David Waldy offers transformational brotherhood & elite men’s coaching for ambitious visionaries who refuse mediocrity. Through his brand Fierce Empathy, David helps men understand who they truly are, then take action to become the best version of themselves. In this episode, Sathiya and David talk about what fierce empathy actually means, how to develop it, the problem most men face as they are attempting to grow and develop, practical tools for success, and David's incredible story of transformation by the grace of God. In this episode, we discuss: 0:00 Why you need to listen to this episode 2:39 What is fierce empathy? 6:19 Ask better questions to develop fierce empathy 12:51 The biggest hang up to developing empathy 17:18 Practical ways to give yourself compassion, empathy, and healing 25:14 How to strike the balance between initial excitement and long-term commitment? 35:47 The commonality in men who find success 43:11 David's story of coming close to suicide and how God delivered him --- ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Resources Mentioned: David Waldy Website David Waldy on IG David Waldy on TikTok David Waldy on FB The Ardent Man The Go Giver by Bob Berg Loving What Is by Byron Katie The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

As we help more and more guys quit porn, I've changed my mind on what the hardest part about quitting is. I used to think it was consistency and falling off, and having to get back on the horse (which is still extremely difficult, to be sure). But recently I've noticed that there's a much deeper issue...and if nobody's ever told you about it, you probably won't randomly uncover it and find success. So, let me share with you my new answer to the hardest part of quitting pornography and take what's probably in your subconscious and make it conscious...so you can grow and recover. In this episode, we discuss: 2:04 My OLD answer to this question... 4:33 The one quote that explains my NEW answer 8:02 How to truly recover...embrace the loss! ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Resources Mentioned: Leadership Pain by Samuel Chand Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

This is a HUGE topic today, as the cultural narrative changes regarding attraction, especially as it relates to same-sex attraction and the LGBTQ community. I want to help you unpack an often muddled and confused topic...the difference between desire and arousal. One of them is a natural, God-given thing, and the other can be shaped by your environment in ways that even override those natural desires. Plus, you'll learn the third piece of this puzzle and how to heal and bring everything back into alignment. In this episode, we discuss: 0:43 The difference between desire and arousal 3:07 How to interpret your desires 5:10 Arousal experiences (and how they differ from desire) 9:43 God did not design you incorrectly! ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Resources Mentioned: The Last Relapse (Free Book!) Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

Jake Hamilton is a church planter, a creative entrepreneur, a worship leader, recording artist, and men's movement leader. He trains men to Fight for what matters while destroying shame, depression, addiction, apathy, and isolation. In this conversation, Sathiya and Jake cover a ton of ground from the wake-up call in Jake's life, to "whole life integration" (vs. work life balance), to rites of passage, fatherhood, and what men need to truly transform and become the leaders God made them to be. In this episode, we discuss: 2:25 Jake's story from musician to men's movement leader 8:09 What kind of influence does a leader have to have in your life to be able to deliver a strong, loving, and helpful rebuke? 10:42 Transition and truly putting your family first 19:34 Biblical masculinity and attracting the attention of men who the church often misses 29:47 Rites of passage and initiation tips for dads 39:21 Why men are at the center of fixing marriage, children, and the world 49:00 Opportunities for fathers to step up and lead well 54:19 How men can truly do the work and get the transformation they desire 58:57 How Jake's navigating giving preference to his family in this season of helping men 1:04:20 Whole life integration vs work-life balance --- ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. --- Resources Mentioned: Jake Hamilton Website Jake Hamilton on Instagram The Fight Order Jake's Book "The Journey to Biblical Masculinity" Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

What does productivity have to do with porn recovery? A lot! Porn distracts us, makes us more unproductive, more prone to relating to women unacceptably in the workplace, and generally speaks to a deeper underlying issue that is causing you to literally waste your life. Here are my top 3 tips to become a more productive man and achieve TRUE freedom. In this episode, we discuss: 0:34 Why productivity matters on your recovery journey 2:22 Porn addiction at work has increased 5:15 What productivity really is 6:00 Productivity Tip #1: Learn to regulate 7:56 Productivity Tip #2: Eliminate distractions 10:20 Productivity Tip #3: Get rid of seemingly healthy vices ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Resources Mentioned: The Citizen Article - Porn addiction at work has increased Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

Join us for our another live-coaching episode! We're excited to answer 2 live coaching questions today that are both VERY relevant to almost everyone who listens to this podcast. Submit your questions below by clicking on the Submit Your Questions Here link. Before we get into the coaching, Sathiya and Shawn dive into the ACTUAL steps along their recovery journey that made the most difference. This is one of the most valuable talks you'll hear on this podcast, and we highly encourage you to take notes and apply these 10+ things to your life. Listener questions surround healing from insecurities that lead to unhealthy attachment and a difficulty quitting porn, and what to do to finally break free from a 20+ year addiction when you've tried a whole lot of things but haven't truly become free. In this episode, we discuss: 1:43 10+ Extremely Practical Tips from Sathiya and Shawn's Own Successful Recovery Journeys 16:28 Question 1: How to heal from insecurities around romantic desires and attachments? 25:24 Question 2: How to truly break free after a 20+ year addiction when you've done a ton of work but none of it has had truly lasting results? ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Resources Mentioned: Unwanted by Jay Stringer Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

We run a coaching program to help men break free from pornography addiction, we run a podcast to the same effect, we post on Instagram about it all the time...pretty safe to say we inherently understand and believe porn is bad. Yet as we get more and more chances to speak to people in the "outside" or "secular" world, we're coming across more and more people who are asking us why porn is bad. So, to answer that basic but very important question, we're dropping this episode today to show just HOW bad and harmful pornography is...to those watching and those acting. Let this sink in and really ask yourself whether it's still worth it. In this episode, we discuss: 0:35 What's ACTUALLY bad about porn? 2:54 Reframe...why is porn harmful? 3:20 The negative consequences of porn use 4:50 Physical side effects 6:14 Decreased sexual satisfaction and bad education 7:52 Broken relationship dynamics 8:23 The morality of pornography ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

Daniele Hage is a wife, mom, pastor, podcaster, and speaker on all things relationship. She works with both wives and husbands, spending much of her time on helping women understand men to love them better, in order to build strong marriages. In this episode, we talk about roles in marriage, the power and risks of men's sensitivity, the true weight of responsibility in marriage, how to communicate well with your spouse, healthy sexual intimacy, and more. In this episode, we discuss: 0:00 Introducing Daniele Hage 2:54 Why are men so excited about Daniele's message? 6:49 Are there areas of life where gender roles are non-negotiable? 11:18 How to discern when to submit and when to seek counsel 14:50 Feminism's impact on society 19:36 The truth about male sensitivity 24:47 The (good) weight of responsibility 30:32 How to fix the #1 reported issue in relationships 38:14 How men relate to sex 43:08 What to do if you're in a sexless marriage 51:03 Building and raising strong families ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Resources Mentioned: Daniele Hage on Instagram Daniele Hage Podcast (Apple) Daniele Hage Podcast (Spotify) Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

We make a point to talk about recovering from pornography addiction as being FREE from pornography. Almost all of us seek freedom in various aspects of life, and I want to share a couple of fundamental principles of what freedom actually looks like and how to start to develop it in your life...whether that's in work, time, money, addiction, or any other area of your life. This is both fundamental and practical, and will hopefully fast track your own journey to freedom. In this episode, we discuss: 0:30 How to get freedom in ALL areas of your life 2:19 Sathiya's personal story of addiction and powerlessness 7:02 The 2 core principles of freedom 7:43 Principle 1: Freedom = Options 8:48 Principle 2: Establish Priorities 9:57 Bonus Principle: Surround yourself with people who have freedom in the area you desire 12:31 Start with INNER freedom from vices ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!

Join us for our another live-coaching episode! We're excited to answer a question from a courageous man on the recovery journey, as well as a listener-submitted question. Submit your questions below by clicking on the Submit Your Questions Here link. Before we get into the coaching, Sathiya and Shawn dive into the impact of learning to experience and feel safety in your body in order to defeat old patterns and lies - and the harmful coping mechanisms they lead to, like pornography. They get into why it's important to do the work now to heal your past not just for you, but so that you don't pass these things on to your kids. Listener questions surround learning how to trust God after feeling neglected by Him, and the Biblical basis for using psychology and looking into the emotional roots of addiction. In this episode, we discuss: 2:28 Nervous system regulation and creating safety to get beyond your fears and coping mechanisms 14:47 Heal your fears so you don't pass them on to your kids 21:36 Question 1 (LIVE): How to truly make God my joy, instead of putting all the pressure on my wife? (Especially after recent slip ups after 1+ year sober) 31:34 Follow up: Grew up feeling neglected by God in a charismatic church...how do I ask Him for strategies when I don't feel the closeness? 36:10 Question 2: What's the biblical grounding of looking at the emotional roots to heal and become free from porn? ✅ FREE "QUIT-PORN" CASE STUDY VIDEO: Learn the system that has helped HUNDREDS of men around the world realize their potential, restore their relationships, and reconnect with God. Resources Mentioned: How Attachment Affects Your Relationship With God Podcast Episode (Apple) Get Your Question Answered: ❓ Submit Your Question Here LET'S CONNECT ➡️ Free Recovery Resources from Sathiya ➡️ Follow Sathiya on Instagram ➡️ Watch on YouTube Please subscribe and review on Apple or Spotify!