The Great Man Within
Dominick Quartuccio and Bryan Stacy
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The Great Man Within
05/18/20 • 58 min
#123: If this is your very first time discovering The Great Man Within podcast – or if you’re a man who’s just recently hopped aboard this train – this episode is for you.
In this episode:
- What does “The Great Man Within” mean?
- What are the key characteristics of being a Great Man?
- What is the #1 enemy to living a powerful life?
- What is “inner work” and why is it essential for living a life of Purpose?
- Who are Bryan and Dominick (fyi, we’re your co-hosts)
- What are some of our most popular episodes?
- What benefits can you expect from listening
- Where to find all of our recommended book lists and guided meditations
Resources
Our Website: www.DoInnerWork.com Free Downloads: https://www.doinnerwork.com/resources
Start With These 2 Episodes
Episodes on Purpose
- DESIGN THE NEXT YEAR OF YOUR LIFE
- HOW TO DESIGN THE NEXT DECADE OF YOUR LIFE (PART 1)
- 3 STEPS TO STOP DRIFTING AND TAKE COMMAND OF YOUR LIFE
Episodes on Masculinity
- JOHN WINELAND - THE ART OF MASCULINE LEADERSHIP
- MAN TALK WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL MEN’S COACH (FEAT. JOHN O’CONNOR)
- CALLING FOR A MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH REVOLUTION FEAT. SAM WEBB
- INTERVIEWING MY COACH AND GUIDE: DAVID WALDAS
- MODERN MANHOOD WITH CLEO STILLER
- BREAK THESE 5 RULES OF "MASCULINITY"
Episodes on Sexuality
- THE MAKING OF A SEX ADDICT (PART 1): DOMINICK'S 4 YEARS IN SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS
- LISA ANN PART #1: WHAT THE PORN INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
- KEEPING SEX AND DESIRE BURNING DURING COVID FEAT ALEXA MARTINEZ
- HOW TO LAST LONGER IN BED: 5 PRACTICES
- HOW TO TAKE THE NO PORN CHALLENGE
- HOW TO KEEP YOUR DICK HEALTHY PART 1 (FEAT. DR AMY KILLEN)
- PORN: DOMINIC...
The Good Will Hunting Syndrome
The Great Man Within
04/01/20 • 8 min
#84: I see too many Good Will Huntings running around:
- Wildly intelligent men...
- Quick on the draw with opinions and criticism...
- Who never step into the arena to do the inner work.
As Brene Brown says:
“If you’re not also in the arena getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.”
– Brene Brown
This is a call to the men who are in the arena, doing the inner work.
Modern Manhood (Recorded Live at Discerning Dick, feat Cleo Stiller) Part Two
The Great Man Within
12/05/19 • 42 min
#51: This is the second installment of the two part series on Modern Manhood – filmed live at our Discerning Dick: Sexual Wisdom for the Modern Man event here in NYC.
Now if you’re one of those weirdos who’s listening to Part Two without having listened to Part One, Modern Manhood is the name of the book written by Cleo Stiller, an Emmy and Peabody nominated reporter.
Modern Manhood tackles conversations about the complicated world of being a good man today.
This episode was filmed in front of a live audience of about 70 men and women. This was our 11th such event and I’ve gotta say it ranks right up there for both me and Bryan as an all-time favorite because the audience was just lit up to discuss and debate these issues.
So in this episode, we extra deep into the following arenas:
- Why locker room talk, the lowest common denominator of male bonding, serves as a gender divisive and unfortunately effective method of connection between men (and how we change that)
- Why our masculinity is constantly being tested... including a recent example of when one-testicle Bryan was told to “grow a pair” for not having a beer
- Why men’s worst behaviors are “tragic expressions of unmet needs,” as one of our guests, Shai, said.
- And an emotional moment for me, and many women in the room, where I read a Step 9 letter...which is an apology letter I wrote during my time in Sex Addicts Anonymous to a woman who I’d sexually objectified over a 10 year period of my life.
How to Last Longer in Bed – 5 Practices
The Great Man Within
10/28/19 • 66 min
#43: This is an episode that you fellas have been asking Bryan and I to record for quite some time now.
As guys, we’ve all been in the situation where we’ve gotten too excited, popped off too early much to the dismay of ourselves and our partners.
And if you’ve never experienced popping off too early, I think I speak on behalf of all men when I say:
We hate you.
For the rest of us...
This conversation is about bringing you 5 practical practices that can help you command and consciously direct your sexual energy...
...so you and your partner can play as long (or as short) as you’d like.
What This Conversation Isn’t- NOT about how to become a better ego-driven sexual “performer”
- NOT about giving you some sort of power to hold above your partner’s head
- NOT about leveraging hacks/techniques that disconnect you from your partner (ie. Not “going out with a loaded gun,” dulling your senses with booze, distracting yourself with thoughts of baseball or Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day during sex, etc...)
These three reasons are in ascending order of importance:
Reason # 1: Building Confidence (about you)
- Get out of your head and into your body
- Establish command of and direct your sexual energy
- Evoke your choice for when (and if ) you want to release
Reason #2: Forging Connection (about us)
- Break your predictable patterns of sex and explore new terrain together
- Deeply attune to her arousal triggers and help her uncover new areas of pleasure she can’t access herself
- Become a more trustworthy lover that she feels safe to experiment with and open up to
Reason #3: Accessing Flow (about next-level experience)
- Transcend superficial sex and experience heightened sensation and deep intimacy
- Expand your zones of pleasure (beyond your crotch)
- Lose track of time and self
You can download the 5 Practices Cheat Sheet at www.DoInnerWork.com/5practices
Winning the Battle with the Warrior Within You
The Great Man Within
07/26/21 • 49 min
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Inner work...what does it mean?
That’s a question I get asked all the time, and it’s really quite simple.
Inner work has two components*:
- How do you want to FEEL in your inner world?
- What VALUES guide your life?
When I ask men that first question – how do you want to FEEL in your inner world, many of the responses I get are:
- Powerful
- Purpose Driven
- Confident
- Feel My Fire Burning
To access those feelings, you often call upon your inner warrior – that part of you who moves through life with a purpose and a plan...and won’t be stopped by anyone.
And yet, you probably know what it’s like when you live too much of your life from your warrior: it’s exhausting.
It feels like you’re constantly fighting, grinding, striving, anxiety ridden with no end in sight. So what happens?
You let the pendulum swing to the other extreme. You tell yourself to stop giving a fuck. You let dreams fade. Commitments drop. And you pull back from your own life.
Slowly and surely, you let opportunities slip through your fingers, you start to feel soft, you question your drive, all while the fire slowly burns down...
...and that’s when the self loathing begins and the inner critic puts you on blast.
Soon enough, the guilt kicks you right back to the other end of the spectrum in full warrior mode where you begin the boom bust cycle all over again.
I’ve been there many times, and it’s an exhausting way of living life.
What if there was a less extreme, more efficient way of accessing your Warrior energy on your terms, under your command? How could your life feel without the boom bust cycle, and instead walk a steadier, more intentional middle path where you call the shots on when you dial up and down the Warrior energy in your life?
That requires a new level of awareness, emotional maturity and self command that must be practiced.
In today’s episode, Bryan and I talk about our experiences with that boom bust cycle, and how we’re cultivating that intentional command of where and when we summon the warrior energy in our lives.
Resources:
Warrior’s Creed by Roger Sparks
Stop Trying So Hard. Achieve More by Doing Less TEDx Talk by Bethany Butzer
*Shout out to Bethany Butzer for this definition of inner work. She’s a University of New York at Prague Professor and speaker of the Stop Trying So Hard. Achieve More by Doing Less TEDx Talk which has nearly 2 million views.
Building Your Best Self #9: 12 Book Ideas for Building Your Best Self feat. Juvoni Beckford
The Great Man Within
11/29/21 • 38 min
#276
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Juvoni is a friend of the show and 3rd time guest – an annual tradition we have on downloading his list of best book recommendations.
He’s an impassioned student and teacher of systems that help you create & learn about yourself, others & the world.
Juvoni also loves combining skills to overcome adversity w/ creative intelligence.
Juvoni’s Book Recommendations:
- Letting Go: The Path to Surrender by David Hawkins
- Living from a Place of Surrender by Michael Singer
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Mate
- The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
- The Intellectual Life by O.P. A.G. Sertillanges
Bryan’s Book Recommendation:Love Wins by Rob Bell
Dominick’s Book Recommendations: Turning Pro by Stephen Pressfield The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love by Bell Hooks The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Bonus: The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
Podcast Referenced in This Episode: #266: Money, Sex and Identity (DQ Solo)
Can Psychedelics Change Your Life? A conversation about Ayahuasca and mushrooms w/Keith Bracc
The Great Man Within
09/05/22 • 64 min
#320.
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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER (borrowed from Tim Ferriss, linked here):
The plants and compounds mentioned in this [podcast] are illegal in many countries, and even possession can carry severe criminal penalties. None of this [podcast] constitutes medical advice or should be construed as a recommendation to use psychedelics. There are serious legal, psychological, and physical risks. Psychedelics are not for everyone—they can exacerbate certain emotional problems, and there have been, in very rare cases, fatalities.
7 years ago, when I was first starting to get curious about psychedelics like Ayahuasca, mushrooms, MDMA and LSD...these medicines were very much underground and difficult to access unless you knew someone who knew someone who was in the underground world.
I didn’t even know anyone personally who’d done any psychedelics to talk to about their experiences.
It was also difficult to get access to legitimate resources to educate yourself on the dos, donts and dangers of psychedelic use so you could even determine whether it was right for you.
These days, psychedelics have become part of mainstream conversation. Tim Ferriss has become a prominent champion of responsible psychedelic use. Michael Pollan wrote a category breaking book called How to Change Your Mind, which is now a Netflix documentary series. And speaking of documentaries, there’s been an explosion of those both on the major streaming platforms as well as on YouTube.
Now it seems like everyone is microdosing something these days.
So I thought it would be high time to have a conversation about why psychedelics have played such an important role in my personal growth.
Bryan is sitting out this conversation today, and I’ve brought back my man, Keith Bracci, a semi-regular on this show and a brother I’ve journeyed with a number of times.
In this Episode:
- The 3 most important considerations for taking a safe, responsible psychedelic journey
- Considerations you should make to determine if they are right for you.
- How 15 minutes of a profound psychedelic experience can impact the next 50 years of your life
- How psychadelics can shatter your ego in extremely scary, painful, and eventually empowering ways
- How a single medicine journey can heal decades of trauma
- How responsible journeying can bring back a sense of wonder, awe and childhood delight of the world around you into your life
Turning Criticism into Life-Changing Courage
The Great Man Within
01/11/21 • 43 min
#198:
In Napoleon Hill’s Outwitting the Devil, the devil says:
“One of my cleverest devices for mind control is fear. I plant the seed of fear in the minds of people, and as these seeds germinate and grow, through use, I control the space they occupy.”
Here are the devil’s 6 most effective fears to control the minds of people:
- Fear of poverty
- Fear of criticism
- Fear of ill health
- Fear of loss of love
- Fear of old age
- Fear of death
Note the #2 fear on the list, right behind the fear of poverty: the fear of criticism.
Here are just a few examples of how fear of criticism shrinks your life:
- You don’t put yourself fully “out there” – in business, in love, in self expression
- You don’t go after the role you really want
- You don’t speak up for what you truly believe in
- You don’t take the stages to make your voice heard
- You don’t speak with as much conviction or you dilute your message
- You don’t launch the business or blog you’ve been dreaming of
- You don’t promote your business as fully as you could
- You don’t step into the leadership positions you desire
- You don’t command the money you know you deserve
The Great Man Within You is not impervious to criticism. But he is not immobilized by it.
He refuses to allow his life to be shrunken by external forces. The Great Man Within You always lives from the inside out – relying on his inner compass to guide his life’s actions, even when the outside world seems to be throwing daggers.
I see so many potential Great Men sitting on the sidelines of their own lives because they fear being rocked by criticism that their inner worlds are not yet ready to withstand.
That’s why doing this inner work – and having a community of supportive men who will take the field with you – is essential for you to build the capacity to receive criticism and alchemize it into Courage.
Today, Bryan and I share with you examples about how we’ve been publicly criticized for the work we do...how painful that was for us at first...and how much stronger we are today for building the inner fortitude to handle it.
More importantly, how much freer, fully self-expressed and powerful our lives feel now that criticism no longer has the same crippling effect.
The same power and freedom is at your fingertips. If you are willing to step into the arena with us.
Why You Might Feel Lazy & Unmotivated After Success (DQ Solo)
The Great Man Within
07/03/20 • 21 min
#143: What’s more annoying...
...than feeling lazy and unmotivated after you’ve achieved something?
Been there, brother, been there.
In today’s episode, I share three of the most common themes I see why men feel lazy and unmotivated after achieving success:
- You’re Off Purpose: In achieving your success, you’ve realized that the feeling you were seeking was never to be fulfilled by this pursuit. In other words, you were not aligned with your purpose.
- You Overdid It: In pursuit of success, you pushed yourself beyond your capacity, and now your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies need a break.
- You’re Leveling Up: You’ve fulfilled your purpose in this arena of your life. The drop-off from intensely pursuing your purpose to not knowing the next path can feel steep. David Deida says it beautifully in The Way of the Superior Man:
“A man must be prepared to give 100% to his purpose, fulfill his karma or dissolve it, and then let go of that specific form of living.
He must be capable of not knowing what to do with his life, entering a period of unknowingness and waiting for a vision or a new form of purpose to emerge.”
-DQ
PS - Here is the Prolon 5 Day Fast I talk about on the podcast.
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The Great Man Within currently has 333 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Porn, Sex, Selfhelp, Personaldevelopment, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Relationships, Men and Business.
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The average episode length on The Great Man Within is 39 minutes.
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The first episode of The Great Man Within was released on Jan 11, 2019.
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