Let's Talk Bruh

Happy new year LTB fam! We're back and hitting yall with another episode.  This time we're talking about the silent epidemic considered to be the biggest threat to public health over heavyweights like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.  We're talking about loneliness. It's something that impacts many of us, but few of us are openly talking about it, and why would we? As a man, we're for...

It's the end of the year, the end of the decade so it's time to rest up and plan for a new year.   There's enough W's for all of us, but it starts with a solid foundation and goals in place to achieve the wins we have in our sight.  This week we catch up with Mike Powell of the Powell Consulting Group to break down his vision mapping process. It's helped him, his clients, and it can...

It's the end of the year so we're breaking from our regularly scheduled format to talk about all the wild events that have happened in 2019 regarding masculinity.  We cover everything from John Legend being named the sexiest man alive, Tank's comments on sexuality, Malik Yoba speaking about being attracted to trans women, GQ's "new masculinity" with Pharrell, T.I.'s terrible parenting, Billy...

Trigger Warning: sexual assault, sexual abuse, rape culture What should a man's role be in the Me Too Movement? How are  we defining consent? What is rape culture?  If you're like us, these are questions you may have been asking yourself the past few years.  To get a few answers, we invite Ricky Pulley , the Underserved Survivor Outreach Coordinator at the Sexual Trauma Services of...

This. Is. The. Remix. You can also consider this a sequel to last year's episode on the same topic.  Either way, it's that time again and we're talking about Black Male Privilege.   Last year we dropped an episode called, "Black Male What? | The Black Male Privilege Episode" and it received a ton of feedback. So this year we're dropping part 2 of that conversation featuring our gues...

Black man to Black man. What does it mean to love each other?  On this week's episode I was joined by Jay Barnett, former NFL Player, Current Family Therapist, Founder of We Build Projects, The Kings' Program and 2019 Black Enterprise Modern Man of the Year. Today we talk about the importance of Black men loving each other,  how trauma, jealousy, and fear prevents us from loving one anot...

When it comes to intimacy, how far are you willing to go? How open could you get? Would you bare it all with your partner on camera? Maybe that's not your cup of tea. But for many it is.  Today my guest, Aaron aka Expressions Untold, is someone who captures those intimate moments on camera for a living and he joins us to talk about his beautiful art as well as how intimacy plays a major role...

The Few. The Proud. The Nutless. Some may say, it takes an insane person or insanely willed person (depending how you look at it) to go 30 days without sexual pleasure, but that's what a group of men do every November. It's called No Fap or No Nut November and every November millions of men take this 30 day journey. But why you may ask? The No Fap community on reddit lists a few benefits of No Fap...

This week on Let's Talk Bruh, I catch up with Gerrard Davis. If you've been keeping up with the show, then that name might sound familiar.  Gerrard joined me for a mini episode last month because Gerrard was the one who set our facebook group on fire with a conversation on whether or not it was gay for two men to cuddle. And without going down that rabbit role today, feel free to check that e...

We've all seen the phrase, #MenAreTrash,  so need for a long introduction.  And for many of us men folk, we have a tendency to either 1) dismiss the phrase completely or 2) assume those tweets ain't talking about us because we know we ain't trash.  And if that's your response? We're challenging you to change your perspective. Today I was joined by my good friend Backpack Matt from t...

Tony Porter is what we call an OG when it comes to the work of healthy manhood.  He's been doing #thework of breaking out of the "The Man Box" with A Call to Men for decades.   Tony also speaks about his personal journey of being called out for his sexism while in his career of anti-racism work and how those moments propelled him to become passionate about the work of healthy manhoo...

Living your best life is more than just a song by Lil Duval. It's a real thing. But how exactly do we get there? Yeah sure we all want to get the bag and level up, but what does that really look like? How do we become our best and most authentic self in a world that constantly tells us as Black men what we are and what we aren't?  Jason Rosario believes it's through something called: Self-Act...

We all know what it's like to feel like you have the weight of the world on the your shoulders. But what if that stress has become so commonplace that you've forgotten what it's like to feel normal? What happens when we've become so disconnected from our norm that our normal is stressed out?  Today we're joined by Arron Muller , a Social Work Therapist to discuss how we can identify the stres...

Being a Black man and working in corporate environments can exhausting to say the least.  Racism. Microaggressions. Stereotyping.  And all that can happen before you even make it to your desk. The struggle to bring your full self to work is real. Not to mention, we know that toxic masculinity in the workplace is usually the expected and preferred type of masculinity. Domination. Win at a...

What does vulnerability look like for you? Are you in tune with your feelings? Are these questions already too much for you? We feel you, but today I'm joined by my good friend Nomad the Native of talented supergroup  Not Alone  and we break down what it means to be vulnerable, how difficult vulnerability can be for us as Black men as well as the shame associated with acknowledging our i...

This week we're giving yall a one time pass into the Let's Talk Bruh Facebook Group on for a particular discussion that set the group on fire last week. One of our members, who you'll be hearing from shortly, posed the following questions shared from an Instagram story: Is two guys cuddling gay? Is two girls cuddling gay?" So we break down the differences between intimacy and attraction as well as...

We live in a culture where porn is only a smartphone and a couple taps away. It's literally at our fingertips.  It's never been this accessible.  And for many of us, we've had access to an unlimited supply of porn since the age of 10 so where do we draw the line between healthy habit and addiction? Today we try to find some answers. On previous episodes, you may have heard us say that ma...

When's the last time you sat down and talked about love? When's the last time you talked about love more than the romantic type? Today we dive deep into love and relationships and we do so with a little help from licensed therapist Bashea Williams. This week on Let's Talk Bruh we talk about love, relationships and what all this means for us as men in both romantic and platonic relationships. Most...

"Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life. Wellness is more than being free from illness, it is a dynamic process of change and growth." So that's the textbook definition thanks to UC Davis , but what does it actually look like to be well? to feel well? How can we put this into everyday practice?  This week on the show we talk...

When you think of masculinity what comes to mind? Men. Manhood. Manliness? Typically as a society, we conflate masculinity and manhood as interchangeable terms.  We've done it many times on this very podcast.  But what does masculinity look like for women who identify as masculine? On today's episode we talk with Nalo Zidan, founder of Black Girl Masculine, about what masculinity means f...

This episode is important because for 52 episodes we've talked about masculinity from primarily a cisgender perspective.  Today, thanks to our guest, Geronimo Collins aka Geronimo Knows, we are able to learn about the experiences of a Black transgender man and what masculinity means for him in particular. Geronimo is a former blogger, podcast host, urban culture + lifestyle enthusiast and ful...

They say change inevitable.  They say life is gonna throw you curveballs.  They say when life gives you lemons...ight enough of the cliches.  Today we're talking all about the various changes and transitions that we experience throughout life.  From breakups, to entering and exiting college to even the current cultural change in discussions of masculinity, we're tackling it all...

They say everyone gets the define Black masculinity except for the Black man. And well, historically this has been largely true. However as true as it has been, we have not only the power, but the responsibility to redefine what a healthy masculinity looks like for us.   But before we get there, it's important to talk about toxic masculinity and hold ourselves accountable for the ways in...

Nowadays it seems that everyone is talking about two words: toxic masculinity. There are endless articles, tweets, IG posts, and now podcast episodes on the subject.  But what is it really?  And if you're a man/masculine identifying person it can feel like your masculinity is under attack with the recent attention on toxic masculinity.  Today we break down what toxic masculinity is,...

This week on Let's Talk Bruh we're talking all about dick. *awkward silence* We're bringing yall the sequel to an episode we dropped in February titled, "You're More Than Your Dick | The Fetishization Episode" . Only this time we're expanding the conversation to discuss our close relationship with our penis, why for many of us our dick = our manhood and the pressure to live up the BBC. In order to...