by Paul Fattinger & Marc Winter
Two guys old enough to know better—but curious enough to keep asking. A former CEO and an undercover poet—from Vienna and New York, two longtime friends share (lightly) decanted reflections on life, work, and everything in between. Guys Like Us — home of champagne problems and existential questions. IG: https://www.instagram.com/guyslikeus.official/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulfattinger/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-winter-6138679/
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June 23, 2026
<p>We love the idea that failure teaches us more than success. But here's the uncomfortable truth: we hate looking at our failures so much that we usually just defend them instead of learning from them.</p><p>This week, we dig into why admitting you got it wrong in your 40s feels like admitting you're out of time to fix it. We cover the brutal first step — just saying "I fucked up" without the excuses — and why the three catastrophic life buckets (career, relationships, kids) make failure feel impossible to recover from. Marc confesses to refusing accountability after a role change that didn't work out. Paul admits he's still defending decisions he knows were mistakes. And we wrestle with the question: do we actually learn from failure, or do we just get better at reframing it as a win?</p><p><br>Along the way: the mindset trap that leads smart people to make terrible decisions, why Paul's suitcase now smells like Riesling, and the one famous quote that still holds up.</p><p><br>Chapters:<br>0:00 Introduction<br>0:05 Navigating the Challenges of Travel and Fatigue<br>0:05 Introduction to the Podcast and the Theme of Failure<br>1:50 Personal Experiences with Failure and Learning<br>4:45 The Dichotomy of Learning from Wins vs. Failures<br>7:49 Accountability and Ownership in the Face of Failure<br>12:30 Embracing Responsibility for Mistakes<br>15:01 Learning from Others' Failures<br>17:40 Mindset and Context in Failure<br>22:57 The Weight of Life's Failures<br>24:43 Terminator and Idiotic Thing of the Week<br>26:00 Accountability and Leadership in Failure<br>27:50 Expectations and the Pain of Failure</p><p>| Ep 48</p>
June 16, 2026
<p>We love to think therapy means lying on a couch excavating childhood trauma for years. Dr. Yasmine Saad (https://www.dryasminesaad.com) — one of New York's top psychologists says that's completely unnecessary. Your thoughts and emotions are already broadcasting exactly what you need to work on. You just need to learn how to decode them. </p><p>We sit down with Yasmine to talk about her Inner Message Approach: how one frustrated thought about dirty dishes can reveal whether your life is unbalanced toward work or your relationship lacks fairness. How anger and frustration are just unmet desires calling you toward action. And why awareness doesn't make you powerless — it gives you agency to change what's not working. We also get into what brings men in their 40s to therapy (relationships, career pivots, the question of "is this the right partner?"), why you don't need to unpack your entire childhood to make progress, and Yasmine's take on this cultural moment: COVID, political instability, and AI are systematically dismantling our external safety structures so we're forced to build strength from the inside out. It's bumpy because we're still clinging to the idea that security comes from the outside. </p><p>Chapters: <br>0:00 Introduction <br>0:45 Yasmine Saad's background and credentials <br>1:17 Reframing therapy: discovery over vulnerability <br>5:26 Awareness as a source of agency, not control <br>9:10 Decoding messages from thoughts and emotions <br>13:45 The role of body sensations in self-awareness <br>22:42 Common challenges for men in their 40s <br>34:58 The impact of technology and AI on identity <br>40:49 Building inner strength in uncertain times <br>41:52 Closing thoughts and future plans <br>43:27 Terminator and Idiotic Thing of the Week </p><p>| Ep 47</p>
June 9, 2026
<p>We've opened enough bottles to think we know our way around wine. Turns out, we don't. At all. This week, we sit down with our friend Markus Purdue at his biodynamic vineyard in Wachau for a blind tasting that exposed just how little we actually know. But what started as a humbling lesson in terroir became a much deeper conversation about what it means to build something real — why Markus refuses to use shortcuts, how he thinks about pricing a wine that sat in his cellar for years, and why resilience matters more than yield when you're farming organically. </p><p>We cover the mechanics of winemaking without pretension, debate whether you can get a great organic bottle for €10 (you can), and hear Markus explain why he'd serve James Suckling his cheapest wine. Plus: why "summer fuel" should be an official wine category, Paul's spectacular failure to identify a Grüner, and the moment Marc realizes natural wine with a classic style is the move. </p><p>Chapters: <br>0:00 Exploring Wachau: The Heart of Austrian Wine <br>6:31 Organic and Biodynamic Wine Practices <br>13:19 Affordable Organic Wines: Quality and Accessibility <br>14:59 Wine Tasting Experience 16:13 Understanding Wine Pricing <br>20:57 The Wine Production Process 2<br>4:42 Old World vs New World Wines <br>28:20 Wine Preferences and Trends </p><p>| Ep 46</p>
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Two guys old enough to know better—but curious enough to keep asking. A former CEO and an undercover poet—from Vienna and New York, two longtime friends share (lightly) decanted reflections on life, work, and everything in between. Guys Like Us — home of champagne problems and existential questions.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/guyslikeus.official/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulfattinger/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-winter-6138679/
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