This one's different.

For our first special episode, Sixx and Coach Coop sit down with the cast of Our Name Is Mara for an extended, unfiltered conversation on what it actually means to become — and be — a man.

We get into the BRO x Mara partnership, then go deep across three lanes most men never get space to talk through out loud:

Manhood and Masculinity — who taught us what a man is supposed to be, what we kept from those lessons and what we had to unlearn.

Fatherhood and Parenthood — our own fathers, the men we're becoming for our own kids, the questions we're still afraid to ask our dads.

Mental Health — what it actually looks like to take care of your mind as a man, and the stigma most of us are still working through.

No script, no easy answers — just a room full of men being honest about becoming who they are.

"Where do you feel most at peace? Now — when's the last time you actually felt that way at home? In your neighborhood? Online?

This episode, the crew sits in that gap — breaking environmental wellness into three lanes that actually speak to Black men's lives: the physical environment (home, block, hood), the social environment (who's around you, what spaces restore you vs. drain you), and the digital environment (is your phone a window or a wound?).

We don't always get to choose our environment. But we can choose what we bring to it, what we protect in it, and what we refuse to let it take from us. From block to balance, that's not a destination. That's a daily decision.

🎧 The mixtape for this one: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jHZeqjrjRQec9GrtwryJd?si=0a15100ce9634e94&pt=1a523af22e31ee4913506b3dc1a15287

Are Your Friends Making You Sick or Stronger?

When's the last time you called a friend not to vent, not to check in, just to be with them? Sixx, Coop, and Jason get into Social Wellness, what happens when "having people" isn't the same as having real community.

They talk about outgrowing friendships, the toxic "bro code" that mistakes silence for strength, and what healthy brotherhood actually looks like as an adult man not the surface-level stuff, but the friendships that actually hold weight when things get hard.

Coop closes with this week's Well Check: reach out to one person in your circle not to ask for anything, just to say you're thinking about them.

🎧 The mixtape for this one: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5kTo3HbzrJcCmpFkO1SyiM?si=p8L1H13wR-G75byQW-zPiA

If this hit different, don't just share it, send it to the one person who needs to hear it today.

#BeWellBro #SocialWellness #7DimensionsOfWellness #Brotherhood

"We were taught to hustle like God wasn't watching."

Sixx, Coop, and Jason get into Spiritual Wellness, not a debate about denomination, but an honest look at the interior life most men never get language for. They dig into 'grind gospel,' the hustle-culture religion where rest feels like sin and ambition becomes identity, and ask what it actually looks like to stay spiritually rooted while still building something.

Coop closes with this week's practice: five minutes of intentional stillness. No phone, no task  just presence.

🎧 The mixtape for this one: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1TRNTHx2Bj0G3Gvwb3p5qx?si=AcXf-C7LSM63yjLtQ7HSTQ

"Your body has been keeping score. Every time you held it together when you needed to fall apart. Every time you pushed through. Every time you poured into someone else and had nothing left.

Sixx, Coop, and Jason go deep on emotional intelligence and trauma, how it shows up in the body, not just the mind  and what it means to finally let someone make you a cup of hot chocolate.

🎧 The mixtape for this one: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tMrHmI2hOf6JnnjCaAviS?si=etg0O6apR9ijB7HdqixgHQ]"

Tags: #BeWellBro #TheBodyKeepsTheScore #EmotionalIntelligence #BlackMenWellness #MentalHealthForMen #LoveLanguages

Who taught you what a man is?

This episode, Sixx, Coach Coop and Jason take on Financial Wellness, one of the most talked-about-but-never-actually-discussed dimensions in the room. Not budgeting tips. Not "grind harder." The real question underneath it all: who taught you that being a man means being the provider, no matter the cost?

Capitalism, culture, and generational trauma all quietly shape how men make financial decisions and most of us never got to choose the rules we're playing by. This one gets into where that pressure actually comes from, what it costs when providing becomes the whole identity, and what it might look like to define worth as something other than a paycheck.

🎧 The mixtape for this one: [Price of the Provider]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0eIOCvkC08MjPBgtgDYdnm?si=qdMw2ej1R3unyv48vSjRcg

If this hit different, you know what to do, don't just share it. Send it to the one person who needs to hear it today.

#BeWellBro #FinancialWellness #7DimensionsOfWellness

The ball dropped. The caption was fire. But are you actually different?

On Ep2 of Be Well Bro, Sixx and Coach Coop get into the truth behind New Year's resolutions, why most of them fail, what real change actually requires, and how to tell the difference between transformation and performance. A new year means nothing if the man inside it hasn't shifted.

"Sixx, Coach Coop, and Jason all get in the room for this one turning the lens from healing yourself to how you show up in relationships. What's Love Got To Do With It? digs into social and emotional wellness together: the connection between how healed you actually are and the kind of partner, friend, or brother you're capable of being."

"Meet the show. Sixx sits down with Coach Coop to introduce Be Well Bro why it exists, who it's for, and what you can expect each episode. If you're a man of color looking for real conversations about wellness instead of the performative version, start here."

The ball dropped. The caption was fire. But are you actually different?

On Ep2 of Be Well Bro, Sixx and Coach Coop get into the truth behind New Year's resolutions, why most of them fail, what real change actually requires, and how to tell the difference between transformation and performance. A new year means nothing if the man inside it hasn't shifted.