The Men's Roundtable Series

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...

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...