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An Evolving Man Podcast

An Evolving Man Podcast explores leadership, emotional intelligence, trauma, healing and peak performance.Hosted by Piers Cross, the show features conversations with leading psychologists, psychiatrists, executive coaches, authors, researchers and high-performance leaders, alongside solo episodes on leadership, resilience, relationships and personal transformation.Drawing on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, attachment, trauma and human performance, the podcast helps leaders develop

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60:16

Traumality: What Happened to You? Rethinking Mental...

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2026/10/09

What changes when we stop asking “What’s wrong with you?” and begin asking “What happened to you?” In Episode 173 of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross speaks with Ton Mazzone, filmmaker behind Traumality — an independently produced documentary exploring childhood adversity, attachment, trauma, the nervous system and mental health. Ton spent years struggling with social anxiety and depression. After seeking medical help, he was given a diagnosis and medication, but little explanation for wh...

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21:56

Dr Joe Dispenza Week-Long Retreat Review: Highlights,...

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2026/10/07

What happens when you step out of everyday life and spend a week immersed in meditation, teaching and personal development? In this episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross reflects on attending Dr Joe Dispenza’s week-long retreat in Copenhagen, following a Progressive Retreat in Basel. Piers had booked the retreats during a difficult period following the death of his wife Michelle. Although he had continued working and practising self-care, the retreat helped him recognise that grief,...

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55:17

Real Resilience: Why Pushing Through Isn’t Enough |...

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2026/10/03

What if resilience isn’t about becoming tougher? In Episode 172 of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross speaks with Russell Harvey, The Resilience Coach, about what genuine resilience looks like for leaders, teams and organisations. Russell defines resilience as “springing forward with learning” rather than endlessly pushing through adversity. He describes the difference between surviving, coping and thriving, and explains why self-awareness, purpose, adaptability, support networks, energy an...

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5:29

How to Reconnect With Joy on the Healing Journey |...

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2026/09/30

Can healing and self-development become so serious that we forget to actually enjoy our lives? After returning from retreats in Copenhagen and Basel, Piers Cross reflects on something he realised while away: he had forgotten some of the joy. In this short episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers explores how busyness, striving and constant self-improvement can pull us away from gratitude, connection and the simple experience of being alive. He shares three practices f...

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4:59

Boarding School Syndrome: The First Stage of Healing...

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2026/09/23

What is the first step in healing boarding school syndrome? In this short episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross explores the importance of understanding and education at the beginning of a healing journey. Drawing on Pete Walker’s work on complex PTSD, Piers reflects on how learning about trauma and boarding school syndrome can give language and context to experiences that may previously have felt confusing or uniquely personal. For Piers, reading Nick Duffell’s The Making of Them w...

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16:14

Why Former Boarders Become Perfectionists — And Burn...

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2026/09/16

Why do so many former boarders struggle with perfectionism, overworking and the feeling that they are never quite good enough? In this episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross explores the link between boarding school syndrome, perfectionism, the inner critic and burnout. At boarding school, mistakes can carry a social cost. Vulnerability may be hidden, everyone else can appear to have it “sorted”, and achievement becomes a way of proving our worth. Underneath can sit a much deeper bel...

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14:06

Prince George Starts at Eton: Boarding School,...

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2026/09/09

What can the first day at boarding school feel like for a child? Following Prince George’s arrival at Eton College, Piers Cross reflects on his own first days at boarding school and the psychology of leaving home for a large residential institution. Drawing on the work of Nick Duffell and Joy Schaverien, Piers explores the “threshold moment” when a child begins to understand emotionally—not merely intellectually—that their parents have gone and they must now adapt to a new environment. ...

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64:05

From Broadway’s Hamilton to a Heart Attack: Burnout &...

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2026/09/04

What happens when reaching the top still isn’t enough? In Episode 171 of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross speaks with Julian Reeve, international keynote speaker, author and creator of the Perfect Equilibrium methodology. Julian worked across the West End and Broadway before joining the team behind Hamilton. In 2017, while Music Director of the show’s first US national tour, he suffered a stress-related heart attack at 43. A subsequent repetitive strain injury eventually ended his perform...

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15:06

Boarding School Syndrome & the Inner Critic: Why...

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2026/09/02

Why are so many former boarders relentlessly hard on themselves? In this short episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross explores the brutal inner critic that can develop through boarding school and childhood trauma. Piers reflects on how being humiliated for showing emotion led him to begin attacking himself internally before other people could do it. What originally helped create protection and control eventually became an inner bully. Drawing on his own experience and the work ...

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56:24

Why Your Child’s Behaviour Isn’t the Problem | Geoff...

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2026/08/28

What if difficult behaviour is not something to control—but something to understand? In Episode 170 of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross speaks with Geoff Owen, founder of Biologically Aligned Parenting and author of The Parenting Assumption. Geoff argues that children are born with innate needs for safety, certainty, connection and regulation. When those needs are not sufficiently met, behaviours we label as defiant, aggressive, withdrawn or difficult may emerge as adaptations. Rather tha...

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7:22

End of Summer Anxiety & Boarding School Syndrome |...

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2026/08/26

Why can the end of summer bring unexpected anxiety, sadness or unease for former boarders? In this short episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross explores how late August and early September can unconsciously reconnect ex-boarders with the repeated childhood experience of leaving home and returning to boarding school. After weeks at home, children often had to prepare themselves to separate from family and “harden up” again for another term away. Decades later, seasonal changes, return...

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59:21

Why We Stay Stuck in Addiction | Alcohol, Trauma &...

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2026/08/21

What is the story beneath addictive behaviour? In Episode 169 of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross speaks with commercial fisherwoman, health coach, speaker and alcohol-free living advocate Colleen Clifford. Colleen spent more than three decades working in Alaska’s commercial fishing industry. Months at sea without alcohol made it easier for her to believe that her binge drinking was under control—even when episodes of drinking continued to create consequences in her life. She also s...

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I Didn’t Like Boarding School — So Why Did I Send My...

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2026/08/19

Why would someone who had an unhappy or frightening experience at boarding school go on to send their own children there? In this episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross explores the psychology of intergenerational repetition and boarding school. Drawing on his own experience and material from Trauma, Abandonment & Privilege, James Blunt, Bear Grylls and Tina Brown, Piers examines the contradictions that can appear in former boarders’ stories: people may describe fear, bullying, l...

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65:53

How to Rebuild Focus in a Distracted World | George...

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2026/08/14

Can attention be trained like a muscle—and can technology help us recover the focus that technology itself is eroding? In Episode 168 of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross speaks with George Molakal, CEO and co-founder of MindSpring Innovation, and Brian Throckmorton, co-founder and board member. Their work began with personal experience. Both had watched their children struggle with focus, schoolwork and sustained attention. This led them to explore whether there could be another route alo...

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4:19

Why Change Feels So Uncomfortable After Boarding...

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2026/08/12

Why can transitions feel disproportionately difficult for former boarders? In this short episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross reflects on his own nervousness before leaving for a workshop and retreat—and explores how apparently ordinary transitions can activate much older emotional patterns. Drawing on the work of Nick Duffell and Thurstine Basset in Trauma, Abandonment & Privilege, Piers considers how leaving home repeatedly as a child can make later transitions—holidays, trav...

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66:26

Attachment Wounds, Codependency and Rupture Repair |...

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2026/08/07

In this episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, I speak with Nima Rahmany, nervous system and attachment specialist, transformational coach and founder of the Trigger Proof methodology. Nima works with high-achieving individuals, couples, parents and leaders to understand the deeper patterns behind reactivity, people-pleasing, trauma bonds, emotional shutdown and codependency. This is a powerful conversation about attachment wounds, nervous system regulation, rupture and repair, elegant boundarie...

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12:53

Why High Achieving Leaders Can’t Switch Off |...

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2026/08/05

Why do so many successful leaders struggle to switch off? In this episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, I explore why high-achieving leaders often find it difficult to rest, sleep, stop working, put the phone down or be fully present with family. This is not simply a time management issue. For many leaders, the nervous system has learned to stay permanently “on”. Drawing on Jim Collins, Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness, Cal Newport, Kelly McGonigal, Emma Seppälä, Nick Duffell and Thurstine Bassett,...

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61:47

Why Conflict Can Deepen Love | Dr. Judith Wright on...

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2026/07/31

In this episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, I speak with Dr. Judith Wright, relationship expert, author and co-founder of the Wright Foundation for the Realization of Human Potential. Judith has spent more than 40 years helping individuals and couples transform conflict into connection, deepen emotional intelligence and create more meaningful lives. We explore why conflict is not necessarily a sign that a relationship is failing. Instead, when approached consciously, conflict can become a doo...

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13:41

I’m Not a Leader? Why We Are All Leaders |...

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2026/07/30

What if you are already a leader, even if you do not have the title? In this episode of An Evolving Man Podcast, I explore the belief many people hold: “I’m not a leader.” This often comes up in conversations about the Compassionate Leader Pathway. People say they are not in a senior position, not a CEO, not a manager, or not the kind of person they imagine a leader to be. But leadership is not only about titles, hierarchy or command and control. Drawing on Mike Manazir’s work in Learn How to...

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6:41

Birthdays and Boarding School

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2026/07/22

What were birthdays like in boarding school? Were they celebrated or ignored? Or did you get hazed or bullied on your birthday. Take care, Piers --- Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To p...

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