Odyssey & Alchemy: Men's Inner Transformation and Depth Psychology with Martin Prihoda

Odyssey and Alchemy is a weekly long-form interview podcast on inner transformation — men's work, spirituality, mindfulness, and depth psychology — for men ready to do the inner work. Host Martin Prihoda, former Bollywood photographer and author of The Weary Traveller, sits down for deep, unhurried conversations with therapists, teachers, yogis, and healers — exploring how men heal, wake up, and build a conscious relationship with themselves. No life hacks. No quick fixes. Real conversations about the inner life, for men in the middle of their own transformation — and anyone walking that road with them.

Odyssey & Alchemy: Men's Inner Transformation and Depth Psychology with Martin Prihoda is a health podcast hosted by Martin Prihoda, with 46 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Martin Prihoda hosts Odyssey & Alchemy: Men's Inner Transformation and Depth Psychology with Martin Prihoda, a health show with 46 episodes published.

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  Ep 46: Your Inner Child Has a Security Guard: Dr. Julie Gowthorpe on Trauma & Self-Nurturing Therapy

  Oct 1, 20261h 3m

  What if the thing sabotaging your next big move isn't fear — it's a security guard who's been on duty since childhood? Dr. Julie Gowthorpe is a registered social worker and founder of Gowthorpe Therapists in Ontario, where she and her team provide trauma-informed care for individuals, couples, and families — including specialized work with police, military members, and First Nations communities navigating intergenerational trauma. Her new book, Heal Childhood Trauma , lays out what she calls self-nurturing therapy: learning to become the parent your inner child never had. In this conversation we explore inner transformation through the lens of attachment and the body — the four attachment styles formed in childhood and how they quietly run your adult relationships, why nervous system regulation (not willpower) is what actually lets someone stop bypassing pain through alcohol, humor, or compulsive behavior, the ACE study and how early trauma shows up decades later at the cellular level, why men specifically tend to be "fine, fine, fine — until they're not," and how intergenerational trauma gets passed down through parents who were never taught how to nurture in the first place. Martin and Julie also get into the Buddhist metaphor of the two bags we carry — one full of everyone else's shortcomings, one full of our own we can't see — and why your "villains" are often the clearest mirror into your own unhealed parts. This is a conversation about what's actually on the other side of doing this work: not happiness, but freedom — the kind where your shoulders drop and you trust yourself to respond with wisdom instead of react from fear. https://drjuliegowthorpersw.com/ If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more people find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living , is available now.

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  Ep 44: Your Inner Critic Is a Toddler With a Bullhorn: Peter Kenney on Shadow Work

  Sep 9, 202659 minS1

  What if your inner critic isn't a villain — just a toddler holding a bullhorn? Peter Kenney calls himself a spiritual handyman — twenty years helping people move from stuck to unstoppable, after a spontaneous out-of-body experience during a kundalini yoga class rerouted his entire life. His book, The Inner Remodel , treats the self like a house, complete with rooms for fear, the inner critic, and the habits you've never actually stopped to look at. In this conversation we explore inner transformation through the metaphor of a house you've never actually toured — the entryway where you decide how the world sees you, the basement where everything you've buried is quietly waiting, and the room shadow work actually lives in: not a beast to be feared, but "an angry, hurt, lonely, tired, hungry aspect of yourself" that just needs to be seen. We get into the real difference between pain and suffering, why understanding beats willpower when it comes to compulsive behavior, the Eastern concept of samskaras mapped onto Western nervous system science, and what it actually means to stop trying to love yourself and instead realize you already are love. This is a conversation about redecorating from the inside out — one room at a time. If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more men find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living , is available now.

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  Ep 43: Diffusing bombs behind enemy lines: Benjamin Lee on PTSD and shadow work

  Sep 2, 20261 hourS1

  The measure of a man isn't what he says he'll do under fire. It's what he actually does when the bullets start flying. Benjamin Lee spent his career as an EOD technician, defusing bombs on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan. He came home with PTSD, an opioid addiction that started with a legitimate prescription after surgery, and no idea who he was without the uniform. He rebuilt himself more than once — including through a rock bottom that involved real suicidal ideation he doesn't sugarcoat — and now runs the Initiation Source, coaching men through the same process using a framework he calls the Reforge Protocol. In this conversation we explore inner transformation through the lens of a man trained to disarm the most dangerous devices imaginable, who had to learn to disarm himself — what war actually teaches about the measure of a man, the difference between acute and chronic PTSD, the two false identities (war hero, then wounded veteran) he had to let die before he could rebuild, and the Reforge Protocol itself: reveal, examine, face, offload, reclaim, grieve, embody. We also get into Jungian shadow work, why nervous system regulation is the real first step of any of it, and what he calls "the waiting room" — the foggy, directionless space between who you were and who you're becoming. This is a conversation about learning to defuse yourself with the same discipline it takes to defuse a bomb — one wire at a time. If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more men find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living , is available now.

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  Ep 42: A Marine Sniper Wanted Me Dead: Bentzy Goldman on Rock Bottom, Porn & Becoming a Free Man

  Aug 26, 202659 minS1

  What if the compulsive behavior you're ashamed of has nothing to do with being a bad man — and everything to do with a nervous system that was never allowed to regulate? Bentzy Goldman calls himself living proof it can be rebuilt. He went from addiction and suicidal depression — including an affair that nearly got him killed by a Marine sniper's fiancé's gun — to building and selling businesses. He now coaches men through the same climb using his Free Man Method, built on identity work instead of willpower or shame. In this conversation we explore inner transformation through the lens of desexualizing the brain — what pornography actually rewires in a man's expectations of sex, intimacy, and how he sees women, why willpower alone can't sustain real change and what has to replace it, the difference between managing behavior and rebuilding identity from the ground up, how nervous system regulation explains nearly every compulsive habit men carry into adulthood, and why real brotherhood — not drinking buddies — might be the piece men are actually starving for. This is a conversation about what it actually takes to stop being ruled by desire and start being free. If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more men find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living , is available now.

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  Ep 41: I'll Be Happy When…. No, You Won't: Steve Barton on Breaking Your Own Terms and Conditions

  Aug 24, 202655 minS1

  What if the "terms and conditions" you've been living under were never real to begin with? Steve Barton took over his father's flower shop at 22 after a stroke sidelined him, built it into the largest in the state, and sold it right before the 2008 crash — then had an out-of-body, near-death experience in the middle of a routine therapy session that cracked his identity wide open. He's now a coach, a longtime student of A Course in Miracles , and author of The Game of Ten and the upcoming Father, the Son and the Aha Moment, co-written with his own son. In this conversation we explore inner transformation set off by something Steve never asked for — the unconscious "terms and conditions" men put on themselves ("I'll be happy when…"), why beating yourself up keeps you stuck instead of making you grow, the difference between chasing self-love and actually becoming aware, and Steve's own emotional healing ritual for letting go of fear, self-doubt, guilt, and shame. He walks Martin through his affirmation practice live on the show, and the shift is audible in real time. This isn't an episode about ego dissolution — it's one where it actually happens. If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more men find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living , is available now.

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