The Reclaimed Man

Angus Pyke

You don't need to be fixed. You need the interference removed. The man you're looking for is already in there. Maybe you built the life — the business, the income, the family — and you're standing on top of it wondering why it doesn't feel like you thought it would. Or maybe the dream you carried in your twenties went quiet somewhere along the way. You told yourself that letting it go was just being realistic. Mature. Sensible. Either way, you've stopped reaching. And part of you knows it. The Reclaimed Man is hosted by Angus Pyke — a man who walked through crippling anxiety and a stage four cancer diagnosis holding onto one idea: this is not happening to me. It is happening for me. This is not a self-help show. It's a rite of passage. Body first. Soul second. Mission third. Come with me.

Episodes

  1. Jun 20

    Ep 2 - Why You Drink Every Night — And It's Not About The Alcohol

    Life can be hard. I get it. Work that matters. People who depend on you. A family you love. It's a lot to carry — and most days you carry it well. So most evenings — almost before you've decided to — you reach for a beer. Turn on the sport. Pick up your phone. You've earned it. There's nothing wrong with switching off. And there isn't. That's the thing. But somewhere underneath that reasonable voice is something the beer is quietly taking care of. For years I called mine “decompressing.” It took the hardest inner work of my life to finally see what was actually happening in those evenings — and that I wasn't decompressing. I was disappearing. In this episode I'll tell you what I couldn't see while I was inside it: why most men live on just four feelings — happy, sad, hungry, horny — and where everything else goes. The beach ball you've been holding underwater. And a simple three-step practice you can try tonight, the next time you notice yourself reaching. This isn't about giving up the beer. It's about knowing what it's really for. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    28 min

  2. May 8

    Ep 1 — I Had Stage 4 Cancer and Crippling Anxiety. Here's What It Taught Me.

    Dublin Airport. August 2022. One of the proudest moments of my life — watching my son play at the World Championships — and my first panic attack hits out of nowhere. That was the beginning of two years I didn't see coming. Debilitating anxiety. Intrusive thoughts. A stage four prostate cancer diagnosis with metastases in my pelvis. And one idea that held me together through all of it: This is not happening to me. It is happening for me. This is the episode where The Reclaimed Man begins. Why this show exists, who it's for, and what I've learned from walking through the kind of darkness most men carry alone. I'm not telling this story from the other side. I'm still in it. But I know the path leads somewhere worth going. Come with me. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    46 min
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You don't need to be fixed. You need the interference removed. The man you're looking for is already in there. Maybe you built the life — the business, the income, the family — and you're standing on top of it wondering why it doesn't feel like you thought it would. Or maybe the dream you carried in your twenties went quiet somewhere along the way. You told yourself that letting it go was just being realistic. Mature. Sensible. Either way, you've stopped reaching. And part of you knows it. The Reclaimed Man is hosted by Angus Pyke — a man who walked through crippling anxiety and a stage four cancer diagnosis holding onto one idea: this is not happening to me. It is happening for me. This is not a self-help show. It's a rite of passage. Body first. Soul second. Mission third. Come with me.

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