If you want to take off, build your runway.
Connor Beaton has taken a unique path. After graduating from college not really feeling passionate about his major in technical engineering, he became an opera singer. Normal, right? Connor’s path is unique, as is his message. His organization ManTalks aims to encourage men to develop and become self-aware, high-performing, vulnerable, and impactful.
These days Connor focuses on creating peak performance through personal growth in your creativity and business. He does ManTalks all around the world, helping men create better lives and deepening their relationships with themselves and in their relationships.
I think there is a lot to be learned from Connor for those in the creative realm who want to access their flow and vulnerability. In our fascinating conversation we talked about taking the leap, prioritizing, getting in the zone, and so much more.
Life brings us things that we often don’t know that we need.
[smart_track_player url=”https://soundcloud.com/nickonken/connor-beaton” title=”How Personal Growth Catalyzes Your Creativity” artist=”Connor Beaton” image=”https://nionlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/129_ConnorBeaton_NIONradio-1.jpg” color=”#de4b9b” ]
Some things we learn in this podcast:
- What it was like growing up in the Texas of Canada [3:50]
- How Connor got into singing opera [6:00]
- What Connor did after he left the opera world [8:40]
- The creation of ManTalks [9:30]
- Why you have to take the leap [13:00]
- How prioritizing can change your game [15:45]
- What is Man Talks [17:45]
- What is embodied masculinity [21:45]
- Why men are disconnected from their anger [24:00]
- How to pursue your peak performance [27:30}
- How to drop from your head to your heart [33:40]
- How to get in the zone [40:00]
- Connor’s favorite books [45:20]
- The connection between creativity and curiosity [51:00]
- How to surrender [56:00]
- Why you have to be present and open to incredible moments [1:00:50]
Links mentioned:
- Episode with Vienna Pharaon of Mindful MFT
- Moby’s meditation album
- Books mentioned in this episode:
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- Awareness by Anthony DeMello
- The Wisdom of Insecurities by Alan Watts
- Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by Carl Jung
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
- Wait But Why article on the Fermi Paradox
- Listen to the ManTalks Podcast
- Join the Nion Life Community
LET'S CONSPIRE & CREATE
CULTIVATING YOUR VISUAL UNIQUENESS AND STREAMLINING YOUR BRAND'S EVOLUTION
If you want to take off, build your runway.
Connor Beaton has taken a unique path. After graduating from college not really feeling passionate about his major in technical engineering, he became an opera singer. Normal, right? Connor’s path is unique, as is his message. His organization ManTalks aims to encourage men to develop and become self-aware, high-performing, vulnerable, and impactful.
These days Connor focuses on creating peak performance through personal growth in your creativity and business. He does ManTalks all around the world, helping men create better lives and deepening their relationships with themselves and in their relationships.
I think there is a lot to be learned from Connor for those in the creative realm who want to access their flow and vulnerability. In our fascinating conversation we talked about taking the leap, prioritizing, getting in the zone, and so much more.
Life brings us things that we often don’t know that we need.
[smart_track_player url=”https://soundcloud.com/nickonken/connor-beaton” title=”How Personal Growth Catalyzes Your Creativity” artist=”Connor Beaton” image=”https://nionlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/129_ConnorBeaton_NIONradio-1.jpg” color=”#de4b9b” ]
Some things we learn in this podcast:
- What it was like growing up in the Texas of Canada [3:50]
- How Connor got into singing opera [6:00]
- What Connor did after he left the opera world [8:40]
- The creation of ManTalks [9:30]
- Why you have to take the leap [13:00]
- How prioritizing can change your game [15:45]
- What is Man Talks [17:45]
- What is embodied masculinity [21:45]
- Why men are disconnected from their anger [24:00]
- How to pursue your peak performance [27:30}
- How to drop from your head to your heart [33:40]
- How to get in the zone [40:00]
- Connor’s favorite books [45:20]
- The connection between creativity and curiosity [51:00]
- How to surrender [56:00]
- Why you have to be present and open to incredible moments [1:00:50]
Links mentioned:
- Episode with Vienna Pharaon of Mindful MFT
- Moby’s meditation album
- Books mentioned in this episode:
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- Awareness by Anthony DeMello
- The Wisdom of Insecurities by Alan Watts
- Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by Carl Jung
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
- Wait But Why article on the Fermi Paradox
- Listen to the ManTalks Podcast
- Join the Nion Life Community
8/23/17
129: Connor Beaton – How Personal Growth Catalyzes Your Creativity
infuse your vision with a fresh breath of creativity and vitality
BOOK A BRAND PHOTOSHOOT
GET THE DETAILS
GET THE DETAILS
infuse your vision with a fresh breath of creativity and vitality
PODCAST
BRAND INTELLIGENCE
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE
LIFE INTELLIGENCE
masterfully aligning perception and reality through personal branding
masterfully aligning perception and reality through personal branding
If you want to take off, build your runway.
Connor Beaton has taken a unique path. After graduating from college not really feeling passionate about his major in technical engineering, he became an opera singer. Normal, right? Connor’s path is unique, as is his message. His organization ManTalks aims to encourage men to develop and become self-aware, high-performing, vulnerable, and impactful.
These days Connor focuses on creating peak performance through personal growth in your creativity and business. He does ManTalks all around the world, helping men create better lives and deepening their relationships with themselves and in their relationships.
I think there is a lot to be learned from Connor for those in the creative realm who want to access their flow and vulnerability. In our fascinating conversation we talked about taking the leap, prioritizing, getting in the zone, and so much more.
Life brings us things that we often don’t know that we need.
[smart_track_player url=”https://soundcloud.com/nickonken/connor-beaton” title=”How Personal Growth Catalyzes Your Creativity” artist=”Connor Beaton” image=”https://nionlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/129_ConnorBeaton_NIONradio-1.jpg” color=”#de4b9b” ]
Some things we learn in this podcast:
- What it was like growing up in the Texas of Canada [3:50]
- How Connor got into singing opera [6:00]
- What Connor did after he left the opera world [8:40]
- The creation of ManTalks [9:30]
- Why you have to take the leap [13:00]
- How prioritizing can change your game [15:45]
- What is Man Talks [17:45]
- What is embodied masculinity [21:45]
- Why men are disconnected from their anger [24:00]
- How to pursue your peak performance [27:30}
- How to drop from your head to your heart [33:40]
- How to get in the zone [40:00]
- Connor’s favorite books [45:20]
- The connection between creativity and curiosity [51:00]
- How to surrender [56:00]
- Why you have to be present and open to incredible moments [1:00:50]
Links mentioned:
- Episode with Vienna Pharaon of Mindful MFT
- Moby’s meditation album
- Books mentioned in this episode:
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- Awareness by Anthony DeMello
- The Wisdom of Insecurities by Alan Watts
- Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by Carl Jung
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
- Wait But Why article on the Fermi Paradox
- Listen to the ManTalks Podcast
- Join the Nion Life Community
8/23/17
129: Connor Beaton – How Personal Growth Catalyzes Your Creativity
When you need a trusted creative partner in the room.
Take the Fit Check
Be seen at the level you’re stepping into.
Hey! I'm Nick.
PHOTOGRAPHER
BRAND ALCHEMIST
TEACHER
At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia.
Build authority from the inside out.
Emanate is a creative-direction-led photography experience for entrepreneurs, speakers, and thought leaders in a moment of expansion. This isn’t about better photos. It’s about aligning how you’re seen with who you’ve become. For seasons of rebrand, visibility, and next-level leadership.
Magnetic Authority is a self-guided container for people who feel visible, but not fully anchored.
If your message keeps shifting, your brand feels inconsistent, or your presence doesn’t match your capability yet. This is where you build the foundation before you scale.
Take the Fit Check
Start Here
For founders, creatives, and leaders who want a trusted long-term partner. This isn’t coaching or traditional consulting.
It’s an ongoing creative partnership focused on bringing your personal brand identity to life.
Your brand. Your website. Your visuals.
All shaped as a direct extension of who you are. The work also includes a bespoke process of identifying and aligning the right experts when needed, so nothing gets built out of sync with your core.
Explore the Partnership
Quiet. Precise. Highly Selective.
read the latest
A magnetic personal brand comes from coherence and one clear through-line. Here is how entrepreneurs build one, in order, and the trap that keeps most brands scattered.
I spent a month training kung fu in Wudang at 47, the oldest and slowest learner in the room. What being a beginner again in midlife taught me about pace, comparison, and starting anyway.
You develop taste through thousands of reps of looking closely and deciding what works. A photographer’s honest answer on how taste gets built.
You make a personal brand more coherent by naming the identity underneath it, distilling a one or two word through-line, and bringing the four layers into agreement. The full path, in order.
You cannot pour from an empty well. Travel is how I refill mine. Here is why new places are creative input rather than a break from the work, and why output without input runs dry.
There is a difference between making something and performing the act of making it. Here is what I learned about the creative act, content, and why the resistance is the whole game.
AI can generate endless brand content, but it cannot construct the identity underneath it. Here is the real line between what AI can do for your brand and what only you can.
Burnout is less a willpower problem than a nervous system running with no recovery. Here is what I learned about creative recovery from social media burnout and a reset in Costa Rica.
Most brand photographers take good photos of you. Few capture who you actually are. Here is what to look for when hiring a brand photographer so your images match your authority.
Taste is less a gift than a discipline you build through thousands of reps of seeing. Here is what twenty-five years behind a camera taught me about the art of seeing.
Visual Frequency of Authority is the energetic signature your images transmit before anyone reads a word. What it means and why two people with the same credentials read so differently.
Every personal brand stalls in one of three gaps: Identity, Signal, or Infrastructure. Most people have the third and spend years fixing the first.
A month of kung fu training in Wudang, China taught me that the body learns at the speed of honesty rather than the speed of ambition. Here is what martial arts taught me about practice.
About the Blogger
I was born in a low middle class conservative religious family in the suburbs of Seattle. Art was and always has been my passion, and more than that a way of life. Starting as a graphic designer, I taught myself photography, built a commercial/editorial business shooting for the worlds biggest brands like Nike, Coca-Cola, Adidas and more. I've also had the opportunity to photograph the world's biggest celebrities like Justin Bieber, Usher, Jessica Alba and more. I've curated a lifestyle around creativity and have learned a lot along the way which I get to share here.
I was born in a low middle class conservative religious family in the suburbs of Seattle. Art was and always has been my passion, and more than that a way of life. Starting as a graphic designer, I taught myself photography, built a commercial/editorial business shooting for the worlds biggest brands like Nike, Coca-Cola, Adidas and more. I've also had the opportunity to photograph the world's biggest celebrities like Justin Bieber, Usher, Jessica Alba and more. I've curated a lifestyle around creativity and have learned a lot along the way which I get to share here.
