The Men's Roundtable Series

If you have ever felt your worth drop the moment you stopped being “useful,” this conversation is for you. We get honest about the need to be needed, and how quickly it can turn into an identity crisis when life changes: kids grow up, deployments end, you come home from prison, a job cuts you loose, or retirement starts creeping closer than you want to admit. We talk through those gut-level moment...

Getting punched in the face for a living sounds like the hard part, but Aaron Crippen says the real danger is what happens when the cameras are off. Aaron is an actor, stunt coordinator, and the author of Love at First Fall, and he joins me to unpack a truth a lot of men avoid: we can train for impact, but we rarely train for emotional fallout. We start with the stunt world, where “controlled chao...

What happens when the biggest challenge to your marriage isn't your spouse—but the pressure surrounding your relationship? In this episode of They Call Me Mista Yu , I sit down with Pesa Shayo , author and co-founder of Live Your Best Marriage , to discuss one of the most overlooked threats to healthy relationships: outside pressure. Drawing from his own cross-cultural marriage and years of c...

Most men don’t “fall off” their health plan, they slowly trade it away for responsibility. If you’re crushing it at work but living on caffeine, short sleep, and rushed meals, this conversation hits close to home. We sit down with men’s coach and health and lifestyle coach Brian Parana to talk about why high-performing men over 40 so often normalize weight gain, low energy, and declining health, t...

Somebody doesn’t end up standing on a bridge by accident. That image has stuck with me for years, and it’s the reason I built the Men’s Roundtable Series as more than a weekly livestream. I want a real safe space for men, the kind where you can admit you’re tired, confused, lonely, or scared without getting mocked, minimized, or dismissed. I also explain how our podcast brand is set up and why thi...

Closure is one of the most popular promises we hand to grieving people, and it can quietly set men up to fail. If you have ever wondered why you can “do everything right” and still feel the ache, this conversation will land. I’m joined by Neil Tricarico, who spent more than two decades working alongside Tony Robbins and later developed the philosophy he calls the Enduring Way, a framework built fo...

A 14-year-old gets mugged, loses vision in one eye, and hears a message that changes his life: “Everything is your fault.” That moment could sound cruel until you hear what it produces decades later. We talk with entrepreneur Jerry Brazie, who grew up in extreme poverty and violence, then went on to build and sell more than a dozen businesses totaling over $450 million in revenue. His point is not...

Our team thought it a great idea to start rewinding previous (but timely) episodes of our show during the times that Mista Yu is away from the microphone. All of these beautiful Blasts from the Past were previously broadcast, but we are sharing them with you at a time when you might need them most. Hope you enjoy the review! ************************ SEND US A TEXT. Drop Mista Yu a text at: (904) 8...

A man can have a full house, a full calendar, and a room full of people and still feel completely alone. We sit down for a raw men’s roundtable on the loneliness men don’t know how to explain, and we don’t stay on the surface. We talk about the difference between company and connection, why networking and small talk can feel empty, and how a man can be surrounded and still feel unseen. The convers...

The hardest part of parenting is realizing love does not automatically come with answers. When your child is diagnosed with level 3 autism (often called profound autism), that gap can feel brutal: sleep disappears, routines collapse, and the pressure to “fix it” can push dads into silence and isolation.  We talk with Paul Voss, a father of eight and the author of Autism Sucks: Finding Hope in the...

A hidden life doesn’t stay hidden. It leaks into your marriage, your kids, your work, and the way you look at yourself when the room goes quiet. That’s where we start a raw, practical conversation with relationship coach and affair recovery expert Tim Tedder, host of the Affair Recovery Room Podcast, about what infidelity really costs and what it actually takes to change. We talk about the uncomfo...

Your whole world can fall apart and nobody hands you a manual for what happens next. Mr. Yu sits down with author Derrik Dyka, who lost his wife of 24 years, to talk about the part of grief people don’t always name: the way it steals your direction. When the shared plan disappears, even “good” dreams like a quiet mountain home can start to feel like isolation you can’t survive. Derrik explains how...

The word “trauma” can either be a doorway to healing or a shortcut to excuses, and we do not think men can afford to stay confused about the difference. We start light with daylight saving time, winter darkness, and the way small disruptions can mess with sleep, mood, and seasonal depression. Then we move into the harder truth: what looks like a personal struggle is often a generational pattern we...

Most men don’t realize how fragile “I’ve got it handled” really is until something breaks: a body, a job, a relationship, or a sense of purpose. We’re joined by men’s embodiment coach and group facilitator Jason Lange to talk about the one advantage that shows up before the crisis and carries you through it: community you can actually lean on. We dig into why men’s groups matter in 2026, how socia...

Some of the hardest parts of being a man never show up on the outside. We can look fine, sound fine, and still be carrying anxiety, chronic pain, pressure to provide, and a private storm of emotions we were never taught to name. We start by reflecting on what Men’s Mental Health Month stirred up for us and what we’re hearing from other men. Then we go straight at a question that keeps coming back:...

“I’m fine” can sound polite, but it can also be a mask that keeps us stuck. Tonight we get real about the gap between performance and reality and why men learn to look strong, successful, and unbothered while the inside is carrying a silent scream. We talk about what it costs to keep the act going, and what it looks like when the life behind closed doors finally matches the one everyone sees. We w...

Betrayal doesn’t just break a relationship; it shakes the whole house. I’m joined by Ralph Brewer, author, speaker, and the founder of Help for Men Brotherhood and the Dad Starting Over Podcast, to get real about what men face after infidelity, divorce, and the kind of family disruption that can leave you angry, numb, and blaming everyone but yourself. Ralph shares his own story of taking on major...

The mask isn’t always a lie. Sometimes it’s protection, privacy, or a survival skill we learned so early we forgot we chose it. But when the mask starts running the show, it can quietly drain our marriages, distort our identity, and teach our kids that love equals performance. We dig into the “I’m fine” and “I got this” masks, the provider pressure that turns financial stress into shame, and the s...

Erectile dysfunction is one of those topics men joke about in public and worry about in private, but it can be one of the clearest signals your health needs attention. We sit with clinician Dr. Adam Kleinberg, creator of Sexual Genius, to get honest about what’s really going on beneath “performance” and why confidence starts with basics like blood flow, inflammation, and everyday habits. We talk t...

Fatherhood gets stereotyped as ties, grills, and quick jokes, but the truth is a lot heavier and a lot more meaningful. We talk with Sean Dawson from the Raising Men podcast about why many dads feel unseen, why Father’s Day can hit a nerve, and why the cultural story about men often misses the depth of what good fathers actually do.  From there, we get practical about raising boys and healthy masc...

If you’ve ever thought “I’m not enough,” you’re not alone and you’re not done. We sit down with Travis Murray, host of Man in Progress Forging Manhood, for an honest talk about what it really takes to rebuild as a man when life has hit hard and the old ways aren’t working anymore.  We dig into values-based living and why most men can name “good values” but still feel stuck. Travis explains how doi...

The scary part about “being strong” is how easily it turns into being alone. We sit down for a raw men’s roundtable on men’s mental health, the armor we put on, and the quiet habits that keep us from reaching out even when we know a brother is struggling. Along the way, we talk about veterans we’ve lost, the simple phrase “I see you,” and why waiting for the perfect moment to check on someone can...

Most men don’t break all at once. We fray slowly, behind competence, jokes, and a posture that says, “I got it.” This roundtable goes straight at the question we avoid: what happens when the armor that helped us survive starts crushing us in real life? We talk men’s mental health through a practical lens, connecting emotional stress to the body and the choices we make when we’re under pressure. We...

Anger has a way of convincing us we’re powerless: someone disrespects you, something breaks, plans fall apart, and the heat rises like it’s automatic. That story sounds true, but it keeps a lot of men stuck. We talk with internal medicine physician and anger elimination expert Dr. Mort Orman, author of Dr. Orman’s Life-Changing Anger Cure, about a different model that’s both blunt and hopeful: out...

Men’s mental health doesn’t always look like a crisis. Sometimes it looks like snapping at your kid for being a kid, dreading eye contact with your spouse because money feels tight, or sitting in a room full of people and still feeling completely alone. That’s where we go on this Men’s Roundtable conversation, starting with a blunt question: why does mental health awareness feel so quiet right now...