The Bearded Gents Podcast
Navigate your mental health journey with Gareth and Tod ,discover resilience ,wisdom
and inner peace and some jokes
Episodes
139 episodes since 2020
Stress and How Low Blow It Goes... part 2
Yet more on everyone's favourite subject.Big picture stressors and their impacts on how we perceive ourselves in relation to them, and on how many levels this stress impacts us.
September 12, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 17
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1:15:15
Stress and How Low Blow It Goes... part 1
What IS Stress? and how is that relevant to you? How does it work, what does it do to you and what does that really look like?
July 04, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 16
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57:39
Why Exercise?
What does exercise do, when we consider it regarding mental health? Does it do anything? Is it the exercise itself, or the decision to do some exercise? The physiological benefits, or the psychological ones? And how do we find and create ...
June 25, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 15
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53:00
Creatine and Thoughting vs Thinking
Creatine is pretty awesome.But, what is the difference between what you have always thought and what might be new ground trod with different thinking?Are you repeating the same things to yourself in your head? or are you genuinely chall...
June 20, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 14
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1:09:09
Interview: Jo Howard
Today we speak with Jo Howard, burgeoning billionaire and caffeine monger. She tells us the story of how she came to be who she is and the forever learning she's doing so that her story works for her now and in the future.
June 12, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 13
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1:27:22
How do I Change? Part 3
On how many levels does change happen?Mental, emotional, physical?What about spiritual? Or vibrational?How much impact does a sense of self we cant see or touch really impact what our future can look like?
June 05, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 12
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58:52
How do I Change? Part 2
How do we change without addressing the filters and lenses with which we view the world and ourselves? if we view the actions and behaviours we exhibit through a logical or masculine frame, does that mean we are missing the value of a more emot...
May 30, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 11
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47:57
How do I Change? Part 1
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?
May 07, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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1:00:19
The Death of Manhood
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 deva...
April 30, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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1:11:45
Corruption of Power, Power of Corruption
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...
April 23, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 8
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1:16:15
History Repeated
If we do not learn from history and the harsh lessons humanity has been given, are we doomed to repeat it?
March 06, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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1:18:32
Interview: Nerida Mills
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.
February 28, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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2:27:17
Instinct Injury
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...
February 21, 2024
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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51:00
Sleep Part 3
When we have leveraged ourselves with enough value to prioritise sleep, how do we go about doing that? Well, today we answer those questions.
February 14, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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42:42
Sleep Part 2
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.
February 06, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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42:02
Sleep Part 1
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?
January 25, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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40:05
Interview: The Green Stoic
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.
January 17, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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2:13:54
New Job, New Perspectives
After some time off, we come back to review and check in with what's new, what's old and how that's sitting.
September 14, 2023
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Season 8
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Episode 122
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46:20
Stress and all That
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?
August 09, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 121
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1:08:23
Interview: Luke Johannessen
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.
July 27, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 120
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1:17:23
Interview: Jake Ward
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.
July 18, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 119
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1:29:12
Manifesting, Elon and Fucks Given.
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 u...
July 12, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 118
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1:06:18
What kind of partner do I want?
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.
July 05, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 117
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57:46
Generosity, Nostalgia and Energy Exchanges
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.
June 28, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 116
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1:21:44