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Brave Man Project : The Launch Teaser
The Brave Man Project - Launch Teaser
This is not a podcast about fixing yourself.
The Brave Man Project is a sanctuary for the modern man caught between the suffocating mask of performance and the silent weight of unaddressed trauma. A dual-lens journey. Mirrors and windows.
The Mirror reflects the lie you've been telling yourself. "I'm alright, mate." Men who were Captain of the Universe, who wore the mask so long they forgot their own face, who loaded bricks onto their backs until the weight became lethal. Then they fell. And they chose to look.
The Window expands your vision. Men who woke up and saw the world in Technicolor. Men who lead others through blue doors. They do not reflect your collapse. They prove you were never broken to begin with.
In this teaser, you'll hear fragments of what's coming. The unvarnished truth about what it actually took.
This is for the man tired of the noise and the bullshit. The man exhausted from carrying a mask. Whether you're currently being kicked by the universe or simply tired of the black-and-white grind.
Five men. Five falls. Five ways through. And two men who will show you the colour.
Launching 15 July.
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Transcript
Welcome to The Brave Man Project. I am Hamish Niven.
Speaker:During that time, I'd lost these two friends to suicide, and I also realised that I was experiencing this internal loneliness.
Speaker:Like I say, a lot of physical and sexual and mental abuse, which kind of led me down the road of finding ways to deal with it on my own.
Speaker:I found out at that time, by someone being straight up and honest with me, that I was known as a liar and a manipulator.
Speaker:And that one really tugged at my heartstrings, on that one, because I looked at myself as a pretty good person, and I said, yeah, you're full of shit. That's not who I am.
Speaker:And I started thinking a little bit more, and I went, holy shit, no, that's exactly who I am. Bowel cancer, it was stage four.
Speaker:The cancer just did not stop, and it eventually got her.
Speaker:Heart attack at 37 was due to stress, just from carrying too much.
Speaker:I was a copper at the time.
Speaker:Yeah, I dealt with, you know, the death of my best mate. I was carrying that. My relationship had broken down.
Speaker:In a horrible spiral of, I need to be everything for everyone all the time, and nothing was ever enough.
Speaker:I finally came to and said, you know what? This is my journey.
Speaker:There's a reason behind this, and I'm going to have to figure it out.
Speaker:The old me could never have contemplated the life I have now and where I am. It just wasn't possible.
Speaker:And Luke says to Obi-Wan, I can't go save the galaxy. I have chores to do.
Speaker:And how many of us refuse a call to go on the greatest adventure of our life, which is just the fulfillment of our heart,
Speaker:of our soul's calling, because we have chores to do?
Speaker:Imagine a world in which everyone sees in black and white. That's what you see.
Speaker:And then one day you open your eyes, and everything's in color.
Speaker:And then it goes, and you're back to black and white.
Speaker:I think the experience of spiritual awakening is something like that.
