{"podcast":{"title":"Heart of Man | Men's Leadership, Relationships and Intimacy","slug":"heart-of-man-men-s-leadership-relationships-and-intimacy-6476755","podcast_index_feed_id":6476755,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/dfbdca10/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.alexlehmann.co/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/37437572/37437572-1787452600398-beef570052f5d.jpg","author":"Alex Lehmann | Transformational Coach and Breathwork Teacher","episode_count":87,"summary":"Life as a man can be tough. We're flooded with messages on who to be & how to act, all while we carry the weight to lead, provide & perform. We do what works on the surface, but often lose touch with the man we truly are. Eventually, this backfires: Partners lose trust. Intimacy fades. Relationships break down. Performance suffers. Heart of Man is for the man ready to go deeper—to walk the integrated path, reclaim who he is at his core & discover what it means to live embodied in leadership, love & life. Join Alex in raw conversations with world-class leaders, exploring the modern man's path.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T22:25:14.623906+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heart-of-man-men-s-leadership-relationships-and-intimacy-6476755"},"episode":{"title":"From Emotional Numbness To Emotional Leadership [Founders Series With Bjoern Keune] | EP 66","slug":"from-emotional-numbness-to-emotional-leadership-founders-series-with-bjoern-keune-ep-66","published_at":"2025-12-25T01:10:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heart-of-man-men-s-leadership-relationships-and-intimacy-6476755/from-emotional-numbness-to-emotional-leadership-founders-series-with-bjoern-keune-ep-66","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heart-of-man-men-s-leadership-relationships-and-intimacy-6476755","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heartofman/episodes/From-Emotional-Numbness-To-Emotional-Leadership-Founders-Series-With-Bjoern-Keune--EP-66-e3cpnra","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/dfbdca10/podcast/play/113089834/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-24%2F414970116-44100-2-3114cb42ff926.mp3","summary":"What is the real value of founders, leaders and high-performing men being in close contact with their emotions? And how can becoming aware of what’s happening inside of us, and learning to lead ourselves through it, not weaken our leadership but actually strengthen it over time? Welcome back to this episode in the Founders Series, a 6-part journey exploring the challenges founders, business professionals, and high performing men face today, and supporting them in evolving from high functioning stress into embodied and integrated leadership. A form of leadership that allows you to stay clear and calm under pressure by aligning who you are with how you lead. In this conversation, Bjoern and I explore a common issue we see among many high performing men: Disconnection, disembodiment, and emotional numbness. For many, success has come at the cost of losing touch with their bodies and shutting down their emotional experience. Most of us were taught that strength means staying in control and not showing weakness or humanness. Over time, this didn’t make us stronger. It hardened us. It built emotional armor that keeps us functioning, but prevents us from being deeply connected to ourselves or others. So we avoid asking for help. We avoid receiving support. And we look for ways to manage the emotional intensity that leadership naturally brings. The cost of emotional avoidance is high: It disconnects us from the signals of our own body and from meaningful intimacy. It burns us out. It leaves us feeling flat or numb, chasing hits of aliveness through work, achievement, substances, or validation. And in relationships, we often project what we haven’t dealt with onto partners, teams, or the business itself, creating rupture and disconnection. In this conversation, find out: Why ma…","meta_description":"What is the real value of founders, leaders and high-performing men being in close contact with their emotions? And how can becoming aware of what’s happe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6043,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/heart-of-man-men-s-leadership-relationships-and-intimacy-6476755/episodes/from-emotional-numbness-to-emotional-leadership-founders-series-with-bjoern-keune-ep-66/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heart-of-man-men-s-leadership-relationships-and-intimacy-6476755/from-emotional-numbness-to-emotional-leadership-founders-series-with-bjoern-keune-ep-66.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}