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Living Fearless Today

Living Fearless Today

著者: Mike Forrester
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You swore you'd be a different kind of father than the one who raised you. Then one day you caught his words and tone coming out of your mouth. You felt the same distance creep in at home, and wondered how much of him you're still carrying despite the promise you made to yourself. Living Fearless Today is a podcast for men who are done repeating the patterns they grew up with. Host Mike Forrester has stood where you're standing. Every week he brings honest conversations and practical tools for the parts of a man's life that rarely get said out loud: the father wound you never named, the anger that shows up with the people you love most, the marriage that's gone quiet, and the man you still want to become. The show helps you understand the past that shaped you. Then you take an honest look at where you stand today as a husband, a father, and a man. From there you start building the future you actually want, one choice at a time, instead of drifting into the one you were handed and currently living out. Episodes cover identity, anger, shame, marriage and fatherhood, relationships, self-worth, courage, emotional intelligence, legacy and purpose, and the brotherhood that the vast majority of men are missing. If you've looked for how to break generational cycles, face a father wound, handle anger as a dad, or become a better husband and father, start here. The cycle can end with you. Press play and take the first step toward becoming the man you needed when you were young.Copyright 2026 Mike Forrester 人間関係 個人的成功 子育て 社会科学 自己啓発
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  • Overwhelmed? How to Get Unstuck When Everything Feels Urgent with John Mollura
    2026/10/06
    When everything feels urgent and nothing moves, the way through overwhelm is to stop and choose the next right action. John Mollura spent years as an operations engineer leading field testing for NASA and the US military. His work took him from Antarctica to England. His team’s job was to find out what happens when a system actually has to do its job. Now he’s the author of Let It Fly, written for capable men who’ve done hard things and suddenly can’t execute. He honestly shares that he doesn’t have it all figured out. He wrote the book from mistakes he made in his own life. While finishing it, he caught himself researching ISBN numbers instead of doing the final proofread. You probably know the feeling, doing something interesting instead of the highest value task. The list keeps growing, and you start asking yourself whether you’re just lazy.John walks through his HITS framework for those moments. Halt, identify what’s immediately important, take intentional action, and set a specific deadline. John explains the static loop. You wait for clarity, polish what you have, and blame yourself while more work piles up. He shares General Colin Powell’s 40/70 rule for making a decision with partial information. He separates perfectionism from excellence. Excellence means doing your best with the time, money, and resources you have. He names four navigators that steer you under pressure, the drifter, the blamer, the critic, and the seeker. And he shows how to separate the data, what a camera would record, from the drama you add on top. At work, that means a client who goes quiet stops becoming a story about your whole career.The turn comes when Mike admits that in the middle of overwhelm, the last thing he feels is confidence. John answers with a formula he built as a recovering engineer. Action plus bravery equals confidence. Bravery means acting while you’re scared, so the fear you feel is what makes bravery possible. John also talks about giving yourself grace. Driving yourself with your inner critic can work for a while, and then it leaves you exhausted. As a father of three teenagers, he knows his kids are watching how he handles pressure. This one is for the dad with kids still at home who feels buried under everything on his list. He wants his kids to learn to handle pressure by watching him do it well.What You’ll Learn In This Episode:Use the HITS framework to pick the one thing that matters next when everything on your list feels urgent.Recognize the static loop of waiting, polishing, and self-blame that keeps you stuck while the pile grows.Separate the data from the drama when a client goes quiet or a plan falls apart, before the story in your head takes over.Spot which of the four navigators is steering you under pressure, and ask “what’s my 1%?” to take your power back.Build confidence by acting while you’re scared, using the 40/70 rule instead of waiting to have all the answers.Show your kids how to handle pressure by how you respond to yours at home.The key moments in this episode are:00:03:07 - Why not all action is progress00:06:20 - How to figure out what matters when everything feels important00:07:05 - The HITS framework for cutting through overwhelm00:11:44 - Why you need to get your to-do list out of your head00:13:01 - How your kids learn to handle pressure by watching you00:14:19 - What the static loop is and how it keeps you stuck00:21:31 - Why your inner critic burns you out00:22:38 - The difference between perfectionism and excellence00:26:42 - How to build confidence when you feel scared00:29:01 - The 40/70 rule for making decisions without all the information00:31:31 - The drifter, the blamer, the critic, and the seeker00:38:30 - How to separate the facts from the story in your headWhether you’re snapping at the kids over nothing or your wife feels more like a roommate than a partner, your family is living with a man you swore you’d never become. Grab the free guide at https://themantheysee.com and see what they see when you walk through the door.Your kids are inheriting more than your money, right now they're inheriting your patterns. Grab the free audit at yourlegacyaudit.com to see what you're passing down to them.Connect with John MolluraWebsitehttps://johnmollura.com/Book - Let It Flyhttps://johnmollura.com/let-it-fly-bookLinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/john-molluraInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/john_mollura/Connect with Mike ForresterPodcast Websitehttps://LivingFearlessTodayPodcast.comCoaching Websitehttps://www.hicoachmike.com/LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hicoachmike/Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@hicoachmikeFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hicoachmikeInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hicoachmike
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    48 分
  • The Real Signs of Low Testosterone in Men with Dr. Stephan Neff
    2026/09/29
    Low testosterone in men shows up as fatigue, brain fog, low drive, and diminished function in the bedroom, but a single blood test can't tell you whether yours is truly low. Dr. Stephan Neff, a functional medicine doctor and a returning guest, joins me to pull that story apart. He describes the man he sees over and over, tired but wired, carrying stress he's grown so used to that he no longer feels it, sure that this heavy, flat version of himself is just what getting older feels like. Neff's point is that low testosterone works like a warning light on the dash, and the stress a man has been friends with for many years is usually sitting right underneath it.From there Stephan walks through what a real blood workup looks like, and why so many men get handed testosterone they may not need. He explains free testosterone versus total testosterone, that SHBG can lock the hormone up like passengers stuck on a bus, and the LH and FSH readings that tell a good doctor whether the problem starts in the brain or the body. He clears up the old fear that testosterone drives prostate cancer, tracing it back to a single misread case from the 1940s. Then he gets practical about what quietly drains a man's levels...poor sleep, chronic stress rerouting hormones toward survival, alcohol, ultra-processed food, plastics and mold toxins that behave like estrogen in the body. What he keeps coming back to is how much of this a man can move on his own, through better sleep, thirty minutes of daily movement, real strength training, a Mediterranean diet, and cutting back on alcohol.Underneath all the biology is a reframe Stephan have been living and teaching for years, that a man is no more a victim to what his body is doing than to the home he grew up in. Neff drives it home with something as ordinary as a twenty-minute walk with your wife a few times a week, one habit that lowers stress, steadies your metabolism, and quietly rebuilds a marriage at the same time. You are in control, he keeps saying, even when everything feels stacked against you. If you want to go deeper, Dr. Neff works with men on the mental and emotional side at neffinspiration.com and on the physical and clinical side at nefffunctionalmedicine.com. This is for the man who's been checking off too many boxes, no drive, no energy, foggy, lower desire for his wife, half-convinced he's the only one, and ready to hear that he isn't and that he can actually do something about it.What You'll Learn In This Episode:Recognize the silent signs of low testosterone, the fatigue, brain fog, and missing drive that most men chalk up to age or stressSee why one testosterone number means almost nothing, and what the fuller panel actually measuresUnderstand how poor sleep, chronic stress, alcohol, and everyday toxins quietly pull your levels downWalk through the ordinary changes that can lift your testosterone 30 to 40% in a monthLearn why strength and muscle matter so much for a man's hormones, energy, and driveTake back the sense that you're in control of your own body instead of at the mercy of itThe Key Moments In This Episode Are:00:03:14 - The silent signs of low testosterone most men miss00:05:22 - Does testosterone cause prostate cancer, and where that fear began00:06:24 - Why a single testosterone reading tells you almost nothing00:07:15 - Free testosterone versus total testosterone, and why SHBG matters00:09:16 - The blood panel a good doctor runs before treating you00:15:35 - How poor sleep quietly drops your testosterone00:16:24 - How stress reroutes your hormones away from testosterone00:17:56 - The everyday plastics and toxins working against you00:21:04 - How to raise your testosterone naturally with food and movement00:24:47 - The 20-minute walk that helps your marriage and your hormones00:36:13 - Why Dr. Neff treats the man, not the lab valueWhether your anger blows up in the kitchen or burns quietly on the drive home, it's running a pattern you inherited. Take the free quiz at whatsbehindyouranger.com and see which one you're carrying.Your kids are inheriting more than your money, right now they're inheriting your patterns. Grab the free audit at yourlegacyaudit.com to see what you're passing down to them.Connect with Dr. Stephan NeffWebsitehttps://neffinspiration.com/https://nefffunctionalmedicine.com/Connect with Mike ForresterPodcast Websitehttps://LivingFearlessTodayPodcast.comCoaching Websitehttps://www.hicoachmike.com/LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hicoachmike/Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@hicoachmikeFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hicoachmikeInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hicoachmike
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    45 分
  • There's Gotta Be More Than This, Finding Your Purpose with Adam Landrum
    2026/09/22
    Finding your purpose often starts with a sentence a man can't shake when he feels stuck, "there's gotta be more than this". Executive coach and author Adam Landrum has built his work around helping men answer what comes next. He faced this challenge firsthand. Adam founded his agency, Up and Up, and ran it for 22 years, which was long enough that it felt like an expression of his own values and beliefs. A coach had already helped him see the company wasn't his identity, but knowing that didn't make selling it at 49 years old any easier. Two months before the sale his mother passed away, and just before that he'd lost his dog. His head knew the difference between those losses and a business, but his heart didn't. He sold on Halloween, and by the middle of December he struggling and wasn't in a good place.What moved him forward wasn't a strategy. It was time, simply letting himself mourn something that mattered instead of fighting the sadness. Adam tells Mike about an earlier blow, when a key person in his company betrayed him. A mentor told him it was his first betrayal, and Adam spent months bitter, feeling blindsided and helpless. Forgiveness got him unstuck, forgiving without forgetting, and so did owning his part in how he'd set things up. Years later, his own executive coach introduced him to the drama triangle from The Power of TED, where we play the victim, the persecutor, or the rescuer. That's where he learned that the opposite of a victim is a creator. The shift from reacting to his life to creating it now shapes what he calls repurpose coaching. He now works much of his time from his cabin, where he also spends two days a week alone to think and write.For the man still in the thick of it, Adam's advice is to start now rather than waiting for these questions about life consume you in your late 40s. Build self-awareness first, with a tool like the Enneagram, and remember that you aren't your personality. Your personality is merely an operating system that runs on autopilot unless you choose differently. A lesson he learned as a Type 8 Challenger who spent his 30s like a bull in a china shop. Develop a centering practice like meditation so you can live from a place of calm, and start working out your purpose while you still have years to live it. His book, The Life That Matters, lays out 11 principles with a workbook, so your values, strengths, purpose, and goals end up in one place instead of collecting dust on a shelf. Mike's take is that it's never too late, but the time is now. If your calendar's been running you for years and the job that once fit now feels like resistance, Adam's story says you don't have to wait until the kids are gone to find out what's next.What You'll Learn In This Episode:Recognize the two questions men ask after decades in the same career, "there's gotta be more than this" and "okay, what's next," and why a midlife crisis is often a man fighting that wake-up callSee why leaving a business, a career, or a title can hit like grief even when you know it was never who you areUnderstand the drama triangle and how moving from victim to creator changed the way Adam handled betrayalLearn why forgiveness and owning your part, no more and no less, are what break the bitterness after someone you trusted lets you downWalk through three things a man in his 30s can start now so the second half of life doesn't blindside himSee why purpose is the cornerstone of fulfillment, and how to keep it in front of you instead of forgetting the work you've doneThe Key Moments In This Episode Are:00:01:47 - Selling his agency and building a second half without the grind00:04:57 - Focus days and clarity breaks, making time to think in your busiest years00:08:40 - Losing your identity when you leave the business you built00:11:21 - How to grieve the end of a career and move forward00:13:15 - Rebuilding trust after betrayal by someone you trusted00:17:24 - The drama triangle and moving from victim to creator00:19:37 - Why retirement is dead and growth never really stops00:23:03 - "There's gotta be more than this," the questions men ask at midlife00:24:58 - What men in their 30s can do now to prepare for midlife00:29:33 - The Life That Matters and why purpose is the cornerstone of fulfillment00:35:21 - Does a life that matters look the same for every manWhether your anger blows up in the kitchen or burns quietly on the drive home, it's running a pattern you inherited. Take the free quiz at whatsbehindyouranger.com and see which one you're carrying.Your kids are inheriting more than your money, right now they're inheriting your patterns. Grab the free audit at yourlegacyaudit.com to see what you're passing down to them.Connect with Adam LandrumWebsitehttp://www.madetomatter.coachLinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlandrum/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/madetomatter_/Connect with Mike ForresterPodcast Websitehttps://LivingFearlessTodayPodcast.comCoaching Websitehttps://www.hicoachmike.com/...
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    40 分
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