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Hosted by Matt Bagwell and Karl Monahan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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The Clearing is a podcast for honest conversations, support and guidance for men in their midlife. A space to pause, reflect, and speak more truthfully about life as it’s actually lived — relationships, identity, pressure, anger, growth, and what it means to be human in a busy, noisy world. Through thoughtful dialogue, lived experience, and moments of quiet clarity, The Clearing invites you to step out of the noise and into something more grounded, real, and connected. Find our website here - https://theclearing.life/
Matt Bagwell and Karl Monahan hosts The Clearing - Honest Conversations For Men In Midlife., a health show with 19 episodes published.
Picture the train carriage where ninety percent of people are staring at a phone, or the pub where twenty strangers gather because one person decided to be the protagonist. In this episode, Matt and Karl tackle something
There's a particular kind of ache that comes from a friendship gone sour — not a dramatic blowup, but a slow erosion, a creeping dread before you see their name pop up on your phone. In this episode, Matt and Karl sit wi
Friendship is much more than a mere social formality; it is the fabric that grounds us, supports us, and guides us through the complex journey of human existence. In today's world, where the synthetic often seems to over
In this 3rd episode covering the theme of AI in our lives Matt and Karl discuss how to respond optimistically to AI, especially fears about changing jobs, data use, and truth, while noting benefits like faster research a
In this podcast episode, Matt and Karl continue to explore the theme of work and relationships. They cover fulfilment beyond the financial transaction of work, focusing on meaning, contentment, and purpose in midlife car
In this podcast episode, Matt and Karl continue a series on work, moving from identity to interpersonal relationships and how midlife men navigate colleagues, clients, and hybrid working. Karl describes running a solo pe
Picture the scene. Someone at a party says they're a fighter pilot. The room lights up. Now imagine telling that same room you zigzagged from tennis coach to massage therapist to men's health specialist — via art college
We're wired for negativity. It kept us alive on the savannah, and it's keeping us stuck in our relationships today — noticing every open cupboard door, every pair of shoes left out, while the good stuff slides right off
In episode nine, Matt and Karl return after an Easter break and continue their multi-week series on relationships, building on themes from a recent men’s gathering about self-care, boundaries, and negotiating personal ti
It's the spring equinox, and something shifts. Not just in the season — in the direction of the podcast. Karl opens with something his wife said to him that he couldn't brush past. Four words, quietly devastating, that c
In this honest episode, Matt returns to the mic 16 days after undergoing complex surgery — and shares what recovery has actually looked, felt and smelled like from the inside. This isn't a polished post-op update. It's a
In Episode 6 of The Clearing Podcast, Matt and Karl start with the realities of half-term chaos (and the small wins of kids becoming a little more independent)… before moving into something many of us recognise: "The fea
In Episode 5 of The Clearing Podcast, Matt and Karl pick up on a thread from last week’s real-time check-in and follow it deeper: self-care. We explore a version that shows up in small choices, tiny rituals, and honest t
In Episode 4, Matt and Karl do a real-time Clearing check-in. After Episode 3’s conversation about check-ins (moving from “Yeah, I'm alright mate” to the deep dive), this episode explores a real life example of a check i
In this episode of The Clearing, Matt and Karl explore the simple question that often isn’t simple at all: “How are you?” Drawing on Karl’s work with men living with chronic pain and their own experiences in men’s gather
Episode 2 – Kindness: capacity, boundaries, and the voices in our heads In this episode of The Clearing, Matt and Karl sit down to talk about kindness — a lived, limited, and deeply human capacity. Where there is opportu
In this opening episode, Matt and Karl introduce The Clearing — what it is, why it exists, and who it’s for. They share their own backgrounds, lived experience, and the journeys that brought them here: working with men t
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