Insecurity: The Mental Game This week we are dealing with one of the biggest barriers to our success as men: insecurity. A lot of men deal with insecurity and they do it in ways we think of, but also in ways we don't think of. We will talk through the definition of insecurity and what it looks like. Then we will talk through some of the symptoms of insecurity. We will also share different stories of the different effects of insecurity. 1.. Define Insecurity 2. Symptoms of insecurity 3. Stories o...
Aug 09, 2023•27 min•Ep. 167
INTRODUCING THE THRIVING MAN PODCAST!! We have changed the name of the podcast and added another person to the show. Reese is joining us and we are super pumped to work together to help men build a life they can be proud of. In this episode, we explain how this change came about. Plus we talk about one of the biggest barriers to our growth as men. Confusion: Lack of instruction Society’s messages to men Why is it a Problem CHALLENGE Hard questions: What is my frame of reference from the past? Ar...
Aug 02, 2023•34 min•Ep. 166
Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Get ready for Thriving Man Podcast NEXT WEEK!! Mental Work Journey Mentality Deal with Your Roots Dangerous food realities Improve your letter grade Food Work Sustainable Eating Focus Fix the food first Cut portions down Learn to be satisfied and not full Hydrate Physical Work Food Always Wins the Battle Take Guilt out of Exercise Find Your Movement Everyday movement Exercise and movement don't have to be expensive or someth...
Jul 26, 2023•31 min•Ep. 165
The Confident Man Podcast will become The Thriving Man Podcast starting the first Wednesday in August! We are going to a whole new level when it comes to empowering men! Food is a part of life; everyone has to eat, and we all recognize that. However, the problem with food is the reality that so many men are fighting obesity. Obesity is having a body fat percentage of 30% and up. In the US, 75% of men over 40 are obese! The truth all of us, as men have to face, is our food is a big part of this p...
Jul 19, 2023•32 min•Ep. 164
Increase Your Worth as a Man! Attend the High-Value Man One Day Intensive. Use the code "Podcast" and get $50.00 off! www.theconfidentman.me Fat and obesity are a reality among men today. It isn't a very comfortable subject for us to discuss, but we must face the truth. The overweight epidemic among men is hurting their ability to live their best life. It adds all kinds of stress and hurts men in many different ways. We should care about this as men because we are stewards of our bodies. When on...
Jul 12, 2023•28 min•Ep. 163
Increase Your Worth as a Man! Attend the High-Value Man One-Day Intensive. Use the code "Podcast" and get $50.00 off! www.theconfidentman.me Expectations are a part of life. We all have them and we all live with them. What about our health? What should our expectations be for our health? Men often live on the extremes of their health, they either never think of it or they worship their own health. The reality of our health is important and we should think about it but in a balanced way. This wil...
Jul 05, 2023•29 min•Ep. 162
Increase Your Worth as a Man! Attend the High-Value Man One Day Intensive. Use the code "Podcast" and get $50.00 off! www.theconfidentman.me Many men live today on the edge of a mental breakdown. They are so stressed and so busy that their brain has a hard time coping. As men, one of the best things we can do is treat our brains like an engine. When we see our brain as an engine, we are able to think through many of the ways to make it healthier. Taking care of our brains is one of the most impo...
Jun 28, 2023•35 min•Ep. 161
Increase Your Worth as a Man! Attend the High-Value Man One-Day Intensive. Use the code "Podcast" and get $50.00 off! www.theconfidentman.me I recommend getting and reading Henry Cloud's book "Trust" for yourself https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Knowing-When-Withhold-Broken/dp/1546003371 Trust is something we all have and we are designed to use it and live our lives with it. This is because life is better and we enjoy it more when we can trust. We don't carry around extra stress, worry, or fear. The...
Jun 21, 2023•34 min•Ep. 160
Increase Your Worth as a Man! Attend the High-Value Man One-Day Intensive. Use the code "Podcast" and get $50.00 off! www.theconfidentman.me As men, we are really good at beating ourselves up. Too often, we struggle with perfectionism and have an inner critic living inside our heads. This affects our attitudes and our actions each day. Plus, it affects our relationships and our ability to connect with others. We must learn why we tend to beat ourselves up and what we can do to overcome that tend...
Jun 14, 2023•29 min•Ep. 159
Finish the year strong! Attend the High-Value Man One-Day Intensive! Use the code "Podcast" and save $50 www.theconfidentman.me (Please excuse the audio, the mic had issues I didn't realize until it was done) Many men struggle with a stagnant mind This causes our minds to atrophy and not stay fresh Intentional Input Use it or lose it is a common phrase you hear Sometimes we don't realize how little we are using the full capacity of our minds If we don't intentionally work our minds, they will lo...
Jun 07, 2023•29 min•Ep. 158
You can be a Great Dad! Learn about my course Dads: Secrets to Success at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Many people are living life with a longing for positive affirmation from their fathers. The problem is how hard it is for them. A majority grew up without a dad around. Some had a dad who didn't understand the power of his words and never gave that gift to their children. Many times it's because our dads didn't get it from their ...
May 31, 2023•33 min•Ep. 157
You can be a Great Dad! Learn about my course Dads: Secrets to Success at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Our role as dads is one of the biggest roles we have as men. All men influence like a dad when they mentor others. So in a way, every man acts like a dad at some point in their life. Dads are one of the most influential factors in their kids' lives and in society as a whole. The relationship with our fathers sets us up for many o...
May 24, 2023•32 min•Ep. 156
You can be a Great Dad! Learn about my course Dads: Secrets to Success at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Being a dad is a massive responsibility for us as men. Many studies have shown the impact of a good or bad relationship with a father and how it affects our lives. I think we know this intuitively, but we are seeing the effects in society today. Any man can be a father, but not as many men focus on being a good dad. We must conce...
May 17, 2023•35 min•Ep. 155
We continue our conversation with Kyle Carnohan on our show today. Kyle is the founder of Super Human Fathers a community and program for men who desire to transform their bodies and their lives in all areas of fatherhood. As a father of 5, a husband of 20 years, and a fire fighter/ paramedic, Kyle has been through the waves of stress, struggle, and disappointment in his relationships with his kids and family while trying to maintain mental, spiritual, and physical health. However, after making ...
May 10, 2023•27 min•Ep. 154
We are excited to have Kyle Carnohan on our show today. Kyle is the founder of Super Human Fathers a community and program for men who desire to transform their bodies and their lives in all areas. His passion is to see men grab hold of their warrior-like mentality and not be afraid to be men. As a father of 5, a husband of 20 years, and a firefighter/ paramedic, Kyle has been through waves of stress, struggle, and disappointment in his relationships with his kids and family while trying to main...
May 03, 2023•24 min•Ep. 153
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching I'm a big fan of routines! I love having routines in many different areas of my life. When we want to incorporate specific habits, we can do them better when they are part of a routine. Routines are part of intentional living and we should embrace them. The problem with routines is they can become too important to us in our lives. As men, we need to take time to r...
Apr 26, 2023•29 min•Ep. 152
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Too often as men we don't often think about our own power. Not our power to pick something up or beat someone up, but our power for everyday life. We should ask ourselves, "Do I live powerfully, or do I survive?" Too many men are in survival mode and don't know how to live powerfully. We must live intentionally to live powerfully. This week's episode helps us find...
Apr 19, 2023•33 min•Ep. 151
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Are you a man or are you a muppet? This week we are looking at what it means to be a man. This begins with us looking at our life and asking some important questions: "What direction do I go? Who am I on the inside?" The only one who can answer these questions is us. We decide who we will be each day with each little choice we make. We can choose to be a man or be...
Apr 12, 2023•30 min•Ep. 150
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching I'm a fan of the muppets since childhood when we would watch the muppets and their special guests each week. When my kids were smaller, we loved Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island. In fact, we still watch them today. The 2011 movie "The Muppets" with Jason Segal and Amy Adams was a great return to classic muppet movies. Today's podcast title comes f...
Apr 05, 2023•28 min•Ep. 149
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching How much do you think about money? How much should you think about money? Money is a reality for all of us and as men, we feel this pressure because we feel an inner drive to provide. We want to be providers and we want to be successful at what we do but the danger is it is easy to let money control us and our decisions. I think every man has to regularly check hi...
Mar 31, 2023•26 min•Ep. 148
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Men all over the world will struggle with perfectionism. This drive to be perfect has hurt a lot of men and caused them to lose a lot of their life. Men have the drive to do things and to do things right, but they have to watch out or they will fall into perfectionism. Each man needs to adopt a realistic view of perfectionism by changing their attitudes. Perfect C...
Mar 30, 2023•27 min•Ep. 147
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching What does it mean to be an authentic man? The problem with this question is that every man is different so there isn't one overriding image of what a real man is. We have to remember this as we go on our journey of becoming a man. Our goal is not to be someone else, our goal is to be the man we were designed to be. The best way to do that is to dig into our authen...
Mar 29, 2023•29 min•Ep. 146
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching The design of men is a powerful one. Men can fight wars, invent new things, and run major corporations, but also play in the playground with their kids all day. Men have a natural play instinct which is important for the development of them and their children. The problem is without proper development many men get stuck in the playing mentality and never grow up. ...
Mar 28, 2023•29 min•Ep. 145
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Shame is a strange thing to talk about because many people try to deny shame or say we shouldn't feel it. Shame is real and it is a serious issue among men today. We talk about how shame hurts men but also bring out some of the positives of shame that we have forgotten as a society. The Negative Side of Shame Shame is a hidden weight too many men carry Secret acti...
Mar 27, 2023•31 min•Ep. 144
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Focus has been a struggle for men throughout the ages. If you read books from the past, men have always lamented the distractions of the world and this was before all our devices! The reality for every man is he must do the battle to have good focus. We must make our focus an important part of who we are as men, but more importantly, we have to make it part of who...
Mar 24, 2023•27 min•Ep. 143
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Today, we are talking about the power of long-term success in our life The most powerful men who leave the longest-lasting legacy in the world are the ones focused on long-term success As men, we must not allow ourselves to get caught up in the quick-fix culture We must work to build a solid foundation for our life so success lasts Yes, this is the harder way, but...
Mar 23, 2023•29 min•Ep. 142
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Being a dad is one of the highest callings of a man, but that is getting drowned out by the negative shift toward children. Kids are seen as an inconvenience today and that attitude is affecting too many young men. Having children is good for us as men. Don't get me wrong, they are hard work, but hard work is what we do as men. One of the best things you can do is...
Mar 22, 2023•33 min•Ep. 141
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Marriage brings a ton of benefits to men. This isn't something many talk about in our hedonistic self-centered culture. People often focus on what marriage and family take away from us as men. Marriage isn't the end of who we are as men. Marriage helps men grow and expand their gifts. It challenges them in powerful ways and makes them better men. Encourages Our In...
Mar 20, 2023•31 min•Ep. 140
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching Intimacy isn't sex! Today that must be stated because so many people misunderstand what real intimacy is all about. The best thing you can do for your relationship is learn how to create an atmosphere of intimacy with your woman. When men take the lead in the intimacy of the relationship, they have better relationships and stronger families, which makes a stronger...
Mar 17, 2023•29 min•Ep. 139
Get your free Personal Reboot Guide at www.theconfidentman.me Check out more resources to help you as a man at David Maxwell Coaching The guys who suck at dating are often dating for the wrong reasons. Their attitudes are focused on everything but the person they are dating. This hurts them as men and it hurts their ability to have close intimate relationships. Plus, they either won't go out on dates or they will have the wrong attitude for every date they have. The Ego Feeders Successful dates ...
Mar 16, 2023•28 min•Ep. 138
