#321. Get free daily Anti-Drift Texts Click Here  (once you click the link, press “send” to text the keyword to me to get the daily texts) (These texts will also notify you of upcoming Masterclasses) Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ In this Episode: How to remember – and apply – more of what you read to upgrade your life A 5 step journaling technique to clarify solutions to complex problems (especially helpful if you have a hard time journaling). The process to break bad habits so they don’t ever come back 

#320. Get free daily Anti-Drift Texts Click Here  (once you click the link, press “send” to text the keyword to me to get the daily texts) (These texts will also notify you of upcoming Masterclasses) Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ 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 

#319. Get free daily Anti-Drift Texts Click Here  (once you click the link, press “send” to text the keyword to me to get the daily texts) (These texts will also notify you of upcoming Masterclasses) Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ In this Episode: Reasons why it’s hard to trust the man sitting on the sidelines of his life 4 reasons men don’t go for 100% of what they want How to build the courage to get into the arena Why lone wolves sit on the sidelines more than men in community 

#318. Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Join the Great Man Mastermind: https://www.dominickq.com/masterminds/the-digital-mastermind Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ Re-Origin Website: https://re-origin.com Re-Origin on Instagram: @reorigin_official  The Stoic philosopher Epictetus said: “No man is free who is not master of himself.”  No man can master himself, without mastery of his own brain and mind.  So I have a question for you: 
What tools and practices are you intentionally employing on a consistent basis to develop mastery of your mind? To help you answer that question, we’re going to be diving deep into one specific superpower of the brain: neuroplasticity: The brain’s ability to change, reorganize and grow over time.  For that growth and change to happen on your own terms, you have to play an integral role. And to help teach you how to play that role masterfully, we have Ben Ahrens, co-founder of Re-Origin, an online brain training program to help people reclaim their health by rewiring their brain. In fact, Re-Origin is the program that I’ve been using to rewire my brain as I’m healing from Lyme Disease…a chronic illness that Ben knows even more intimately than I…as he spent 3 years bedridden with Lyme Disease…his body in a constant state of hypervigilant fight or flight response… …and the only way he could make his way back to full health, was to reclaim authority over a brain that had been hijacked by fear. In this episode: How to train the brain to take “threats” and instead experience them as “challenges” How neuroplasticity training is different from meditation The neurobiology of flow state – peak performance  How to sustain motivation without the burnout Exercises you can do to develop mastery over your brain

#316. Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Interview for the Great Man Mastermind: https://www.dominickq.com/masterminds/the-digital-mastermind Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ Our first episode on porn in over 18 months! In this episode: Can porn play a healthy part of a man’s sex life? What are the downstream effects of too much porn use? How do you know when you’re watching too much porn? Are you using porn to medicate and seek relief from emotions? How to identify the triggers that instigate your urge to watch porn Why you need to have a vision for what a “healthy sexy life” looks like for you

#316. Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Join the Great Man Mastermind: https://www.dominickq.com/masterminds/the-digital-mastermind Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ One thing I’ve learned as I’ve played bigger games in my life: Is that the failures get bigger. I think that would only make sense, right? But as I continue to fail, I’ve also learned to fear failure less. 
Which means, I go after 100% of what I want more and more often…and the victories get bigger. Now in our masterminds, I see men at earlier stages of their inner work journey, where fear of failure is still a major inhibitor for going after 100% of what they want in their life. One of the most common themes among men who join our masterminds is this experience of feeling life is good…but not great. They have this deeper sense of knowing that they’re standing on the sidelines of the real games they want to be playing, but are too afraid of the consequences of failing in their pursuit. So in this episode, Bryan and I are going to take a deeper dive into the fear forces that keep you stuck and paralyzed from going after 100% of what you want.  In this episode: Bryan and I are going to share 4 of our Greatest Life lessons from failing big What the Stoics, Napoleon Hill and of course Walter White have to say about failure Why an ego shattered by failure is a beautifully liberating moment Why having a brotherhood allows you to fail bigger (and ultimately, win bigger) The 4 Life Lessons #1. Failure gives you the experience that you can get back up. #2. Failure will either strengthen or shatter your ego. #3. Failing hurts a lot less when you’re in integrity #4. Brotherhood allows you to fail bigger.  

#315. Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Join the Great Man Mastermind: https://www.dominickq.com/masterminds/the-digital-mastermind Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ I see so many men working on themselves, trying so hard to get that thing they want out of life – finding their purpose, starting their own business, learning to love their body, finding romantic love – and routinely falling short of getting what they desire. It's rarely due to a lack of trying. It's certainly not due to a lack of thinking. It's due to lack of awareness of the wounds they’ve endured much earlier in life that caused a shut down of essential parts of their inner world.  Think of it as trying to drive cross country when every major freeway and interstate is barricaded. Its really hard to get where you’re trying to go. In this episode, we’re going to be exploring 3 common masculine wounds that serve as the barricades to you getting where you want to go.  And by exploring them, and ultimately removing them, you’ll be in the fast lane to your destination.  The 3 Common Masculine Wounds: Your emotions weren’t welcome Your differences weren’t accepted You were taught to abandon your inner compass

#314. Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Join the Great Man Mastermind: https://www.dominickq.com/masterminds/the-digital-mastermind Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ Brother let’s get real for a minute:  
We’ve all got a little victim mentality in us.  We’ve all got at least one area of life where we struggle, and not getting the results we want.  Maybe you see others making more money than you. Maybe you see others more successful in love and romance. Maybe you see other guys have the body that you wish you had.  When we’re not getting what we want, its tempting to indulge in the idea the game is rigged against us…and that’s why we’re not winning.  Now that’s not to say you don’t have it harder than others in certain aspects of your life.  We’re all born into different circumstances where things like money, race, physical appearance, sexual orientation and whether you grew up in a loving or broken home create uneven playing fields. And then we have different life experiences where we collect a lot of evidence as to whether the wind is at your sails, or if you’re running with a parachute attached to your back.  So yes, we are all starting from different places, but we don’t have to stay stuck there. As Viktor Frankl says: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” In other words, you have the choice to remain a victim to your circumstances – or to adopt the mindset of a victor.  In this Episode: Why being a victim feels good sometimes Why you shouldn’t pay attention to the evidence  Why motivation isn’t enough to change…and why self-efficacy is your golden ticket What Episodic Future Thinking is…and why 5,000 peer reviewed studies show it’s the #1 practice to develop a sense of self efficacy  A 3 step process from shifting from Victim to Victor mindset

#313: Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Join the Great Man Mastermind: https://www.dominickq.com/masterminds/the-digital-mastermind Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ Jayson Gaddis from Episode #222: How to Cultivate Heat and Handle Conflict in Your Romantic Relationships In this episode: Why your woman challenges, tests and doubts you Why becoming defensive or giving in will erode her trust in you What she needs to feel loved in those moments when she’s testing you How to stand your ground in a loving, compassionate way Why women often seek security from their men, and why men often seek energy from their women

#312. Follow Dominick on Instagram: @DominickQ Interview for the Great Man Mastermind: https://www.dominickq.com/masterminds/the-digital-mastermind Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin __________________________ Every once in a while Bryan and I like to give you a backstage look at what the men of the Great Men Masterminds are working on…because these are the guys doing the intensive inner work…and the results in their lives are undeniable. Today we’re talking about 3 attributes of Great Men…that may not be glamorous…but the men who embody these attributes command a next level amount of respect. In this Episode Why 18 out of 20 highest performing men we know have been to therapy The only type of man Bruce Lee feared Why Kobe Bryant was more willing to fail than his competitors Why trash talk unnerves some people…and focuses others Why your woman will never trust you if she can knock you off your center