Ben and Paige Easter on Transforming the Toxic Masculine in Beauty and the Beast on The Shift To Freedom Podcast
Paige Easter, co-host of The Shift to Freedom podcast and business mindset coach, was interviewed by Ben Easter on transforming toxic masculinity through the lens of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Ben and Paige Easter are co-hosts of The Shift to Freedom podcast as well as business mindset coaches with Lucid Shift Coaching. Their goal is to transform clients' lives through coaching. In this episode, Ben and Paige talk about the concept of toxic masculinity, men’s mental health, and creating balanced relationships between the masculine and feminine inside everyone all through analyzing Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has really beautiful themes representing the ways masculinity and femininity balance one another out. By showing Gaston as essentially an archetype for the #toxicmasculine and then countering that with the Beast who seems outwardly very masculine, but has a soft, tender heart hidden within, it comments on the value of #balance between the masculine and feminine in everyone. Today, hosts Ben and Paige Easter talk about transforming the toxic masculine through the lens of Beauty and the Beast.
Listen to, or watch, the full podcast interview by Ben Easter with Paige Easter on your preferred podcast channel.
In this podcast, the host covers:
What toxic masculinity is and why Gaston is the perfect example
How every person has both masculinity and femininity within themselves
How toxic masculinity shows up in Beauty and the Beast
How the themes of isolation in Beauty and the Beast relate to men’s mental health today
The story of Howard Ashman, Disney lyricist
The rose as a representation of the feminine’s ability to balance the masculine
Podcast Quotes:
“I'm not a huge fan of the phrase ‘toxic masculinity’, but if there were anyone that it was ever going to apply to, it would be Gaston for sure.” (9:54-10:01 | Ben)
“What the rose represents is the masculine's ability to find the feminine and come into balance with the feminine.” (12:20-12:27 | Ben)
“All of us have varying degrees of distribution of masculine and feminine within us.” (14:03-14:08 | Paige)
“The transformation of the masculine is how we get out of the objectification of other people and how we have a balanced relationship.” (26:46-26:55 | Ben)
About the Podcast Co-Hosts:
To learn more about Ben and Paige Easter visit the Lucid Shift Coaching website (Lucid Shift Coaching).
About The Shift to Freedom Podcast:
The Shift to Freedom podcast is the place where you will find the courage to show up as your most authentic self. Host Ben Easter explores the intersection of business and relationship through humorous and deep conversations. The goal is to move more into the aligned versions of who we are and free ourselves from the stories that limit or hold us back, either financially, socially, emotionally, or mentally. Join Ben and his collaborators, weekly, to start making the shift into freedom!
Listen to, or watch, the full podcast interview by Ben Easter with Paige Easter on your preferred podcast channel.
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