Digital Social Hour
Masculinity, Motivation & Modern Challenges Explained | Stirling Cooper DSH #1292
Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Get ready for an unfiltered and eye-opening discussion on masculinity, motivation, and modern challenges! 💪🎙️ In this episode of the Digital Social Hour, Sean Kelly sits down with returning guest Stirling Cooper to tackle topics that every man needs to hear. From the life lessons learned in the boxing ring 🥊 to the pressures of modern dating and societal expectations, this episode is packed with valuable insights and raw truths. Discover how Stirling's fight camp in Spain transformed his perspective on confidence, discipline, and fatherhood. 🛡️ He also shares his thoughts on the importance of embracing challenge, detoxing from toxic habits, and how societal shifts are impacting men today. Plus, they dive into controversial topics like dating in a digital age, the rise of male loneliness, and the secrets to building real relationships. 🤯 Don't miss out on this powerful conversation filled with humor, honesty, and actionable advice. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets! 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Join the conversation and share your thoughts below! 👇🔥 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - How To Enjoy The Internet 04:56 - Today's Sponsor 05:49 - Bro Science and Fitness 07:15 - Increasing Testosterone and DHT 09:58 - EMF Radiation Effects 13:39 - Sex and Orgasm Myths 22:50 - Patience in Relationships 24:30 - Improving Fingering Techniques 30:30 - Fixing the Dating Market 34:08 - Challenges in Dating Apps 38:57 - Partner's Career and Relationships 40:14 - Economic Issues in Dating 42:17 - Defining Partner Preferences 44:25 - Considering Parenthood 45:20 - Beliefs About Marriage 47:21 - Future Plans and Goals APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: Stirling Cooper https://www.instagram.com/stirlingcooper SPONSORS: AIRES TECH: https://airestech.com/ LUMATI: https://www.lumati.com/dsh LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #jimrohnmotivation #selfimprovement #etfs #selfhelp #hamza
Chapter 1: How does Stirling Cooper's boxing experience shape his views on masculinity?
All right, guys. He is back. Sterling Cooper. One of my first guests ever, I think, man. It's been a while. It has been a while. Yeah. You said two years, right? Two years. But I think you were within the first couple hundred episodes. That flew by. Yeah, man. Bro. Damn. What you been up to? Same old, same old?
Oh, yeah. Bounced around, did a lot of podcasts. Still working? Still working. Still flying around a bunch. I spent a bunch of time in the south of Spain. Nice. In the last couple of years. I did like a fight camp out there. Really? And then did like a white collar boxing fight. So you actually fought?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How'd it go? You win? I won, yeah, yeah. Do you want to get more into boxing? I've been boxing since then. Yeah, I sort of started boxing a little bit before that and then... you know, eventually the opportunity presented itself. I was like, you know what? Yes. If I'm, you know, when you sort of get into something, you keep telling yourself, you're going to take it more seriously.
And it was like, someone presented me the opportunity, a friend, Luke Barnett. It was like, look, we're doing this like, you know, fight club thing. Yes. Because if I don't say yes now, and that was at what? What am I, 38? That was like 35, 36 years old. If I don't say yes now, I'm never going to say yes to an opportunity like this later on. And it's kind of interesting.
I've got a few friends in Dubai who do like... you know, charity, like fight clubs and stuff now. And I'm seeing a lot of guys getting into it. It's really good. I like it.
I mean, the money in it's pretty crazy these days with Dubai and Saudi, the fighting.
Oh, when they get like big crypto guys in to do it?
Yeah, the boxing.
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Chapter 2: Why are testosterone and DHT levels important for men?
you know timing waiting for your moment to strike like i would have lost yeah i think if i i was like stuff this i'm just gonna go push him against the ropes you know pressure and pressure and pressure him um yeah he was a bit he had a bit more length on me it was about your height like a bit of a bit skinny kid but he had like a lot of range on him so yeah that's why floyd was so good he just kept it tactical
Floyd is like... You watch him, man. He's like the best defensive boxer ever. He's incredible. Yeah. I love that Philly Shell style, but I'm just not that quick. You got some time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you have to give up sex before the fight? I didn't have sex. I nofapped and didn't have sex for like... I think I nofapped for probably a good couple months. Damn, couple months.
And I didn't have sex for like... Probably a good two weeks leading up to the fight. And for you, that's like a record. Maybe it's a record. I haven't really kept track of that before. But it was, yeah, it felt good, man. Like just letting all that like tension and like energy just build up in you, you know?
Keeps you focused, keeps you dialed in, stops you from fucking around, like keeps your diet on point, keeps your training on point.
Like it was cool. My first few years of business, entrepreneurship, I didn't fap, I didn't have sex. It gets to the point where you just finish in your sleep, honestly. Right, right, right.
Because you're months in.
You got the whole wet dream thing going on. But you're dialed in like that. When you're in that work mode, dude, you could channel that sexual energy into like a lot of progress.
Yeah, man, it's an old school... People call it like woo-woo and whatever. Like, okay, I don't think it's going to make you fly, you know, but I do think there is like something to it. There's a reason a lot of like athletes, professional fighters, they don't have sex. They abstain before a big game or a big fight or whatever. You know, guys have been doing it forever. I think there's a...
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Chapter 3: What are the effects of EMF radiation and how can you protect yourself?
I've been diving a lot into like soil health. Really? And like permaculture and agriculture and stuff. And the way you use animals on the land. And it's just like, nature has all the answers, man. Like everything is so... Everything has a role to play in a system and it's so perfectly interconnected.
And if you just let nature do what it does best, you know, like I know in certain parts of like, I'm not sure about here, but definitely in Australia, they've got like problems with like blackberry bushes and stuff, like, you know, going nuts. And you see people coming in and just put goats on them and the goats just eat them up. Really? And like, cool, this weed is no longer a problem.
And then you get pigs through, the pigs root around, dig up the roots. Cool. Problem gone. Yeah. put grass in there again, happy days.
It's beautiful.
And it's just like using animals to like, and I think we lost a lot of this knowledge. Like our ancestors do all this shit. They did a lot of this stuff or they learned all of this stuff through trial and error. And now we think we can just sort of like
impose like chemicals or in the case of humans we can just impose pharmaceuticals onto us and we'll fix the problem but the problem is really just fixed with diet and lifestyle in a lot of ways with humans at least yeah like we can't if you come back to basics like you pretty much everyone wants like to shortcut shit you know like take TIT take a different peptide do this special thing do that special thing it's like have you considered just like
turning off your phone, not staring at your computer screen, like, you know, maybe living somewhere where you're not, there's no like light pollution and you can get like darkness in your bedroom. Like I went home, I'm from like the Southwest of WA and I went to stay with my dad with my, like my home, my family, family, where I grew up. Right. And I had the best sleep of my life.
I'm like, window shades like wide open and it's pitch black. There's like nothing. There's nobody around. There's nothing there. It's just when it's nighttime, it's nighttime. And it's crazy how much something as subtle as that can massively impact your health and your sleep and thus your testosterone and everything else. Just the light pollution. Just the light pollution.
That's crazy. It's nuts. I just went to Sedona, similar. Best sleep of my life. You could see all the stars over there. Like in Vegas, I mean, just so much light pollution and whatever else. This is the city of neon lights, you know? Yeah. I mean, you got the Luxor beaming up to the moon. That's where I'm staying, right? Oh, the Luxor? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 4: How does Stirling Cooper view modern dating and societal expectations?
Yeah, it's interesting. To be fair, like... Yeah, it's hit and miss sometimes. It's very rare that a guy comes up to me and can... I'm not Mr. Big Shot, but can offer some kind of value versus him wanting some value in return. Exactly. Oh, I can handle your social media marketing. Got guys for that already, bro. We're doing this for a while.
If I want someone for that position, I make a post on social media and then I see who comes and hits me up. You know what I mean? Yeah. I get hit up by a lot of... Email marketers, social media marketers, video editors, like every day. Editors for days. Every day, every day, every day. And it's like, okay, if you're that guy, that's your position. I know you're trying to get your foot in the door.
Cool. I'm probably not the guy that's going to give you your start. Just being honest. Or a guy like you. Because we're a bit too far ahead. Find the guys that are kind of just starting out. They're just learning the ropes. Those are the guys you're going to have a much better chance with and prove yourself.
Yeah, you need a track record. Now when I hire editors, I ask, who have you worked for?
Yeah, precisely.
Because I'm paying well these days. And if you don't have a good track record, I need views. I need results. I don't want shitty quality clips from India or something.
Yeah, a lot of my team, I end up getting them from other creators, other guys in my network. Like, hey, do you know someone who's available now? Do you know someone who you're not working with anymore? But they were great. That's most of my hires. Exactly.
Come from that. I went through your Twitter. I wanted to talk about a few interesting tweets.
My Twitter's spicy.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Stirling Cooper share about the adult industry?
Yeah.
So I think the only, if you really wanted to like fix it like that, that would be the solution. It would probably help. It would work, you know, but we're never going to do that. Yeah, it's not realistic.
It's never going to happen.
It's not realistic. Precisely. It's not realistic. So we're in this... We've opened up a can of worms. We're in this weird scenario now where the average guy has to work a lot harder, a lot, lot harder to have dating options than he used... than one generation ago, two generations ago. I heard the apps are rough these days, the dating apps. I mean, Tinder's like mostly bots anyway. Yeah.
I know a lot of guys who... Not a lot. I know a handful of guys... who run like OF management agencies. Yeah. And they just use... They run bots on the Tinder to get people to their OnlyFans. Yeah, I've heard that. You know? So like... And then the next dating app comes along and that dies like Bumbles, like trash now. Hinge was hot. I don't know if it still is. Hinge was good.
Like last year, like the last two years, I'd had a lot of success on Hinge. Now it feels like it's dying. You know, there might be something like, what's the next dating app going to be? It's going to be called going outside. Actually going out and talking to people in real life.
Did you ever get on Raya? I've never even heard of that. It's an exclusive one. Okay. Yeah. You need a social media following. Thank you.
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