The Curse of The Golden Child - With Alexander Hoysted

In this episode I sit down with Alexander Hoysted - philosopher, writer, and policy strategist for a conversation about what happens when the life you've built starts cracking at the foundations and what I call the curse of the golden child. Alexander is currently finishing his first book and preparing for a TEDx talk both of which emerged directly from the inner work you'll hear about in this episode.

Read Alexander's writing on Substack: https://hoysted.substack.com/

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In this episode of Awakened Evolution, men's developmental coach Jasper Brown interviews philosopher and writer Alexander Hoysted about the golden child wound, people pleasing in men, emotional repression, and the journey from performance to authentic self-expression. Alexander shares his experience leaving a corporate career, confronting childhood conditioning, navigating the mother wound and father wound, breaking free from nice guy patterns, and learning emotional leadership in his intimate relationship. They explore nervous system regulation, shadow work, somatic experiencing, anger repression in men, the connection between inner work and creativity, sacred sexuality, surrender, men's mental health, attachment patterns, ego development, the breakdown to breakthrough process, weed addiction and recovery, masculine identity, Jungian archetypes, the warrior archetype, discipline versus devotion, vulnerability in relationships, and what it actually takes for a man to stop performing his life and start living it. This episode is for any man who suspects the version of himself the world sees is not the full truth — and is ready to find out what's underneath.