Connection over Coffee with The Loneliness Guy

This episode of ‘Connection over Coffee with The Loneliness Guy’ is for you if you’re struggling to be festive this festive season. The episode is for you if you’re feeling your loneliness right now. Join me for a coffee and a soul-nourishing conversation that supports you at this tough time of year – or at any time of the year. Links: You need my help through your loneliness: www.thelonelinessguy.com/myservices Buy me a coffee to say thanks for the episode: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CYWBF8L89RDK8 Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com Join the mailing list: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe Read ‘Getting you through the festive season’: https://bit.ly/3V6tz2A Join me on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ub1teDxfF4k Contact me: [email protected] Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

COMFORT OR GROWTH? Sooner or later on your journey out of loneliness towards connection, you need to make a decision about what you want. Do you want to be comfortable or do you want growth? It can’t be both. Join me now for Connection Espresso 25 and let’s talk about how comfort feeds your loneliness and growth feeds connection. Come and get that quick shot of connection goodness. Website: https://www.thelonelinessguy.com Get my help through your loneliness: https://www.thelonelinessguy.com/myservices Buy me a coffee to say thanks for the episode: https://bit.ly/3nDMrZm Join the mailing list: https://www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe Join me on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-MNfN7F0zSY Contact me: [email protected] Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

As a society – as a gay community – it's hard to not constantly compare ourselves to each other, to those who are successful and to celebrities. For the gay man who’s experiencing loneliness and a lack of authentic connection, these comparisons can make us feel even more alone and that we don’t belong. It can make us feel like we need to work harder to project an image to the world so we’re also accepted. Comparison really is the thief of joy. Or is it? Join me and Jesse Elkins from Full Sun Fitness and Nutrition for a coffee and join our thought-provoking and inspiring chat about how we can turn these comparisons into sources of inspiration, joy and connection. About Jesse Jesse is the founder and owner of Full Sun Fitness and Nutrition in Charlotte. It’s a personal training and nutrition coaching service for Queer and ally communities near and far. It was born after too many years of experiencing and witnessing wellness challenges and access gaps for Queer Folx. He decided that if he didn’t feel safe or comfortable in many wellness settings, others might not either. Turns out, he was right! Website: www.fullsunfitness.com Instagram: @fullsunfitness Donate to help Trans and BIPOC folx access wellness services: www.fullsunfitness.com/donate Links Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com Join the discussion in the premium subscriber lounge. Subscribe and stay connected: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe Read the blog: https://bit.ly/2GsoII7 Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help Contact me: [email protected] Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

In this must-listen episode, I chat with Calan Breckon from Discovering Your Truth about how we can turn our shame into our ally. We all have shame and it's a POWERFUL behavioural driver for us gay men. Think about it: what would you do to stop the thing your most ashamed of from being discussed and judged freely on social media? Shame can be a key factor in our loneliness. We work so hard to hide it from the world that we never fully show up in our interactions with other humans. But we can turn our shame into our ally and use it to get the real connection we need in life. How? Get a coffee, settle in, press play and listen. About Calan Calan is an award-winning certified Personal Development Coach, writer, and educator based in Toronto. His focus is teaching people how to go from feeling lost, overwhelmed and exhausted by life to being an empowered and confident decision maker and experience what it’s like to finally feel in control without the stress and shame of trying to figure it all out alone. Website: www.discoveringyourtruth.com Facebook: Discovering Your Truth Instagram: @CatchCal Links Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com Join the discussion in the premium subscriber lounge. Subscribe and stay connected: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe Read ‘Shame and loneliness’: https://bit.ly/3jIPsSY Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help Contact me: [email protected] Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

Are you ready to move beyond your loneliness and join me in doing authentic connection in 2021? In 2020, much of my work focused on loneliness: what it is, what it physically, mentally and emotionally does to us gay men, how it makes us behave and how to recognise and accept it. Loneliness is an emotion we’re meant to feel for a short time. It’s not meant to be a permanent state, but so many gay men say that they’re almost always lonely. Join me in this episode of Connection over Coffee with The Loneliness Guy and let’s get you that authentic connection you need and deserve. Links Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com Join the community: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe Read ‘2021: Your year of authentic connection’: https://bit.ly/2Ls3tZs Join us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YszPIHiscu8 Need some help through your loneliness (incl. coaching services and crisis counselling)?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help Contact me: [email protected] Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz