Pre-Zero Sports Talk
Pre-Zero Sports Talk is a sports leadership podcast exploring high performance, coaching, athlete development, sports business, faith, purpose, innovation, sustainability, clean progress, and life beyond the game.
Hosted by Sid Bensalah, with over 30 years of global sports industry experience, the podcast brings honest, long-form conversations with athletes, coaches, leaders, founders, innovators, and changemakers.
This is not only a podcast about sport. It is about what sport reveals about people, how we lead, how we handle pressure, how we pursue meaning, and how we build lives, teams, and communities with purpose.
Through real conversations beyond the game, Pre-Zero Sports Talk explores leadership, performance, faith and purpose, identity, resilience, human potential, athlete well-being, coaching culture, community impact, sports governance, clean progress, sustainability, technology, innovation, and the future of sport.
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Men, Purpose, and Self-Leadership | Maxim Shapiro
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Why do so many men feel stuck, disconnected, or unsure of who they are meant to become?
In Episode #95 of Pre-Zero Sports Talk, Sid Bensalah sits down with Maxim Shapiro, men’s purpose coach and founder of Forward Motion Coaching, for a raw conversation on men’s purpose, depression, identity, effort, self-leadership, and rebuilding real community.
Maxim shares how years of drifting, negative self-talk, and playing it safe led to deep dissatisfaction. In his early 40s, a jarring awakening pushed him to move from Massachusetts to California, start a business, commit to a long-term relationship, and rebuild his life through effort, honesty, and discipline.
This episode explores modern masculinity, men’s mental health, self-leadership, depression, authentic identity, effort over results, digital disconnection, dopamine culture, jiu-jitsu, community, belonging, and practical steps for moving from stuck to alive.
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Full episode details: https://prezerosportstalk.com/podcast/modern-masculinity-crisis-how-men-reclaim-purpose-and-self-leadership-maxim-shapiro/
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