71: Empower Men To Excel, Women To Understand them & Relationships To Thrive with Stefanos Sifanos

Using your greatest pain to cast a bigger purpose<br /> <br />In this week’s episode I introduce you to a man whose gruff tattooed appearance contradicts his soft-spoken words of wisdom, power, and strength—his name is Stefanos Sifandos. We dig deep into Stefanos’ childhood, the implications of parenting and generational trauma on how we express ourselves in relationships at work and at home, and how to foster and grow in each kind.<br /> <br />We talk about what it takes to be willing and open to break the cycle of wounding behavior, how to commit to change, transition, and FEELING in order to pay it forward and leave behind the impact and legacy you truly want.<br /> <br />In this episode, we deeply analyze the impact of environment and family patterns on our idea of safety, and how we project those habits to the world. We talk about Stefanos’ volatile family life, the emotional and physical abuse, and the behaviors he grew to deem as normal—omission, lying, anger, and unfaithfulness.<br /> <br />Stefanos opens up about how he reproduced these actions as a means of comfort, repeating what he knew as familiar in order to protect and defend himself from feeling and being vulnerable.<br /> <br />Willingness to change, to internally transform<br /> <br />We discuss the turning point in Stefanos life—the moment he knew he needed to make a change and move away from the self-loathing, dishonest, and aggressive entrenched patterns he had been repeating. He shares the depth of the work, the years, the willingness to feel through repressed pain and memories he had forgotten in order to become self-aware and in tune with his true self.<br /> <br />Liberation from generational trauma<br /> <br />We talk about his relationships in love, how they evolved as he explored his past, and his relationship today with his wife. He shares advice for women and men on different ways to start the work, what that can look like, and how to be willing to do it. He describes the sense of freedom and liberation he felt the moment he started