The Bearded Gents Podcast

Change happens on a few levels and in a few different ways. But how, and why, does it happen at all? Where do we start and what does that look like?

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. orWhere 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.