The Mark Groves Podcast

#528: Turning Your Mess Into Your Message: Jon Pierre Francia

What if the worst thing that ever happened to you was actually the thing that was always meant to find you? JP Francia almost drowned in his own bed from acid reflux. Aft

#527: You Are The Authority of Your Life

At some point you have to stop being the student and start becoming your own authority. Not because teachers and mentors are not valuable but because the whole point of l

#526: Are You Suspended In Mediocrity?

Most of us are brilliant at staying exactly where we do not want to be and building a perfectly rational case for why we cannot leave. The if-then loop. When this happens

#525: There Is No Such Thing as The Wrong Choice

There is no such thing as the wrong choice. I know that sounds confronting depending on where you are in your life, but every choice you have ever made, even the ones tha

#524: Hurt People Become Hurtful People

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

#523: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World

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

#522: Could Someone Else Love Them Better?

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 an

#521: The Sacred Side of Masculinity

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 r

#520: The Impact of Smartphones on Our Children

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 han

#519: What Every Betrayal Has In Common

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 exte

#518: My Journey With Sobriety

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,

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

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 y

#516: Finding Wisdom In Your Wounds

 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

#515: Why AI Can Never Replace Human Connection

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

#514: Do You Stay or Do You Go?

Are you wondering if you should stay or go? Because here is the thing, it is never really just about the relationship. It is about you, your patterns, your upper limits,

#513: What Leaving Taught Me

In this episode, I share the story of quitting Instagram and what that period of separation taught me about endings, growth, and what it actually means to return to somet

#512: Are You Living Adjacent to Your Own Life?

In this episode, I want to encourage you to think about one thing - are you actually living your life, or are you living next to it? We explore what it means to stop bein

#511: Meeting Authority with Authority: Accessing Your Inner Power

In this episode, I explore inner authority and why so many of us have been conditioned to fawn, shrink, and give our power away in the face of authority, whether that's a

#510: The Benefits of a Digital Detox

In this episode, I explore how our relationship with technology, and specifically our smartphones, has quietly become one of the greatest threats to our most sacred relat

#509: Commitment vs. Devotion

In this episode, I explore the profound difference between commitment and devotion and why that distinction might be the thing standing between you and the life you're ac