

Man Within Podcast
Sathiya Sam
Ready to experience a life of confidence, success, and integrity? The Man Within Podcast is the world’s #1 podcast for helping men achieve their fullest potential. We provide principles, tools, and practical insights to help professional men unlock their potential and develop a bulletproof inner life. If you want thriving relationships, a strong connection with God, and freedom from personal struggles, this podcast is for you.
I am Sathiya Sam, your host, a world-renowned coach, international speaker, and author. I specialize in helping professional men achieve long-term success and freedom. My signature program, DeepClean™, has helped athletes, doctors, pastors, executives, and entrepreneurs overcome personal challenges by resolving the root issues.
Join us on The Man Within Podcast to explore new topics, gain valuable insights, and become the best version of yourself.
I am Sathiya Sam, your host, a world-renowned coach, international speaker, and author. I specialize in helping professional men achieve long-term success and freedom. My signature program, DeepClean™, has helped athletes, doctors, pastors, executives, and entrepreneurs overcome personal challenges by resolving the root issues.
Join us on The Man Within Podcast to explore new topics, gain valuable insights, and become the best version of yourself.
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Apr 19, 2023 • 14min
524 - Money Management and Internet Porn: Why Stewardship Is Vital For Recovery
This unique episode discusses the connection between how we manage money and how it reflects our experience of recovery. Using personal examples, Sathiya explains 2 major lessons around money he has been learning:
1) Systems are everything
2) There's no such thing as spending, and how application of these principles in a recovery context is critical for long-term success.
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Apr 18, 2023 • 12min
523 - Is Freedom In Jesus Enough?
Today's episode explores the usage of theological truth in a recovery context. While statements like "Jesus is enough for me" are absolutely true, they can be misused to mask fear, insecurity, and pride. This episode will give you perspective on how to know if you are really trusting and leaning into God in your recovery, or if you are simply ignoring solutions in front you in the name of "Jesus being enough"
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Apr 17, 2023 • 15min
522 - Combatting Complacency
Complacency is often the result of 1 of 2 things: tiredness or hopelessness. Today's episode explains how to find the main cause of your complacency, which in turn provides clarity on what you will need to do to "snap yourself" out of a funk.
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Apr 14, 2023 • 12min
521 - Trigger Diggers: Quickest Way To Get To The Roots
This extremely practical episode provides a look into Trigger Diggers – a DeepClean concept that draws connections between everyday triggers and root issues. By effectively using this process, you will get crystal clarity on your root issues in a matter of minutes, while also having an idea of what the solutions might be to move forward in your recovery.
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Apr 13, 2023 • 58min
520 - Nate Larkin on How Seminary Worsened His Addiction, Why Accessibility Trumps Accountability, and The Unmistakable Link Between Trauma & Addiction
Nate Larkin is a recovered porn and sex addict, the founder of the Samson Society, and the author of Samson and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood. As of 2023, more than 500 local Samson Society groups have started and thousands of men from around the world are attending daily online video meetings at samsonsociety,org.
In this interivew, Nate and Sathiya discuss:
-Porn is a maladaptive response to trauma
-How a seminary trip to New York brothels with his wife made things much worse
-The somatic response in a unique moment of high danger and high pleasure creates a "bookmark" (memory)
-In a tug of war between the head and the heart, the heart always wins
-The emotional disconnect with wife (Allie) as addiction worsened
-Porn programs you for prostitution
-Retiring from ministry at 30 due to addiction
-Being who you are outside of the church is harder than being who you are inside the church
-Experiencing freedom through community
-The moment that changed everything in his recovery
-Recovery is learning to walk; you may fall down along the way
-Relapse in recovery is not necessary but it is normative
-Have realistic expectations of recovery: This is a process;
-Rookie mistakes to avoid when you start recovery
-Why ACCESSIBILITY is superior to accountability
-Progressive healing isn't any less miraculous
Learn more about Samson Society
Read Samson and the Pirate Monks book
Read Unbroken Brain – Maia Szalavitz
Book A Call With Sathiya's Team

Apr 12, 2023 • 14min
519 - Easy Growth Hack: Do The Hard Things First
Today's episode dives into the importance of doing the hard things first, rather than delaying them. Often when we fail to do the things we KNOW we should be doing, we set ourselves up for pain, hardship, and elongated dysfunction.
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Apr 11, 2023 • 13min
518 - Identity First, Then Behavior
The world would like you to believe that your identity is determined by your behavior, but in the Kingdom of God, your behavior is determined by your identity. This episode explains why you must know your identity through and through, and how to deepen your belief in what God says about you even when you don't really believe it.
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Apr 10, 2023 • 15min
517 - Defeating Nice Guy Syndrome One ”No” At A Time
Many men struggle with chronic people-pleasing, or Nice Guy Syndrome as Dr. Robert Glover calls it. While seemingly harmless, this insidious persona leads to relationship dysfunction, low self-esteem, and chronic stress — a receipe for disaster if you are in recovery. Today's episode explains how to overcome Nice Guy Syndrome through a Biblical lens, so that you can become the man God has made you to be.
Listen to Episode 490 - Robert Glover on Nice Guy Syndrome, 3 Covert Contracts Nice Guys Make, and How To Heal
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Apr 7, 2023 • 15min
516 - Easiest Place To Start In Recovery (Alone)
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is just getting started – recovery is no exception. Today's episode provides practical ways that ANYONE can get started on the recovery process, whether they want to do it alone, with a professional or in a community.
Join DeepClean Inner Circle
Get a FREE copy of my bestselling book, The Last Relapse
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Apr 6, 2023 • 1h 1min
515 - Dr. Sheri Keffer on Being A Medic, Not A Mechanic, How Men Can Help Their Spouses Heal, and Why Honesty Is The Best Policy
Dr. Sheri Keffer is a regular cohost of the nationally syndicated radio talk show New Life Live! with an audience of more than two million people each week. For over twenty-two years, she’s worked as a Doctor of Marriage and Family therapy in Newport Beach, California. Dr. Sheri is also the Founder of BraveOne.com, helping betrayed spouses heal from their trauma.
In this conversation with Sathiya, they discuss:
-What it means to be "trauma-squared"
-The definition of real intimacy
-Being married to a sex addict
-Spiritualizing can be a form of denial
-Self-deception is just as dangerous as deceiving others
-What is worse - infidelity or lying about it?
-How NOT to start the betrayal trauma convo
-The mechanic vs the medic
-Dr. Sheri issues a challenge to all the listeners
-Beware of gaslighting
-Qualities of a man that can help his woman heal
Check out BraveOne Community
Read Intimate Deception: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal
Follow Dr. Sheri on Instagram
Book A Time With Sathiya's Team