
273 episodes

Mark Groves Podcast Mark Groves
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My name is Mark Groves, and I'm obsessed with understanding human behaviour and why we do what we do. In this podcast, I interview the world's most brilliant minds and hearts to explore, alongside you, every subject imaginable relating to the human experience and how we relate. My deepest intention is that we all learn how to create the life and love we've always dreamt of. Let's dive in and transform our lives!
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#269: Honesty is the New Foreplay with Matt Gottesman
Themes: Intuition, Spirituality, Trust, Alignment, Relationships, Authenticity, Self-Worth, Self-Love, Dating, Transformation
Summary:
Today I'm excited to have founder, creative, podcaster, writer, entrepreneur, all the things… Matt Gottesman. Matt soulfully aligns culture, creativity, spirituality, and entrepreneurship to help people live with intention and step into greater soul alignment.
In this episode, we explore the beautiful yet challenging path of what it means to walk your soul’s path with honesty, integrity, and trust at the forefront. Learn how to identify when your intuition is speaking, where it’s leading you, and how to get out of your own way so that your relationship with yourself and your relationships with others can expand in greater clarity and with less friction. Join us for this spiritual, relational jam session with mind-blowing AHA moments!
Discover:
How to tell the difference between intuition and fear
The life-changing practice of being radically honest with yourself and others
Why we can have whatever we want when we play with clarity, consistency, leadership, honesty, integrity, and knowing who we are
How being in alignment with one's true self leads to healing and growth, both internally and externally
The importance of running your own race and letting your relationship expand you by stepping out of the way of your partner’s greatest alignment
00:00 Intro
01:20 Your soul is your GPS
06:18 Honesty is a form of unconditional love
12:23 Honesty is like foreplay
16:42 The sacred tension between biology and soul
21:42 The power of living in alignment with your soul’s truth
26:11 Overcoming distractions and honouring your calling
31:00 The dopamine of the journey vs the outcome
37:56 The nuance of discourse creating connection
45:43 Trusting in oneself, the universe, and God
53:00 Finding yourself through marriage and divorce
58:38 Running your own race
1:05:26 Can we love each other without needing each other to be the one?
Links:
Writing: mattgottesman.substack.com
Podcast: The Niche Is You
Community: https://community.build1thing.com
Website: mattgottesman.com
Instagram: @mattgottesman
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#268: A BS Free Blueprint for Optimal Health with Ben Azadi
Themes: Health, Mindset, Transformation, Growth, Wellness, Self-care, Self-discovery, Gratitude
Summary:
Today's guest, Ben Azadi, is a force to be reckoned with in the health and wellness world. Ben is on a mission to help 1 billion people live healthier lives after having gone through a personal health transformation and losing 80 pounds. Ben is the author of four best-selling books, Keto Flex, The Perfect Health Booklet, The Intermittent Fasting Cheat Sheet, and The Power of Sleep. Known as 'The Health Detective,' he investigates dysfunction and educates to bring the body back to normal function.
In this episode, Ben and I jam on what it means to be truly healthy and why modern-day health advice is so misleading and ineffective. Ben takes us through his easy-to-implement steps to instantly improve our health, the top 8 highly most inflammatory foods we should avoid, and how intermittent fasting, ketosis, and protein intake can help us achieve optimal health when done right. If you’re like me and are constantly looking for ways to improve your health and need practical, no-BS guidelines to do it, this episode is for you!
Discover:
How small changes can lead to big results that transform the quality of your health and your life
The top inflammatory foods that lead to poor health and why
How you can minimize toxin intake and damaging your health when eating at restaurants
The incredible benefits of the ketogenic diet, lowering glucose levels and increasing ketone production
The immense power of your mind when it comes to improving your overall well-being
00:00 Intro
00:43 From victim to victor
04:46 From pain to purpose
06:09 The power of small changes
08:18 Importance of eating whole food
14:14 Eight highly inflammatory foods people should avoid
17:50 Start communicating your needs in restaurants
19:48 Three easy steps to instantly improving your health
24:58 Intermittent feasting
29:45 Ben's guidelines for protein intake
35:05 Benefits of ketones and the keto diet
39:49 Our body is a miracle
44:07 The cholesterol myth
48:25 The best ways to monitor your metabolic functions
53:43 The power of mindset on healing
58:00 The most important vitamin
Links:
Instagram: @thebenazadi
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/benazadi/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebenazadi
YouTube: www.youtube.com/ketokamp
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebenazadi
Podcast: The Keto Kamp Podcast
Website: www.benazadi.com
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#267: You Were Lied To - Solo Episode
Themes: Politics, COVID, Individualism, Fear, Health, Government, Accountability, Truth, News & Media, Misinformation, Authenticity, Belonging, Transformation, Conflict, Mental Health
Summary:
In this solo episode, I share my thoughts and grief on what has occurred over these last few years as a result of the pandemic. I believe in having open and honest discourse and avoiding inflammatory language that only pushes us further apart. I want to invite curiosity back into our experiences and encourage us to hold manipulative and dishonest individuals and groups accountable while keeping in mind that love and truth always win in the end! Let’s come together to change this world.
Discover:
Alternative viewpoints on how information as delivered to us during the pandemic
The usage of “misinformation” labels, nudge tactics, divisiveness, gaslighting, narcissism, and other abusive tactics
Why we must stand up as a village to hold the media and governing bodies accountable and demand truth and change
00:00 Intro
00:53 Nudge tactics
02:45 Misinformation
03:56 You’re not free to choose if your freedom is at stake
07:22 There wasn’t enough data
10:16 They turned us against each other
13:34 Divisiveness, gaslighting, and narcissism
16:30 The importance of discourse without inflammatory language
21:52 We need to come together to make change
Links:
Emails referenced - The Virality Project: Twitter Files revealed that the US government and major social media companies worked hand-in-hand with Stanford University to censor or limit true information about Covid-19, suppress “true vaccine side effects” and “true posts which could fuel [vaccine] hesitancy.” The emails and documents were provided to Matt Taibbi by Twitter CEO Elon Musk. The documents, dubbed the "Twitter Files" and retweeted by Musk, were selected from "thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter." Matt Taibbi is an award winning author, journalist, and contributing editor for Rolling Stone. (Sources: New York Post, The Maine Wire, TRT World)
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#266: How to Be a Better Partner with Jillian Turecki
Themes: Psychology, Relationships, Anxiety, Resilience, Attachment Theory, Transformation, Conflict
Summary:
Join me in a fascinating exploration of psychology and relationships with Jillian Turecki, a certified relationship coach, teacher and writer who for 20 years has taught others how to transform their relationships with themselves. Under the tutelage of Tony Robbins and world-renowned family therapist Cloe Madanes and fueled by an insatiable curiosity about what makes a relationship thrive, Jillian has helped thousands through her teaching and writing revolutionize their relationship with themselves so that they transform their relationships with others.
In this episode, we explore the fascinating experiences in relationships that are often overlooked or labeled with pop-psychology terms like anxious and avoidant. Listen in to hear Jillian’s perspective on what women and men need most, how to be more objective to understand your partner better, and more of her greatest learnings from being in a relationship.
Discover:
Why attachment theory only scratches the surface of understanding each other
The biggest reasons why relationships fail
What men and women want and need most in relationship and how to understand each other better
00:00 Intro
00:54 Jillian’s journey from yoga to relationship coach
10:36 Yoga and the mind
14:15 Somatic awareness
18:03 The loneliness of not being with yourself
19:52 The toxic dance of push-pull
26:43 How much anxiety in a relationship is too much?
28:25 We over-pathologize others as anxious or avoidant
38:24 Asking for your needs to be met
40:28 Greatest learnings in relationship
44:13 Men and their needs in a relationship
49:31 The importance of being appreciated and understood
54:01 The complexity we hold due to familial dynamics
Links:
Website: www.jillianturecki.com
Podcast: https://listen.qcodemedia.com/jillianonlove
IG: @jillianturecki
Tik Tok: @jillian.turecki
Twitter: @JillianTurecki
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#265: You Must Trust Yourself - Solo Episode
Themes: Trusting Yourself, Intuition, True Liberation, Self Love, Authenticity, Transformation
Summary:
Comin’ at ya with a quick espresso shot of love on embracing change and trusting our internal guidance system. I hope my reflections inspire you to gain insight into your own circumstances and ways of being in the world.
Discover:
Why you need to trust yourself when you say yes to change
How we’re being asked to orient ourselves from intellectual/logical to intuitive/heart centered
True liberation and how can we find it
00:00 Intro
00:17 Trust your intuition
03:00 True liberation
03:49 Orient through your sensations
05:37 Start asking the right questions
Links:
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#264: How to Cultivate a Strong Romantic Relationship with Nick Solaczek
Themes: Relationships, Romantic Relationships, Relationship Struggles, Couples Therapy, Communication, Healing, Conflict
Summary:
Back for the second time is my good friend, Nick Solaczek. Nick is a relationship coach and teacher specializing in romantic relationships with an emphasis on safe conversations, conscious relationship principles, mindfulness, authenticity and boundary setting. Nick works closely with IMAGO theory in his practice, believing that the image we project has a significant influence on who we are attracted to and how we show up in our relationship.
In this episode, we jam on how to create stronger romantic relationships, how our childhood experiences are responsible for many of our triggers in our adult relationships, the influence of fear and how it guides our actions, and more juicy relational truths. Tune in to hear Nick share mic-drops on how to communicate more clearly to ask for what we want and how to use struggle to strengthen our partnerships instead of drive us apart.
Nick also teaches us about his relational theory, The Developmental Mountain, which he shares in depth in his new course: Romantic Relationship Reset. Get the link and a discount below!
Discover:
Core relational dynamics of romantic relationships and which ones you and your partner relate to
How and why opposites attract when it comes to romantic relationships
The power of fear and its presence in our interactions with our partners
The benefits of both individual and couples therapy when it comes to long term relationships
The power of IMAGO dialogue as a powerful method of communication for couples
00:00 Intro
02:12 How we have historically approached couples work
06:34 Romance is propagandized by culture
10:14 We all have conflicts in the kitchen
18:24 Relational dynamics of the Seeker, Maximizer, Minimizer
25:40 How childhood experiences show up in adult relationships
26:48 We show and respond to emotion differently
29:56 The power of fear
34:54 The struggle is normal
41:47 Ways to ask for what you want
48:01 Why we deal with things the way we do
50:35 The Developmental Mountain
57:32 The Relationship Reset
Links:
Special offer: $50 off Nick’s course "Romantic Relationship Reset" with promo code: CREATE50
Website: www.nicksolaczek.com
Course: www.nicksolaczek.com/mark
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicksolaczek/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coachingwithnick
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Customer Reviews
Brain Candy
All of these episodes are like brain candy to me. I love the diversity of topics covered and how Mark digs deeper into the conversation by knowing just the right questions to ask. This podcast offers you perspective and the opportunity to grow as a person.
The best!!!!
There’s not a single episode that has not made me go “WOW”. Mark groves podcast and his instagram page has given me such valuable insights into relationships and my inner wounds. It has drastically changed my life after a very bad breakup that cracked me open and I was desperately looking to understand why that happened with me. That’s when i found mark groves and I’m so glad i did. Mark’s obsession with human behaviour and his fearless dedication to speaking the truth is an inspiration that will only keep adding greatness to your life!
An absolutely beautiful and inspirational podcast.
Thank you so much Mark. I am so appreciative of you and this podcast. I love the down to earth relatable conversations and I always learn something and feel better after listening. Thank you for the work you do and share, and the incredible guests that you invite to share space with.