Relationships…..We all have them. Whether it's friendship, business, family, or romance; these relationships can either provide us with comfort, pleasure, and understanding or be a source of frustration, resentment, or anger.This episode kicks off the first of five special podcast episodes, in which I will be discussing and breaking down the five c…

Today's podcast is the second part of my previous podcast “Let's Talk About Plant Medicine”In this episode, I share my experiences and reflections after attending a three-day retreat where I sat in a ceremony with plant medicine. It was a very different experience, from my last time sitting in ceremony and I was given three big lessons to take home…

This week on the podcast, I have my wife Erika Cramer joining me as she interviews me about all things plant medicine.We discuss what plant medicine is, why some people are attracted to plant medicine, its benefits and touch on how it may benefit some people. Tune into this episode to hear about my personal experiences with plant medicine and how i…

As we grow and move through life, our experiences and thoughts shift and change. It's natural to have some big realizations and to feel all sorts of emotions bubble up to the surface.And when these emotions surface, you might feel like you need a release in the form of a good cry…. and there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, this actually happene…

It’s so fun to realize that once you become a parent of little kids, you also get to enjoy whatever they want to watch on the television!At home, we usually watch kids' movies all together as a family, with my children, who are four and six years old. The Disney Channel has been great as it's given us a variety of movies to watch.To be honest, I al…

When talking about a domesticated man, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?You might be thinking of someone who is fond of housework and others may think of someone who is fond of home life. I really want to talk about this in this podcast because this has been a big thing for me and it has been on my mind over a couple of years, especia…

This is the first episode for 2022! It's great to be back on the podcast. I took some time off and took some time away from doing everything. You all know that the past couple of years brought us all different challenges, but we were able to get through them. And one of the big reasons why I was able to overcome those challenges is because I always…

This is the last episode for 2021! The past year has been full of remarkable highs and impactful moments. This season is the ideal time to sit back and reflect on the year that was and how we can set up our expectations for the year to come. The purpose for this episode is to explore the way we set our goals for the coming year. I’ve never had an i…

It’s my pleasure to introduce to you my final guest for 2021, a man with an incredible depth of wisdom and breadth of life experiences, Regenerative Leadership Coach, Ryan Kemp. In addition to his Regenerative Leadership Coaching, Ryan is a business consultant, published author, speaker, yoga teacher, and poet. Over the last 10 years, he has worked…

We’re fast approaching the end of the year! This is the perfect time for reflection.When I was young, I wanted to be successful, famous, and have women. I wanted to be the quintessential alpha male. So I tried to find every scheme and get rich quick program to reach this goal. This drive came from wanting to prove people wrong and comparison. Even …

Are you okay with being still? Or does the idea of not having something on the go make you feel uncomfortable?We live in a world where it’s possible to be plugged in 24 hours of the day. If we’re bored, we have access to entertainment at our fingertips. But is that a good thing?In this episode, I talk about some of the things I learned over the ext…

Our bodies are suffering right now. We are living in our heads and our bodies are being ignored. I know that sending your awareness down into your body can be a challenging process but I encourage you to sit with your emotions and truly acknowledge them.We are often so hesitant to stop and embrace this stillness because we just want to jump to the …

Are you really good at finding solutions to problems?Most men are. Humans are amazing in their capacity to come up with solutions, but this can sometimes be detrimental. One thing I’ve noticed is that most men are so conditioned to focus on finding answers to problems, that they don’t allow themselves to process the feelings that surround the probl…

Today’s episode is a meditation dedicated to travelling inwards and finding alignment. The world needs a perspective change to learn not to run from our pain and take steps to truly feel it. The fear of feeling pain causes us to project anxiety, anger, and encourages disconnection around us. There are two ways we feel pain: the pain of the things t…

If you’re like me and in lockdown, your stress levels may be pretty high and have been for a while. While I know that stress is a natural part of life. Prolonged stress can have such a big impact on your mind and body. I’ve had my own run ins with stress. Life has become more complicated since I was a young personal trainer and with that there is m…

Today’s episode is a meditation to connect and acknowledge your body, revel in the wonders of the amazing processes in your mind, and really appreciate how you are a cooperative component of the world you want to create. Take a moment and feel the rhythm in your heart, the tingling of your fingers and toes, the flow of your blood, and the release o…

We’re still in lockdown in Melbourne and some days I wake up feeling good and motivated. Other days I find myself struggling. It’s something I’ve really had to address to get myself back into alignment. Over the years, I’ve equipped myself with various tools and modalities that really help me understand and process my emotions. Music is one of thos…

Anger, frustration, confusion and fear from our daily lives causes conflict in our internal worlds, which impacts on our external world. This internal conflict makes it so much harder to make important and balanced decisions. To help you recentre, I encourage you to be still and reflect inward to look at everything in your life with fresh and open …

Modern masculinity, stigmas and taboos have such an impact on the way men talk about and explore sex in a positive and deep way. Today I am so grateful to be talking with Jordan Hackett. Jordan is a Men’s Coach and Certified Sexologist. He has a background in rites of initiation work and draws on a wealth of integrated personal experience in erotic…

If today was your last day, how would you live it differently?One of the biggest lies we tell ourselves is that we have all the time in the world. The truth is, we don’t know how long we’re going to be here for. We gear ourselves up to live long lives with mortgages and preparations for the future but sometimes we protect our lives so much that we …

Journaling is an incredibly useful tool that has helped me immensely throughout my life to build an understanding and dialogue with my thoughts and feelings. In this episode, I share my story of how I began my journaling journey. I had to move past the belief that women are the only ones that can journal. I gave myself the freedom to write whatever…

There are a bunch of hot topics in the world at the moment and along with that comes a lot of division. We all approach issues from a different perspective and form opinions based on our personal biases, judgements, assumptions and life experiences. It’s easy to hold onto our opinions as truths. But when we only listen to our opinions, we miss out …

In Melbourne, we have recently re-surfaced from our fifth lockdown and I feel that this one has hit me the hardest. I had to cancel my 40th birthday party and the Manfulness Masterclass, and I feel frustration and irritability confined to my home.This stasis of isolation can bring on many different emotions for people and they can be challenging to…

I’m about to turn 40, which feels like a pretty big milestone for me. I’ve been reminiscing about the last 10 years of my life; how much has changed and how much I’ve grown. I wanted to share my reflections with you as I unpack a few of the lessons I’ve learned and things I’ve journeyed through over the last decade.I look back at 30 year old me and…

It has just ticked over to a new financial year here, and I find this is a great opportunity to really reflect on the past 12 months in business.When I look back at all that Erika and I have achieved in our businesses this year, I feel grateful and proud of what we’ve been able to do. We’ve grown so much not only professionally, but personally and …

My life completely changed when I started getting deep into personal development. I began unravelling the unconscious habits and patterns in my life, I worked through painful realisations and started taking responsibility for where I was at. Then I had the audacity to tell everyone else what they should be doing to change their lives too.I see a lo…

In today’s episode I’m going to tackle a taboo topic: porn addiction. Pornography can be a difficult area for men to traverse because it’s something we’re incredibly shameful of. Most men don’t even want to admit they view porn. It’s also a common thing for men to struggle with, especially in our younger years when feelings of arousal are high but …

I try to be purposeful with the guests who come on the Manfulness podcast. The men I look for are doing something different, who are courageous and sharing parts of themselves that are usually hidden. People who role model a different way that manhood can express itself. Today’s guest Christian O’Connel is definitely one of those men. He’s recently…

I’ve had many men come to me in sessions who want to improve their life but have no experience working on themselves. It’s a harmful block that prevents many people from reaching the life they desire. We all face challenges in our lives that shape us but the outlook we hold determines how much control we can take over our own lives. People tend to …

Making decisions is a natural part of life. We make hundreds of decisions every day, what we’re going to wear or eat for dinner. We also make bigger decisions over our lifetime like where we’re going to live, what we’ll do for a living, or who we want to be with. These bigger choices often cause us trouble because we can often fool ourselves into t…

Some people are charged with energy when they spend time with people, others find themselves drained no matter how much they enjoy it. As an introvert, if I spend too much time in a social situation it can become too much and I’ll start shutting down. I become moody, grumpy, critical and I know I need to leave the situation asap. As a nurturer, I l…

In today’s episode I want to talk about something that affects everyone, limiting beliefs. Limiting beliefs are thoughts you continuously have so often they begin to structure your reality. In the early years of a child’s development their brains are very susceptible to the environment around them. The situations we are born into, parents, brothers…

Last week I ran my first manfulness masterclass just for men. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but haven’t been able to until this year. I was incredibly nervous about running this class because I wasn’t sure how many men would open up or even show up. Many men are ashamed to work on themselves, there’s embarrassment to reach out fo…

Women are often at a loss for how to help a man in their life to begin to work on themselves. Their efforts can be met with him becoming defensive, shutting her out, or even aggression. Most men struggle to open up about their situation and struggles, so this discussion needs to be done with care. You’re not going to get a man to do anything by for…

When we’re in an argument with someone and we start using phrases like, “You never support me. You always put me down. You never listen to me…” If we really thought about it before coming into the conversation, how much truth is there to those statements? Does the person really never do what you’ve said, or is this a generalisation that you’re maki…

How do we help men open up? I get asked this question a lot from women waiting for the man in their life to talk about their feelings. Often out of frustration, women start nagging to get their man to share more about their inner world and needless to say, nagging isn’t the answer.In this episode, I talk about how you can help the man in your life …

I've crashed Erika's episode this week as it was such a good conversation and I wanted to share it with you guys here too.We got a lot of questions from you all about how Erika and I set our goals and intentions for each new year, and we wanted to give you the actionable steps that we take to refine how we want to approach a new year. In this episo…

What I’ve noticed through the work that I do, especially when I’m working with couples is that the female of the relationship is good at dreaming big, setting goals, thinking about all the things that could be achieved, and the male in the relationships is more rigid. Men struggle to dream and they almost assign themselves the role of being the rat…

As we come towards the end of 2020 after what has been a very strange year, I wanted to share with you the questions that I like to ask myself at the end of every year. I think it’s important to ask yourself questions so that you’re able to push towards the life that you want to create for yourself and those around you over the next 365 days.So tod…

The way I was brought up was that in order to get money, you needed to work really, really hard. You needed to get a good education and then find a job where you could work your way up, work hard and the result would be lots of money. I tried that for a long time and it never really worked out very well. Not because I wasn't earning enough, but bec…

I have something on my mind that's bothering me, and to be honest I don't have the answer to it. But I feel it's important to voice these thoughts and perhaps start up a discussion.What's triggered me is I saw a post the other day about Harry Styles wearing a dress on the cover of Vogue and the backlash that was received. There were comments effect…

I have another interview coming up for you today and I have to say, I’m loving these sessions. It’s so great to connect with other men and have those deeper conversations. On the podcast today I’m joined by Tim Morrison. I’ve been following Tim for some time and I have been very impressed with the incredible work he is doing for men in the personal…

At the moment I'm seeing a lot of the same patterns through the work that I'm doing with my clients. A topic that seems to be a common struggle is boundaries, or the lack thereof. It got me thinking about the fact that as men, we're generally pretty easy going. We don't tend to think too hard about creating space for ourselves or our deeper needs. …

This is part two of my chat with Adam Edwards. If you're just tuning in now, I highly recommend starting with part one so that you get the full picture of who Adam is, what he's been through and what he has been able to achieve for himself and for those he's worked with.I absolutely love chatting to Adam and I'm thrilled to have him on the Manfulne…

I used to be out and partying all the time in my hey day and during that time, I came across Adam Edwards. he owned a bars and clubs throughout Melbourne and I always found him to be really genuine, kind and a great person to be around. You can imagine, in the world of clubbing you come across a lot of superficial people, a lot of bad behaviour and…

Welcome back to the second part of my chat with Dr Jimi. If you're tuning in now, I would suggest going back and listening to part 1 first (my previous episode) so that you get the full picture of our chat! Sign up for my free meditation course hereFollow me over on Instagram here Where to Find Dr JimiFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJimiWollum…

This was a really interesting conversation and I'm thrilled to introduce you to my guest today, Dr Jimi.Jimi is not a GP or an MD but a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is one of those rare individuals that is an expert in his field that also knows how to teach others. He has spoken at the United Nations, opened for Deepak Chopra and has …

You may not know this about me, but I am a massive fan of horror movies. I believe it dates back to that Michael Jackson film clip for his song Thriller which was really iconic at that time. There is an interesting side to this horror genre that I wanted to talk about today. If you’ve seen horror films before, you’ll know they follow a pretty simil…

We often talk about how men struggle with expressing their emotions. Or that they don't have the broad range of emotions that perhaps our female counterparts do. That we don't feel as much, we're not as sensitive and we don't really need to work on ourselves. I'm calling bullshit on that. I believe Men are sensitive beings with just as much emotion…

I’ve never been that great at playing video games. My brother on the other hand, was a massive gamer. He was really good at figuring them out, and could sit there for hours really going deep into them. I’ve always loved them though and recently we bought a Nintendo Switch for the family to enjoy together. We bought a game that I remembered as a kid…