The Men's Roundtable Series

A normal prescription. A body that suddenly stops making sense. A long trail of appointments that leave you feeling demoralized instead of helped. We talk with chronic illness coach, author, and podcast host Dr. Jeffrey Bone about how quickly a health problem can turn into a full identity and meaning crisis, especially for men who were raised to push through pain and never slow down. Dr. Bone shar...

Doing everything you were taught and still feeling dead inside is a brutal kind of confusion, especially when you’re “successful” on paper. We sit down with mentor, speaker, and author Jon Symes to name what so many men sense but rarely say out loud: a lot of what gets called traditional masculinity is a tight, modern script that trains men for control, competition, and emotional shutdown, then ac...

Silence is not neutral for most men. It either becomes a tool we use with intention, or it becomes a bill we keep paying until it starts charging interest. We sit down as husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons to name that bill out loud: the emotional silence tax. When a man believes he cannot be honest about fear, stress, grief, addiction, shame, or overwhelm, the cost shows up somewhere else, in...

What if the hardest part of becoming yourself is admitting you were never given the tools to know who you were in the first place? We pull up a chair with licensed therapist and author Johnzelle Anderson for a raw, thoughtful conversation about men’s mental health, identity, and the quiet damage that happens when a child grows up surrounded by miseducation, abuse, neglect, and racism. Johnzelle sh...

You can be exhausted, booked, and “productive” while still avoiding the only work that actually builds a business. We wrap the final installment of our Business Vs Busyness series with a raw look at what counts as real business and what is just busywork with a nice logo. Along the way, we share listener reactions, what we’ve learned from five weeks of honest talk, and why this kind of transparency...

A marriage doesn’t usually end because two people suddenly stop caring. It ends because the relationship becomes the place where stress, resentment, and shutdown live, and neither person knows how to get regulated enough to reach the love that’s still there. We sit down with licensed psychologist Dr. David Helfand, a marriage retreat specialist with a neuroscience background, to talk about what ac...

The fastest way to burn out as a husband and father is to confuse motion with progress. We sit down as men who are trying to lead well and tell the truth about what “busyness vs business” looks like in real life, when your house is loud, your phone won’t stop, and your brain never gets a quiet minute to think. We talk about silence as a strength, not a weakness, and why being still can be the most...

Control is the story a lot of us tell ourselves until life proves we never had it. I sit down with Bill Derrick, president of Derrick Companies and author of Restored by the Storm, to unpack what real leadership looks like when the ground shifts under your feet and your pride wants you to pretend everything is fine. We start with the Great Recession and what it did to Bill’s construction and land...

Silence can feel like failure when you’re the kind of man who prides himself on getting things done. We sit down at the Men’s Roundtable to challenge that instinct and ask a sharper question: what if all your motion is just busyness, and real progress starts when you finally slow down? We share weekly wins as husbands, fathers, and brothers, then we dig into the heart of the business vs busyness p...

Confidence feels like a personality thing until life hits a season where you cannot “perform” your way out. We sit down with Philip Brittain, author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and creator of the Victory Framework, to talk straight to husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons who feel the pressure to be the provider, the steady one, the guy who never cracks. The conversation keeps coming bac...

A full calendar can feel like success, but it can also be a mask. We sit down as men and get blunt about the provider trap: the belief that working 60 to 80 hours and bringing home money is the whole job. It isn’t. When “providing” becomes our only language of love, we can end up with a house that runs fine on paper while our marriage grows distant and our kids grow up without us. We share persona...

If your calendar is packed but your life feels stuck, we’re naming the thing most men won’t say out loud: busyness can be a hiding place. We sit down as a panel of husbands, fathers, and builders and draw a hard line between real business and “looking productive.” The difference shows up in revenue, yes, but it also shows up in your marriage, your mental health, your faith, and the legacy your kid...

This is the final installment of this incredible series! You don't want to miss this one.  Most men don’t realize where their idea of “being a man” actually came from until someone asks the uncomfortable question. We trace it back to TV dads, movie heroes, and the quiet rules we picked up from Rocky, Uncle Phil, John Wayne, and the action era, then we compare that blueprint to real life as fa...

Men are told to be strong, stay quiet, and handle it. Then we wonder why so many of us feel alone while carrying work pressure, family responsibility, and private battles we never name out loud. We go straight at that tension with one question that keeps exposing the truth: what changes if men ask for help when they actually need it? We wrestle with the real tradeoff between grit and growth. Some...

A lot of men are walking around with a full life on paper and a completely empty support system in real life. We sit down as the Men’s Round Table and keep pulling on one thread until it turns into the whole sweater: the male loneliness epidemic, the pressure to be “Superman,” and the quiet danger of having nobody you can call when it’s 3 a.m. and your mind is lying to you. We talk about brotherho...

What if the real problem isn’t that men don’t feel, but that we feel differently—and get burned when we show it the wrong way? This roundtable leans into the tough questions: why partners ask for more emotional openness, what they actually mean by it, and how men can communicate feelings without spiraling into chaos or losing respect. We talk distinctions that matter—emotional words versus emotion...

Big shift first: we’re going weekly. More real talk, more voices, more chances to tackle the mountains that keep men stuck. From the first minute, we set a higher bar for honesty and action, then dive headlong into what a “mountain” really is—obstacle, calling, crucible—and why language shapes the climb you choose. We open with Moses on the mount and the transformation that followed, then bring it...

What if everything you built—career, image, even ministry—looked solid but rested on a cracked foundation? We sat down with Yusef “Mr. Yu” Marshall to explore how men confuse activity for purpose, why presence matters more than performance, and how a near‑death moment outside his mother’s home sparked a long, slow turn toward a life anchored in faith. The sports chatter fades fast as we get honest...

Perception isn’t truth, but it still runs the show if you let it. We pulled together a sharp, candid panel to unpack how men shape and are shaped by perception—on the mic, at work, and at home—and what it takes to align image with reality. From social media polish to real-world integrity, we ask the hard questions: whose opinions matter, how do emotions warp judgment, and what does authentic leade...

What if the grind isn’t the goal anymore? We brought a table of fathers, husbands, coaches, chaplains, and creators to rethink success, purpose, and legacy—without the fluff. The stories are raw: shifting from six-figure comfort to meaningful service, trading the spotlight to champion a spouse’s calling, and learning to measure a good day by peace, presence, and the people we lift. We unpack how p...

What if pressure isn’t a problem to avoid but a forge to enter with intention? We sat down with Marines, coaches, creators, entrepreneurs, and dads to explore the push and pull between work, life, and purpose—with honest stories about rank, revenue, identity, and the moments that reshape a man. We start by asking when work stopped feeling like purpose and started feeling like pressure. The answers...

What does strength look like when no one’s watching? We sat with a table of fathers, husbands, mentors, and coaches to answer that with honesty that cuts and hope that holds. The throughline is simple and demanding: emotional maturity isn’t about feeling less; it’s about owning your feelings, choosing your response, and repairing quickly when you miss. We start with the basics men are rarely taugh...

In this deeply authentic conversation, our men's panel explores why men struggle to express emotions and build meaningful relationships. We examine how men often prioritize respect over love and unpack the challenging journey toward vulnerability and trust. • Men typically value respect over love in relationships, which can lead to misunderstandings with partners • Past hurts and betrayals ma...

We gather a diverse panel of men's coaches, ministers, and veterans to break the silence around men's mental health and share personal experiences with depression, suicide, and healing.  • Men have been conditioned to bury emotions while working hard and providing for family • Suicide is the second leading cause of death for men under 45, highlighting the mental health crisis • Depressio...

What happens when nine men from diverse backgrounds – coaches, veterans, authors, and ministers – gather to discuss their deepest struggles with connection? The result is a soulful, candid conversation that cuts through the noise of traditional masculinity. "The Challenge of Connection" delves into why modern men struggle to form authentic bonds in a world demanding constant strength and...