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EPISODE · May 1, 2025 · 1H 26M

The Career Advice That's Killing You (And What To Do Instead) - Steven Foster

from The Mature Male · host Wes Lambert

Steven Foster is an Apple engineer turned creator, grief educator, and advocate for analog living — a man who left a high-status career to pursue what he believes is the deeper work men are starving for.There's a specific kind of grief that the modern world doesn't have a name for: the grief of never being fully present, never being in your body, never building anything with your hands, never sitting in silence without a screen. Steven Foster calls it the cost of going digital — and he believes it's one of the most unaddressed crises in men's emotional lives today.Expect to learn what analog living is and why Steven left a career at Apple to pursue it, how the digital world is systematically eroding the experiences that give men identity and meaning, what grief has to do with modern male disconnection, why men resist grief more than almost any other emotional experience, the specific kinds of loss that men carry without naming them, what it looks like to begin living in greater contact with your actual life, how ritual, craft, and physical presence can rebuild what digital living has taken and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833

Steven Foster is an Apple engineer turned creator, grief educator, and advocate for analog living — a man who left a high-status career to pursue what he believes is the deeper work men are starving for.There's a specific kind of grief that the modern world doesn't have a name for: the grief of never being fully present, never being in your body, never building anything with your hands, never sitting in silence without a screen. Steven Foster calls it the cost of going digital — and he believes it's one of the most unaddressed crises in men's emotional lives today.Expect to learn what analog living is and why Steven left a career at Apple to pursue it, how the digital world is systematically eroding the experiences that give men identity and meaning, what grief has to do with modern male disconnection, why men resist grief more than almost any other emotional experience, the specific kinds of loss that men carry without naming them, what it looks like to begin living in greater contact with your actual life, how ritual, craft, and physical presence can rebuild what digital living has taken and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833

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