The ManKind Podcast

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). hosted by Boysen Hodgson In this conversation we’ll hit some of the factors that are driving our poor health outcomes. We've bought in to ways of being that hurt us ... and everyone else. But it didn’t start with us. The provocative thesis that Ed puts forward is that our nature as men … the narrative we’re told abo...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Can we use spiritual awareness to dismantle racism?  Put another way … How can we tap into our own sacred intelligence to empower change in the world?  This week on the ManKind Podcast I’m with Rev. Dr. Terrlyn Curry Avery, the Reverend Dr. TLC. Regardless of your belief or non-belief this podcast might help you connect...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Dr. Kevin Payne is a social psychologist, entrepreneur, author, podcast host, speaker, teacher, and frequent guest interview or panelist. He shares the results of his extensive research concerning how to live a quality life with chronic distress, pain, and illness. He also shares his personal exploits as a collector of e...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). What is the cost of disconnection?  Can we play our way into connection?  With Weston Karnes, the creator of “Let’s Get Real Bro,” a card game for bros (and everyone else) to build connection and flex our vulnerability muscles in relationship with others.  We talk about the costs of disconnection and disembodiment on our...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). There are those who talk a big game... And then there are those who get S### done! Ashanti Branch is one of those who would rather let his actions be so deafening that his words aren't necessary. That's how much impact Ashanti Branch is having on the lives of young boys and men who find themselves disconnected...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Without Taylor Wilkins, this show wouldn't exist. Taylor Wilkins , the founder of the Tailored Quill, believes that there is no "one right way" to live life and that all of our mental and emotional distress can be relieved by focusing on just 3 reminders:  1.    We are human 2.   We each have value 3.    O...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Content Advisory. This show contains unashamed, unscripted, and raw stories about coming out, sex, homophobia, addiction, marriage and divorce, love and monogamy and non-monogamy, grieving the loss of a partner …  Stories of SELF-love and the battle for self-acceptance.  Rich Kiamco is REAL. Rich is an out, gay, Filipino...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). We're diving deeper into ManKind Podcast Fan Favorite, Dene Maria Sebastiana's new book Fierce & Tender - Healing The Deep Masculine. Over this 2-part episode, Dene will give you a glimpse into the past 70+ years of how the male psyche has been groomed and policed to where it is today. By telling his story...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). We're diving deeper into ManKind Podcast Fan Favorite, Dene Maria Sebastiana's new book Fierce & Tender - Healing The Deep Masculine. Over this 2-part episode, Dene will give you a glimpse into the past 70+ years of how the male psyche has been groomed and policed to where it is today. By telling his story...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). It is becoming clear that today's culture of leadership and those who exist in that culture are finding it increasingly difficult to connect with those that they represent and lead. Enter Leader Champions Founder, Mike Patterson. Mike and his team of Leadership and Life Coaches at Leader Champions are actively chang...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Boysen Hodgson interviews Daniel Ellenberg , PhD, the past President of the American Psychological Association’s Division for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinities.  In this conversation, we’re talking about Angels and Traitors … and a whole lot more. Angels and Traitors are archetypal frames to understand who...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). In this episode of the ManKind Podcast, host Paul Newell sits down with Eldra Jackson III to talk about the various sides of human work, the areas most fail to acknowledge and integrate.  Eldra  is the Co-Executive Director of The Inside Circle, a healing community using the power of human connection found in peer-guided...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). A Rabbi and an Agnostic walk into a podcast studio... From the outset, you'd think this was a setup for a joke, but instead, it became a profoundly insightful and meaningful conversation between Brandon Clift and Rabbi Noam Raucher. Noam is a Rabbi, Single Father, Life Coach, and Healer who has been immersing his cl...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Jed Diamond brings me hope. He’s been sitting in men’s groups for over 40 years. He’s built a life, a livelihood, a marriage, and a family that is driven by his passion and curiosity. Jed is an unassuming Buddha … a quiet and generative wise man.  I’ve been in a diverse group of folks with Jed for a few months now to tal...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). One of the great challenges every generation faces is how to guide the next generation to come. But how can you impact the lives of the younger generations when what worked for you doesn't seem to work for them? Today we're joined by Marco Renai, the founder of Men Of Business Academy. An educational institutio...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). In our series on the Archetypes, I wanted to talk with John Hernandez about Alchemy … what it is, how it relates to the conversations we’re having about the archetypes and the axis mundi, and how we can begin to be the ‘Hollow Bone’ to get more intuitive information in our everyday lives.  This is looking at the topic fr...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). The heart is the doorway, the place of truth, the place of greatest pain, the place of wholeness. On the other side of this inner battle, the ‘new warrior’ finds himself … open-hearted, vulnerable, fiercely honest, courageous …where the True Self accrues authentic power. When a man says ‘yes’ , his life is never the same...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). In 20th-century comparative mythology , the term Axis Mundi — also called the cosmic axis , world axis , world pillar , the center of the world , or world tree — has been dramatically extended to refer to any mythological concept representing "the connection between Heaven and Earth " or the "higher and lo...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations).  The King archetype is the most important of the four mature masculine archetypes. Just as a good king in mythological stories is often something of a Renaissance man–a good warrior, magician, and lover–the King archetype incorporates the other three mature masculine archetypes in perfect harmony. A man who accesses the...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Many a boy goes through a magic phase growing up. He learns a few card tricks, and maybe goes down to the local magic store to browse for more elaborate tricks. Even just entering the store is a little thrilling, as is showing off newly learned tricks to one’s family and friends. Most men outgrow their magic hobby, altho...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Every great civilization has a great warrior tradition and accompanying warrior myths. From birth, Spartan society nurtured and trained their boys to become warriors, and that rigorous training created men like Leonidas and his 300 men of unconquerable spirit. Japan had their fearless samurai warriors whose undaunted cou...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). When you hear the word “lover” you probably think of romance and sex. But there are many types of love–a love for family, for friends, for God, and for life itself–and the Lover archetype passionately seeks after them all. The Lover is the archetype of emotion, feeling, idealism, and sensuality. Like the word “lover,” se...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced person, and influences the growth of a mentee. To have a mentorship with Spirit is an empowering experience that activates a wisdom from within to stand in our purpose and...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Counselor and founder of Life Recovery Center , Alex Castro Croy, joins Brandon for a deep and meaningful conversation on how we must change how we address addiction in those who suffer from the illness.  Key takeaways from this episode:  We have been treating addiction/addicts all wrong. We must start to address the ear...

Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). What is the cost of trauma?  How does it show up in our society as deeply rooted racial and social challenges? What can we do? What does our way of handling criminality cost us?  How much time have you spent thinking about how trauma, the prison system, and the 13th amendment abolishing slavery are related? This hour lon...