Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider
Men Talking Mindfulness: Mental, Physical, & Emotional Fitness to Elevate Performance and Resilience for Leaders and Teams Under Pressure!
Nobody Prepares You For This: Will Schneider On Caregiving, Grief, And Finding Your Calm Center
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Nobody Prepares You For This: Will Schneider On Caregiving, Grief, And Finding Your Calm Center

Will is going through it. His father is seriously ill, his brother is badly injured, and he is hours from home running between hospitals while trying not to torch a business he spent fifteen years building.

Jon asks the questions nobody asks the fixer: what it costs, what he puts down, and what he actually leans on when staying calm stops being a slogan and becomes the only place he can work from.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

  1. What the role of family fixer actually costs — and what it feels like when the thing in front of you cannot be fixed

  2. The difference between regulating an emotion and suppressing one, and how to tell which you are doing in the moment

  3. The practices Will leans on hardest right now: moving the body until the pressure drops, breath, morning sun, meditation, and time with people who love him

  4. Why apologizing is a practice, not a failure — and what to say when you have taken your frustration out on someone

  5. How to ask a friend for help, and the difference between someone saying “let me know what you need” and someone just showing up

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