Daniel Weinberg presents Mens Anonymous, the podcast focusing on all things men. Tune in to authentic and unfiltered conversations where men embrace their vulnerabilities and open up about life, love, career, and everything in between. Be inspired and empowered as every conversation uncovers ancient wisdom about masculinity and reignites the embers of tribal connectivity. This is your chance to gather golden nuggets of wisdom that will lead you down the path of transformation and become a much better man.
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Introduction To Mens Anonymous
Welcome To The Mens Anonymous Podcast
I’m Daniel Weinberg, the host of Mens Anonymous, a new show that focuses on all things men, authentic and unfiltered. Here I am contemplating a life hallowed by victories, blunders, and a kind of wisdom you can’t find in any self-help book. Life to me feels like a jackpot, not the kind you see on the slot machines but the richness that comes from embracing the messiness of living.
I’m an Aussie. I grew up in Australia, spending the first 40 years of my life there. I then left to see what more the world has to offer and haven’t looked back since. I’ve been married twice and divorced twice. I’m a proud father of five incredible kids. Believe me, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. My life is like a puzzle, which I never thought would be this complicated. Yet at my core, I cling to the core belief of love, though I’ve learned it comes in more shapes and sizes than I ever imagined.
As I sit here, I have an immense amount of gratitude. I’m surrounded by love. I have an incredible loving partner, five beautiful kids who I’m super connected to, and parents who have been more than loving and supportive to me through the rollercoaster of my life. I’ve never been more connected with myself, which took me a long time to get to, but most of all, I’m at peace. The chatter in my head is mostly silent, which for me is the ultimate goal. Last but not least, I found my tribe, surrounded by incredible men who love me for who I am and support me at all times.
Reigniting The Embers Of Tribal Connectivity
Why am I here? Frankly, being a bloke in this world is a wild ride with very little guidance. We’re all making the same mistakes, regardless of age and experience. Why am I doing this show? It’s to try and recreate the tribe we once had. Back when we lived in packs, the elders shared wisdom. As boys turned into men, we had rituals and rites of passage that marked our growth. Fast forward, that’s all gone missing. The ancient wisdom has faded, drowned in the cacophony of contemporary life.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not claiming to be the guru of all things manly. It’s far from that. I’m a guy who’s been through the wringer, a seasoned traveler, bearing the scars of battles fought and lessons learned. This is a humble attempt to reignite the embers of tribal connectivity and restore the brotherhood that once thrived in the sharing of stories, wisdom, and collective growth.
A few years back, my life imploded. I call it the trifecta. All the same time, I had three of the following things happen to me. My primary relationship blew up in spectacular form. I had major issues in a few of the serious businesses that I’m involved in all happening at the same time when I had a breach of trust from senior partners or colleagues of mine in each of those businesses.
Consequently, I mentally broke down. I had a breakdown. I couldn’t get out of bed or sleep. I had a period of about six months where I didn’t sleep. I was extremely tense. I lost a lot of weight. I was very anxious. I went through a period where I thought I’d lost myself and I thought, “When is Daniel going to come back?” I desperately wanted the old me back.
It took me a long time to break that pattern but the way I started breaking that whole time in my life to create the beginning of the reset was I started opening up to people one by one slowly. Do you know what I found? When I peeled back the layers, it gave other guys permission to do the same. There’s a brotherhood waiting to happen if we crack ourselves open a bit. I discovered an alchemy, opening the door for authentic communication, a shared vulnerability that became the bridge between men.
There is a brotherhood waiting to happen if men learn to crack themselves open a bit. Authentic communication and shared vulnerabilities can become bridges between men. Share on XHistorically prior to this, trifecta have been in my life. I didn’t express emotion to other men or make myself vulnerable to them. In general, for men, it’s a sign of weakness. That’s how men generally feel. The reality is with most men, their ego is their weakness, which is wrapped around them like layers of an onion. The mission here is to help pull back the layers by giving them a safe place to do so.
What did I do? I was always seen amongst my friends as the one who’s got it together and the successful one. I didn’t have it together at all. In fact, I’m quite the opposite. Everything had gone wrong in my life. One of the first conversations I had with one of my friends who I’ll refer to as Deep Steve, I opened up to him and told him about my struggles. He opened up with me and suggested to read a book by Michael Singer called The Untethered Soul.
I read this book 25 to 30 times on repeat over that 6-month period but what he gave me was a gift. The gift of him holding space for me gave me the permission to make myself vulnerable with other men. When you do that, it doesn’t necessarily mean the other man will respond in the same way but it’s almost like a fishing expedition. If you open up a little bit and show a little bit of your personal, emotional, or vulnerable side, the response of the other man will tell you whether they will make themselves vulnerable to you.
What I found in the process as I opened up to other men and they in turn opened up to me, I ended up forming much deeper connections and bonds with these men. I’m surrounded by a pretty significant group of men all over the world, and you know who you are, who were there for me in my worst time and continue to be there for me and I for them.
A Call To Every One To Connect
What I’m trying to say is I’m trying to encourage those who are reading to try out this path and make yourselves a little bit vulnerable to those men you feel close to and connected with around you. I’m trying to inspire the audience to go out there and reform their tribe. It’s time for men to share wisdom. What do I want to get out of this? The show is an invitation. It’s a call to action, a call to every man to connect with a tapestry of stories around him.
Within these narratives lie the keys to rebuilding the male tribe, urging a profound consideration of community, the pursuit of the enlightened masculine, the evolution into a renaissance man, the courage to challenge paradigms, and the embrace of the ever-evolving journeyman. The show itself should be a backstage pass to the chaos, heartbreaks, victories, and wild adventures that make up the mosaic of being a man.
The show’s purpose is to create a safe space for men to open up on a ray of topics all things men. I talk to different men about men’s mental health. What’s it like being the father of a neurodiverse child? How does that impact our lives and relationships? What’s it like being the son of a parent who has committed suicide or tried to commit suicide? Also, open relationships and men who lead men’s groups and the impact that’s had on the forming of men communities.
My hope is it inspires you to recreate your tribe. Open these forgotten channels between men once again so the wisdom can once again flow and the brotherhood formed. What am I looking for? I’m looking to inspire you to form deeper connections with your male tribe and become a better man. Coming more truly into your masculine, not the way it’s perceived or projected by what society says but what it means to come into your true masculine.
Men must create their own tribes to open forgotten channels between them where wisdom can flow once again. Share on XClosing Thoughts And Questions To Think About
I’ll leave you with a couple of thoughts or maybe some questions that I want you to think about what it means to be a man. I finish off each of my interviews with these five questions and I’d like to leave those questions for you so you can go away and think about it. 1) Who would you like to say sorry to, given the chance? 2) What are you proud of being or doing in your life? 3) When did you receive kindness whilst needing it most and expecting at least? 4) What did your mother or father teach you that you frequently remind yourself of? The final one is something I want you to sit on. What is your superpower? We all have a superpower and I know you do too.
Welcome to Mens Anonymous. I hope that I create a space or a platform that you’ll walk away from after reading, which will inspire you, maybe teach you a little bit of something, or motivate you to have that conversation that you’ve been holding off. What I want to do here is facilitate or create a space where you can hear from other men about what men truly feel and experience. At the end of the day, we’re all making the same mistakes and I know we make a lot of them.
The idea here isn’t that if you read everything that’s being spoken here, you will no longer make mistakes. I’m trying to prevent us from making the same mistakes over and over with the hope that we will become better men. What does it mean to become a better man? It means to become a better partner, father, son, and friend. That’s what I hope for you with Mens Anonymous. Please join me as I speak to an array of very interesting men from all over the world where we talk all things men. Mens Anonymous.
