The Authentic Man Podcast with David Chambers

This week you get something very different. 

David has been the host of this podcast for 142 episodes (plus all the Mini Episodes), but this week it’s different. 

The podcast has been hijacked by Tyson Adams to get deep into David's story, what it's like being in a relationship with him and what his relationship fears are. 

Tyson Adams is a trauma-informed men's coach, somatic bodyworker and psychedelic facilitator. He's been on the show once before on episode 127, titled - Sex Transmutation, Mindful Masturbation, and Developing a Profound Connection to Yourself.

Key topics include: 

⭐️ Planning A Life Journey & Creating a Family

⭐️ My fears of Parenting & Having Children

⭐️ Commitment fears

⭐️ Being Present as a Father & Parent

⭐️ How we have made our anxious/avoidant relationship work

⭐️ How to Be a Better Partner

⭐️ Having Difficult and Open Conversations With Your Partner

⭐️ Men’s Coaching As a Journey of Self Awareness

⭐️ Why Men work creates better men

⭐️ How to make your Mixed Raced Relationship Work

⭐️ How to get to know your partners' culture

⭐️ Avoidant and Anxious Men - Patterns on The Dating Scene

⭐️ How Couples Coaching transforms your relationship

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/

Men's Programme WaitList: https://forms.gle/TiFR4KycgkNp5zC17 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Newsletter: https://www.theauthenticman.net/home-subscribe 

Connect With Tyson Adams :

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tysonadams__ 

Website: https://www.thriive.life

In this week's mini-episode, I get into what stops men from creating the deep connections they desire on their dates and in their dating lives, which are conversation that doesn't create the spark of connection and lacking presence.

Some of the issues that this episode will help you with:

Conversation issues:

• Not knowing what to say
• Not saying what you want
• Fear of making a mistake
• Fear of upsetting her
• Fear of being boring
• Not listening
• Talking too logically (big point!)
• Only talking about what you do
• Not being brave

Presences issues:

• Overthinking
• Nervous
• Anxious
• Being distracted

Sign up to my pre launch waitlist on my up-and-coming "Being An Authentic Masculine Man AKA B.A.A.M.M": https://forms.gle/tVXNCWgwQePEqznR7 

Female sexuality and menstrual coach and rebirthing breathwork facilitator. Guiding women to come home to their bodies and heal the relationships with their wombs. To ultimately retrain their feminine pleasure and power.

In thie episode, Katie and David dive into a topic that men don’t know enough about, the Female Menstrual Cycle

Key topics include: 

⭐️ Menstrual Cycle, Different Phases of the cycle, and Hormones

⭐️ How to support your partner in these moments 

⭐️ Gender roles and what’s happening in the world

⭐️ Contraception from personal experience 

⭐️ Period Sex 

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Newsletter: https://www.theauthenticman.net/home-subscribe 

Connect With Katie Moore:

Instagram: @iamkatieemoore

Website: katiemoore.co 

1-1 Womb Healing : https://katiemoore.co/breathwork-1  

The Temple Retreat Italy 2024 : https://katiemoore.co/the-temple  

In this week's mini-episode, I get into an idea that I have been thinking about for a while, thanks to an Instagram Story from @attachmentadam. 

I talk about why the red pill community have got dating & relationship right for a particular group of people but why they have got it all very wrong. 

I get into the spectrum of unhealed and insecure dating and relationships on one side and secure and healing on the other and how you can move from one to the other.

Do you want to stop feeling like an impostor?

Jenny Devonshire is a sports and exercise psychologist with a focus on imposter syndrome, performance, building resilience and behaviour change. She has been helping people, organizations and teams succeed for over 8 years and understands the demands that the environment can place on the human body, and just how to keep its delicate systems in balance. 

Key topics include: 

⭐️ Impostor syndrome. How do we overcome it? How do we tame it?

⭐️ Actionable steps to take in your life to beat your imposter syndrome.

⭐️ What causes the feeling of imposter syndrome? What are the common activating events? 

⭐️ How impostor syndrome affects people's dating lives and relationships?

⭐️ We talk about the link between praise and imposter syndrome.

⭐️ The link between masculinity and imposter syndrome

⭐️ How meditation and various kinds of mindfulness techniques can help with impostor syndrome. 

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Newsletter: https://www.theauthenticman.net/home-subscribe 

Connect With Jenny Devonshire:

Instagram - @jennycdevonshire

LinkedIn: - Jenny Devonshire

Personal website - Pause2perform

This week I am joined by Lawrence Price, an esteemed online fitness coach, as he merges mindfulness and breathwork with high-performance training.

In this captivating podcast, Lawrence delves into the power of playfulness as a catalyst for personal growth and enhanced decision-making.

Together, we'll explore the intersection of mindfulness and fitness, creating a sacred space where life force expands, empowering us to thrive in the outside world.

Key Topics Explored:

1. Unveiling the Magic of Playfulness in Your Relationships
2. Playfulness as an Antidote to Conflict and Arguments
3. Discerning the Right Moments for Playfulness
4. Infusing Playfulness into Parenting: Unleashing Joyful Connections
5. Cultivating Playfulness in Your Dating Life: Reimagining Connections
6. Unmasking the Dance Between Playfulness and Depth
7. The Power of Self-Awareness in Embracing Playfulness

Prepare to embark on a transformative journey where mindfulness, playfulness, and self-awareness converge to ignite profound shifts in your relationships, parenting, and personal growth.

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/  
Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/  
For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net  
Newsletter: https://www.theauthenticman.net/home-subscribe 

Connect With Lawrence Price:

Instagram: @LawrencePrice_
Personal website, https://www.lawrenceprice.co.uk/ 
Online Fitness Programme: https://www.lawrenceslifeclub.com/ 

In this week's mini-episode, I talk about why you struggle to figure out your needs and wants & how you can learn what your needs and wants are.

I in the past, found it very hard to know what my needs were and to express what my needs and wants were. So, I cover in this episode the places to look and the questions to ask yourself to learn what your personal and relationships needs and wants are

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net

In this week's mini-podcast, I talk about the idea of finding the perfect woman and the perfect relationship. 

What is perfect? How can you find the perfect or right woman? How do you create the perfect or great relationship? All of these questions are answered in this episode.

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net

Traver Boehm is the author of the books “Today I Rise” and “Man UNcivilized”. He’s a two-time TEDx speaker, men’s coach, and the founder of the UNcivilized Men’s Movement. He’s helped men all over the world to become UNcivilized as they wake up to the power of their hearts, the brilliance of their bodies, and the wisdom of their souls so they can blaze their own path by uniquely blending both the primal and the divine within them.

He is dedicated to doing his part to help end the suffering in men, and the suffering caused by men, by guiding them through their own journey into an actualized version of masculinity.

Key topics include: 

⭐️ Мen's pain, the different elements of men's pain and struggles

⭐️ How we're not alone as men in our struggles

⭐️ Healthy Masculinity and what it looks like 

⭐️ How we can embody healthy masculinity and become safer men to be around

⭐️ Trevor’s idea on how men should be dangerous but not a danger

⭐️ The importance of men supporting and helping each other

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Newsletter: https://www.theauthenticman.net/home-subscribe 

Connect With Traver Boehm:

Instagram: @traverboehm

Website: https://www.manuncivilized.com/

And all podcast platforms at The UNcivilized Podcast with Traver Boehm

In this week's mini-episode, I am going to talk about a subject that I have had to manage and deal with personally, fault-finding and criticism. 

This is something that would overwhelm me in my dating life and relationships in the past and cause me to leave women because I couldn't get over small faults, and I didn't communicate them.

So in this episode, I talk to you about I work with men and how I worked on myself to stop and tune out o the fault finding.

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net

Erika Ettin is the founder of A Little Nudge, the leading online dating coach in the US, and "the new voice of online dating," according to Philly.com. As a very early adopter of online dating, starting in 2001, Erika knew that this then-new way of meeting people seemed promising. Over the years, through online dating herself, she had countless dates, numerous relationships, and stories to last a lifetime.

In this episode, we give you a step-by-step guide from having an empty profile to creating an awesome profile with great pictures and exactly what you need to say to organise your dates confidently.

Key topics include: 

⭐️  What pictures to have on your profile

⭐️ Exactly what to write in your bio

⭐️   Sending great messages that lead to dates

⭐️ We also talk about some of the more emotional parts of dating

⭐️  Why people resist writing their own dating profile and rush through it

⭐️  The big NO-Nos when it comes to dating profiles

⭐️  We discuss the mindset of dating, and how thinking about it affects us 

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Newsletter: https://www.theauthenticman.net/home-subscribe 

Connect With Erika Ettin:

Instagram: @alittlenudge

Website: https://www.alittlenudge.com/

Podcast: So, We Met Online...

In this week's mini podcast episode, I talk all about actions you can date to create more confidence in yourself and your dating life. 

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net

Sara Butcher is a BDSM coach and kind educator on a mission to fill in those grey areas and misconceptions a lot of people have in relation to BDSM. After discovering kink at University and wanting to learn more, she quickly realised that the internet was full of misinformation, which led her to make many mistakes throughout her own BDSM journey. After many years of searching desperately for the “perfect Dom”, she finally found the right balance of kink in her life and is here to share her experience and knowledge. 

Key topics include: 

⭐️ How to be more dominant

⭐️ Misconceptions around being dominant 

⭐️ Mistakes that man make being dominant 

⭐️ How to be more confident being a dom 

⭐️ Why the dynamic between sub/dom could be incredibly healing for people who have experienced sexual trauma 

⭐️ Shadow work through BDSM

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Newsletter: https://www.theauthenticman.net/home-subscribe 

Connect With Sarah Butcher :

Instagram: @sub.in.the.city

Website: https://wwwsubinthecity.com

Events: https://subinthecity.com/cocktails-and-kink/

Cocktails & Kink Summer Social: https://subinthecity.com/cocktails-and-kink-summer-social/

Cocktails & Kink Conscious Kink Workshop: https://subinthecity.com/cocktails-and-kink-conscious-kink/

In this week's mini podcast episode, I discuss if there is a war on men, what that war is and how you can take power back in your own life.

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net

Men's circle retreat: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mens-retreat-spring-tickets-473498736467 

Have you ever struggled to find your authentic self and authentic voice?

Have you lived under a mask, pretending to be someone so the world accepts you?

In this episode, I talk to Cynthia Fortlage about being a C-suite executive and transitioning to being a woman and the effects on her life, marriage and career. 

Cynthia is an award-winning, internationally recognised executive, speaker, writer, and board leader. 

This episode will leave you with a newfound compassion and understanding in so many ways for those who have to make huge identity changes and the impact on them and the people around them.

Key topics include: 

⭐️ What is it like being a woman of transgender history? 

⭐️ What is it like to transition, and what are the effects on family, work and career?

⭐️ Leaving your C-level executive job for coaching 

⭐️ What does it feel like living like you’re not in your right body? 

⭐️ Identity vs Sexuality 

⭐️ What is gender? 

⭐️ The importance of love & acceptance 

⭐️ How to find your own authenticity

⭐️ Creating diverse and inclusive cultures 

⭐️ Having kids and leaving your long-time marriage to follow your heart and find your identity 

Connect With David - The Authentic Man: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/  

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/  

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net  

Newsletter: https://www.theauthenticman.net/home-subscribe 

Connect With Cynthia Fortlage:

Instagram: @cafservices  

Website: https://www.cynthiafortlage.com 

Born in Ireland, Cynthia is a global nomad and entrepreneur living in London, UK. Cynthia identifies as a white, queer woman with a transgender history. In recent years, Cynthia served as President of the Rainbow Resource Centre, an LGBTQ+ non-profit organization in Winnipeg, Canada. She was the national chair for Women’s March Canada, a feminist organization. She serves on the boards of Stonewall Housing in the UK and Outright International based in New York City, a global LGBTIQ+ human rights organization and part of the United Nations Secretariat on LGBTIQ issues. 

Cynthia grew up in Canada due to the troubles in Northern Ireland, and for 30 years, Cynthia was an information technology executive. She worked in technology, process simplification, and strategy, then grew into developing intentional corporate cultures, leaders, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Cynthia founded CAF Services in 2017 and dedicated herself to helping organizations navigate gender-related issues to create safe spaces where people feel they belong. 

Cynthia brings one leader and two genders of experience to every engagement and has coined the important term #AcceptancewithoutUnderstanding™. Cynthia is a prolific public speaker who has spoken at 400+ events in 30+ countries. Cynthia used to take her coffee black, but since moving to the UK has taken up tea drinking again, and she likes it neat. 

In this week's mini-episode, I talk about an episode of the DOAC where Chris Williamson & Steven Bartlett speak about many things, but I will focus on what they talk about and ways that men, in particular, can improve their dating chances and lives.

Things I cover: 

🔥 How men can up-level their dating lives

🔥 Women aren’t just looking for men with money and education. There is another huge thing they want

🔥 How to be more sexually confident

🔥 Where I think Chris Williamson is wrong

🔥 Why the episode makes you feel like its women’s fault that men are struggling in dating

🔥 Why rejection is good for your dating life

🔥 Why it is not the dating apps that are ruining dating

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net

The episode with Chris Williamson & Steven Bartlett: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bwADa5jakQRPzUQBfSJJZ?si=93944f192c2047fa

Men’s circle retreat: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mens-retreat-spring-tickets-473498736467 

Sex & intimacy men’s circle: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-and-intimacy-mens-circle-tickets-585204210547 

Men, are you wanting to expand your self-awareness and you feel the world isn't supporting you?

Do you feel there is no easy way to open up and heal?

Join Zack Alexander and me as we dive into the topic of men, healing and how the world isn't helping men to awaken.

Key topics:

🔥 Trauma-informed shamanic healing.

🔥What is trauma-informed healing

🔥Benefits of healing trauma.

🔥Why man resist the healing of trauma?

🔥How society makes it difficult for man to do the healing work?

🔥How we deal with positive and negative thoughts?

🔥How trauma-informed policymaking can change the world?

🔥What is toxic masculinity?

🔥Why toxic masculinity isn't what we think it is?

🔥Why there is a lack of compassion towards toxic masculinity?

🔥We also talk about Nelson Mandela and how we can do our bit to create healing and a better world

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Connect With Zack Alexander:

Instagram: @zackalexander___

Website: healersprogram.com

Are you struggling with anxiety or OCD?

Are you battling intrusive or suicidal thoughts?

Shaun Flores is a creative who knows no boundaries, a professional agitator who dares to be an enigma in an extraordinary world, and an influencer aiming to have the right influence on the world. He speaks on mental health, well-being, politics and society. Shaun is now seeking to qualify as a life coach to help guide others on their path in life.

Shaun received an OCD diagnosis at 27 years old. He has worked with OCD charities to raise awareness and shatter archaic myths about OCD. His diagnosis has encouraged him to widen the conversation about mental health, From locking himself away for days terrified, suffering from panic attacks, being depressed, unable to eat or shower convinced he would hurt himself and others, a therapist saved his life and has been in recovery since. From survivor to thriver with OCD he has reclaimed his life and become an I am an advocate/ activist for those with OCD.

Shaun has curated and delivered two TEDx Talks, TEDx 2022& TEDx 2018. In 2018 he gave a TEDx Talk about the education system and how we can do more to ensure no one is left behind. His second TEDx talk was on “the straitjacket of masculinity and male mental health” in 2022. A third TEDx Talk remains in his periphery to help raise awareness of OCD and raise funds for OCD research, which remains severely underfunded and under-researched.

Key topics include:

⭐️ What is OCD?
⭐️ How is OCD different from anxiety?
⭐️ How to treat and deal with OCD?
⭐️ How does OCD manifest itself in our daily lives? 
⭐️ OCD and homosexual thoughts 
⭐️ OCD and suicide 
⭐️ Psychedelics to heal OCD
⭐️ Growing through trauma
⭐️ Toxic Masculinity & Fear of being a homosexual
⭐️ Overthinking
⭐️ What role does religion play in forming your views 
⭐️ How does the media affect the population by instilling fear 

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net

Connect With Shaun Flores:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theshaunflores/

More links to Shaun’s work: https://linktr.ee/theshaunflores

Articles that Shaun has written:

 https://linktr.ee/theshaunflores

https://linktr.ee/theshaunflores

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63993395

❌ Are you struggling with fear of judgement? 

❌ Are you finding it hard to get out of your comfort zone? 

This is the perfect episode for you.

Join me as I speak to Pat Divilly, who has been involved in the wellness space for fifteen years now, starting out in the fitness industry before moving into the areas of mental, emotional and relational wellness. He talks about toxic masculinity, and the fear of being judged and discusses strategies on how to get out of your comfort zone and deal with trauma.  

Key topics include: 

⭐️ Journey from the fitness industry into mental wellness and coaching 

⭐ Competitiveness in men, and how it affects them 

⭐️ Telling yourself the truth 

⭐️ What is the fear of judgement 

⭐️ How the fear of judgement shows up in men's lives 

⭐️ How to overcome the fear of judgement 

⭐️ Toxic Masculinity  

⭐️ Flow state & stretch zone  

⭐️ Imposter Syndrome and the Inner Critic 

⭐️ Challenging your beliefs 

Connect With David - The Authentic Man: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/  

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Connect With Pat Divilly: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patdivilly 

Website: https://www.patdivilly.com

Base Camp Men's Events http://www.patdivilly.com/basecamp 

Are you struggling to find the woman of your dreams?

Are you wrestled by the fear of commitment and opening up to someone else?

This is the perfect episode for you. Join me as I speak to Kimberly Hill, a Men’s Dating & Relationship coach. She talks about how and where to meet women, understand the psychology of women when you approach them and ultimately, how to build and maintain a fruitful relationship with a potential partner. She also elaborates on the stereotype of the “nice guy” and the ‘bad boy’, their struggles in the relationship world and how to overcome these difficulties and find success in the dating world. 

Key topics include:

💘 Journey to becoming a relationship coach

💘 Why men don’t talk about themselves with people

💘 Do ‘bad boys’ seek relationship help

💘 How to overcome the fear of commitment

💘 How to meet more women

💘 Openness to the world

💘 Speaking to women

💘 What is dating

Connect With David - The Authentic Man:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theauthenticman_/ 

Website: https://www.theauthenticman.net/ 

For Coaching: hello@theauthenticman.net 

Connect With Kimberly Hill:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberlyninahill/  

Website:  www.kimberlyninahill.com

Up and Coming Workshops & Programmes:

🥰 Enroll into The Relationships School - Asa & David's 8-Week Group Coaching Programme for Singles & Couples to learn the art of deeply connected and authentic relating in Sep-Oct. More Info here: https://www.asabaav.com/the-relationship-school/