The Man in Motion Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Most men don’t announce that they’re drowning. They keep working, crack jokes, and say they’re fine—until sometimes it’s too late. In Episode 40, a coworker’s death brings me back to another coworker: a fellow veteran who handed me a DD214 Alumni pin days before he died by suicide. Months later, I found that pin and recognized a warning sign I had missed. This is a raw conversatio...

Send us Fan Mail Burnout recovery doesn’t begin with another productivity system, a better mindset or forcing yourself to push harder. Sometimes it begins with sleep, food, water and admitting you’ve got nothing left. In Episode 39, I use the nearly 3,000-year-old story of Elijah to talk about chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, isolation and what real burnout recovery looks like. This isn’t a B...

Send us Fan Mail How much of the chaos in your life is still alive because you keep feeding it? In Episode 38 of The Man in Motion Podcast , Bob digs into overthinking, rumination, resentment, forgiveness, letting go, and the way old arguments keep taking up space long after the moment is over. It starts with a viral Bruce Lee clip about peace that turns out to be something he apparently never sai...

Send us Fan Mail No script. No notes. Barely a plan. I’m tired, I’m sick, I’ve got too much going on, and today I just didn’t have the prep in me. So I hit record anyway. And somewhere along the way, that became the episode. There are going to be days when you can’t get your shit together. Days when your 100% is maybe 20% of what you normally have. That doesn’t mean you failed. It means sometimes...

Send us Fan Mail Burnout recovery is not just about what happens after you crash. In this episode of The Man in Motion Podcast , Bob takes a different look at burnout, self-care, stress, and the way we constantly maintain everything around us while expecting ourselves to just keep going. Forget the cliché version of self-care. This is about self-maintenance — and what happens when the person holdi...

Send us Fan Mail You finally admitted it: you’re burned out. So why the hell don’t you feel better? Recognizing burnout is only the beginning. Stopping the damage doesn’t erase the debt you built getting there—and recovery doesn’t happen just because you finally took a weekend off. In this episode, Bob talks about what recovery actually looks like when life doesn’t stop long enough for you to reco...

Send us Fan Mail You can know exactly what your triggers are and still be nowhere near healed. Sometimes all we’ve really done is gotten better at avoiding the people, places, conversations, memories, and situations that hit the wound. In this episode, Bob breaks down what a trigger actually is, why your brain creates them, and why identifying the trigger is only the beginning. The real work is un...

Send us Fan Mail A broken heel took Bob out of work for eight months and stripped away almost everything he used to measure his value. Then came burnout, grief, therapy, and a lot of time with nowhere to hide. In Episode 33, Bob talks about the difference between usefulness and worth , the ways we hide behind constant motion, and what happens when life finally forces us to sit with ourselves. Some...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Man in Motion Podcast , Bob takes on a question that sounds simple until you really sit with it: When does helping stop helping? We step in because we care. Because we love people. Because sometimes it’s easier, faster, or less painful to just fix the problem ourselves. But what happens when helping starts doing more harm than good? This episode looks at lea...

Send us Fan Mail Jordan Salinas became a national name after the 2026 In-N-Out shooting in Twin Falls, Idaho. But this episode isn’t really about the shooting. It’s about the five years before it. After the 2021 Boise Towne Square Mall shooting, Jordan saw something in himself he wanted to change. So he made a decision, made a plan, trained, and did the work. Then life handed him one hell of a tes...

Send us Fan Mail We rarely get to see the full reach of what we do. Sometimes it takes a funeral, an unexpected conversation, or a story from years ago to remind us that our lives create ripples far beyond what we can see. You may never know where those ripples go. That doesn’t mean they aren’t there. Take what works. Leave what doesn’t. Make some ripples—and keep moving. Support the show If this...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever gotten so used to something that you stopped realizing it was there? In this episode, I look at the difference between functioning and actually being okay, why awareness matters, and why seeing what’s really there is where change begins. You don’t have to solve everything today. But you can’t change what you won’t see. Support the show If this hit, share it with some...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when life changes you so completely that you can’t go back to who you were before? In this episode, I sit down with author Scott Lackey to talk about transformation, identity, and the moments that force us to decide who we’re going to become next. We talk about the difference between surviving and actually changing, why growth sometimes requires subtraction instead of...

Send us Fan Mail  I recorded this episode five years to the day after we lost Madison.  This episode wasn't planned around that date—but after the conversations I've had recently, I realized it couldn't be recorded any other day. And honestly, this one cost me something to get out.  It's about a question I think every one of us has asked: We know we need to change... why don&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Some choices do not come when life is calm. They come when everything has already fallen apart. In this episode, Bob talks through three major choices that changed the direction of his life: joining the Marine Corps after his father died, choosing to rebuild after divorce, and deciding what to do with the pain after Madison’s passing. This is not an episode about blame, fault, or...

Send us Fan Mail I started recording a completely different episode—and stopped because it wasn’t honest. So instead, I answered the questions I keep getting: Who am I? Why do I have a podcast? What qualifies me to talk about any of this? In this episode, I tell the story behind The Man in Motion—from the Marines, divorce, and years of stuffing everything down, to the loss of our daughter Madison,...

Send us Fan Mail Men say “I’m good” all the time. Or "I got this."  Or maybe it's "I'll figure this out." Sometimes it’s true. Sometimes it’s just the fastest way to end the conversation. The problem is, most of us accept it and keep moving. But what happens when something feels off? What happens when you ask again — and this time, you actually mean it? This episode i...

Send us Fan Mail Somewhere along the way, a lot of men got handed two bad choices. Be the stone wall. Or become something that feels fake as hell. And if those are the only options, I understand why a lot of men choose silence. But I don’t think those are the only options. This episode is about the space in between — the place where a man can be honest without falling apart, strong without shuttin...

Send us Fan Mail Anger can feel clear. But sometimes the thing we think we hate is only part of the story. In this episode, Bob talks about burnout, frustration, and the uncomfortable moment when a long-held assumption starts to crack. What if the anger is real… but the target is less clear than we thought? This is a conversation about work, resentment, perspective, and learning to ask a better qu...

Send us Fan Mail Success does not always feel like relief. Sometimes the fight works. The thing you protected grows. The life you were trying to build starts becoming real. The mission advances. And then the role that got you there no longer fits the same way. In this episode, Bob talks about what happens when growth requires a different version of you than survival did. Through a personal moment...

Send us Fan Mail Awareness can change your life. It can create space, reduce reaction, and help you see yourself more clearly. But awareness is not the destination. In this episode, Bob explores the difference between observing your life and participating in it. Drawing from the influence of Michael Singer’s work, conversations with a friend working through real change, and his own experience of l...

Send us Fan Mail Most people think change begins with the dramatic moment.  The breakthrough.  The decision. But that’s usually not where people get stuck. The real struggle starts after the realization… when the emotion wears off and life keeps moving anyway. In this episode, we talk about:  why awareness alone is not enough,   how overwhelm quietly turns into paralysis,   why so many men stay bu...

Send us Fan Mail At some point, you realize the life you’ve built, the habits you defend, and the patterns you repeat are no longer taking you where you want to go. And maybe the hardest part is this: You don’t even know who you are without them. This episode is about identity, survival patterns, practiced behaviors, and the uncomfortable realization that awareness alone is not enough anymore. Eve...

Send us Fan Mail You’re showing up. You’re doing the work. So why does it feel like you should be doing better? This episode looks at a pattern most people don’t even realize they’re running — judging who they are today by who they used to be… or more accurately, who they think they used to be. Through real-world examples and lived experience, this is a look at how the past — especially an edited...

Send us Fan Mail Everything you asked for is finally happening.  So why can’t you relax into it? You say you want help.  You say you want to be seen.  So why does it feel… wrong when it finally shows up? In this episode, we dig into a pattern a lot of men don’t even realize they’re stuck in — asking for support, and then quietly pushing it away when it arrives. Not because you don’t want it.  But...