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#524: Hurt People Become Hurtful People Aug 10, 2026

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Here’s the thing nobody wants to hear but everybody needs to: If you do not go towards your pain you will become the kind of person who creates it. The betrayals you have not processed, the patterns you have not examined, the grief you have been numbing with your phone and your drinks and your situationships... all of it is running your life right now whether you see it or not. We get into why your defensive strategies are actually really smart but are also keeping you completely stuck, why your healing is never dependent on someone else's apology, and why both paths are hard but only one of them leaves you proud of yourself. You have one life. Let's stop wasting it waiting for other people to change first.

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#523: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World Aug 03, 2026

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Something is competing for your attention right now and it is not neutral. The world has never been louder, the news has never been more relentless, and we have never had less boredom, and that is not an accident. Because when you are constantly focused out there you lose access to in here. We talk about why anxiety is often just your inner voice trying to get your attention, why protecting your peace is not a privilege but a necessity, and why fate will simply not work for you if you are not willing to work for yourself. Put the phone down. Go touch some grass. Your inner world is waiting.

Resources:

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

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#522: Could Someone Else Love Them Better? Jul 27, 2026

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There is a question that will cut straight through any relationship fog you are sitting in right now. Could someone else love them better? Because if the answer is yes and you are still holding on, you have to ask yourself why. We get into why the life you were taught to want might be the very thing making you miserable, why your body is always the first to know when you are living out of integrity, and why real self love does not start with a grand gesture. It starts with the small choice to stop betraying yourself one boundary at a time.

Resources:

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

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#521: The Sacred Side of Masculinity Jul 20, 2026

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Something is happening to men right now and we need to talk about it. Not in the way the internet does, with shame and hot takes, but in a way that actually gets to the root of the problem. Because the energy that destroys when it is unintegrated is the exact same energy that protects and leads when it is not. So why are we trying to crush it instead of initiate it? In this episode we get into fatherless boys, what The Manosphere is getting right and wrong, and why holding space for men's suffering is not a negation of anyone else's. It is actually how the whole system heals.

Resources:

The Fourth Quarter Men’s Mastermind:www.markgroves.com/fourthquarter

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

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—Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/markgrovestv

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#520: The Impact of Smartphones on Our Children Jul 13, 2026

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In this episode, I have an honest conversation about something that I think every parent needs to hear right now. What are we actually signing our kids up for when we hand them a smartphone? Because the data is becoming really hard to ignore, and what is happening to our kids, especially our girls, is not okay. We talk about why social media hits boys and girls differently, what it is actually doing to their developing brains, and why learning to curate your attention might be the most important thing you can teach yourself and your child right now.

02:15 - The Anxious Generation: How Tech Outpaced Human Evolution

06:45 - The Shocking Stats: Why Social Media Hits Girls Harder

09:20 - My Wake-Up Call

12:40 - When Algorithms Decide Your Worth (And Kill Your Art)

15:59 Digital Dementia: What Smartphones Do to Kids' Brains

22:45 - The Contagion Effect: Why Everyone Thinks They Have ADHD

25:50 - Taking Back Control: Your Attention is Your Life

Resources:

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

—Explore My Courses: https://markgroves.com/courses

Follow me and my work here:

—Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/markgrovestv

—Subscribe to my Substack: https://markgroves.substack.com

—Instagram - @itsmarkgroves: https://www.instagram.com/itsmarkgroves

—Facebook - @createthelove: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove

Have A Question?—Have a Question For Mark That You’d Like To Hear Answered on the Podcast? Leave us a Voice Note Here: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast

Drop us a note at podcast@markgroves.com for sponsor product support, questions, comments, guest suggestions, or just to say hello!

This episode is sponsored by:

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#519: What Every Betrayal Has In Common Jul 06, 2026

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In this episode we’re going to talk about betrayal, and not just the kind that someone else does to you. Because here is what I have come to understand: almost every external betrayal is preceded by a betrayal of yourself. The moment you said yes when you meant no. The moment you agreed to a dynamic you did not actually want because the need to belong was louder than the need to be honest. We explore why unprocessed betrayal keeps you locked in the same relationship patterns, why victims of betrayal often either become like the person who hurt them or shut their hearts down entirely, and the two sentence completions that will reveal everything you need to know about the unconscious beliefs driving your love life. Because the goal is not just to heal from what they did. It is to come home to yourself so completely that you never have to choose between connection and truth again.

00:00 - The Consequences of Unprocessed Betrayal

01:04 - Personal Story: The Betrayal I Ignored

02:41 - Self-Awareness vs. Truly Letting Someone Love You

04:38 - How Betrayal Becomes Standards and Walls

05:59 - Reflective Exercise: Complete These Sentences

06:42 - The Deep Link Between External and Internal Betrayal

11:09 - Moving from Blame to Responsibility

13:24 - Healing: Reconnecting to Yourself and Your Heart

Resources:

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

—Explore My Courses: https://markgroves.com/courses

Follow me and my work here:

—Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/markgrovestv

—Subscribe to my Substack: https://markgroves.substack.com

—Instagram - @createthelove: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove

—Facebook - @createthelove: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove

Have A Question?—Have a Question For Mark That You’d Like To Hear Answered on the Podcast? Leave us a Voice Note Here: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast

Drop us a note at podcast@markgroves.com for sponsor product support, questions, comments, guest suggestions, or just to say hello!

This episode is sponsored by:

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#518: My Journey With Sobriety Jun 29, 2026

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In this episode, I want to talk about sobriety, and not the kind that starts with a rock bottom. The kind that starts with a whisper. A quiet voice inside you that says, what if life was better without this? We explore why the truths we know but refuse to live actually block us from receiving the next level of guidance we need, why quitting drinking is so often less about the alcohol and more about the fear of what other people will think, and why sobriety might just be the most radical act of presence you can choose. Because staying numb is not neutral. It is a choice to stay in the aquarium when the ocean is right there waiting for you.

00:06 – Heeding the "Small Voice"

01:13 – Simple "Life Math"

03:16 – Alchemizing Your Truth

05:05 – Aquarium vs. Ocean

06:21 – Breaking Social Codependency

Resources:

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

—Explore My Courses: https://markgroves.com/courses

Follow me and my work here:

—Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/markgrovestv

—Subscribe to my Substack: https://markgroves.substack.com

—Instagram - @createthelove: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove

—Facebook - @createthelove: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove

Have A Question?—Have a Question For Mark That You’d Like To Hear Answered on the Podcast? Leave us a Voice Note Here: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast

Drop us a note at podcast@markgroves.com for sponsor product support, questions, comments, guest suggestions, or just to say hello!

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#517: How to Optimize Your Body, Mind and Soul With Drew Canole Jun 22, 2026

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In this episode, I sit down with my favorite human optimization master, Drew Canole, to talk about something that is getting a lot of attention right now: is optimizing your life actually stealing your joy, or is it the path to more of it? We dig into why your vices are not just bad habits but doorways to the parts of yourself you have been avoiding, how your purpose is actually the reverse of your deepest shame, and why when you are truly connected to your soul's mission there is no room left for the things that dim your light. We also get into the biochemistry of alcohol, how to use your morning to tap into the divine, and why coincidences are not accidents but clues pointing you toward the life you are meant to live.

0:00 - Introduction: Is Optimization Stealing Your Joy?

2:37 - Why Your Purpose Is the Reverse of Your Deepest Shame

6:15 - How Vices Disconnect You From God and Your Mission

9:06 - The Fifth Dimension and How to Change Your Reality

15:00 - The Biochemistry of Alcohol and Why It Destroys Your System

22:00 - Turning Your Mess Into Your Mission

30:00 - Coincidences Are Clues: Tapping Into the Divine Timeline

36:00 - How to Use Your Morning Routine to Access the Soul

42:00 - The Power of Staring at a Blank Wall at 3:34 AM

44:00 - Organic Blaze Products and the Parasite Cleanse Challenge

Links:

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Drew Canoli https://www.instagram.com/drewcanole/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnk3JQzK3UTyk3deZ49FAdg

Organifi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/organifi/

Resources:

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

Explore My Courses: https://markgroves.com/courses

Follow me and my work here:

—Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/markgrovestv

—Subscribe to my Substack: https://markgroves.substack.com

—Instagram - @createthelove: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove

—Facebook - @createthelove: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove

Have A Question?—Have a Question For Mark That You’d Like To Hear Answered on the Podcast? Leave us a Voice Note Here: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast

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This episode is sponsored by:

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#516: Finding Wisdom In Your Wounds Jun 15, 2026

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In this episode, I talk about something that most of us will never admit out loud: that we can become addicted to our own suffering. That the wound we carry, as painful as it is, can become the most familiar thing about us, slowing life down to a pace we can control and keeping us locked in the same relational cycles wondering why nothing ever changes. We talk about why forgiveness is not about the person who hurt you but about refusing to let the wound keep damaging you, why real healing ultimately requires community and not just solo work, and how to shift from seeing yourself as the problem to seeing your life as the curriculum that is shaping you into who you are meant to become.

00:00 Addicted to Our Suffering

00:30 Why We Build Support Groups Around Our Wounds

01:15 Finding Wisdom in the Belly of the Wound

01:56 Transforming Your Life Curriculum Into Gold

02:54 Healing Cannot Happen in Isolation

04:05 Transcending Pain into Strategic Wisdom

05:45 How Our Wounds Slow Down the Pace of Life

10:19 Moving from a Lens of Deficit to One of Possibility

Resources:

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

—Explore My Courses: https://markgroves.com/courses

Follow me and my work here:

—Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/markgrovestv

—Subscribe to my Substack: https://markgroves.substack.com

—Instagram - @createthelove: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove

—Facebook - @createthelove: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove

Have A Question?—Have a Question For Mark That You’d Like To Hear Answered on the Podcast? Leave us a Voice Note Here: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast

Drop us a note at podcast@markgroves.com for sponsor product support, questions, comments, guest suggestions, or just to say hello!

This episode is sponsored by:

Organifi - High Quality Superfood Supplements To Keep Working Toward Your Goals - Use code CREATETHELOVE for 20% off www.organifi.com/createthelove

#515: Why AI Can Never Replace Human Connection Jun 08, 2026

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In this episode, I want to talk about emotional fluency and why I believe it is the most important skill you can develop in a world that is becoming more digital and more disconnected by the day. Because here is the truth: AI can mirror your emotions but it cannot regulate your nervous system, and that is something only another human being can do. We talk about why your feelings are not problems to be solved but information to be listened to, the difference between primary emotions like grief and anger and the secondary ones like anxiety and shame that show up when we are too afraid to feel the real thing, and why your rock bottom might actually be the most important initiation of your life.

00:00 - Emotional Fluency as the Currency of the Future

00:41 - Why Your Feelings Are Information

01:51 - How Childhood Lessons Block Emotional Maturity

02:40 - Navigating Grief and the Power of Core Emotions

04:11 - The Connection Between Grief and Anger

04:53 - Using Clean Anger to Protect Your Boundaries

06:22 - Primary vs. Inhibitory Emotions: Moving Beyond Anxiety

08:31 - Learning to Descend into Yourself

09:43 - Transforming Pain into Purpose and Passion

Resources:

Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.

Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire:https://markgroves.com/book

—Explore My Courses: https://markgroves.com/courses

Follow me and my work here:

—Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/markgrovestv

—Subscribe to my Substack: https://markgroves.substack.com

—Instagram - @createthelove: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove

—Facebook - @createthelove: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove

Have A Question?—Have a Question For Mark That You’d Like To Hear Answered on the Podcast? Leave us a Voice Note Here: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast

Drop us a note at podcast@markgroves.com for sponsor product support, questions, comments, guest suggestions, or just to say hello!

This episode is sponsored by:

Cozy Earth: Use code CHANGE for 20% off sitewide athttp://www.cozyearth.com

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