How To Take Other People’s Moods Less Personally (And Help Them Relax About Yours)

What’s the biggest gift you can give your loved ones? Help them to take your bad moods less personally. Thirty years ago, the wisest professor I had at UC Berkeley, Meji Singh, dropped this truth bomb on me: “John, we make the mistake of taking 95% of what other...

The Top 10 Podcasts For Men Looking To Evolve

Top 10 Podcasts Every Man Should Be Listening To (Unless You Enjoy Being Emotionally Constipated) Or, The Top Podcasts for Men Let’s face it — your brain is a hot mess of thoughts, your emotional intelligence was last seen somewhere around 9th grade health class, and...

 The People Pleasing Trap (Part 1 of 3): How to Stop Being Everyone’s Emotional Janitor

By Dr. John Schinnerer How to stop being a people pleaser! Let’s be real –: people pleasing is emotional self-sabotage disguised as kindness. You think you’re being generous. You think you’re the “good guy” (or girl). But underneath all that agreeable surface is...

20+ Huge Regrets Older Men Wish Everyone Knew By Age 30

Old Dudes. Big Regrets. Savage Wisdom Every Young Man Needs to Hear. I’m a big fan of asking our elders the good stuff. Not just “what was gas priced at?” kind of stuff. I mean real, soul-level, holy-crap-why-didn’t-someone-tell-me-this kind of stuff. Partly,...