Gary Kadi discusses a common midlife turbulence he observes in men around age 40, arguing many avoid feeling difficult emotions. He shares his personal struggle with alcoholism — realizing at 44 he was drinking to drown emotions — and offers solutions in the form of community, a book, coaching, and a podcast where he simplifies what he learned.
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This sign behind me. This is the community in the book. I have called life on all cylinders. And here's what I've Learned. Right around 40 years old, I've seen the commonality in the thousands of men that I've worked with. There's this point where there needs to be this. There's this turbulence that happens. You know, for me, it was like my alcoholism. At 44, I realized that I couldn't continue on at this pace. And I was drinking to drown my emotions because I didn't want to feel them, but I found that they could swim like freaking Michael Phelps. It's unbelievable. So, look, you don't have to figure it out. I figured it out for you. And if you trust me enough, I'll give it to you freely on this podcast so you can go about it. And then there's ways for you to get it in deeper settings from the coaches themselves that gave it to me. A community, a book, all the good stuff that comes along with education, and that's what I'm here to do. My grandfather said, gary, great teachers take the complexity of things and make them simple, and that's what I'm going to do.