What is a Good Life? What is a Good Life? #4 - Two Men's Tales of Therapy with Jindy Mann
On the fourth episode of the “What is a Good Life?” podcast, I am joined by Jindy Mann to discuss both our experiences of therapy.
Jindy is a co-Founder of Leader Brother Son, a group that works with individuals and organisations, with the goal of helping men become better and happier partners, colleagues, fathers, leaders, brothers, sons - and men. Ultimately through having more open, honest, and vulnerable, conversations and engaging with topics men don’t typically discuss. A significant departure from his past lives in Management Consultancy and Banking.
Jindy is also a good mate of mine, and we thought it would be helpful to have a conversation around our experiences with therapy, in part to break down stigma around what therapy is, how it works, what you could expect from it, and to show it’s a normal topic of conversation.
In this podcast we share what was happening in our lives that made us seek therapy, what moments instigated the process, what we wanted to explore or heal, how it started, what surprised us about it, and how our lives have changed for the better because of it.
Running Order:
01:35 Podcast begins
03:10 When did Jindy start going to therapy
05:45 Why Jindy needed therapy
09:10 You seem to be carrying grief
10:00 Why Mark needed therapy
13:00 Tired of faking it (clip)
17:18 Finding a therapist
20:10 Needing someone independent and skilled
24:25 How did your therapy journey begin?
26:15 Letting go and crying
30:00 Dealing with our past and events from childhood
33:00 Using anger as a coping mechanism
35:36 Not knowing how to express feelings
37:00 Speaking in the first-person perspective
41:00 What surprised you about therapy
44:35 It felt good to cry
47:00 Stigma
50:00 How did it affect your relationships?
55:00 Is all vulnerability is good vulnerability?
58:40 Redefining old friendships
1:02:46 The biggest influence of therapy on our lives
1:05:45 What is a good life for Jindy
For further content and information check out the following:
- For clips and video of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife/videos
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- My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
- Leader Brother Son website: https://www.leaderbrotherson.com/
- Jindy's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jindymann/
- Jindy's newsletter: https://jindymann.substack.com/
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