss a strength training workout since January 27th, 2010 Keeping the most important promises t...

Oct 10, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 11

Nick Chontos - Defeating Self-Sabotage and Reclaiming True Manhood

Topics Discussed: Cycle of self-sabotage How to leverage strategy and grow What is true manhood Deep-seated emotional pain and its connection to childhood Drug abuse and how Nick used it to escape The shame and guilt associated with not being able to live as a good person How he went from homeless and drooling in his beard to clean, sober, and successful Dealing with addiction and its connection to struggle How to develop self-respect as a solid man Self-sabotage and how we pull the pin on a han...

Oct 03, 20221 hr 4 minEp. 10

Wyatt Ewing - Using Ice Baths To Improve Mental and Sexual Health

Topics Discussed: Wyatt’s struggle with anxiety and feeling like he wasn’t further ahead in life How cold showers allowed Wyatt to reset his system and restart his life in his 20s The benefits of Cold-Therapy Pulling yourself into the present moment Becoming more patient with your family Boosting your libido and sexual health How a first-responder went from snapping at his kids after work every day to a completely changed household dynamic. How being in the fight or flight response impacts your ...

Sep 20, 20221 hr 2 minEp. 9

Nick Shaw - Not So Secret For Weight Loss

Topics Discussed: What keeps most men fat? What are the consequences of that? What are the simple systems for success in weight loss? How do you get back to the athlete you used to be? Even better? Breaking your cycle of self-sabotage The compound effect of a couple of hundred calories on keeping a healthy weight Creating easy wins Establishing momentum to achieve weight loss How to fall in love with the process and behaviors in the weightloss journey Utilizing challenging fitness experiences to...

Sep 13, 202249 minEp. 8

Mark Melvin - Finding the Perfect Amount of Happiness

Our guest this week is Mark Melvin. He was an accomplished corporate attorney in the alcohol industry for over a decade until he left the industry to pursue a more centered life. He now helps people answer the question “Who am I”? He does this by sharing techniques in yoga, meditation, and breathwork. We Discuss: Mental Time Traveling - How to deal with thinking about the past stories that haunt us or future stories that cause anxiety How to stop intrusive and unwanted thoughts from controlling ...

Sep 05, 20221 hr 3 minEp. 7

Leonard Jenkins Jr. - Stepping Into Complete Holistic Transformation

Leonard Jenkins was a successful chemical engineer for Procter and Gamble and Coca-Cola but left the corporate world to pursue his passion for helping people. Now he’s an author, actor, voice-over artist, personal development coach, and inventor of the Maintenance of Man (MOM) all-natural line of supplements. He uses his scientific background and passion for helping men become balanced inside and out. We Discuss: How Leonard transformed his mind, body, and spirit to become the oldest warrior on ...

Aug 29, 202254 minEp. 6

Dr. Stacy Friedman - Confessions & Lessons of a Sexpert

Dr. Stacy Friedman got into the field of Clinical Sexology because of her passion for helping people better connect and experience the best sexual intimacy with themselves or with their partner(s). She holds a Doctorate degree in Human Sexuality in addition to a Master's in Clinical Sexology and is a Certified Sex Coach. She is also a member of WASC (World Association of Sex Coaching), including ACS (The American College of Sexologists). We discuss: The sexual journey of men: performance issues,...

Aug 22, 20221 hr 8 minEp. 5

David Lea - The Missing Link to An Abundant Life and Changing Your World

David is the founder and CEO of Daring Deeply life coaching. He helps high-achieving men, women, and couples find deep freedom, healing, and transformation from past pain and trauma. Through a trauma-informed polarized lens, David leverages his decades of expertise in relationships, wellness, and communication to bring empowered awareness to his clients that disrupt negative patterns to realize real life-change and extraordinary relationships. Together with his partner in life, business, and lov...

Aug 15, 20221 hrEp. 4

David Peter Jensen - Beating Depression, Anxiety and ADHD Without Medication

Our Guest, David Peter Jensen, went through some serious mental health challenges - depression, bipolar, anxiety, and ADHD, to name a few. He tried medication and quickly realized it was driving him mad! He went a different route and after a long, hard journey he found his best self! He’s a life coach, author, and shaman. He’s on a mission to teach you how to let your brilliant brain work for you INSTEAD of against you We discuss: How David went from Morman Missionary to leaving the church and p...

Aug 05, 202248 minEp. 3

Ross Leppela - Building Your Sense Of Belonging

Ross Leppala was an engineer who pivoted to pursue a path of impact with his podcast, Project UnchainED. Now he utilizes his decades of self-development work to help people learn how to create a strong sense of belonging via internal validation. We discuss: How learning how to bench press changed Ross’s life Pulling yourself out of a deep depression Creating energy to attract the right women What needs to change so you can have the amount of sex in your relationship “The journey of life is full ...

Aug 05, 20221 hr 9 minEp. 2

ResistingBeta: The Origin Story

How Andrew Bontz, the host of ResistingBeta, went from a little bitch to sweet freedom. Andrew is a life-long entrepreneur who lost his marriage, business, and himself by giving into the worst version of himself (his inner Beta energy). Now he's living his best life and on a mission to cut the male suicide rate in half by connecting you to the top experts in men's physical, mental, and spiritual health. Topics discussed: Andrew's journey from punching bag to beast-mode How a loss of an old frien...

Aug 03, 202212 minEp. 1
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